in for brian williams. day 198 of the biden administration as the nation searches for a way out of the delta variant fueled covid surge. the wall street journal has new reporting about booster shots. the journal reports the fda excepts to have a strategy for vaccine boosters by early next month. one that would detail when and which vaccinated individuals should get the follow-up shots. tonight, vaccine maker moderna preparing for boosters. the company says people who received two doses of its vaccine will likely need a third dose before winter. one of the most important things we need to do is actually bring the delta variant into the vaccine. and that way we re teaching the immune system what the delta variant looks like in our vaccine, just as we did with the prior variants. this is all taking place as the u.s. reported more than 100,000 new covid cases yesterday. numbers that have not been seen since february. hospital admissions are up 41% over the last week. covid
mayor of boston now labor secretary is going to join us tonight and i might slip a little. my boston accent might crack. there s another very special boston accent we ll hear later in the hour and that is my father, who i wish was still with us to hear this. a 1963 recording of him arguing a case, an important case in the united states supreme court. when i was listening to it today trying to find something the audience would understand because of his boston accent i felt so bad for chief justice earl warren and william o douglas and all of those people sitting up there trying to understand this guy from boston. eventually they ruled in his favor but that boston accent is later in the hour. i always watch rachel s show and your show in my sweat pants with my mommy water and i had to obviously get through this show in a different way but i am racing upstairs to change into sweat pants and watch your show and all the boston accents with my mommy water in hand. i can t wait.
grabs, all steeped in the insurrectionist former president s big election lie. in the new york times this morning, republican state lawmakers have introduced at least 216 bills in 41 states to give legislators more power over election officials. 24 have been enacted into law across 14 states. already, gop lawmakers have stripped secretaries of state of their power, asserted more control over state election boards, made it easier to overturn election results and pursued several partisan audits and inspections of 2020 results. the situation continues to deteriorate in texas where democrats have prevented the gop from making it easier to overturn the results of an election, but only temporarily, and in response to democrats efforts in texas, the republican governor, greg abbott, followed through on his threat of what is essentially extortion of the legislative branch. he s withholding pay, defunding the legislature, until they come back for a special session and pass republic
to be hanged but now, former vice president mike pence is fine saying he and trump have agreed to disagree on the terrorist assault on the capitol. plus, the cdc, again, urging patients in the u.s. to get vaccinated. with covid sending a surprising number of teens to the hospital. welcome to the lead, everyone, i m jake tapper and we begin today with our tech league. and the plague hitting businesses across the country and around the world. foreign hackers planting ransomware, that s malicious software, that takes control of a computer network until the victim pays a hefty ransom. now, here in the united states, these hacks have led to gas shortages and meat-production plants being shut down. one study shows there were more than 15,000 ransomware attacks last year, alone, in the united states. the fbi director is, now, comparing this challenge to what the country faced in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks telling the wall wall street journal there is a quote shared
emergency lander at denver international shortly after take-off. the boeing 777 traveling from denver to hawaii dropped large debris in neighborhoods over denver. video appears to show one of the plane s engines on fire. and moments ago, a firsthand account of what it was like to be on board. i heard this like boom and almost like it me it was like was that planned? because it was so like right after his announcement there. obviously something wasn t right because the plane was vibrating hard, just constant, severe vibration. tom costello has more. reporter: the video terrifying. the right engine on fire while on the ground shrapnel and what appears to be the engine cowelling in the denver suburb of bloom field and more pieces littering a soccer field. it was just after 1 p.m. mountain time when a pilot flying from denver to honolulu with 241 people on board declared an emergency. may day, may day, united 28, united 328 united denver, heavy may day aircraft, just ex