the culmination of a lifelong dream he calls just magical. welcome to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with more on the very dangerous new covid surge. a dire threat to all unvaccinated americans. athena jones has the latest. reporter: america s progress fighting covid-19 isn t just stalling. it s reversing. average new daily coronavirus infections up 47% week over week. rising in 36 states. falling in just four. arkansas and missouri leading the nation in new cases per capita. and in places like missouri where icus are packed, you are going to see a surprising amount of death. reporter: as health officials stress almost all covid deaths are preventable. the cdc says more than 99% in june occurring among the unvaccinated. the vaccines we have work really well against this variant. it doesn t need to be this way. reporter: but the pace of vaccinations is slipping. down more t
good morning. and welcome to your new day. i m boris sanchez. i m christi paul. we are counting down together here. in a few hours richard branson will board a supersonic plane that will launch him to the em of space. hear his message this morning ahead of the flight. there is also a race to vaccinate parts of the country. what health officials are doing to reach vaccine skeptics as concerns grow over the delta variant. the town of charlottesville removed two confederate statues amid cheers from onlookers. how officials hope had will close a painful chapter of the city s history. and president biden warning there will be consequences if russia does not do more to stop hackers from targeting the united states. but what can realtily be done to stop him? new day starts right now. it is sunday, july 11. we are grateful that you are with us. we will get to that historic launch in a moment. but we begin with rising concerns about coronavirus. yeah, the delta variant
responders sifting through the rubble in surfside, florida. and summer scorcher. you know it t nearly 30 million people under heat alerts today as parts of the country brace for another potential day of record-breaking temperatures . it is sunday, july 11. we re so glad you are waking up with us. good morning. clock is ticking, isn t it? yeah, it is. in a big way because i think the whole world is watching the small town of truth or consequences, new mexico, because we are hours from british billionaire richard branson taking this trip to the edge of space. the launch of virgin galactic s unity rocket plane is going to mark the company s first test mission to carry a full compliment of space travelers. this voyage has been two decades in the making. the rocket powered space plane will fly from new mexico to the edge of space at 2,400 miles an hour. branson is hoping this will usher in a new era of space tourism. my mission statement is to turn the dream of space t
baby boy was in critical but stable condition. as far as his father is concerned, he is facing serious charges. on monday afternoon the 18-year- old daniel mitchell allegedly drove up and left his 16-day- old son in a parking space at a shopping center. several employees of jay s barbershop rescued a baby after seeing him in his car carrier. they brought him inside and called 911. these are photos showing paramedics who was airlifted to children s hospital to be checked out for redness in his eyes. the workers who found the baby said they were stunned that anyone could abandon a baby where he could ve been run over or taken. i was shocked. i was checking the baby. he was call and peaceful. he wasn t crying or anything. i thought the guy has got to come back. he might be drunk or something. after a couple of minutes, he s not coming back. i have a child myself. attachment to see a guy up and leave the kid. he just left him outside. apparently something different. reporte
establishment, vowing to, as he put it, drain the swamp; and proposing term limits for members of congress that is, if he is elected. but with just three weeks left, our cbs news poll shows hillary clinton with a nine-point lead, and no trailing candidate has ever made up a deficit that big this late. major garrett is covering trump s campaign. this is our final shot, folks. in four years, it s over. you re never going to be able to win. er it s tilting it s going to be a one-party system. reporter: donald trump toldte supporters in colorado, they are his last line of defense, and to ignore the campaign s current downward trajectory. i don t believe the polls anymore. i don t believe them. i don t believe them. reporter: trump kept insisting, in spite of contraryn evidence, this election and previous ones have been undercut by voter fraud. they even want to try and rig the election at the polling booths. house, president obama called out trump s rhetoric. i d