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, youre 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. Youve been seeing some really long lines for people trying to get tested today. Right, ana. And it can be for many reasons were told from the Health Staff that some employers might be asking f
Has become. And going home with gold. The olympic flame extinguished in tokyo. How american athletes, especially american women, stole the show. Im 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 were 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 imnai
Live from cnn headquarters, live for those watching here in canada, united states and around the world, im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with an encouraging sign of progress in the u. S. Vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. Half of all americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday, despite that, the number of new cases keeps growing. Now topping 100,000 per day. And in florida, the Delta Variant is spreading at unprecedented speed. Were talking about 20,000 new cases per day on average. Florida had more than 134,000 new cases total over the past week. The highest number since the pandemic began. But the White House is making it clear, the Nation Isnt headed for another lockdown. Nick valencia has the latest on Vaccination Efforts across the country. Reporter a major milestone for the country, with half the total u. S. Population fully vaccinated. But the grim count of covid deaths is rising fast. A 52 increase over last weeks sevenday av
What that can mean for Benjamin Netanyahus political future. And then heading to japan, a country under a State Of Emergency due to covid19. Well look in store for the athletes once they get there. Flash point over voting rights in the u. S. State of texas, and we have seen dramatic developments unfold there in the past few hours. Just a short time ago the Texas Legislature failed to pass a sweeping measure of voting restrictions, a Bill President biden has called wrong and unamerican. The measure would ban unsolicited mail in ballot applications overnight, and it bans drivethrough voting, and they were racing against a Midnight Deadline to get approval, and the republicans were left without the minimum numbers to vote, and the governor will start a Special Session to restart the process, and it was said the legislature was trying to restore confidence in the election process. Now, we can debate how much fraud occurred in the last election and democrats who have claimed fraud happened
Critical infrastructure. The Company Hit is called Colonial Pipeline. The pipeline spans 5500 miles and carries gasoline, diesel, Jet Fuel from texas up the East Coast to New York. It transports nearly half of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. The timing of the Shut Down could not be worse with the Summer Travel Season around the corner. Theyre worried the zrdisruptio could result in a spike in Gas Prices which are getting more and more expensive. The national average is at 2. 97 a gallon. As weve seen, many parts of the Country Prices are higher. Much higher in some places. Cnns Josh Campbell is joining me with the latest on the investigation into the cyberattack. What do we know about who is behind this attack and when the pipeline is going to be back up and running . Good morning to you. The were told from the group from our sources is this is it believed to be a russian Criminal Group that executed this cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline. And this group as i mentioned, called dark