tom yamas for us in tokyo. thank you, that does it for us this hour. for now craig melvin picks up our coverage right now. a busy hour with significant developments and several challenges facing the united states. first in the fight against the pandemic, the threat now posed by the highly contagious delta variant has never been clearer. the seven-day average of new cases is up double digits in the united states. so what does it mean for people that have not gotten the vaccine yet? and what could it mean for those of us that have. meanwhile in the best, consequences of climate change have rarely been this visible. exploding wildfires, expanding droughts, and dwindling supplies. i'm going to be joined by a

governor ringing the alarm on these conditions. and all eyes on the white house today where gun violence will be the focus of a big meeting there. what we know at this hour about president biden's plan to address this growing crisis. first, we're witnessing a symbolic ending to two decades of u.s. operations in afghanistan. we will begin with the latest developments. courtney kube is there and mike memoli at the white house. general scott miller who has been in charge since 2018. how significant is this transfer of authority? >> so it is significant for several reasons. number one as you mentioned general scott miller, he was the longer serving u.s. commander in

this post. he was here for nearly three years. today he transferred his authorities here to the commander of u.s. central command. two things are symbolic. the reality is that he already had these authorities. he is the commanding general of this entire region. he was not on the ground like general miller. the second big part that is symbolic is that this is not the official end of the u.s. military mission here in afghanistan, but the reality is the vast majority of the u.s. troops and the equipment that are part of a draw down, the vast majority of them are out. this is a period of transition until the end of august and then august 31st is when the next pligs really begin nap is one where the u.s. military presence here is an embassy security. they may secure the airport here

in kabul. what has lasted for nearly two decades is nearly over, craig. the promise to have all u.s. troops out by september 11th, but there is a lot of folks concerned on the left, folks concerned on the right, that this is a withdrawal that could flult dangerous setbacks. talib on the ground. what are they saying? >> the 11th target that the president set in april, this draw down is effectively well ahead of schedule. two months, in fact, ahead of schedule with the president arguing last week that when he announces to the country that speed is safety in this case. but the white house has been insisting that as we draw down our military presence here it should not be seep as us disengaging from afghanistan completely.

the white house arguing they will have a robust diplomatic presence, they're also working with key military allies to ensure that there is security for things like the airport. that was the focus of the conversation that president biden had. and then i think craig, there are very telling comments that we heard from some of the top officials about how they view this. after he delivered his formal remarks he emphasized the fact that afghanistan has never really been a unified nation, speaking to the fact that you may have a strong central government in kabul that will have the support of the u.s. but the rest of the country may large i will be fragments. and you had tony blinken asking about the uptick in violence that we have seen. and his answer to that question

that was this would largely have been happening anyway. the way they put it yesterday, the president chose the best of a number of very, very unattractive options with a priority on ending our long standing mill stair engagement. who would commit to putting more u.s. forces there after two decades. >> courtney, you're on the ground there. we know there was a peace agreement signed. what do we know about the taliban dynamic between that government and how our government could look after the withdrawal of troops. >> so one thing that has been very clear is he believes that the taliban is seeking a

military solution here in afghanistan. and this is the exact opposite of what the u.s. and the afghan government want. they can reach a political negotiated solution or settlement here where there is some sort of a boeshlly coalition government. where they could live in peace, and the conflict would finally end. but just look at what we have been seeing here on the ground for the last several weeks, craig nap is a taliban on the move and there is an offensive all over this country. they have been striking out in the south, trying to take back area that's are unfortunately not yet going after the provincial capitals. one of the big concern social security that will be the next move. if they really want to take over this country they need to go after these provincial capitals. they know they need to go in here and take it over. that's what the u.s. military and what the afghanistan

government, of course, don't want to happen. the afghans are working to try to push back this offensive. in some cases they have been successful. there is a number of cases where they moved in and the afghanistans moved out. there have defections. they're concerned about that. they're worried about what will happen the next several weeks will be very critical here, craig. >> courtney for us on the ground in kabul. mike memoli, thank you to both of you. experts sounding the alarm over the rapidly spreading delta variant in this country. today representatives from pfizer are meeting with this country's top health officials to talk about the need for a possible booster shot. pfizer announced they will seek fda approval for that third shot. this is happening as the

seven-day average ticked up to 16%. it accounts for more than half of all new infections. sam brock has more on these trends, also joining me is dr. natalie azar. you're in florida where weekly covid infections are up a staggering 48%. what do we know about this surge and this pfizer meeting? the reality is here in south florida there is so much going on, people taking to the streets, cuban americans here, up set that there are not vaccines available in cuba and the assassination of the haitian president that the spike in covid numbers slipped a little under the radar. now they're looking at a positivity rate of about 8%.

it was 3.4% a month ago. to add on top of that they have been publishing data now on a weekly basis, but florida published zero data in the last week. so that 48% in increases might not be telling the whole story. the idea behind it to discuss the possibility of a third dose of the vaccine, a booster shot. pfizer told the ap that it could raise the levels of anti bodies to where they were, but officials pumped the brakes and said they want to see the clinical research before you get a government backed agency saying okay, this is official we should be getting a third shot within six to 12 months or whatever the time frame may be. back to florida and the raging cases of the delta variant. there's so many pockets of

unvaccinated communities. florida is a microcausim of that. there is places that have a rate at 20 or 25%. higher than where you would like it to be. and the age demographics, 83% of them have received at least one dose of the vaccine. the numbers go to 38%. and just 31% for those in their 20s that received at least one dose of the vaccine. there is a mentality among young people they don't need to worry about it. but what they don't realize is they can get other people sick and young people themselves are also getting sick. all of the factors are working in combination and it is important to keep that in mind.

>>. >> let's talk about the covid vaccine booster shots. sheer part of what dr. fauci said. >> the official recommending organization. so although they do good work, we will look over their data. their responsibility is to make an official recommendation based on data and a pharmaceutical, as good as they are, who look at their product and say hey, you know, we think you need to get a booster shot. so there is a difference there. >> what do you say, dr. senately? >> in their statement, in their joint statement, cdc and fda very bluntly said we're going to take a very rigorous look at our

data. and i think it is just important for everyone to really understand what that pfizer statement told us last week and what it didn't. they basically mounted evidence using two different kinds of pieces of data. one was laboratory data. and they also referenced, you know, an israeli study that shows that it dropped the effectiveness to 64%. here in the u.s. the cdc is not tracking mile breakthrough cases. we are tracking breakthrough cases that land people in the hospital. and that right now is what we're basing our judgment that i'm

mun -- immunity is not waning. there is 13 state that's have seen greater hospitalizations. what did they have in common? delta, and none of those states met president biden's goal of 70% of the population receiving one dose. that's not a coincidence. >> should we be tracking the mild breakthrough cases that you mentioned? >> some experts say absolutely we should. what does mild illness, especially with the delta variant, mean? does it mean you can still get long covid? if so that is very important information to know. and possibly more importantly do you, are you able to transmit if you have been vaccinated and exposed if you have smile illness with the delta variant? we know with the variants that proceeded delta that we don't

think there is transmission, asymptomatic transmission. it's hard to track these cases and i think the reason why is the cdc concentrated their efforts on the outcomes that for majority of us is the most important outcome. public health experts have said they wish they had data on mild breakthrough cases as well. >> doctors reported an increase in common colds as restrictions are being loosened. fewer folks are wearing masks. i hate to assume that folks are not washing their hands as rigorously. how when people are feeling sick are they thinking it is a cold and not covid? >> i feel like we almost add this conversation at the beginning. we said what are the differences between the symptoms of the cold, the common cold, the flu,

allergies, or covid. and you know they are all upper respiratory tract infections, not allergies, that can lead to lower respiratory tract infections. if you're symptomatic with cold like symptoms. a stuffy nose, scratchy throughout, cough, runny nose. you might consider getting tested. i was just visiting my best friend over the weekend who had upper respiratory track symptoms. she was tested and she was negative. pediatricians are seeing an increase in upper respiratory viral infections. and flu season, you know, is looming, craig. we talked about the twin twindemic that didn't happen. i think if we start to see, and we are, losing masks and we get

a little less vigilant about handwashing and the other measures, we're going to see a bump. >> dr. natalie and sam brock. >> one california wide fire just consumed 20,000 acres. there is major drought concerns. they are introducing a bill to protect water flies there. why they're calling this an emotional roller coaster. also the latest on recovery effort there is in surfside, florida. more than 12 million pounds of rubble removed. . the death toll continues to rise there. and the white house putting a focus on gun violence.

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brutal triple digit heat is expanding dangerous drought conditions and adding urgency to the fight against climb change. this weekend las vegas and utah both tied all-time temperature

highs, 117 degrees. in death valley they hit 130 degrees on friday. that is just four degrees shy of the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. the intense heat spiked an early fire season. 20 homes were destroyed on sunday alone. those flames have now jumped the nevada border. underpinning all of this is dangerous water shortages. governor newsom expanding the proclimation to 50 of 58 counties. he said the hots are getting hotter and the dries are getting drier. that's the reality of climb change. i want to bring in melissa fertata who represents the central valley from bakersfield to fresno. thank you for your time.

every year we find ourselves saying it's not that bad. what are you seeing in your district? have the conditions ever been this dire? >> things are pretty bad right now but the reality is what we see physically is just one part. the reality is that there is climate change impacting communities in ways that we don't see and that is what is really scary. and what we're seeing in my senate district is the community that has been out in the news quite a bit, it is issues. the canals are sinking. it is sinking and it needs to be repaired. the communities are sinking and the wells are beginning to fail because of that same reason.

we saw an explosion of a water tank in one community due to the extreme heat. there is a lot of things that impact humans and people in ways that we don't recognize it. fires, what we hear about the drought, is one part of how climate change is affecting us. >> we were on the ground, and as i understand it the folks there didn't have reliable running water for awhile. what is the latest. do they have reliable running water now? >> they still don't have reliable running water. they still don't. their water is being tanked in through a truck into the community and if it is sufficient, water will come out of the faucet, and if it's not

no water comes out. they have to deal with it on a regular basis. there's not enough water in the basin and in part because of evaporation, the canals in a deliver the water, but also just a need to repair these canals that have been impacted because of climate change. >> yeah, as you know, governor newsom asked people to voluntarily cut their water usage. they're not part of these emergency measures. but i want to read part of an l.a. times article. it is from lake mead. he says now it looks like a lawn. he said i knew it was bad, but i didn't know it was this bad. this place is unrecognizable.

so they're declaring their first ever shortage on that lake. that means the water supply could get tightened even more over the years. what happen there's? what is the end game? >> it is real scary. we have to protect mankind. humans, right? we know that climate change is impacting our fresh water supply. we'll see shortaging, and it's so important that we use the water that we have in a wise manner. but also that we look at innovations. our water is tied to our food chain. i know that is being impacted right now with food prices going

up, it is just going to create those food prices to go up and that is all scary. food will become a shortage as well. >> senator, thank you for your time. keep us posted on the situation there. meanwhile officials are wrapping up a briefing on the tragic condo collapse there. they have recovered 94 people. the death toll now at 94. there is still an estimated 22 people unaccounted for. serge and recovery teams continue to work tirelessly on that pile. they have been at it for 19 straight days now. they removed more than 12 million pounds of concrete and debris. six tons. vaughn, what else did we learn from this morning's briefing?

>> yeah, good morning. this has advanced significantly. the number of individuals all of the way up to 94 and now just 22 individuals potentially unaccounted for. i want you to hear directly from the mayor of surfside. the major addressed just how much this recovery effort has advanced. take a listen. >> the site and the debris spill dramatically reduced. >> we're pulling out a good number of vehicles. they're mostly terribly damaged evidencing the violence of the collapse in those areas. >> craig, throughout the weekend we watched trucks take rubble on the highways of miami to a

secure location where they're now sorting through that very rubble looking for more evidence about what may have brought down this building. also going through belongings and possessions. the israeli forces that were key assistants here, they also took off just yesterdays. the commander of those forces about 12 soldiers given the key to the city by the miami county mayor. but also we should note that throughout the weekend we contin continually get the updates of names. one of those individuals was edgar gonzalez, a father of two, his daughter a 16-year-old, devin, still in the hospital as well as his wife. both of those individuals in the hospital trying to recove here. they were on the 9th floor before they descended to the 5th floor. but the number of potentially

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kelly o'donnell joins me now with more on the meeting. who is expected to be there and what do we know about this strategy that the president is expected to layout? >> he will meet with mayors and police chiefs. included among them the washington dc mayor, the mayor from san jose, california, and a lot of attention focused on the democratic nominee in new york city, currently the brooklyn president eric adams. they will bring their big city experience into the white house to talk about some of these ideas. the president's plan includes a number of thing that's will tap into resources made available by an already passed plan. it includes $350 billion directed to states and local communities. and the president will outline how he believes that money can be used and in some cases is

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. and that pair of restrictive now voting rights bills would make it harder to vote among other things. they say they're shoring up election security, but as beto o'rourke said, they're not buying it. they want to light the fire and get credit for putting it out. you keep talking about a prop that doesn't exist. pricilla thomas is live in austin text. so what is next and how are activists u vowing to fight? craig been they were hoping that

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the first vote could come as early as next week and the key priority for the president is a reimagining of what passenger rail will look like in the united states. msnbc senior national correspondent chris jansing joins me now. we have more on what the future could look like. they put out a new map of what the future of train travel could look like and of course, craig, they are looking for something more modern and efficient. $66 billion in the infrastructure package does go to amtrak it would be the largest investment for upgrades. and it is also service to fast growing places where there is no amtrak, no passenger rail, as

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more than 400 employees inside facebook, the company ignored years of repeated warnings that what it had built was not just divisive, it was dangerous. to its nearly 3 billion users, facebook's mantra is to connect people, but a new book suggests the truth is much more ugly. what is an ugly truth about facebook? >> in order to keep growing, people are going to continue to get hurt. >> these women are award winning investigative reporters for "the new york times." in their book they tell the inside story of facebook between the 2016 and 2020 elections. >> we had over 400 people, mostly employees currently there or who have left who have confided in us what they think are very, very troubling patterns within the company. >> reporter: they say most of their sources were anonymous because they feared retribution from facebook, and they say the founder, mark zuckerberg, believed in growth at any cost. take donald trump, whose inflammatory speech and false

claims violated facebook's guidelines, but kept users engaged. >> trump had 30 million followers. he was driving people daily. >> reporter: so they say the company allowed him to remain, creating a no fact-checking policy. zuckerberg placating the president in person at the white house. >> he asked his visitors give him something that he could offer to trump and that was the data that showed that trump had the highest engagement of any other politician in the world. that little piece of data made trump very happy. >> reporter: facebook counters that zuckerberg routinely meets with other leaders. it was after the capitol riots and trump's speech that facebook banned it for two years. but the book claims when facebook's own research showed that promoting more good news on the site actually caused people to spend less time there, it

decided against making changes that would hurt its bottom line. >> in order to keep being profitable, they need you to spend as much time as possible on facebook. if that means showing you news that's bad for the world, that's what they'll show you. >> we've asked numerous times for a copy of the book and were unable to get a copy. >> reporter: this is the head of public affairs. he denies the company relies on bad news to keep us engaged. >> it is not in facebook's interest, both from a recreational or financial standpoint, to push our use tors negative content. >> a lot of people complain about how divisive our world has become. do you think facebook bears any responsibility for that? >> what we've seen on our platform is the world coming closer and individuals building community. >> reporter: these authors say facebook profits from our attention and endangers everyone. >> if you don't use facebook, viral rumors, conspiracies, misinformation are formed there. you can see how being part of a group where everyone is pushing the same piece of misinformation

might make it seem true. >> reporter: now, craig, the authors point to all sorts of challenges that created a crisis for facebook and nothing was more challenging than donald trump. now, facebook for its part says that the book really cherry picks the facts and only speaks to disgruntled individuals. but the authors point to more than 400 interviews, more than 400 interview subjects inside the company and vehemently deny those charges. >> jake, thank you. meanwhile, facebook and twitter taking action after a wave of racist attacks after members of england's soccer team. the team narrowly lost to italy during sunday's 2020 finals. three of the players on the team who are black missed penalty kicks in the final minutes of the game. in the hours after the loss, a slew of racist messages were posted on the players' social media accounts.

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this is "andrew mitchell reports" in washington with a surge in gun violence, also the delta variant spreading and political unrest in the caribbean. at the white house president biden is holding a crisis meeting next hour with mayors, local officials and police chiefs amid an alarming rise of gun violence throughout the country. shootings in major cities like philadelphia, chicago and new york city, where a 13-year-old boy was among three killed on sunday. mr. biden is empowering mayors to use covid relief funds to combat the outbreak. this as covid cases are up by 16%, fueled by the delta variant, in a large number of unvaccinated americans, particularly in red states. today pfizer is briefing top health officials on the company's proposal to get emergency authorization for a booster shot. the government has said there is no scientific proof one is yet needed for people who are fully vaccinated. and it's the