Im kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. The u. S. Is experiencing a surge of new coronavirus cases and its posing a danger to unvaccinated americans. For the first time since may, the Country has recorded 20,000 new cases for several days in a row. Health experts fear cases may keep trending higher, because fewer than half of americans are fully vaccinated. The biggest clusters of unvaccinated people in the u. S. Are in the southwest and midwest. Los Angeles County is jumping 165 over the past week. Dr. Stephen peroti joins me from san francisco. He is the associate Executive Director with the Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente. Thank you so much for joining us, doctor. Were seeing the rise of the Delta Variant, mostly in the south and places like missouri, where the Investigation Rate is extremely low, but also in california where its now the dominant variant, probably the best example is l. A. County. Its reported the highest number of cases in months now. In fairness, its
Im kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with a short flight to space but a Big Leap for tycoons who want to turn the great beyond into a tourist destination. In less than four hours, billionaire Richard Branson is set to take off in a Space Plane built by his company Virgin Galactic. Well, if he succeeds, he will be the first businessman to do so in a spacecraft, whose development he funded. A short time ago, he tweeted this Mission Statement for his upcoming flight. My Mission Statement is to turn the dream of Space Travel into a reality. For my grandchildren, for your grandchildren, for everyone. So, how does branson feel before potentially making history . Well, he opened up to cnns rachel crane. Reporter the countdown is on, and in just hours, entrepreneur Richard Branson hopes to become the first person to ride a selffunded rocket into suborbital space. Astronaut 001, Richard Branson. Reporter a Launch Nearlytwo decades in the making. Tell me, how do you feel . Um, well,
approach over a dark part of history even if it hurts the relationship with a key ally. johnson & johnson s covid vaccine once again will be going into the arms of americans. on friday, the food and drug administration have lifted a temporary pause in the vaccine s use, saying its benefits far outweigh its risks. the suspension has been put into place in reports on a rare type of blood clot after more than a dozen patients have received the shot. a white house official says the u.s. has 9 million doses ready to go. cnn s alexander dra field has more from new york. motion to be voted as is on the johnson & johnson vaccine. reporter: a cdc review committee revising the vaccine of age 18 and up. so the vote is 10 in favor, 4 opposed, 1 abstention. the motion carries. reporter: the committee did not recommend new restrictions based on erring or gender. but the vaccine will be updated with a new label that women under the age of 50 should be aware of the risk of blood cl
out of the indonesia. several pieces of debris from the missing submarine have been found. six pieces of debris were presented during this press conference. the 44-year-old sub with 53 souls on board went missing wednesday morning during a t torpedo demonstration. it descended to a meter that was well below its limits and at that depth it had the potential to implode. there were reports in the submarine was still intact only had 72 hours of oxygen in perfect conditions which would have run out earlier today. again, we just learned during this press conference the six pieces of debris have been found belonging to this missing submarine bringing an end to the questions of what happened to this submarine. absolutely heartbreaking. the fact that there are pieces there suggest it might have imploded. the fact you say they have passed the limit for oxygen definitely suggests that the sailors there won t be found alive so this will turn from a rescue to a recovery. what do we know
sophisticated serve-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. in our hearings you will see elements of each element of this plan. donald trump and his advisers knew that he had, in account fa, lost the elections, but despite this, president trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the u.s. population that fraud had stolen the elections from him. on this point, there is no room for debate. those who invaded the capitol and battled law enforcement for hours were motivated by what president trump had told them, that the election was stolen, and that he was the rightful president. president trump, summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. republican congresswoman and committee vice chair liz cheney cutting straight to the heart of the case there that the panel will continue to lay out over the next several weeks, but you don t have to