secretary, dominic raab, of a dereliction of duty, after reports he declined to phone his afghan counterpart to seek help airlifting interpreters out of afghanistan. but the government has defended his actions. the only problem last week was not a phone call to an afghan government that was melting away and had almost, or didn t have any leverage. the number one challenge at the end of last week was whether the airport would continue to fly, allow planes to fly out, and those people we were getting out, would they be allowed to get out? survivors in haiti ask when is help coming, after saturday s earthquake killed almost 2,000 people. the largest survey of covid infection in the uk has found that both the pfizer and astrazeneca vaccines are still offering good protection against the delta variant. and coming up this hour, as the paralympics get under way next week, one campaign will light up uk landmarks to raise awareness of global disability discrimination. hello and welcom
our expertise, our plans and our execution of our plans. here again, just as we did with the challenge of unaccompanied children in march of this year, we have a plan. we are executing our plan, and that takes time. lawrence: so that s what the secretary said in public. but fox news has obtained leaked audio of what the secretary is saying in private. and it paints a drastically different picture. watch. a couple days ago i was down in mexico omexico and i said look, you know, if our border is the first line of defense we are going to lose, this is unsustainable. we can t continue like this. our penal in the field can t continue and our system isn t built for it. lawrence: he said we are going to lose, it s not sustainable. he was talking about the border. those words can be will to the every part of the biden administration. crime is spiking. inflation. officials in afghanistan are central bling to leave as the taliban takes back the country in lightning speed. you can
so now with the much faster spreading delta variant, by far the dominant strain hospital intensive care units are once again getting crowded, filling up. localities are once again imposing mask mandates. the nfl this week imposing new penalties on teams with outbreaks with unvaccinated players. governors and politicians and tv personalities began shedding months of vaccine denial in defiance. not soon enough. in alabama, for example, the governor today pushed hard on people to get the vaccine. only 33.9% in her state have. that s the worst in the nation. another thing that s become clear this week is that some people for many reasons just don t want to get the shot not even as cnn s elle reid discovered when they ve got the best reason in the world to roll-up their sleeve. reporter: did anyone you know get covid? my son had covid. reporter: how old is he? eight. reporter: wow, so that s pretty rare for a young kid. what was that like? he s sick a lot. he s been si
and particularly so in those hot spots where vaccination rates are still quite low. maybe 30%. that would be missouri and arkansas, louisiana, florida. and those are areas of deep concern. as he said, one of the epicenters of the covid surge, florida. that state now accounting for one of every five new infections in the country. cnn s randi kaye joins me from riviera beach, florida. how are people responding to the spike in cases there? reporter: they don t want to change anything in the state of florida. they seem to think things are going well, despite the surge of numbers on the state level. in the last week we saw more than 110,000 new cases in florida. the daily average 50,818 cases yesterday. yesterday there was a record for the most cases in a single day. 21 ,683 cases yesterday. if you look at how florida stacks up across the country, 19.2 % of all the cases in the u.s. are here in the state of florida. mostly in south florida where we are. also florida is seeing