Forward on afghanistan s new government. There are satellite images of 6 planes on the ground in northern afghanistan. Yesterday a top republican and the house foreign affairs committee mike mccall warned that the taliban is keeping americans hostage in preventing them from leaving the airport as shown in meas pictures. We have a busy afternoon ahead. We kick it off with trey in qatar. The defense secretary is here to meet with officials. The biden administration will have to work closely with these people and lean on them to use diplomatic chance with the taliban. He will visit kuwait and saudi arabia in the gulf. In a statement over the weekend the pentagon press secretary said secretary austin will meet with partners and thank them for their cooperation with the united states as we evacuate americans and afghans from afghanistan? there are at least 100 americans in afghanistan. While evacuations can pick up the u. S. Military won t be directly involved. The u. S. Secretary of state
We begin with a big sign of progress in the u. S. Vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. But it comes, hand in hand, with a record the country could do without. As for the milestone, half of americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday. But in the state of florida, the delta variant is spreading, at unprecedented speed. We are talking about 20,000 new cases, per day, on average. Florida had more than 134,000 new cases, total, over the past week. The highest number, since the pandemic began. And the fda is stepping up efforts to make a decision about booster shots for people whose immune systems have been compromised. An administration official says the decision could come before early september. But despite the uptick in vaccinations, the covid surge is showing no signs of slowing down. Nick valencia reports. Reporter: a major milestone for the country with half the totalu. S. Population fully vaccinated. But the grim count of covid deaths is rising, fas
Or be impeached. And simone biles leaves the tokyo olympics a champion overcoming twisties, turns and tragedy. Thanks for joining us. The united states current covid surge could be its worse yet. That message from the previous u. S. Surgeon general who told the washington post, we are seeing 50,000 hospitalizations a day and the weekly average of new infections is soaring well past 80,000. These are the highest levels we ve seen in months. But he says it is not too late to turn things around. It is not really about national immunity so much as it about making sure within your household, within your workplace, within your child s school you have appropriate levels of protection so that you can prevent spread from turning into an outbreak. And so think about what you can do and what those around you can do to protect yourselves. That is how we stop this pandemic. But more young people keep getting the virus. The american academy of pediatrics says some 72,000 children and teens daughter
Geneva with what we can expect at today s summit, john, this is the fifth time for vladimir putin meeting a u. S. President. Nothing new here. What feels new to you? what feels new is working the same hours that you do brian, both ends of the clock. Brian: you didn t sleep. This is tough. We are expecting vladimir putin to touch down any minute at geneva airport. He might be running a little bit later. I have been doing enough of these things to know that putin always likes to leave his host waiting. It will be the first time that president biden sits down with russian president vladimir putin as the president of the united states. Already the white house is playing down expectations. Some of the topics that they are likely to discuss include the nord stream 2 pipeline. The biden administration official position is that they still don t want it to happen but they got out of the way not putting sanctions against the ceo of the company that s putting it together it is weeks away complete
the country. in michigan, a third party will investigate the events leading up to the fatal shooting at a high school that left four students dead. later, we ll talk to a father who lost his son at parkland. he ll share why he is expecting to meet president biden. meanwhile in washington, lawmakers face a lengthy to-do list between raising debt limit, reaching a deal on biden s economic agenda and so much more. we re going to talk to congressman ro khanna about congress plan to get it all done by the end of the year. and happening right now, tens of thousands of russian troops have deployed to the ukrainian border, as president biden is set to virtually meet with russian president vladimir putin tomorrow. and turning now to some breaking news on the pandemic. new york city mayor bill de blasio has just announced the vaccine mandate for all private employers. a mayor also announced that kids ages 5 to 11 will need proof of vaccination to dine indoors and to attend other