restrictions with washington, d.c., atlanta, st. louis, kansas city, and savannah all issuing mask mandates this week. broadway s theater owners and operators also saying, friday, that they will require theater goers to be vaccinated and wear masks to attend performances. let s bring in wall street journal columnist dan henninger. what are you learning that you didn t know before and that we should be concerned about? well, the cdc s hair is obviously on fire over the possibility that some vaccinated person will transmit covid to some unvaccinated person. the evidence apparently shows that people who have been vaccinated can pick up this delta variant. they may or may not show symptoms and they may or may not be capable of spreading it, but the cdc is very worried they are going to spread it. paul: what about the data? is there any new information on just how serious disease you will get if you re vaccinated and you get the delta variant? any change on that informatio
about half a million of those people for the first time. we are also learning an explosive delta variant outbreak in provincetown, massachusetts, pushed the cdc to change mask recommendations for people who have been vaccinated. new data showed three-quarters of those infected in that outbreak were fully vaccinated, but, thankfully, full required hospitalization. the data also suggested vaccinated people could spread the virus. the data that we saw in massachusetts were corroborated in numerous other places, and that s when we knew we had to take action. meanwhile, more businesses are announcing mandates. broadway s theater owners and operators say audiences must be vaccinated and wear masks to attend performances when they resume in the fall. vaccines will be mandatory for walmart employees at its headquarters and disney says all salaried and nonunion employees will be required to receive a covid-19 vaccine. meanwhile, florida s governor is pushing back on mandates f
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with an encouraging trend on the first holiday weekend since mask mandates were lifted for vaccinated americans. 43 states are experiencing a decline in coronavirus cases over the past two weeks. it comes as the country tops 33,400,000 cases with almost 600,000 americans losing their lives to the virus. and with the drop in cases comes a record spike in travel. the tsa says 1.9 million travelers passed through checkpoints on friday, making this the first time since the pandemic last march that passenger volume reached that height in a single day. and here s some breaking news. we re just learning that american airlines will maintain its ban on alcohol sales to economy passengers until mid-september. that is according to usa today travel. helping us track life after lockdown and the first summer holiday without masks since 2019, nbc s sha
new effort to overturn the guilty verdict against former minneapolis officer derek chauvin. his deal team is requesting a new trial claiming juror misconduct, a series of wrong decisions made by the judge, among many other things. his lawyer isn t challenging the video of chauvin s knee on george floyd s neck for over nine minutes, instead he s focused on, quote, the publicity of the proceedings, of course, tuned to the fact that the case provoked a much broader conversation about policing and racism in america. chauvin s attorney is making a wide range of claims, trying for a second chance in court here. just hours after new details emerged about one of the jurors. brandon mitchell. cnn s adrienne broaddus reports. reporter: this motion is broad, but it doesn t outline specifics. he does cite in the motion a number of factors, take a look for yourself. some of the factors include but aren t limited to the interests of justice, abuse of discretion that deprived the defend
to have you back. a well-deserved break. sometimes work is a break after you re away for two weeks with little kids. true. we had a good time. thank you for being with me this week. we appreciate it. we have a lot of news to get to. big breaking news really around the globe and here at home and cnn is on scene for all of it. here are the five things to know for this monday, july 24, 2023. thousands of protesters right now outside of israel s supreme court as the country s parliament is set to vote next hour on the first part of a historic judicial overhaul. this would severely limit the supreme court s power there to put any check on the government s actions. we re live in jerusalem. russia says ukrainians hit two buildings in moscow. we have a live look at the damage. and a legal fight over buoys at the border. the justice department threat tong sue over them, and today s the deadline for the state of texas to respond. concerns have been over those buoys and razor