with covid cases on the rise, los angeles county has now become the first, major metro area in the u.s. to reinstate a mask mandate just one month after lifting it. effective this hour, face coverings are now required, again, indoors for, both, vaccinated and unvaccinated people. that s because covid-19 cases have gone up, by 300%, compared to july 4th. not everyone is onboard with this new mandate, of course. paul vercammen is in los angeles for us. reporter: the covid-19 numbers in los angeles county started heading back up, in the wrong direction. 462 hospitalizations. 11 new deaths. and that positivity rate leaping, now, to 3.7%. it was just 1.5%, on the fourth of july. so, there is a lot of debate about this new rule that mandates wearing masks indoors, at restaurants, movie theaters, and the like. and a lot of drama unfolding here. this is patty s restaurant. look at the head shots. this is right in the shadow of movie studios and television studios. so here, there is
world. i m kim bruin humaner. this is cnn newsroom. the push to vaccinate all americans is hitting a wall of resistance just as cases once again are rising from coast to coast. we re seeing covid-19 outbreaks in every single u.s. state for the second day in a row. areas with the lowest vaccination rates are at the most risk. 48.5% of the population here is fully vaccinated, when looking at the latest data from the cdc, the problem, herd immunity might not cakick in until 70%. angelinos are told to wear masks indoors again if they re fully vaccinated. the more infectious delta variant is making matters worse. paul vercammen is in los angeles. reporter: the covid-19 numbers in los angeles county started heading back up in the wrong direction, 462 hospitalizations, 11 new deaths and that positivity rate leaping now to 3.7%. it was just 1.5% on the fourth of july. so there s a lot of debate about this new rule that mandates wearing masks indoors at restaurants, movie the
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, january 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. new this morning, voting rights advocates in georgia are speaking out on their plans to boycott president biden s speech today in atlanta. they say without a concrete plan to pass election reform laws that have, so far, been blocked by republicans, and also some resonant democrats, the president shouldn t bother coming. here s what the founder of black voters matter told us here on new day just moments ago. he gave a very passionate speech, not only the one he gave for the commemoration last week of january 6th, but, remember, he gave a very passionate speech back in philadelphia, back in july. but then literally for seven months, we heard nothing else about voting rights from him. so now is not the time for another speech. and to be clear, we believe in using the presidency as a bully pulpit. we would have loved that the president use the pr
president saying wednesday at the ports of los angeles and long beach which ship to 247 operations to clear cargo backlog. the president saying the private sector needs to do more. this is a across-the-board commitment to going to 247. a big first step of speeding up the movement of cereals and go through our supply chain. now we need the rest of the private sector chain to step up as well. this is not called a supply chain for nothing. paul: let s bring in kevin. serving as chairman of the council of white house economic advisors under president trump. thank you for coming in. are you in the inflation is transitory or persistent cap and why? it is a 70s show again, paul. we will live in an inflation spiral unlike we have seen since you and i were in elementary school, i would say. [laughter] i think i may have been in college or high school. real wages are declining after having significant growth in the trump administration. that is going to have to reseed a little
atlanta braves are headed to the nlcs. they re a team that won their division. it wasn t a great division, quite frankly, so they sort of flew under the radar, as you said. the brewers were getting a lot of attention coming into the playoffs as a sleeper team. watch for the braves in the playoffs. they ll play either the giants or the dodgers because the dodgers did win in los angeles last night, appropriately forcing a decisive game between the two teams with the best records in baseball that will be played tonight in san francisco. wow, what a series that is. of course, i obviously didn t stay up to see it was not a walk-off. i thought it was. thank god. eighth inning home run. mike barnicle, we talked about yesterday the strategic decision that we had to make as a country, of calling joseph stalin our ally in the battle against adolph hitler and nazi germany. willie geist having to make a similar choice in supporting the boston red sox going into the alcs. take deep