Live from cnn headquarters, live for those watching here in canada, united states and around the world, im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with an encouraging sign of progress in the u. S. Vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. Half of all americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday, despite that, the number of new cases keeps growing. Now topping 100,000 per day. And in florida, the Delta Variant is spreading at unprecedented speed. Were 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. But the White House is making it clear, the Nation Isnt headed for another lockdown. Nick valencia has the latest on Vaccination Efforts across the country. Reporter a major milestone for the country, with half the total u. S. Population fully vaccinated. But the grim count of covid deaths is rising fast. A 52 increase over last weeks sevenday av
Nations top Infectious Diseases expert, dr. Anthony fauci, says the u. S. Is headed in the wrong direction. Reporter the worst Case Scenario among the unvaccinated. Feel like were going back in the bell again and its definitely, its definitely another wave. Reporter the highly contagious Delta Variant fuelling a surge of new cases across the country. Dire warnings from the nations top doctor. Going into the fall with the Delta Variant, we could have a really seriouS Problem with a considerable surge of infections. Reporter the variant sweeping through the south, texas, arkansas and Florida Accounting for 40 of new cases in the country. But in miami, thousandS Packing the stadium for a live concert. Youre drowning in people. Reporter as the cdc said they could recommend masks for the fully vaccinated indoors. But in arkansas, a new Law Banning Mask Mandates goes into effect this week. Its important not to have the current debate about mask wearing but to have the current emphasis on get
Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The palestinian Health Ministry says an israeli Air Strike on a Refugee Camp In Gaza has killed at least seven people. An official said the dead included a woman and four children, who were inside their home in the al shati camp, west of gaza city. Palestinian militants have responded by Firing Rockets towards the israeli city of beersheba, hitting the city of ashdod. The israeli Defence Force says it will retaliate. Around 140 people have been killed In Gaza since the conflict began on monday. Palestinian rockets have killed eight people in israel. From jerusalem heres our Middle East editor, jeremy bowen. The sectarian crisis that nobody expected is deepening. Arab protesters are on the streets of northern israel. This was nazareth. Israels arab citizens have forced themselves back into the wider conflict that includes gaza and jerusalem. Its ugly and angry in towns shared byjews and arabs. Violence between citizens could
New effort to overturn the guilty verdict against former minneapolis officer derek chauvin. His deal team is requesting a new trial claiming juror misconduct, a series of wrong decisions made by the judge, among many other things. His lawyer isnt challenging the video of chauvins knee on George Floyds neck for over nine minutes, instead hes focused on, quote, the publicity of the proceedings, of course, tuned to the fact that the case provoked a much broader conversation about policing and racism in america. Chauvins attorney is making a wide range of claims, trying for a Second Chance in court here. Just hours after new details emerged about one of the jurors. Brandon mitchell. Cnns Adrienne Broaddus reports. Reporter this motion is broad, but it doesnt outline specifics. He does cite in the motion a number of factors, take a look for yourself. Some of the factors include but arent limited to the interests of justice, abuse of discretion that deprived the defendant of a fair trial and
With heavy hitters from his party. The latest polling shows the race remains very tight, with youngkin taking a slight lead in a new fox poll. We have fox news coverage. Rich edson is live in richmond, Virginia Work the latest on the with the latest on the mcauliffe campaign. We begin with Alexandria Hough live in virginia where youngkin will be holding a rally moments from now. Alex . Yeah, jon, this will be youngkins fifth and final stop of the day. Where we are right now is really in virginias Far Southwest pocket. It is really as far as you can go. You can see the tennessee border practically from where we are right now. This is already a heavily republican region, but youngkin knows if they see higher than expected turnout here, that could help offset some of the potential losses he could see in other places. You mentioned that fox news poll. That new poll shows that among likely virginia voters, youngkin is 8 points ahead of his democratic opponent mcauliffe. All weekend, though,