suicide. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. all right. let s get straight to our white house, our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, covid is front and center for president biden as the country now faces a new surge of cases. yeah, wolf. and the white house is making a concerted effort to try to correct the messaging after the cdc fark sparked a lot of confusion last week when they issued that new mask guidance for fully vaccinated americans. and now this week the white house has filled president biden s schedule with events related to the pandemic as they are stressing the effectiveness of vaccines given, they say, that right now 90 million americans who are eligible to get vaccinated still haven t done so. with the delta variant fueling outbreaks nationwide, president biden is hitting a key vaccine goal tonight almost one month late. i would say it s a significant step that we have hit 70%. reporter: 70% of adults in the u.s. ha
what took so long? let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. spooked by covid. the dow tumbling 700 points with fears the delta variant pushing the country in the wrong direction. covid cases are up 145%. hospitalizations are up 50%. deaths are up 12%. and those who are most at risk are the ones who are failing to protect themselves and others with the simple vaccination. according to officials, more than 97% of people hospitalized with covid are unvaccinated. 99.5% of deaths right now are among the unvaccinated. dr. anthony fauci telling me today if more americans don t get the shot, things will not get better. quite the opposite. if we don t get a significant proportion of these people vaccinated, you re going to be seeing a smoldering of this outbreak in our country for a considerable period of time. and california tonight is one example of that smoldering outbreak. the state reporting the highest covid positivity rate since the
last night amid the sound of gunshots. during the sixth inning of the nationals game against the diego padres is when this all happened. the announcers urging people to stay calm while fans actually rushed to the team dugouts trying to escape. so several people have run into both the nationals and padres dugout here and have run out of the stadium. so the threat wasn t inside the stadium. d.c. police say that two cars on the street directly outside near the third base exit were involved in a shootout that injured three people, including one fan. ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. the action is outside of the stadium. gunfire sending fans and players scrambling during a game at nationals park stadium in washington, d.c. a fan, one of three people wounded in a shooting near the park saturday night according to d.c. metro police. cnn journalists inside the stadium reported hearing multiple loud bangs. it was the middle of the sixth inning and we there wer
charge on january 6th probe which relates to the story michael was covering. it is my responsibility as speaker of the house to make sure we get to the truth on this and we ll not let their antics stand in the way. these people are going to act up, cause a problem and if people say you put them on and when they act up, we can take them off. why should we waste time on something as predictable. she s suggesting she does not care gop leaders. mccarthy s respond is to yank all five republican nominees. this thing is real and the seat starts next week. mccarthy is focusing on the outside. any post should focus on pelosi. many would rather look away or lie about it because to face it is to see the attacks and the violence and something should be done. those are just a few seconds of it. leader mccarthy recently huddled with trump who s now offering a false defense about those acts you just saw with your own eyes. all the clash over committee assignments may sound to some degre
disinformation, conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda. at the centered of the conspiracy theory devoted is today s gop, which purges members who refuse to lie about the election and is engaged in a coordinated attempt to whitewash the horrors of the january 6 insurrection. the divide has left democrats to defend democracy, while republicans in their current form endanger everything from minority voting rights to an unearthing the truth about the deadly attack on the u.s. capitol to racial equality. punch bowl news has a blunt assessment of the state of dysfunction in congress today just six months after the deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. they write this, the two parties loathe each other as much as ever. some democrats believe republicans threaten their physical safety, especially on the house side. there s still mags outside the house doors. there have been shouting matches in the halls of the capitol. one house democrat moved her office because she did not