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corporation for public broadcasting and from contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from washington, mod moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening. the delta variant is top of mind as covid cases continue to surge. on wednesday, president biden urged americans to get vaccinated. pres. biden: if you're vaccinated, you're not going to be hospitalized and you're not going to be in the i.c.u. and you're not going to die so it's gigantically important that we act like we care about fellow americans. yamiche: high rates of vaccine skepticism persists. a growing number of g.o.p. voices pushed to get people vaccinated. here's house republican whip steve scalise. >> i have been vaccinated and the vaccine is saf effective and widely available across the united states of america for anybody who wants to get it. yamiche: but the g.o.p. is split on messaging. many in the party embrace conspiracy theories about the vaccine and the virus. in the meantime, this is fast becoming a crisis of the unvaccinated. here's what the republican governor of alabama had to say

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this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourlic station by viewers like you. judy: fears are growing over a surge of covid cases. wall street had its worst days since may as investors worried about rising infections and whether they could lead to new restrictions. covid cases have shot up almost 20% a week in the u.s.. it has been significantly higher in some southern states, but los angeles county reported 10,000 cases in one week, the highest since march unvaccinated americans are the hardest hit, accounting for 95% of the hospitalizations. the cdc warned of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. dr. anthony fauci is the director of the national institute for infectious diseases and president biden's chief medical advisor. welcome back to the "newshour." how much of a threat is the delta variant right now? dr. fauci: it's a significant threat. it clearly has the capability and efficiency of transmitting readily from person to person, which makes it a considerable threat. if you look at how it is becoming dominant in this country, it

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the special congressional committee tasked with investigating the january sixth at the capitol is embroiled in a new partisan firestorm. an issue republican members will be allowed to participate. house speaker pelosi has the final say over who sits on the panel, and announced she would reject two of the five members suggested by minority leader kevin mccarthy. in her statement, pelosi cited objections raised about representatives jim banks and jim jordan, and the impact of their opinions may have on the integrity of the investigation. mccarthy hit back saying if they could not serve, none of them would. he charged pelosi and democrats with an abuse of power. >> house democrats must answer this question. why are you allowing a lame-duck speaker to destroy this institution? this is the people's house, not pelosi's house. judy: now the sole republican on the select committee, congressman liz cheney, condemned her party's leader, but said it wo

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station by viewers like you. thank you. judy: parts of washington state, oregon, and idaho spent another day baking in sweltering temperatures. rolling blackouts continue in the city of spokane, washington, which hit a record 109 degrees yesterday. president biden lamented the heat during a virtual meeting with the governors of western states. >> the extreme heat we are seeing in the west is not only a risk multiplier, it's a threat in and of itself. people are hurting. it is more dangerous for kids to play outside. roads are buckling under the heat. judy: meantime, a dangerous heat wave in canada is slowly starting to ease. it scorched of the pacific coast province of british columbia with temperatures 30 to 40 degrees fahrenheit hotter than normal. one city recorded a reading of 122. at least 233 people died in british columbia between friday and monday alone. that is about 100 more than the normal four-day average. joining me to discuss this is david phillips, senior climatologis

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the u.s. surgeon general, dr. vivek murthy, is appealing to the nation to fight misinformation about covid-19 and vaccines. at the white house today, he charged that bogus online claims are feeding vaccine resistance, and he said social media companies must do more. >> we are asking them to step up. we know they have taken some steps to address misinformation, but much, much more has to be done and we can't wait longer for them to take aggressive action because it's costing people their lives. >> woodruff: also today, los angeles county, california ordered everyone, even the vaccinated, to resume wearing masks indoors, as infections spik and, the head of the world health organization pressed china to stop withholding raw data on the origins of covid-19. he also said it may have been premature to rule out that the virus escaped from a chinese government lab. a major effort to address child poverty i

." ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions tor pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the biden administration sounded the alarm today about a surge of covid cases in some states, and a direct connection with low vaccination rates. the centers reported 33,000 new covid cases in the u.s. yesterday. that is a rise in new cases of 70%, compared with one week ago. hospital admissions are up by 36%. the average death toll of the past week has climbed to 211 people per day. during a briefing today, the cdc director and other top officials outlined the danger. >> this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. we see outbreaks of cases and parts of the country with low vaccination coverage because unvaccinated people are at risk. judy: one reason for stubbornly low vaccination rates is misinformation, erroneous or false information, that may dissuade some people from getting a shot. the white house has been focused particularly on this, and the role of social media, in allowing false information to spread. on his way to ca

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like you. thank you. judy: the political gridlock around the nation's infrastructure seems to have broken. a bipartisan group of senators now agree on a trillion dollar investment in public works projects. the measure includes $550 billion in new spending over the next five years. of that, $110 billion is to improve highways. $65 billion to expand broadband access. and $47 billion to combat environmental disasters. now, the challenge is getting enough votes. but the senate negotiators, including alaska republican lisa murkowski, sound optimistic. >> this is also important to demonstrate that republicans and democrats can come together over really hard stuff to negotiate in good faith and to broker an agreement that is not going to work just for republicans or for democrats. it is going to work for the country. so it has been a long effort. there will still be a long effort going forward. judy: we look at what is in the ball with democratic senator jon -- the bil

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> i am stephanie sy newshour west. we will return to judy woodruff and the full show after the latest headlines. new covid-19 infections in the u.s. are still building, up to hundred percent in two weeks. and federal health officials said today that the delta variant accounts for 83% of those cas. white hoe press secretary jen psaki confirmed that a vaccinated staffer there is now infected, and that other vaccinated aides previously tested positive. >> the white house is prepared for breakthrough cases with regular testing. this is another reminder of the efficacy of the covid-19 vaccines against severe illness or hospitalizations. stephanie: a vaccinated aid nancy pelosi, speaker of the u.s. house, is also infected. rand paul and anthony fauci had another heated exchange over covid-19. at a hearing today paul accused , fauci of lying about u.s. funding for a lab in wuhan china . there have been questions about whether the virus might hav

. ♪ >> thiprogram was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributionsyour pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. >> i am vanessa williams at newshour west in for stephanie sy. we will return to judy woodruff after the latest headlines. the death toll has risen to 36 in the collapse of a condominium tower in surfside, florida. search teams recovered eight more bodies at the rubble pile earlier today, but 109 people are still missing. this was day 13 of the digging operation but with no new signs of life, officials said relatives of the missing are bracing for the worst. >> for the family members who are excruciatingly waiting for information, they know what is happening. they understand that the news of their loved ones may be tragic loss. vanessa: the search teams paused their work for two hours early today due to lightning and high winds along the fringe of elsa, the tropical storm that has now become hurricane. we will return to this story later in the program. elsa churned past south florida today, heading for the state's western coast. the now

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to yourtion from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ judy: the white house is issuing calls to action tonight in the face of covid-19's latest assault. the appeal has, amid talk of re-imposing restrictions. reporter: the biden team issued a sober warning and an urgent call for more vaccinations as the number of delta-related infections is rising around the country. dr. rochelle walensky is the director of the cdc. dr. walensky: we are at another pivotal moment in the pandemic with cases rising again and hospitals reaching capacity in some areas. we need to come together aone nation. the delta variant is more aggressive and much more transmissible than previously circulating strains. it is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses we know of and i have seen in my 20 year career. reporter: as new cases surged, the administration is maintaining his mask guidance. >> there has been no decision to change the guidelines. if any decisions about public health would be driven by the cdc. we are engage

. ♪ >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions pbs station by viewers like you. thank you. >> i am stephanie sy newshour west. we will return to judy woodruff and the full program after the latest headlines. the mission in afghanistan will officially conclude on august 31. president biden moved up the deadline today from september 11th and he defended the pullout in the face of taliban games the -- in the face of taliban g ains. the president said the u.s. did not go to afghanistan to nation-build and he pressed of gun leaders to prove their mettle. >> it is not a question of whether they have the capacity. they have the capacity. they have the forces. they have the equipment. stephanie: in afghanistan, government forces said they drove taliban fighters from a provincial capital in the north . other reports that the militants have now seized a key border crossing with iran. in haiti tonight, the police chief said they have identified two haitian americans in the assassination of president jovenel moise. two of the alleged assailan

. ♪ this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to yourtation from viewers like you. thank you. stephanie: we will return to judy and the full program after the latest headlines. police and haiti have arrested 17 men in connection with wednesday's assassination of president jovenel moise. authorities say 2 are u.s.-haitian citizens, and 15 are colombian nationals. most of them former soldiers. 9 suspects are believed to still be at large. the haitian government announced it has asked the united states and united nations to deploy troops to help stabilize the country. the u.s. is sending federal law enforcement officers from the fbi and homeland security department to aid in the investigation. we'll get the latest after the news summary. search crews have pulled the remains of 15 more victims from the rubble of a collapsed condominium tower inurfside, florida. that raised the confirmed death toll to 79. 61 people are ill unaccounted for. the miami-dade mayor said they're working as expeditiously as possible to locate more victims. >> this r

. ♪ >> this program was made possible i the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributionsyour pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> the u.s. centers for disease control today undid earlier advice and reimposed stricter mask wearing guidelines around the country. cdc director dr. rochelle walensky said people who are fully vaccinated should resume wearing masks indoors in regions where coronavirus infections and transmission are high. she also recommended that everyone in k-12 schools wear a mask, whatever their vaccination status. and late today, the white house confirmed that president biden will announce on thursday that all federal workers and contractors must be vaccinated agnst covid. those who refuse could face regular testing and other requirements. dr. anthony fauci is director of the u.s. nional institute of allergy and infectious diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president. >> dr. fauci, thank you for joining us. part of this new guidance has to do with telling people, even those who are vaccinated, that when they are in indoor places that

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: crews in surfside, florida, pulled three more bodies from the ruins of a collapsed condominium building today. the confirmed death toll rose to 27, with 118 still missing. overnight, a controlled demolition leveled the remaining wing of the tower. today, the miami-dade county mayor said it cleared the way for the search to resume. >> the area closest to the building was the area we had not been able to access and that is where we needed to go. previously it was not accessible due to the enormous risk to the team of first responders because of the instability of the building. and as we speak the teams are working on that part of the pile that was not accessible before the building was demolished. >> woodruff: the demolition was accelerated amid earlier fears that tropical storm "elsa" could bring down the rest of the building. the storm crossed central cuba today, on track to pass over the florida k

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: on the final day of its term, the supreme court issued two major decisions on some of the most political topics, especially as the debate over voting rights continues in congress and in the states. the decisions also put the court's new 6-to-3 conservative majority in the spotlight. john yang reports. >> yang: judy,n one of the most closely watched cases of court's term, the justices split along ideological lines to narrow the scope of the landmark voting rights act of 1965, just as states are putting new voting restrictions in place. the urt upheld two arizona laws that the democratic party says discriminate against minority voters. marcia coyle is chief washington correspondent of the "national law journal." tammy patrick of the non- partisan democracy fund was as an arizona elections official for more than a dede. so, tammy patrick, what are these arizona lawthat were being challenged, and what'

several were injured, including a cameraman and public broadcaster.rs of a far-right groups scale the building where the pride office is housed. they took down the lgbt flag and replaced it with the georgian national flag and then set fire to the rainbow flag on the ground. the interior minister responded with the stateme, calling on the pride activists not to hold their march in a public place. then we heard from the georgia prime minister who said holding the pride march would be unreasonable as it contains risk of civil confrontation. he went on that the majority of georgians find it unacceptable. should we be surprised by today's events? reporter: i was not surprised about what happened because as soon as the organizers announced their plans, there were already some escalations and some radical conservative groups already announced and said that they will try to disrupt the march. the march of dignity is part of pride week. so is quite expected, even violent attacks. there will be some opposition to the march anchor:. so it is not a surprise that

canadian public broadcaster is reporting wind of over 70 kilometers an hour that pushed the fire intohe community although authorities don't know what sparked it. it is one of many wildfires in the provens this week. western canada and the united states brokal-time high temperatures. canadian officials link the heat to sudden death of more than 100 people. most in the region do not have air conditioning because summers are usually much milder. >>> former u.s. defense secretary rumsfeld died at 88. he served for six years under george w. bush playing a main role in the fight against terrorism. rumsfeld's family said in a statement wednesday he was surrounded by family in new mexico. rumsfeld was a two-time defense secretary both the youngest and the oldest to hold the post. he first took the job at 43 under president gerald ford in the 1970s during the cold war. in 2001 rumsfeld became the defense secretary again under bush. the former naval pilot led military operations in afghanistan and the ike i can war in th mdle o wt the bush administration called the war against global terrorism

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the death toll rose to 22 in the collapse of that condominium tower in surfside, florida. the number of missing dropped from 145 to 126 as some turned up safe, and officials removed duplicate names. crews kept working today, after recovering two more victims overnight. the mayor said one was the seven-year-old daughter of a miami firefighter, a discovery that hit all of them hard. >> last night, was uniquely different. it was truly different, and more difficult for our first responders. these men and women are paying an enormous human toll each and every day, and i ask that all of you please keep all of them in your thoughts and prayers. >> woodruff: as the work continued, officials also kept an eye on "elsa," the first atlantic hurricane of 2021. the storm hit barbados today in the eastern caribbean. it could reach south florida by early next week. the u.s. economic rebound is showing new strength

this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to youron from viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm stephanie sy at newshour west. we will return to the full show after the latest headlines. the biden administration now considering adding covid-19 booster shots for people over 65according to the new york times. health officials are also looking at a third shot for the immunocompromised if they got the pfizer or moderna vaccines. it comes as research continues into how long vaccines remain effeive. the white house is keeping up the pressure for more americans to get vaccinated. infections have surged in parts of the country, mainly states with low vaccination rates. the president's press secretary pointed today to potentially encouraging numbers from this week. >> the five states with the highest case rates, arkansas, florida, missouri, nevada, had people getting newly vaccinated compared to the national average. that is a good sign. >> despite the improvements, an associated press poll found most of the unvaccinated say they will not get th

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: this was a day of sobering and surprising news about how covid-19 is again accelerating in the u.s. and around the world. the world health organization said that infections are up 80% globally just in the past month, overwhelming health systems in many countries. on the continent of africa, deaths are up 80%. back in the u.s., the centers for disease control made public a pivotal study explaining how fully-vaccinated people can spread the delta variant. the study raises serious questions about how businesses and schools should operate as they reopen. amna nawaz has the details. >> nawaz: judy, the c.d.c. examined a covid outbreak in provincetown, massachusetts around fourth of july weekend. within weeks, that outbrk spread to at least 469 people around the state-- a state with nearly 70% vaccination rate among adults. three-quarters of those infected had been fully-vaccinated. nearly 80% were sympt

ongoing support of these institutions: >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: after weeksf asking will they or won't they, it appears the answer is yes. a bipartisan group of senators reached an agreement on a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan to invest in public works projects across the country. the deal iludes $550 billion in new spending over the next five years. of that, $110 billion to improve highways, $65 billion to expand broadband access, and $47 billion for resiliency against environmental disasters. announcing the deal is just the first step, and it faces its first procedural vote in the senate today. but the senate negotiators-- including alaska republican lisa murkowski-- sounded optimistic. >> this is also important to demonstrate that republicans and democrats can come together over really hard stuff, to negotiate in good faith and to broker an agreement that is not going to work just for republicans or for democrats-- it is going to work for the country.

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: new requirements for covid vaccinations gathered momentum today as concerns over rising cases grows. the u.s. department of veterans affairs became the first federal agency to require shots. about 115,000 of its frontline health care rkers will be required to get vaccinated within the next two months. there were similar moves on both coasts of the country. california governor gavin newsom said his state will require proof of covid-19 vaccination for all state employees and health care workers beginning next month. if employees don't get vaccinated, they must get tested weekly. in new york city, mayor bil deblasio said municipal workers either must get vaccinated by mid-september or take weekly tests. if not, they risk losingay. >> we're at a point in this epidemic, this pandemic, where choice, an individual's choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us, in a profound and devastatin