the mayor of miami beach, dan gelber, joins us now. mayor, thank you for being here.masks and also on mandating vaccinations for your city employees? i know this is something you've been considering. >> we're not allowed to have mask mandates right now. we were one of the first cities to require it. we charged a fine just to get people to do it. the governor stopped allowing us to do it. then immediately we saw a surge across our county and state when he did that. so we're in a very tough position. today was the statewide, 21,000 infections, that's the most in a single day since the entirety of the pandemic. we are trying to do everything we can to get around the governor's very wrong-headed desires. we're trying to get all of our people vaccinated. i think we'll probably have to require that they get tested every week to sort of encourage them. we're paying people money to get vaccinated. the governor has made it as difficult as possible to make people safe. >> so tell me about that frustration. and you mentioned the surge in these cases. we just showed the seven-day

with that, i want to bring in the mayor of miami beach, dan gelber, standing by for us. mayor, thanks for joining us. i appreciate it. a lot of folks will have a lot of questions and have had a lot of questions since the collapse of champlain towers. we heard the mayor of miami county essentially say there will be policy changes. can you tell me what any of these policy changes may be or the conversations that you've been having about these policy changes? >> sure. obviously we'll look into the whole issue to make sure whatever we do addresses the issues that need to be addressed. we look at how our 40-year recertification process goes through, to what extent government is sort of responsible for making sure that work is done, looking at some of the advancements people get to do their work. we've immediately done stuff in our city. we have a huge amount of commercial residential over three-story buildings. we have about 507 and within a week, we did at least visual inspections of all of them. we sent our inspectors out and we are now requiring within about 21 days each o

mayor dan gelber thanks very much. >> thanks, jim. >>> u.s.kabul, afghanistan, as u.s. troops continue to pull out. this as the u.s. general overseeing that withdrawal warns we should be worried about the taliban's kwib quick advance. we're going to have much more on this next. >>> this is just into cnn. afghans are fleeing to major cities as the taliban take control of more territory around the country. they claim to have taken over about 150 districts across afghanistan just since may. cnn cannot confirm that exact figure. this is happening as a top u.s. general, however, warns that the taliban's advance is a serious concern. orren lieberman joins me now. you also saw some afghan security forces fleeing across the border out of the country. are afghan security forces capable of stopping the taliban advance without u.s. military help? >> reporter: jim, look, it is very possible the answer to that question may well be no. that being said, the afghan military has the support of the united states now and moving forward. but in the fundamentally