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more than a quarter million kids tested positive for covid-19 last week alone nap adds up to 29d% of all of the cases in this country. we ll go live to kentucky where one fifth of all school districts had to shut down. and do you know how to spell maderna. clearly the person that made this counterfeit card did not. an alarming new trend, fraudulent vaccine cards and the people that are supplying them to people. dr. patel is a former white house policy director and now an msnbc medical contributor. i want to start with miguel almaguire. some people are calling it a perfect storm just as more children go back to school. across the country the delta variant continues to do serious damage. more than 100,000 rarnts say they running low on icu beds. this comes as the new variant, officials are just trying to determine how dang trous is. they labelled it a variant of interest. meantime later on today, they outlined a new protect people from the delta variant. right no 177 ....
at the white house and on capitol hill, folks are trying to navigate crises all of them coming to head in the next few days and weeks. there s covid, where president biden is planning to lay out a new plan tomorrow to get through the delta variant. there s afghanistan, where the secretary of state is preparing for a grilling on capitol hill in multiple hearings. there s the threat of a government shutdown at month s end unless congress acts and the potential for a debt default just a few weeks after that. all as democrats continue to spar over the size, scope, timing and political strategy surrounding the president s overall agenda and what s referred to as that massive reconciliation package which has been tied to biden trillion dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill. the latest drama comes after joe manchin reiterated he will not support a $3.5 trillion deal. nowhere close to it. he s reportedly signaling he might only back a bill that s less than half that size or hal ....
there s no turning back. whitaker: raid gone wrong: a chicago family sues police after officers kick in their door and hold them at gunpoint, even two young girls. so what did you do when you saw the gun? i was crying. whitaker: olympic home coming: fans celebrate a triumphant stateside return for team u.s.a.. and the ten-year-old who proves kindness is contagious. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. whitaker: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. norah is off tonight, i m bill whitaker. we re going to begin tonight in the west, which is getting ravaged by nearly 100 wildfires. overnight, the largest one in california, all but destroyed greenville, an historic gold rush town. buildings that had stood since the 1800s were leveled in hours, leaving an apocalyptic scene. in just three weeks, the so- called dixie fire has burned more than 500 square miles, an area larger ....
metric tons of carbon pollution. here s another interesting element. there is a federal regulatory piece. tail pipe rules for 2026 are stricter than rules put in place by president obama, rules attempted to be rolled back by president trump. the three largest automowautoma plus the uaw standing with the president today. the president is scheduled to sign an act to award congressional gold medals to some u.s. capitol police officers. of course, we know this dates back to january 6th. tell us about it. reporter: this was kind of a long running debate in congress that never should have been a debate. 21 republicans in the house voted against it. it was passed unanimously by the senate. those joining him in the signing, we expect some guests with him. the president s never minced words about what january 6th was. he called it an existential threat to the democracy of the united states, has made very clear his views on the issue, but has also made clear that he believes ....
any hospitalization and death. they re also effective in reducing the overall risk of infection. meanwhile, on capitol hill, the senate appears to be moving closer to the finish line with its work on bipartisan infrastructure bill. this as andrew cuomo is given the opportunity to provide final evidence in his defense as state lawmakers wrap up their investigation into allegations he sexually harass aid dozen women. and members of congress and other leading figures pay tribute to one of the leading labor leaders, afl-cio president richard trumka who died at the auj of 72. the we re going to begin this hour with the latest on the pandemic. seven states, florida, texas, missouri, arkansas, louisiana, alabama, and mississippi all of them account for about half of the new cases and hospitalizations in the past week despite making up less than a quarter of the u.s. population. there are also states with some of the lowest vaccination rates with, we should note. here are the ....