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say it had to be brought down for the safety of rescuers because it was unstable. and they stepped up the timeline for its demolition over concerns tropical storm elsa could topple it. >> those who were forced to evacuate the remaining portion of the building left their entire lives behind. we know that. and we are deeply, deeply concerned and empithetic to how difficult this time is for them and their families. >> our top priority is the building can come down as soon as possible, no matter when that occurs and as safely as possible.

bri bringing down the building in a controlled manner is critical to allowing us to explore the area closest to the building. on. >> it has been 11 days since dozens of the building's units came crashing down. 24 people have been confirmed dead. s we have a structural engineer, joining us from san francisco. thank you for talking with us. >> thank you for having me on. >> so, as a structural engineer, how are the high rise demolitions carried out in a safe and controlled way. as this one was? what is the process involved to ensure that it does happen? >> in a normal building that has not been collapsed partially or damaged in any other affect, you

are trying to predict of how the building will failure. so, as an engineer, you are going to be looking at the weak points and making sure the building will collapse in on itself. dealing with damaged buildings, there's unknowns in damaged buildings. now you have a building that is more unpredictable. it's more risky to demolish already damaged or partially collapsed building. >> how do engineers ensure the of all structural integrity of nearby buildings remain in-tact and also make sure in this instance, that the nearby search, rescue and recovery efforts are not put in jeopardy as well by a demolition of this magnitude? >> well, the building dechfinity needed to be brought down. there was major concerns with the slab that fell in to the

basement. the building is hanging over the rescuers. it needed to be brought down. using demolition and explosives, i can, it's more risky if you wanted it to be the safest way is, it's bringing it down, deconstructing it. but i understand the urgency of it and the need to take it down because of the storm. the considerations of nearby, c the buildings need to be inspected to see if the vibrations would damage the structures. >> i was going to ask you about that, how it could affect the other buildings with similar damage to what may have contributed to the soug build ab -- to the south building? >> yeah, i'm sure they have gone through the neighboring

buildings and inspected them and made sure that they did not have the same problems as the condo tower. that would have been the first step before using this type of demolition. >> as you point out, you do agree that this demolition had to take place and certainly the timeline has to be brought up sooner because of the approaching storm. when you look at the implosion or the demolition of the building. do you feel it was carried out properly. >> from what i saw. though i would be very occasions with the remaining. they have gone through the collapsed building. you remove items and slabs and beams and columns off the stack. you potentially could destabilize voids underneath it.

it's a delicate process. so, now, that the disclose i haves brought down the rest of the building, it would even be, you would have to be more careful looking through the rubble. >> thank you for talking with us and sharing your expertise on this matter. we appreciate it. great great, thanks. >> u.s. president joe biden has issued an emergency declaration for florida, ahead of tropical storm elsa's arrival. before it reaches florida, good to see youal san. >> the key will be 12-24 hours. the storm has the potential to strengthen some immediate ly in the -- the winds are fwufting northwest at 24 kilometers an

hour. you have is hurricane warnings. the red color you see on the southern coast line of cuba, you have tropical storm watches and warnings in yellow and blue, for cuba and florida, and the reason for that is, because where we anticipate the storm to continue over the next couple of days. we anticipate land fall over the southwestern portion of cuba to be late morning, monday. from there it will go back out over open water and likely to make a second landfall somewhere near or around the tampa bay region late tuesday evening or even very early on wednesday morning. >> again, a lot of this can change in the short-term. but what we know there will be areas impacted by storm surge. some of the heaviest will be again, along the southern coast line of cuba, 1 to 1-1/2 meters possible. areas of southwestern florida, seeing similar numbers there. rainfall, however, it's going to be the biggest short-term concern. especially across areas of cuba,

you see the red and oranges, you are talking 100, 150 millimeters of rain. and in some spots, you have the potential for plyflooding and l slides. it will bring similar numbers of rainfall. before beginning to veer northeast. potentially impacting jacksonville, florida. savannah, georgia and charleston, south carolina. that flash flood threat will be there for several areas. and what we talk about are the different models. rosemary, the american model has a bit of a stronger storm. the european model has slightly weaker. so, something that we will have to keep a close eye on, in the coming days. >> and we appreciate you doing that. alison joining us, thank you so much. >> the u.s. independence day holiday this year didn't look

quite like it did before the pandemic. but people still gathered to enjoy a day out and watch fireworks after the sun went down with space fwith social distancing. attendees did have to test negative for covid of course. in remarks the president celebrated progress and called getting vaccinated a matter of patriotism. >> thanks to our heroic vaccine effort, we have gained the upperer hand against the virus. we can live our lives. our kids can go back to school. our economy is roaring back. don't get me wrong, covid-19 is not vanquished we all know powerful variants have emerged like the delta variant.

the best defense against the variants is to get vaccinated. my fellow americans, it's the most patriotic thing you can do. so, please, if you have not gotten vaccinated, do it, do it now. for yourself, for your loved ones and your community and your country. >> the u.s. will fall short of mr. biden's vaccination target, not by. more than 157 million adults are fully vaccinated and 3 million short of the original white house goal. >> joining me now is primary care physician and public health specialist. thank you for talking with us and for all that you do of course. >> always fun to with you, rosemary. >> wonderful. >> well, president biden, he had set a goal to have 70% of american adults vaccinated by

july 4th. he did not make it, but he came close at 67% and will he reach the goal in awok weeker or so. where does the country need to be on vaccination rates to make sure that most citizens are safe from severe illness or death from covid? >> yes, rosemary, so unfortunately that is a moving target. the reason is now that we have the delta variant which is 60% more containing us and transmissable and guess what you are twice as likely to be hospitalized where the delta variant than the alpha fairant, when you have the contagious variants we have to move up the goal to 80, 85%. smed of woring about herd immunity, what we should worry about is getting the vaccines in as many arms as possible

quickly. >> right, of course, the new polling from the washington post and abc news shows that 20% of those surveyed would definitely not get the covid vaccine. and 9% said they would probably not get it. so, that is nearly 30% . either resisting or hesitating to get vaccinated which makes herd immunity difficult if you are talking about 85%. so, what would you say to those people to try to convince them to get the shot? you probably have patients that come to you who are row lelucta what do you say? >> i have patients and families and friends. if not already, every human being in this world will have an encounter with this virus. and when you have an encounter with the virus, a number of things can happen. you might be lucky and do

completely fine. but you actually might be a long covid patient where you continue to have chest pain, and heart rate elevation even months after you have tested positive for covider or you might be hospitalized and die. what i tell people is, the best way to move forward is, to wear that vest which i call the vaccine. so that when you have an encounter with the virus, you are really well protected. let's not forget that these mrma vaccines, rosemary, they work beautifully. i think they are going to go down in history as some of our most powerful and best vaccines that the scientists developed. really, you are going to have an encounter with covid, it's best that you have is it with your best armor. >> why is there not a bigger push to get the vaccines fully approved by the fda and would it make a big difference for those

hesitating? >> i think it would mick a big difference and i think it would give a push for employers to mandate the vaccines if they are fully approved. i know that at the hospital where i work, if it does become license then yes our ceo has more a power, if you will, to mandate the vaccines. i also know that a lot of people think it's still an experimental vaccine so if it is fully approved, then i think a lot more people will feel safer in getting the vaccine. to be honest with you, rosemary, i don't know why the fda has not moved swiftly enough to give a full license to these mrna vaccines. we need six months of data and we have enough of this data to make that decisioning very soon. >> and of course, you mentioned how much concern there was regarding the delta variant. and of course, there's many parts, certainly in the south, here in the united states, where

vaccination rates are low. and infection rates are high. and dr. fauci has suggested that those people who are vaccinated, or possibly consider wearing masks, do you agree with that? >> i do agree with that. i think that really what's happening is a lot of people are really hard on the scientists. we he expect science to be either all or nothing. or black or white and that is not how science is. as science evolves we are going to make different recommendations. so this whole mask wearing saga should not be a controversy, it makes a lot of sense to know that if you are around people that are unvaccinated and in low vaccination states like the south and in the community transmission is high, rosemary, you are at risk of a break through infection even if you are fully vaccinated. let's not forget that our elderly and those impmuno

compromised, their immunity is not going to work in a high level. you have to be masked indoors where you don't know the vaccination status. it's the best way to protect yourself. >> critical warning points there from dr. matthew, thank you for talking with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and still to come, as the u.s. nears a full withdraw, the taliban sees more territory in afghanistan. what the commander of the mission warns may happen next. and we will have a live report from japan on the races to find survivors after a deadly mudslide, that is just ahead. you never leave the house without your luvs or your big dad energy. because...when you see a leaky situation you have luvs ready for that pro-level leak protection. luvs. parent like a pro.

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this as 10s of thousands of families are fleeing their homes as the taliban advance. they say, it's important to preserve what has been fought for. >> we should be concerned. the loss of terrain has to be concerning. one because it's a, war is physical, it's got a psychological or moral component to it and hope and moral matters. as you watch the taliban moving across the country. what you don't want to have happen is people lose hope and now they have a foregone conclusion presented to them. cnn's in bagram air base in afghanistan with more. good to see you, ana, so the taliban have been emboldened by the withdrawal of u.s. troops and that has everyone nervous, including this top general.

what is the latest on this? >> it's interesting, listening to general miller talk about moral and the loss of hope, that is exactly what we are hearing from local afghans as well as the afghan military. the military gave us access to bagram airbase, this, for the first time since the americans departed on friday. we got picked up. we were taken to the run-way, three kilometer run-way, in the background. and which used to have fighter jets and cargo planes and surveillance airplanes land and depart, you know, dozens of the them every day. a hive of active at the, of course, bagram air base was the nerve center of u.s. operations here in afghanistan. now it completely empty. absolutely dead. you can see the radar turning in the background. that is because of the wind. and everything has pretty much gone. the air hangers over there, rosemary, they are locked down. the afghans have not been able

to access them yet. so, they have only come to this part of the base since the americans left on friday. and the ones that we are talking to said they were not told the americans were going. and i'm sure it's security protocol, but they were the told after they departed. and afghans an-s were kept separately as well. so, for many of them now, they are discovering this part of bagram airbase. these are the vehicles, rosemary that the americans have left for the afghan military. there's some 700 of them. pickup trucks. suv iss, there's even a u.s. postal truck in the back there. but, it has the feel of a junkyard. a car yard, if you like. there's not a lot of organization. this is not like, you know, afghan troops move in, and take over. there's not much precision. not much organization. we understand there's with 3,000 afghan troops that will be based

here in bagram. but other than that, there arer plans to be using this as a nerve center for afghan operations any time soon. at least not what we have been told. you mention the situation on the ground and it is very alarming. we can confirm that 150 districts have fallen to the taliban since may. we know that they are launching this offensive up in the north. we have heard from the vice president as you mentioned it, 10s of thousands of people are displaced and fleeing to the cities, looking for refuge. it says that 56,000 people have fled four provinces in the northeast because of the taliban. it's alarming. people here, not just in bagram, back in the capitol in kabul, they are scared that the taliban

has momentum and they don't know what is being done, really, to counter it. rosemary. >> that is so understandable. no one knows what will happen next. so that is the big concern. joining us live from bagram airbase in afghanistan. many thanks. rescuers in japan are combing through debris, in h home -- in hopes of finding survivors two days after a deadly mudslide. three people are confirmed dead and the number of the missing are standing at 80 following saturday's disaster in the coastal city. rain and the threat of another land slide have been complicating rescue efforts. the for more let's bring in cnn's blake esik, who is joining us live in japan. blake, so many loved ones unaccounted for this hour. what more are you learning about the search and rescue effort there? >> reporter: you know, on rosemary, the search and rescue

efforts started early this morning. and have been nonstop. helicopters flying overhead from you our vantage point, outside the disaster area, you can look down and you can see crews from, you know, whether it's the police, firefighters and japan's self defense force. they are all out there on the ground looking through partially collapsed buildings. combing through the mud, there's also also a coast guard ship patrolling the coast line. looking for any signs of life and potential debris. but, you know, the good news is so far 25 people who were stranded inside structures have been rescued. which truly is incredible, given the devastation caused by the massive sland slide that swept lou the resort town of otami, skpefrp rescue does continue. there's still dozens of people who have either been reported missing or remain unaccounted for. recently i spoke with a woman searching for her husband. she said that while she can see her house from a distance.

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recent washington post abc news poll finds americans are pretty evenly split on joe biden's performance as u.s. president. around 50% say they approve of the job he is doing. that number is virtually unchanged since april. but when you break down the responses along party lines a different picture emerges. the same poll found a whopping 94% of democrats say mr. biden is doing a good job. that's compared to just 8% of republicans. it's yet another sign of the deep divisions in american politics. a trend utah's republican governogovern er said should be setting off alarm bells. >> i have spoken about it often over the past, i mean, not even the past tour years the past eight years, about how unfortunate it is that politics is becoming religion in our country. that poll particulars is becoming sport and entertainment -- that politics

is becoming sport and entertainment. that everyone is political. it's a huge mistake and it caused us to make bad decisions in the pandemic. and in other areas of our life as well. it's deeply troubling. >> joining me now to talk more about this is our senior political analyst, ron brownsteen, good to have you with us. about. >> thank you. >> even utah's repreublican governor said he is deeply troubled with politics becoming a religion and influencing everything. is that what we are seeing in the overall performance of the president so far? 50% approvald 40% disapproval, but more than 60% approval for the way joe biden has dealt with the pandemic? >> yeah, i think the governor is right. look, the lines are drawn incredibly deeply in american society at this.. you know, there's a study that came out, the pugh research

center one of the most respected studies of what happened in the election. it found little movement, even after the tumultuous events of the trump presidency is. and you see inner other polls, very little movement from november until now. all that happened since november, with the economy coming back. a society reopening and yet, biden's approval rating is his vote from last november. not just overall, but among the key groups. that is a reflection of how deeply and -- we are still in the soup. >> yeah, indeed, and the other big issue, restrictive voting rights. you wrote hein the atlantic, th only way for the democrats to reverse the voting laws in republican controlled states by

passing federal laws. how do the democrats get it done when their own senators are pushing back on that very issue? >> right, let's be clear. i mean, you know, what we are watching happening is across republican control states. the broadest wave of efforts to restrict americans access to the ballot, really since reconstruction. you know, and the late 19th century and early 20th century. and these laws are passing on an almost completely party line basis. and every one of the states with every republican voting yes and every democrat voting no. democrats obviously don't have the votes in the states to stop these laws and what the supreme court made clear in its decision last week was that you know, democrats should not look to this court with the six republican appointees on it, as an institution that it will push back and overturn many and probably any of the state laws. what it means is democrats really only have one lever left

to respond to it and that is, their control of congress allows them to pass legislation that sets a nationwide floor of voting rights. i think what the supreme court decision did, it left the two democratic senators who are most resifting changing the filibuster, it left them with no place to hide. the history is upon them and the choice they have to face now is whether or not they are going to prioritize protecting minority input in the senate over minority voting rights in the country and i think there are a lot of democrat who is are-- wh are hopeful they will move, but no one knows for sure. >> ron, the select committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection is taking shape with liz cheney being selected. what is gop minority leader mccarthy's next move.

will he decline for choosing members for the committee and will he punish cheney for accepting a spot? >> it's part of the that is unfolding in the states. a party that is challenging the small d american democracy, if that is what it takes to maintain power. the majority of the party is not wanting a full scale examination of what trump did after the election and what led up to the january 6th insurrection. we saw last week, new revelations out of arizona about him putting pressure on county officials the same he did in georgia, trying to overturn the result are. i think it would be an incr incredible gamble for mccarthy

to not select members for the committee. but the question is, does he appoint anyone who voted to certify joe biden's victory or does he appoint skeptics of the victory. i think he has snignaled disciplining cheney. she may be disciplined before marjorie taylor greene and it sends a clear signal to the roughly 1/4 of republican voters who are uneasy with the way trump handled the party. they are the subordinate part of the party. >> thank you for your opinion. >> thank you for having me. >> former south african president is lashing out at the judges that sentenced him, he was sentenced to 15 months in jail for contempt of court for refusing to ask questions from

an anti-corruption commission. he was supposed to turn himself in sunday and that is delayed until the court hears the challenge to the jail term july 12th. things like detention without trial, should never again see the light of day in south africa. the struggle for a free south africa was a struggle for justice where everyone is treated equal before the law. >> reporter: he also faces you multiple charges including fraud, racketerring and corruption, relating to an arms deal when he was deputy president. denies the charges. more to come, the coronavirus cases in the uk are on the way.

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later today, british prime minister boris johnston is set to layout the final steps for england's reopening. he is expected to focus on social distancing, face coverings and working from home. and he is going ahead despite surging covid cases in the uk. so, let's bring our reporter in london. what is the latest on the reopening plans? what about vaccination efforts? where do they stand now? >> good morning, all of them great questions and it looks like the uk is poised to conduct an experiment that many countries will watch closely. the government is poised to lift

almost all remaining covid restrictions in two weeks. they will not make the final restriction in two weeks. when they look at the final data. we know what the picture is. the picture is we now have a lot of cases, 24,000 cases yesterday. compare that to just one or 2000 cases two months ago. those are daily infection numbers. and we have a lot of vaccinated in the population. and by the time the restrictions are fully lifted on july 19th, if indeed that is what happens. all of the adults would have been administered the first dose. we are going to have to learn to live with this virus. and because the vaccination is breaking the link between the infection and requiring hospitalization, the government believes it can be lived with

like the flu is being lived with. that is the general philosophy, they sent secretary cabinets to sell the idea to the general public. he will make case himself this evening. that's the direction we are headed in. >> i mean that, sounds interesting, doesn't it? this is the thing that all the nations across the world are trying different ways they are experimenting. this is new to everybody. but talk to us more about the roll-out of the vaccinations? that has been extraordinary. britain started out of course just giving one dose, they were trying to get as many people one dose as they could and then along game the delta variant. how have are they changed their approach with that? >> yeah, this is the, one of the top countries for vaccination in the world and 40 years old, and i've been fully vaccinated for, i think, two months now. and so, the uk has been well ahead of many other countries and that is why they are now shifting their strategy. because we know that you get protection from severe disease. not necessarily from catching

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what more are you learning about the pope's surgery and how it all went? >> reporter: well, rosemary, we have not had updates this morning. we are expecting a brief medical bulletin at roughly noon rome time. this is a situation where no news is good news. the surgery has gone well and the pope responded well and was recovering normally. and the fact that there has been no addition to that and that we are getting a bulletin in a preprogrammed hour, would suggest that everything is proceeding as it should. >> so, talk to us about the day before, and leading up to this. nobody had any idea, but this was scheduled surgery. which of course makes everyone relax, he knew about it. it's a kwiquiet time for the po.

talk to us about the lead-up to this. >> well, you are right, i mean, this was planned in advance. and it's a plan pope francis elected to not really share with anyone. i can confirm that from my personal experience, rosemary. we hosted a july 4th pa party here in town. about 20 or so on people were on the terrace and five minutes after the news broke, it was a ghost town. they were all headed to the hospital. he wanted to maintain a business as usual approach. he not only delivered his noon time sunday blessing but confirmed that he is going to be traveling, to hungary and

slo slovakia. he is the energizer bunny of popes. he does not have off switch. >> i will be back with more news in a moment.

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