going back to cali. can she help save the democratic governor s political life? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. and we begin today in our health today with a stunning rise in new covid-19 cases among children in the united states. a 250% jump from just five weeks ago. kids making up one in four new covid cases in the united states. hospitalizations among children also seeing an uptick. a 12% increase in just one week. still, we should underline severe infection in children remains rare. less than 2% of kids infected with covid end up in the hospital. this is a pandemic that remains largely of the unvaccinated and largely of adults. 13 miami-dade county school employees have died in the past month all unvaccinated. and now as cnn s nick watt reports, a new study shows when severe breakthrough cases do happen, they tend to be in older, sicker people. reporter: misinformation, fear mongering, swirl around breakthrough infections. the vaccinated who still catch covi
ago and highest since early march. the delta variant still spreading among and killing the unvaccinated. health officials plans to roll out booster shots has hit a hitch. pfizer has passed its study information to the fda but moderna hasn t yet. what you might see is rather than the simultaneous rolling out of the booster program of both dose products, you may be sequential by about a week or two. i don t think that that is a major issue there, but we would have liked to have seen it happen all together simultaneously. the completely avoidable resurgence of covid compounded by fallout from chaotic u.s. withdraw from afghanistan, new concerns over job growth and latest complications facing the president s sweeping infrastructure and social programs. jasmine wright is live in washington. jasmine, a tough summer for the president and the country ending on a tough note. reporter: yeah, certainly not the summer that the president and the white house wanted. and this back and
citizens left behind enemy lines in afghanistan as i speak. we have six airplanes that the airport. with american citizens on them. as i speak. also with these interpreters. and the taliban is holding them hostage for demands. julie: we have fox team coverage. trey yingst is in kotter dominic qatar. first, we go to benjamin from london. there are actually conflicting reports. yes, the taliban say they have full control, and they have released images showing the amount of the governor s office, but the national resistance say that they still control all of the main strategic areas. there is a small glimmer of hope that right now for them. less of a hope, perhaps, and for the americans on board trying to escape afghanistan. this news broke yesterday when congressman michael mccaul claimed that the taliban is now holding these american citizens and allies hostage by blocking the planes leaving the airport in northern afghanistan. he says that they are there sitting on board
global warming is upon us, it is going to get worse and worse unless we do something about it. inside politics, the biggest stories sort by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics, it kat kat katelyn kaitlan collins. we want to get the little texts in the womb who has a heartbeat to see their full potential. the texas law bans abortion after six weeks of now exceptions of rape or incest. private citizens can sue those who performs the procedure. plaintiffs can receive as $10,000 bounty. democrats are pushing back on the supreme court s decision but there is little they can do. the supreme court making a decision that it did and not only disrespected women but it disrespected the supreme court and its formal decision. one week back to washington, we ll be putting roe v. wade on the floor of the house. joining me now with their reporting is jackie from the daily beast. joan, i want you to put this in perspective that we got in the supreme court this wee
. pete: welcome to fox & friends on this labor weekend. lawrence jones is hanging out with us. thank you, pete. we ll let him off the hook with cornhole. we ll do a little later. will: if you were not watching yesterday, lawrence had incredibly embarrassing moment on fox & friends. that was it. lawrence: can we show the footage. will: a responsibility has been laid down. lawrence: it was a no-look pass. we had to go to commercial. this is the real competition. watch this, this is how i really do it. it went in, second try. you missed it i was celebrating right there. rachel: what will insisted with the producers get the one you missed in slow motion. he wanted the moment to celebrate you and. will: i don t think i had to humiliate him. he was doing that himself. lawrence: i was on the ground doing my job, a fellow texan embarrassed me. rachel: you know your friend on the show. will: speaking of embarrassing, president joe biden is taking the weekend off. he is headed t