moments. we ll have live coverage once it begins. our team of reporters is covering this. let s begin with nadia in new orleans. we heard the player say some very serious, deliver serious warnings to residents. leave now or hunker in place. it will be very dangerous. people need to take warnings seriously. what are you hearing? reporter: wolf, you heard the mayor say don t expect emergency responders to risk their lives to get you in the middle of the storm. once the storm passes, they ll come out and the first priority is to clear roads of debris, especially around hospitals. if you re going to decide to stick it out, ride out the storm, you ll be doing so on your own. we have seen some business owners in french quarter boarding up their businesses, trying to prevent debris from flying. we know we ll have high wind speeds, you talk about a category four storm. we have seen people boarding up all morning long. look at the hotels. a huge tourist area. this is a line of hotel
outfront tonight it s coming for us, it s a beast. a quote and a chilling warning from a doctor in louisiana, voice raising the alarm about what is now again a growing number of covid cases across the united states. the number of cases is now rising in all 50 states. look at that map of new cases compared to the prior week. you can see, right, if you re green or, you know, yellow, you know, you re sort of steady or improving. orange you re bad. red is terrible. and you see that dark red blanketing all most the entire country and it s not just cases that are up. hospitalizations are now also on the rise. one state surging is florida. the white house s covid response coordinator jeffrey saying one in five covid cases in the united states are in florida. you can see the spike there from a month ago. tonight, the state s governor ron desantis is taking a different tax selling campaign merchandise hocmocking dr. fauc selling hats and shirts that say don t fauci my florida. telli
host the summer games. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. and our coverage continue begins with disturbing new numbers, a dramatic rise in covid cases here in the united states. it has now reached all 50 states. erica, every trend seems to be heading in the wrong direction. reporter: yeah, that s exactly right, wolf. we are seeing cases rise in all 50 states. that s something we haven t seen in months. deaths, hospitalizations also up as vaccinations continue to split. one county health official from missouri telling cnn earlier today that she actually doesn t think we have seen the worst of it. and that it is fears like that that is promising this change we re seeing in southern california. masks back off in los angeles county where new cases are surging. anything is on the table, you know, if things continue to get worse, which is why we want to take action now. reporter:
here in geneva, switzerland, we are two days out from the critical biden/putin summit. we re covering that and the president s talks with nato leaders in brussels. phil mattingly is on the scene for us in brussels. the president says the nato meeting was productive, but his upcoming summit with putin is clearly very much on his mind. reporter: over the course of the last several days, meeting after meeting with u.s. allies, one thing has been clear. while there s a significant agenda the president wanted to address both at the g7 and here in brussels at the nato summit, the meeting with president putin is an ever important piece of every conversation that he has. i have found that he is, as they say, a worthy adversary. reporter: president biden deep into preparation for his high-stakes sitdown with russian president vladimir putin. i m going to make clear to president putin that there are areas where we can cooperate if he chooses. and if he chooses not to cooperate
outfront tonight, self pe preservations and the truth. this vote has made it official. donald trump s big lie has now fully enveloped on the republican party. shame on the republican party because they are afraid of donald trump. only six republicans sided with democrats. many of the same people voting no today are the same republicans who were calling for a bipartisan investigation in the days after the deadly riot. now, they turned their back on it. one republican, lisa murkowski is calling them out. to be making a decision for the short term political gain at the expense of understanding and acknowledging what was in front of us on january 6th. i think we need to look at that critically. is that really what this us about that everything is one election cycle after another? apparently, yes. lisa murkowski and five other republicans voted on the commission, pushed there by a bring. people like matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene swore their allegiance to one man,