xfinity is here to inspire your biggest dreams we re so happy to say welcome to your new day here and to have your company. it is saturday, august 7th. i m christi paul. i m boris sanchez. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. christi, always a pleasure to be with you. you, too, boris. we want to talk about the health officials who say the u.s. is at a crucial moment. hospitals overrun with unvaccinated patients and the delta variant is spreading. the country has tools to get the virus under control. that s the most tragic aspect of all of this. it is preventible. yet for the first time since february the united states is averaging more than 100,000 new infections a day and deaths are also on the rise. the virus spreading quickly through unvaccinated communities and as we look at this map, you can see all the red in the southeast where vaccination rates lag behind the rest of the country. in states with the highest infection rates, the numbers are
adrian b adrian broadus is there. when you seeing any efforts to head it off? i can t believe we re still talking about superspreader events in august of 20 1. reporter: we are still talking about it. for example, if you need one of these masks, the city here has plenty of free masks to provide to its participants. there are hand sanitizing stations along the stretch of main street and the city is also offering free covid tests. they have thousands of those tests and partnered with the state health department. if you feel you need a test they will drop it off to you and you can get those results within minutes. it s a rapid test. meanwhile, this is the largest motorcycle rally in the world and this year an estimated 700,000 people are expected to attend including the state s governor who backs this rally. she is going to participate in a charity ride on monday. but people have come to sturgis from all parts of the country. we spoke with some of those riders. here s what the
massive wildfire rages out of control in california. i m pamela brown in washington and you are live in the cnn newsroom. great to have you along with us. new york governor andrew cuomo is in crisis. and now at risk of criminal prosecution in his sexual harassment scandal even though he says he did nothing wrong. just minutes from now a view from within the storm. governor cuomo s personal attorney rita glavin will join me for a one on one interview. governor cuomo and his legal team are adamantly pushing back against a state attorney general s report that found the governor sexually harassed 11 women, one of whom filed a criminal complaint with the albany county sheriff s office, claiming the governor reached under her shirt and groped her. this afternoon that sheriff spoke out. and before we bring in governor cuomo s personal lawyer rita glavin, let s set the stage first. cnn s polo sandoval is in albany, new york. what did the sheriff have to say, polo? reporter: i
i m breaking my cell phone out because of all the incidents we ve been seeing, just like this one. too much booze, passengers restrained by tape. what is happening in the air? we re going to speak to the head of the flight attendants association coming up. we do say good morning, everybody, it is saturday, august 7th. i m kendis gibson. i m lindsey reiser, have you felt that way when you ve been flying? i m probably the person they re about to tape and restrain on most flights. so you re the person they cut off at the airport. exactly. this kendis guy. things have gotten so wild the faa is now stepping in, and actually just kind of desperately asking for airports to step in, we re going to dive into all of that. and monitor people, right, flight attendants have been taking self-defense classes. we re going to dive into that this hour. we have a team of reporters and analysts following the lathe for us right now and we re going to begin with the bad news acro
will: is the sunrises east to west we replicate westies from st. louis to wildwood, new jersey there s your national anthem brought to you by the marine corps band. welcome to fox and friends on saturday morning. with us this morning is ashley strohmeyer. good morning, excellent color. i was referencing myself. i m here so good morning to you guys. will: great to have you back. pete: i m somewhat disappointed not it being back and work, i loved my vacation. i did go all the way to hawaii, the furthest west state but i was disappointed that i am only rivaled by a new jersey poolside pantomime left. much tanner than you. i m just in new jersey pool boy. i will take it. hope you recharged the batteries a little bit. pete: a great time. will: and you return and it turns out the whole world changed in about a week. pete: it went insane by returning to something we are familiar with and that is the height of insane covid protocols. we are looking at mask mandate in th