Unvaccinated parents are bringing covid into the hospitals. Some hospitals have been hit particularly hard. In some cities the pediatric wards are filled up. This is a mom from houston whose 11monthold baby girl had to be flown 150 miles away for treatment. It was probably like one of the most heartbreakingest things as a mom i had to go through. I didn t want to have to see her go through that. It was really painful to have to see her hooked up to all of the machines and airlifted away and knowing that i could not be with her when she needed me the most. I would recommend everybody getting the vaccines and even though you can get covid with the vaccine, and i think that it is so very smart decision to get vaccinated. That is just unimaginable, and my heart goes tout the mom, and that crush is coming as the kids in some states are back in school with more of the states following soon. As we have been telling you in places like florida and texas leading the new surge, the governors have
Safe at last. The first flight of afghans who risked their lives to help american troops arrives in the u. S. But what will happen to thousands more with taliban targets on their back? welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. And we start today with the health lead and the new data backing up what top health officials had been warning about for weeks, the delta variant is aggressive. The delta variant is highly contagious. Even among those who are fully vaccinated. The new data out today is some of the same data that prompted the cdc to change its mask guidance earlier this week. Its pivotal discovery centers on a covid outbreak in massachusetts where vaccinated people were still infected. The though we need to emphasize, the vaccine can keep serious illness at bay. But those individuals can still become very contagious to others. Cnn s athena jones joins me now live from new york. Athena, what else are we learning from this alarming new data? all of this data really raises the stakes for
Convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into former president trump s business dealings. Seven minutes after that, it was abc news. That also independently matched the key point in this new reporting. Manhattan district attorney convenes special grand jury in trump probe. A special grand jury has been convened to consider the possibility of criminal charges against president trump and people related to his business. Now, does this mean former president donald trump is going to be indicted? does this mean he s going to be criminally charged? i don t know. And neither do you, and anybody who tells you they know the answer to that for sure, umm, that s somebody you might enjoy hearing stories from, but don t necessarily assume they re true. We don t know. You can t have an indictment unless you have a grand jury. But having a grand jury does not guarantee you re going to get an indictment. A jury, as you know, that s the group of citizens that gets c
Consider evidence in a criminal investigation into former president donald trump s business dealings. Seven minutes after that, it was abc news. That also independently matched the key point in this new reporting. Manhattan district attorney convenes special grand jury in trump probe. A special grand jury has been convened to consider the possibility of criminal charges against president trump and people related to his business. Now, does this mean former president donald trump is going to be indicted? does this mean he s going to be criminally charged? i don t know. And neither do you, and anybody who tells you they know the answer to that for sure, umm, that s somebody you might enjoy hearing stories from, but don t necessarily assume they re true. We don t know. You can t have an indictment unless you have a grand jury. But having a grand jury does not guarantee that you re going to get an indictment. A jury, as you know, that s the group of citizens that gets called on for jury dut
Liz cheney over her criticism of former president trump and her refusal to support the big lie. And fullscale war, an ominous warning as the violence now escalates to its worst level since 2014. Let s start our coverage this hour. Cnn s dianne gallagher joins us from north carolina with the breaking news we re following. We might be ending the fuel crisis that s plagued so much of the east coast in the united states all week. Give us the latest information. Reporter: well, that s right, wolf. Colonial pipeline saying just about an hour ago it s restarting that critical pipeline at 5:00 p. M. Eastern, but it warned that we may still be seeing scenes like what you see here in charlotte, north carolina, of cars waiting to get gas because it could take several days for things to get back to normal, telling gas stations to expect intermittentn t service interruptions, though authorities say that the reason why this seems like a crisis has much more to do with the public panic. Gas as far as