Days. Im Pamela Brown, in wash was washington. Welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. You are in the cnn newsroom, on this saturday. And across much of america, the masks have come off. Covid numbers have gone up. And Reality Sets in. This nation is facing a pandemic of the unvaccinated. New cases are trending up, in 49 states. And with that spread, more deaths, more hospitalizations. The rise mainly caused by the highlycontagious Delta Variant, and the highlypoliticized antivaccine crusade. More leaders on the state and local level are now implementing or at least considering new restrictions, in hopes of reigning in the escalating numbers. Just under half of all americans are fully vaccinated. Pushing herd immunity, for now, out of reach. Meanwhile, the Fda And Cdc are exploring a Possiblebooster Dose of covid19 vaccine. But as of now, only for people considered immunocompromised. And in some states, like texas, local officials may find themselves handcuffe
Around the world. Im Alison Kosik and this is cnn newsroom. Here is a snapshot of olympic medals awarded so far in tokyo. China the most at 9, the u. S. At 8. The u. S. Leads with five gold medals, japan with three and Team Usa with two. Coy wire is following the competition in tokyo. Americans used their advantage in the Swimming Pool to get on the board today. Tell me how they did it. Reporter since munich, Team Usa was shut out of medals on the Opening Day of competition at the summer olympics. Things changed day two. American men finishing one and two in the 400 meter individual med lay. Chase kalicz wins his first gold and the first for Team Usa at the games in tokyo. He won silver in rio. When he was 8yearold he was on a Ventilator And Feeding tube for eight months as he fought an acute disorder of the nervous system. C K K Kalisz says fell sps like the g. O. A. T. I dont know if everything has sunk in yet, not being in the water, not competing. A lot of emotions ran through my b
Politics are a big part of how we got here. Look at canada. 69 of those who supported the Conservative Party have gotten at least one dose. Much more than the 52 of Donald Trump supporters here in the u. S. Now look at how the u. S. Has rapidly fallen behind canada in vaccinations. Less than 600,000 Vaccine Doses are being administered daily now. Thats down from a peak of more than 4. 5 million a day in march. Weve heard plenty of reasons why people arent willing to get a shot. Our Elle Reed caught up with a woman in arkansas. Did anyone you know get covid . My son got covid. How old is he . 8. Wow, thats rare for a young kid. What was that like . Hes sick a lot. Hes been sick for a long while so we have to go get him looked at to see if theres further damage. He got real sick. Fever every day for weeks. Are you guys going to get the vaccine . No. No vaccine. How come . I just dont trust the government. Cnns Gary Tuchman heard another Womans Reasoning in alabama, the state with the low
Rebel forces in the Northern Region of firing rockets into other parts of the country. As coronavirus cases surge across europe, austria and now has 3 weeks, a lot of down to stem the rise. The country hopes this latest measures will ease the stress on its health care system. Im nick spicer. Welcome to the program. Supporters of u. S. President donald trump are filling the streets of washington to back his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud. The outgoing president made a surprise appearance at the rally, greeting supporters from the window of his motorcade, which made a detour on the way to his golf course. Demonstrators say vote rigging denied Trump Victory last week, but federal prosecutors overseeing the vote and a state Election Officials say that is not the case. A large number of Police Officers has been deployed to prevent clashes with trump. Demonstrators, meeting near by and silence is at the rally in Washington State and youve covered many rallies before and during the
Included all of your cbs favorites including survivor, blue bloods, and of course, young sheldon. [ laughter ] democrats held their latest primary debate last night. And i have to say it was really jarring to see difference between bloomberg in the debate and bloomberg in every ad break. [ laughter ] it was like when you see the tv version of a cheeseburger from a fast food commercial. And then you go there. And you get one. And it looks like this [ laughter ] thats debate bloomberg right there. And this this is debate bloomberg after Elizabeth Warren got ahold of him. [ laughter ] during last nights [ cheers and applause during last nights debate every candidate was asked to share their personal motto for example, Amy Klobuchars was politics is about improving peoples lives and Elizabeth Warrens was, i will murder Mike Bloomberg with my bare hands. [ laughter ] [ applause ] according to a new report the fcc received more than 1300 complaints about the super bowl halftime performance b