The u. S. Now hitting a major milestone. The cdc says over 50% of the population is now fully vaccinated. This is important. Vaccinations in states hardest hit by the delta variant have been rising in recent days. But that has not been able to slow the deluge of patients pushing hospitals to capacity. There is new word that booster shots for the immunocompromised may be recommended, an administration official tells cnn. The fda could come to that decision in just the next few weeks. We want to begin in florida, where new cases are breaking state records. Cnn s natasha chen is in orlando this morning. Natasha, there is no question, florida has become the epicenter of this new surge, but the state is not alone. Reporter: right. Unfortunately, this is happening in many places. The good news is the health staff behind me at this mobile unit for the vaccination clinic we re here at today, they say that every time they see a spike in cases in florida here, they also see a spike in vaccinatio
Good afternoon. The cyclist laura kenny has become britain s most decorated female olympic athlete, after she and team mate katie archibald won the women s madison event in the velodrome. The pair dominated the 120 lap race, winning 10 of the 12 sprints. It means kenny has won gold in three consecutive olympic games, and archibald in two. Elsewhere after their gold in rio, britain s hockey women have taken bronze in tokyo, with a narrow victory over india. And team gb s 18th gold medal of the games came from kate french in the women s moden pentathlon. And in the last few minutes, team gb s laura muir has won silver in the 1500m final. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. Two more golds on day 1a of tokyo 2020 have taken team gb up to fourth in the overall medals table. The first of the two was a historic one for laura kenny. She has become the most decorated female olympian in british history. She and katie archibald were crowned the inaugral women s madison cha
Windier and wetter. The temperatures coming up at 14 degrees as the low pressure scoops up milder air. The front will be with us for the weekend. It is looking unsettled for august. Central and eastern parts will start to dry with sunshine through the morning, before the wind picks up and the cloud increases and rain in the west reaches the east and some of the rain will be heavy and some of the rain will be heavy and perhaps thundery. And it is followed by heavy and blustery showers in the south west. Temperatures high teens for most. Here is friday, low pressure on top of the country and this feature runs across southern areas into the start of the weekend and it will remain windy, particularly for england and wales and showers or longer spells of rain for friday and into the weekend. Some of the rain could be torrential. But there will still be some sunshine in between. That s all from the bbc news at six, so it s goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where
Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that will never forget what happened on january 6th. I am kasie hunt on this tuesday, july 6th. Officials knocked down the rest of the partially collapsed condo. We re able to report that the searchandrescue team has been able to search all sections of the grid on the collapse following the building demolition. Now that the entire area is safe to search. And so the teams have now removed over 4. 8 million pounds of concrete from the pile. Four more bodies were found raising the number of those killed to 28. 117 remain unaccounted for nearly two weeks after half of the champlain towers collapsed in the middle of the night. Search efforts were hampered throughout the day as thunderstorms and strong winds hit the area as tropical storm elsa approaches the state. Joininging us now, vaughn hillyard. Thank you for being with us so early this morning. I know you re putting in really long days down there. While we noel say is likely to basica
How law enforcement is doing when it comes to bringing those involved to justice. First, search and rescue efforts expanded significantly in surfside, florida on monday after officials knocked down the rest of the partially collapsed condo. We re able to report that the search and rescue team has been able to search all sections of the grid on the collapse following the building demolition. Now that the entire area is safe to search. And so the teams have now removed over 4. 8 million pounds of concrete from the pile. Four more bodies were discovered, raising the number of those killed officially to 28. 117 people remain unaccounted for. Nearly two weeks after half of the champlain towers south condo collapsed in the middle of the night. Search efforts were hampered throughout the day as thunderstorms and strong winds hit the area thanks to tropical storm elsa as it approached as it continued to approach the state. Joining us now from surfside, correspondent vaughn hillyard. What more