We begin with Breaking News on the southern border where a new surge of migrants, most of them from haiti, has grown to nearly 15,000. Right now dhs is ramping up Deportation Flights as thousands of migrants are overwhelming Del Rio, texas, many of them living under a bridge to try to escape the brutal heat. Well have an update from the scene in just minutes. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill the clock is ticking as democrats work to get a 3. 5 trillion Spending Bill and a bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to President Bidens desk. Earlier today i spoke with House Budget Committee chair John Yarmouth who had a message for his colleagues who are at odds over what that final bill should look like. You can posture all you want and say what you want, what you will and wont vote for. In the final analysis, youre going to vote for it because youre not going to vote against childcare and paid Family Leave and early Childhood Education and Community College and all these top priorities which, by the way,
Good morning. And welcome to your New Day. Im boris sanchez. Im christi paul. We are counting down together here. In a few hours Richard Branson will board a supersonic plane that will launch him to the em of space. Hear his message this morning ahead of the flight. There is also a race to vaccinate parts of the country. What Health Officials are doing to reach Vaccine Skeptics as concerns grow over the delta variant. The town of charlottesville removed two Confederate Statues amid cheers from onlookers. How officials hope had will close a painful chapter of the citys history. And President Biden warning there will be consequences if russia does not do more to stop hackers from targeting the United States. But what can realtily be done to stop him . New day starts right now. It is sunday, july 11. We are grateful that you are with us. We will get to that historic launch in a moment. But we begin with rising concerns about coronavirus. Yeah, the delta variant, it is really, its scared a
south africa has recorded a big increase in coronavirus infections which have doubled across the country since monday. health officials fear the newly discovered 0micron variant may be fuelling the surge. total case numbers have risen sharply from a weekly average of 300 a day a fortnight ago to 3,500 each day. and in the past 2a hours, 8,500 covid infections have been registered. 0fficials there say 0micron is rapidly becoming the dominant variant . the first case of 0micron has been detected in united states and president biden is preparing to announce stricter testing rules for travellers. in the uk an additional 114 million doses of covid 19 vaccines have been secured. the health secretary, sajid javid, said he wanted to ensure britain had what it needed for the long term. and the chief executive of pfizer, albert bourla, said 5 11 year olds should getjabbed too and he believes that annual vaccinations will be required to maintain a high level of protection. more on th
the actor alec baldwin says he did not fire the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of his latest film. the trigger wasn t pulled, i didn t pull the trigger. so you never pulled the trigger? no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. the army are called in to help as thousands of homes in scotland and northern england are still without power almost a week after storm arwen. and help at last for the seal pups who were caught up in the storm and separated from their mothers. coming up in the sport later on the hour on the bbc news channel: the ioc speaks to peng shuai for a second time but that s unlikely to change the wta decision to suspend all its tournaments in china. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the government has ordered an extra 114 million covid vaccine doses for booster programmes over the next two years. ministers say the deals for both pfizer and moderna jabs will future proof the uk s vaccination pr