Withdrawing from more olympic events. Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. With Robyn Curnow. Great to have you along. Thanks for joining us this hour. So the strain of the Delta Variant on Americas Health Care system is already being felt in hospitals. A grim reminder of the darkest days of the pandemic. An average of 77,000 new cases are turning up daily and trending higher. A year ago, new cases were about the same level, but trending down. The centers for Disease Control says delta is as contagious as Chicken Pox and can cause severe illness and like earlier variants, a single case of delta has the potential to infect many more people. Health experts say unvaccinated are at most risk and right now thats about half of the u. S. The head of the cdc says people need to adjust their behavior, as we learn more about the disease. The science continues to change, and while that is neither simple nor easy to convey, its my responsibility to keep the american people safe, a
Filing suit after Scarlet Johansson sued Disney following the release of the Marvel Film Black Widow why she said the company breached her contract and how Disney is responding. Opting out. Simone biles withdrawing from two more events at the tokyo olympics. Hear her message to fans coming up. Welcome to saturday. Were glad youre up early on july 31st. Oh, my gosh, boris. How did we get to august already . Yeah. Time has flown by this year. Christi, always great to be with you. Good morning. Good morning to our viewers at home. Were grateful you are with us. We start with this race to avoid a New Wave of coronavirus infections from sweeping the country. Officials are sounding the alarm about the spread of the deadly Delta Variant. The rate of vaccinations against covid19 is actually going up across the united states. So we have this map to put it into Perspective for you. Take a look here. It shows new cases compared to last week. You can see there every state is showing some sort of s
Okay. Wally, last but not least. Amelia earhart, and Aviation Icon and now a space icon. What was it like . I cant tell you. I had such a good instructor. He took us through everything that we were going to do, so when i went up this morning, the Noise Wasnt quite as bad, and we went right on up, and i saw darkness. I thought i was going to see The World, but we werent quite high enough, and i felt great. I felt like i was just laying down. I was just laying down, and i was going into space. And i want to thank you, sweet heart, because you made it possible for me. Ive been waiting a long time to finally get it up there, and ive done a lot of Astronaut Training through The World, russia, america, and i could always beat the guys on what they were doing because i was always stronger and ive always done everything on my own, and i didnt do dolls. I did outside stuff. And i flew airplanes and i loved it. I love being here with All Of You. Your family. The four of us. We had a great time.
Around. Lets not lose sight to the real enemy of democracy, the gop and nowhere is the gravity of the situation more evident than texas where democratic lawmakers are fugitives after bolting the lone Star State to block a restrictive voting bill. All week they have been meeting with lawmakers in washington, d. C. Including Joe Manchin. They met with Vice President kamala harris. But without any kind of Concrete Action on the federal level, what good are these cute little meet and greets when this is what the lawmakers themselves are risking . Once they step back in the state of texas they will be arrest and brought to the Texas Capital and we will be conducting business. Joining me now is jasmine crocket, a Texas State Rep and a civil Rights Attorney and cliff algreet, Cofounder And Executive founder of black voters matter. Jasmine, i want to begin with you. You are essentially a fugitive as we said in the open. How long can this last . You cant live your life this way and you cannot c
Tropical Storm Elsa ames were cities along the states West Coast And it could complicate the search for those survivors in the Condo Collapse in surfside. Hello, everyone. This is America Reports on a tuesday afternoon. Im SAndra Smith. Im Benjamin Hall in for john roberts. Already dropping Heavy Rain in the Florida Keys is that storm moves north, forecasters warning it could be done might bring potentially lifethreatening Storm Surges And tornadoes to most of the peninsula. SAndra we are watching all of it coming as Tropical Storm conditions continue over parts of cuba after making lAndfall there. Tearing through the caribbean. Benjamin Steve Harrigan is on the ground in clearwater beach, florida, with all the latest. Families are trying to squeeze in one day before that storm hits, approaching 60 miles an hour, Heavy Rain as well, the storm is heading this way, could threaten the entire western coast of florida, could strengthen into Hurricane Force wind, there have been some volunta