captioning sponsored by cbs >> i'm nancy cordes in wawashington, and this week on "face the nation," overseas the taliban offensive in afghanistan enters a perilous new phase. breaking overnight, the astonishing unraveling of afghanistan. the taliban captures more territory just this morning, and they're now in the capitol city of kabul, forcing u.s. troops to race back into the country to get u.s. diplomats out. we'll get the latest on the evacuation. back home, the delta variant is causing cases to skyrocket from coast to coast, along the gulf coast some health systems are on the virge of collapse. >> hospitals are full.

everything is full. >> our people are at the brink. >> we've seen the highest number of children in our hospitals than we've seen in the entire pandemic. >> the f.d.a. approves a third vaccine dose for the people at greatest risk, but it is those who wouldn't get their first dose who are fueling this outbreak. >> biden: everyone who is not vaccinated -- i know it is a broken radio -- get vaccinated. >> we'll talk to steve scalise about the crisis in his state. plus more than a thousand florida students are now under covid quarantine. we'll hear from rosalind osgood, the school board chief in broward county, where three educators have died from covid in the last week. and with disgraced new york governor andrew cuomo on his way out, we'll ask the lieutenant-governor, kathy hochul, how she plans to clean up the mess

in albany. and on the oth side the country, cal rnor gew ces a rall ele ss than a month. we'll cbs poll on that race and a lot more. all ahead on "face the nation." >> good morning. and welcome to "face the nation." we have a lot to get to this morning, including a fluid situation in afghanistan that seems to be deteriorating by the minute. more on that soon. but we want to begin with the dire covid-19 pandemic here in the united states. nationwide 77% of i.c.u. beds are now filled. hospitals in five states are at about 90% capacity. rrest markstssnn begins our coverage in atlanta. >> this is a 40-year-old patient. he is a dad o>> rr: dperate

times, desperate mea this delta surge hit and it is raging like wildfire through the states. >> reporter: in jackson, the state's only level 1 trauma center has 114 patients with the virus. that has quadrupled in a month. this weekend, the facility opened this 30-bed field hospital, a tent inside a parking garage. >> more dire than the number of beds is the staffing. >> that's right. >> reporter: dr. luann woodward, she is the alpha leader fighting the delta variant. >> the biggest problem is staffing. i don't think there is a calgary out there to come and rescue us. we've got hospitals across the state that are making public servi sa pase do nme t our emeen repos america, covid hospitalizations have

skyrocketed, up 333% in the last month. >> it is real. it is terrifying. and tragically, it is preventable. >> reporter: prevent table because roughly 90% of the sickest patients are unvaccinated, with so many soft targets, the delta variant now spreads like chicken pox. >> we're right back where we started. >> reporter: others are mask defiant. >> i don't understand why we can't be responsible for ourselves. >> reporter: and schools reopening, covid hospital patients under 18 have tripped in the last month. like this florida 15-year-old. >> i'm just happy that i'm not under that anymore. >> reporter: almost 100,000 more kids tested positive last week. dallas county, texas, has nearly 700,000 kids, but zero pediatric i.c.u. beds for any of them if they

get sick. >> if they get covid and need a bed, we don't have one. >> reporter: frustrations and tempers keep rising. here in georgia, nearly 90% of i.c.u. beds are full as covid hospitalizations keep rising and there is no end in sight. nancy? >> and some schools in georgia already going virtual. mark strassmann in atlanta, thank you so much. we want to go to president biden's chief medical advisor, dr. anthony fauci. good morning to you. >> doctor: good morning. >> you heard the numbers in mark's piece. they are horrific. i want to start with the very dire situation in the south, particularly in mississippi, where cases have risen by more than 2,000% in the past month. medical officials there say that the state's largest hospital system could fail within days. what is the federal government doing to help states like mississippi and louisiana?

>> doctor: well, if you go out to the immediate, we're sending surge teams to help with the actual implementation of the immediate response. that's fema, that's c.d.c. people, that's people from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response. they're help setting up to provide some treatment, lilike monoclonal antibodies to help with the immediate situation. you know, nancy, as we discussed many, many times, all of this is entirely predictable, and yet on the other hand, entirely preventable. we've got to get people vaccinated. we have about 90 million people who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not vaccinated. and that is very highly concentrated in the southern states, including mississippi and other states, in which you have, compared to the general

average of vaccinations in the country, an undervaccinated group. and those are the people in whom the outbreak with a highly, highly transmissible delta variant is spreading. and it is really tragic because we're seeing a lot of people get seriously ill. and as you've shown, the hospitalizations are on the of actually overrunning the hospitals, particularly in intensive care units. >> we're seeing some encouraging numbers when it comes to vaccinations from these gulf states. the rates of vaccination tripling and even quadrupling over the past couple of weeks. i know we're very focused on the south, but you're looking at the data from across the country. what's coming next? >> doctor: well, what's coming next is that we are going to have to continue to get people vaccinated so that right now even in states in which you have a good, relative proportion of people vaccinated, you have to get the overwhelming proportion of people vaccinated. but you also have to do

mitigation. and that gets to the controversial issue of mask-wearing, and the mandating of things, mandating of vaccines, for example, for teachers and people in the personnel in the schools. but also in situations as uncomfortable as we know and as controversial as we know it is for mask-wearing, particularly in schools -- you've just got to realize we're dealing with a public health crisis. the more you get fin infections you get, the greater the virus has the opportunity to mutate. right now we are fortunate that the vnes wee are quite good against the delta variant, particularly with regard to preventing severe disease with hospitalizations and deaths. we're certainly getting what we call breakthrough infections, which means a person who is vaccinated

may get infected and may actually even spread the virus, but in general those people are not the ones getting seriously ill and dying. it is the unvaccinated that are doing that. so we have a lot of tasks. we have got to do mitigation, and put aside all of these issues of concern about liberties and personal liberties and realize we have a common enemy, and that common enemy is the virus. and we really have to all pull together to get on top of this, otherwise we're going to continue to suffer, as we're seeing right now. >> you know, you brought up the efficacy of the vaccines. i want to ask you about this new study out of minnesota that suggested that the moderna vaccine is actually more affective against the delta variant than the pfizer vaccine. does this study indicate that if and when people do have to get booster shots, they should go ahead and get a moderna shot, even if they got pfizer the first time around? >> doctor: no, nancy, not at all because that study, first of all, is a

pre-print study. it hasn't been fully peer reviewed. i don't doubt what they're seeing, but there are a lo cfong n one wa lavemount of peoplet that is delta versus alpha. right now if we get boosters -- you know, we're talking about boosters, and we already implemented boosters for the immune-compromised. we want to make sure we get people, if possible, to get the boost from the original vaccine that they had. but, remember, the original dose of the moderna is about three times what the dose of a pfizer is. you may have a difference in diewciin en durability -- hopefully the actual approval comes very soon.

>> you mentioned boosters for the immunocompromised, how soon will people be able to get those boosters. and there is some talk about your administration looking ahead and giving boosters to people in nursing homes or health care settings in the fall. what can you tell us about that? >> doctor: nancy, there are two issues there. and you did quite right to separate the two, because the issue with the immune compromised, people on chemotherapy, peopleare immunosuppressive, they can get their boost literally right now. what we're planning for and looking ahead, even though we are not saying that other people who are not immune compromised, be the elderly, or people who the nare not elderly, they made

to get a booster shot. we're looking on a daily and weekly basis in cohorts not only in the united states but in other countries, to determine if, when, and to whom we should be giving this. so if it turns out as the data comes in, we see we do need to give an additional dose to people in nursing homes, actually, or people who are elderly, we will be absolutely prepared to do that very quickly. >> got it. we'll be watching for that. dr. anthony fauci, thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> doctor: thank you for having me. >> and "face the nation." will be back in one minute. stay with us. we see that in your smile, your style, we see that spark in every great deed to every fulfilled need we see it in your heart from coast to coast, we see flickers of hope thank you for sharing your spark.

[speaking in sign language] [speaking in sign language] >> we want to turn now to afghanistan, where the security situation is getting worse by the hour as the u.s. eased up its withdrawal, and the taliban moved into the capitol city. "the associated press" is now reporting that the afghanistan president, ashraf ghani, has left the country.

cbs news foreign correspondent roxana saberi filed this report in kabul before rushing to the airport to get out. >> reporter: good morning. over the past few hours, the taliban have reached the gates of the capitol. some eye witnesses say they have even seen the group's fighters inside. today negotiations have been taking place at the presidential palace, not far from here, over the transfer of power to the taliban. this comes as the insurgents have seized city after city in afghanistan in just over a week. in a statement, the taliban spokesman said the group will not enter the city by force, and pledged it won't take revenge on anyone. but panicked residents have swarmed the streets of the capitol, with some racing to leave. we've spoken to many afghans in the past few days, who have been fearing for the taliban's survival. some fled from the countryside to the capitol, seeking safety from the taliban. they told us about loved ones killed by the

insurgents, and said they're worried about losing basic freedoms under a return to taliban rule. for now the capitol appears mostly quiet, but once u.s. troops finish evacuating american troops from the embassy here, all bets are off. nancy? >> roxana saberi in kabul, thank you. senior foreign correspondent charlie d'agata is also monitoring the latest developments from london. >> reporter: good morning, nancy. when i was last in afghanistan, just last month, the government had control of most of the country and all of the provincial capitals, but even that taliban militants were on the rampage, excel rating their offensive, until finally reaching the capitol itself today. with the shocking speed of the unstoppable taliban offensive, it soon became clear that the takeover of kabul itself was inevitable. it gathered pace as the

militant group overran major cities, often without afghanistan forces even putting up a fight. the afghanistan military, ou and funded by america and its allies, surrendered or fled in the face of fighting. about the only thing capable of stopping the taliban: u.s. airstrikes were all but removed from the battlefield. when we were last on theo3 front lines a few weeks ago, the militants were focusing on smaller, regional cities. it was thought then that they would hold off launching an all-out offensive until all u.s. forces were out by august 31st. but then the provincial capitols began falling. kunduz, a strategic city to the north. the taliban blasted their way, raised their flag and declared victory. the taliban was advancing at stunning speed. and whatever morale was left among afghanistan

forces was collapsing. tens of thousands fled the fighting, with many seeking refuge in kabul. the fall of gozni, to the south of the capitol, choked off the major highway leading to the south, further isolating the city. then in rapid succession, the country's three largest cities were overrun. kandahar to the south, mazar-e-sharif to the north, and harat to the west. even the most dire intelligence predictions from washington warned that kabul could fall within one to three months. that was just one week ago. a senior u.s. source tells cbs news the taliban have captured the former u.s. air base in baghram. the consequences of leaving the afghanistan military to face the fight alone will resonate far beyond afghanistan itself. the taliban have made it clear from the beginning their aim was a full takeover of the country.

while many predicted it was inevitable, few thought it could happen this quickly. what is harder to predict now: how the taliban intend to impose their rule over the citizens of afghanistan. nancy? >> charlie d'agata, thank you. we'll be right back with a lot more "face the nation." stay with us. imbruvica is the #1 prescribed oral therapy for cll, and it's proven to help people live longer. imbruvica is not chemotherapy. imbruvica can cause serious side effects, which may lead to death. bleeding problems are common and may increase with blood thinners. serious infections with symptoms like fevers, chills, weakness or confusion and severe decrease in blood counts can happen. heart rhythm problems and heart failure may occur especially in people with increased risk of heart disease, infection, or past heart rhythm problems. new or worsening high blood pressure, new cancers, and tumor lysis that can result in kidney failure, irregular heartbeat, and seizure can occur.

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we were seeing things in social media that they weren't really talking about in the call. it is a dire situation when you see the united states embassy being evacuated. you just had president biden a few days ago seeing they wouldn't evacuate the embassy. it was president biden's saigon moment. it was very predictable. mny got this devastatingly wrong, and i think a lot of questions will be asked later about why just weeks ago they were saying something completely different from what we're seeing on the ground in afghanistan. >> nancy: last week the president said he did not expect that the taliban would be able to retake all of the country. he said this weekend onereear oe years of u.s. military presence would not have made a difference if the afghanistan military cannot, or will not, hold its own country. white house officials are essentially arguing it was president trump who set this in motion when he

agreed to withdraw u.s. troops completely by may 1st. so was all of this inevitable? >> no. in fact, you're seeing a lot of finger pointing and blaming. there used to be the saying that the buck stops here on the president's desk, and he wants to blame everybody else. president trump had an agreement in place that were conditions-based. and those conditions were not met. many of the conditions were that the taliban wouldn't undertake the cities. president biden didn't follow through on the conditions that were in place. he let them come and run rough shot. they are burning documents at the embassy and trying to get everybody out, instead of following through on the commitments that were made. this sends a more concerning message to our allies around the world and to our enemies around the world who are watching this. china is very involved in what is happening right now in afghanistan. as are other adversaries. and so they're seeing just

how easy it was to overtake these areas where the president really said it wouldn't happen and it did happen. so it is an epic failure on president biden's foreign policy. he needs to take ownership of this and take other steps to make sure this doesn't happen again. he was either widely misled by his own intelligence, or he was misleading the american people deliberately. but he said very different things just days ago than what we're seeing happen on the ground. he has to take ownership of that. >> nancy: congressman, i want to switch gears and switch to the very serious covid situation in your state. your chief health officer in louisiana said: "if we don't peak within a wee be a catastrophic situation for hospitals." what's your biggest concern right now, congressman? >> clearly the hospitals having overloaded capacity are the biggest concern. just like a year ago new

orleans seemed to be the epicenter when things got really bad in the very beginning of the pandemic last year. we're seeing that break out again with the delta variant. it is a very widespread disease. we're seeing it inhoully we geta peak and start seeing it subside. but it is a concern, and i know the governor is taking action at the state level, and we're giving them all of the help they need. >> nancy: you got vaccinated last month. you're urginging louisiana residents to do the same. you're so well-known in louisiana. do you wish now you would have gone ahead and gotten vaccinated sooner to send that message and set that example. >> you still probably have two-thirds of our state unvaccinated. what we need to be doing is encourage people to get vaccinated. not trying to shame people who are unvaccinated.

i had antibodies, so i ultimately made the decision once i saw the delta variant picking up, i thought it was important to get vaccinated. i have high confidence in this vaccination, i think it is safe and effective. we ought to be giving people information, encouraging people to go talk to their doctors, because there is real hesitancy out there. and we ought to be confronting that, not trying to divide people based on who is vaccinated and who is unvaccinated. >> nancy: your governor, john belle, has reinstated an indoor mask mandate. i know in the past you've been skeptical of the mandates, but what is your view now, now that louisiana is at its peak? is it safe to issue a mandate? >> i don't want mandates at the federal level. i said those conversations need to be had at the state and local levels. you can look at

los angeles, california, one of the worst outbreaks in the country, they've had a mask mandate for a long time. but we need to be focusing on getting more people to get vaccinated. one of the real areas of hesitancy we're seeing that is a real problem, is that people are saying it is not f.d.a. approved. and yet we're 200 days into president biden's administration. he still hasn't appointed a head of the f.d.a -- and that's a failure on president biden's part. >> nancy: thank you thank you so much for joining us. i have to leave it there. and we'll be right back. ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds.

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>> nancy: welcome back to "face the nation." we're going to turn back to the rapid deterioration in afghanistan and take a look at this map. it shows how much of that country is currently controlled by the taliban. much of it seized by militants just over the past few days. for some context, we're now joined by cbs news national security correspondent david martin. good morning. >> good morning. >> nancy: you know, just a couple of days ago the plan was to leave at least some u.s. diplomats in the country long-term. now it sounds like they're trying to get everyone out as quickly as possible, maybe even by today. what's the latest? >> just before i walked on here, i got an e-mail that

the ambassador has now left the embassy compound and is at the airport, along with the american flag. they are on track to have every american, u.s. diplomats, u.s. military, u.s. citizens, out o ghanisby aust 31st, if not sooner. they're going to set up this embassy at the airport to process the visa applications for all of those afghans who worked for the u.s. during the war and now have to fear for their lives. once that is done, the u.s. military is scheduled to pull out on august 31st. and if kabul is still under threat, the american flag is going to go with them. >> nancy: and they're obviously moving to the airport because they think isvacuation is workingiplats ant

exactly? where are these diplomats and these afghans being taken? and are military officials convinced they're going to be able to keep everybody safe? >> 5,000 troops are in the process of going into that airport. so that's a pretty secure airport. some of those troops are shuttling the employees at the state department embassy compound to the airport, and then the same planes that brought those combat troops and their equipment into the country will fly them out. it depends on if it is an american citizen, they can come back to the united states. if it is an afghan citizen who is applying for an immigrant visa, he'll probably have to go to a third country while that application process goes on. how safe it is? sort of depends on whether

the taliban try to intervene. you would think they would not intervene because we're doing exactly what they want us to do, which is get out. >> nancy: leave. u. combat troops is notht they . the dicey part is if the u.s. decides it has to send helicopters out into the city to pick up american citizens and some of these afghans who work to the united states who can't make it to the airport on their own. >> nancy: the speed when with the taliban has retaken the country seems to have taken the biden administration completely by surprise. i want to play for you what antony blinken said to congress a couple of months about this. take a listen. >> whatever happens in afghanistan, if there is a significant deterioration insecurity, that could well happen. we discussed this before. i don't think it is going a be something that

mond.>> yet exy whatas happened, from a friday to a monday. >> everybody is surprised by the speed of this collapse. and i'll bet the taliban are just as surprised. they must be pinching themselves right now at the speed of this afghanistan collapse. when president biden made the decision in april, the absolute worst-case scenario was the government would collapse within three to four months of the withdrawal the withdrawal, for all intents and purposes, was done on july 4th, five weeks since then. so even the worst case was off. and then last week started with this alarming estimate that the capitol could be under threat in 30 days.he taliban is at the gates of kabul and it's looking very much like the taliban will be

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three-month, four-month impeachment and then win and have made the state legislature and state government look like a ship of fools, when everything i've done all of my life was for the act oose." this doesn't sound like someone who thinks he has done anything wrong. >> well, i'm not going to try to get into the head of the governor and understand his motivation for saying what he does. that's not what my role is. my role is to have a smooth transition and hit the ground running literally in a matter of days. so i've got a lot of weighty challenges in reaching out to the experts and the elected officials. i ill have no distractions in my administration because we focus on what is best for the people in this state. >> nancy: your name does not appear in the 165 page attorney general's report about governor andrew cuomo. but there is at least one lawmaker who is suggesting that you turn over your e-mails to prove that you

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>> nancy: have you decided who your lt. governor will be? >> there is a lot of excitement. i will limit to new york city. i want someone who lives there, and i want someone who understands the challenges firsthand. i'll have a very diverse administration, but also excited about the prospect of having a true partnership with the lieutenant-governor, who i think will bring a lot to the table. >> nancy: we'll be watching. lt. governor kathy hochul from new york, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> nancy: and we'll be back in a moment.

>> nancy: now to the escalating battle over masks in schools. more than 40 school boards in five texas counties are defying the governor's mask mandate, and in florida, school districts in at least two counties are doing the same. we're going to go now to dr. rosalind osgood. she is the chair of the broward county school board, to hear mo good morning. >> good morning. >> nancy: i want to ask

you why you and your school board decided to go ahead and vote to impose a mask mandate in your school district, where kids are set to go back to school on wednesday? and are you heartened to see that so many other school districts are doing the same thing? >> well, eight out of the nine of us on our school boards decided to protect the lives of our students and staff at all costs. we believe in science. we're living out the nightmare of the covid pandemic, where so many people in our county, including members of our staff and others, are being impacted. we have lost three teachers -- i'm sorry, two teachers and one e.s.p. to covid. others are hospitalized. we believe we have a constitutional obligation to protect the lives of

our students and staff. and we've received, you know, threats from our governor. it has been really, really dramatic and horrible to be put in this position. but at the end of the day, lives are invaluable. and we have to make sure that we use the tools that we can to mitigate the damage of this pandemic. we know that we want everybody to be vaccinated. but that's not the reality. as local school boards, we don't believe we have the authority -- we are investigating it legally -- to mandate vaccinations for staff. and we know we certainly can't do it for students. so when you have a population of about 50,000 poli50,000plus of students thate 12 and under, who don't have an option for vaccination, you have staff with pre-existing conditions and children with medical conditions, we believe that masks is a tool that will help us mitigate the spread of covid. when you bring students

and staff into a classroom environment, a school bus environment, we have to protect them at all costs. >> nancy: and yet because you are taking that step, the governor is threatening to withhold your pay. he is threatening to fine the school district thousands of dollars. you've been in touch with biden administration officials in the past 24 hours. i know the president himself called your school superintendent. what is the administration telling you about how they will make you whole if the governor makes good on his threat? >> yeah. i had a conversation with mary walls, the senior policy advisor for the white house covid pandemic task force yesterday. and president biden also had the secretary of education, dr. mi miguel

cordona stressing the mandate of masking at school. and they said we can use our excess dollars of the elementary and secondary relief fund to replace our salaries, if necessary. it was very encouraging to get the support of the white house during this very, very difficult time that we find ourselves in. you know, we've worked -- our staff has worked, dr. anton hickman, dr. jermaine simmons, who was the chief of strategy operations, and dr. leo nesles, have worked with their staff to put in all kinds of protocols to keep our students safe. we have a partnership with the department of health, where we will be able to offer testing onsite, with parental consent for any children that show symptoms of covid. we have vaccinated a lot of our staff. so we've worked to put in air quality control

systems, and we feel very strongly we can bring all of our students back safely. and keep in mind that because of the close environment, we cannot practice six feet of social distancing. but for all of the other protocols we put in place to ensure their safety, we believe will allow us to provide them with physical safety, as well as mental health support. because we saw that during the time that our children were at home, suicide rates increased, their social/emotional learning dropped off, and it impacted them dramatically when it relates to education when we started the test scores. so we've been working extremely hard to put these in place, and we're not going to risk their lives by allowing it to be optional. >> nancy: doctor, we know that everyone hopes that kids can remain in school this school year. so thank you for everything you're doing to make that happen. and thank you so much for coming on "face the nation" today.

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>> nancy: california voters head to the polls in less than a month to decide whether to recall democratic governor gavin newsom, just two years into this term. joining us with some new poll numbers is cbs news elections and surveys director anthony salvanto. good morning. one of the things that is most interesting about this poll is you were able to put some numbers to this growing sense of frustration among vaccinated americans, when it comes to those who have so far chosen not to get the shots. >> reat to see you, nancy. it starts with this overwhelming feeling among californiaians that their state's recent risen you k what coueted nd a top

answer is, well, more vaccinations. so we went ahead and asked those who have gotten the shot how they feel about those who are unwilling to get vaccinated. and here is where this frustration you see emerges. the top answer: the vaccinated feel the unvaccinated are putting people like me at risk. also that they feel they're being misled by bad information. and the outright saying they're making me upset or angry. an that's where you see that emerc emotional component coming in. california may not be the same as all the states. they have a highly rate of vaccinated. but the tension between the vaccinated and unvaccinated is certainly something we will watch across the nation. >> nancy: anthony, one of the main reasons you conducted this poll and california is because they have this major recall election coming up in one month. first-term governor gavin newsom campaigning to hold on to his job.

what did you find? >> first of all, among likely voters in the recall, the people who are most likely to show up next month, well there the no vote, which would keep gavin newsom in office is winning, but it is four points. and that's a pretty close margin for california and for a democrat. so newse newsom is sweating that out a little bit. but if you ask the same thing among everyone who could vote, now that no to keep newsom in office has a much wider eight-point margin. what does that tell you? >> this is going to be a turnout election. democrats tell us they're not adept to vote or as moteed to vote as republicans in the stayed are. it will be interesting to watch over the next few weeks if newsom can turn that around. newsom gets pretty good approval ratings for

things that californians are concerned about, like handling the wildfires. and somewhat good, if not very good, in handling of covid. to button that up, the next few weeks will come down to, well, democrats, it has been a long stretch. they had the primaries and the presidential election. it may not be so much they're tired of gavin newsom or won't vote for him, maybe more they're kind of tired of voting on things. >> nancy: you also polled on this question of vaccine mandates, a debate across the country, but not quite as much of a debate in california. they definitely came down on one side of this argument. >> yeah, nancy, big majorities say that vaccines should be mandatory for california's health care workers. another thing we asked, making it mandatory for businesses to require vaccines of their employees, that gets high support. and even for businesses that host large, maybe

indoor venues, to have requirements for their costumers. in fact, a lot of people said they would be more willing to patronize a kind of business thaums. stl hose wrgemajoes. emotional component we talked about earlier, that frustration of the vaccinated with the unvaccinated starts to manifest itself in policy outcomes and support, nancy. >> nancy: anthony, one of the issues you took a look at not for just californians, but people across the pacific northwest, the huge wildfires that are starting months before peak season. what did californians have to tell you about their fears about wildfires affecting them and their entire home state? >> yeah. the fires themselves are a top issue of concern. and then quite literally it tells us it starts to hit home. a lot of people feel they're risk,teast some risk, of fires and also of drought. moreenerallynan, we

e hae said they've experienced extreme weather in their area. and that they feel like the state is having or feeling the impact of climate change overall. where that comes into public policy is that people tend to support -- and this really goes across party lines -- support things that the state, at least, can try to do to mitigate the effects of climate change. nancy? >> nancy: fascinating results. the recall lacks election, september 14th. anthony salvanto, thank you. and that's it for us today. and thank you all for watching. for next week for "face the nation," i'm nancy cordes. captioning sponsored by cbs

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