tonight. are you in the cnn newsroom, a jaw-dropping reality check from the cdc a short time ago. according to cdc, covid has been fatal to less than 1 .001. the so-called break through infections occasionally happen. they rarely lead to symptoms that require hospitalizations. so the bottom line, the vaccine works. worried health experts are now scrambling to drive home that message as the frightening spike in cases and hospitalizations pushes higher. you can bring the very contagious delta variant which accounts for thousands of cases and vaccine hesitancy, less than half of the nation is vaccinated. it s slowly inching higher as the cdc dress e stresses the vaccine is still the best protection against protection and hospitalization and death. as the cases climb nationwide, the conditions spread only worsen. next week, kids will start returning to school. and those younger than 12 are not yet eligible to be vaccinated in the united states. in new york, though, there are sign
farcus. ladies, let s get going here. set the stage for us. i know you have new reporting from sources about the president s prep ahead of his arrival in je knee va which we expect to see happen live at this hour. likely right now as he heads to je knee va he is continuing to study. question know he is taking this very seriously in the words of one person familiar with his preparations. this is a president that is not going to be winging it when he meets with putin here tomorrow for several hours. we do know before he left the white house for europe that he huddled with about 10 outside experts. people who are intimately familiar with how putin operates. some of those who worked for former president obama and were russian ambassadors. people like michael mcfall who has been in the room and knows what it is like to come face to face with putin. so we know that president biden wanted to talk to these advisors, get some advice, and it s not just from them he is seeking input.
only one faction of their people into english scandal have received the financial compensation punished by the government in which they are entitled according to a damning report. what would also happen is the setting out of the substantive case. the lido of pc and your hyper the prime minister after she went a campaign to achieve mandatory life sentences for those who murdered members of the emergency services. in the former england cricket captain has been dropped from the bbc ashes coverage after he was accused of making a racist remark. a sombre mood in much of westminster and france tonight. at least 33 people are feared to have drowned while trying to cross the sea from france after their boat capsized. at least 26 have been resuced some of them in a serious condition and a rescue operation is still underway. the french coastguard said a fisherman had alerted the authorities after seeing bodies in the water near the port of calais. four people suspected to have be
more about those who did not. lives and families forever changed. evan kicks off our coverage in hazard, kentucky. tell us what you ve been seeing. reporter: we have been by this creek in route 128 in perry county, one much hardest hit counties. you can see the water level that they are still dealing with here after this flood that came through. this creek flooded over, you know, eight or ten feet from here, taking a whole house with it and knocking out the bottom of this building to mime right. the water level has been going suspend. we have been rain throughout the day. you see the yellow road sign is our guy. it was raining smorng and the water to the top of that rock and emerge that sign but come back down now. there is more rain in the forecast and a flood watch is in effect for tonight. the problem is the creek is really high and they can t take much water. nobody is expecting a flood surge like we saw on thursday that was a historic flood surge but it won t take much
safe house. the president stressed his death sends a message. no matter how long it takes, no matter where you hide, if you are a threat to our people, the united states will find you and take you out. administration is now warning that the taliban could face consequences for harboring al say al-zawahri. president biden meeting the situation room discussing the operation to kill al-zawahri. let s bring in john harwood at the white house. this was in the works for months and months, remarkable intelligence gathering operation given it had to be taking place largely from outside the country since the u.s. doesn t have boots on the ground there. tell us what you re learning. reporter: meticulous plan very tightly held. it began when they began to point tort ayman al c-zawahri being in kawabul. he was known to be there in april. they began to build a profile of his movements and how they could strike him. you saw the photo from july when they finally had taken to biden