Final note here, kate bennett and john berman, i think we do have to go back to that amazing appearance by zaila avant-garde. spectacular. was she something or what, john berman? i think she s fantastic and the fact she wants to do all those things and as you say, i have every confidence frankly that she will. harvard basketball. i bet she ll do it, too. kate bennett, thank you so much. thank you. cnn s coverage continues right now. very good friday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. poppy has the week off. a big question this morning, will we need covid booster shots as new dangerous strains of the virus, including the highly contagious delta variant, spread around the country? much like annual flu shots, just hours after drug maker pfizer announced that a third dose of its vaccine could greatly increase protection against the virus and it will seek emergency
Ams meteorologist chad myers with us now as well as cnn s camilla bernal in lake meade, nevada. chad, the storms yesterday were major. some of the scenes of subway flooding, hard to see. you know, while most of us were focused on elsa, this didn t have anything to do with elsa. this was a completely separate system that just dumped rain over new york. this is the radar from yesterday. it was just right over bergen county, right over kings, right over queens, over manhattan, and all of this caused this. here are the pictures that we re just getting in now. getting approved to show you people going down into the subway. i have a problem with part of this. you know what that third rail is, jim, right, don t you? that s where the power comes from. if these people are in water here, that third rail must have also been in water. hopefully that got shut off in time. we tell you, turn around, don t drown when you re driving into water.
Surfside, florida, are vowing to keep going until every victim of the condo collapse is found. four more victims bodies were recovered yesterday. there are now 64 confirmed deaths. 76 people still potentially unaccounted for. it is expected by local authorities that 140 lives in total were lost in all. that was down from some of the higher estimates early on. that makes this one of the biggest mass casualty building collapses in the u.s. since 9/11. cnn s leyla santiago is live in surfside this morning. tell us how it is going there. it is grim work. it is painstaking work. gosh, for the families and for those crews. reporter: yeah, jim. and they are continuing to work. you know, as i ve been here, i have not seen them stop at any pointed to. i can tell you, i did speak with
Kevin mccarthy was involved in trying to rehabilitate the image of representative marlie taylor greene after her recent anti-semitic comments. that effort apparently did not work because once again this week, greene invoked nazi-era imagery to mock simple covid safety practices. this just weeks after apologizing for other anti-semitic remarks. mccarthy has publicly denounced some of the actions by greene and other controversial, shall we call them, republican members of congress. he has not moved to punish any of them as of yet. cnn capitol hill reporter melanie zanona joins me now. so, melanie, mccarthy, what s he trying to do here, strike some sort of impossible balance? reporter: yes, he has taken a really soft touch approach to handling these members. probably the calculation for mccarthy is he doesn t want to alienate this donald trump-aligned group of republicans who he likely will need if he wants to become speaker one day. he has told people around him he thinks it s better t
Members in the fold than excommunicate them. to be clear, we re not talking about members with controversial statements. marjorie taylor greene compares covid regulations to the holocaust. reporter: also, it s not just greene. paul gosar spoke at a conference of a known white nationalist. other members, louie gohmert, greene have been floating this conspiracy theory that the fbi was involved in the january 6 attack, so there is some concern within the party that if leaders don t do more to stamp out these brush fires it is going to engulf the entire party. trump is doing the same thing, right? it s happening on multiple fronts. great reporting. melanie zanona, thank you very much. joining me now cnn political commentator s.e. cupp. you have to take a breath here. steve king so, steve king,