The last Borscht Belt comedians. Out speak up, be offended enough people should car to speak 9out speak up, be offended enough to make an issue out of it. Duncan and later, how american g. I. S changed the way the japanese ride the waves. This is the Cbs Weekend News with Jericka Duncan, reporting from the new york. Duncan good evening, thanks for watching. Americas Covid Recovery is being threatened by a summer surge. Hospitalizations and deaths are up nationwide. The highly contagious Delta Variant is giving new urgency to the Countrys Vaccination Push but thats actually lacking. Seven months after the first shots only 49 percent of americans are fully vaccinated. We begin tonight with Cbs Lilia Luciano in pasadena, california, lilia, good evening to you. Reporter good evening, jericka. That national Vaccination Rate is nowhere near enough to stop the spread of the Delta Variant and now Health Officials are bracing for an even bigger spike in infections. Tonight, there are new fears
Governor, you are letting us down. Aiming for gold. A a yearlong delay the Tokyo Olympics are officially underway. Another 17 athletes testing positive. Pick beings are slim. The demands for supplies are up and the number of available products will be down. Their advice is to plan now if you dont want to be stuck picking through unwanted leftovers before your child starts school. Searing Heat Waves and how its impacting infrastructure. A warning from mother nature. Good morning. Thank you for your new day. Boris, good morning to you. Kaitlan, thank you for joining us. Our first time anchoring together. Hopefully it will be fun . It will be. Yeah, we begin this morning with more evidence that the united states is in the middle of a dangerous Summer Surge of covid19 fueled by the spread of the Delta Variant. Case rates are climbing while the number of people getting fully vaccinated is dwindling. The number is four times high j higher only 250,000 people are being vaccinated per day. Tha
Folks get to some of this if just spectators. You have been in these situations, getting ready to Lift Off into space. Talk about what might be going through the minds, what it is like inside that capsule as we are now just about 11 minutes to launch. Everybody excited, adrenaline is going. My time was one of thinking about what it is going to look like, what im going to do when i Get Into space. Extreme adrenaline, hope, excitement. They are not feeling nerves. Heard that from the 18yearold And Bezos himself. You have to wonder if theyre getting that nervous anticipation going on. Left side of the screen, youre watching the feed from Horn Ranch where the spaceport is, where the rocket is about to Lift Off. The Control Room is ticking through each of the systems, declaring each a go. We are as you see less than ten minutes to liftoff. Clayton, this is a significant moment for Jeff Bezos, not just because he is blasting into Outer Space, he is crossing the socalled Carmen Line, it is si
For them and their family. Last night alone, three mass shootings. 18 people were shot. Many teenagers including a 14yearold boy. He lost his life as well. Hours before, eight people riding in a Party Bus were also shot in a driveby. Obviously this is a situation that needs solutions. The White House after originally saying that Crime Spikes tended to happen in the summer, now its clear that action must be taken. Today the Attorney General in chicago is taking part in a Listening Session on how to cut down on the number of guns on the street. Gun Trafficking Strike forces will be deployed in chicago and d. C. And in these cities across the country in yet another federal effort to stop the blood shed. The question remains, will this work . Ken cuccinelli was from dhs when President Trump cracked down on crime when Operation Legend was underway. That initiative was credited for 6,000 arrests while in existence. Joined by Raymond Lopez here to address the leadership of mayor lori lightfoo
13 from last week, not even half of the country is fully vaccinated right now, and that is quite a bit shy of the widespread immunity that is needed at the moment. New cases are rising in all 50 states. Florida alone is where one in every five covid cases in america was identified this week. But unlike last summer, the uptick now is entirely preventable because its now a plague mainly among the unvaccinated. In maryland, every single person who died of covid last month was unvaccinated. In new york city, 98. 9 of covid deaths from january to june were people who were not fully vaccinated. In l. A. County this week, every single patient hospitalized for covid is unvaccinated. On that note, lets bring in dr. Anthony fauci the chief medical adviser to President Biden and the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Dr. Fauci, thanks again so much for joining us. First of all, what is your reaction to the president saying Social Media Platforms like facebook a