Tonight, starts right now, good evening, alex. Michael steele, do you realize that Chris Hayes when he was last on air, Joe Biden was still at the top of the democratic ticket. Hes like our Media Version of rip van winkle. Hes going to wake up and hes going to come back from a much needed rest and rejuvenating Family Vacation and he wont recognize whats happening here. Hes going to sit here and go, whos the nominee of the democratic party . Say what . The Vice President . Anyway, talk about a lot of unopened mail on his desk. Its great to see you, have a great weekend. Okay, have you been watching the olympics . If you have, then you know yesterday, Simone Biles, The American Gymnastics Phenom took home her sixth Gold Medal for team usa, that in and of itself was awesome but its also an amazing comeback story. Biles and her earlier battle with Mental Health Led her to withdraw from Team Competition from 2021 from the olympics and as of yesterday, Simone Biles is officially the greatest
That matter, take charge in your own cities and communities. In just hours, entrepreneur Richard Branson hopes to become the first person to ride a selffunded rocket into suborbital space. I had to wait a lifetime to go into space. Hopefully we can speed that process up for many, many others. Im Pamela Brown in washington. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and Around The World. You are in the Cnn Newsroom on this saturday. And it has been a week of conflicting data and confusion over covid. As you well know. Vaccine Maker Pfizer set off alarms when it released a Statement Saying immunity from its vaccine was waning and a Booster Shot may be needed, citing data from the israeli health ministry. Pfizer said Vaccine Effect Efficacy has declined. But hours later the cdc and the fda said, stand down, fully Vaccinated Americans dont need to worry about getting boosters right now. But sadly the u. S. Is moving in the Wrong Direction again when it comes to the number of covid cases.
I love lucy gone the marched age of sitcoms with a female star married to a cuban man. Rickie can i be in the show. No. In Real Life she shared Management And Ownership of the studio breaking bar years that resonate over the laughter tom foreman, cnn. Good Morning And Welcome to the new day im boris sampson. Good morning, boris. Im christi paul. As the Delta Variant causes vases to surge there is guidance how schools should have kids back. And there are questions about whether those of us who have been vaccinated may need a Booster Shot. Plus fighting back. President biden pledging to take action against russia following a spate of Ransomware Attacks, as we learn biden spoke with Vladimir Putin yesterday. The count down is on to Richard Branson set to rocket into space this weekend. We look at how this decades in the Making Mission is going to unfold. And southwest sizzler. The big cities that could see temperatures as high as 115 degrees today. Good Morning And Welcome to your new day
Hopes that if you dont have to be in this, you are going to stay home and who wants to be out in this to show you whats actually happening. As we look to my left, this is the iconic central park. You see a few brave souls out for a morning run and also to, of course its not going to be a blizzard. Still, it is a serious threat. There are impacts we are seeing. For example, some of those folks that managed to secure those Covid Vaccination spots at five locations in and around new york city, those will have to be rescheduled for later this week, obviously, it will be an inconvenience for folks. At the end of the day, its about keeping people safe. You do have states of emergency in place here in new york and in neighboring new jersey. Remember, this is a prolonged multiphased event and based on what weve experienced the last hour, we have just transitioned to the next phase, with heavier snowfall. You can imagine it will get much worse in the hours to come. How committed do have you to
Variant. Also this morning the white house announcing that President Biden is reversing course will be Lifting Covid Travel Restrictions on Southern African countries. Controversial implications and the number of cases is staggering in some places in the United States. Infections from the new strain have quickly surpassed last summers delta surge. The daily average of new cases is now surging over 182,000. Health officials honestly unclear on where the peak is going to be. Lets start with cnns pete muntean live at Reagan National airport for us. Pete, what is happening with these flights . Reporter kate, 500 Flight Cancellations in the United States alone, and airlines say as these omicron cases start to surge, their Staffing Levels went down, which led to them cancelling these flights. From flight aware, about 170 cancellations at unaied alone, 140 at delta air lines. Last night we obtained a memo from you nighted to its staff saying this was impacting flight crews and those responsib