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authorization from the fda. of course they are the ones who make the actual changes to how these vaccines are authorized. then the cdc votes on recommending those authorizations, and that s how this ball gets rolling on this process. but it is significant given that so far, the many, many times we ve asked this question, they have said right now, the general population does not need them. but it does appear that s about to change. kaitlan collins is joining us now with our breaking news here on cnn. i just want to read the beginning of kaitlan s reporting here. i just got the wire. it says top health officials in the biden administration are coalescing around an agreement that most americans should get a booster shot eight months after becoming fully vaccinated. that s according to a source familiar with the discussions. kaitlan collins is reporting this. kaitlan, my question is when is the biden administration going to announce this? do you know? reporter: it could ....
week. this reflects between some republicans are waking up to biden s popularity. a break between those republicans and the rest of the maga base who continues not to only oppose. one major political party continually lies about and defend the attack of the government. there are real world impacts. that brings us to the top story tonight because we are seeing news that it is sad and disturbing and you need to know about, a new government bulletin warning of racially and ethically motivated violent extremists who are pushed by conspiracy theory election fraud as well as alleged reinstate of donald trump. that s from the u.s. homeland security department. it is non partisan and that term there, perceived election fraud is sort of clinical. dhs by the way don t love putting out politically related bulletins, they do it when it hits the bar of u.s. national homeland security being pushed by politics, in this case, prominent republicans. we are seeing reports on the ground s ....
fatalities are up 15%, so those are all going in the wrong direction. the number of patients are unprecedented and that s in black and white. we have more patients in our hospital now than ever before. this delta variant surge has been particularly intense across the south. one expert says the next few weeks will be critical in determining if that trend takes hold across the nation. we have all 50 states, the district of columbia seeing an increase in cases. the question will be if any of them turn out to be like we re seeing in the south, then we ve got a much larger problem on our hands going forward. if not, i think by the early part of the september, we ll see this curve come down. but in the meantime, it s going to extract a tremendous amount of pain in our society. dr. fauci has a warning about the virus. he said the delta variant could bring about as many as 1,000 to 2,000 cases per day. he said, if we don t get more people vaccinated, the virus will cont ....
and i will do the scans and see whether you have cancer or not. i don t get that. but anyway, of those five governors, three republicans, but only ron desantis doesn t want to talk about covid. he says work on your backswing before i work on anything. no. he s talking about the border as if you can t do two things at once. of course, that strategy didn t work too well for donald trump and it s not going to work too well also for parents and children and teachers in part of ron s state that are experiencing extraordinarily high levels of covid. i m a parent and i certainly hope that my kids and kids in their classes are going to be able to wear masks. if that is, in fact, what mandate the teachers and the students, the local school board, local school board, imagine that, decisions being made on the local level, imagine that, decisions being made by parents, teachers, principals and students, imagine that. why that almost sounds like a conservative concept. but ron, he s ....
it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that s been shouting at the tv way too much lately. got to love the olympics. i m elise jordan on this tuesday, july 27th. we ll start with the news. as the nation faces an explosive growth of new cases of the virus variants, new vaccines are being rolled out across the country. new york city and california is now requiring vaccination or weekly testing for all employees and the veteran of department affairs is the first federal agency to sish a vaccine mandate, which would require front line workers to receive covid vaccine shots some of experts say this could exhibit a pivot toward mandates. nbc news miguel almaguer has the latest. reporter: well before any false surge, many hospitals are struggling to manage the 60,000-plus daily new covid infections facing the u.s. our nation could see upwards of 4,000 death as day by october. the 100 million americans who are unvaccinated drivi ....