is down by 26% from a month ago. we should caution, these vaccination numbers come after a holiday weekend. officials tell cnn the president s gonna lay out a six-point plan with obvious political, economic, and public health repercussions and we will talk about that more tonight. but right now, we want to focus on what officials say will be one element of that plan, which is safeguarding kids in schools. the spike in cases comes not only as america s schools re-open but as new data from the american academy of pediatric says one in four of these new cases is in a child. not only that, the organization says there s been a 250% increase in infections of children from five weeks ago. vaccines are, as you know, unavailable for those under 12. but one thing that appears to unite a large swath of democrats, republicans, and parents at this moment is that kids should be in school. which leaves masks as one of the next best lines of protection. but as we have seen most notably in fl
more than 1500 on average die every day. more than 100,000 hospitalized. pediatric hospitalizations have risen more than 40% in the last month. around 150,000 new infections are being reported daily. while the president s mission to make the vaccine available has been a success, his mission to get enough americans to get the vaccine has not. a source familiar with the white house plans today tells nbc news president biden is expected to announce a new, more stringent vaccine requirement for federal workers that won t have a testing carbon. it is expected to come in the form of an executive order, and will apply to contractors. a contractor can be somebody that works overseas or somebody that helps empty the trash at a government building. the definition of contractor varies widely in our government. in other words, it appears to be the administration s way to say if you don t get vaccinated, you won t do business with us, no exceptions. biden is expected to push the private s
luis armstrong stadium. look at yankee stadium taken by broadcaster michael k, the entire outfield under water. a number of funnel clouds and tornados were also reported across the northeast. earlier in the day the storm swept through maryland and the washington d.c. area. news correspondent tom costello has those pictures. reporter: touching down in and around annapolis, maryland, tornados on the ground for many miles after spinning off from hurricane ida that slammed louisiana. please make sure you re inside. please make sure you re in the lowest level of your house. reporter: in downtown annapolis, power lines and signs ripped down. roofs torn off and trees uprooted. in frederick, maryland, flash flooding caught a bus driver off guard, 11 school kids rescued as the bus was submerged. ida unleashing rain on the nation s capitol. a tornado watch well into the evening. three inches of rain swamped the region, tearing down trees, flooding intersections and trapping dri
there s really no way to overstate his influence not only on the stones but on the history of the music we love. yeah, this is a great song choice. this is early stones get off my cloud, charlie watts, he was 80 years old. we got word weeks ago he wouldn t be out on the fall tour. knew he wasn t in good health. he was so influential hearing from paul mccartney, and elton john and ringo starr, and the funny thing about me always was to me and most people, he really was an understated jazz drummer. he later had a jazz orchestra. that was his first passion, but in 1962 and 63 he met up with mic jagger and keith richards and signed up for this gig where mic jagger is projecting and peacocking to 80,000 people in wembley stadium. charlie s expressionless, keeping the beat as if he was in the basement of a jazz club somewhere, so truly one of the greats, the long time, nearly 60 years with the rolling stones. the great charlie watts died yesterday at 80 years old. and rhythm
for help as evacuation efforts in afghanistan increase and what the american military is now saying about the afghan government s collapse. there was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. all in starts now. good evening from washington, d.c. i m medhy hassan in for chris hayes. we are never going to get through this pandemic if a significant chunk of the population continues to refuse to get vaccinated. this spring the united states was leading the world in vaccinations. no large country was even close. now they ve all overtaken the u.s. here s a list of just some of the countries with a higher percent of the population fully vaccinated. chile, belgium, denmark, spain, portugal, ireland, canada, the united kingdom, france, netherlands, italy, germany, austria, hungry, and china which has a billion people more than the u.s. you know what category we are back near the top in? deaths. we re averaging nearly 7