Simple, safe, available vaccine. The importance of vaccination is that our vaccines that we re using in this country are very effective against this variant, particularly i point out to the situation regarding advanced disease leading to hospitalizations and deaths, where it s still well in the 90% of effectiveness. Nbc news learned today that the fully vaccinated aide to house speaker nancy pelosi and a fully vaccinated white house staffer both tested positive for the virus. New cases of covid19 are moving in the wrong direction, way up, not down in 47 states. Hospitals across the south are bracing for a surge not seen since last winter. The university of arkansas school of public health expects hospitalizations will triple there over the coming weeks. With this new search in cases driven by the unvaccinated, there is increasing chatter among public health experts about vaccine mandates in the future, if and when the vaccines, which are safe and effective, receive full fda approval. A
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And as japan struggles to host tokyo 2020, we have a special report on the small towns trying to keep the olympics excitement burning. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The sheer scale of the flooding disaster that s hit western germany and parts of belgium and the netherlands is only now becoming clear. At least 70 people are believed to have died and many others have lost their homes. The german chancellor angela merkel called it a catastrophe and linked the events in the region to climate change. Our europe correspondentjenny hill reports from one of the worst hit areas in western germany. There was, many here told us, no warning. Homes destroyed, lives lost, in a matter of minutes. The water ripped up the roads, tossed cars aside like toys. We met margaretta just as she arrived back in the village of schuld. She and herfamily fled last night. At the very last minute, she says, a fireman got us out. The family are safe, though her son was injured. He s i
nightclub shooting five years ago, cities across the country are dealing with new mass shootings every day. grappling with an offduty flight attendant who police say was threatening to take the plane down. joe biden is the 12th u.s. president to meet queen elizabeth ii during her reign. joe biden is someone that this special relationship means something. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world on this saturday. you are in the cnn newsroom. it s great to have you along with us. we begin tonight with america s gun violence epidemic showing no sign of abating or claiming fewer victims. right now in orlando, florida, a community gathers outside the pulse nightclub to remember the 49 people murdered and the more than 50 others wounded on this date five years ago. at the same time, people in several american communities are dealing with the shock of deadly shootings just within the past day. the biggest is in austin,
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