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he worries about the coming school year, specifically in state with lower vaccinate rates. here is what he said to us just last hour. in the northeast, we have all the adults and adolescents vaccinated. the kids will probably do well this school year. down here in the south, in houston, the school year will begin in a few weeks. we start early. what that means is we ve got so few addlesadd he addless sent a young adults vaccinated, what makes people think this will go well. we ll have an enormous amount of transmission. we ll see a lot of young people and even adolescents and kids get sick. there s his prediction. nick watt joins us now. the delta variant is infiectiou it s impacting some people fully vaccinated. reporter: the headline sounds scary. more than 800 people, 20% were fully vaccinated people. they are breakthrough infections. the majority of them though were asymptommatic or very mild symptoms. very few were admitted to the hospital. very, very few dea ....
well being. it s confirmed that human remains found in the pyrenees are those of the missing british hiker esther dingley. and warming up for tonight s first night of the proms, as the royal albert hall welcomes back a full audience with no social distancing. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel: more from the tokyo games, as bryony page wins bronze for team gb in the women s trampolining final. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. scotland s first minister, nicola sturgeon, has said she s determined to make changes that will save lives after the country reported a record number of deaths from drug misuse for the seventh year running. more than 1,300 people died of drug misuse in scotland last year alone. almost two thirds of all drug related deaths were of people aged between 35 and 5a. scotland s drug death rate continues to be more than three and a half times that for the uk as a whole. it means scotland continues to have by far the highest dr ....
president biden is more interested in driving electric vehicles and going pedal to metal on massive socialist agenda. gas prices are still rising. biden thinks it s best to tool around in the new electric f-150 and show off to reporters. the president in michigan today trying to sell his $4 trillion green new deal infrastructure plan. when i think of the climate crisis, beyond the devastation of lives and livelihoods and health of our very planet, i think jobs. i think jobs climate change, good paying union jobs. we re going to put americans to work modernizing our roads, our highways, our ports, airports, rails and transit systems. america is back. america is back. [applause] and the competition for the 2 st century, the future will be built right here in america. jesse: all right, juan williams, the electric ford 150. i want you to be honest here, juan, knowing what you know about the american people and truck drivers, do you think the electric f-150 will sell? ye ....
one of the first officials ready to raise the flag about a covid lab leak in china taking questions now from lawmakers. as you look at the white house we expect that to come in, we have time to drugle this morning. national security intelligence responder, i think it important to remind folks that there is some information that we knew prior to this coming out. some of this information that we re learning. yeah, it s right, after the start of hearings, ig investigations and so on, when, in the lead up to january 6th. this report does the best job of any that we have seen so far. it tells us that the intelligence officials that were supposed to pull together, they largely failed to do so. they did, in fact, pick up much of what was coming down their way, warnings about what could happen that day. but that didn t pass the information up or down the chain of chand. officers were ill-trains and ill equipped. they didn t have the necessary squimt they needed and finally on ....
though, from washington, former president donald trump is exhibiting his absolute control over the republican party today as he explicitly endorses a candidate to replace wyoming congresswoman liz cheney as she has emerged over trump s repeated false claims and efforts to overturn the election. the former president threw his support behind stefanik. president biden was asked about that situation when he visited a washington restaurant just moments ago at the white house. watch. president, do you have any comments on the efforts to oust liz cheney from the house by republicans? it seems as though the republican party is trying to identify what it stands for, and they re in the midst of significant sort of mini revolution. we need a two-party system. it s not healthy to have a one-party system. and i think the republicans are further away from trying to figure out who they are and what they stand for than what i thought they would be at this point. meantime, faceboo ....