walensky: yeah. that's important in one of the things i think we've done even since i've been here is to understand and anticipate what questions people will be asking and what's the data we need to collect now to inform those decisions? sometimes the data aren't as we would want them. or they come to us and we say, oh, no, is that really what's happening? and maybe i'll sort of the take the description what happened in july when we saw breakthrough infections from massachusetts, a county in massachusetts. these breakthrough infections. so back in march when we said -- i should say may when we said vaccinated people could take off their mask. we had the alpha variant. breakthrough infection, you couldn't transmit to other people. so fast forward in july, we had the delta variant. we anticipated the vaccine would be working just as well. and in fact, they have been working well to prevent infection. but what we first found in the massachusetts outbreak was that the viral load was just as high as peopl

walensky: yeah. it's a really important question. i think some of the reasons that we need to be boosting now is because we are starting to see some people over the age of 65 and some cohorts over the age of 75 and other cohorts are having waning associated with the vaccine or associated with the delta variant and are landing in the hospital. and so that is the reason we feel like those especially vulnerable cohorts merit a boost at this moment. if we can prevent those hospitalizations. we have seen deaths people vaccinated. the mean age is 80. if we can get more protection to those people, there are many people who believe this was always going to be a threedose vaccine or a multidose vaccine , and really many vaccines we have, you know, our hepatitis c vaccine is a prime boost of six months. there are many vaccines that follow this schedule. but you're right. and i think one of the important places that you're right is flu vaccines in any given year are about 60% protected. we have wanted, yearned

walensky? dr. walensky: we have, as i mentioned in my remarks strict plans of how to keep our children safe in schools. we are seeing in some schools, as well as distancing and straining protocols, we are seeing schools that are not following these guidance, specifically not masking, they are dealing with outbreaks in the context of this very transmissible delta variant. we are encouraging schools to follow our guidance and to follow our assistance as they manage those outbreaks together to safely get back into school. with regard to pediatric hospitalization, we know there is an absolute number of children that because of this transmissible variant, an absolute number of children infected with sars-cov-2. because of that number, there is a larger number of children in the hospital. we are also dealing with an rsv outbreak occurring in children that is atypical for this season but is leading to more occupancy of pediatric hospital beds. jeff: on hospital capacity, our surge response teams are in co

rochelle walensky overruling parts of an advisory panel's decision regarding booster shots paving the way for tens of millions of more americans to get inoculated. dr. walensky releasing a statement this morning, i believe we can best serve the nation's public health needs by providing booster doses for the elderly, those in long-term care facilities, people with underlying medical conditions and for adults at high risk of disease from occupational and institutional exposures to covid-19. >> this was the right move by cdc director walensky to look at the scenario and say, those people exposed to covid-19 on a daily basis such as those working in er deserve to have the eligibility to get boosters alongside a 20-year-old who may have asthma or be a smoker and work at home and never see covid-19. so, yes, it's a rare move but it was a necessary one. >> yes, this motion passed. >> reporter: thursday the panel voting to a third pfizer shot six months later to people 65 and over and those at high risk. a decision dr. walensky agrees with but the group originally voted against providing boos

walensky said. make sure that our community spread is low. you know, school reap opening or school closing has more to do with what we're doing in the community and the community spread. so let's do our part not only in the classroom, in the schoolhouse, but in our community. like you, i'm a parent. i want my children to be in person. i was fortunate to drop them off today. i have the same hopes and aspirations that everyone on this call has that they have a safe and successful year. we can do our part, the c.d.c. has been great about giving us information how to do that. we just have to do our part to make sure we're safely reopening our schools. >> today the first day of school? >> it was. >> one more for you, secretary cardona, which is a lot of talk about learning loss, right? people are concerned, i'm concerned that my kids may be fell behind a little bit last year. younger kids that's a big concern. what's your best advice to parents to get ready for the school year and try to assess what their child's academic level is? joo first and f

walensky said, make sure our communities spread to slow. you know, school reopening, school closing has more to do with what we are doing in the community and the committee to spread. so let's do our part not only in the classroom, in the school house, but in our communities. like you i'm, apparent. i want my children to meet in person. i was forced to drop them off today. i would had the same hopes and aspirations that everyone on this has that, they have a safe and successful your. the cdc's been great about giving our information about how to do that. we need to do our part to make sure we are safely reopening of schools. >> [inaudible] the first day of school? >> it was, yes. >> oh, wow! i didn't know that. one more for you [inaudible] , which is a lot of talk about learning what. people are concerned, i'm concerned that my kids maybe fell behind a little bit last year and especially younger kids, that's a big concern. what's your best advice to parents to get ready for the school year and try to [inaudible] weather charts academic leve

walensky. dr. walensky: start with an overview of the data. the seven day average of cases is 146,000 per day. the seven day average of hospitalizations is over 11,000 per day. the seven day average of daily deaths has increased to 1448 per day. the pandemic has placed tremendous stress on the health care sector from hospitals to nursing homes to outpatient clinics. in the context of covert, multiple studies have shown that there have been substantial increases in health care associated infections during the pandemic. reversing key national progress made prior to 2020. last week, cdc published data from more than 3000 hospitals showing that infections people get while in hospitals went up in 2020 after going down for several years and wrote. the pandemic and these key studies have reminded us about the importance of preventing all infections, not just covid. this is especially critical in our highest risk patients in nursing homes and hospitals. today, the cdc is announcing 2.1 billion dollars

walensky's name, he is the husband of the cdc director frances?astic kate, thank you. and what a remarkable story they both have and they can pass on even to other patients too >> and good for mom. mom knew right along that her daughter had a fighting spirit well, thanks for kicking >>> a new week, a new challenge in california where voters will decide whether to recall governor newsom and install a new leader >>> today covid mandates will be enforced in many places. plus one hospital that is turning expectant mothers away because so manmaternity ward staff members have resigned over vaccine mandates we'll have the latest op that. >>> and new york city the nation's largest school district

walensky and they did not respond. dr. worry that even just saying the word guns or even talking about firearms, that you're going to get a whole sector of the united states just really angry? >> of course. i also worry that if we don't do anything about it, we have a whole sector of the united states that's really angry. >> how high a priority is this for you? >> this is one of the leading killers of our young people in this country. it's a high priority. >> reporter: elizabeth cohen, cnn, vermont. >>> and a quick programming note for you here, the all new cnn film "the price of freedom" examines the nra's role in shaping america's gun policy over the last five decades. watch that tonight at 9:00 p.m. here on cnn. >>> so over this weekend, just four average people, regular people, took an out-of-this-world trip. how the latest spacex mission made history. that story is next. there's still plenty more ahead on "new day", but first the united states has the highest incarceration rate in the world and when offenders are rele

rochelle walensky and we'll talking how the c.d.c. has the guidance and dr. waugh -- walensky, thank you for being here today. >> i'm happy to be here. >> let's dive in of you've inherited a difficult job at a difficult point in our history. tell us what the toughest parts of the job has been so far and what has surprised you the most? >> you know, i once had a wise mentor, who said if you're not afraid of your next job. perhaps the job isn't big enough. and when i came here, i was afraid of the job and it's been a daunting task in the middle of a pandemic. it's been hard, i inherited an agency that's full of people who have been working tirelessly for the last 18 months to protect public health. that is all doing much of their work remotely and getting to know the people who are doing that work has been hard. diving right in and recognizing so much of the future of the public and public health rising in the hands of this agency. and you know, i have taken on the task with work in hand with incredible people day and night, literally, to make sure the public i

rochelle walensky now saying frontline workers, doctors, nurses, teachers are in fact eligible too. and tonight the question here -- what if you got the moderna shot or the johnson & johnson shot? can you get the pfizer booster? can you mix? what the fda is now saying about that. >>> and that moment on live tv today on "the view" just before vice president kamala harris was to join the table, two hosts learning their rapid tests before the show came back positive. both fully vaccinated, they left the studio and vice president harris staying in a separate room. and what the vice president said once she was on the show. >>> also this friday night, new reporting after the deadly supermarket shooting. they have now identified the gunman and his connection to that kroger store. and the harrowing stories of survival tonight. >>> the massive california wildfire exploding in size late today, and authorities arresting a woman, accusing her of starting the fire, threatening more than 9,000 structures, homes and businesses, using loudspeakers now to get families out. >>> on the texas border to

walensky. dr. walensky: let's begin with an overview of the data. our 70 average is about 136,000 cases per day and our seven day average of hospital admissions is about 11,750 per day. our average daily deaths continues at over 1000 per day. at the president said yesterday, we are working across the federal government and the department of health and human services to turn the corner on the pandemic. i want to share with you the ways cdc continues to be engaged in this work. as you heard me say, we must do all we can to protect our children and keep them safe, in school for in-person learning. we know what we need to do and cdc has provided clear, evidence-based guidance for schools to follow. this includes universal masking of students, teachers, staff, and visitors regardless of vaccination status, making sure work to improve ventilation, introducing screening programs, and making sure those eligible are vaccinated. we have resources to implement these measures. cdc stands ready to provide techn

walensky. what i'd like to do over the next couple of minute ifs is make the importance of vaccinations from somewhat of a different standpoint than we usually do. my father was 8 years old in 1918 when the historic influenza pandemic occurred. we all know about that. i remember him telling he, particularly after id had made a decision to go to medical school, about the frustration and concern that all of his relatives and friends were going through back then and how he lost cousins and uncles, namely people who were generally young. and the one point that he made is that they were very plus traded because -- frustrated because not only did they not know what the id logic agent was, they had very little pharmacological intervention; namely, they did not have any vaccine. so what we decided to do, my colleagues and i -- next slide, please -- is that david, jeff and i in may and then again in august of this year wrote in the american journal of public health two articles, a two-part article which

rochelle walensky. dr. walensky, thanks for being here.ott gottlieb talking about about the cdc and some of the shortcomings. i just want to, before we talk about everything else, get you to address that head on, about the fact that the cdc hasn't had in critics' minds its open data and statistics. have you been relying on israel and other places on big policy decisions that affect everybody. >> yeah, good evening, bret. it's great to be here. i, at this point in time reiterate the cdc is a very different place than it was four years ago. i do want to acknowledge though that dr. gottlieb is right in an important area and that is the cdc has not been resourced in order to accommodate a response of this magnitude and i say that with a decade, this past decade where we have had infectious threats like h1n1, ebola, zika and now covid-19 and during that last decade we have lost over 60,000 jobs. we have had data infrastructure that has not been interoperable among states and we have had weak lab capacity. what i really think is a key message fr

walensky. dr.lineated the third shot booster for people who received the pfizer regimen. i would like to show on this first slide to try to answer the third question what the third shot booster of the mrna vaccines do for the immune response and clinical effect. with regard to neutralizing antibodies, on this slide this is what the booster does for neutralizing titers against the delta variant. in green is the wild type variant. for comparison in blue is the delta variant and you're looking at different age groups, 18 to 55 and 65 to 85. just concentrate for a moment on the blue. one month after dose two the titer was 241. it went up dramatically after dose three to 1,321. if one looks at the 65 to 85 it wept from 123 to 1479. that's laboratory data. let's look at clinical data. this is a study recently published in the "new england journal of medicine." in israel people aged 60 years or older who received a second dose of mrna at least five months earlier. 12 days or more after the third shot boos

walensky defending her decision, saying today she didn't overrule the advisory panel. she tried to frame it this way, saying she stepped in to decide what was a, quote, scientific close call. but dr. walensky and president biden saying today while these boosters will help, this pandemic will not end until many more of the unvaccinated get the shot. and there was something else today, that moment on live tv, on the view, are reminding us that we are still very much in the middle of this pandemic. just before vice president kamala harris was to join the table, two of the hosts learning their rapid tests before the show had come back positive. both fully vaccinated, asymptomatic, they left the studio, and vice president harris staying in a separate room, joining remotely. tonight, what she said after all this. one more key question on friday night, what about the millions who got the johnson & johnson and moderna vaccines -- can they get the pfizer booster? can they mix? whit johnson leading us off tonight. >> reporter: across the country today americans who just became e

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walensky's health risk. i still think we need a a unified voice, but this was the right decision. >> dr. faust, forgot the booster debate. there are still people who work in health care who haven't gotten a shot. for example, in the state of new york where i am, the data shows about 70,000 health care workers are not yet fully vaccinated in this state that. number to me is stunning. does it surprise you? >> it disappoints me because as dr. matthew said that's the way out of this is to vaccinate the unvaccinated and to bring it back to boosters it turns out that a lot of people who are not yet vaccinated at all have said in studies, in surveys, that they would be turned off by the idea of having to have a third dose. this makes them feel less confident so we're alienating the very people who are at the center of the crisis, the unvaccinated by trying to get a little marginal benefit out of the people who already have been vaccinated and among whom we already know where the risk resides. the data from israel d

walensky's thinking? decision here for her to go farther and override her own advisory committee? >> good morning, erica and jim. that say big question here because as you said, this is an incredibly rare move. if you talk to health officials, the entire reason for the agency's independent vaccine board is to have an outside group looking at and assessing data to make their recommendation. almost always the cdc follows the recommendations of this board. but as you said, in this case, walensky went a step further. let's look at what the cdc's full guidance is here for boosters. they say you should get the shot at least six months after the second shot. the people who should get it are people 65 and older, long-term care residents, people 50 to 64 with underlying medical conditions, the people who may get it, people 18 to 49 with underlying medical conditions as well as that group you mentioned, 18 to 64-year-olds at increased risk of exposure to covid-19. that went further than what the board said. the boa

walensky, dr.r those questions. >> and we're also fanned out the at schools all across the country to give students their say, as well so we'll hear from them coming up, as well. >> lots to chew over on the subject of schools first, the nation's largest school system here in new york is among those welcoming students back today. along with excitement, there's great anxiety over the spread of the delta variant. stephanie gosk joins us live with the latest on that. good morning >> reporter: good morning, savannah i'm outside an elementary school here in manhattan. we can feel the excitement growing. we have parents and teachers, balloons out, excited to welcome everyone back. unlike last year during the pandemic, when families were allowed the remote option, there is no remote option here in new york city. so for the roughly 1 million kids, they have to go back they say now inside the schools they've got more ventilation, they have air purifiers, kids have to wear masks and they'll keep that three fe

director rochelle walensky for the right outcome.his is a reference to her decision to include frontline workers with a high risk of exposure among those who are now eligible to receive pfizer booster shots. along with adults with underlying conditions and those who are 65 and over. we go now to the c.d.c. director, dr. rochelle walensky. she is in newton, massachusetts. good morning to you. >> good morning, margaret. thanks for having me. >> brennan: so can you explain what made you side with the f.d.a. in saying people at high risk of exposure should be eligible to get this third dose when you're own advisory committee did not come to that consensus? and exactly who is high risk? >> great. so, first let me start by saying we still have 70 million americans who are unvaccinated in this country. and these are people who are 10 times the risk of being hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die. so we have hard work in making sure we get those people vaccinated. but i'm here to talk about boosters, let's get to protecting people to

walensky. dr. walensky has clearly delineated the wreck and editions for a third shot booster for people who received the pfizer regimen. what i would like to do over the next the minutes as shown on this first slide is try to answer the question, what does a third shot booster for the mrna vaccine do for immune response and clinical effect? look at the immune response with regard to neutralizing antibodies. on this slide, this is what the booster does for neutralizing against the delta variant. in green is the first variant, blue is the delta variant. you are looking at groups 18 to 65 and 65. concentrate for a moment on the blue. one month after dose two, the -- this was 241. it went up dramatically, as did those three to 1321. if one looks at the 65 to 85, it went from 123 to 1479. that is laboratory data. once look at clinical data. this was recently published in a journal of medicine, again in israel, 1.1 4 million people who received a second dose of mrna at least five months earlier. 12 days

walensky's the way for tens of millions of more americans to get a third shot. the cdc voted to get the pfizer shot six months after the second dose. the decision dr. with, but they originally voted against voting for booster shots based on drops, ruling out health-care workers, teachers, and others. here is a member of our vaccine team. >> this with the right move to look at the scenario and say those people who were exposed to covid-19 on a daily basis deserve to have the eligibility to get boosters alongside a 20-year-old may have asthma and works at home and may never see covid-19. . >> dr. walensky said she made the decision because it aligns with the decision from the fda earlier this week. reggie: some people in san francisco have already received booster shots. present cisco general agreed to give out with your shots to those who originally got the single dose johnson & johnson vaccine. many people have got to their pharmacies on their own to get a third dose. bay area officials tell abc 7 news they are ready for these recommendations and will rely on ph

rochelle walensky says the focus is still on vaccinating the unvaccinated. more than 70 million americans have not received a first shot of the vaccine. >> i want to be clear, we will not boost our way out of this pandemic. infections among the unvaccinated continue to fuel this pandemic. >> reporter: walensky says the boosters offer added protection for breakthrough cases. abc's daytime talk show "the view" interrupting its broadcast. >> i need the two of you to step off for a second. >> okay. >> ana and sunny have to leave. >> and we're going to bring you back later. >> yes. >> reporter: pulling two hosts from the show after learning they tested positive for covid-19. >> they probably have a breakthrough case and they'll be okay, i'm sure, because they're both vaccinated. >> reporter: just moments before vice president kamala harris was to appear on the show for an in-person interview, taking extra precautions, that interview was then conducted with harris in another room inside the studio. navarro telling cnn she's since tested negative twice. >> both hav

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rochelle walensky. great to have you.f people have a lot of questions, so if you'll bear with me, i would like to just walk through all of this because i follow this for a living and i feel a little confused. so first, i just want to talk about the process we saw play out, because i think that's part of the confusion. there's an advisory panel called akip, and they issue recommendations and then you can take them or leave them, i guess. what is the normal way of the process and why are these two steps? >> thank you, chris. so actually, we can back up a little bit more and say there's an advisory panel to the fda. that voted for the booster shot. there's the regulatory authorization they did on wednesday and the advisory committee on immunization the liberties and advises me who they believe the booster should be recommended for. that was the panel that met on wednesday and thursday. they're about four votes, and some of them were unanimous, and the one that i believe you're referring to was a split vote. >> okay. i don't

rochelle walensky added people whose jobs put them at high risk. you heard the president talk about it. teachers, health care staff, grocery store workers, adding them to the list of those recommended to get a third shot, along with folks over 65, many people with underlying conditions. we've got a lot to talk about. so let me bring in nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, also with us, nbc news correspondent, heidi przybyla, and andy slavitt, former white house senior adviser for the nation's covid response. great to have all of you here. monica, these last 26, 27 minutes, showing just how much the president has on his plate right now, of major consequence in the middle of this ongoing pandemic. what's your takeaway? >> exactly, chris. and how much the president views these issues as intertwined. i thought most notably, as well, he did commit to getting his own booster shot. he said he doesn't know exactly what day he's going to be getting that, but he is far more than six months past his second dose. he and the first lady, actually, go

walensky gets to make the call. she made the right call. >> give us the time line.can folks start to get the booster shots and go also back to what whit was talking about, this being for pfizer folks, folks who have pfizer. can you mix and match if you had moderna? >> that's a great question. people who have gotten pfizer can start getting their boosters probably today, over the weekend, certainly early next week. i think today officially people can do this. in terms of those of us who have gotten -- i got moderna. what can i do? what can people who got moderna and j&j do? basically what we're asking, and what the federal officials are asking, is for people to wait a few weeks. we can mix and match but don't have great data on it yet. so it is, i think, better for people to wait a few weeks and we'll have more guidance on moderna and j&j and we'll be able to make more data-driven decisions. >> we're hearing more and more stories about folks who want this booster shot and going into pharmacies or going to their doctors and not telling the full truth they are vaccinat

rochelle walensky.'ll join us live in just a few minutes to discuss all the questions regarding the pandemic, kids, and boosters and mandates. >>>e do have to begin with that deadly amtrak derailment in montana killing three and injuring 50 people. >> investigators have been dispatched and we're hearing new details this morning from witnesses. matt gutman is there on the scene in joplin, montana, with the very latest. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. what you're seeing behind me is basically a crime scene, the train itself has been left almost exactly as it was at the moment of the crash and that's because the ntsb needs to move quickly to preserve what it calls the perishable evidence, things like recorders and rail evidence to try to understand exactly what happened here. this morning, officials from the ntsb beginning to investigate what caused this train to derail, split apart, kill three people and injure over 50. that amtrak passenger train traveling from chicago to seattle, d

walensky and the fda is -- understands how upset the public is, especially,000 those who are willinget the first two immunizations, and they are terrified of getting breakthrough covid. i think the cdc director was in a tight spot, and i think she had to make the best judgment call based on both the data and the sentiments of the american people. >> much more on that important covid news in just a few minutes, but we begin with the power of truth and a big move in an important search for the truth. donald trump and his cancerous big lie are central here. late thursday the january 6th committee issued four subpoenas for documents and testimony. on the receiving end, four close trump advisers who know just what the former president was saying and just what he was doing on january 6th and in the important days leading up to the assault on the capitol, the assault on american democracy. remember, trump called the rioters patriots, objecting, he said, to a stolen election. well, that dangerous fantasy section posed again today by the very people trump promised would prove him right. inste

walensky meant. but i just want to reinforce, we try to do this on top of a pretty broken health system that has been disappointing people for generations. this isn't new. >> we're about to get a report from tennessee talking about monoclonal antibody treatment and this idea they're going to give preference for monoclonal antibody treatments to folks who have not been vaccinated because of more risk to severe disease whereas folks who are vaccinated but end up in the hospital will not get those treatments. what do you make of that decision? >> i'm hoping, i haven't looked at the particulars, but i'm hoping they're actually using the more straightforward and more defensivable criteria which is probability of poor outcome absent monoclonal antibodies. that would mean, that's the relevant criteria and that would mean some unvaccinated people probably would go ahead of other people who are otherwise similarly situated and vaccinated. but there surely should not be an absolute sort of bar that says if you

walensky decided to include that group, anyway.hey could get boosters and she is outfront now. cdc director, dr. rochelle walensky. explain to me what happened, right? why did you decide in this specific point but a significant one, healthcare workers, frontline workers that could be define understand a lot of ways. to break with your advisers and make this announcement just after midnight, i guess, this morning? >> indeed. um, first, i just want to come back and say i have this exceptional group of scientific advisers. and there were four votes yesterday and there was real enthusiasm. in fact, unanimity for some of the votes to recommend boosters for people who are at high risk, people over the age of 65, people in long-term care facilities, people at high risk of severe disease because of their comorbidities. i listened intently to hours of deliberation, scientific deliberation, and this last one was simply a close call. some people really voted for. -let the vote was 6-9 saying with enthusiasm to say our frontline workers, peopl

director walensky was also asked about, what about everyone else? are they going to need booster shots. this is what she said. >> we are evaluating this science in real time. we are meeting, you know, every several weeks now to evaluate the science. the science may very well show that the rest of the population needs to be boosted, and we will provide those guidances as soon as we have the science to inform them. >> we also heard this morning, alex, from the ceo of pfizer who predicted we'll be back to life as normal within about a year, and as far as people needing boosters in perpetuity, he predicted this will end up being a once a year booster situation. >> interesting. okay, let me ask you about criticism. i know you have heard it, that the white house got ahead of the science. and thereby initiated some of this confusion. is the white house playing defense on that? >> well, what the white house is saying is, look, they wanted to be ready with the mechanisms to distribute these booster shots as soon as the fda and the cdc recommended them to who

rochelle walensky signed off on recommendations made by a panel of advisers. it offers a new round of protection against a virus that's killed more than 684,000 americans. here's who is eligible for a third dose -- people over the age of 65, nursing home residents, and people ages 18 to 64 with underlying medical conditions. walensky added a recommendation saying people over 18 who have a job where they might be exposed, for example health care workers, can get a booster, as well. you have to wait six months from your last pfizer dose. health officials are still working on booster data for moderna and johnson & johnson vaccines. >>> now to a mass shooting at a tennessee grocery store where a gunman killed one person and wounded at least a dozen others. it happened at a kroger store just outside the memphis yesterday afternoon. police say the shooter took his own life. law enforcement sources tell cbs news he may have been a disgruntled employee. bradley blackburn has the latest on the investigation. good morning. >> reporter: diane, good morning. this story's

walensky, thank you >>> r. kelly is going to prison. question is for how long a jury today convicted the r&b star on all counts all nine of the racketeering and sex trafficking charges against him. they found him guilty of being the ringleader of a decades' long scheme to recruit women, underage girls and boys to sexually exploit them for his own benefit. prosecutors argued during a six-week trial that he used his fame and money to lure his victims, then control their lives, forcing them to have sex with him, even that he knowingly gave them herpes the jury deliberated for less than ten hours total, four on friday, five-plus today. his sentencing set for may 4th he could get up to life in prison david henderson, civil rights attorney, cnbc contributor as a special crimes prosecutor, you prosecuted cases similar to this one over and over explain why racketeering here and what it means as a conviction >> shep, having prosecuted these, they're very difficult cases to win when you only have one victim during the trial because juries always

patel: round one, a, as -- as defined by cdc director rochelle walensky, some at risk roots -- groups should get a booster. others may get a booster. getting tricky with the wording there. b, underlying conditions for the booster consideration includes asthma, obesity, and being a former smoker. or is it c, the j&j vaccine vace booster increases after two months rather than longer. it should say increases the amount of antibodies. the j&j vaccine booster increases antibodies after two months or so then after longer, say six months. which one is not true? kristen: first avoca, my eyes -- first of all, my eyes are too old to read this at all. sorry, folks the fund is different today. -- sorry, folks. the font is different. dr. patel: you've got the viewers. it's all good. kristen: can i get confirmation from our director and producer that our facebook live feed is up? because i'm not seeing it. so obviously this may mean our viewers are not seeing it and cannot help me. that is one of my concerns. also i wanted to see because i was sending people there to ask questions for you. ok. so i

walensky, thank you so much for being here.

then, of course, cdc director walensky's addition for the fda.g or working in a high-risk environment is also eligible. joining us to discuss is dr. william schaffner. one of the reasons for the confusion and for some skepticism about dr. walensky's announcement is that a month ago president biden announced this -- >> the plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot. pending approval from the food and drug administration, the cdc's committee of outside experts will be ready to start this booster program during the week of september 20. >> so biden was, in fact, pushing every adult to get a booster. every adult who had a pfizer shot. but that's not the case. do you understand how people are confused and maybe some people are even skeptical about whether or not the cdc is following the political operatives at the white house instead of the cdc advisory committee? >> well, sure, jake. actually, i think it's a work in progress, right? and we anticipate that, as we get more data, it may well be that the rec