that it's much more likely for an elderly person or someone with an underlying disease to get seriously ill. but this vaccine -- this virus, excuse me, infects young people. clearly when you look at the infection rate among young people in a virus that we've been dealing with prior to the delta, it looks like it's considerably more. one of the reasons for that is we know as a fact, not conjecture but as a fact, that this virus spreads more efficiently from person to person, and it also leads to more severe disease. so it is not surprising that we're seeing more younger people not only getting infected but getting seriously ill. >> dr. fauci, should vaccinated parents feel confident that they can't get a low-level infection with the delta variant and potentially pass it to their kids? >> no, actually it is -- it is possible that you will see

people who are infected get breakthrough infections despite the fact that they're vaccinated. in general, when you have a breakthrough infection with a vaccinated person, the level of virus in the nas oh pharynx is lower. we haven't formally proven yet how much diminution there is in the likelihood of transmitting it to someone else, including children. that's one of the reasons why you've got to be careful when you're dealing with something like the delta variant. you want to make sure that you get vaccinated. if your children are not old enough to get vaccinated, when they're out there in the community, they should be wearing a mask if they are too young to get vaccinated. >> so even if they are vaccinated, they might be able to pass it on to their children. >> that is -- i'd have to say, don, that that's possible. we don't know that.

i mean i would be just, you know, giving wishful thinking here. i believe that what we're going to see is that vaccinated people who get a breakthrough infection, namely they get infected but they don't have any symptoms, that the level of virus will be low enough in their anynaso pharynx that it wd be unlikely they would pass it on to someone else. but we haven't proved that yet. >> what is your reaction to schools and camps that are lifting mask mandates for children given the risks that they face in the spreading of the delta variant? >> well, you know, you've got to be careful because it depends on where you are, don. it gets back to what we were saying before. if you are in an area where the viral dynamics are really high, you've got to be careful about pulling back the mask mandates. you've really got to be careful. if you're in an area where many people are vaccinated and the level of virus is very low, you

can be much more flexible in having children not wear masks. >> you know, the u.s. -- the president had wanted 70% of people to have some degree of vaccination, a first or second dose. so my question is we're going to fall short of what president biden's goal of vaccinating 70% of adults with at least one dose by july 4th, largely because of states like alabama, arkansas, my home state of louisiana, mississippi, wyoming. they have less than 35% of the population fully vaccinated. the former fda commissioner dr. scott gottlieb is concerned there will be very dense outbreaks in these areas. what do you think, dr. fauci? >> yeah, i agree with dr. gottlieb. that is something that we are very concerned about. when you have such a low level of vaccination superimposed upon a variant that has a high degree of efficiency of spread, what you are going to see among undervaccinated regions, be they states, cities, or counties,

you're going to see these individual types of blips. it's almost like it's going to be two americas. you're going to have areas where the vaccine rate is high, where there's more than 70% of the population has received at least one dose. when you compare that with areas where you may have 35% of the people vaccinated, you clearly have a high risk of seeing these spikes in those selected areas. the thing that's so frustrating about this, don, is that this is entirely avoidable, entirely preventable. if you are vaccinated, you diminish dramatically your risk of getting infected and even more dramatically your risk of getting seriously ill. if you are not vaccinated, you are at considerable risk. >> dr. anthony fauci, thank you so. i appreciate your time. >> good to be with you, don. thank you for having me. i want to turn now to our top story. officials in florida confirming the death toll from the

catastrophic building collapse in surfside has risen to 12 now. 149 remain unaccounted for. six days after that collapse, full search and rescue operations continuing at this hour. we're also learning that there were many warning signs about the building's physical condition. let's bring in now cnn's boris sanchez. he is covering this story for us down in surfside, florida. boris, good evening to you. rescue teams still desperately searching for survivors. another body has been pulled from the rubble. now we're learning just how first responders reacted to the shocking scenes immediately after that collapse. what can you tell us, boris? >> reporter: yeah, don. so for the first time this evening, we have gotten to listen to dispatch audio, so the conversations that rescue workers were having as they first arrived here on the scene and realized the extent of the devastation from this collapse. and you can hear it in their voices and in the details that they provide when they're communicating about the extent of this collapse.

and in their requests essentially for back up, for an all hands on deck effort. at one point, one rescue worker compared it to the twin towers collapsing on september 11th. it's painful to hear, and you notice the recognition in their voice that it is an ugly scene and a difficult scene to process. here's some of that dispatch audio now. >> we have a 13-story building with most of the building gone. this is going to be a high priority trt. people evacuating said it sounded like they heard a bomb. we still have people standing upstairs and some need to be evacuated. i've seen many people on their balconies. the building is gone. there's no elevators. this is nothing. it almost resembles the trade center. >> "this is nothing." yeah, it's also important to keep in mind that as those words were being uttered, these rescue

workers have had almost no pause in their work since that moment, and it's now been more than six days, don. >> yeah, it's true. that's what i wanted to ask you. we're almost, what, into day seven? you said it's been six days since this condominium building collapsed. when you talk to the families, boris, the rescuers, the officials, fatigue is starting to set in? yes or no? >> reporter: i think publicly, at least among the officials and the rescue workers, they are not giving up this fight. they are committed to this. you've heard the mayor of miami-dade county, daniella levine cava over and over say this is still a search and rescue operation. i think perhaps privately, they are feeling the effects of such an effort to try to save lives and to make a miracle happen. and when there haven't been very many signs of life and when we've seen this process move excruciatingly slowly as it has to, they're essentially uncovering a set of remains

every day or one or two per day. so that's very hard on them. so you imagine that privately they're having a very difficult time processing this. as far as the families go, i think we're starting to see a recognition that the odds of a miracle are starting to dwindle. it's been a very long time, and there's a recognition that the survivability of something like this, this specific kind of collapse, a pancake collapse, it didn't provide a lot of hope. and, again, there have been no signs of life. the instruments have not picked up on any sounds of breathing at this point. the dogs haven't alerted rescue workers to perhaps someone in a crevice or in an air pocket. so i think at some point this will become a recovery effort, and we're getting closer to that. but it is daunting no matter how you look at it, don. >> boris sanchez, thank you so much. appreciate it. with each passing day, it is becoming clearer that there were plenty of warning signs about the building's physical condition. more tonight from cnn's senior

investigative correspondent drew griffin. >> reporter: as more lawsuits are being filed across south florida in the deadly collapse of the champlain towers south condominium, there is more evidence residents, engineers and the condo board knew their building was deteriorating. a letter emailed on april 9th, just three months ago, from the condominium association board president warned the observable damage such as in the garage has gotten significantly worse since the initial inspection. that initial inspection in 2018, just three years ago, had determined failed waterproofing was causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below the pool deck and entrance drive. it led to a major assessment. $15 million to repair years of damage. >> there was leaks in the garage. there was cracks on the balconies. so, yes, you need the money to fix it, you know? but unfortunately --

>> reporter: eric told cnn he received the letter in pral, outlining how the concrete deterioration is accelerating. the roof situation got much worse, so extensive, roof repairs had to be incorporated. the letter was helping homeowners to understand their share of the assessment, anywhere from $80,000 for a one-bedroom condo up to $336,000 for the penthouse unit. the bigger question remains why the maintenance on the building had been deferred for so long and how and why no one foresaw the potential for collapse, almost unheard of in a modern u.s. building. >> it's extremely rare for a structure that's been standing for 40 years to all of a sudden collapse in this way. but i'm sure that forensically we structural engineers will figure out what happened, and we'll get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: records show a surfside building official had reviewed the 2018 report

detailing major structural damage, yet told residents that it appears the building is in very good shape. the records made public show no sense of urgency to launch repairs as the homeowners association took three years to review inspections, hire engineers, and begin assessments to start work. an attorney for the condo board cautions patience. >> there's other buildings out there with engineering reports as they near their 40-year certification that reveal more drastic spalling and pitting, delamination. we need to figure out what were all the factors that went into making this building fall. >> reporter: drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >> now i want to bring in a man vacationing with his wife and two children at his parents' condo inside the tower when it collapses. miraculously, they got out safely. albert, thank you so much. i'm glad that you're okay.

i'm sure that, you know, this is a tough time for you even that you're okay. but when did you first realize something was wrong, and how did you manage to escape safely? >> thank you, don. so i was asleep when the third and largest sound occurred. what happened at the time, it was just this thunderous sound. it felt like -- like something was sucking us down, but it was like a loud clap of thunder or an earthquake. i woke up immediately to the walls shaking, and my wife jumped out of bed to check on our two kids that were in the living room watching tv and make sure they were okay. at that point she called me out and said, this is big. we're going to have to get out of here. so that's really kind of the way it went down. while we figured out what the next steps were, the fire department was excellent. they were there probably within

two minutes, and i saw their lights coming, and i went out onto the balcony, which in hindsight i don't know was the smartest decision. but i called down to them and asked them if we needed to evacuate. and they said to get out of there as soon as possible. so we grabbed minimal items that we could, our phones, our wallets, chargers, a couple bottles of water, and we began to exit the apartment. when we did, that's when we realized that it was actually our building, in fact, that had suffered the tragedy, that it was really decimated. if i looked to the left, half of an apartment was gone, and you could see the night sky. you look forward where the elevators were, and you just saw two holes. >> so it was your building, but obviously you weren't in the part that pancaked, that fell on top of it. you were in the part that is still standing that we're looking at on our screen now, and you can look out at your

balcony over the part that had collapsed, correct? >> that is correct because we were vacationing. we weren't necessarily sure where the exit route was or the staircase. so that's why we initially looked left because that was the larger portion of the building. i thought that the staircase would be in that direction. >> yeah. there was an elderly neighbor that you helped carry to get to safety? >> yeah. so once we got into the staircase, we went from the 11th floor to about the 3rd floor where we ran into an elderly woman who needed assistance. she was struggling with a younger girl who was trying to help her. she asked my son and i if we could carry her down the stairs. so we proceeded to walk her down to the first floor. when we got to the first floor, we realized that that had probably collapsed about three feet, and we were -- it was beginning to flood. so we had to climb up some of

the falling concrete with her and make our way through. looking at the pictures now, it looks like a gate that had caved in, in between two spots, and go through some bushes with my entire family and making sure that she was okay. >> you know, this was your parents' condo. they saw this april letter warning damage to the building had gotten significantly worse since the 2018 inspection. it talked about concrete deterioration accelerating. how did your family understand the extent of the damage? did they talk to you about it at all? >> so my parents said that outside of that letter, there was never anything really communicated. we live here in new jersey. my parents do as well. so it was a vacation home until they could retire down there. what happened was they couldn't go to the meeting, so they really did not get a full sense

of what was discussed in those meetings. they received a letter. they knew they had an assessment to go through. the understanding at the time, at least for our family, was that the assessment was mostly aesthetic. it wasn't so much about the repairs that were needed by the building but, rather, keeping up with the new construction that had happened next door and some of the newer buildings in the area, and making sure that the property value did not lag. >> and now this. albert aguero, thank you so much. i'm glad your family is safe. regards to your entire family as well. thank you so much. >> thank you, don. and regards to all those families that are still hoping for a miracle. >> amen. so we've got a lot more to come on this t. was apparently no secret that the building was deteriorating, and there are other buildings with these same problems. >> we see that building

collapsed, almost in the footprint of where that building stood. we're talking about 12 stories with subterranean garages all within that same footprint. i'm just trying to emphasize the magnitude of what we're encounter, what we're seeing.

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investigators poring over evidence that may help them learn what contributed to the condo collapse in surfside. a letter to residents just two months before the disaster shedding new light on the deteriorating condition of that building. the condo board's president writing in a letter that some damage that was discovered in a 2018 report had gotten significantly worse. so let's talk now with kobe carp, an architect who specializes in high-rise residential buildings. he's based in miami. kobe, thank you. we appreciate you joining us. thanks in advance for your expertise. let's talk about this letter from april, talking about the concrete deterioration accelerating, damage to the garage getting significantly worse than the 2018 report, which described major structural damage. when you look at all of this in totality, is there anything that stands out to you? >> number one, thank you very much for having me here tonight.

there is something that is quite interesting. and even though i was not involved in the design of this building and i was not involved in any of the construction, this building is rather young. and when you look at the report, what stands out is really the comments made by the engineer, specifically where he is stating that the condition of the waterproofing in the garage, he is also stating where else in the building can this waterproofing issue be. i took that as a highlight as potentially where there are additional issues in the building and where it is that potentially there could be a failure of where the horizontal slab can meet the vertical shear wall or the vertical column. the homeowners association, they received this report. they're just -- i don't -- all the homeowners association

really are going to be revamped these days because you need to have an engineer in-house, an engineer on the team that will make you aware of the potential ramifications and issues if you do not maintain and take care of these liabilities. >> kobi, cnn got access to the champlain towers north condo, identical to the south tower but finished one year later. there was no signs of cracking, no exposed rebar, no standing water. they were focused on maintenance. with two a identical buildings so close together but one with way more structural problems, does it make it more clear what happened here? >> that's a very good point. i think at the end of the day, these buildings are just like us. if we take care of them, they will be sustainable and resilient. if we do not take care of them, the exponential deterioration that occurs in these buildings,

especially on the oceanfront, with the opportunity for the salt to penetrate the waterproofing and into the concrete and onto the steel is what makes all the difference in the world. and i do see it as a major issue that the continued lack of deferred maintenance in this situation really made the difference between the two buildings. >> so, listen, i had a guest on who tooked to me about the condo board. this is his estimation, what he is saying here, his perspective, that they weren't organized. he said there was often fighting and, you know, the management turnover -- the board would turn over a lot. you've said that these condo boards don't typically have architects or engineers on them. does that need to change, or does there need to be, you know, more state oversight with that? >> i think you are correct. i think it has to be changed.

i think that you need to have state oversight with qualified third-party engineers who do work for the hoa, who have fid ushary relationship and they're able to work in an open manner for the homeownersiza associati. if you will take away what you just mentioned, which is the infighting or the negotiations, if we should spend the money or not spend the money to repair these items in their report because whenever you start a restoration of a building as such, you find a lot of hidden conditions. and it is always more than what originally described. it just continuously opens up the cancer within the building. but what i'm seeing now from the mayor, from the people involved in the inspection, in the

building departments and also the engineers, i see them looking into a new way as we did when we first turned the page after hurricane andrew. we completely revamped the code of the south florida building code where we became the forefront, we became on the cutting edge. i do believe that this sort of an inspection where we do have the technology today, where there is infrared or x-ray or core drilling and getting the salinity in the concrete, we are able to see behind the wall, behind the concrete, and into the ground as well. we're able to see into the soil and see the condition of our piles. >> kobi karp, thank you. appreciate you, sir. >> yes, sir. thank you. new york city's board of elections rescinding their latest mayoral results. yep. what's going on? next. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist.

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how the heck could this happen? cnn political commentator and host of the podcast "you decide" errol louis. okay. you decide, but we're not sure what the people decided in new york city tonight because of this error. okay. so this is a twist. what is going on here? can you explain to us, and how could this sort of incompetence happen with the board of elections? >> sure. in the simplest terms, ranked-choice voting, which is also called instant runoff balloting, where you list not just the candidate that you want but you pick in order your top five choices. this one, that one, one, two, three, four, five. we've never had that before. no jurisdiction in america of the size of new york city has ever done this. the state of maine does it. san francisco does it. oakland does it. really small places compared to the millions of registered voters in new york city. so this was all kind of a bit of an experiment. the experiment went a little bit

sideways today. what happened was they were supposed to release what they thought were about 800,000 or so of the early voting ballots as well as those who actually voted on primary day. we're still waiting for absentee ballots, but they wanted to give us an early look at it. they put the numbers out, and we spent hours on the air analyzing the numbers and looking at it and deciding that there was a closing of the gap between the leading candidate and the next leading candidate. and then somebody pointed out, in fact it was eric adams himself, his campaign pointed out that there were 135,000 extra votes there, that there were just more numbers that were being kicked around than we had been told about. it took a couple of hours, but the board of elections acknowledged the very mistake that you just described, that they'd had some test ballots in their system. they'd forgotten to clear them out, and so, you know, several hours of my life that i'll never

get back were spent analyzing fake numbers, and we're going to have to do it all over again with the real data tomorrow. >> okay, then. i think you answered, but just to be plain here, where does the race stand now? are we back to square one entirely? they had done like 11 different results, you know, ranked choice one, ranked choice two. they'd gotten all the way to 11, i believe. >> that's right. 11 rounds. >> where do we stand now? >> we go through it all over again. >> oh, my gosh. >> look, it's a software process. it's relatively easy to do once you have the right data. but as they say, garbage in, garbage out. they gave us results that had some garbage in it. they're going to have to take the garbage out. then we'll do it again. keep in mind it's not just for mayor. all of the municipal offices in new york city are turning over, and most of them were done according to this system. so there's races for controller. there's races for our borough

presidents. there's races for our 51-member city council. all of that data has got to be sort of calculated using real data, not the junk that we were given today. >> this is a you know what show wrapped in a conundrum, wrapped in a -- i'm channeling my colleague, dana bash, here. okay. eric adams is just out with a statement now, errol, calling it unfortunate. maya wiley blasting this as the result of generations of failures that have gone unaddressed. of course this is coming at a time when confidence in the integrity of the vote, as you know, you have been reporting on it, constantly under assault. does this further hurt that confidence? >> it never helps to have these kind of screwups. there's no malice here. there's no attempt to steal an election, no responsible person would allege that based on these facts. this was, you know -- it doesn't even count as an attempt to distort the outcome because the

mistake was so blatant and so obvious and so quickly corrected. if anything, i would say, don, one small sliver of hope in all of this mess is that by releasing preliminary results -- because they were not legally required to do this. but by releasing preliminary results, we all got to look at it, and it was in the course of doing it -- i was doing it on live television -- candidates were direct messaging me. their campaign managers were saying, well, wait a minute. you're getting some of this wrong. we had a top election attorney on with us looking at all of the stuff, and it was really through that openness and that transparency that we brought -- the public brought to the board of elections' attention the fact that they had screwed up. so, you know, we're only humans. if we had computers running our election systems, i'm sure everything would go a lot more smoothly. but there are humans involved here, and humans screw up. i think that's what happened here.

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the capitol around what historically had been a routine process of certifying an election, but to know that one of our two major political p parties, a strong majority of people in those parties actually believed in a falsehood about those election results. the degree to which misinformation is now disseminated at warp speed in coordinated ways that we haven't seen before. and that the guardrails i thought were in place around many of our democratic institutions really depend on the two parties agreeing to those ground rules, those guardrails, and that one of them

right now doesn't seem as committed to them as in previous generations. that worries me. and i think we should all be worried. >> does he have a point? let's discuss now with senior editor from the atlantic, adam serwer. his new book is "the cruelty is the point: the past, present and future of trump's america." book is out now. adam, so glad you're here. good to see you. the former president's concerns are totally valid, but at this point how do you get a handle on misinformation and stop another big lie because looks to be metastasizing. >> look, i think on some level, the responsibility here lies with the elites in the republican party and the conservative media. there's no way -- you know, they're simply not going to believe "the new york times" or barack obama when he says the election was fair. we have a case study for this. it's not as though there weren't some liberals in 2016 arguing the electoral college should refuse to vote for donald trump or trying to figure out various

ways to prevent him from taking office because they felt he was illegitimately elected as a result of, you know, russian interference in the election. but the leaders at the top of the democratic party refused to engage in that. they refused to do it. as a result, the transition happened peacefully. barack obama was there. donald trump of course was not even present for the handoff of power this time around, which is probably for the best given that he incited an attack on the capitol itself. but this is honestly -- it is a responsibility of the republican elites to ensure that they -- you know, that they adhere to the rules of democracy, which means when you lose an election, you allow the other party to take power. and unfortunately they've convinced themselves both as a matter of political -- both as a party and within the conservative media, they've convinced themselves that it's not really possible for the democratic party to win power legitimacy. so even if they did get more votes, those votes come from people who aren't really

american anyway, so the victory shouldn't actually count. >> mm-hmm. your book is called "cruelty is the point." it takes a hard look at the former president's policies. but you say that cruelty politics pre-dates trump. what do you mean? give me some examples of that. >> you can look at, you know, the aftermath of reconstruction when the democratic party is trying to forge a white majority so that it can disenfranchise black men who got to vote during reconstruction. you can look at the nativist politics of the early 20th century when nativists were trying very hard to exclude not only africans and asians from coming to the united states but also eastern and southern europeans, particularly jews and italians. you know, the book is -- obviously cruelty is an individual problem, but it's a part of human nature. but the factor is focused on cruelty as a part of politics, specifically the way it's used to demonize particular groups so that you can justify denying people their base ing rights

under the constitution or exclude them from the political process. i think that's part what we're seeing here. in 2020, donald trump said we can't allow philadelphia and detroit to decide an election. he wasn't able to implement that idea, but it's very similar to what the former confederates were saying in the south during reconstruction, which is that black people shouldn't be allowed to participate because they are -- it is an attack on democracy for them to have a say in the way our government works. >> i think it's good that your book teaches the history of this country, especially as it relates to reconstruction and what happened after reconstruction when black people specifically started to gain political and economic power and how that was taken away from them, or they tried to take it away from them through laws that they established, in many ways what they're doing now, similar to then. now they're codifying the

racism. thank you, sir. i can't wait to read the book, adam. i appreciate you joining us. the book again is called "cruelty is the point: the past, present, and future of trump's america" and it's by adam serwer. can't wait to read it. you should all go out and buy it and read it as well. the historic and dangerous heat wave in the pacific northwest having a devastating impact on canada's british columbia province just to the north. the province officials say that more than 230 people died in a four-day period beginning friday when temperatures began soaring through yesterday. now, the chief coroner says that the province normally records about 130 deaths in a four-day period, and she expects the heat wave to be a major contributing factor to the spike in deaths when all the data is in. so up next, two alablack pee fatally gunned down in a sleepy suburb and now investigators are questioning if the killing was

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tonight law enforcement officials in massachusetts grapling with a double shooting they're investigating as a hate crime. they say the victims were executed. the shooter walking by several people who were not black but killing a black retired state

trooper and a black military veteran. cnn's brynn gingras has the story. >> reporter: tonight a possibly racially motivated rampage in a boston suburb is still puzzling police. authorities want to know what led 28-year-old nathan allen to gun down two black people after stealing a box truck over the weekend and crashing it into a house and car. >> there are living people who interacted with this individual, who are alive to live another day, and none of those people were black. >> reporter: many people came to allen's aid after the crash. >> he could have killed us. we're right here. >> reporter: but the district attorney says allen got out of the truck armed with two guns, avoided the white bystanders, and then, quote, executed two black people, shooting david green four times in the head, three times in the torso, and ramona cooper three times in the back. >> i am confident saying that

there was hate in this man's heart. >> reporter: the investigation is also uncovering disturbing personal writings in which allen describes white people as, quote, apex predators, and he drew swastikas according to the district attorney. >> this person had some very disturbing beliefs, white supremacist beliefs, regarding members of our jewish population as well as black individuals. >> reporter: the findings run counter to what authorities have learned about allen's background. recent social media posts show him shooting fake guns in a video game and a real gun at a firing range last year. but authorities say he has no criminal history. the guns he used in the crime were obtained legally. allen was a college graduate who earned his ph.d. had a job, and recently got married. a column in "the boston globe" last year featured allen and his

soon-to-be bride's romantic love story. his victims both members of service. 60-year-old cooper was an air force veteran and a grandmother. her son telling cnn he's stunned this level of hate still exists. >> it's just sad that people still think like that today. >> reporter: green, recently retired from a 36-year career in law enforcement, most recently serving with the massachusetts state police. >> he heard an accident, he went to investigate and see if he could help, which is something he would readily do. >> reporter: allen was killed in a shoot-out with police. we reached out to allen's family but didn't hear back. the town is now launching a multi-layer approach to calm the fears of the community, including going door to door to offer counseling services and holding a vigil for those two victims later this week. don. >> brynn, thank you so much. and thank you for watching, everyone. our coverage continues.

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