live from cnn headquarters, live for those watching here in canada, united states and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. we begin with an encouraging sign of progress in the u.s. vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. half of all americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday, despite that, the number of new cases keeps growing. now topping 100,000 per day. and in florida, the delta variant is spreading at unprecedented speed. we re talking about 20,000 new cases per day on average. florida had more than 134,000 new cases total over the past week. the highest number since the pandemic began. but the white house is making it clear, the nation isn t headed for another lockdown. nick valencia has the latest on vaccination efforts across the country. reporter: a major milestone for the country, with half the total u.s. population fully vaccinated. but the grim count of covid deaths is rising fast. a 52% increase over l
point. we re tdown over 200 nurses that we can t fill. we ve had people literally walk off the job because they couldn t take it anymore. have you had days where you didn t want to come to work? yes, yes, i ve had moments where i sit in my car and cry. a special session of the arkansas general assembly resumes this morning to consider masking mandates. earlier this year republican governor asa hutchison approved a statewide ban on mask mandates, a move he regrets. cases were at a low point. everything has changed now. yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become law. after one week back at school, a covid outbreak in the marian school district in arkansas has put more than 500 students and staff in quarantine. louisiana is also facing a severe shortage of icu beds. louisiana state university will require all students to either get vaccinated or get tested monthly. doctors are now strongly encouraging adults to get vaccinated to protect children. it is hard for u
dissidents. and an unruly passenger dusk tap duck taped to his seat. what the airline is saying about the decision. covid cases have surpassed 200 million as the delta variant continues to strain health care systems. the number has jumped dramatically since late april when there were 150 million cases. global covid deaths have also topped 4.2 million. meanwhile the cdc projects covid hospitalizations and deaths in the u.s. will go up over the next four weeks. dr. tom frieden says the u.s. will likely see a surge of infections in the coming weeks and it won t be limited to areas with low vaccination rates. and a former u.s. official has this warning for the unvaccinated my god, we have more cases, more hospitalizations now than we had when i was in office last july. only reason that we don t have 1500 deaths is we ve done a good job with the elderly. but we re at a pace to lose 75,000 additional americans by thanksgiving. that is a horrific thought and one that we cannot a
the text has been adopted. there have been some significant changes overnight to that and one right at the last minute on coal. alex sharma says it is something they can go ahead with. christian fraser at cop26 in glasgow. more from him at 11. let s bring you some of today s at the news now and in belarus, they have said that they are stepping up providing aid to migrants trapped in the border with poland. poland says belarus is provoking a surge in migrants as revenge for you sanctions. and is trying to establish a permanent camp. belarussian security forces tried to break part of the border fence and a thwarted attempt to let migrants across. some 2000 people, many of them iraqi kurds are camped on the belarussian of the frontier. 0ur correspondence enters this report from inside belarus. there is little protection and no one knows how long they re going to be here. we one knows how long they re going to be here. ~ u, one knows how long they re going to be here. ~ , ., one
that are dispersed over a wide area. the concern is that some of those bomblets fail to explode, posing a danger to civilians long after a conflict has ended. and for that reason, they re banned in 120 countries. human rights watch says both russian and ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions already killing civilians and military personnel. so we know the risks of these cluster bombs but how do they work? the munition is fired, before the ammunition or bomblets from the cluster are released. the bomblets then fall to the ground, detonating on impact. in this us military training video you can see the sprawling nature of the weapon, which combined with its failure rate has raised humanitarian concerns for nearby civilians. as we said, the usage of cluster bombs is controversial, particularly due to their high dud rate or rate in which they fail to detonate. however us national security advisorjake sullivan said the cluster munitions america will send to ukraine