st. louis city prosecutor failed to show up to three scheduled court hearings. she reportedly was on maternity leave and has since resigned. the st. louis circuit attorney's office released a statement saying in part that they will take corrective measures to prevent any repeat occurrence of the incident in question, but

the republican attorney general sued not the county, not just the county, but the city of st. louistry to council out a concurrent mask mandate that was enacted by the mayor of the city of st. louis. what are local leaders supposed to do to protect their constituents when they live in an anti-science state? as far as the mayor of st. louis goes, she had this to say about the republican a.g. attacking her public health policy. quote, i wish that he would put more of his attention toward serving the people of the state of missouri. joining us now is the mayor of st. louis, to sharia jones, mary jones, good to see you again. thanks for being with us tonight. you have a serious issue in your state and in your city, and would be one thing if you had a serious issue and you're putting a mask mandate encourage people to get vaccinated we get to the end of it, but you're actively fighting people as this covid virus is once again attacking your state. >> yes, we are fighting people on two sides, we are trying to get people vaccinated and to keep them safe and that's with the people of st. lo

the republican attorney general sued not the county, not just the county, but the city of st. louisout a concurrent-mask mandate, that was enacted by the mayor of the city of st. louis. what are local leaders supposed to do to protect their constituents, when they live in an anti-science state? as far as the mayor of st. louis goes, she had this to say about the republican ag attacking her public-health policy. quote, i wish that he would put more of his attention toward serving the people of the state of missouri. joining us, now, is the mayor of st. louis. mayor jones, good to see you, again. thank you for being with us, tonight. you got -- you got a serious issue in your state. and in your city. um, and it'd be one thing if you just had a serious issue, and you put in the mask mandate and you encouraged people to get vaccinated and we would get to the end of it. but you're actively fighting people, as this covid virus is -- is, once again, attacking your state. >> yes, we're fighting people, on two fronts. we are trying to get people vaccinated, and to keep them safe. and that's

by american express with growing concerns over the contagious delta variant the city of st. louiste after seeing their daily positivity rate soar to now over 10%, and another concern facing the city is the issue of race relations. after a year of nationwide protests and calls for police reform, there's still a lot to be done. "the washington post" has written a new profile on the city's new mayor, writing she has brought a tidal wave of change to our city, and while trying to keep the residents safe. will it work? well, joining me now is the mayor of st. louis, tishaura jones. we mentioned your order that residents over the age of 5 must wear a mask indoors and on public transport. it is now being challenged in federal court. now, this comes as hospitalizations in your city climb up 30%. what else do you plan to do to stop the number of cases from rising and how concerned are you about the pushback? >> thank you for having me, reverend al, your last question first. i'm not concerned about the pushback from our attorney general who's running for u.s. senate right now, so he has to

st. louis city and county, cases there are surging.re do you stand on masking for vaccinated people? is it still possible at this point to sort of go back on the guidance that was put out there that the vaccinated don't have to wear masks? >> you know, this is the way i think about this virus. it's a very smart virus. the w.h.o. just categorized the delta variant as the fastest and the fittest. these are not two good descriptions of this virus. whenever you have such high community transmission, you have to mask up. to me it makes common sense. i am not really sure why a lot of people are upset about how sometimes we have to go back. if there is a lot of viral transmission and you go into a grocery store, guess what? what you thought last week was safe or last month was safe is not safe now. so i definitely think that an indoor spaces, congested areas, looking at your family dynamics. do you have a lot of elderly people in your family? if that's the case, you've got to have these layers of protections, boris, and that's what a mask is,

st. louis city? yeah. just a basic lifestyle who's but she ended up on a tropical island in the south china sea, 1300 kilometers away from home. and the waves now determined the course of her life. darcy made 4th history and china. she was the 1st woman to take part in a professional, international surfing competition. today she's brought us to her favorite practice box, but we're not allowed to tell you where it is. i was to figure it there are no who tells here and no tourists. but it's a long way down to the water. the bays, calm surface is deceptive. there are large rocks below, and if you fall off your board and land on one, you could injure yourself in darcy paddles out quite a way to find the good ways. but the effort is definitely worth it. darcy prefers to use a long board about 3 meters in length. this board allows her to ride smaller waves for longer periods of time, so she can improve her technique. darcy retired from competitive surfing in 2014, to focus her attention on cleaning up china's po

st. louis told fox news that st. louis citynd she was kept in the dark with a plea deal struck with her son's alleged killer. >> your office has a new prosecutors which your office did not make me aware of. the prosecutor was himself not prepared to handle my son's case. >> the head of the st. louis police officers association said people there on the street in st. louis will see murder suspects walking free because of her handling of these cases. a murder suspect on the loose. >> laura: unbelievable. thank you. we for new york city which happens to be where the art gallery hunter biden hopes to sell his art for a small fortune. we sent raymond arroyo down to find out what is going on. that can't miss report is next. .>> laura: it looks empty. its not often we find ourselves in new york city and it's not often that the president's son prized art high and its displayed down the street. we sent raymond arroyo downtown to see what the motion was about. >> this soho-gallery is offering hunter biden's collection for up to half a mil

st. louis city council, for one, overturning that city's new mask mandate just one day after it went into effect. tonight, seven states already have laws banning mandates. tonight, pfizer's ceo is calling for booster shots, saying they have found a drop in protection for some people about six months after their second dose of the vaccine. the best protection, they say, though, as always, to get vaccinated. more than 189 million people have received at least one dose. 66% of people 12 years and older in this country. an udy showing what a booster shot could potentially do. how many more antibodies that would bring to your body to fight this virus. more study is needed, but it is making headlines, as well. and abc's trevor ault leading us off in florida. >> reporter: tonight, the delta variant tearing through much of the country. spreading furiously among the unvaccinated with covid cases soaring nearly 400% in the last five weeks. >> if you're not getting vaccinated, i feel like it's kind of unethical or irresponsible at this point, because it's so dangerous. >> reporter: president biden e

st. louis city councilman, st. uis county councilman on, because in that area today the renewed mask mandate is set to take effect in st. louis county and they're fighting it because they're saying, look, for people who are vaccinated, how can you now go and tell them that they need to wear masks indoors and on public trans pour of station. you had the mayor of wildwood saying look, what does our future look like if you tell people you need to get the vaccine in order to get some of your freedoms back, in order to stop wearing the mask and to get back to your normal life and then all of a sudden you get vaccinated and now you're telling people never mind, it's apparently not enough that you need to also wear a mask. i just think that -- i don't know what the future is going to look like, griff, if this what is we're up against for a long time to come because we don't know how long it's going to be. griff: folks like dr. marty makary saying the virus is going to be with us for years, if not decades. i thought an impo

st. louis city and st. visiting indoor public spaces or using public transportation. regardless of your vaccination status. that runs through mid september. the numbers are startling. the daily average of cases tripled. only 41% of the residents are vaccinated. that's the public health argument for bringing back mask mandates, but there are loud objections. >> this is ain't science. it discourages people. it has the opposite effect. to have this sort of mask mandate for people who have already opinion vaccinated for kids, the science tells you this is not an issue. it's ridiculous. >> live on the ground, this plays out in st. louis. what's the latest? >> john, i had an opportunity to talk to one of the counselmen of like mind with the attorney general. he says three to one his constituents are against mask mandates. tomorrow he's taking it to the council to try to rescind the order. make no mistake, the play your and county executive of st. lewis are focussed on the numbers, the dire situation in st. louis

her constituents in the city of st. louis don't have rich people willing to pay $70,000 to protect them. they have the police. the city of st. louis cut $4 million from its police budget and retired almost 100 police positions. and you know what they did with that money? they took the $4 million and put a million into a victim support services paying the funeral expenses for people killed in the city of st. louis. they have the worst year for murders in st. louis in 50 years. maybe what they need to do is fund the 100 police officers and more and less need for paying funeral expenses for people in the city of st. louis. let's stop the killing rather than moving funding for the police to pay for funerals for people killed by criminals. >> dana: great point. >> bill: nice to see you. thank you for your time today. gowdy, could your neighborhood benefit from the greater police presence? a year ago a lot of may have answered no and maybe different today. the "politico" spees. sub header moderate suburban voters have concerns and

st. louis and unfortunate the attorney general plans to file another frivolous lawsuit that only serves political ambitions and not the public's health. why would you say it's not frivolous. >> the city of st. louis where the mayor represents had a 50 year high in murders, they have a prosecutor that doesn't show up to court and individuals charged with murder are being released. you have raging violent crime and their solution for public safety is defunding the police, taking $4 million away from police departments. taking 100 officers off the streets when they're 150 officers shorts and requiring masks for those vaccinated and kids. it's failure and about control and i will stick up for the

st. louis city and county. nobody is surprised that the attorney general plans to file yet another frivolous lawsuit to serve his own political ambations. in the meantime you have the restaurant owners, the bartenders and employees of people going out and about who are now stuck in the middle. >> whenever we had the mask mandate we had to fight a lot of people who didn't want to wear masks. we had a kutsmer pull a gun, we've had customers threaten to fight and just go crazy. >> reporter: city officials later on monday will hold a press conference to try to explain how this mask mandate will work. in the meantime the city of st. louis is undergoing a covid crisis. a 40% increase, a surge in cases just over the last week. suzanne malveaux, cnn, st. louis, missouri. >>> still to come here on "cnn newsroom," proof of covid vaccination may soon be required here in the u.k. but only for certain events. we'll bring you the details just ahead. >>> and french lawmakers back new covid requirements as the country deals wi

st. louis, city and county. nobody is surprised that the attorney general plans to file yet another frivolous lawsuit to serve his own political ambitions. poppy, take a listen to the people who were caught in the middle here. folks who will have to enforce th this. >> we had to fight a lot of people who didn't want to wear mask. we've had customers pull a gun, customers threaten to fight. and just go crazy. >> so there's a sense of dread but there's also a sense that this is vitally important here in this state. it is a dire situation when it comes to the fourth surge of the covid-19 virus here. and so people want to get on top of this once again. but the question remains, too, is if it's so targeted to st. louis and st. louis county, and you don't have the enforcement or the buy-in from neighboring counties, neighboring cities or even neighboring states, how impactful will it be? that question is still unanswered, poppy. >> suzanne, thank you so much for the reporting on the ground. >>> let's talk through all

st. louis city and county will require masks in indoor public spaces and on public transportation putting front line workers in the same jeopardy they faced last year. >> wherever we had the mask mandate, we had to fight a lot of people who didn't want to wear masks. we had a customer pull a gun. we've had customers threaten to fight and just go crazy. >> missouri, of course with, a covid hot spot. several cities, including los angeles, philadelphia, houston, austin, and new orleans they're now taking similar steps on masks and, in some cases, not stopping there. >> do you think masks should be brought back for vaccinated americans? >> you know, jake, this is under active consideration. we're seeing it in l.a. and chicago and we're seeing it in new orleans, because the officials there, many of them are saying even if you're vaccinated, it's prudent to wear a mask indoors. >> more mitigation is coming. whether it's masking or closures or your kids having to return to virtual learning. that is coming. it's coming because this pandemic is spiraling out of control yet again. it's spiraling ou

st. louis city and st.at money could go, where we need investment and hurting. >> reporter: those congresswomen stand against all forms of hate that they are legitimately criticizing the israeli government. others see it differently. that israel and jews are used as scapegoats. >> you make the jews as a collective, israel, the face of all that you don't like. of all that is standing in the way between you and a brighter more progressive future. that is how anti-semitism and atrocities against my people have always begun. >> synagogues are being defaced from alaska to arizona. >> and sadly it is a reality. we've seen the rise across america. >> reporter: yes incidents spiked around the war in may. >> it's never been about the conflict. >> >> reporter: okay, what does the data say. >> they've pointed to israel palestinian conflict and the tropes of anti-semitism. >> reporter: american je wefs are suffering hate from many sides. >> jewish americans could feel, how do i say this right, they could feel squeezed.

st. louis reports two other murder cases were recently dismissed because of unprepared st. louis citycutors. shannon. >> yeah. i cannot imagine how the victims' family members and loved ones must feel about this. matt finn thank you very much. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> there is growing controversy tonight about what was interpreted as a government endorsement of a controversial teaching philosophy and we're not talking about critical race theory. corespondent aishah hasnie reporting on the uproar of abolitionist teaching and what it means. >> tonight the department of education admitting it made a mistake when it offered schools a direct link to an activist group that advocates for educators to disrupt whiteness and other forms of oppression. the department does not endorse the recommendations of this group nor do they reflect our policy positions. it was an error in a lengthy document to include this citation. what they say is a mistake was included in the department's recommendations for spending is now raising questions about how federal dollars are being spent

st. louis city. yeah, just a basic knife. ah, but she ended up on a tropical island in the south china sea, 1300 kilometers away from home in the waves. now determined the course of her life. darcy made sports history in china. she was the 1st woman to take part in a professional, international surfing competition. today, she's brought us to her favorite practice spot. but we're not allowed to tell you where it is. i figure it there are no who tells here and no tourists. but it's a long way down to the water. the bays, calm surface is deceptive. there are large rocks below. and if you fall off your board and land on one, you could injure yourself. ah, darcy paddles out quite a way to find a good wave. but the effort is definitely worth it. ah, ah, darcy prefers to use a long board about 3 meters in length. this board allows her to ride smaller waves for longer periods of time, so she can improve her technique. darcy retired from competitive surfing in 2014, to focus her attention on cleaning up china's polluted coastal areas.

st. louis city and county will be requiring masks in indoor public places and on public transportation startingeneral says he will sue to stop the safety measures from being enforced. >> the truth is this. vaccines are effective. they are widely available and they are free. but there is this dangerous mix of vaccine hesitancy and misinformation in certain pockets of the country that is slowing efforts to end it. >> we are a year and a half into this and there is still waiting for information that they don't really even understand. you wouldn't ask your grocery store clerk what should you do about fixing your car's transmission. why would you listen to a neighbor about what they think about vaccines? >> and here is cnn's paolo sandoval with more. >> reporter: the delta variant driving new outbreaks this summer as vaccinations stall in the united states. florida currently one of the most infected states in the u.s. >> if the governor would lead more strongly and really lean into this and say, you know, people, you have got to get vaccinated, it's so important, it's life or death, i don't know why

st. louis city and in st. are hurting. >> reporter: they say they stand against all forms of hate that they are legitimately criticizing the israeli government. others see it differently, that israel and jews are used as scapegoats. >> you make the jews as a collective israel, the face of all that you don't like, of all that is standing in the way between you and a brighter more progressive future. that is how anti-semitism and atrocities against my people have begun. >> reporter: synagogues are being dedaysed from alaska to arizona. >> sadly, it's a new reality. they are seeing this rise across america. >> reporter: yes, incidents spiked around the war in may but -- >> it's never about the conflict. >> reporter: okay. what does the data say? >> folks across the idealogical spectrum point to jews have too much power in media, too much power in finance and a classic trope of anti-semitism. jewish americans can feel, how do i say this right? they can feel squeezed. >> reporter: stones were thrown through synagog

st. louis and kansas city after city officials reimpose mask orders. in st. l louis expressing frustration over the resis tense to mask and k k ananananand d kn do the responsible common sense thing. get a shot. get over your ignorance.ananceco try to mislead you by scoring cheap politicap popolililititip. house minority leader slamming a new mask rule in the house of representatives. tweeting the threat of bringing masks back is not a decision based on science. >> speaker nancy pelosi saying this aboutcommmment. >> now more players are pushing back at the leagues policy. whic whwhwhicic whwhicic whwhicic unvaccinated players could lead to forfeited games and not getting paid. refusing to get shot. >> i want to start saying i'm not antior provax. i'm pro-choice. >> authorities in new york city are worried about the number of cash to get the shot. >> more vaccine mandates. google sp facebook announced plans to make vaccines mandatory for workers returning to the office. the neww policy applies to all cast and crew. >> beginning tomorrow visitors at disney world

st. louis city and county. nobody is surprised the attorney general plans to file yet another frivolous lawsuit to serve his own political ambitions. in the meantime, who is caught in the middle of all this? the small businesses, the business owners, the employers, folks actually serving at restaurants and bars. just listen to the concerns that they have, fred. >> whenever we had the mask mandate, we had to fight a lot of people who didn't want to wear masks. >> we had a customer pull a gun, we had customers threaten to fight and just go crazy. >> reporter: so people are a little nervous, anxious about what's going to happen tomorrow. they'll have to sort it out themselves. we'll see how this all goes. in the meantime, this is a very serious situation, dire situation in missouri as well as in st. louis. when you look at those covid cases, they are surging as we speak, fred. >> suzanne malveaux in st. louis, thank you. >>> let's bring in dr. jonathan riner, cnn medical analyst. always good to see you. so, dr. fa

st. louis city and st. louis county want public health and science to win the day.s took the step they took today because it's about health and public safety and science not about donald trump and being afraid to say that you're for masks or for vaccines. >> charlie, i want to read you something in "the new york times" that just stopped me in my tracks. america is one of the few countries with enough vaccines at its disposal to protect every resident and has the highest res resilience. the unvaccinated will set this nation on fire over and over again. >> that is the sentence of the day. and if you're upset about mask mandates, you need to focus on the unvaccinated and the man made crisis of disinformation, demagoguery, ignorance and stubborn nance that we're seeing here. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. sure, i think perhaps mask mandates will have a place. i think it's time, also, to grow up and say, look, especially among conservatives. you have to balance freedom against your civic responsibility. my right to swing my fist ends where it hits your nose. my

st. louis city and st. louis county didn't work.fact that the mayor and the city can spend millions of dollars without any oversight and a lot of other issues that once you scratch the surface is a problem which is why we are filing a lawsuit. stuart: what are your chances of winning? >> we are hopeful. st. louis county held on to the most restrictive regime in the state. in mid-may you had to ask the government's permission to have an outdoor barbecue with friends. it was indefensible. they might overturn the county executive tonight so there's a lot to play off of. we want to make sure we take a stand early and are fighting for people who had enough. stuart: eric schmidt, thanks for joining us, appreciate you being here. back to the markets, down 146 on the dow, the nasdaq is way down, up one.6%, 248 points down on the nasdaq. technology is taking it on the chin. the airlines come most of them down. american airlines down 3.3% facing a fuel shortage. lauren is back with us. what did that mean for fires? >> you are nonstop flights.

st. louis city prosecutor failed to show up to three scheduled court hearings. ircuit attorney's office released a statement saying in part that they will take corrective measures to prevent any repeat occurrence of the incident in question, but still a lot of people are upset over this including families of crime victims, local police officers and the governor. jacqui: christina coleman thank you for that. we'll be discussing the rising crime across the u.s. with our panel coming up. griff? griff: a federal court on friday ruled in favor of florida in its lawsuit against the centers for disease control. the decision will allow florida cruise ships to set sail without any coronavirus restrictions. the court concluded the cdc failed to demonstrate the right to a pause pending appeal. and if you're looking for a cruise vacation, the walt disney company says they're resuming operations at u.s. ports next month. the disney dream you see here is set to ask depart for the bahamas from port canaveral, florida, on august 9th. disney cruises says they are not requiring pa

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st. louis is the latest city to reinstate a mandate beginning monday.hile, just 40% of eligible alabama residents are fully vaccinated, meaning 60% are not, as cases climb. and the state's republican governor had some harsh words. >> folks supposed to have common sense. but it's time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks, it's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down. >> reporter: but a newly released poll from the associated press which surveyed unvaccinated americans found 80% were either definitely not or probably not willing to get the shot. nevada has now brought in fema, the agency that typically responds to natural disasters to help set up clinics in hard-to- reach areas where vaccine rates are low. >> we're trying to reach as much people as we can and make it accessible for them to get the vaccine and improve the rates so we can save lives. >> reporter: some of those workers going door to door tell me they're still encountering people who are hesitant because they don't trust the vaccine and others say it's just i

st. louis, we are desperately trying to get people to take the vaccine because 80% of new cases in the city only 20% of those vaccinated. >> mayor jones, meg murray, thank you so much for your time. thank you so much for your efforts to actually go out and save lives in the state of missouri. >>> ahead, fox news hypocrisy on vaccines is getting put on blast. it involves tucker carlson. we've got it all on tape, next. on "the beat." , next on "the beat." at the lexus golden opportunity sales event. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing. ♪ ♪ dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame. [inflammation] let's kick ken's ache and burn into gear! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. those drops will probably pass right by me. xiidra works differently, targeting inflammation that can cause dry eye disease. [inflammation] what's that? [inflammation] xiidra? no! it can provide lasting relief. xiidra is the only fda-approved non-steroid treatment specifically for the signs an

st. louis police that he was out and at this moment still at large. the head of the public safety committee and the st. louis city >> even a manager at mcdonald's will make sure their employees show up. it's not right. when you are letting murderers go out in a city that already has issues with murders, i mean, that is just absolutely bizarre. >> the post-dispatch reports more than 100% turnover in the prosecutor's office since gardner took office. bill, back to you. >> bill: will be watching that. mike tobin, thank you, from chicago. ct is in trouble may be emerging for president biden and the democrats end of the 2020 midterm elections with his policies putting moderate democrats in a tough position. karl rove writing democrats can't afford a radical agenda or a disputed base, that mr. biden might men achieve them both he joins us now. hi, karl. can he make anybody happy here? >> it'll be difficult. so much will be put on this plate. just think about it, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the partisan infrastructure bill, judge has declared that the daca program can no longer. across the globe there are challe

this as cities across the country reimpose their own covid restrictions with washington, d.c., atlanta, st. louis, kansas city, and savannah all issuing mask mandates this week. broadway's theater owners and operators also saying, friday, that they will require theater goers to be vaccinated and wear masks to attend performances. let's bring in "wall street journal" columnist dan henninger. >> what are you learning that you didn't know before and that we should be concerned about? >> well, the cdc's hair is obviously on fire over the possibility that some vaccinated person will transmit covid to some unvaccinated person. the evidence apparently shows that people who have been vaccinated can pick up this delta variant. they may or may not show symptoms and they may or may not be capable of spreading it, but the cdc is very worried they are going to spread it. >> paul: what about the data? is there any new information on just how serious disease you will get if you're vaccinated and you get the delta variant? any change on that information? because that's what i think most people are worried about.

same with missouri, the latest city to bring back the mask mandate regardless of vaccination status. new rules start monday. st. louis joins other cities across the country either requiring people wear a mask or encouraging them there could be even more rules coming in other big cities. bill de blasio for example, now pushing for businesses to impose vaccination requirements for workers. >> now we've got to go further. we've reached the limits of a purely voluntary system, it time for more mandate. >> protests are growing around the world in the meantime, for putting coronavirus rules in place you'reooking at demonstrators they've been clashing with police there, french lawmakers are going to vote this weekend on whether or not to require asking task force and mandatory vaccinations for health workers. similar scenes in australia where thousands of anti- lockdown protesters took to the streets in sydney and melbourne. more than half of that country, 25 million people are currently under a state order. katie, i want to start with you because mask mandate, everybody is talk about it. doctor anthony fauci was on neil ca

city of st. louis shots we took this morning is set to reintroduce a mask mandate. however the state attorney general's office says not so fast. here is tweet from eric schmidt, state ag. people of st. louis are not subjects but free people as attorney general i will file suit monday to stop this insanity. eric schmidt will be here on the program. rachel: great tweet. we're not subjects but free people. why are we arguing all of this? how fast has our world changed in one year? it feels so crazy. pete: we're arguing about it, because the alternative is a vaccine passport. vaccine passports are the protests. what you have in st. louis because they can't trust people individuals to make choices, they're everyone to put a mask on. vaccinated or unvaccinated you have to have a mask. authorities say that is one way we control people. the other is a vaccine passport you have to prove where you are. in the middle we're in country in most places. trust people to make choices about themselves for their own heal

the nation's eighth largest city, st. louis, missouri, is following the lead of los angeles requiring masks for everyone over the age of 5 in indoor public places, even if you are older and been vaccinated. city leaders have a fight on their hands. missouri's attorney general announced he is going to sue over that mask mandate. >> they are doing this under the guise of public safety. it is about control and people have had enough. this is anti-science if you ask me. it will discourage people to be vaccinated and have the opposite effect because to have this sort of mask mandate for people who have already been vaccinated and kids when the science tells me this is not an issue is ridiculous. >> harris: several cities are requiring masks in schools including the nation's three largest school districts. seven new jersey students have signed onto a lawsuit looking to block any possible mask mandates in their school systems. alex hogan is live in west orange, new jersey. >> hi, unlike other mask lawsuits that center around the freed

city and country. >> martha: thanks, alderman lopez. stunning turn of events in st. louis. another case of weakened prosecution efforts in u.s. cities. a judge was forced to drop the charges against this accused killer because nobody from the circuit attorney's office showed up to prosecute the case once it went to court, this is one of three murder cases. this is not shoplifting. murder cases. they were dismissed in the city of st. louis in just one week. so what is going on in this court system? families want to know the answer to this more than anybody. they want that answer from the st. louis circuit attorney, kim gardner. mike tobin has the back story. hi, mike. >> you described it. what you have are murder cases being dropped, dismissed from court because the prosecutor is unprepared or the prosecution is unprepared or the prosecutor didn't show up altogether. three in the past week. two cases the suspects were held and the charges were refiled. brandon campbell got out and now on the run. police have issued a warrant. the prosecutor assigned to his case was on materni

st. louis is the latest major city to bring back a mask mandate. city and county officials say people will be required to mask up indoors on monday it comes as boston's acting mayor said students will have to wear masks this fall in chicago, same for there, in alabama, republican governor kay ivey is calling out people, who haven't gotten a covid shot just yet she says it's time to, as she puts it, start blaming unvaccinated folks for the rising number of cases >>> today dr. scott gottlieb told cnbc, he believes covid may be spreading much more in the united states than what's being reported right now >> i think we're vastly undermeasuring how much infection is underway, and where we are in this epidemic wave i think we're probably further into it than we're measuring right now. >>> and we have team coverage tonight with reporters in cities from coast to coast. we begin with nbc's antonia hilton in provincetown, massachusetts, where health officials are reporting a rising number of what's called breakthrough cases >> reporter: residents and officia

st. louis' mask mandate. >> the fact that the prosecutors in the city of st. an on citizens who have been vaccinated and to the following the science than actually going out and cleaning up the streets and putting murderers in jail is unacceptable. >> bret: ben? >> ben: jen psaki comment made me laugh. i have visions of anthony fauci pronouncing i am as constant as the northern star. unfortunately he has not been. he has been all over the place when it comes to masks. one thing that has been consistent, unfortunately, from a lot of democrats be and a lot of progressive officials and a few republicans, too. is their willingness to turn to the weapon of mandates. when it comes to any aspect of policy dealing with this pandemic. and, yet, when you look at the actual performance of those mandates, we see that they really don't make much of a difference in terms of the way that this virus runs through different societies and different parts of and communities of our nation this is not going to solve or prevent any kind of upheaval related to the latest delta variant

cities from coast to coast. shaquille brewster in st. louis on the mask mandate there. dave gutierrez in alabama where vaccinations are still lagging we begin with cnbc's kate rogers live in san francisco on the vaccine requirement in california dave >> reporter: governor newsom's announcement that workers will have to show proof of vaccination or undergo frequent testing will impact about 246,000 state employees and about 2 million health care workers across the state of california like the ones you see behind me. newsom said that he was inclined to step things up citing projections that he called sobering that will show a significant increase in hospitalizations, newsom added that too many people have quote chosen to live with this virus. >> we're at a point in this epidemic, this pandemic, where choice, individual's choice not to get vaccinated is now impacting the rest of us and in profound and devastating and deadly way >> reporter: in the last day, the number of hospitalized patients in the state for covid increased 6.4% to 3,331 with 65 new deaths recorded today.

mostly unvaccinated communities, a troubling number of infections are now being detected in cities like st. louisw york, and los angeles. tonight, an evolving virus with an emerging threat just as the youngest unprotected americans get ready to return to the classroom. >> miguel, you said for kids who qualify more than 60% aren't vaccinated i'm thinking through the calendar here. there's not a lot of time before school >> you're right, lester it takes about five weeks to become fully vaccinated and that's exactly when children start returning to school so for parents who want to get their children inoculated before the start of the school year, now is the time to act lester >> all right, miguel almaguer, thank you. >>> there's also a lot of talk and confusion lately about booster shots. dr. john torres joins me now dr. john, can you set it straight for us >> lester, the confusion started when israel announced it would give certain citizens with weakened immune systems a third shot to increase antibody levels but it is only for those with the most compromised immune systems like transplant patient

jessica: from kansas city to st. louis, in the suburbs, retired navy pilot kevin mclaughlin.n: spending 31 years in the military and deploying six times, i feel most american when i am not in america and seeing how other countries and other cultures live. it really makes you appreciate what you have. jessica: mclaughlin, who led the 'missing man formation' as president george h.w. bush was laid to rest, says his years in the military taught him the value of all that makes up this country. kevin mclaughlin: the whole is much greater than the pieces that put it all together. >> things that would happen to me sometimes, i would say, 'oh, well, that's just america,' you know. but when you see your children, you're like, 'oh, no, we've got to stop this. jessica: our final stop, this african american children's bookstore, also outside of st. louis. jeffrey blair: i can travel through time, all through a book, and i can see myself in that. jessica: i.t. manager and former attorney jeffrey blair and his wife pamela opened "eyeseeme" five years ago, inspired by what their children, no

. >> it appears the city of st. louis does have a mandate. and it's confusing too because the city of st. louis and the county of st. louis, the executive director put a mandate in place and the board of alderman come in and declined that order. so they are in limbo there and it's frankly totally confusing to the general public. when you have that kind of confusion, people are going to abide by anything. people know the situation we are in, they know when to wear a mask and were not to but you have to separate vaccinated from on vaccinated and i think you have to declare there's a difference between those two people. >> missouri had one shot, 41% vaccinated and at new cases are up about 52% compared to two weeks ago. that's 16 per day, a 45% compared to two weeks ago. what are people trying to do in your state so hospitals don't get overwhelmed which is one of the whole reasons we had mask mandates in the first place? >> right. while we were aware of the situation was coming and we have people now coming into backup the health care workers in

i'm thinking about how in the decade i was born, the city of st. louis pledged to prioritize elimination of lead pipes. but today, black children in st. louis city are 2.4 times more likely than white children to test positive for lead in their blood. for my entire lifetime, we've been promised that this problem would be fixed, but today, it still persists. i'm thinking about what the world will look like when my son and my daughter turn 45. i'm thinking about the opportunity we have right now to deliver them a better world. i'm thinking about how blessed i am to be in a position to do something about it. earlier this year, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and i introduced the green new deal for cities to fund the environmental justice work of a green new deal in every community. our bill would create good-paying jobs in our communities, to solve the environmental racism that we face each and every day. it will clean up our polluted creeks and our vacant lots. and many don't know that when you drive in some communities, where it looks like the comm

city employees. the federal government actively considering potential new rules and in the midwest, st. louis is becoming the latest city to require everybody to wear masks inside starting today. public officials there are about to brief everyone on that decision. you're taking a live look at that. gabe gutierrez is in birmingham, alabama. shaq brucer in center, dr. derek cass, er doctor at columbia university medical center is also with us. gabe, you're in alabama. you live in new york and that is where some big news is coming in on the air. mayor bill de blasio according to wnbc set to announce that city employees will be mandated to wear masks. talk us through what this means and the implications here. >> reporter: hi there, hallie. according to wnbc in new york city, employees there starting with those that work in congregate settings will be required to get a vaccine and this builds on what mayor bill de blasio announced in new york last week that all employees at city-run hospitals would be required to get a vaccine or submit a weekly covid test. now, this comes as fears of the delta va

st. louis county and city have announced a mask mandate for indoor public settings starting monday. but the state's attorney general is planning an immediate lawsuit to block it. republican eric schmitt says he wants to stop the insanity to protect free people. the partisan divide is heavily contributing to the so-called pandemic among the unvaccinated. just under half of all americans are fully vaccinated, making herd immunity for now a pipe dream. meanwhile, the fda and cdc are exploring a possible third dose of covid-19 vaccine. but as of now, only for immunocompromised people. let's begin in louisiana, one of the least vaccinated states in the nation. cnn's suzanne malveaux is in gretna. suzanne, what actions are being taken there amid a spike in infections? >> reporter: pam, i talked to a lot of people in jefferson parish at the mall. they express a lot of fear. fear over the vaccination, fear over the delta variant. and then also a lot of misinformation that people have. so there's lots of questions and health officials trying to address them at this vaccination site. but pam,

cities like detroit, st. louishave higher, much higher violent crime rates than any of the cities that you're sending resources to. memphis, those cities i mentioned, it's twice the rate of chicago. so, how did you pick these cities? these are certainly the ones that are getting the most negative headlines, but these other cities are having perhaps bigger problems. >> well, brianna, the point of this initiative and this focussed effort is, yes, we're launching these strike forces in these cities, as you noted. but they are purposefully looking also outside. so for instance, some of the places that you mentioned are where we're seeing those guns trafficked from and flowing into chicago. so, this is a cross jurisdictional effort and the prosecutors in chicago, the investigators in chicago will be working with those other jurisdictions to identify the networks and take down the entire network. you mentioned chicago, brianna, the attorney general is traveling later today to chicago where, as you noted unfortunately, so

st. louis, a city beset by violent crime.ghetto civil war and she refuses to recognize the severity of it. when you have someone that is a prosecutor who believes the criminal justice system is too tough, you have a disconnect between the people suffering the violent crimes and a prosecutor that is really following a defund the police kind of ethos. she's totally out of touch with her own community. not pursuing these cases, again, i point to the rioters and the looters as a litmus test. when you see a prosecutor that is so idealogically motivated that they went prosecute people that have raped a city, then you understand what is happening with these four homicide cases. her office also investigating at one point the governor of missouri. it's preposterous some of the things she's been doing. totally out of touch with what is going on. merrick garland, the attorney general, is in chicago. perhaps his next stop should be st. louis. bring the federal authorities in to take a look at what the local prosecutors are doing, john. >

on monday, the city of st. louis reinstated a mask mandate. last night... >> we will not comply! >> reporter: ...st. louis county voted to overturn it. today, google and facebook became two of the largest companies to require vaccinations for all u.s. employees before they can return to work. back in mississippi, the covid map now looks like this: red indicates the highest level of community transmission. how do you not get frustrated or angry every day coming into work? >> i think you do. >> reporter: dr. reginald martin >> two weeks before my hospitalization, i rode a bike 75 miles. two weeks after my infection, i couldn't walk to the bathroom without getting short of breath. >> reporter: now, he combats hesitancy. what do you tell them? >> how do you ignore, or how do you logically choose to not get vaccinated? it's-- it's incredibly frustrating to know that you could have done something different, that you are potentially a threat to my health. >> reporter: 73 patients are being treated at saint dominics right now for covid, but there is a