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frequently enough and find out your positive, you wone come to work and you won t infect other people. so it is really somewhat of a compromise there. myself, i would just make it vaccinate or not but he was trying to be prodominant in his announcement. contractors to the federal and employees must get a covid shot as well as health care workers in setting with medicare and medicaid reimbursement and all private companies with more than 100 workers have will have to mandate vaccinations or weekly testing. the president encouraged governors to require shots for all school teachers and staff as well. los angeles, the nation s second largest school district, already requires the vaccine for students 12 and older. we ve been leading the nation with weekly testing and mask mandates and air filtration upgrades and now this vaccination requirement, so that kids could stay in person and that schools could remain open. this hour we do expect to lear from the president as h ....
yeah. an important moment for you and important moment for people to see. i m glad we were able to see your photo. thank you for being here to share your story. we are grateful for your service and time today. i appreciate it. we ll think about you tomorrow. thank you. thank you for watching. our special coverage live from the pentagon here. we will have more from the same spot tomorrow. i ll anchor here with andrea mitchell. i ll have more on msnbc reports. we continue with craig melvin live from shanksville, pennsylvania right now. this field is the site where the passengers and crew of united flight 93 wrestled control of the hijacked planes on september 11th, 2001 and crashed it into the ground. craig melvin picking up friday coverage from sacred ground in shanksville, pennsylvania. the site where we lost 40 american heroes and sacrificing their own lives and likely saved thousands more. that plane was bound for the u.s. capitol. where i m standing, ....
i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on a very busy saturday evening. additional u.s. troops heading to afghanistan this weekend, at the same time taliban militants there appear on track to retake the entire country. president biden is sending 5,000 more forces to afghanistan. he says the added troops are to ensure, quote, an orderly and safe drawdown as they help americans get out. but millions of afghans are desperate to escape the escalation of violence in their country. as the taliban take over more ground at a speed that has jolted officials in the biden administration, five more capital cities fell to the taliban in the last 24 hours. now 22 of the country s 34 provincial capitals are under taliban control. only two major cities, kabul and jalalabad, remain under the afghan government. take a look. this time-lapse shows the speed the taliban gained territory. see the red spread starting in mid-april after the president announced the u.s. ....
we are thrilled to have you with us this saturday, august 14th. still a little bit early, christi. the coffee hasn t completely kicked in yet. i give you credit. i don t drink coffee. you never know what you re going to get from me. boris, so good to see you. we begin this hour with some pretty disturbing numbers. the surge in the u.s. covid-19 infections are overwhelming hospitals and communities and the u.s. is now leading the world with the highest rate of new cases so far reporting more than 1.5 million new infections just in august thus far. the cases are primarily in the south. in fact, here s dr. peter hotez. this is starting to look really ominous in the south where i am. we re now if you look at the rates of transmission in florida and louisiana, they re actually probably the highest in the world. that s how badly things have gotten out of hands. the skeencenes at the hospit are reminiscent of the early days. they re quickly running out of hospital beds ....
fighting vaccine hesitancy. i think there are certain proportions of people who are just waiting for the full approval, even though the data is overwhelming right now that these vaccines are highly effective and are safe. as the american academy of pediatrics warns of substantial increase in new cases among children, dr. fauci saying that full fda approval might speed up authorization of the vaccine for children under the age of 12. critical as we get closer to schools re-opening. with the delta variant tightening its grip on parts of the country with low vaccination rates, president biden made a plea to state governors who have blocked mask and vaccine mandates. i say to these governors, please help. if you re not going to help, at least get out of the way of the people that are trying to do the right thing. use your power to save lives. let s begin with cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. first about full fda approval, to this point we ve had emergency ....