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Good morning and welcome to your new day. It is saturday, september 4th. The months just flying off the calendar, christi. I have to tell you, it is starting to feel a little bit chilly like autumn here in d. C. Thank goodness. Same here in atlanta. Believe me, we re grateful for it. For the summer but nevertheless he s a miami man. That s right. We have to talk about weather and we begin this hour with how the united states is coming face to face with the climate crisis. The death toll continuing to climb from wednesday s historic flooding and tornadoes in the northeast, at least 50 people have died. In the northeast hurricane ida took a deadly flash flooding. I m sure you saw it sweeping away cars. There were tornadoes across the region. New jersey s governor said the recovery is going to take time but the state is ready to help. Just walking through for a few minutes the downtown area. It is clear that the damage caused by ida is significant by any measure and recovering and rebuild
In california, the dixie fire, now the second largest in california history. And it comes as the u. N. Tonight issues a new and alarming climate report, calling it a, quote, code red for humanity. Tonight, we have the numbers here. How quickly the earth is warming. Fteth ty gh our team also in greece tonight, the fires there and in turkey. Parts of europe seeing the worst heat in 30 years. Some residents and tourists now boarding ferries to escape the flames. The developing headline from washington at this hour. President biden tonight, a major step closer to passage of his $1. 2 trillion infrastructure plan. The senate expected to pass the bill with bipartisan support as early as tomorrow morning. Rachel scott standing by with live reporting from the hill. And what democrats immediately plan to do next. The developments involving new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. His top aide now resigning. What she s saying. There is also news breaking involving prince andrew, now facing a new
Issues a new and alarming climate report, calling it a, quote, code red for humanity. Tonight, we have the numbers here. How quickly the earth is warming. Much faster than they thought. Our team also in greece tonight, the fires there and parts o europe heat in 30 years. Some residents and tourists now boarding ferries to escape the flames. The developing headline from washington at this hour. President biden tonight, a major step closer to passage of his $1. 2 trillion infrastructure plan. The senate expected to pass the bill with bipartisan support as early as tomorrow morning. Rachel scott standing by with live reporting from the hill. And what democrats immediately plan to do next. The developments involving new york governor andrew cuomo tonight. His top aide now resigning. What she s saying. There is also news breaking involving prince andrew, now facing a new lawsuit tonight filed by jeffrey epstein accuser virginia due fray. With u. S. Troops coming home, the worsening situatio
World. I m kim bruin humaner. This is cnn newsroom. The push to vaccinate all americans is hitting a wall of resistance just as cases once again are rising from coast to coast. We re seeing covid19 outbreaks in every single u. S. State for the second day in a row. Areas with the lowest vaccination rates are at the most risk. 48. 5% of the population here is fully vaccinated, when looking at the latest data from the cdc, the problem, herd immunity might not cakick in until 70%. Angelinos are told to wear masks indoors again if they re fully vaccinated. The more infectious delta variant is making matters worse. Paul vercammen is in los angeles. Reporter: the covid19 numbers in los angeles county started heading back up in the wrong direction, 462 hospitalizations, 11 new deaths and that positivity rate leaping now to 3. 7%. It was just 1. 5% on the fourth of july. So there s a lot of debate about this new rule that mandates wearing masks indoors at restaurants, movie theaters and the lik