january 6th siege on the capitol, which has taken an ugly but perhaps unhe have itable turn to warfare. the select committee will proceed without any of kevin mccarthy s picks. at a press conference, speaker pelosi was clear her preventing them from sitting on the committee was not negotiable. if that means it proceeds with only her picks, seven democrats and republican, liz cheney, so be it. we are there to seek the truth. this is deadly serious. this is about our constitution and country, assault on the capitol, mischaracterized. calling the house investigation a politically driven sham. doesn t matter today what she does with that committee, it is not going to change the outcome of what seems like a predetermined, already written report. at the same time she played politics with this for six months, the senate acted. the architect of the capitol has $10 million. one point that democrats with liz cheney want to be sure isn t lost here is it didn t have to be this wa
receive regular testing. he will continue to push to get more vaccinated. the unvaccinated are still driving the spread of coronavirus. the cdc says only 1% of the u.s. population lives in an area with low transmission at this point. the u.s. is now averaging almost 64,000 new infections a day. that is 59% higher than last week. almost 40,000 people are hospitalized with the virus and that s roughly 1 1,000 more tha last week. but there are signs that the unvaccinated are being swayed. more than 700,000 vaccine doses were administered wednesday. that s way up from the day before. the average number of people getting their first shot is the highest it has been in three weeks. so let s get to cnn s jeff zeleny at the white house with a preview of the president s message later this afternoon. what is he going to say? reporter: alisyn, the president is going to increase his rhetoric and language, going from simply asking americans to get vaccinated to requiring them to, at le
vaccinated people, like so many of you watching, like us, to start wearing masks again if we live in communities where the virus transmission rate is high. the cdc is also expected to recommend that students and teachers wear masks again in k-12 schools regardless of vaccination status. we will bring you the cdc announcement as soon as it happens. according to the cdc, close to two-thirds of counties in the u.s. have high or substantial transmission of covid-19. it is every place you see on the screen. dr. sanjay gupta is here ahead of the announcement. sanjay, let s start with your reaction of what we are expected to hear from the cdc. well, you know, i mean this is obviously not the news people want to hear right now because it is going to appear like we re going backwards. i think if we rewind back to may 13th when i think it was on your program talking about you were. the fact that the mask guidance yep was changing at that time, it was a cause for celebra
up past testampa. most of florida s west coast now under a tornado watch until 8:00 a.m. governor desantis placing 33 counties under a state of emergency. the tampa and sarasota airports are shut down right now and officials are urging residents stay indoors. duke energy has pre-staged 3,000 employees from other states in north florida ready to go and restore power after elsa passes. derek van dam is live in tampa. tell us what you are seeing there. reporter: good morning. we ve scoured the area of tampa, we went to south tampa and bay shore boulevard, the areas that normally blood. and it looks as if they have been spared the worst from what was hurricane elsa last night when we arrived and the storm notably collapsed on its in many regards. but still a lot of concerns especially in some of these bands, these feeder bands we ve talked about. these are bands of rain that get fed in from the gulf of mexico and they basically move over the same location. so flood concerns s
about britney. griff: emily. president trump returns to the stage for fiery words for vice president kamala harris fresh off her brief visit to the southern border. griff: first, a huge sign of disrespect for our country during the olympic track and field trials. grenn berry placed third in the hammer throw yesterday and as the national anthem began to play with the winners at the podium, barry turned away from the flag so she was facing the stands and then, toward the end of the anthem she pulled up a black t-shirt with the words activist athlete on the front and covered her head head saying i feel like it was a setup. they did it on purpose and i was hissed to be honest. they had enough opportunities to play the national anthem and before we got up there it was real disrespectful. according to the associated press, the national anthem has been played ever are it night for the past week at the track and field trials, but the anthem is not played during medal ceremonies