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900,000 shots being given every day, mean time with the delta variant sending people, kids, to the hospital. regular testing for all teachers and other personnel statewide. in texas, counties defied orders from their governor and imposed mask mandates. governor abbott and some people in there political party following president trump has politicized this masking, public health and vaccination when there is no politics. the virus doesn t care what your politics are. what your political party is, how you feel about any issue. that is dallas county judge clay jenkins. he ll be joining us shortly. first, chief medical correspond dr. sanjay gupta and the distributor of minnesota center for disease and research and policy. sanjay, the news that the fda is expected to give authorization. can you explain what that means and who you think would be eligible? yeah. i think we re talking nine to ten million people here, three to four percent of the population. for example, ca ....
california governor ordering regular testing for all teachers and other personnel statewide. in texas, counties defied orders from their governor and imposed mask mandates. dallas county the latest today. governor abbott and some people in there political party following president trump has politicized this masking, public health and vaccination when there is no politics. the virus doesn t care what your politics are. what your political party is, how you feel about any issue. that is dallas county judge clay jenkins. he ll be joining us shortly. first breaking vaccine news first, chief medical correspond dr. sanjay gupta and the distributor of minnesota center for disease and research and policy. sanjay, the news that the fda is expected to give authorization. for a third dose. can you explain what that means and who you think would be eligible? yeah. i think we re talking nine to ten million people here, three to four percent of the population. whose immune syst ....
we re following multiple big developing stories tonight. new york governor andrew cuomo resigning, trying to avoid impeachment while also attempting to undercut the sexual harassment allegations forcing him out. plus the delta variant putting children at risk. nearly 94,000 american kids testing positive for covid in just the past week. so why are some republican governors trying to punish schools for requiring masks in the classroom? and president biden celebrating the senate passing a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and a bipartisan vote that included 19 republicans. after years and years of infrastructure week, we re on the cusp of an infrastructure decade that i truly believe will transform america. we ve proved that we can still come together to do big things, important things for the american people. if passed by the house, the bill would revamp the country s roads and bridges while boosting broadband connections and fighting climate change. so let s s ....
and defenders resigning and fort first time, we re hearing from the other staffer, the former staffer who filed a criminal complaint. i know the truth. he knows the truth. what he did to me was a crime. plus the senates s infrastructure bill passing a crucial vote, setting it up for final passage within days. in just hours, details on the next step for that larger $3.5 trillion bill, what the new key details mean for that time line ahead. good morning, i m lindsay reiser in for hallie jackson. vaughn little yard and dr. tom frieden, vaughn, we ll start with you in florida, that state is breaking all kinds of the wrong kinds of records with hospitalizations topping all-time pandemic records for seven straight days. what s the situation like on the ground today? reporter: the latest posting out of florida, hospitalizations down to 14,000 floridians in florida hospitals with covid. this is a situation where records are being broken on a daily basis now consistently. ....
and in just a few minutes, the state lawmakers are set to discuss impeaching the governor. while behind closed doors, two top former justice department officials are answering lawmakers questions over the weekend about just how far former president trump went to overturn the election results. and those in the justice department that actively helped him. we re going to hear from grammy award-winning musician who is making major headlines after requiring vaccines at his concerts in austin, texas. a city with just six icu beds left open. the praise and the backlash he s now getting. we ve got to start, of course, this morning with covid. the good news right now is that half the country has officially been fully vaccinated. but at the very same time, the number of average cases are topping 100,000 a day for the first time since last february. the rate of hospitalizations and deaths nationwide have both jumped more than 90% over the last two weeks. of course, the biggest pr ....