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
an inquiry into a leak last year in case it involved a friend of his fiancee. in the last few minutes, indonesian navy has announced that the rescue teams have recovered debris that is believed to be from the submarine that went missing off the coast of bali on wednesday. us regulators lift the suspension on the single dosejohnson and johnson covid vaccine saying the benefits far outweigh any potential risks. medical experts are recommending that people who lose their sense of smell due to covid i9 are offered smell training rather than being treated with steroids. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. india s supreme court says the country is facing a national emergency as its health care system buckles under a second wave of coronavirus patients. many hospitals are full, oxygen supplies are desperately low and the number of new cases is spiralling out of control. for the third day in a row, it s registered the world s highest ever daily rise
appreciate your company, everyone. democratic lawmakers say they have strong evidence against donald trump with his second impeachment trial about to begin in just a couple of days. evidence like the new video of one of the capitol rioters that we re about to show you. cnn s donia sullivan has details, but first listen to what the man known as the qanon shaman has to say about the former president. how did you get out? of the senate? yeah. cops walked out with me. they just let you go? yeah. ha ha! what s your message to everybody now? oh, donald trump asked everybody to go home. he just said it, just put out a tweet. it s a minute long, asked everybody to go home. why do you think so? lose [ bleep ] one day [ bleep ]. how did you win? we won by sending a message to senators and congressmen, by sending a message to pence, if they don t uphold the constitution, we ll remove them from office, one way or the other. this guy recording you, he s not on ou
neighborhood in a decaying city. how dangerous is it? well, if the kids hung their christmas lights four thugs got out of an suv and robbed them. then a few hours later, someone set fire to a christmas degree they had set up in a nearby park. h who sets fire to christmas trees? well, suddenly a lot of do. last december, the same group of volunteers in chicagoe had another one of their christmas trees burned to the ground. the year before that, someone ran over the christmas tree in chicago s washington park with a car. to there seems to be quite a bit of christmas tree destroyinghe going on all of the sudden. what does it mean? well, let s see. this isn t just a matter of people setting fire to balsam firs, a christmas tree is a symbol. a symbol of a specific culture. a symbol of a much loved tradition that is hundreds of years old. above all, it s a symbol of a religion, in this case the world s largest religion. torching christmas trees is an attack on christianity. obvious
weekend, look at the entry of mass hysteria through the ages before the authorities inevitably delete it right as you read thein entry, ask yoursf if any of this sounds familiar to you. thoughts of witch trials of course, many of them, many many many of them over many centuries were placed with spontaneous dancing.th fits of laughing and babbling entire towns at once for no apparent reason. that s all there.re and then there are more esoteric outbreaks of mass hysteria. they re is a medieval french nun who accordinge to the entry inexplicably began to meow like a cat leading the other nuns in the convent to meow as well. this did not stop until the police threatened to whip the nuns. it s hilarious as you read it. at the time they did not see te humor in it. they essentially thought they were cats. hysteria is like that. when large groups of people start acting totally crazy, the reference points disappear. it all seems normal no matter how nuts it is. with that feature of hu