path across this entire country. data from the cdc shows that more than half of the u.s. population lives in a county with high community transmission as we speak, and they predict we will soon see hospitalizations begin to increase as well. in los angeles county, there s a concern they re so concerned that they re talking about even reviving an indoor mask mandate within the next two weeks. cnn s camila bernal is at the santa monica pier with more. camila, how much have transmission rates actually increased in l.a. county? well, look, the county says they re seeing about 9,000 cases every single day, and the problem is that hospitalizations are increasing. they say that compared to last month they ve seen an 88% increase. so for every 100,000 people that are here, 10.5 more or less, are having to be hospitalized and that s what s concerning for them. so they say that if those numbers stay or increase over the next couple of weeks, what s going to happen is that everyone
the president has been meeting this morning with key allies in the east, including the president of egypt and the prime minister of iraq before posing for the traditional family photo at the summit in jeddah. one of the most controversial meetings was president biden s sit-down with saudi s crown prince, mohammad bin salman. our colleague wolf blitzer is traveling with the president and joins us from saudi arabia. wolf, members of the biden administration have been stressing that these meetings are really about trying to reset that relationship between the middle east and the united states, right? they certainly do. they believe this is a moment that the u.s. can reset the overall u.s. relationship with countries in the middle east, and they re working to do that right now. president biden, right now, kristin, is laying out his mini strategy, on this, his last day o a trip to the region. he s talking about everything from security to economics and human rights. but it s h
yesterday and according to a source, he told the panel the secret service has not fully cooperated with his probe. the secret service denies deleting any texts maliciously. the subpoena is the first time the panel has publicly targeted an executive branch agency. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now. what more do we know about 0 how this subpoena came about, the response, and what are the other things the secret service is saying? reporter: right, fred, so this is a very fast-moving story. we only learned there may be a problem or confusion around these secret service text messages from january 5th and 6th just three days ago, july 13th. that is when the department of homeland security inspector general which is an independent watchdog conducting its own look into the secret service handling of january 6th, they flagged for capitol hill that there were erased or missing text messages from the secret service and they were this inspector general was quite concerned that they
will comply swiftly and one committee member indicates the messages may have already been recovered. the texts could provide a crucial window into then president trump s movements and his plans and his heated exchange with secret service agents about going to the capitol on january 6th. according to explosive testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, she was told that trump even tried to lunge at a secret service agent. a d.c. police officer who was in the president s motorcade on that day corroborated details of her stunning account. and let s bring in former d.c. metropolitan police officer who defended the capitol on january 6th. he s a cnn law enforcement analyst, michael fanone. so michael, you were there at the capitol, obviously. what do you think would have happened if donald trump had gotten his way and actually made it to the capitol on that day? how much worse would that have made the situation? i think it would have made it considerably worse. i
this is america s newsroom. all right. today is the day. moments from now we ll be seeing president biden, he is set to depart for saudi arabia late yesterday the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on israeli commercial flight towards normalization. bill: the real objective of the trip. convincing the world s largest exporter of oil is ramp up production and reestablish things with this administration. we watch a beautiful air force one head down the runway, complicating all of this, remarks from then candidate biden back in 2020. president biden: i would make it very clear we are not going to sell more weapons to them. we were going to make them pay the price and make them the pariah that they are. there is very little social redeeming value of the in the present government in saudi arabia. one of the president s first acts in the white house was releasing the c.i.a. report assessing the saudi prince ordered the killing of journalist khashoggi and also sanctioned