Unveiled by the White House yesterday. President bidens strongest push yet to contain the coronavirus pandemic. My message to Unvaccinated Americans is this. What more is there to wait for . What more do you need to see . Weve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin and your refusal has cost all of us. So please do the right thing. The president s goal here, to get the pandemic under control. And now some 100 Million americans are under aggressive new vaccination rules. So here are the facts. Federal employees and contractors to the federal government must now get a covid shot as well as all Health Care workers in settings with Medicaid Or Medicare reimbursements. And finally, all private companies with more than 100 employees will have to mandate vaccinations themselves or as an alternative, weekly testing. These mandates certain to be the subject of legal challenges. Question as to whether they will work. Some republican governors are criticizing the president. The largest uni
good morning, everyone. and welcome to your new day. i m amara walker in for christi paul. and i m boris sanchez. right now, president biden is meeting with world leaders at the g7 in england, as biden sells his america is back message to allies. it s his meeting with the world leaders that is not in attendance that is looming large over the summit. as vaccinations among children rise, there are new questions over just how soon kids should be vaccinated. and a new study showing a possible link between vaccines and heart issues in children. plus, forced into hiding. how georgia s secretary of state, a repeat target of president trump s election lies, felt the need to go into hiding after facing death threats and break-ins. and a major heat wave is building across parts of the country with more than 20 million under heat alerts, where temperatures will soar well into triple digits. good morning. and welcome to your new day. it is saturday, june 12th. we are gl
confusion. also tonight, public schools in the nation s capital are taking a dramatic step to stop the rapid spread, requires negative tests before students and staff can return next week. we ll talk to mayor bowser. wolf blitzer is off today, i m jim acosta, and you re in salesforce. the situation room. . the verdicts in the sex trafficking trial of jason carroll is working the story for us. jason, maxwell has been found guilty on five of six counts of sex trafficking of a minor for jeffrey epstein. this is a huge case there in new york. what this case really boils down to, jim, is whether or not ghislaine maxwell knew about the abuse that had been going on for all of these years, and whether or not she was a part of it. that s really the foundation of this. a jury came back and found that she was guilty of both. the jury made up of six men, six women, deliberated for six days, and found that she was guilty of five of six federal counts the minor, a victim named caroly
youngkin beat terry mcauliffe despite democrats recent gains in that state. already the finger pointing, theorizing and forewarning is well underway within the party. president biden addressed democratic setbacks last night. he didn t exactly own them, but he says the time for action is now. what i do know is i do know that people want us to get things done. they want us to get things done. people are upset and uncertain about a lot of things, from covid to school to jobs to a whole range of things. what happened was i think we have to just produce results for them to change their standard of living and give them a little more breathing room. congressional democrats are searching for answers, searching for that breathing room. and taking some tactics along the way. house speaker nancy pelosi is pushing for a vote on the build back better plan and the hard infrastructure bill. about $3 trillion in total. and she wants it as soon as today, although that is considered unl
the russians are not letting up. this drone footage shows the devastation of air strikes from a small town. overnight, six people were injured. at least three buildings significantly damaged including a kindergarten. you are right there. what are you hearing. we heard missile strikes this morning. this is the result of them. trees decapitated by the blast. this building behind me now in ruins was pumping the sewage station. it could not have been big enough to hold any military assets they ve been digging out the sewage plant the effort being made has been felt. ripping through th e buildings probably similar to what happened here, they are waiting here. those wounded and dead atrocities. this was not impact that came from an aircraft. this was missile to missile. not from a rocket but a guided missile. it was really more a deliberate act it may be a possibility that they could achieve some kind of a victory and advance at some point. they believe they could advance and c