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on booster shots for most americans. we re also following dangerous and fast-moving developments out of afghanistan. we just learned defense secretary lloyd austin and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, will be briefing reporters this afternoon. this will be the first time we ve heard from them since the taliban seized control of afghanistan. this comes as we get a new and clearer view of desperate afghans trying to get out of the country and a faltering u.s. response despite evacuation flights resuming at kabul s airport. reports of taliban fighters opening fire to disperse large crowds. witnesses reporting protesters being beaten by taliban fighters as well. cnn s clarissa ward is on the ground with reporting on the mayhem on the streets near kabul s airport. we ll bring that to you in just a moment. we are moments away from a big announcement from president biden s covid response scene, that booster shots will be recommended for the general pub ....
we re live outside athens, greece, where flames are swallowing forests and villages whole and many are forced to flee for their lives . a disturbing milestone in america s war with the coronavirus shows that the delta variant is winning the race right now. the u.s. averaging more than a hundred thousand cases each day for the first time since back in february before vaccines were widely available. the worst of it is in florida where hospitalization records are being shattered both in adults and children. florida also seeing its highest number of weekly covid cases ever. still is state s republican governor ron desanta is rejecting mask mandates for schools. i have young kids. my wife and i are not going to do the mask with the kids. we never have. i want to see my kids smiling. i want them having fun. and in what might be the ultimate example of the glass being half full or half empty, the nation s covid vaccination rate now stands at just over 50%, far short of t ....
this is about what we need to do to bring back new york city. plus the capital riot committee starts the work tomorrow as the feud between the house speaker and the republican leader gets more public and yes, more pointed. and it is infrastructure week again. still no deal despite the president s pledge to get one by today. republicans just rejected the democratic offer that was aimed at closing the big divides. we begin the hour with this covid surge. big new debates coast to coast about how to handle rising case counts. mask debates are back. vaccine mandates another big flash point today. just this morning, the new york city mayor put the entire city work force on notice. get vaccinated by september 13th or be required to get weekly covid tests. this means everybody. this means obviously everyone who worked in our schools, our educators and staff. it means the nypd, the fdny, all city agencies p. people who work in offices and the frontline. everyone. because sep ....
police officers and bystanders jump into action to save a trapped mother and her baby. that dramatic video coming up. that is ahead. we do begin this hour with the pandemic. spiraling out of control in america. that is how former surgeon general jerome adams is describing it right now. 49 states are reporting increases in new coronavirus cases in the last week. the average number of daily cases has more than quadrupled the in the last month. now over 50,000 cases aday. the number of people hospitalized have doubled if the last month and dr. fauci is sounding the alarm as the surges are fueled by people still unvaccinated. listen. we re going in the wrong direction. it is really an outbreak among the unvaccinated. so this is an issue predominantly among the unvaccinated which is the reason why we re out there practically pleading with the unvaccinated people to go out and get vaccinated. the cdc is now considering changing its mask guidelines for vaccinated people ....
with pandemic stress. and, live on the bbc news channel, the first lions team of the summer has been named. alun wynjones will captain the side in the first ever meeting with japan on saturday. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. england and scotland are preparing for crucial games at the euros tonight, but coronavirus is casting a major shadow. england s mason mount and ben chilwell, will miss the clash with the czech republic because they re self isolating, after being in close contact with scotland s billy gilmour. he s already tested positive for covid, ruling him out of his country s must win game against croatia. we ll be live at hampden and wembley shortly, but first here s our sports correspondent, natalie pirks. it was an innocuous enough scene, chelsea team mates sharing a special moment after the match on friday but the contact continued into the tunnel in a chant that lasted around 25 minutes and that, not the on pitch hug, is what has caused this p ....