Raising money to save lives ah, kinda stands, former president has defended his decision to leave the country during the taliban, the takeover of the capital. Kabul asked rob ghani speaking from the united arab emirates, says he left to prevent bloodshed and denied rumors that he fled with suitcases full of cash. The u. A. He says ghani has been taken in with his family on humanitarian grounds. Muscle, human disaster and me should if i stayed, i would have witness bloodshed and couple, couple should not be turned into another yemen or syria over power struggles. So i forced to leave i left with just a waste coat and some clothes. The personality assassination against me has been ongoing, saying i have taken money with me. The accusations or baseless lies. But you can even ask customs officials, they are basically and i ve got a son and just the day after the taliban reassured the will that people will be safe under its rule. It s like this have reportedly open file protest as the 3 peo
Vaccinated against covid19 have not had a breakthrough case resulting in hospitalization or death. If you give the virus a chance to continue to change, you re leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then that will impact not only the unvaccinated, that will impact the vaccinated because that variant could evade the protection of the vaccine. The daily u. S. Case count is now the highest it has been in six months. Hospitalizations are doubled what they were two weeks ago and vaccination rates are not keeping up with the spread of this virus. All of this as schools across the nation reopen and are prepared to welcome back our kids and that is raising a lot of fears and questions as well. Are they safe? in florida, one in five kids tested is infected. Natasha is in orlando. You ve been seeing some really long lines for people trying to get tested today. Right, ana. And it can be for many reasons we re told from the health staff that some employers might be asking
Has become. And going home with gold. The olympic flame extinguished in tokyo. How american athletes, especially american women, stole the show. I m phil mattingly in washington in for fredricka whitfield. Right now, the covid pandemic is surging in the u. S. And shows no signs of slowing down. To know how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. The average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july, the delta variant fuelling this rise in cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. Hospital even more troubling is how this variant is affecting children. Childhood and teen cases have jumped 84% in the past week. Despite those numbers, only half of the country is vaccinated. Health officials say the drive is because of the unvaccinated which make up most of the hospitalizations and deaths we re seeing now. We would not be in the place we are in right now with this delta surge if we had been more effective in getting everybody to take advantage of these im
And right now, it shows no signs of slowing down. To really get a sense of how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. The average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july. The deadly delta variant fuelling the rapid rise in those cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. Hospitalizations are currently the highest we ve seen since february. Even more troubling, just how this new variant is affecting children. Child and teen covid cases have jumped 84% in just the last week. Now despite those numbers, only half of the country is fully vaccinated. Some health officials say it may soon be time to mandate vaccinations for healthcare workers. It s inexplicable to me. You re a healthcare worker. Your profession. The thing you ve devoted your life to is to protect people. To make them well. To protect them from disease. I m very much in favor of mandating, if you want to see patients and you want to participate in healthcare, you need to get vaccinated. Pe
News at 3:00 is starts now. I m janelle wang. I m garvin thomas. We re on early because of the olympics. Inperson learning. School districts are getting ready to return back to the classrooms. Opening doors throughout the month. Oakland unified starting monday. Palo alto and pleasanton, mountain view, los altos, wednesday. Governor newsom says it s time to get the students off zoom school. Want the kids safe, back in person for inperson instruction. We don t want our kids back on zoom school. Don t want kids back online with all the disparities that were selfevident. Another classroom, young child in first grade talking it about download speeds suggests everything you need to know about the nature of the impact of the pandemic and how disproportionate it s been. Right now there s no talk of vaccine mandate for teachers. Oakland schools returning to close monday, more than 35,000 in the district. Some first time in classroom in more than a year. Two school districts have already reporte