World. Im laura jarrett. And im julia chatterley. It is wednesday, july 21, 5 00 a. M. In new york. And we start with covid. If you live in an area with a low vaccination rate, you are in greater danger this morning. The cdc data shows 22 of the u. S. Population now lives in a county with high covid transmission. That is nearly 73 Million americans were talking about. And even more staggering, it is about ten times higher as many people as in early june. So why is it happening . Here is the head of the cdc. Areas with limited Vaccine Coverage are allowing for the emergence and rapid spread of the highly transmissible Delta Variant. The Delta Variant now represents 83 of sequenced cases. This is a dramatic increase up from 50 the week of july 3. And return to Inperson Week is coming or is already here. And that combined with the increase in transmission is raising the question should you be forced to wear a mask or get vaccinated. County home to Las Vegas has just passed a temporary Mas
about this hurricane that as you can see is just barrelling towards the west coast of florida. one of the things that was really interesting there that the governor is warning about is the potential for as this storm is heading there up into kind of that big bend area, that catcher s mitt we ve heard it referred to, there is a potential for this storm to make a little bit of a left turn and head more towards tallahassee. his point there is that don t think that if you are there in the panhandle, you are there in northern florida that you are out of trouble. he s saying everyone should be prepared in case this storm does make a turn. and he s telling people, look, you should be prepared to lose power. you need to get out of the way of storm surge. you don t have to go far, but far enough away to get out of the storm surge. 10 to 15 feet in some areas. we re talking about a lot of water and that water can be deadly. we have our cnn team tracking every angle of the storm. i want
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