Considered to have high covid transmission. One of our medical experts says the delta variant is like nothing he s ever seen before. We ll speak to him in a minute. It is so contagious that it s impacting some people who are fully vaccinated, and it s pushing frontline healthcare workers to the brink. Cnn s athena jones has been tracking the latest for us across the country. Athena, what s happening on the ground? reporter: hi, alisyn. It wasn t supposed to be this way. The vaccines approved months ago were supposed to help prevent another summer covid surge like we re seeing all across the country, but the pace of daily vaccinations is at its lowest point since january, and once again we re hearing heartbreaking stories from healthcare workers who are struggling to save the lives of people who refuse the protection the vaccines offer. The biggest public health crisis in a century is threatening to get a lot worse. As the more contagious delta variant super charges covid19 s spread. Es
i ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk. wow. major news expected today on the war in afghanistan with president biden set to announce a date to withdraw all troops and hoping to accomplish his predecessors could not. the condition is will the conditions on the ground allow him to keep the date this time? plus, another night of unrest near minneapolis after the deadly police shooting of daunte wright. the officer who pulled the trigger has since resigned and many are asking the question why hasn t she been fired? and new information on the sex trafficking investigation into congressman matt gaetz, with reporting his onetime ally has flipped and is working with prosecutors. the question is how bad is this for the florida republican? it s way too early for this! good morning! welcome to way too early, the show that had plenty of lead worthy stories this morning. i m kasie hunt on this wednesday, april 14th. we start with th
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. indeed it is major breaking news. unpre unprec unprecedented. the house voting whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for criminal contempt of congress for defying the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that is our breaking news as well as this. there is a spike in the coronavirus cases hitting cornell university especially hard. the school shutting down its campus after reporting more than 900 coronavirus cases among student body in just the past week. we ll bring that to you a little later on. i what. i want to get to jason crow of colorado. i want to get colorado. so you just voted to hold one of your former colleagues in con contempt. how is this sitting with you tonight? do you think it will get to the bottom of january 6th? hi, don, 2k3good to be with . i didn t want to take to this vote. nobody should be happy we had to take these votes to recommend crime untinal contempt because shows people aren t keeping their
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afghanistan who wanted to leave. but there is confusion over how many were initially stranded after the u.s. military withdrawal as opposed to what was said publicly by administration officials at the time. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the story tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. so much about that withdrawal in august and september revolved around how many americans were stranded in afghanistan and what was being done to save them? what we now know that the figures we were given at the time they were simply not accurate. i would just reiterate that the united states does not track or put a tracker on american citizens traveling overseas. the white house today was again forced to defend itself against discrepancies in the number of americans left stranded in afghanistan after the state department released figures showing the number was far higher than president biden claimed in august. we believe that about 100 to 200 measures rem