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the u.s. adding just 235,000 jobs last month, nearly a half a million short of economists' projections. we have fox team coverage. david spunt in wilmington on the problems piling up for the president and jeff paul in new orleans as the city struggles to get back on its feet after ida. but first, bryan llenas live in patterson, new jersey, where more misery could be on the way, if possible. wow, brian? >> alicia, it is incredible, three days after the storm hit came through, new jersey, we're still talking about flooding, as you can see behind me here. the passaic river is right behind what was well a normal salvage yard. it was at major flood stage as of this morning and won't go back to normal levels till monday afternoon. we spoke to the owner of the salvage yard who said the water had reached up to where the stop sign begins, at about six feet. he says he's never seen anything like this. he was expecting 18 inches, not 5 1/2, 6 feet of water.

tragically 25 people lost their lives in new jersey. six people are missing. most people died as their floodwaters swept through their vehicles. on top of all of that today, through this labor day weekend, people are beginning to pick up the pieces. you drive around new jersey and you see piles and piles of people's belongings that were soaked in their basements, in the first floor of their homes. people say it was terrifying and frankly it is still shocking to think about. >> this just came out of nowhere. nobody knew. it just came out of nowhere. >> i have my life, my family. i have my home. everyone across the street, they are evacuated. some of them probably lost everything. >> take a look at this video, from inside a basement in new jersey. in it, you see a young man walking past assessing the damage in his basement when all of a sudden floodwaters collapse the basement wall in a matter of seconds, the water rushes in,

and fills the entire basement, trapping a mother and her son. you can hear the terrifying screams. the son punched a tile out of the ceiling and found an air pocket. he was saved by his brother and dad, with an umbrella. the mother janice valley, she clinged on to a boiler. she cannot swim. she had four inches of water to spare, and was saved by her husband, thankfully, everyone is okay. we will have an interview with janice later today. 13 people died in new york city, and 11 of those deaths were because they lived inside basement apartments. they are apartments built inside basements. the city thinks there could be roughly pretty much 50,000 of these types of basements. they all agree now as we speak to the mayor that they do more to help give warnings to these people help them evacuate. here's mayor de blasio from

yesterday. >> the situation with the basements, our best bet in the short-term is to change the entire concept and have an evacuation plan because this water moves so suddenly and fiercely, there's not a way to protect each and every apartment from that. >> the tragedy is that the flash flood warning did go out, told people to shelter in place. these people did shelter in place. they just happened to be inside a basement apartments. they are now thinking about doing door-to-door knocking to evacuate people from those dwellings. the bottom line, alicia, too, is the president will be visiting new york and new jersey on tuesday to assess the damage. alicia? >> alicia: we will be looking forward to that interview with that mother who survived. thank you. mike? >> mike: stunning. now to louisiana where a massive cleanup operation is underway after hurricane ida battered the gulf coast. the catastrophic storm left entire neighborhoods levelled, millions without power, and oil wells and refineries still

struggling to get back on-line. president biden toured the hardest-hit areas yesterday ensuring people help is on the way. jeff paul live in new orleans. hi, jeff. >> mike, president biden promising to have louisiana's back as they slowly recover from hurricane ida. president biden saying he knows folks here impacted by the storm are hurting, and he promised to be standing there with them as they recover. now, president biden had a very busy day as he visited and landed in new orleans first. he met with some folks at a local emergency operations center to sort of get a lay of the land, then he went by vehicle and towards some of the hardest-hit areas like a town in louisiana, that's situated between a river and a huge lake. and for this particular area, and especially some of those neighborhoods, close toast the water -- closest to the water, they not only suffered wind damage but had a lot of flooding as well. many of those people can't get back inside and really don't have anywhere else to go. the president who met with both republicans and democrats on

this trip says the recovery effort has nothing to do with party affiliation. he says it's about being american. >> got to not just build back to what it was, put the same old poles up. we got to build back better. we got to build back more resiliently, and we've got to make sure we do the same thing across the board. >> hundreds of thousands of people throughout the state here in louisiana still do not have power. in some communities, like down in grand isle, they don't have many homes to live in. in fact, most of them, if not all, are unlivable, but as folks start to return to those devastated neighborhoods, cleanup is underway, paving the way for power crews to get inside and get things up and running again. the city of new orleans now estimating it could have power restored throughout the city as soon as wednesday. >> i am cautiously optimistic that the timeline that has been provided by entergy will be

complete by those deadlines, but even i am expecting more sooner rather than later. >> now, i can tell you compared to some of the other days, previous to the storm, there are more people here in new orleans and around the french quarter where we are than we have seen in the past couple of days. traffic lights going back on, more cars out and about, even seen some businesses and restaurants either out there getting ready to reopen or already in the middle of reopening, but still up to 700,000 people throughout the state are without power. this is going to take quite sometime. mike? >> mike: a lot of folks ang toshs get their power restored -- a lot of folks anxious to get their power restored. many thanks, jeff. >> alicia: president biden spending this weekend in wilmington, delaware as he faces criticism over americans left behind in afghanistan and new criticism over the disapointing august jobs numbers. david spunt is live in wilmington. hi, david. >> hi. a lot on president biden's plate

as he spends the long labor day weekend in wilmington with family. if you talk to his secretary of state, anthony blinken, he's been out in front of the camera the past few days at least publicly he's not panicking when it comes to afghanistan telling americans they are able to eventually leave the country if they want to. it just may take a little time to do it. as for blinken, the president's chief diplomat, he's heading out tomorrow to doha qatar, that's where most of the diplomats who used to be in kabul are right now. that's essentially where the embassy has moved from afghanistan to qatar. that's where the high level talks are going on right now. blinken's team says the secretary, though, alicia won't be meeting with taliban officials >> we sent 19 separate notices to american citizens in afghanistan, encouraging and then urging them to leave. most of the remaining american citizens are dual nationals

whose home is afghanistan and whose extended families live there. >> after that trip to louisiana, you heard jeff just mention president biden landed in philadelphia late last night before taking marine one here to wilmington where i stand before you, where he's going to spend some time with family. he did manage to escape d.c. for the weekend, but that constant criticism, not only of the jobs report far underperforming what we expected, but the criticism of his decision, alicia, to withdraw troops and not bring home all americans continues to follow him. >> he broke his promise to americans, and he's continuing to break it because they are american citizens who are trying to get out of the country right now. >> facing more criticism and watching his poll numbers continue to drop, the commander-in-chief is doubling, even tripling down on his decision for afghanistan. this comes just exactly one week before the 20th anniversary of the september 11th attacks.

alicia? >> alicia: david spunt in wilmington, delaware, thanks, david. much more on the situation in afghanistan. coming up later on "fox news live" at 4:00 p.m. eastern, when national security correspondent jennifer griffin joins us live to talk about her exclusive sit-down interview with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. you will be able to see that entire interview tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern on "fox report" with jon scott. >> mike: on our southern border, the rise in migrant traffic is making the fight against human smuggling even more of a challenge. fox news took an airboat ride with a chief of the texas sector for a closer look at how the border patrol is using technology against smuggling cartels. jonathan hunt is live there. hello, jonathan. >> hey, mike. a lot of the migrants who make it across the rio grand behind me here and past the first line of border patrol heads straight

to stash houses run by human smuggling gangs. take a look at the video of one of the stash houses. we are told by border chief here that they have uncovered more than 250 such stash houses, just over the last year. that is a far higher number than the year before, hundreds more likely go undiscovered and they cram in dozens and dozens of migrants into the pretty squalid conditions of the stash houses. we talked to the chief as we rode along with him on one of the airboats to patrol the rio grande here and he talked about the sophistication of these smuggling operations. listen here. >> everything is all human smuggling driven by cartel and alien smuggling organizations, so nobody that comes here is giving themselves up to agents. everybody here is running. when we encounter them, it is a foot chase on the ground. it's a vehicle pursuit, you know, from us or from our

partner agencies, so the smuggling organizations are driving that. >> and the smuggling organizations really don't care too much about the welfare of these migrants. they just care about the money they're getting. take a look at this video. this is border patrol discovering 17 migrants who had been locked by the smuggling gangs in to a rail car. when they were discovered by border patrol, many of them were suffering pretty badly and needed medical treatment. it just gives you a sense, mike, of the desperation of the migrants and how those smuggling gangs are more than happy to prey on that desperation. mike? >> mike: great point, jonathan hunt on the border in laredo, texas. jonathan, many thanks. >> alicia: a tragic update on a story we have been following closely. the u.s. navy officially declaring all five missing sailors deceased after a helicopter crashed off the coast

of san diego on tuesday. the search-and-rescue mission now a recovery operation. one crewmember was rescued after the mh-60 helicopter crashed during a routine flight from the carrier uss abraham lincoln. the navy is investigating the cause of the crash. coming up, taliban fighters are celebrating after taking full control of afghanistan with the departure of the last u.s. troops. but with their history of brutality and harboring terrorists, what happens to afghanistan now? and what happens to the americans and our allies left there? that's next.

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taliban. it is called the [inaudible] valley. it is to the north of kabul and north of the capital. today at least some taliban officials are saying they are in control of it. that's right, the taliban is saying they are now in control of one of the last patches of land that wasn't under their control. this video purports to show the taliban in the vicinity of the valley, note the humvee there, next to the taliban. by the way, that's equipment the u.s. gave the government of afghanistan to fight the taliban and now at the disposal of the taliban. the so called afghan resistance saying they are in control. that means members of the former government and fighters who moved into this area when the taliban took over. they by the way were holed up there when the taliban was last in power back in 1995 to 2001. and it is from there that they began their triumphant march on kabul, when the u.s. military teamed up with them, after 9/11. as to prove the point that they are in control, the former

afghan vice president appeared in a video that looked to have been shot in the valley and was up loaded on to the internet friday calling reports that he has fled the country taliban propaganda and false. that doesn't appear to have spooked the taliban, though. one afghan news agency is reporting that 17 people were killed by celebratory gunfire, ie, taliban shooting into the air to celebrate their alleged victory. all of that today in kabul alone after reports spread that the taliban had taken the valley. reports i should emphasize we cannot verify, obviously working on that. remember, these two groups have been fighting one another for more than 20 years. meanwhile, mike, in kabul, a group of afghan women were attacked by taliban fighters while protesting for their rights saturday. the taliban fired into the air and used tear gas, according to one protester, bringing that demonstration, the second of its

kind in as many days to an abrupt end. what rights women will have under the taliban is a huge unknown. of course it is going to remain that way, mike, until we get the official government -- we're expecting that any time now and until that government announces its policies. >> mike: the taliban has never been good to women. ryan chilcote in london, thank you very much. >> alicia: republicans and democrats on capitol hill demanding answers on afghanistan. now the house armed services committee is demanding defense secretary lloyd austin submit details on u.s. strategy in afghanistan including plans to bring home americans left behind. let's bring in florida congressman, an afghanistan war veteran, and a member of the house armed services committee. congressman, thank you very much for being here today. i want to hit first on this amendment that made it through on friday out of the committee that you sit on. what i'm curious about is we've seen over the past few weeks the administration saying one thing,

while americans watched something very different on their phones and on their tvs. what makes you think that requiring the pentagon to be more transparent and plans going forward will have any teeth? >> well, we're going to continue to demand these answers. it's bipartisan. we have to -- this will be part of law as part of the defense bill, but at the end of the day, it is enormously frustrating to see secretary of state blinken essentially shrugging his shoulders and saying we'll get around to it. it may not happen today or tomorrow. that's not helpful to the americans who are hiding right now, their families, alies hunted down door-to-door. my staff was just in touch with some this morning. there are planes ready to go that are private sector chartered planes ready to get them out, and they can't get our own state department to give the appropriate clearances and do the right kind of coordination

with the taliban to let them take off. so this is just -- it's unconscionable and frankly it is unforgivable so demanding at least a plan and some answers on how we're going to get americans out, how we're going to get our allies out, and what this term over the horizon counterterrorism really means now that we're about to have a terrorist super state on our hands is the least we can do. >> alicia: is there anything that can be done to force the secretary of state's office to be more forthcoming as well? is this just the pentagon, or is this something that you can move forward with with secretary blinken? the reason i ask that is that i was talking to another member of congress whose office was trying to help a former army ranger interpreter get his family out. he said he saved american lives and now his family is waiting to be hunted down by the taliban. from what they have experienced

in dealing with the different departments is the bottleneck is the state department. >> well, that's right. their point man on all of this and blinken should both resign in my view. this has been an absolute debacle. we have left americans behind, which is un-american, despite the president's promises. but what they should be doing going forward is working as a public private partnership with these various grassroots veterans organizations that have had to step into the void, congressional offices that have been trying to find -- provide them some kind of official push as well, because state and defense, you know, haven't been able to get it done. so we can work together. we don't have to be at odds here, but we need these -- these planes need clearances, and they need the official cover of the state department to assure these countries where they're going to land that they're not going to have a refugee crisis on their

hand, that the united states will process these people and move them onward. and without that, we're stuck, and americans are stuck, and that is again, it is outrageous. >> alicia: and secretary blinken did address americans who are still stuck in afghanistan. he appeared to try to clean up a little bit some of the statements that the biden administration has made this week, with regard to the people stuck there, essentially according to their critics, that it was kind of their fault because they didn't heed the warnings. take a listen to the secretary. i will get your response. >> most of the remaining american citizens are dual nationals whose home is afghanistan and whose extended families live there. so it's no surprise that deciding whether or not to leave the place they call home is a wrefrmging decision. -- is a wrenching decision. >> alicia: what do you think about that? >> i think it is a bunch of garbage. let me be blunt because i can tell you the people we are talking to are scared. they're desperate to leave.

they very much have wanted to leave. they were trying to when the kabul airport was open, and they're still trying to now. and saying well, we sent you some e-mails 19 times, while at the same time, government officials across the administration were saying everything's going to be fine, and then within that e-mail, it basically says well, you have to get over land, cross-country, through taliban checkpoints to the airport, the u.s. government cannot provide for your safety. you know why they couldn't provide for their safety? because we pulled our helicopters and military assets out and shut our bases down before we got americans out. you know, that's just -- it is a weak and feckless excuse. what all these groups keep asking me, veterans, gold star families, families of people left behind, where's the accountability? who is going to raise their hand and say i screwed up? i take responsibility. you can't say the buck stops with me and then proceed to blame five other people in the

same breath. and we have seen zero accountability from this administration. i tried during the defense bill to enter into a motion at least -- but we have no confidence in biden as commander in chief, and the democrats were outraged. you know who should be outraged? are those families of those people who were left behind, and those gold star families of 13 servicemembers who were put in an impossible position to try to defend kabul airport while also evacuating people. we'll continue to demand accountability, but this has been pretty underwhelming from the administration, and really kind of apathetic and heartless. >> alicia: meantime, all of those people are waiting. congressman mike waltz, thank you very much for joining me today. appreciate it. >> mike: the democrat divide rearing its head over a massive spending bill that's key to president biden's domestic agenda. a powerful moderate says not so

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>> alicia: larry elder, the radio host running to replace embattled california governor in a recall election has picked up a key endorsement, a top state democrat with a vote ten days away. christina coleman has the latest from los angeles. >> a lot is happening with this recall election. some heavy-hitting democrats are campaigning for governor newsom, n the final stretch of this -- in the final stretch of this, minnesota senator amy klobuchar will be at a campaign event with newsom tomorrow and massachusetts senator warren is campaigning with him in los angeles right now. she calls this recall election a republican power grab. the latest poll shows newsom up by nearly 20 points among likely voters, as he tries to convince voters that this recall effort is driven by trump supporters.

>> the principle proponent behind this recall, the guy who got off his couch, his words not mine and went out and got signatures on the streets to sign this petition did so because he was offended that the governor of state of california stood up against trump and trumpism and stood up against the flawed immigration and deportation policies of the former president of the united states and advanced the cause of diversity by advancing healthcare for all californians, regardless of their immigration status. >> registered democrats outnumber republicans 2 to 1 for this all mail election. so far 20% of the ballots have already come back. there's 46 candidates seeking to replace newsom. conservative radio show host larry elder is leading the field of challengers. >> this man has been an absolute disaster. the quality of our schools has declined. homelessness is up. cost of living is up. forest mismanagement. >> also larry elder has gained

the endorsement of a former top state democrat, former california senate majority leader gloria romero. >> i was just tired of the false narrative that was put forward, that this is a right wing conspiracy. there are 1.7 million californians that signed that recall petition. i was one of them. and the second major reason really that i decided to endorse especially larry elder was that i was tired of the rules for thee but not for me attitude of the prince of the [inaudible] who shut down our public schools, but then he sent his kids to school. >> vice president kamala harris will be in the bay area on wednesday, though it's unclear whether she will be campaigning for newsom that day. alicia? >> alicia: christina coleman in los angeles, good to see you, thanks. it's about investing in america's future, not about short-term stimulus.

that's not what we're talking about. these are long-term prosperity we're talking about, about lowering the cost of living for families, creating millions of good-paying jobs for hard-working americans. >> mike: president biden doubling down on his 3.5 trillion dollars spending bill. it's key to his entire economic agenda, but it could be in danger from members of his own party. west virginia senator joe manchin and other moderates say they will oppose the bill unless the price tag is cut down. that's reopening a huge divide with progressives. fox news contributor john bussey, associate editor of the "wall street journal." john, welcome. >> pleasure. >> mike: let's put on the screen some of the goodies in this 3.5 trillion dollars spending package that democrats want to get done. permanent status for millions of undocumented immigrants. clean energy manufacturing and transportation. free pre-k for 3 and 4-year-olds. tuition free community college.

and guaranteed paid family leave. john, that es just the surface of -- that's just the surface of it; right? >> there's also expansion to medicare benefits to include dental and vision, expanded services through medicare. these are a lot of things that democrats have wanted to get done for some time, and the issue has always been how are we going to pay for it? the friction is not just between democrats and republicans over this issue. the friction is also between moderate democrats who have to go back to a constituency at home and explain it to perhaps a generally moderate or conservative democratic base and progressives or the left wing of the party that really wants this plan to go through. so the problem is going to be now, and you're going to see this shake out in the coming weeks, how are you going to pay for it? are you going to raise taxes? on whom? do you have to scale back the program? >> mike: west virginia democrat senator joe manchin wrote in the "wall street journal" why i won't support spending another

3.5 trillion dollars, citing his concerns about debt and inflation. is that really a gut punch for president biden when a member of his own party says not so fast? >> it's a problem for president biden, but it's -- it was a known problem. senator manchin has been concerned about this from the get-go. other senators, many in the house also are trying to figure out how to pay for it. and there's a lot of different ways that this can be paid for or perhaps scaled back, maybe even some of the programs initiated, but the date brought forward so the total package cost goes down, but you still get that kind of effort of an additional program in the system. so how will it get paid for? democrats are generally in consensus that taxes have to go up on companies. the question is, by how much? on the wealthy, the question is, how and by how much?

do you do things like change capital gains taxes which might affect farm communities, in other words, inherited wealth, would you change the way in which inherited wealth is taxed? well, what happens if the inherited wealth is a farm, and it goes to a new family member, and suddenly the tax bill is so high that you have to sell the farm. so a lot of rural democrats, not just republicans, but democrats are quite concerned about this. the shakeout period, the real stress testing for this bill is happening right now. you're going to see a lot more debate in the coming weeks over how to spend, how to raise the money for the spending, and whether or not some of that spending needs to be tailed back a bit. >> mike: in a house with narrow majority, 50/50 senate, every vote counts. is there a risk of blowing up the bipartisan infrastructure package because progressives are saying we're not doing that

until we vote on the 3.5 trillion dollars package first? >> yes, there's always that possibility that progressives want to tie the 3.5 trillion to the infrastructure bill so that one doesn't get left behind. >> mike: uh-huh. >> you are right. this is quite a narrow, narrow margin for president biden in the senate he's got to have all the democrats in line on that. that means that if both these bills are moving ahead at the same time, you have to get all of those senators agreeing on both bills, how the bill is going to be paid for and what's going to be in the bill. yes, this is -- in the house, you can lose a few votes but not many more than a small handful. so he faces problems from the left wing of his party and the moderate wing of his party, but there's also pressure on both of those camps to find some accommodation because both want some version of both bills to go through, so you'll probably see a lot of haggling and horse trading in the coming days.

>> mike: lots of horse trading, john bussey, thank you very much joining us. >> my pleasure. >> alicia: mike, hurricane ida now turning into a political football. congressional democrats are looking to use the devastating storm as a way to push for their massive infrastructure bill. and they are setting a deadline for later this month to make it happen. chad pergram has more from the hill. >> it's said never let a crisis go to waste. democrats are using the storm as rationale to push their agenda, stocked be environmental provisions. >> global warming is upon us. that's why it is so imperative to pass the two bills. >> democrats hope to pass both bills soon. they're linking environmental issues with social programs. >> when we talk about climate change, when we talk about housing. >> even some republicans who backed the bipartisan infrastructure plan said hurricane ida made their case. >> if anything points out the

importance of hardening the grid, improving sewer, water, flood mittation and coastal restoration, it is this storm. >> -- flood mitigation and coastal restoration, it is this storm. >> there is skepticism. >> they don't trust the political class in this area to dedicate money to infrastructure. it gets siphoned off into welfare, union contracts and political insiderism. >> disaster aid used to be easy to pass in congress. that's because every part of the country faces natural disasters, be they earthquakes or tornadoes >> there's no such thing as a democratic hurricane or a republican drought. and typically these spending measures are bipartisan. >> but that changed the last time a major storm struck new york. super storm sandy in 2012. >> it was like i was asking for foreign aid from the soviet union. people who thought this was just another scam by new york. >> fema had 41 billion dollars ahead of hurricane ida. but there's already bipartisan demand for additional spending

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relationship between china and the taliban. a top official in the insurgent group calling beijing, quote, a trustworthy friend in allowing china to access afghanistan's natural resources, like copper and aluminium. china has said it wants friendly and cooperative relations with taliban, though it is yet to formally recognize the new regime. ghar don chang joining us -- gordan chang is joining us now. welcome. >> thank you, mike. >> mike: how alarmed should folks in washington be about the relationship between china and the taliban? >> we should be mindful of this long-term relationship which goes back before 9/11 and which continued after that horrific event. we know china was selling arms including anti-aircraft missiles to the taliban, and those arms were used against american and nato troops. also the afghan government in december actually apprehended chinese agents who were offering

bounties for the killing of americans. and so we've had a political class that has ignored china's acts of war in these hostile events. >> mike: why is china so interested in afghanistan? we touched on the natural resources. is that it? what more might there be? >> there are a couple of other things, mike. first of all, china doesn't want the taliban to offer a refuge to uighurs and other minorities who are being brutally oppressed in china, but also china wants to connect afghanistan to the belton road, its global infrastructure program, and what is not talked about is that china would like afghanistan to be part of its land bridge to the arabian sea so it can avoid the choke point of the strait. so there are a lot of different things that china wants out of afghanistan. >> mike: the chinese playing it cool and not officially recognizing the taliban as the official government of afghanistan, is that wise? >> well, beijing shouldn't do

that of course, but they probably will. they've kept their embassy open as has russia, which is a real indication of these ties. we've got to remember that senior leaders of the taliban went to the chinese city on july 28th. they held a meeting with the foreign minister, and we should know what was discussed because the concern here is that china has been providing financial support to the taliban in its campaign to take down the afghan government. the taliban paid a lot of money to the afghan military in the last four, five weeks, and the question is, where did they get that cash? and so these are questions that the biden administration is just not asking. >> mike: speaking of the biden administration, you made reference to china keeping its embassy open. is there a possibility that the biden administration's going to have to call beijing and say can you help get americans and afghan partners out? >> i'm sure that's been part of the discussions that we've had with china. you know, it's not only secretary of state, but also

john kerry was there just a couple days ago and although it was supposed to be limited to climate change, i wouldn't be surprised if they discussed a range of issues.

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this is coming from top officials at both the fda and cdc who are saying look, we just don't have the evidence yet to support booster shots for all vaccinated american adults. according to the "new york times," fda commissioner dr. woodcock and dr. walensky advising the white house that their agencies need more time to study the data before going ahead with booster shots contrary to the president's plan to begin offering additional shots to every fully vaccinated american adult as soon as this month. the white house says it will continue to follow the science, but its position on booster shots is taking on plenty of scrutiny following reports that two fda officials will step down in the coming weeks after it looked like the white house's plan would move forward without the full support of the agency's advisory committee. nih director dr. francis collins on this issue this morning. >> i'm sympathetic with the

folks at fda and cdc who feel like they are under a pretty tight timetable here but we need to do that to protect the american public >> the delta variant continuing to surge across the country, the u.s. averaging nearly 160,000 daily new infections numbers not seen since last january. the surge overwhelming hospital systems, contributing to staffing shortages and nurse burnout often hitting rural americans hardest. >> they're working as hard as they can to try to keep these people alive long enough to get them to a place and often times it is too late. >> and in the sports world, boxing legend oscar de la hoya withdrawing from his fight against former ufc champion next weekend. de la hoya revealing on twitter he is now hospitalized with covid-19, despite being fully vaccinated. and alicia, de la hoya says he does expect to make a full

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