The israeli ministry of health just put the numbers out. They didn t explain the science, didn t explain how they got to this. Many scientists say that is quite irresponsible. These are the numbers, this is what we have. Keep that in mind as a caveat. This is what they found, the effectiveness of pfizer against the delta variant. Of course, pfizer is what israel has been using. This is what they found, that it was 64% effective at preventing infection. 64%. That s obviously way down from in the 90s when covid first appeared. However, and this is the important number, 93% effective at preventing severe disease or hospitalization. As one vaccine researcher once put it to me, elizabeth, vaccines are designed to keep you out of the hospital and out of the morgue. A vaccine, you still get infected, but you re okay, you re asymptomatic. That s a winner. The vaccine won. We need to keep that in mind. 93% is an incredible number that is a great number, all the more reason to go out and get vac
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Plus a republican congressman says he s not responsible for his own rallying cry to a mob of trump supporters who stormed the capitol. And details on the huge cyber attack targeting hundreds of businesses and who s behind it. Welcome to our viewers in the united states, and around the world. It is tuesday, july 6th. And americans shot off more than just fireworks on july 4. They also shot off guns. A lot of them, at each other. At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the fourth of july weekend. From friday through sunday, there were at least four mass shootings with four or more victims from texas to virginia to ohio. Some victims as young as 5 years old. Big cities including new york and chicago, struggling with a significant surge in gun violence. In 2021, gun violence incidents in new york have spiked almost 40% year to year. Adrienne broaddus joins us now from chicago where it was obviously another very violent weekend. R
Remaining part of the structure. It was up until that point really unsafe for the people searching and rescuing on site. They were actually not able to reach the area closie st to the remaining part of the structure. Now that the building has come down that will be easier for them to do that. Here is the mayor of surfside talking about how this timeline of trying to get this demolition done before this coming storm might have been a lucky thing. It appears as though the approaching storm may have been a blessing in disguise for us in that it initiated the demolition discussion. That discussion has accomplished several things. It s eliminated a looming threat, a dangerous threat for our rescue workers. It will potentially open up probably a third of the pile so we can all, you know, so the teams can focus not just on two thirds of the pile but on the whole thing. Reporter: the mayor and other officials at that press conference wanted to reassure the public that searchers had done multip
Towers was in the background but no more. Giving search and rescue crews more access and less worry has the death toll is climbing. At 10:30 sunday night all that was left of the champlain condos south came to the ground. It was shifting. This ended a day and a half pause for the search and rescue operation which is very important to families who want to have proper funerals for lost loved ones. They tell us, even though you lost a loved one, thank you for being away from your families and risking your life to help us. Bringing that building down in a controlled manner was critical. The search and rescue operation was back to full speed. They found three more bodies bringing the confirmed dead to 27 and 118 residents still missing. The county searched under beds and closets for pets so any 4 legged survivors did not come down with the remaining building. We went to great lengths to take every step we could at great risk to our first responders that no pets were left in the building. El