four times our current rate within another four to six weeks. now, the seven-day average of new cases keeps rising. it is now over 55,000. for context here, one month ago, it was under 12,000. a growing number of cities and government agencies are taking action. there s new york s mayor announcing that all city workers will be required to get vaccinated or to be tested once a week. and california s governor is doing the same. the v.a. is nmandating its fron line health care workers be vacc vacc vaccinated. the department of justice mandated it s legal even if they have only emergency use authorization, this could be a precursor for federal agents joining suit. the cities of provincetown, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, are announcing requirements for indoor masking. florida now the epicenter of the surge. cases have tripled in the past few weeks in every county in the state now has high levels of community transmission. now, cnn s randi kaye visited a florida hospit
i.c.u. nurse there says in her view, what she s seeing, it s critical. it s not normal. this is not okay. we can t live this way. i m never going to accept this as our new normal. we ve had lots of very sick young patients that normally we, you know, with the first couple rounds of covid we didn t see or wouldn t have necessarily been i.c.u. level. here are some of the numbers. last week more than 23,000 children caught covid-19. that is nearly double what was reported at the end of june. it comes as children in some major school districts are now heading back to class. this month or in a couple weeks. let s begin with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. listen, the data doesn t lie, right? it s clearly coming back principally in unvaccinated areas. tell us what the numbers tell you. jim, you know, we thought we were done with this, and now here we are and there are two reasons for this. one, this delta variant which has been called a variant on steroids,
tsirkin on the capitol hill, and our brian chung s here with me in new york, and with us, lindsey gorman, senior fellow for emerging technologies, alliance for securing democracy, and also senior adviser in the biden white house. julie, this could be a rare bipartisan vote, why the urgency now and what does this bill do? reporter: yeah, it s rare indeed, ana, every time we talk about, we talk about how things aren t going well here on capitol hill. but here you have overwhelming support from republicans and democrats to pass forward this crackdown of tiktok essentially, this bill, as you laid out, would force the parent company of tiktok to divest to an american company, not only tiktok, this bill would force any app, any company owned by a foreign adversary to do the same or else tiktok is banned from the app store, from any platform here in the u.s. if that doesn t happen within six months here. not everybody is on board, right, you did have a small percentage of young ho
i m jose diaz-balart and we begin with breaking news out of georgia. just in the last hour, fulton county judge scott mcafee dismissed some of the charges against former president donald trump and some of his co-defendants in the state s election interference case. the judge said six these counts in the indictments lack sufficient detail. joining us now, msnbc legal contributor and host of the katie phang show, katie phang, also catherine christian, an msnbc legal analyst, and greg blew steen, political reporter at the atlantic journal constitution and an msnbc contributor. katie, what exactly did the judge stay, which charges were they, and how significant are they? so, jose, this is not the ruling on the motion to disqualify the district attorney fani willis. we re going to start with that kind of ground work. but what it does do is it dismisses six of the counts in the indictment that was secured by fani willis from a grand jury. and that s another important point becaus
attorney fani willis will not take the stand today. day two of her misconduct hearing and we watched and were riveted yesterday by her. the state of georgia in a surprise move says it has no further questions for the d.a. about her lover, nathan wade, the special prosecutor she hired. her testimony yesterday was wild and whacky and combative. and the big question remains what will it mean for former president donald trump s election interference case in georgia? she was leading it with a team. ahead of that team nathan wade. they were romantically entangled. the word romance is gentle. that was crazy yesterday. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. defense attorneys are going hard after fani willis and nathan wade as well as ex-friends and former business partners. one testified that nathan wade and fani willis were a couple three years before they said they were. wade s testimony played out live on the focus yesterday and district attorney willis was up