chaos for centuries. but that will all change when a towering republic arrives on the shores of palestine with one clear goal. to conquer is entire world. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. thank you to all watching us from here, canada and around the world. as the u.k. lifts covid restrictions, the prime minister needs to self-isolate. we're in london where cases continue to surge. plus one of the biggest names in ten sis out of the olympics just four days before the opening ceremonies. from devastating floods in europe to the mass wildfires across the western u.s., the

real world impact of the climate crisis. i'll discuss with it my guests coming up. england is starting a very risky experiment today. it is just lifted nearly every remaining social distancing restriction despite that covid cases are spiking yet again there. so that means mask wearing mandates are over. shops, restaurants and sports venues can open at full capacity. there are a if you exceptions. london says face coverings will be recovered on public transport but life could start to look a lot like it did before the pandemic. this is all happening with infections surging in the u.k. about 50,000 new cases per day. boris johnson is convinced vaccines stop enough serious

disease to take the risk. >> if we don't do it now, we'll ask ourselves when. this is the right moment. we have to do it cautiously. we've got to remember that this virus is sadly still out there. cases are rising. you can see the extreme contagiousness of the delta variant. >> cnn's phil black is in london for us. is there a celebratory mood there in the streets of london? >> i wouldn't say so. there's still lots of caution as people begin their first commute to work under the conditions of the great english experiment. i've also seen lots of people who embrace quite readily the fact that they can move around freely in crowds without wearing masks now. it is a mix and not everyone is being as cautious as perhaps the prime minister would like. this is the scenario that england now faces. we have a variant, a highly

transmissible vrnl that is running hot. there is significant immunity but not complete immunity in that population. what happens now that the rules have been taken away? no one knows for sure but we'll find out. the prime minister is persisting with this and the lodge pick says, there is no ideal time. if not now, then when? let's do it in summer when you have the advantages of that, and at a time when there is, we've just hit this mark of about two-thirds full vaccine coverage for the population. all the forecasts suggest this will be a grim, difficult summer. infections will surge. the question is to what extent that then translates to people falling seriously ill and requiring hospital treatment? even the most optimistic forecast suggests we will see many thousands of people experiencing severe illness. this is not the enthusiastic

triumph the prime minister had hoped for. it is an experiment and one that could impact the effects to fight the pandemic all over the world. >> reporter: u.k.'s prime minister has long promised a journey to an inevitable destination. >> when i'm traveling on a one-day road to freedom -- >> reporter: newspapers gave that journey's end an obvious name. freedom day. now it's here. it doesn't feel very free. >> this pandemic is not over. this disease, coronavirus, continues to carry risks for you and your family. >> reporter: the delta variant changed everything. after months of steamily declining cases, this highly transmissible mutation is now swamping the u.k. an accelerating wave of infections. the government is lifting restrictions anyway. >> there is quite a strong view

by many people, thinking of myself, that going in the summer has some advantages. >> reporter: advantages like reduced seasonal pressure on hospitals, and with schools out, reduced spread amongst students. but the plan has many expert critics that use words like reckless and unethical. >> all the models show there will be millions of cases over the summer and there will be thousands of hospital zags over the summer. >> reporter: the government is aware of another ominous warning from its own scientific advisers that points to the possibility dire consequences for the whole world. the combination of high previous lance and high levels of vaccination create the conditions in which an immune he is came variant is most likely to emerge. the likelihood of this happening is unknown. they're talking about a variant that is better at beating vaccines. >> considering the level of infection, further mutation of

the virus and potential down the line, even less vaccine efficacy against mutated versions of the virus. we know this because of the last six months. >> reporter: the government hopes most people will follow the new message. yes, it is going away but please dome change your behavior. uchbl with its own advisers says that's messy and inconsistent. >> this kind of mixed messaging is really damaging. we've had it previously in the pandemic. and people want clear guidance. they want leadership. and they want clear, concise and coherent messages. >> reporter: this is an unprecedented experiment. a desperate bid for freedom. its success or fail you're will be measured in lives and suffering. the government's own scientific advisers saying they don't know how this will turn out. it will ultimately come down to the people and how cautiously

they now choose to behave now that there are no rules and laws enforcing that behavior. >> all right. thank you so much. phil black in london. with just days to go before the opening ceremonies, the number of covid-19 cases linked to the 2020 olympic games has risen to 58 coronavirus cases, rising in japan, the games which start friday could turn into a global super spreader event. joining us from tokyo with the growing number of cases, olympic organizers must be scrambling to deal with the fallout. just last week the ioc president said the risk of it spreading because of the olympics is zero. a growing number of cases are increasingly testing olympic organizers. promising they'll be able to keep the games safe and secure, not only for the people of japan but also for the athletics

staying at the olympic village. >> we cannot say there will be no positive cases within the olympic committee, given the situation that we have a massive number of people engaged within this project. but there is no significant bumps compared to the positivity rate, compared to the same number with any other. so what i have to tell you is there will be, of course, a certain number of positive cases to be found in the lead-up to the game. so once again, the most important thing is the response. >> we've already seen positive cases as a result of these games. so far 58 people involved with

the games have tested positive for covid-19 after arriving in japan with the first cases being reported over the weekend from inside the olympic village. that included two players and a video analyst from south africa's football team. there is also a growing list of athletes and related personnel who have been forced into isolation after being considered close contacts with people who tested positive. the most reason was 21 people who were close contacts with those members of the south african football team and six athletes, two staff members from the british olympic team who came into contact with someone who tested positive on their flight into japan. >> now, blake, so you're back in tokyo. you spent the last few days in fukushima where baseball and softball will be held. what are people outside of tokyo saying about the olympics? >> yeah. after spending a couple days in fukushima and talking to a

number of people during my stay, the sentiment that as far as the, what you experience here, the concern for the health and safety of the japanese people. that sentiment is felt all around japan. in particular in fukushima where cases are steadily increasing. unlike if tokyo where health and safety is the primary focus, there is a lot of disappointment. especially in fukushima among the people who are really hopeful this would be a big boom for the economy. they were expecting thousands, tens of thousands of people to come in for the baseball and softball events and help really show case what fukushima has become after ten, after a decade since that nuclear fallout from the earthquake and tsunami march 11th, 2011, that just devastated the area. a lot of recovery has taken

place. still a long way to go but the people this fukushima are looking forward to highlighting what has been done since. >> all right. thank you so much. with case numbers in nearly every u.s. state are soaring due to the highly infectious delta variant. just have a look here at this map. it shows the cases week over week. the dark red shows cases where state levels are up 50%. new cases are up 300% since early july in los angeles. and there are now mask requirements. it is the young and previously healthy people. and the cdc says only 48.6% of americans have been fully vaccinated so far. the u.s. surgeon general told cnn he's concerned about those who haven't received a vaccine yet. i am worried about what is to come. we are seeing increasing cases among unvaccinated in

particular. if you are vaccinated, you are very well protected against hospitalization and death, unfortunately, that's not true if you are not vaccinated. we're seeing 99.5% of deaths are happening among unvaccinated. >> the doctor is a physician at stanford division of infectious diseases and geographic medicine and joins me from california. thank you for being with us. you're in the bay area where the counties have strongly recommended wearing masks indoors but are not requiring it. at least for now. so many jurisdictions are looking at what l.a. county is doing in its mandate to wear masks with interest as cases increase across the country. so this is the number one complaint i get from my friends in los angeles. they say i was responsible. i got vaccinated as soon as i could. why am i being punished, forced

to go back to wearing a mask to protect all those people throughout who don't want to get vaccinated? >> yeah. i totally hear you. i've been hearing the same questions from my own friends as well. and i think the most important thing on remember with any academic response is that the collective action of the group is what makes the biggest difference. i still see covid cases. we've been seeing them through the year. we see some of the more complicated cases. it is important to remember that we need to think about the most vulnerable people in our communities. not everybody yet has had access to get the vaccine. there are a lot of people who still have questions about the vaccines who don't have as easy access to doctors or information. some people can't get paid time off work to get vaccinated. there are some people in whom the vaccines don't work quite as well. others who are elderly. we see that there may be need for a third shot, a booflter

shot. so a lot of reasons people are concerned. beyond that, there is no way to know who is and is not vaccinated. you can imagine it is a very complex problem. so when you have large groups of unvaccinated people in public spaces, special when i the more transmissible variant like delta, the concern is it can spread rapidly. >> as you know, most of the cases, at least if hospital, are 99% among those who haven't been vaccinated. most adults who want the vaccine have already got one. i want to ask you, winding it out. they're already confused and they feel there was an implicit promise in getting vaccinated, that they would finally be free. is there a greater danger that the faith in the experts may be eroded with all this back and

forth, and even though as you pointed out, in absolute terms, it may be beneficial to have everyone mask up. the damage to credibility might have a longer term consequence. >> i hear that. i think that's something really important. it comes down to communication. there are a lot of unknowns with new novel infections. it's hard to know how our immune system will respond over time. it is hard to know, especially when it comes the new variants that are constantly mutating. there are so many unknowns and one of the toughest parts for people all year has been that they want answers to questions. they want to return back to life as it was pre pandemic. and as a doctor, we can say that we are used to uncertainty. a lot of the things we treat in the hospital are very complicate. we don't always have perfect answers. a lot of what we do takes times. we know now. so more than what we knew

earlier and six months from now will be far more. what we know right now is that cases are going up quickly. hospitalizations are going up as well. deaths have started to go up the last couple weeks. yes, primarily among unvaccinated. the most important thing we can do is to push and get more people vaccinated. i totally agree that. i think the communications is what is most important. to let people know, they've shown efficacy against variants as well. but public shelter about the community. so this is why l.a. county has made the decisions they've made. >> so an excellent point there. i want to pivot to the olympics. we're seeing more and more athletes dropping out because they tested positive before arrival or after they landed in japan. are you surprised to which covid

is already affecting the games? how confident are you that they can go ahead without becoming a super spreader event as some have feared? >> i'm not surprised. any time you have large numbers of people anything in, congregating at all, you are going to have spread. we don't have 100% of people who are vaccinated. there are people not vaccinated, as mentioned. some people despite being vaccinated, you can still get cases and transmission. one thing to remember, a lot of people focus deaths, a lot of people focus hospitalizations. there's a lot we're trying to understand about the longer term symptoms that occur in patients with mild disease or maybe not have symptoms at all. and this is especially scary for people who are athletes or even a mild reduction in lung capacity or fatigue that is lasting a long time can impact them when they're competing at such a high level. so i'm not surprise the.

when we had the bubble, they were able to get through. they were very, very strict. i think it will be harder to implement here. >> specially with people from around the world. that's all the time we have. thank you for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. german officials are under scrutiny after days of deadly flooding. we'll explain why one mayor says they couldn't have predicted it. we'll have details ahead. stay with us. ah, there's no place like panera. enjoy the toasty, saucy chipotle chicken avocado melt on freshly baked bread. panera. order on the app today. (realtor) the previous owners left in a hurry, so the house comes with everything you see. follow me. ♪

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climate change. >> reporter: these farm houses have stood for more than a century. now all but destroyed. extreme rainfall is what turned this river into a raging tornl, engulfing the small village. now farm yard backhoes clear away the rubble. the german chancellor lank america they will has been quick to blame the climate crisis for this catastrophe. on sunday she met with survivors, promising to release more financial aid. i have to say it is a surreal situation. it is shocking, she said. i can almost stay german language does not have the words for this kind of devastation. flood warning systems are coming under scrutiny but no one could have predicted the scale and speed of this disaster says the mayor. i think the flood protection systems would not have helped,

he said, you because you can't have calculated this. what happens to the river with such masses of water. residents here are now fearful of more floods. >> translator: if it is climate change, i will never build near the water. i know that now and i'm afraid that this could happen again and that i will find more dead bodies. as they struggled to save what's left of their homes, many here are worried that this could happen again. cnn, germany. in neighboring bell july, officials said the death toll had reached 31. 163 people were reported as missing. chris burns is live in the belgian city. i know you've been speaking with survivors of the catastrophe as they struggle to recover. what's the latest there? >> reporter: yes. that search goes on. yesterday we were nearby where

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welcome back for those watching here, canada and around the world. israel plans to start cracking down on covid rule breakers. that will include criminal indictments against covid patients who knowingly violate quarantine rules. they will use phones to track them down. israel reported more than 1100 new infections on friday. this is the first time since march that new daily cases have topped 1,000. now from jerusalem, israel reimposing restrictions in sharp contrast to the reopening we're seeing in england. a very different way to deal

with it. tell us about the reasoning behind it. >> reporter: officials are incredibly concerned about these rising numbers that they're seeing. as you noticed on friday, israel had more than 1100 new coronavirus cases. the highest they've seen in four months. there is a glimmer of good news in those numbers. the hospital rates for serious cases are lower than at a similar stage. bits 1.6% of hospitalization rates for serious cases, versus 4%. but the prime minister is warning that it is clear the vaccines alone are not enough to conquer this. he is staying vaccines are showing to be significantly less effective against delta than they had hoped. so now they're wonder figure they need on offer a third dose of the vaccine. something they're already offering to people with

compromised immune symptoms. it is because of the type elapsed from the first two doses, that would support the idea of getting a third dose or whether it because the new delta mutation is so new that it requires a new vaccine. but right now there are new restrictions in place. the masks are back on indoors. the prime minister want to flood the country, he said, with easy home testing kits. and a few thing here is that thelma be to criminally indict people who are under quarantine rules but break the rules. one of the ways they're hook at doing it. sending somebody a text message, asking them to click on a link allowing the police to track their gps to know where they are. if they don't respond, the police could come visit them.

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tens. tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered. only 60,000 are allowed to take part in this year's pilgrimage and they must be vaccinated for covid-19. before the pandemic, more than 2 million muslims from around the

world attended each year. it is one of islam's most important traditions and it continues with celebrations which start on tuesday. for a closer look, we're joined by the senior international corn in istanbul, turkey. so take us through the various ways the hajj will be different this year. >> well, there is very little about it that will be reminiscent of years past. last year, only 1,000 pilgrims were permitted to carry out the hajj ritual. on any other given year in 2019, as you mentioned, there are more than 2 million pilgrims traveling to saudi arabia for the hajj. this is one of the most critical pillars of islam. an obligation on every muslim who is physically and financially able to carry it out. but during normal times to refer to them as such. hajj is so crowded, kim, that

during some of the rituals, bodies are so closely packed together that people's feet don't even touch the ground. that is how crowded. that's what a mass of humanity ends up. that is one of the things saudi authorities don't want. special little because of the rise in cases globally speaking of this highly contagious delta variant. the saudis are saying this is out of an abundance of caution to try to tamp down on the spread of covid-19. specially delta variant. now it's worth noting that the world health organization, especially in reference to the northeast and africa, has warned that some countries are being pushed toward a critical point. tune eastern, a for example, last week was reporting its

highest mortality rates to date. iraq is in a very tough position. iran is as well. >> all right. thank you. in istanbul. appreciate it. one of formula one's heart stopping moments of the season on froo sunday. the red bull driver and four-time defending champion were involved in a crash a few turns after the start of the british grand prix. it sent him spinning into the wall. he was taken to hospital but later released with no injuries. the authorities found hamilton at fault but red bull says wasn't enough. it? should not be like. that he is an eight-time world champion. he shouldn't be making maneuvers like that. it is unacceptable.

thank goodness the biggest result was that he was uninjured. he's having to go to hospital for precautionary fronts. so yeah. i hope he's very happy with himself. >> it didn't steam though hamilton too. . he took lead with two laps for the eighth british grand prix. >> always try to be measured in how i approach, particularly, he's very aggressive. i was fully alongside him. regardless of whether i agree on the penalty, i took it on the chin and kept working. the crowds enjoying it over the weekend, and the zmaem the british flag.

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three people were injured in a shooting outside the nationals park during a baseball game in washington on saturday. it caused some frightening moments for players and fans in the stadium. people fled their seats and sought shelter when they heard gunfire in the middle of the sixth inning. here's how one sport caster described it. >> in between innings, fans started for the exits and for the concourse out of their seats. no rain is going on. no line. but people are running.

it's a real scary situation right now to be honest. >> cnn has more from the night of the shooting. >> ladies and gentlemen, your attention please. the action is outside of the stadium. at this time we ask you to remain in the stadium. >> gunfire sending fans and players scrambling during a game at nationals park stadium in washington, d.c., a fan, one of the three wounded in a shooting saturday night according to d.c. metro police. cnn journalists inside the stadium reported hearing multiple loud bangs. >> we were not on the lower level. we were just in the middle section so we could look down and we saw people beginning to duck and then run for the gates. and we had heard thunder during the night. we were not sure if it was thunder. now we know that it was actually gun shots. what we saw was a crowd that was in full panic.

on the first-base line, the nationals side, people randal over the fence on to the field into the dugout. because they were trying to he is came whatever they thought might be out there. and they ran into the tunnel to get away. on the third base side, that's where the gunshots were heard from. that was the san diego padres side. people went both out the gate, this gate that we are at now. the center field gate. and also, in and around the padres dugout the same way. >> the nationals were playing the san diego padres when the shooting began. >> apparently the news report that was coming out with the security guards was that there was a victim shot outside the stadium. she ran into the stadium covered in blood which freaked out a lot of individuals, which caused the chaos and panic and people rushed back to their seats. they didn't know what was happening. >> reporter: play was interrupted in the bottom of the sixth inning. a message on the scoreboard

initially told fans to remain inside the baseball park. but it was updated later to say it is safe for fans to leave the stadium. at a press conference saturday night, officials tried to reassure the public. >> we believe this was an isolated incident. again, hit nothing to do with the game itself tonight. that it is safe to come down here and folks can come to tomorrow night's game. >> reporter: police have recovered one of the vehicles but the others remain at large. the two others wounded in the shooting are now in the hospital being questioned by police. it's unclear what their exact infulment was. and officials said those individuals were known to law enforcement. the fan who was shot, a female, is expected to recover. the san diego padres star fernando tatis jr. thanked everyone for coming. he said on twitter, i hope everyone is safe. just keep the prayers up.

thank you, everyone. help on the front line. god bless. >> reporter: the nationals were able to complete game two and go on to game three against the padres. we talked to people people said they were excited. they wouldn't let a one-armed shooting. this may be after a post pandemic time in isolation. in the meantime, the police have increased their presence. cnn washington. severe drought conditions in the western u.s. raising the risks of larger and more frequent wildfires. at least 80 are burping across the region right now, consuming more than a million acres. the brulg in montana. but oregon has seen the most

land charred by far. the boot leg fire is spreading at an average rate of 1,000 acres per hour and it is only 25% contained. joining me now, karen mcginnis, what's the latest on these fires? >> the firefighters have really had their hands fulfill this fire season, in 11 western states. now, every season is very traumatic. a lot of firefighters involved with this. also, a lot of personnel. in most areas, just about every state is seeing extreme drought conditions like we haven't seen in many years. but also we're look at low relative humidity. there is very little chance of rain. there is this heat dome across the west, and that is suppressing any kind of moisture. when you look at these loops of the satellite imagery of the plumes of smoke, you can see just how dramatic these are.

the bootleg fire, here's the state of oregon. bootleg fire lies just to the east of klammath. this is a gorge ugorgeous area, it's very pristine. 122,000 hectares, 80 large fires across the west. montana, numerous fires, but by far the largest one is in oregon. but that doesn't mean the impacts are felt just in these isolated areas. overall we look at the entire country. it's at a level 4 as far as fire fighting is concerned. this is the highest level we've seen in over ten years. that means the manpower, the resources, everything that is involved to fight these fires is put into place because the danger is so high right now. this fire, the bootleg fire as i mentioned just to the east of

klammath, is the 6th largest fire. i took a look at what the largest fire was. it had almost a million acres. that was back in the 1800s. fire fighting measures much more intense now. the eastern edge of this bootleg fire is 200 miles long, kim. that's a lot of manpower to take care of these fires. and they are now saying it's about 25% contained, but they've got a long way to go. back to you. >> yeah, absolutely. we'll be keeping an eye on that situation. karen mcginnis, thank you so much. appreciate it. a professor in the department of earth and planetary science at the u.c. davis watershed sciences, he joins us now from california. thanks for being with us. i've heard arguments from climate skeptics who say, well, did climate change cause the drought or did it cause the floods? pick one. you can't have it both ways. so how would you explain it to them? >> so, what you'll hear from anyone is that no one event is

proof of climate change, but they are all -- everything we're seeing is consistent with the predictions of what climate change is giving us. it's that the extreme events are getting more extreme and more frequent. >> so when we talk about, you know, global warming and, you know, we go through a cold snap, for example, experts are quick to say it's hard to tie any one specific weather event to climate change. so how do you make that direct link in this case? >> right. so, what's happening is that climate change is altering the rules of the game. it's weighting the dice so that these kinds of events, double 6s, if you will, are coming up more and more frequently, and that's definitely at the hot end. it's at the dry end. it's wetter in some places, like right now in europe, dryer in other places like california. >> so that double 6s analogy, the way i heard it explained, is, you know, this is like

rolling a die, for example. but climate change is kind of loading the die and predetermining what's going to happen. i want to look at the devastation in western europe. i saw some articles blaming experts for not giving people enough advance warning. i mean, that may be true in sort of a hyper specific meteorological sense, but as you said from the outset there, the outcry from climateologists was deafening because they said they've been predicting this effect for years. how do you translate the warnings of increased risk into better warning and infrastructure to cope with these growing extreme weather events? >> so, unfortunately if you're living on a flood plane in germany or belgium or the netherlands, you should be aware of this risk. the chance of flooding is increasing over time. the probability of those box cars, double 6s coming up is increasing as the years go by. their call forewarning system is

fair enough. you would hope in a western european country or the u.s. when you have this massive rainstorm, that someone is letting you know that wall of water is coming down the valley. >> we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us, nicolas fentoreli. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. heavy rain in the mumbai area, the landslides hit houses in two suburbs of the city. india's national disaster response force says the recovery effort has now been called off. prime minister narendra modi has offered his condolences and announced aid will be provided for the victims. on tuesday, amazon founder jeff bezos is hoping to join the ranks of billionaire astronauts, rocket in into space with blue origin. along with him will be his

brother. they will be the youngest to travel into space. the dutch team took a rain check due to a scheduling conflict. >> i've been dreaming about this all my life. now i'm 18 years old. i am super excited to seexperiee zero g. thank you to the people of blue origin for making this happen. thank you. >> this trip comes just nine days after richard branson became the first billionaire to travel to space in his own company's spacecraft. liftoff is targeted for 9:00 a.m. u.s. eastern time. that wraps this hour of cnn newsroom. i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back with more news in a moment. please do stay with us. (realtor) the previous owners left in a hurry,

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just days before the opening ceremony, a top u.s. tennis star drops out of the olympics as the number of coronavirus cases linked to the games continues to rise. and just hours before england lifted its remaining covid restrictions, the british prime minister announced he's self-isolating after contact with the health secretary who has tested positive. and the german chancellor gets a firsthand look at the devastation left by days of historic flooding. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom