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live from cnn headquarters, live for those watching here in canada, united states and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." ♪ we begin with an encouraging sign of progress in the u.s. vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. half of all americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday, despite that, the number of new cases keeps growing. now topping 100,000 per day. and in florida, the delta variant is spreading at unprecedented speed. we're talking about 20,000 new cases per day on average. florida had more than 134,000 new cases total over the past week. the highest number since the pandemic began. but the white house is making it clear, the nation isn't headed for another lockdown. nick valencia has the latest on

vaccination efforts across the country. >> reporter: a major milestone for the country, with half the total u.s. population fully vaccinated. but the grim count of covid deaths is rising fast. a 52% increase over last week's seven-day average. florida reported more covid-19 cases over the past week, than any other seven-day period during the pandemic. data published friday by the state health department reported 134506 new covid-19 cases over the past week for the average of 19,215 cases each day. unvaccinated virginia man reminded people to get the shot before it's too late. >> -- so far that i made the mistake to be make which is not to get vaccinated. i can do better as a parent, as a human. and i hope to god everybody else

can, too. >> reporter: the gulf coast region has particularly suffered. mississippi's top health official giving a dire warning. >> as everyone is wear, we have an phenomenal increase in the number of daily cases with covid this is entirely applicable to the delta variant which is sweeping over mississippi like a tsunami. >> reporter: in alabama, one of the hardest hit states, vaccination rates are up, but tens of thousands of shots are spoiled because not enough people there want the shots. >> we're starting to see wastage. >> reporter: the push to vaccinate becomes an issue especially in schools. new jersey government is requiring k through 8 students wear masks. others in the district have been at odds on what to do. florida's governor. >> if you're coming after the rights of parents in florida, i'm standing in your way, i'm not going to let you get away

with it. >> reporter: but florida county orange school district is doing what they want, telling employees they must wear masks. in louisiana, the emotional tal is evident, the state has the highest rate of covid-19 infections per cappakcapita in nation. >> we're stressed, because these processes are getting harder and we're working as hard or even harder than we did a few months ago. >> reporter: heading into the weekend, there are concerns of a superspreader event in south dakota as 700,000 vitsitors are expected to visit the sturgis motorcycle rally. the republican governor christie norm tweeting there's risk with egg we do in life. bankers get that better than anyone. this year, the city says it will provide free covid self tests. >> these are tests that you take

home, with a nose swab, that you have results in 15 minutes. >> reporter: with cases surging across the country, masks continue to be a hotly debated issue. in georgia, the governor said the state does not need a mandate for citizens, quote, to do the right thing. meanwhile there is an increase in communities of color. here in a predominantly district of atlanta, giving out vaccines for those 12 and up. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. there's a concerning trend in the pandemic with substantial increases in cases among children and teens. that's according to the american academy of pediatrics. they say that nearly 4.2 million kids have tested positive since the beginning of the pandemic. more than 72,000 are just from last week. the numbers have been rising steadily since the beginning of july. dr. john maguire is the

chief of the critical care medicine at seattle children's hospital and also an associate at washington school of medicine. doctor, thank you for joining us. earlier this week, the american academy of pediatrics reported that covid cases among american children and teens jumped 84% in a week. what are you seeing right now at your hospital? >> we certainly are seeing an increase in the number of children being hospitalized with covid, and particularly with more severe covid-19 infection. >> and these who are hospitalized principally, people who haven't been vaccinated, is that right? >> yes. we're seeing teens who are not vaccinated and younger children who are largely from families, in which the other eligible family members aren't vaccinated. >> yeah. you know, in terms ofñrlp the m

serious side effects. like multisystemñi inflammatory syndrome and in children that i know that yourxd hospitali] dea with thosew3 cases very often. you know, these cases could have been prevented in the young people if the parents had been vaccinated. and we heard on this program from parents who wished they'd acted before it was too late.1b to see that sense of regret for parents to feel bguilty for wha their child is going through for something that could have been avoided? >> yeah, it is worrisome. we had hoped we would see añi reduction in covid infections in children and in adults. and we're certainly well into a fifth wave here in washington state. and commensurate with that, we've seenñr an increase in numr and families arexd worried.

they're worried about the short-termçófá and longer-term effects of covid in children. mysteriouaó disease.out the and people are worriedfá what wl happen if theok numbers in the community continue to rise. >> right. in many cases, school still hasn't started, ñ/uçó you will how the cases increase in school. just looking at the case study here in geo2k where mo3(i schoolsq have started already, we've seen outbreaks, you know, this early into the school e1ye. the head of the cdc says those outbreaks have happened, generally because the +="==1m aren't following the guidelines. let's listen to what she said here.w3 >> the places that are having the problems. the placeses that are having disease that is transmitted in the school,ñi are the places th aren't taking the strategies. the places that aren't masking. +áu seexd kids in

the hospital, footage of kids in the hospital all places that are not taking mitigation to keep our children safe. >> so, the problem is, many states areu making it hard to take those prevention strategies, state like florida which have banned mask manda"" in schools. and texas, where if students geó sick, the schools won't be able to doe1 contact tracing. with all of the road blocks in place, howc worried are you tha we'll see largeçó>n# outbreaks school, that we didn't see with the less contagious version of the virus? >> well, i think we're xdworrie. q of the schools in our areaq were doing largely remote, or nonçólp-in person schooling. at the time, we were seeing /%ñ numbers ofq covid cases in the community. unfortunately now, theñi timingf school starting lines up with

this new wave ofe1 cases so it' very concerning. so we're first and foremost, encouraging people to be vaccinated for the eligible adults and teens that will help protect those individuals, as well as theñrñ=u9iok children ad other individuals who can't be vaccinated that are around them. and we're strongly encouraging people to follow the guidelines of the cdc and the local health department officials to follow public health recommendationsok 3 r masking and the other preventive measures. >> excellent advice to end on. dr. johnq mcgwire, i appreciate your time, thank you for speaking with us. >> thank you, kim. i want to takeçó you live t bangkok. what you're seeing there is police in thailand's capital facing off against protesters who are angry%/g overw3 the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. objects at police. police firing tear gas at them. and the protesters throwing it back at the ñipolice.

now, according to john hopkins university, theñr country has reportedçó more than ñi714,000ys of covid this okweek. has seen daly records inw3 both cases and ymdeaths. thai healthi] officials report that so far only 6% of the country has been fully we're going to stay on thise1 story and bring you more once events warrant.e1 well, there are now more ñ burning across the u.s., wreaking havoc on western states. the dixie fire in northern california has exploded to more than fá434,000 acres, becoming e largest fire in the country. now to putfáxd that in perspect the blaze has burned an area the size of new york's central park,park,fá e est 11 minutes for 24lp hours. eight people are still unaccounted for and more evacuations under way. what you see there is theq historic town ofq greenville, te

dixie fire destroying much to ashes destroying more than 100 homes. a closer look at how much grounk this fire is gaining, let's bring in meteorologist derek vaá dam. derrek, just the statistics were wertalki# about, the number the size of central park seems to be butring is as sttastounding. >> real explosive growth in the dixie fire. and to see those numbers is astounding. the erraticçó winds, this is th dixie fire, just outside of paradise. you remember paradise, that was in the news for, unfortunately, being burnedi] down a couple of years ago.ñr thisçó is a satellite showing y billowing smoke. i can show you translucent r there, that isxd actually smoke from the dixie fire blanketing thee1 region.

and you're looking at now the third largest fire in california history. it has ranked upok there. incredible to see. it won't be long before it tejjt)jz fire of last year. the dixie fire is only 21% contained. so firefighters have a long way to help quell the fire because it has such an erratic nature. but as kim mentioned, that's incredible, because it'se@'urnig the size of 130 central parks in thaerd-time. what will the wind do? the wind is forecast to strengthen through the weekend. or roughly 15 to 20 miles per hour. of course, if that takes the smokeñi and drifts it well away from the point of the fire, several hundred miles, in fact, we're talking about air quality alerts in place for much of wyoming, idaho, including the entire state of colorado.

some of the worst air taking place across california at the i moment, and it's all because of wildfire smokee1çó that continuo drift from the west coast through the mid-plains and into the great lakes region. taking it to the other side of the world, this is another continent, but a similar disaster. we have wildfires raging in and greece. athens has some serious concerns with fires approaching, from populated areas there. 98 wildfires burning in the past 24 hours, 64 which are still active as we speak. that's not j

the heatw3 will walk in next we across the mediterranean and hardest hit areas. kim. >> thank you very much, derek van dam, appreciate it.e1 let's get more on the wildfires in greece, prompting thousands of to lpevacuate. and some of the most dangerous blazes are just outside of the friday when a volunteer firefighter was çókilled.y1 at least 20 people have been hospitalized. elinda labropoulou joins us live from athens. elinda, i understand thew3 wind are really making it e1worse. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, they absolutely are, the heat changing direction. and therefore making operations much more difficult. there's a lot of firefighting w3 aircraft. yout;/s may be able to see some behind me. you'll definitely be able to see the haze and some of the smoke that's coming frome1 areas very very close to athens by now. a number of residential areas have been evacuated. andxd the fire is approaching, d

this is just one of the many fires burning across greece. we understand that theçó fire close to the ancient site of owe olympia has also rekindled. there was a big front there som( days e1ago.ñi now, fire-fightingçóçó operatio are under way there to try to prevent anyt( damage to the archeological site. it's been going for days now. you know, local residents, everybody⌟ñ is taking part in these hugeñi efforts to try and put out the blazes. as one man told me earlier today, the destruction isw3 so immense, it's destroying the lungs of athens. this big fire. we expect that the weather conditions will remain, unfortunately, unchanged for the next 24 hours. so this will only make operations even harder. >> all right. thanks so much, elinda labropoulou in athens. well, tension in northern

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andw3 jeopardizes lebanese sovereignty. they went on to call on theçó lebanese government urgently to control attacks. and we should note, also, just because it's quiet here in the north, in the southñr overnight the israelit( military saying i struck several targets in haza, including what itnb says is a sites fromu incendiary5aballoon launching into israelxd causing what it says is fires. and on trq northern and southern borders. kim. >> all right,e1 thanks so much, haddad gold. now th econnect 1200ñi

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ministersçwi issued a joint statement, saying, quote, all available evidence clearly points to iran. role i the attack. we get the>¢■ latest from cnn's fred pleitgen in iran. >> reporter: the u.s. military now says it has evidence tha tco. before this, the israel had blamed the iranians for the jf attack. iran denies all of that, i]

however, the israelis have come out saying they would be able to retaliate against iran on their own. this hase1 caused angry praekz f reaction from iranian. you have a spokesman saying a brazen action of military law. such maligned behaviorlp stems from blind western support. and statesñr clearly anye1 fool act against iranñi will be met with decisive response. don't test us. of course, all of this comes on the heels of a new president taking office here in iran. the hard-liner who has said that iran will continue to act boldly here inñ-3 the middle eastern region. pleitgen, cnn, iran. just ahead on "cnn newsroom," we'll find out what the biden administration's plans to do about surging covid numbers. and what it has to say about the possibility ofw3 future lockdow. plus, a key 0 president joe biden's economic agenda is getting closer to

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to break the fill ibuster on th big deal. both republicans and democrats necessary toxd break the filibuster which is a key step could happen. now, after that, it is anybody's guess. at any eénypoint, if all 120 senatorsxd okagree, they could fast-track this legislation. and to slow down that ñiñir process,means they wouldxnhave o jump through a number of hoops before theyñi getñi there. that could mean a series ofw3 votes that have to take placexd saturday and sunday, monday and potentially into tuesday before the bill is passed. there is a great deal of optimism that ultimately,w3 thi bill will make it over the finish line. thise1 is the last point haggli ofe1 republicans andñi democrat keep in behind, it's a by-product of a 50/50 senate, where essentially every member

of the senate has the opportunity to slow this down. that's exactly what we see playing out here. even after the senate, the package has a long way to go. of course, it's going to the house where theyçó review it to potentially make changes. already, the house speaker nancy pelosi says they are not÷deojuj ahead with this legislation until they see that bigger çó$3 trillion reconciliation package come along with it. and the senate is expected to vote on the resolution, which is a shell of that $3.5fá trillion plan next week as well which will then go to the house which will begin that process. what is likely to happen here, onceq the billq passes the sena, it's going to sit there on the house side. the bipartisan package is going to sit there on the house side until the reconciliation package can be passed. so, the long and short of this, they are making progress. but it unlikely that either of these big bills, infrastructure bills, will be anywhere near president joe biden's desk until

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lukashenko regime. she'd like to behe luke sanctio the signs avenue prison camp deep in the forest, cnn's nick report. >> reporter: a chilling site not from the lastxd centub but last month, a possible prison camp. cnn obtained images whatt( witnesses said looked like açó newly refurbished camp a couple1 hours' drive from capital of minsk. a three-layer fencee1 electrifi they said,uyçó new moving surveillance cameras, bars and reflective screens onok theok windows of newly rebuild barracks. like a soldier inside andñi regular military patrols that told our witnesses outside to

leave. my friend sasha a builder tolde me they refurbished this place. there are three level of barbed wires. icking mushrooms when a military man said i can't walkñ here. forfá thequ%1 9 qq9qfected police officers released secretw3 recording of seniorxd police discussing the need for prison camps at several sites.4cv not surprisingly, cnn hasn't made accessfá to the interior o the site. so we can't definitively say it's intended to be used for a prison +camp. an official i spoke to said that was possible although it didn't haçóve direct evidence. in the current climate, it's tough to imagine what else the camp can be for. opposition leaders fear the

lukashenko's forces for protests. >> not surprising he's trying td build something like a regular prison camp. because it's aok new way to com up anyway, it can be triggered by economic situation. but it will come. and he understandsc control. soe1 this is why i are not >> bell rusian officials called it fake news saying they followed the law. these images emerge after a week's long crackdown against remaining independent media inside belarus and dozens of arrest. inside belarus the movements are being persecuted so hard it holds remote flash mob demonstrations like these filmed by drones. some of it is finding ways to hit back, cnn has learned. these are railway sabateurs in

operation. they trigger alarms to stop trains on the tracks risking nobody's safety but causing traffic to slow down, they say. we spoke to one organizer. >> translator: when our skies are blocked, 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 here and lithuania because so many goods in the east are relied on this network. signs both sides could be adopting new harsher practice. nick peyton walsh, cnn,

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we're following protests in bangkok. police are facing off over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. we're seeing exchanges between protesters and police. protesters throwing objects at police and police firing tear gas at demonstrators. demonstrators sometimes throwing those canisters back at police. this was all prompted by the government's handling of the pandemic. the group organizing the protests spelled out its demands on facebook and it wants the prime minister to resign and for cuts to be made in the defense and monarchy budgets and that money to be used to tackle covid-19 instead. last week has seen daily cases and deaths. only 6% of the country has been fully vaccinated. we'll stay on top of this story as it develops. for the fourth day in a row,

tokyo has reported more than 4,000 new coronavirus infections with more than 4500 new cases saturday. the city's under a state of emergency until august 31st. and it is nearly 7 p.m. in tokyo on the final day of the olympic games. we're going to take a look at all the exciting action that's happening. cnn sports coy wire joins me from tokyo. the u.s. men's basketball team picking up another gold but it was no lay-up for them. >> reporter: no, that's right. they turned it into a slam dunk though, kim. u.s. lost their first olympic game in 17 years to france to begin play here in tokyo leaving some question whether or not they'd be able to get the fourth straight gold medal. kevin durant and company, they were able to overcome diversity and gel as a team earning sweet revenge in the gold medal game. durant was a star scoring 29 points tying him for carmelo anthony.

u.s. wins 87-82. the women's team now, they can earn their seventh straight gold medal if they beat japan tomorrow. now to golf, nelly korda leaving no doubt who the best player is. the 23-year-old held on to win gold. korda is the first player, man or woman, to win olympic gold and a major in the same year. what a sporting family. her sister jessica competing in the games. her mom, tennis olympian in 1988. her dad an australian open player and her brother a pro tennis player. fell i nelly told me about her emotions. >> oh, my gosh, i had tears in my eyes, actually. no one can really explain it to you until i guess you're there and seeing the flag go up. it's just a huge mon for.

>> all right. now imagine winning an olympic medal for something you've done three times before in your life. that's what american molly seidel did. she took home a bronze behind a pair of kenyan runners. seidel was baby-sitting and working in a coffee shop last year but she never gave up. now she's gone the distance and is bringing home a bronze medal. the great allyson felix cementing her status in the history books. she took bronze in the women's 400 meter. she's the most decorated female track athlete. this is her fifth olympics, her first as a mom. the jamaican women putting an exclamation point on olympic sprinting. they finished with a time of 41.02 seconds, the second fastest time in history, kim. we had exclusive interview with them, kim.

seeing their positive energy, their uplifting attitude. they said other people train just as fast but we believe, we have that faith they're going to do it. clearly that's all they needed. >> absolutely. so many great stories there. coy wire in tokyo. thanks for bringing them to us. we appreciate it. we're seeing some extraordinary moments of sportsmanship and kindness from the sharing of gold medals to runners helping their rivals. will ripley has more on the feel good games. >> the legacy of tokyo 2020 may not be measured in medals and covid cases. but acts of kindness. moments of grace. olympians choosing humility over humans. american gymnast simone biles cheering on her teammates even as she was struggling to compete. american swimmer annie laser

hugging tatiana break the world record. >> to have someone break a world record as a fan of the sport, that's something pretty amazing to happen to you. >> given there were no spectators and you were in a bubble in the middle of a pandemic, do you think that brought the@leas athletes close the experience? >> really happy to be here. >> reporter: happiness written on the faces of the first other olympic skateboarders. >> winning as a big family. getting on the podium with two of my favorite people is awesome. >> we're seeing the camaraderie. something good comes of something bad. it's created a better community under very difficult conditions in tokyo. to be supporting each other is huge. >> support spanning across

continents and badminton courts. when denmark dethroned china, the players traded shirts as a symbol of respect. east qatari opted out of a jump off to share the gold. >> it was amazing. >> there were high fives and helping hands. after falling during the 800 meter these runners from the u.s. and botswana finished the race arm in arm. a legacy of kindness, camaraderie outshining the olympic flame. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. >> i'm kim brunhuber at cnn center in atlanta, thanks for watching. for viewers in north america, new day is next.

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good morning to you. welcome to your "new day." i'm christi paul. >> i'm boris sanchez. the united states hitting a key milestone. the rise of the delta variant putting off a return to the office and potentially some schools as mask mandates return across the country. >> yeah. not backing down. new york governor andrew cuomo slams the report that he sexually harassed 11 workers. plus leave immediately, an order for any american civilians on the ground in afghanistan a