dr. fauci. there s a tenant that everybody knows in virology. there s a likelihood you will get another variant that could, i m not saying it will, that could be more problematic than the delta. now, dr. fauci strongly supports vaccine mandates once the vaccines earns full approval from the fda which is something that could happen this month. this morning cases are rising sharply in the united states driven by the delta variant. the average daily number of cases is now at more than 100,000 for the first time since february. hospitalizations continue to rise as well to more than 66,000. one out of every five people hospitalized in the u.s. is in florida right now. cases and hospitalizations there are setting new records daily. even more troubling the state is seeing an alarming number of sick children. one florida doctor says that children s hospitals are overwhelmed while republican governor ron desantis resists calls to allow schools that want to to require masks in th
melberstart you no. good evening, we begin with breaking news. the trump organization will be charged for these tax and corporate related crimes as soon as tomorrow afternoon. the wall street journal reporting alan weisselberg who has been the center of so much of this will be himself independently indicted for evading taxes on his benefits. he ll appear in court tomorrow. this is a huge development. this is what donald trump has been running from for many years. it is what his desperate bid to hide his taxes. the wall street journal which by the way is as twin sister publication of fox news. any charges against the trump organization, weisselberg would be a blow to former president trump. what may also worry donald trump is that the beginning of the indictment phase of this case if you watch the beat, we have been watching on it when it was leaked and there was a grand jury probe and some witnesses here learned what the investigators were asking, all of that was the inve
in the probe to date. rhodes appearing in a federal court in texas. he was seen in jeans and a t-shirt and pled not guilty. he remains in custody, facing up to 20 years in prison on that charge alone. while his estranged ex-wife spoke out today. i think he planned it very carefully. i think he planned for himself to not get arrested by seemingly stay out of the capitol himself, but that entire stack, the people that went in, the entire event, to me i see his fingerprints all over it. and i think even though from the outside, oh, i told them not to go in, we were just there for we were just there for you know, to guard people, it s silly, but it s also very carefully planned to keep himself you know, to keep himself out of trouble. she helped him in some ways start the oath keepers but that s her view of what s going on now, the view of someone who knows him. prosecutors are drawing on a range of evidence to actually make a similar point, that this defendant planned
show both parties. fair point about again spending dealing with the recession and everything going through hard times. we do our reporting and reading but some days i got to phone a friend. you can always call me. nice to see you, nicole as always. welcome everyone to the beat. we have more on the news or developments that nicole and i were just talking about that we re trying to interpret around here. president biden did formally delay this planned morning departure to europe for the g20 that was today which seems like a sign that s spending negotiations are getting close, maybe. today was a policy roll are coaster, progressives and this group of holdout democrats made what could be the final moves in the march to pass this giant spending package so crucial to biden s opening plans for his administration and according to the president crucial for america. now what is the president telling us? why is it like i said to be just honest and transparent with you hard to in
had the chief of the local police department on scene here, and what role did they play and why didn t they step up and say, listen, we need to go in, we need to stop this gunman. the fact that he s been singled out by the director of the dps certainly made him unhappy, has ruffled some feathers here, but there are so many more questions and then yesterday, john, you know, we were told here that the swearing in for chief arredondo who was elected on the city council seat was not going to happen, and then we get word here late last night that, you know what, it did happen. they did not invite the media to witness any of this, it was supposed to be a public event, that did not happen, what they did was they had every new city council member come in, on their own, just so that they wouldn t have to call a public meeting for this swearing in, john. shows you their state of mind about maybe what they think of the visuals there. shimon, this door, the door that the killer used to