the end of the day, that's the only thing that is really going to get us out of this crisis >> scott kirby of united airlines. >>> in tonight's "the price you pay," is it time to get a new credit card? vicky nguyen now with the big bonus offers >> reporter: spending is back in a big way, and lenders want your business >> when it comes to credit cards, why are consumers in the driver's seat right now? >> it's an incredibly competitive time bank issuers know that there is this post vaccination explosion of spending coming, and they want to get the biggest slice of that pie that they can. >> reporter: finance experts say they're seeing record signup bonuses to attract new customers, from 100s in cashback deals, to 100,000 point offers for airline miles and hotels before signing up, know thyself and the perks you'll use most, whether it's cash, discounts on gas and groceries or travel. lending tree says some of the bessh, the amex cash magnet, and o active cash card. what are some things to watch out before signing up for a card? >> what's really important is to look at how much the annual fee

joining us now is the ceo of united airlines, scott kirby. g with president biden today to discuss this very topic. scott, no doubt the president is going to start that conversation saying thank you, my family is doing to same. what is the response from your employees to this mandate? >> that actually, i think, has been the thing that's been -- that i've been very pleased with, is that i knew there would be some negative reaction, and there has been. but my email box, particularly from employees, is running about ten to one of people thanking us for doing it. and the level of excitement, i didn't appreciate how many people there are in our workforce and in the country who really know -- they're looking at the data and they see the same facts and they know it's the right thing to do. while it's not universal, the response has been much more positive than i expected. and we would have done it anyway, because it's the right thing to do. but we've been gratified by the response from employees so far. >> other ceos are now watching you for guidance

scott kirby, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> start of a new hour, good to be with you.fornia became the first state in the country to mandate vaccines for teachers. if they don't get their shot, they must submit to regular testing instead. sources tell cnn most districts and unions have been supportive of this health order and it's the latest move to keep school

joining me right now for more is united airlines ceo scott kirby. scott, thanks for sticking around. i appreciate the chance to speak with you about this. the first united plane landing yesterday, have you had a chance to hear anything about the flight? hear anything from the crew? i mean, it's krael fantastic to see this coming together. >> yeah. well, you know, united airlines, we're honored to be a part of the humanitarian response as we've been throughout the crisis. and our people have been overwhelmingly supportive, happy to be a part of this. we've had over 8,000 volunteers who have offered to help in this mission, and we don't need that many. it's gratifying to see the role we can play beyond just taking care of our customers. you know, really stepping up in the crisis and doing the right thing for humanity. >> yeah. and so everyone knows, commercial flights aren't going into kabul. you are doing the important task of kind of in their first stop after out of kabul, after leaving kabul, that's where united airlines can pick them up to take the

scott kirby, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> start of a new hour, good to be with you. i'm victor blackwell. california became the first state in the country to mandate vaccines for teachers. if they don't get their shot, they must submit to regular testing instead. sources tell cnn most districts and unions have been supportive of this health order and it's the latest move to keep schools safer as classes begin and coronavirus continues to surge across the country. the average is now above 116,000, more than 73,000 people are hospitalized. and take a look another this map. mostly red and orange here. 99% of us live in a county that the cdc says has either substantial or high transmission and the cdc now forecasts there will be as many as 662,000 american deaths from covid by september 4th. as of today, the u.s. death toll stands at 618,457. that more than 40,000 people can die from covid in a month. cnn's jacqueline howard is here. how strained are the hospitals, the medical facilities across this country? >> victor, it feels like deja vu, because we are hearing of hos

here is what their ceo scott kirby said. >> the tipping point for me was seeing the statistics that 97% the hospital are unvaccinated and over 99% of the deaths are amongst the unvaccinated. that implies by the way that it is about 300 times more likely to die if you are unvaccinated than if you are vaccinated. once you have that statistic in your mind, at least for me as a leader, there simply was no choice but to do the right thing. >> 300 times more likely to die, that is what they put in a note also to all of their frequent flyers. united executive told us employw proof of vaccination will be fired. of course they are hoping to make us all feel more comfortable so we can get on planes and start booking travel again. >>> finally, zero gravity gymnastics? watch as astronauts spoof the olympics from 220 miles above the earth. astronauts performing their own edition of synchronized swimming, lack of floor gymnastics routines, sharp shooting, all aboard the international space station. no word on who won gold. >> and that is really cool. great video. thanks for joining us, i'm christine

its passengers >> right now not a irroorequirement to be vaccinated that question has come up to scott kirby and the ceo of other airlines should passengers be required to be vaccinated. the reason you have yet to see any airline say, yes, 100%, all the passengers flying should be vaccinated to fly. it would be a real challenge to ensure that. that you could make sure that everybody is vaccinated. you'd have to make sure that there is some type of an app and there are some that are already out there where you could upload your vaccination card. that's the big hesitancy within the industry >> all right, phil, thank you very much. phil lebeau reporting on united. many health care companies also telling their employees to get the shot or get gone which has left a lot of people wondering what the states will do with regard to unemployment benefits for people who lose their jobs over this rahill solomon has the details >> companies from block rock and cisco to disney telling employees it's time to get vaxed or else. we just learned today that cnn reportedly fired three employees for going into th

flight attendants have been vaccinated they laid it out like this -- over the last 16 months, scotts kirbyns of condolence letters to the families of united members there is one other note here they were getting an incentive to those workers yet to get a vaccination. do it and you get a day off. they have worked out similar type of compensation with the flight attendeants and pilots. you know how this work one airline does something, a lot tend to follow we'll be tracking them guys, back to you. >> may i ask a question? my other question, is there any movement or discussion to require passengers to be vaxated? i guess they would all have to move together to do that. >> think about the size of what that would require, sara you've got about 2 million people a day who are flying. to get that orchestrated, and to have a system in place, that's a herculean task i'm not sure that the airlines think they can do that for domestic travel. it's a different story when you're talking about international travel, but domestically, while it sounds good on paper, i think that's such a huge requirement to

scott kirby is united's ceo. >> it sounded liable a no-brainer and a requirement from the safety perspective that we require vaccines, but i believe it's going to be more common to require vaccines than to not require vaccines within the next few weeks. >> no mandate! >> reporter: while some may challenge the mandates don't expect the judge to overturn them, says rikki klieman. >> historically mandates work according to the law. that is, a government, a business, a university can demand that people get vaccinated. there were many people who felt that it did not have full approval and therefore it was risky to get it. that argument goes right out the door because with full approval, it is, therefore, looked at as a safe vaccine. >> reporter: so the full approval applies to those 16 and older and full approval for the younger kids probably won't come until the fall. at the end of the day, when you look at all of the clinical data and clinical trial data, the covid-19 vaccine from pfizer is 91% effective at preventing covid-19 disease. gayle? >> david, thank you. >>> president biden's chief med

scott kirby sent a memo for employees, wrote it over the last 16 months, scott has send dozens of condolence another united family from receiving that letter. if you look at shares of united, from -- you see the big falloff there in the stock, and then for the most part has come back, i don't know, 70%, 75% of the way. since then the incentive for employees to do this, aside from keeping your job, a day off of work they have worked this out with the unions in terms of incentives for those employees to become vaccinated you might say why do this now? united has seen what's happened in the past. when we start to head into the fall the fact you may see a surge in cases, they want to get ahead of that they would like to have all of their u.s.-based employees vaccinated before there's any potential surge in covid-19 cases that could come this fall. this is a big step with united becoming the first major airline to say you've got to be vaccinated in you're going to work here. >> two points. first of all, the idea this is going to be timed to when there is a full approval from the fda, so that's a