he's talking about sturgis, an outdoor motorcycle rally in south dakota.same thing happened last year's event, the one the media also freaked out over calling it a super-spreader. it turns out to those concerns were bogus. out of 460,000 attendees, there was just 0.1% positive covid cases. that doesn't stop msnbc panic pusher joy reid. >> at event like the sturgis motorcycle rally, become a super-spreader in the making with its 700,000 attendees certain to spread covid all across the country. republicans are still screaming "freedom" it's about life and death. republicans no what side to be on and it seems they have chosen to be on the side of death. >> laura: coming from a party that embraces abortion on demand. governor kristi noem, do you care to weigh in on being on the side of death this weekend at sturgis? >> you just made an excellent point, i think it's interesting that besides the political party, the democrats who embrace getting abortion on demand are accusing us of embracing death when we are just allowing people to make personal choices and ha

he's talking about outdoor he's talking about outdoor motorcycle rallies in south dakota. thed same thing happened last year when the media also freaked out over calling it a super spreader. it turns out those concerns were bogus out of 460,000 attendees there was just t .1 percent positive covid .1 percent positive covid cases. cases. that didn't stop msnbc panic pressure. >> as the rally becomes a super spreader in the makingto r with 700,000 attendees are to spread covid all across the country. they are screaming freedom but republicans know what side to be on indices they have chosen to be on the side of death. >>laura: coming from a party thatat embraces abortion on demand. now we have governor noem from south dakotas do you care to weigh in on being the side of death this weekend that sturgis? >> you made an excellent point it's interesting this side to the political party that embraces abortion on demand our ink using us embracing data we are allowing people to have personal responsibility may choices of when they want to assemble or gather and spend time out doors

eric shepherd from the tribe in south dakota. thank you for being with us today. you might want to just wave at everybody. recent data shows that housing conditions for native american households are substantially worse than u.s. households. in fact, native americans have some of the greatest housing needs in the united states. that's according to the national low income housing coalition. the reasons for this being that they face overcrowding, high poverty rates, lack of plumbing, and adequate heating and other -- inadequate heating and other severe infrastructure issues. that is if they are even able to access housing options at all. this is a serious problem, and now is the time to fix it. in addition, there are other fundamental challenges that make homeownership more difficult for native americans. the complicated legal nature of tribal trust land can make it exponentially more difficult to lend and borrow on land in indian country. legislation that senator smith and i partnered on in the past has resulted in a number of complications, but there is clearly mo

i'm very interested in the usda loan pilot program in south dakota. i expect the senator will ask about that. if he doesn't, i will return to that. >> thank you. i appreciate the fact that we are having this hearing today. it seems to be a whole series of conflicts here that our analysts have delved into. let me begin with this. i would like to direct this first one to mr. shepherd. it doesn't fall squarely within the jurisdiction of a banking community. i hope that congress can make progress here on the reauthorization of the native american housing assistance act. it's a very broad piece of legislation. i was hoping to learn more about the priorities your organizations and tribes have identified in the reauthorization package. i know you have an interest in this. what are some of the key priorities that they are hoping to see when the hobbs act is reauthorized? >> thank you. in several other contexts, when tribes need approval from an agency, congress has authorized an approach to move a decision point has the agency. if the agency takes too long to

south dakota right around the national average.monument health, the only hospital system serving the entire western half of the state has 13 covid patients now. that may seem like a low number, bill. but two weeks ago, they were down to just three. >> whitaker: mola lenghi, in sturgis, south dakota. tonight, president biden is hoping to jump start the switch his new executive order sets an ambitious goal, half of all vehicles sold should be electric by 2030, and his administration wants to cut emissions from cars that run on gas. we'll get more now from cbs' ben tracy. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: president biden took a drive in an electric jeep wrangler after signing his executive order. >> it's electric, and there's no turning back. but we just have to move and we have to move fast. >> but accelerating the transition to e.v.s may not be so quick. americans still love their gas guzzlers. trucks, vans and s.u.v.s make up three-quarters of new sales so far this year. e.v.s are just 2%. is it possible to get to 50% by the end of the decade? >> i

to your average south dakota and?afghan refugees who by the way have gone through an odor and vetting process, get a special visa or the virus? what do you think? let's take a look. so for the virus it has killed 2000 south dakota's, south dakota has the two top counties in the country with the fastest outbreaks so far. meade county and lawrence county. meade county is the home of a small city called sturgis, and you may remember that we reported on this on what would happen if thousands and thousands of people descended upon sturgis. today is the first in the annual motorcycle rally in sturgis, south dakota. despite rising covid cases, 700 people are expected to attend. last year, nearly half 1 million people said to hell with masking and social distancing, they made the trip to sturgis, and sturgis ended up being the most catastrophic pandemic event of the year. the cdc said it had many characteristics of a super spreading event. so here we are again, like clockwork, it's been nine days since the end of the rally, c

and it's held here in the town of sturgess in south dakota. any imaginable motorcycle that you can think of? it's here because right now during this rally estimated 700000 motorcycle enthusiast. are here for this 10 day event? biggest party ever asked? i love it, the bike to hill. it's beautiful up in the middle of the delta, the variance 3rd, that is sitting throughout the united states repeating south dakota here, particularly hard health officials, are worried that this could be a super spreader event. in fact, it was last year, last year, more than $600.00 corona virus cases were linked to this rally. that was harold here, a year ago. and that time it was only about $450000.00 writers that were here this year. it's even much more. nevertheless, people we've spoken to here say they're not worried. there are absolutely no math requirements here at all. there's no sort of social justice think. pretty much any of the restrictions that have been waiting. so prevent the code. the spread of iris don't exist here vaccinated. a lot of people don't

also known as the population of south dakota. ( laughter and applause ) and it's not just-- south dakotautiful state. you've got the badlands-- >> jon: uh-huh, yeah. >> stephen: others? it's not just cotton and noem. lots of republicans are already jockeying for the 2024 presidential nomination. to name a few, south carolina "senator tim scott, florida senator rick scott," and "former secretary of state mike pompeo." in fact-- ( audience booing ) okay. ( laughter ) then you might enjoy these next jokes. in fact, pompeo has already formed his very own political action committee: "champion american values pac," or "cavpac." ( laughter ) cavpac is a fairly awkward name, but not as bad as what he's calling his fans and donors: "tipe ers." ( laughter ) because if you think mike pompeo shou ( laughter and applause ) now-- ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) now, apparently, in this regard, "pipe hitter" is a military term for people in special ops. but some folks on the famously horny internet had a different understanding of pipe hitter-- ( laughter ) a sexy understanding. so pompeo set th

south dakota has seen massive surge. cases have nearly quinn the upper led. she's declared war not on the virus but on president biden over vaccine mandates that he hasn't implemented. she tweeted she would take every action available under the law to protect south dakotans from the federal government. does that mean that south dakotans shouldn't use the highways? she's staked her political ambitions on being the governor of yolo when it comes to covid last month she said she would not step up efforts because her messaging has reached saturation level. joining me now is professor at the center for policy reserge and emergency medicine and health and science university and charlie sykes. a saturation point in messaging. sounds like she's not going to talk about getting vaccinated. do you think that from a medical point of view is good public policy? >> it's really painful to hear that from where i stand because like in many other states we're struggling here to just figure out who we let in next off a very long waiting list for icu beds that are just running o

last year, south dakota made the controversial decision to hold the rally in august and weeks later, a surgeon covered 19 cases was linked to the sturges rally. the good news is many of the events are held out. doors slowing the spread, but still help officials are worried. but in sturgess, the people we spoke to weren't bothered cable or car and you don't know if they're called because they're smoking or if they're coughing because it's got take care and just kind of watching you where it may not work now right now, because you're going to die one way or another, you going to have our cycle, you get out of bed in the morning. they die because it just take the rob precautions. this often happens and it was just your, your, your time to go back to an agent and it is what it is. and i think i already had the delta 2 weeks ago, i spoke to the mayor of sturgess and he says that this rally was never in doubt. and that by the time they realized that delta barry was hitting hard here, it was simply too late to cancel. what to do was right, people, trauma event, stay home or sick or if you s

she's a republican of south dakota. she essentially set off a biological weapon last summer throughout the entire midwest, not just her state, by allowing the sturgis motorcycle rally to go on. more than 400,000 people descended on the small south dakota city, and then went back to their home states leading to over 200,000 covid cases, according to an estimate from one study. governor gnome recently bragged about not shutting down, or instituting mandates throughout the pandemic. south dakota, has one of the highest death rates per capita in the country, and unlike states in the northeast, that got hit before the got testy capacity or really knew it was going on. south dakota was not in that first. wait still to go to had plenty of time to prepare for its outbreak, which hit its peak last winter. this is where she's running, and freedom of the grave. first they did not shut things, down that led to more deaths per capita than almost any other state and that is why you should elect her president of the united states. tha

so is south dakota. south dakota is also a rural state with a small population and as christy gnome shaz has shown, none of that precludes you from really screwing up the response to the virus. well, phil scott has done the opposite of christy gnome. he has been proactive since the beginning of the pandemic. instituting a mask mandate, last july. and crucially, rolling out a very, very successful vaccination campaign earlier this year. vermont is now the most-vaccinated state in the union. 76.6% of the eligible population, 12 plus, fully vaccinated. this dispatched from vermont describes a world where the pandemic has basically been defeated, suppressed. restaurants, bars, shops, open. hospital covid units are empty. the state is basically staved off an outbreak, brought on by the delta variant because they have such a high-vaccination rate. they also have among the lowest death rates per capita. now, this is a state that joe biden won by more than 35 points. it's a pretty liberal state. governor phil sc

lindell on far white talk radio promoting his symposium in south dakota this week.aying that not only does he believe that trump will be reinstated this month, but it is actually tomorrow. tomorrow morning, he says, is when the whole world, the whole country, the whole world, we'll have a unanimous revelation that biden isn't really president and trump must be put back in the white house. he said, quote, the morning of august 13th, tomorrow morning, there will be the top of the world, going, hurry up! let's get this election pulled down, it's not just that trump is going back in office, it's tomorrow morning. it will be the top of the world. do you think? i mean, what happens if that's not true? where do you go with a failed prediction that specific? that sort of thing doesn't end well. it's not like you can weasel out of something like, i said august 13th, oh i met august 18th 2022. what you're gonna say? yesterday, the far-right washington times newspaper reported that the mike lindell cyber symposium in south dakota, mr. lindell's own handpicked cyber experts, so

just so happens to be the attorney general of the state of south dakota.eneral roundsberg was on his phone while driving. in fact, he was reading conspiracy theories about joe biden and china. he put the phone down and about a minute later, he struck and killed joe beaver with his car. about a minute or two after that, he called 911. >> ally, this -- well, ally, i'm the attorney general, and i am -- i don't know. i hit something. >> you hit something? >> by highmore. highmore. it was in the middle of the road. it sure hit and mashed my windshield. >> oh, no. okay. do you think it was a deer or something? >> i have no idea. could be. >> roundsberg later told police he thought he hit a deer as the 911 dispatcher suggested. but watch this clip from a recording of the second police interview with the attorney general in which they present him with evidence that the victim's glasses were found inside his car. >> so did you see the glasses right next to that? >> i did not. >> okay. >> you showed me the glasses the first time. i wondered about that. that means hi

>>> hundreds of thousands of americans are gathering in south dakota in a surge in covid-19 cases isn't going to stop them. details on the huge sturgis rally ahead. >>> dramatic scenes in greece, hundreds were forced to flee by sea to escape a fast-moving wi wildfire. and live in tokyo as it prepares for the olympics closing ceremoniy. welcome to all of you watching in the yunited states, canada, and around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." ♪♪ all throughout the pandemic we reported on a number of sad and troubling milestones. today we have more. here in the u.s. the del tra variant is driving coronavirus case numbers to their highest numbers since february. according to johns hopkins university the u.s. seven-day average is more than 100,000 new cases per day as over 50% of the u.s. population is fully vaccinated and florida seems to be getting the worst of it. sunshine state is reporting its highest number of weekly cases since before the pandemic began and the highst number of ca capita capitalizations. governor desantis is rejecting mask mandates in schools. >> i have young kids. m

gary grumbach, in sturgis, south dakota.dical affairs at monument health at rapid city hospital, just 40 minutes outside of the sturgis rally. doctor, i want a quick reaction to your sound bite. he's attending one of the tens of thousands of people, saying how did we come up with a cure for key individual so quickly, when we still don't have a cure for cancer? this is what we're fighting, isn't it this. >> there's a lot of misinformation. we've been trying to get ahead of that, inform people that this is a modern miracle. we've never had a vaccine as safe and effective. probably the only one that comes to mind is measles, but that's the message to get across. >> some 700,000 people, as gary was reporting, over the course of the rally. are you nervous? is the hospital preparing for the worst in that area? >> yes, monument health is the only health system for the western half of the state. we've always been very prepared not just for the rally, which we do every year, because we see a spike in cases, trauma and others, but for

we've been back to normal for over three months here in south dakota.people information, let them protect their health but enjoy their way of life and enjoy events like the sturgess mid-atlantic rally. we hope people come. our economy benefits when people come and visit us. >> there's some good data to suggest that sturgess wound up being one of the most catastrophic covid cases event. what happens when hundreds of thousands of people gather in tight spaces like bars and restaurants and concert venues in a small town over the course of ten days amid a once in a century pandemic. there was a spike in cases after sturgess. a majority of the cases were konz traited in the upper midwest. the dark areas on the map show the places like the dakotas along with wyoming and minnesota, saw a spike in cases after sturgess. the dakotas became a kind of epicenter for the pandemic in a way that made no sense except when you remembered sturgess. so what do you think's going to happen this year with the highly transmissible delta variant. last week, more than a thousand

this is the biker rally in south dakota ramps up fears of an outbreak. cbs news is there. >> bikers say this rally will be a super spreader are just noise. >> we'll also get a checkup from the doctor on booster shots and returning to school. also tonight, the u.s. senate pushes past partisan potholes on the way to a infrastructure bill. and the executive assistant pushed andrew cuomo of sexual misconduct speaks publicly for the first time. we have a preview of our exclusive interview. >> the we have a preview of our exclusive interview. >> the governor needs to be held accountable. >> duncan: the olympic games come to a close in tokyo. team u.s.a. closes competition with a gold rush. and later, competing couple, approximate it is an olympic sport, they did it, all of them. this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york, here's jericka duncan. >> duncan: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thanks for watching. we begin tonight with a spreading covid threat. even with just over half of americans now fully vaccinated, that's not enough to hold off a

lindell on far right talk radio, promoting his cyber symposium in south dakota this week.ing not only does he still believe trump will be reinstated this month but it is actually tomorrow. tomorrow morning he says is when the whole world, the whole country, but actually, the whole world will have a unanimous revelation that biden isn't really president and trump must be put back in the white house. em, quote, the morning of august 13th, that's tomorrow morning, it will be the talk of the world, going, hurry up. let's get this election pulled down. not just that trump is coming back in august. it is tomorrow morning. it will be the talk of the world. do you think? what happens if that's not true? where do you go with a failed prediction that specific? that sort of thing doesn't end well of it's not like you can weasel out of saying, i meant august 13, 2022. what are you going to say, right? yesterday the far right washington times newspaper reported that at the mike lindell cyber symposium in south dakota, mr. lindell's own hand picked cyber expert, some cyber security guy

that boy turned businessman from south dakota will join us live. we hope you do too.es, right now, right here on the channel you trust for your morning news. right now let's turn it over toed and jillian on another studio floor here at the world headquarters of fox news channel. jillian: we're 10 floors apart to be exact. >> up or down? jillian: you're down, we're up. the media praising cori bush for her work extending the eviction moratorium, largely remaining silent on her calls to defund the police while maintaining a personal body guard. todd: carley shimkus is here with more. carley: cori bush has been in the news a lot lately. if you're not watching this channel you may not know she said this. listen. >> i'm going to make sure i have security because i know i have had attempts on my life so suck it up and defunding the police has to happen, we need to defund the police. carley: the media largely silent on her private security remarks while heaping on the praise when it comes to her role in the extension of the eviction moratorium. the washington post headline re

we talked about her before, the governor of south dakota. she's warning about the possible danger of afghan refugees coming to the united states. >> this is a dangerous part of the world. we know that we have a lot of dangerous people there that want to do the united states harm. they should not be coming to the united states unless we know for sure they are an ally and a friend and don't wish to destroy this country. >> afghan refugees should not be coming unless we know they do not wish to destroy this country, these dangerous people from this dangerous part of the world. you know who she did allow in her state just over two weeks ago? hundreds of thousands of people on motorcycles from across the country for the sturgis motorcycle rally, many of whom are proudly unvaccinated. life or death terms, what do you think is more of a risk to south dakota people? afghan refugees, who have gone through an incredibly onerous vetting process, a special sri suss, or the virus? what do you think? more than 2,000 have died in south dakota. they have th

s. state of south dakota for the annual sturgess motorcycle rally. the 10 day event began on friday and is being held despite the rise in coven 1900 cases. last year rally became a super spreader event, with around 500000 attending. well, gabriel alexander is live for us in just so gabriel. give us a sense then of what it's like me. well, welcome to main street in the town of sturgis, south dakota, and welcome to the sturgess motorcycle rally. as you can see behind me, there are motorcycles, for as far as the i can see if there's any sort of motorcycle that was ever made. it's year in sturgis, over the next 10 days, they're expecting $700000.00 participants this year. that's a record. and they come from all over the united states and even a couple other countries as well. it's a huge event that goes on for several blocks in the small town, a small town that is only has a population of about $8000.00 people. but for 10 days, every august, since 940, this rally has been held here. it's a little after noon right now. you can see how busy it is already.

rob reynolds al jazeera on the rose bud laconia reservation, south dakota. still ahead on the news, our courses will hear from the beller russian athlete at the center of a diplomatic route of the toko. i choose choose choose with me. ah ah. ah. hello again time for the sportsmen with joe during. thank you. well, it's been an incredible day of action at the tokyo olympics, jamaica elaine thompson herrera has repeated had double gold metal success from rio . 5 years ago, she already won the 100 meters in tokyo and storm to another victory and the 200. it was the 2nd fastest time in history, christine boma of namibia came through late to take the silver. and it was another jamaican shelley and fraser price who took brahms. let's get over. the limbic stadium in tokyo joint corresponded andy richardson and elaine thompson has really cemented herself. is one of the olympic great, doesn't she? she really has. we may not have the same bold say that we do have elaine thompson, her and who knows, form and finish committing. she's now 21 years old. she should well be

shankar kurra runs the only hospital in the western half of south dakota.have 19 covid patients up from three two weeks ago, but his real worry is all those people coming from other places. >> you can guesstimate that half may be vaccinated and half not. the real risk is, these folks when they go back, because even the vaccinated folks can spread it. >> i'm vaccinated, so i don't worry about it when i'm outdoors. but when i'm indoors, it's kind of like, you know, i'd like to have a mask on usually. >> reporter: joe dowd, a retiree from tennessee, has missed only two rallies in 40 years. >> let me tell you, when i rolled in here 1981, 40 years ago, and i turned that corner, i could not believe it. it was impossible to fathom the amount of people and the amount of motorcycles out here. >> reporter: to these bikers, this rally is about more than just bikes and brews. >> it's a brotherhood. no one cares about your religion, your skin color, none of that. we're all bikers. we're all family, and we just have a great time down here. >> reporter: well, the c.d.c. h

well, welcome to main street in the town of sturgis, south dakota, and welcome to the sturgess motorcycle rally. as you can see behind me, there are motorcycles, for as far as the i can see if there's any sort of motorcycle that was ever made. it's year in sturgis, over the next 10 days, they're expecting $700000.00 participants this year. that's a record. and they come from all over the united states and even from a couple other countries as well. it's a huge effect that goes on for several blocks in the small town. a small town, it is only has a population of about $8000.00 people. but for 10 days, every august, since $940.00. this rally has been held here. it's a little after noon right now, you can see how busy it is already. and this goes on through the evening. there's the people that are riding through town, there's rock concerts at night. people go out to eat. there's all sorts of different venues, but it's made basically a place for modal motorcycle enthusiast from around the united states to come and gather. but of course, gathering now certainly is difficult. now because of the

s. state of south dakota for the annual sturgess motorcycle rally. the 10 day then kicked off on friday despite the delta various cases surging across the country. last year's rally became a super spreader event with more, ron is attending this year. health officials are increasingly concerned gabrielle elizondo reports from south dakota. the, the sound of the world's largest baker party. it's called the sturges motorcycle rally. held every august for the past 81 years. these 3 women rode their motorcycle 2000 kilometers over 3 days to be here. rally what else you can ask for this year, an estimated 700000 bikers from all over the united states have descended on sturgess for 10 days of food, drinking rock concerts, lots of motorcycle riding on the nearby country highways. the event brings in roughly $800000000.00 to the local economy. biggest party ever got a lot of a lot of motorcycles, but not masks, social distancing, temperature checks, or mandatory negative cova test. none are required. the last yourself, dakota made the controversial decision t

from delaware delaware, south dakota, florida. but we're going to begin with a dangerous new trend stemming from the delta variant. new covid cases averaging now more than 100,000 a day. returning to levels not seen since the winter surge six months ago. health experts are now warning hospitalizations and deaths likely to increase over the next four weeks. >> also this morning, the state of florida breaking a another daily case record for the third time this week. hospitalizations are also up in record breaking levels for six consecutive days. the good news here, more people are being encouraged and actually going to get the shot. new vaccinations are up 11% from last week. and up 44% from the last two weeks. mike memoli is in wilmington, delaware. stephanie is in orlando outside a testing site. mike, we're going to start with. you at this point, what is the presidents next move? and how do you convince the seemingly unconvinced ball to get the shot. >> seem well, lindsey. i thought the president said something quite telling when

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city of mission and south dakota because enormous damage. these are the ruins of an old native american boarding school on the rose bud reservation in south dakota until the 1900 seventy's. more than $350.00 such schools were set up with the explicit goal of eradicating native american culture. erase in replace, erase language replaced the english race, spirituality, religion replaced with christianity by 1900. more than half of all native children lived in the strictly regimented institutions. corporal punishment, physical punishment, malnutrition, certainly we know, sexual abuse. they were hellish institutions by any definition of the term. no one is sure how many children died in the system. recently the remains of 9 lakotas children who died at a school more than a century ago were returned for burial on their native land. the boarding school system not only did harm to the children who were caught up in it, it also severely damaged native american societies. with the facts that have been felt generation after generation. native american

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cnn, sturgis, south dakota. >> let's bring in dr. scott miss koesk, a national consultant for covid testing and doing it from tucson, arizona. good to see you. the good news in the u.s. is nearly 60% of the eligible population, 12 and older, are vaccinated. but is it enough given the veer lens of the delta arm and with the seven-day average topping 7,000 again. >> that's exactly correct, michael. everybody has heard the concept of herd immunity. we were saying early on, 60, 65%. we have to understand, we have a variant that is so contagious and that is spreading at the rate of chicken pox. it's spreading almost double the rate of what the smallpox has spread, which was obviously we serious, that most of us believe that we're going to need to hit 85% before we can start getting into that next big place of remember, it's suppression, elimination, and eradication. right now we're not even close to any of those. so we need to think 85%. why is that a problem? well, know know probably 12 to 15% of the country won't even dream of getting a

daniel ainslie is the city manager for sturgis, south dakota and hejoins us from there now.s a lot of criticism last year, some call it a super spreader event, some estimations said it caused 250,000 cases across the country. how do you react to that, and in light of that, should this event this year be going ahead?— going ahead? you know, that estimate really _ going ahead? you know, that estimate really came - going ahead? you know, that estimate really came from i going ahead? you know, that estimate really came from an incredibly biased study that used a false narrative before they even began doing any of their actual research. when you look at the oxford study that actually counted real cases that were verified, there was about a63 cases that came from the event last year, that had almost 500,000 people. if you compare that to another metropolitan area in america, of a00- 500,000 metropolitan area in america, of a00— 500,000 people, we were actually the second lowest amount of transmission. so actually all things considered it was a very, very low transmission rate, esp

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on the covid beat this hour, gary grumbach is in sturgis, south dakota.re seeing an uptick in other states but florida really is the new national epicenter. and we also know schools are going to be starting again in florida this week. >> yeah, that's right. this is the epicenter here of the covid surge. at the same time, you're seeing cases more than double in states here around the country, and in just the last two weeks. while, yes, we have seen a rise in the vaccination rate around the country, particularly in these hot spots, we can't underscore enough that there are still more than 100 million americans who have yet to get a shot who remain unvaccinated. when you're looking at the delta variant, it is six times more contagious when you're looking at that unvaccinated population, well, that has led to this very search. >> this weekend, covid cases hitting another grim high, as students from arizona to florida head back to school. the u.s. now averaging more than 100,000 cases a day. double what it was just two weeks ago. thousands on saturday, waiting

garrett is in sturgis, south dakota.ore than 600 infections last year that we know of. what's it like on the ground? >> hey there stephanie. those cases came from the smaller crowd last year than is expected this year. health officials are trying to do everything they can to prevent that from happening again with a crowd of 700,000 people expected this year. they have the masks and hand sanitizer ready for anybody who wants it. but they're giving away the johnson & johnson one-shot coronavirus vaccine. you can get vaccinated right here, right now at the rally. they are also allowing people to drink outside. folks hope that will prevent crowding in the bars. as we know transmission outside is a lot less likely than transmission inside bars. but there's also -- the unvaccinated and vaccinated people at this rally. i want to introduce you to two people who are unvaccinated who don't have a concern in the world about coronavirus. >> no, not at all. doesn't bother me. to me, it's just a common cold. that's the way i look at i

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we'll take you to south dakota where few seem to care there's even a pandemic out there. >>> the nextr, the kindergarten exodus. a special report, disturbing new numbers, more than a million students who have simply vanished from the school system in the wake of the covid crisis. many are the youngest and most vulnerable kids out there. that is coming up in the top of our next hour. we do want to begin with the breaking news. on former president trump's trump's efforts to subvert the election. jeff rosen spoke with the senate judiciary committee this weekend for seven hours behind closed doors. "new york times" reporting that rosen told congressional investigators that one of his deputies, jeffrey clark, tried to help the former president subvert the results of the 2020 election. ali vitali has following this for us. we're learning more about this, but what can you tell us? what more do you know about this and next steps here, of course? >> it's all recall le stunning, yasmin. even though the president is no longer in the oval office, no longer even in washington, clearly there's stil

. >> the governor here in south dakota is a big supporter of this event. she will be here in sturgis as part of a charity ride. this part of the population wants to get out and enjoy themselves but the delta variant doesn't care. >> thank you there in south dakota. dr. azar, again, the numbers are clearly going in the wrong direction in just about every state. large scale events starting to happen, not as large as that motorcycle rally in south dakota, how concerning is that? even though it is outside. >> it is concerning. people don't stay outside, they move inside. the reason it has been designated a super spreader is all of the transmission happening indoors. so i appreciate the two nurses acknowledging that mask wearing is important indoors. but you know even if you're in a very sort of crowded area, even outdoors if you're not within a little nucleus of folks that you know are vaccinated and everyone is screaming and shouting, i do worry about it. the only silver lining is it is being held outside. i do think the jazz fest was just postponed again in

cbs' mola lenghi is in sturgis, south dakota, tonight, where there's clearly more fun than fear. >> reporterthat's right, jericka. here at the rally, there are no mask mandates, no vaccination requirements. and that's just how these bikers seem to like it. while parts of the rest of the country deal with that severe covid spike, here at sturgis, you'd barely know the virus exists. with more than half a million people expected at the annual sturgis motorcycle rally, the city manager thought he'd be a little busier delivering covid rapt tests to people with symptoms. any issues as far as covid? >> we haven't had any issues. we have covid tests and masks available. in the very beginning we were running around town making a lot of deliveries and starting to get worried about how we're going to keep up, but ultimately interest in it really went away. >> the entire u.s. is red hot with covid spread. health officials say the delta surge is dire in the southeast, including florida, tennessee, and connecticut where hospitalizations jumped into% in a week. >> reporter: in hard-hit florida, deaths have