Nations are vaccinated. And more new evidence shows Donald Trump and his allies blatantly attempted a coup. Now new calls for him to be charged. And alone without defenders, new details on Andrew Cuomos plan to stay in power despite facing a potential criminal investigation. Good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. It is thursday, august 5th. Weve let our children down. That is the message from one Fda Vaccine Adviser as millions of families prepare to send their children back to school, including many who were too young to be vaccinated. Millions in places where the Delta Variant is running rampant. Look at arkansas, between april and july, cases involving children younger than 18 spiked 517 . Hospitalizations up 270 . Icu admissions up 275 . Arkansass Republican Governor who banned Mask Mandates has seen the data and now changed his mind. Our cases were at a low point. Everything has changed now. And yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become
Charges . And cnn has learned that the Impeachment Probe into new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is nearing completion. How much longer can he hold on . Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. Im wolf blither. Youre in the situation room. Lets get straight to the White House where theres growing concern right now about this latest covid surge. Our senior white House Correspondent Phil Mattingly is working this part of the story for us. Phil, how is the White House reacting to this very alarming sharp acceleration with the covid virus now topping 100,000 cases a day here in the u. S. . Wolf, its a jarring number, but White House officials say they are laser focused on one thing, getting shots in arms, and they are seeing some results, particularly in some of the lowest vaccinated states. However, it is one state in particular in that group of low vaccinated states where its not just Public Health issues they are having. Its also political problems. Tonight the
A window here to get more of this vaccinated. What you cant mandate, the biden administration is hoping it can achieve working through sports physicals, working with The American of pediatrics, as well as new Guide Ambassador to pediatricians and forms that they could use to deliver these physicals, about 60 to 70 of the nations kids do participate in team sports. They think that he a good way to reach them. Also working deploying pediatricians to attend those first backtoschool meetings to get all kids vaccinated. Im going to throw up a couple of maps to illustrate why we have the perfect conditions. All of these overlap with actual bans on mask mandates. States like arkansas, oklahoma, florida and that is why when the Education Secretary spoke with us exclusively, he sounded a note of urgency. Heres what he said. I would hate to see this year the same level of disruption in our classrooms because of decisions that adults made. Unfortunately as you know, it become politicized in some
Fatalities are up 15 , so those are all going in the wrong direction. The number of patients are unprecedented and thats in black and white. We have more patients in our hospital now than ever before. This Delta Variant Surge has been particularly intense across the south. One expert says the next few weeks will be critical in determining if that trend takes hold across the nation. We have all 50 states, the District Of Columbia seeing an increase in cases. The question will be if any of them turn out to be like were seeing in the south, then weve got a much larger problem on our hands going forward. If not, i think by the early part of the september, well see this curve come down. But in the meantime, its going to extract a tremendous amount of pain in our society. Dr. Fauci has a warning about the virus. He said the Delta Variant could bring about as many as 1,000 to 2,000 cases per day. He said, if we dont get more people vaccinated, the virus will continue to smolder through the fa
Take their own life. Really shines a light on how we have to treat each other with respect and let people know its okay to talk about how they feel and to express their pain and that it wont be seen as weakness. I agree 100 . I think he will as well. As a matter of fact, after i heard about this i didnt hear from him, text him didnt hear from him. I call today and said are you okay, and he says yeah, im fine. And we talked about he should go on the show and discuss it because that has the greatest impact of being able to say it publicly. What he actually said to me was the first time i actually talked about this publicly it really helped me because there i was saying it in front of the world on your show, and it really helped me. It made it easier for me to actually be able to talk about it in therapy. Hell tell us about it a little later on. But i think anything we can do, chris, to get the stigma off of Mental Health issues in this country. I know youre a big proponent of that, i thi