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prompting the white has to consider asking vaccinated americans to wear masks. but that was not the message president biden sent during that town all last night. speak of those over the age of 12 who are able to get vaccinated, if you are vaccinated you shouldn t wear a mask. sandra: will be checking in with dr. siegel and just a minute, but let s start with jacqui heinrich. she s reporting live from the white house this morning. hi, jacqui. good morning to you guys. top health officials and the biden administration and some white house officials reportedly having talks over whether to reimpose that recommendation for masks despite regardless, rather, of whether you ve had the vaccine or not, because the delta variant is tearing through the country. there is discussion over whether to change the guidance because people have vaccine, it acts as an incentive not to wear a mask, that people who get the vaccine don t need it. it acts as an incentive, they want to keep ....
censorship. i m jacqui heinrich. griff: and i m griff jenkins. and the president has words. let s go to the white house lawn. white house officials are doubling and trippling down on the president as comments on facebook. and the officials at the white house see this as a way to take aaggressive and stance to root out misinformation on facebook, on twitter on any type of social media, a way to stop this. right now we re looking at the delta variant, incredibly serious around the country if you look at the numbers, they re climbing when it comes to the delta variant. two weeks, griff, after the president declared independence from the virus on july 4th, those numbers continue to go in the wrong direction. let s look at the latest numbers just a few hours ago from the c.d.c. about 160 million and a half people are fully vaccinated. that s 48.4% of the total population not nearly where the white house wants to be in the pandemic. the president is looking at the social me ....
elsa has left a message footprint along the east coast and dramatic video of people here in new york simply struggling to get home. take a look at this video. you can see subway riders trekking through black water with floating trash, even wading through the flood in plastic garbage bags. in this video, the water is turning this new york city street into a river, flooding businesses on the street level below. in the bronx, the running water created a waterfall, trooping people underground. flooding roads and causing traffic standstills and prompting water rescues. in connecticut, the rain triggered a mudslide under the amtrak train tracks this morning. the mayor said they re grateful somebody called in the incident early. it s very dangerous. if it wasn t addressed sooner than later, might have been a worst scenario of where the track might have collapsed. tropical storm warnings from new york to massachusetts this morning. flash flood watches are in effect as elsa ....
and honoring our president dwight d. eisenhower, it was dedicated in september of 2020 during the pandemic, not a lot of americans knew it, but here we ve got dozens of tourists on this gorgeous day coming down here to take a look at it, checking us out. it s going to be a wonderful saturday. jacqui: love to see it and last night got to kick it off right with a few hot dogs on my roof and hopefully nor cookout to come later on this weekend. all right, some tense moments in massachusetts this morning, we re going to start with you. a group of heavily armed men were just arrested a short time ago after a standoff with police that shut down part of america s busiest highway, i-95. lucas tomlinson is covering it from our d.c. bureau. hi, massachusetts state police say 11 suspects some armed, are now in custody after an armed standoff that closed i-95 outside of boston both directions on a busy holiday weekend. 95 is now open. 1:30 a.m., a group of heavily armed men dresse ....
recovery efforts. no rescues overnight or this morning. the numbers stand as they have been. four people confirmed dead, 159 missing and this as officials continue to stress this is a search and rescue operation. here is the mayor of miami-dade. we continue to have hope. we re continuing to search. we re looking for people alive in the rubble, that s our priority and our teams have not stopped. that report that you cited from 1918, that there were cracks in the beams of the parking garage, around the pool deck and also erosion of the concrete. this has sparked an immediate audit of buildings in the area as well. this,as a memorial sprung up on a chain link fence. friends and relatives posting pictures and photos of those missing as we hear from those who survived that night. do you feel like you re given a second opportunity? i don t know why. what s our purpose, honestly. the fact is we survived and so many people didn t is definitely heartbreaking and i don ....