welcome to all of you watchingis h us here in the uni states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead -- >> the next variant is just around the corner if we do not get vaccinated. >> the surging delta variant is just one pandemic concern and now top experts are warning of new variants could emerge if more americans don't get vaccinated. plus a cnn exclusive report, videos revealed belarus may be building prison camps for

dissidents. and an unruly passenger dusk tap duck taped to his seat. what the airline is saying about the decision. covid cases have surpassed 200 million as the delta variant continues to strain health care systems. the number has jumped dramatically since late april when there were 150 million cases. global covid deaths have also topped 4.2 million. meanwhile the cdc projects covid hospitalizations and deaths in the u.s. will go up over the next four weeks. dr. tom frieden says the u.s. will likely see a surge of infections in the coming weeks and it won't be limited to areas with low vaccination rates. and a former u.s. official has this warning for the

unvaccinated -- >> my god, we have more cases, more hospitalizations now than we had when i was in office last july. only reason that we don't have 1500 deaths is we've done a good job with the elderly. but we're at a pace to lose 75,000 additional americans by thanksgiving. that is a horrific thought and one that we cannot accept when we have a way to avoid it all. the virus will evolve, there will be variants and delta variants and vaother variant. the next one is around the corner if we don't all get vaccinated. so i beg the american people to understand that to defeat the virus, we have to get everybody's level of immunity up and that is just the way it is. >> a new study out of singapore shows that vaccinated people infected with the delta variant may start out with similar viral loads as the unvaccinated but

they clear the virus quicker and they are likely infectious for a shorter amount of time. right now less than half of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated but the daily pace of new infections is going up. vaccinations have topped 400,000 a day for nearly a week, a 17% increase over last week. the u.s. defense secretary is expected to make covid vaccinations mandatory for all active duty troops, a move president joe biden has been pushing for. barbara starr has the latest. >> reporter: you will recall last week president biden told the pentagon to take a look at how, when it could make the vaccine mandatory and the defense secretary said after that, you know, he wouldn't let grass grow under his feet, that he would get after it. so he has been meeting with medical experts, with the military services seeing how to best proceed on it. it is not exactly what the pentagon originally had in mind, they were going to wait for full fda approval. but the president said i want to make the vaccine mandatory for

u.s. troops. and so that is exactly where at the moment they are headed. now, u.s. troops often have mandatory vaccines that they must get at a condition of being in the military, so this is not that unusual for them. but it will require a waiver from the president to proceed with doing it now before that full fda approval is granted. >> that was barbara starr reporting there. despite all scientific evidence to the contrary, there is still a sizable population of the u.s. population that is resisting vaccines. new jersey's governor was exasperated as he shouted down anti-vax protestors. listen to this. >> these folks back there have lost their -- you've lost your minds! you are the ultimate knuckleheads and because of what you are saying and standing for, people are losing their life. >> florida's governor on the other hand is slamming cdc

advice that children wear masks in school even though many children in the state have gotten sick from the delta variant. here is what the governor said on wednesday. >> florida, we're a free state. j joe biden suggests if you don't do lockdown policies then you should, quote, get out of the way. but if you are coming after the rights of parents in florida, i'm standing in your way. >> and florida accounts for nearly one in five new cases in the u.s. and hospitalizations in the state are once again alarmingly high. four republicans vying to rye place california governor newsom are railing against his handling of the pandemic, they are just some of the '46s running in the recall election happening september 14th. the four republicans debated wednesday night, they said newsom, a democrat, failed california by forcing disclosures -- forcing closures during the worst of the

pandemic. more than 90 million eligible americans are still unvaccinated. earlier we heard from an infectious disease expert who says now is the time to get the shot before infections likely rise during the autumn and winter. listen to this. >> as we move into the fall and winter season when people are more indoors, when the cooler drier temperatures favor respiratory viruses, it is very likely that unless we get to much higher levels of vaccination, that we could see further increases in infections and then potentially hospitalizations and even deaths. the other risk as we get in to the winter season is that hospitals already get busy from influenza and other seasonal diseases and we're seeing that covid is putting stress on our health care systems again already and there is always a risk that they could be overwhelmed in the winter. we need to use this time in the summer to get infections down as much as possible. >> and he also said if more

americans don't get vaccinated, more mandates are likely to come. congressional investigators have new evidence of donald trump's efforts to over tturn t 2020 election results, and some look like a scene out of his reality tv show. jessica schneider reports. >> reporter: new revelations related to the alarm inside the justice department as former president trump repeatedly tried to overturn the 2020 election. first we're learning that at least one top doj official had his resignation letter written and ready but never actually sent it. and this week that official talked for three hours to investigators on house oversight committee. he was chief of staff for then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. and he wrote this resignation letter on january 3 expecting that rosen would be fired by trump for refusing to back trump's election fraud claims. it was the same day that trump

summoned rosen and another doj official to the white house to have an apprentice style showdown for the attorney general job with each making their case. rosen would not back up trump's claims but clark would. he never fired rowen, rosen, bu learning how far clark went to back his claims. clark drafted a letter to georgia's governor and lawmakers in the state falsely stating that the doj had found votingite outcome and he wanted procrow z a rosen and donahue to sign on but donahue said i will not sign this, this is not even within the realm of possibility. all of this is part of a large trove of evidence that lawmakers and likely the inspector general are now sifting through to

uncover the links that trump and his allies went to push their claims of election fraud in what was ultimately a failed attempt to get the election overturned. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. an attorney for trump says the former president won't try to block testimony from former officials, but he still believes that communications are protected by executive privilege. senior legal analyst elie honig explains what the new evidence means to him. >> i see several potential federal crimes here. it is a federal crime to deprive a state of a fair election. it is a federal crime to solicit false counting and false certification of an election. it is a federal crime to conspire against the united states. could a good defense lawyer quibble with some of it? sure. i gladly take on that fight. but high point is there is more than enough here for the current justice system under merrick garland to open a criminal

investigation. i've not seen a single public indication that the current justice department has any inclination to look at anything donald trump has done. but this is deadly serious and there has to be consequences. imagine if there is no consequences for this, what kind of message does that send. so doj has a job to do here. along with the growing calls for governor cuomo to resign is the very real possibility that he could face criminal charges. a state investigation into sexual harassment allegations found cuomo engaged in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching. cuomo insists that he has done nothing wrong and gives no indication that he will step down. erica hill reports. >> hey, hey, governor cuomo has got to go. >> reporter: as new yorkers weigh in -- >> do the right thing. resign. >> reporter: -- state lawmakers dialing up the pressure. >> the governor is not fit to do his job. >> i believe that there is sufficient evidence to proceed

with an impeachment proceeding. >> the time for him to resign is right now. >> reporter: at least four district attorneys have asked the new york attorney general for investigative materials to determine if any of the conduct in this report is criminal. two of those requests citing what trooper number one, former member of the governor's security detail, turned in to investigators. >> in an elevator, he ran his finger from her neck down her spine and said, hey, you. another time, she was standing holding the door open for the governor. as he passed, he took his open hand and ran it across her stomach. she told us that she felt completely violated. >> touching women that don't consent in those places could be the basis for sexual assault claims. >> reporter: cuomo denies ever touching anyone inappropriately. a statement finding little support among his accusers. >> when there are two women, there are more than two. we know he from experience that it is not just one person and

that is why we need to believe every woman who makes these allegations. >> reporter: among the groups voicing their support for the accusers, the new york state troopers union, dismayed and disturbed at the reports' findings, its president outraged and disgusted. the state's largest public employee union noting safety and security must be the standard of every workplace calling on the governor to resign. >> his resigning would be such a healing move for the state, for women, for his victims and for other victims who have been triggered and retrauma sized. >> reporter: the governor laying low wednesday, releasing a covid update but no further comments on the report. meantime impeachment inquiry shifting into high gear. a majority of the state assembly's members tell cnn that they would vote to impeach the governor. 13 democratic state senators have also expressed support for impeachment. >> at this point, you know, i

don't expect the best out of this governor. that is why i'm calling on all of us to use that power and actually get this man out of office. >> reporter: governor cuomo losing another key supporter, jay jacobs, chair of the state's democratic party, calling the ac ag's investigation upsetting and calling on cuomo to resign saying he has lost the ability to governor both practically and morally. in new york, i'm erica hill, cnn. u.s. men's basketball team will compete for gold in the tokyo olympics after a come from behind win over australia. we have more teens winning gold in skate boarding and a stunning upset in the men's 100 meter hurdles. u.s. and china and japan are

leading in the medals count. let's bring in patrick snell with the latest. some near upsets, some real upsets, so many talking points. where do you want to start? >> there is so much going on, isn't there. and another compelling day this thursday at the tokyo games. let's start with america's men's basketball team overcoming a 15 point deficit before going on to eventually power past team australia to reach that gold medal game as you mentioned. three time defending gold medalists did have to work for it, no question about that. australia led by as many as 15 in that first half but the u.s. went on a run, cutting the deficit to just three at halftime before taking total control after that. so he slovenia and france will play in the second semi later today. and the 110 meter hir urdles.

of the focus on holloway, he seemed to lose his momentum and parchment had his best team of 13.04 seconds. huge disappointment, can't stress it enough, for the 23-year-old holloway who hadn't lost 00 single hurdles race since august of last year. a silver medal for him today at the olympic stadium. and a special moment to tell you about once again another teenager rising to the fore, this time team usa's nevin harrison, who he is 19, winning the world championship when she was just 17. now the first woman representing the united states to win a gold medal in olympic canoe sprint. meantime also teens again continuing their dominance this time at the skate park within

the last couple of hours, keeg australia taking gold. the aussie scoring 95.83 on his final run to take the gold medal. silver going to the brazilian. and last week con authorize fields suffered that brain hemorrhage after competing in the olympic semis. and now we can tell you that the 28-year-old is being released from the hospital in tokyo today. he is a rio gold medalist and he crashed during his third run last friday, he will be returning to the u.s. state nevada for his rehabilitation, great news that he will be doing it alongside his family and friends there. and we here at cnn sports certainly wish connor all the very best. as i send it right back to you. >> thanks for the update on him there. great to hear. patrick snell, thank you so

much. an unforgiveable heatwave gives way to wildfires in greece and they are racing to save historic sites. plus fear being sent to detention camps and evidence that the government in belarus may already have one in the works. that report just ahead.

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result of the big fire that burned here for two days. but now that fire has been contained, it is almost completely out, but it left behind massive destruction, numerous homes were completely destroyed, luckily only minor injuries were suffered. but at the moment, we have some other fires that still continue to burn. some of them out of control in many parts of the country. there is a big fire raging on the island of evia, many villages have been evacuated there, that is an area popular with tourists. so people have been transported to other parts of greece by boat. there is also a large fire currently burning in ancient olympia, the archeological site. the tremendous effort in there to try to contain the fire before it reaches the archeological space and a number of villages are also being evacuated. just to give you a sense of scale, in greece almost 200

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the belarusian olympian who rejected orders to return home is now safe in poland. she arrived in warsaw wednesday. belarusian officials tried to force her to leave the olympics last weekend after she criticized team coaches. but after her family warned it wasn't safe to return, she asked for political asylum while at the tokyo airport and poland offered her and her husband humanitarian visas. in belarus, troubling evidence is emerging of what may be a prison camp for political dissidents. it was found deep in the forest. nick paton walsh is live in london with this report.

and take us through what you found. >> reporter: the fate of the athlete has shun a shown a harsh light over what is happening for what many say is decades. but these new findings appear to show an extreme harshening of belarusian state preparations to potentially hold political prisoners further down the line and protests may happen in the months ahead. here is what we saw. a chilling sight, not from the last century, but last mornts. a possible prison camp built for political prisoners. cnn obtained this footage of what witnesses said looked like a newly refurbished camp about an hour's drive from minsk. sign saying forbidden entry. a fence electrified they said.

surveillance cameras and reflective screens on the windows of newly rebuilt barracks. no prisoners yet. but there were regular patrols who told our witnesses to leave. one local talked to them anonymously. my friend sasha a builder told me they refurbished this place he said, there are three levels of barbed wire and it is is electrified. i was picking mushrooms when a military man came up and said i can't walk here. the building sits on the vast site of a soviet missile storage facility surrounded by forests. the repairs came not long after defecting police officers released secret recordings of senior police discussing the need for prison camps at several sites. >> translator: the assignment to develop and build a camp but not for prisoners of war or the interned, but for resettlement and surround it with barbed

wire. >> reporter: cnn hasn't gained access to the interior, so we can't definitively say that streets not intended as a prison camp, but someone i talked to said that use is possible. and it is tough to imagine what else the camp could be for. opposition leaders fear its possible use during future protests. >> not surprising that he is trying to built something like a regular prison camp because the new way for protests to come up, it can be triggered by his statement, it can be triggered by another situation, but it will come. and he understands but he also wants to be prepared more. >> reporter: belarusian officials declined to comment and have called it fake news when it was released saying that they follow the law. these images emerge after a

week's long crackdown against remaining independent media inside belarus and dozens of arrests. inside belarus the protest movement is being persecuted so hard, it now holds remote flash mob demonstrations like these filmed by drones. but some of it is finding ways to hit back, cnn has learned. these are railway sprotestors, and causing traffic to slow down. we spoke to one organizer. when our skies are blocked he said, we should block the land as well. the main goal is to cause economic damage to the regime because all the delays cause them to pay huge fines. this action was carried out they said on a key route from russia to the european union. cnn can't independently confirm it was effective. if there is an impact on rail traffic, it could have great significance outside of belarus,

but there are so many goods from the east that rely on this network to get to europe, signs both sides could be adopting new harsher tactics and what may await fresh protests as the screws tighten. so you can see really there frankly terrifying climate inside of belarus. and you have to ask yourself what is that facility we found if it is not intended at some point to house prisoners. the horrifying climate inside belarus would certainly be on the mind of the olympic athlete when she told me her grandmother said that she had been criticized on state television for her critical remarks about the olympic team there, causing her to seek asylum in poland. she is supposed to talk later on today from poland, but i think that it is the threatening behavior of the lukashenko regime that has shown a spotlight on their behavior internally and also remember too

possibly cast a greater pall of fear over those forced to leave the country. belarus feeling more confident about how far that they can throw its repressive tactics. >> great reporting on what could be a troubling development there. thick paton walsh in london, thanks so much. a day of remembrance and protests this beirut as thousands gathered at the port wednesday one year after a deadly explosion there killed 200 and injured thousands. there are still many questions and the anger felt by many boiled over in the streets. protestors clashed with security forces as they voiced their frustration. ben wedeman is joining me now

from beirut. so you were at the protests. take us through what you saw and the reasons behind the anger now a full year later. >> reporter: well, what we saw the protests that coincided with the exact moment, 8 minutes past 6:00 p.m. on august 4th, thousands and thousands of people right next to the port for that moment of silence, the names of those who died in the blast were read out. it was the largest gathering we've seen certainly since perhaps the 2019 october uprising here. but that was followed by clashes with the lebanese security forces near martyr square just off the road that leads to parliament which is of course now the entire area is blocked

with blast walls because of repeated protests. what you are seeing is being played out the real anger and frustration with the fact that year after the blast, the investigation the government is running which one minister gist days after the blast would take five days, and now they have come up with nothing, no one has been put on trial. some qu some using forms of immunity to avoid being questioned. and of course this is against the background of an ever-worsening financial and economic crisis. so people are just fed up at this point. and it is not surprising that occasionally that frustration boils over into violence. but as one person was telling me

last night, that they can't afford because of the crisis at the moment to actually do this day in and day out because people need to work. people need to feed their families. but certainly inside people here, many of them would really like to see this entire political elite peacefully or otherwise be brought down. >> sad to see so little has changed. ben wedeman in beirut, thanks so much. there is growing outrage in india over the alleged rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl at a c kree t crematorium on sunday. four men have been arrested, one a priest, but they have yet to be charged. police are investigating this as a crime of caste violence, they are part of what is considered india's lowest caste.

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we need to being assess the countries that have already used more of the vaccines using even more of it, why the most vulnerable remain unprotected. >> the world health organization is calling for a pause on covid booster shots for the next two months to allow time for every country to vaccinate at least 10% of their population. the w.h.o. says more than 80% of administered shots have gone to high or upper middle income countries even though they account for less than half of the world's people. meanwhile china is scrambling to control a delta variant outbreak with millions being tested in the city of wuhan alone where the covid

pandemic began of course. steven jiang is in beijing. so bring us up to speed on this outbreak and how china is handling it. >> reporter: the fact the cluster has now spread to wuhan is of course news worthy and also poignant, that is why we have already seen videos on social media that people are now emptying supermarket shelves to stock up on food and supplies because their memory of that three month lockdown still very much raw. and city officials are doing what many of their counterparts are doing across the country which is err on the side of over-august, so they ordered a city wide testing of 11 million residents when fewer than 10 cases were reported. and even now that city reported just 12 cases. but the familiar playbook of mass testing and contact tracing shows how concerned officials here are about the spread of the cluster which really shows no seen of abating. the latest figure we got from

the government was 94 locally transmitted cases reported on wednesday. and this pails by comparison to what we're seeing in the rest of the world including the u.s. so increasingly local authorities are reimposing draconian measures including quarantining thousands of people for just a handful of cases. that happened in wuhan, but also here in beijing. and local officials are also telling their residents not to leave town in the medal of this p -- middle of the peak summer travel season. and also national immigration authorities announcing that they will stop issuing or renewing chinese people's passports in their effort to further restrict across border travel even though chinese borders have been largely sealed for well over a year and the central leadership here is also sending some 20 teams around the country to help local officials close loopholes in their covid responses. so all of this is part of the

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places to take patients. computers track the availability. red means they are full. and this is the reds day they have seen. >> and we're down over 200 nurses, empty positions that we can't fill. >> reporter: as chancellor at the university of arkansas for medical sciences, part of his duties include overseeing arkansas' only level one trauma center. he says the latest surge is pushing his health care workers to the breaking point. >> we've had people literally walk off the job because they couldn't take it anymore. >> somebody walking off of their shift? >> we've had people walk off their shift in the middle of a shift as distressing as that is because they just couldn't take it anymore. >> reporter: they now have wards where they could add more beds but they can't add more staff. did you ever anticipate that the worst surge would be at a time when there was a vaccine? >> no. >> reporter: what is different? this surge health care workers

say the frustration that it shouldn't be happening. not with the vaccine, not in summer. this was supposed to be their break. >> i think everyone thought that. >> reporter: instead arkansas' vaccination rate has remained low and daily new covid hospitalizations have exploded. >> overwhelmingly, most of the patients are unvaccinated. how do you not get angry? >> i try to respect everyone's decision. i know that there is a lot of misinformation. >> reporter: being an intensive care and emergency room physician is all this doctor ever wanted. or so he thought. i wanted to read the tweet that you put out and you said not going to lie, my thoughts of retiring from health care in a few years. >> it gave me a second thought on what i'm going to do the rest of my life. >> reporter: he sees the constant stress stealing the compassion for their job. burnout. do you see it, do you hear about

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alleged practices to its surge in homicides over the years. our legal analyst says it will be a long court battle for mexico. >> i do think that the mexican government will have some hurdles to leap over in terms of being successful with this case. first they will have some challenges as to whether or not they have standing, in other words a legal right to be able to bring the case in the united states. and second, there is a 2005 liability protection for u.s. companies -- u.s. gun companies that will also potentially put a block to this case. >> another battle that is going on is taking place in the air. in the latest case of air rage, a passenger is accused of assaulting flight attendants and then finally had to tape him to his seat. pete muntean has more on that. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: new video from a

weekend frontier airlines flight shows what flight attendants cause the ugliest case of an unruly passenger yet. miami-dade police allege that passenger maxwell berry ordered two drinks, spilled a third on himself, emerged from the bathroom shirtless and then groped the breasts of two flight attendants. a third flight attendant was assigned to watch berry when he started throwing punches. and then video shows the attendant taping him to his seat prompting frontier to initially suspend the flight crew from their job. >> after an incident like this, we'll do a thorough investigation and revee how it was handled. >> reporter: and now the airline says that it is supporting the crew and prosecution of berry by law enforcement, an announcement that came after criticism from sarah nelson of the association of flight attendants. >> all the crew had on board that flight for any kind of restraint was duct tape. and so if we want flight

attendants to be using other procedures, then we have to make that possible for them to have other tools and procedures to use. >> reporter: the tsa is restarting flight attendant self-defense training as in-flight issues are becoming more common. of 3700 cases reported to the faa, so far only 99 triggered enforcement action. police have already charged berry with three counts of battery. but flight attendants say process secution of other probl passengers need to be swift. are you scared? >> yeah, sometimes they are not very happy and you never know what will happen. >> reporter: one union surveyed 5,000 of its members and 85% of them reported dealing with an unruly passenger just this year, just shy in one of every five reported a passenger becoming physical with them. by the way, the passenger in this case, 22-year-old maxwell berry of ohio, is not returning

our requests for comment. pete muntean, cnn, washington. one man's trash is another man's treasure, but for one ohio family, that luckily wasn't the case. while cleaning out their grand mother's house, this family actually threw out $25,000 that was kept in an envelope. it could have ended in disaster, but thankfully they called the waste collection company just in time. listen to this. >> couldn't believe it, took ten minutes and i seen a man that looked like that, pulled it off, opened it up and there was a package inside with the money in it. they were so happy, they were tearing up. >> so a happy ending for this family. the company says that it is rare to find something a customer has mistakenly thrown away. kudos to those honest workers there. i'm kim brunhuber. thanks so much for watching. "early start" is next. frank is a fan of fast. he's a fast talker.

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good morning, it is thursday, august 5, 5:00 a.m. here in new york, thanks for getting an early start with us. i'm laura jarrett. >> and i'm amara walker. we'll have reports from nairobi, tokyo, the white house, athens and tehran. and this morning there is deep trouble in the deep south. with the delta variant surging, there are only six available icu beds in the entire state of mississippi. and there are barely two dozen in arkansas pushing medical personnel to their