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covid cases and hospitalizations are at levels we have not seen since early february. before the majority of the country even had access to the vaccine. they ve also leveled out and are basically flat in the last two weeks. deaths, however, jumped more than 30%. nearly all of them among the unvaccinated. going to say it one more time. nearly all the deaths recorded are unvaccinated americans. let s break it down, bring in mike memoli at the white house. cal perry, eugene daniels, and dr. paul offett. he is on the fda vaccine advisory committee. he knows what he is talking about. mr. memoli. let s be honest, the six points, all of us would say sure, let s do that. how is it going to happen? reporter: that s right, steph. we re going to get more specifics through the day. this is clearly a major moment for the white house after a period of months they moved from july 4th celebration of independence from the virus to seeing just in the past week in fact one of the highes ....
now account for more than one in four of all weekly new coronavirus infections, with over 250,000 new infections in the last week alone. child hospitalizations, they re also at an all-time high. but to be clear, less than 2% of all pediatric covid-19 cases result in hospitalization, far below with older people. dr. anthony fauci says the uptick in cases is still avoidable. if we do things right, we hope that we don t see much increase at all. if we want to protect the children, particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated. teachers, school personnel, everyone else. some schools in the south have been particularly hit hard since reopening. one district in central georgia has temporarily moved to virtual learning after three transportation staff died in recent weeks. in florida 13 employees in miami dade public schools died since mid august. we should note, all of them unvaccinated. that ....
night. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening rachel. you know when you re watching the rachel maddow show. and she s going on this. then you have no idea where she s going. she is just going down this trail. for example when she s talking about grand isle s dan, and i m going what the, what is she talking about? and rachel, i don t want to date myself. but all of my experience, was before they had a liquor license. so, so, when we discover, we meaning me. and i guess america. that this little barr in harvard square, made supreme court history through of course, the trial. that is the most important thing i have learned about the texas law. is that law, dated by the supreme court states that a private entity cannot enforce the laws, in the way that this texas abortion law wants private citizens to enforce the law. it does seem that there are several paths to the end of that texas law. in the one about that bar in cambridge, made me, one ....
not clearly communicating how he plans to respond to that virus. the recent poll has found that 42% of americans do not agree with the idea that the president has clearly communicated his plans. also when you take a look at the numbers, 41% do not think the cdc has clearly communicated the plans for that response. this comes as we have seen a bit of confusing messaging from the biden administration when it comes to the roll out of those booster shots. they were slated to roll out by september 20th. officials say it may only be the pfizer booster that s available and not the moderna and that approval process may take a few weeks longer. when the president speaks at the white house on thursday, he s trying to show they are trying to tackle this spreading delta variant as more children are returning to schools, people are returning to the workplaces and the president is expected to lay out some further ideas and proposals when it comes to dealing with the coronavirus in sc ....
department. good evening, david. mike, exactly one week after u.s. troops left afghanistan, there s a new taliban government with new promises to those left behind. it s the same old taliban and that means devastation. [gunfire] gunshots and chaos on the streets of kabul tuesday. during an anti taliban protest. hours later, the taliban announced its new government. thank god our country regained its freedom from occupation. taliban s founder will become the new acting deputy prime minister. the new prime minister mullah mohammed hosanna kunt. absent from the taliban cabinet? women. but the new interior minister is wanted by the fbi for ties to al-qaeda. outside the former u.s. embassy in kabul, a freshly painted taliban flag and coat of arms for the islamic imrit of afghanistan. a source on the ground tells fox news more of these symbols are appearing around kabul. the taliban just yesterday overtook panjshir valley. the final area under resistance forces. now t ....