doordash. >>> the yankees, the yankees! let's talk about the yankees. all right.ow this. they can almost fill a starting line-up with the number of, you know, players that have had breakthrough cases, which means they were vaccinated and still got covid. you have shortstop torres, now the eighth member of the organization to test positive after being fully vaccinated. so what does this mean? well, only one person is showing symptoms, see, and that's the key to being vaccinated, is that you may still get it but you won't be that sick and you are certainly not going to get hospitalized the same way or, god forbid, die. the johnson & johnson vaccine, which is what they got, which is the one shot, and the j & j has gotten some dings i think are unfair but that's not about it. the overall efficacy of the j & j single shot is 72% in the united states. all right. with that as context, let's get after it with dr. ashish jha. it is good to see you. i see the yankees as a red herring and a false flag to be scared. why? because 72% is the cumulative efficacy on this and 78%

, but the yankees. is it just the j & j vaccine? go ahead. >> yeah, but when you look at the yankees, the critical piece about the yankees is they weren't sick. and when you look at the amount of virus that the players had who tested positive, it was really, really low. so what you're going to find is that, yes, some people will test positive, they'll get infected who have been vaccinated, but we're seeing they're not likely to transmit to others. that's the critical piece there, not the fact that some people who get vaccinated will be infected. so it supports i think the idea that if you are fully vaccinated you are in really good shape. the enforcement piece though, it is not enforceable. >> right. >> what it says is if you decide not to get vaccinated, the risk is primarily on you. we can talk about kids because that's the one area where that breaks down, but the risk is primarily on those people who decide, hey, i'm not going to get vaccinated. >> so -- >> and -- yeah? >> first of all, for the audie

the yankees get in the fort. but there's no sign of heckman. if you look at this map and you'll remember the heckman was told to attack the standards, right you'll see that heckman indeed attacks the standards, right? but look how far to the right he goes. he attacks battery 10 and battery 11, and they fall. but the problem with this is if you see the main line of fortifications it says camp wall. that's the main line. he has not pierced the main line. he hasn't really accomplished anything and he's nowhere near the fort. that's the problem with oral instructions. once they take the fort or decides he's going to send troops down to the river and cut the bridge now. he's lost all three brigade commanders. one is killed one is wounded and one becomes sick. he also loses regimental commanders. he has no written orders the men are in the fort and he makes his second mistake. he decides he's going to take the troops down to the river to cut the bridge himself. he believes in leading by example being at the front and he hasn't much of a chance during

a drummer and two pipers who are going to use instruments and they're going to play yankee doodle. ♪nately modern instruments and modern science total quality than the ancient -- to demonstrate that, we're going to ask our marines of 1798 laid on the piccolo's and plate yankee doodle in its modern version. ♪ ♪ i think you will all agree with me that modern instruments make them sound a lot better than they did 150 years ago. we performed in 1798 by an act of congress. we did not remain in philadelphia very long because in 1800 the government moved from philadelphia to washington and a marine band moved to. we began giving concerts almost immediately. all of the people the city came to hear this music among those who came was a man by the name of john adams. he had moved into a building called the presidents house half a mile from our camp. he enjoyed music very much and on new year's day the first time that he opened the doors to the white house, he invited the marine band to provide user for that occasion and we have provided music for every occasion since that time. music is based

in recent days the yankees have been in the news for other reasons.itive for coronavirus derks pit being vaccinated. but as dr. sanjay gupta tells us, that's proof positive the vaccines are actually working. >> just wanted to share that we have had another positive test. >> judge scores. >> reporter: nine members of the yankees organization have tested positive for covid-19, despite being fully vaccinated with the johnson & johnson vaccine. but these so-called breakthrough cases don't necessarily mean game over. >> johnson & johnson vaccine does work. it's preventing serious infections in those staff and players with the yankees. so the vaccine has done its job. >> reporter: dr. sifri, an infectious disease physician at the university of virginia, says breakthrough cases, which are infections, after full vaccination, are to be expected. >> those infections that occurred, these so-called breakthrough infections, importantly were for the most part very mild infections. mild to moderate infections. >> expected but still uncommon, according to cdc directo

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the yankees, faced only 28 hitters. one walk away from throwing a perfect game against the texas rangers. welcome to "morning joe" on this thursday morning. joe, i know you as a red sox fan, even as a red sox fan can appreciate clubber, who, look, the guy, there was a chance he was going to be out of baseball, hurt his shoulder, hurt his harm, two-time cy young award winner. and last night going down to texas, stoically, quietly, facing only 28 hitters in the sixth no-hitter of this major league season. >> and of course, the first in major league baseball, the american league east. but there have been some -- i think there were some no-hitters in the central time zone just last week. >> two days ago. >> jonathan lemire, listen, we want good things to happen to american league east teams. i've got to say, though, i started watching in the seventh inning, because, of course, not to cheer against our fellow american league east brethren, but i noticed he had a strike zone like -- >> oh, come on! >> that greg maddux would b

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stephanie, take us to yankee stadium. what is going on with the yankees?yes, steph, at first blush this sounds incredible, right, nine members of the organization testing positive to covid. the yankees right now are on a road trip. it's been an especially tough one. in tampa and baltimore, members of the organization have had to quarantine. nine all together. but when you talk to experts, they say that these numbers of breakthrough cases, everyone on the team has been vaccinated with the johnson & johnson vaccine, that this number is about what you would expect. one expert i spoke to said it's actually better than what they expected. part of that is the point of the vaccine is to keep you from getting seriously sick or ending up in the hospital or even worse, dyeing. in this case, all nine of these people have escaped serious illness. in fact, only one of them had mild symptoms. but this is also, experts point out, a warning that these vaccines aren't perfect, that there could be people who are following cdc guidelines who are vaccinated who are walking ar

. >> reporter: but here is a weird wrinkle, one new york yankee and seven support and coaching staffady vaccinated with johnson & johnson have tested positive for covid-19. >> it's been a little bit hectic, but everyone is handling it well. >> reporter: only one has symptoms, such break through infections are very rare. >> six of the seven are asymptomatic. >> reporter: so evidence at least the vaccine works really well at stopping severe disease. now, in the u.s. you do still need to wear a mask if you're on an airplane and white house officials also said, listen, it's still a personal choice and if you see somebody on the street wearing a mask, don't give them side eye, they're allowed to. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. >>> and dr. anthony fauci spoke with cnn shortly after the new guidance came out from the cdc thursday. he says that while it's too early to declare victory against the virus, the new rules are significant. listen to this. >> i think this is a very important step in the direction of trying to get back to some degree of normality because this is something that everyone

yankees manager says six of the seven people are asymptomatic.t of the lineup in last night's game against the race out of an abundance of caution. the yankees one of several teams who have 85% of their team gets vaccinated. they beat the rays, 1-0, behind a great game with derek cole. >>> tom brady and the super bowl champ buccaneers will get started with a prime time kickoff. mark your calendars for october 3rd. that's when brady, ron gronkowski, and the bucs are going to go up to new england for the much anticipated matchup between brady and bill belichick for the first time. the patriots, the only team brady has not beaten in his career, and, john, as a huge patriots fan, i imagine you're looking more forward to this game than the actual super bowl. >> this is great. i can't lose in this game. it's only winning. it would be 3 1/2 hours of pure joy on the screen. >> you've got brady or belichick's defense on that one? who have you got? >> i think there's something poetic about brady beating every team in the nfl, but i would never root against

and nen that headline involving the yankees. eight people including coaches, staff, and one player all infected. all eight say they had been vaccinated. what the team's gm is now saying tonight. >>> also tonight here in the u.s., the national terrorism alert just issued today. authorities warning violent extremists may try to take advantage of easing pandemic restrictions. why they want authorities to be on high alert. mary bruce standing by. >>> the attack on the colonial pipelinen tonight about 14,000 gas stations still low on gas or no gas at all. close to 90% of the stations in the washington, d.c. area going dry. how long will this take to recovery, and amid reports of ransom paid, what's to stop this from happening again. >>> overseas tonight, the deadly violence intensifying between israel and hamas. israeli forces targeting a 1,000 mile network of hamas tunnels in gaza. matt gutman from the region again tonight. >>> congresswoman liz cheney out. congresswoman lelise stefanik i in replacing cheney in the leadership post.

in fact, the reason the yankees cases were caught was because the utah lab once used to test for dopingh variants are actually causing those infections. >> you call it the alternative variant analysis. what does that mean exactly? >> variant analysis program, and that will specifically look for certain region on the virus that we know there are [ muted ]. ations out there. >> i believe, you know, the variant we're dealing with has been pretty aggressive. >> understanding which variants are circulating in the united states is especially critical now that many americans are taking off their masks. >> i think this cluster positive test is predictable as, you know, you ease social distancing and mask wearing. and this is probably at the core of why some people feel very uncomfortable or uneasy with cdc's relaxed guidance. >> variant or not, sifri still believes what's important to remember is that the vaccine is saving lives and as the country opens back up, you can expect to see breakthrough cases as part of our post-pandemic world. >> these vaccines have converted what was once a deadly d

the yankees are among four teams who have reached 85% or more of all tier one personnel.hed, and 81% of major league players and others closely associated with them have at least received one vaccine, and the second is coming. once they get to that point, baseball has said much of the restrictions will be eased. they don't have to wear masks invite dugouts, they can interact, so what we have learned from this, i think as a generalization, yeah, even on occasion they can test positive, but they very, very unlikely to become severely sick, and in many cases they won't have any symptoms at all. so it eases concerns about a teamwide or leaguewide outbreak that could interrupt the schedule. >> it shows you this is going to happen as we crawl our way out of the this pandemic. your voice is synonymous with the olympics. a majority of japanese people are against holding the olympics. 33% say the games should be held with limited spectators 28% saying the olympics shook postponed. some of those numbers might change a bit. there is also a petition to cancel the olympics as well tha

the yankees, faced only 28 hitters.this thursday morning. joe, i know you as a red sox fan, even as a red sox fan can appreciate clubber, who, look, the guy, there was a chance he was going to be out of

to new york city why yankee's slugger match the scoring against the astros. the first two of his four rbi in the 6-3 victory in new york's first straight win and with boston's 6-5 loss, the yankees move a game and a half past the red sox in the al east. anyway, this is cool. take a shot, get a ticket. new york governor says the yankees and mets will give free tickets to fans. the one shot johnson&johnson vaccine will be administered right outside the stadiums. part of the plan to reopen the stadiums to vaccinated people. no testing and people will sit in the vaccinated section. unvaccinated people will be kel comed to games, social distancing measures and masks. fight night on the rink at the garden. the capitals and rangers started early and often. with six fights in the first five minutes of the game, teams combined for 100 penalty minutes. coming after the foertd avoided suspension for his series of violent acts earning the capitol of 4-2 victory. >> let's go to phil for the forecast. >> we had a lot of rain yesterday, if your lawn doesn't look fantastic.

>> stephanie ramos reporting from yankee stadium. thank you. >>> in the meantime, we do move on to the other news this friday and to a horrific headline out of california tonight. a 6-year-old child shot and killed simply while riding in the back seat of his mother's car in his booster seat. police now say it appears to be a case of road rage. here's abc's will carr. >> reporter: tonight, the danger spreading across los angeles area highways. an apparent act of road rage on the 55 freeway claiming the life of a 6-year-old boy, shot while traveling in the back seat with his mother driving. authorities pleading for the public's help. >> if you were in the area and you have a dash cam, please call our office. we want to look at that video. >> reporter: police say this tragic incident is separate and unrelated to a string of terrifying shootings on southern california highways. car windows shattered, motorists terrorized. authorities believe by either b.b. or pellet guns. just yesterday our los angeles station kabc reporting at least eig

that's what the yankees are showing us here. we can prevent the spread and you catching and getting the virus. >> don't go far. sit right there. you'll be back in the next half hour, as we focus on everyone's questions. you sent us in questions when it comes to the vaccines, masks, return to work we'll get into that with dr. torres and our other panel of experts. >> all right >>> mr. roker, a check of the weather? >> wavy pattern for the jet stream what it is going to mean is we're looking basically at stormy conditions, unsettled weather, snow into the parts of the plains flood be rain for the plains as well we're looking at cool weather in the southern plains, pacific northwest. 62 in portland roswell, 82. denver, 66, cooler than average. you look at the plains today billings, montana, 87 degrees. 77 in marquette. today in new york city, we're looking at 81 degrees. look at tomorrow burlington, vermont, 86 degrees. that's 18 degrees warmer than usual. did you think you'd see burlington being warmer than, say, minneapolis reall

pipers, who are going to use instruments from the library of congress, and they are going to play yankeeoodle as it was first heard in this country. ♪ fortunately, modern instruments benefiting from modern science have better information and total quality than the ancient instruments we just heard. to demonstrate that, we're going to ask our marines of 1798 to pick up instruments of the modern-day. i'm sure you will hear an improvement. ♪ well, i think you will all agree me that modern instruments make them sound a lot better than they did 150 years ago. i think we said a little while ago we were formed in 1798 by an act of congress. we were formed in the city of philadelphia but did not remain there very long because in 1800 when the government moved from philadelphia to washington, the marine band moved with it. we began giving concerts almost immediately. there was no other amusement in the new city so all of the people in the city came to our camp to hear the music. among those who came was a man by the name of john adams. he had just moved into a new building called the president's

with regard to the yankees, we need to learn more about that situation. my understanding is six of the seven infections were asympt omatic. we will look at more data to understand what happened. there are large studies in many settings that have demonstrated vaccines have a high effectiveness against the disease. >> next question. >> i was hoping you might be able to outline, what is the federal government's message to people who are not fully vaccinated right now? what should they be doing while they are fully vaccinated -- their fully vaccinated family members may be taking off their masks? what about a setting where it is hard to determine who is into is not? >> go to c-span.org/coronavirus for the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. if you miss live coverage, it is easy to find the latest briefings and the biden administration's response. use the interactive gallery of maps to follow cases worldwide. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. including media, >> the world changed, but mediacom was ready. we powered a new reality. we

varios miembros del equipo de los yankees de nueva york han dado positivo a pesar de estar vacunados.ees de nueva york dieron positivo. >> pienso que la vacuna es una gran ayuda. >> (información en pantalla). >> (información en pantalla). >> el equipo usó la vacuna de johnson y johnson y aunque expertos aseguran que puede pasar con cualquier de las tres, igualmente las vacunas son efectivas. >> observamos a lo largo de las pruebas con las diferentes vacunas que los riesgos de complicacioneses menor con la vacuna. >> un jugador está en cuarentena en la florida mientras se hace el rastreo. expertos le aclaran a la población la importancia de vacunarse. >> la vacuna es segura, efectiva. para evitar complicaciones asociadas. >> la directora de los centros para el control y la prevención de enfermedades (cdc) dicen que los que se contagiaron no presentaron un cuadro severo lo que significa que la vacuna funciona. >> en carolina del norte la fiscalía no presentará cargos contra los agentes involucrados en lamuerte de andrew brown junior. brown recibió cinco disparos cuando estaba detrás del

you have this kind of bizarre cluster where you have eight people from the yankees baby who -- from yankeesa rare thing. how do you explain this? how did this happen? >> we have to be careful about the messaging. we don't want to overlook the millions of people who have not gotten infected, who have been vaccinated. the immune response to vaccination is a very complicated thing. there are a number of -- a myriad of factors including age, sex, underlying medical history, medications, behaviors, alcohol intake, that's a short list of factors that influence what kind of immune response you are going to mount to a vaccine. there are reports that the individuals received the johnson & johnson. we know it's roughly 72% or so effective at preventing symptomatic disease. that's still a significant number of individuals who are going to be vulnerable to breakthrough cases. the good news, we found out that none of the individuals were sick enough to be hospitalized, which is what we want to see. the vaccine performed well in terms of that expectation. i think it's a cautionary tale. you are not 100%

the yankees hang on to win a wild one by a final of 7-3.from a pandemic crowd. >>> let's go to the north side of chicago now. any cubs fan will tell you when you catch a home run by the opposing team at wrigley field there is only one thing to do! you throw it back. that priceless tradition is getting passed on to the next generation. on full display yesterday in the ir9 owe ninth inning against the dodgers as a young cubs fan gets the assist and hardy approval of the wrigley faithful. nice job, kid. that is terrific. >>> time for the weather and here is bill karins for a check on the forecast. bill, good morning. >> good morning. maybe he has a future too. you notice he threw it lefty? cubs could use a good lefty out of the bullpe >> you never know. >> exactly. >>> let's get to what happened yesterday. three days in a row of a lot of severe weather and a lot of cleanup to be done and especially the south hit twice the last three days. every one of these icons show wind damage reports and 318 of them. mid-atlantic had a bunch south of washi

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just ask the new york yankees.positive for the coronavirus despite being fully vaccine vaccinated johnson & johnson vaccine. >> reporter: yankees haven't had a great season this year but they are batting very well when it comes to the coronavirus. eight players, one coach and four staff members all positive with the coronavirus. what's weird about this is they were all vaccinated with the johnson & johnson vaccine. it is not clear when they all got that johnson & johnson vaccine. you have to have it for two weeks after getting it before you are fully inoculated. only one of these individuals was showing any symptoms and even those symptoms have now disappeared. everybody else was asymptomatic. it's also not clear where they got it or who they go it from. obviously they got it from somebody who was unvaccinated. you might expect that. the j&j vaccinate is a little less effective than the others. even if you do get it, it doesn't kill you. this has certainly proved the rule here. all the individuals here asymptomatic

with regard to the yankees, we need to learn more about that situation. my understanding is six of the seven infections were asymptomatic. we will look at more data to understand what happened. all of the real-world data we have seen, large studies in many settings that have demonstrated vaccines have a high effectiveness against the disease. >> next question. >> last question, let's go to zeke miller at the ap. zeke: thanks for doing this. what is the federal government's message to people who are not fully vaccinated right now? what should they be doing while they're fully vaccinated family members are taking up their masks, number one, and number two, what is the message to businesses, schools, anyone else in a setting where it is hard to determine who is and who is not fully vaccinated in terms of monitoring response or bringing patrons into compliance with cdc guidelines. dir. walensky: if you are not vaccinated, you are not fully protected. you need to wear your mask and practice the mitigation strategies from before and importantly, get fully vacci

as jim brockmire likes to say, "the mets are the yankees of not being the yankees. [ laughter ] but rightng feeling that the universe will right itself and the yankees will start winning and the mets will fall apart in some new and amazing way my money is on bernie madoff's ghost doing the reverse like "angels in the outfield" kind of thing. >> seth: it'd be nice to get bernie back involved with the team i know he had a special -- >> yeah. >> seth: connection with them over the years >> yeah, he's been great to all mets fans. just like his -- it was like his specter will shove jacob degrom. >> seth: you - >> and like pick up an outfielder and replace him with tim tebow or something >> seth: you -- i -- you know, this is such a nice outcome for your character jim brockmire because as we've talked before, he sort of started as a voice -- >> yes >> seth: before he became anything that we could see and so now he is back to being a voice on a podcast you must enjoy the real estate that a podcast allows you to have with this incredible character you created. >> i do. any excuse to continue to t

let's start where we left off with the yankees. because i think it's probably the first and most high-profile outbreak amongst folks that are vaccinated that we've had, right? we're talking about all the people have gotten the vaccination. what is your take away, what do you see when you look at this in terms of what it means for other people who are vaccinated but maybe still nervous about exposure? >> well, you know, it's important to point out, chris, that these are certainly breakthrough infections. breakthrough infections mean you have been vaccinated but you still get infected. but the critical point is that i think seven out of eight or eight of of nine of them had no symptoms at all. that means that it's very likely that the level of virus and their nasal variances low and that won't transmit it. and though you don't like to see breakthroughs, the fact is this is one of the encouraging aspects about the efficacy of the vaccine. it will even protect you completely against infection if you do get infected, the chances are tha

there's been a 1000 outbreak in the new york yankees team with 8 players testing positive despite beingfully vaccinated yankees say the team is undergoing additional testing and contact tracing the schedule has not been interrupted though right now we're dealing with obviously it's not moving parts and things considered months old in-house we're just trying to get our arms around that. and take the guidance from major league baseball from the doctors that. you know we deal with industry and. shortstop tribal torres is among the young casey tested positive and on thursday new york looks like they really need it those players play with rush 91 by the tampa bay rays both teams play in the american league east division yankees and the rays hole thought of this game. right that is last but for now i have more for you little bit later ko thank you joe you're just back in the next news hour which is 1300 hours g.m.t. about 2 hours from now i'll see you for that as well right after the break mr clarke can organize a snooze on i'll just. killing the debate. and your voice only. the media will mi

. >> reporter: meanwhile, a growing covid mystery for the new york yankees. the team says seven staff members have now tested positive for the virus even though they were all vaccinated. >> we've always known that the vaccines are not 100% effective, and i know that the yankees themselves said they were starting to relax a little bit around each other, so i think they need to tighten up a little bit of the masking and distancing when they're not playing. >> reporter: and as more americans get vaccinated, the cdc is under pressure to relax guidelines on masks. the cdc director saying last ou >>> the interstate 40 bridge linking tennessee and arkansas could take months to repair. officials released photos of the crack that forced the bridge to close. a local congressman says it shows the urgent need to fix the country's infrastructure. president biden met with congressional leaders yesterday to discuss his infrastructure plan. republicans said they'll refuse to raise any taxes to pay for it. biden speaking to msnbc last night said, he may suggest more audits of

the reopenings are real new york's yankee stadium joining the list of venues preparing to welcome back big crowds. and broadway is detailing its plans to light up its stages again in the fall. it comes during a new blitz to get more americans vaccinated and reach the president's 4th of july goal. 70% of adults with at least one vaccine dose in them. as of today over 56% of grown-ups have gotten that one shot, but the cdc says there could be significant changes on the horizon if the threshold is met. projections show the nation may turn the corner on the pandemic but reaching those who have not yet been inoculated won't be easy here's miguel almaguer on the campaign to do so >> reporter: taking a swing at a normal summer, today new york announcing larger crowds can return to yankee stadium and citi field this month. also setting the stage for broadway, tickets go on sale tomorrow for when shows return in september at full capacity tonight the nation eager to move forward amid a new ground game to get more americans vaccinated in hard-hit communities big city laundromats and local grocer

aaron boone joins us, manager of the great new york yankees.nds and it is another way of better connecting athletes with their fan base. we've seen all these platforms and ways of connecting with fans in interesting ways and this is another one of those. these are always where fans get their hands on memorabilia from the athletes in their personal collection. stuart: it is a way for athletes to make some money, isn't it? >> brandon says got to make a little money doing this and as athletes, manager and coaches, things discard, so many people out there take an interest in value, that certainly happened on a daily basis and we are trying to hang on to those things and create value. stuart: it is a whole new world out there we are just discovering. are any of your players or managers asking to be paid in crypto currency? >> definitely a big conversation in our clubhouse from time to time. a lot of staff members following bitcoin each day. my bitcoin is down, up, this and that, these things are definitely real and sometimes we joke but a lot of tim

that comes out of eight new york yankees also testing positive.ot of people talking, me -- i suppose this was going to happen, right? >> these are, to be clear, some of the best vaccines we have ever made. johnsen and johnsen a little less effective. they do present -- the yankees players did not have symptoms. they are not, however, perfect. what you're seeing is a reduction in risk and basic line is determined. a lot of the counties are in yellow, where the risk is moderate. the counties in orange and red are a fair amount of transmissions. certainly if you're in a place even if you're vaccinated, it's much more likely to be asymptomatic and not a severe infection. the reason we know about them is bill maher and theinees are tested regularly. if everyone was tested regularly, what would that tell us? >> we certainly would see more breakthrough infections. if they don't have symptoms, they wouldn't be aware unless they got tested. the key thing is the risks of severe disease is dramatically reduced, essentially to zero if you get vaccinate d. >>

we can go to the yankees' games. of course up in fenway, they're still only allowing 17 people in per game. next week, i understand the governor will allow 24 people in per game. but you look at what the tristate area is doing and they're opening up these games. it's almost like we all live in texas and are rangers fans now. >> and texas was a great test case over the last month to two months when there was so much fear about what was going to happen there. it hasn't come to pass. their cases and hospitalizations have remained level or even dipped a little bit. so this is -- so think about where we were, all of us, sitting here in march and april of last year, or even a year ago right now in early may. we didn't know where this was going to end. i'm not going to say this has ended by any stretch of imagination, but i went outside on sunday night, sat outdoors, the tables were packed. they were distanced, but all full and -- it felt like life again. and i think that's what you feel in new york and new jersey and conne

i will raise yankees.e with the payroll have come down positive, asymptomatic we know with covid. including one player who has already been through covid. our friend bill maher tonight, testing positive. asymptomatic. everyone i just mentioned, fully vaccinated. are we gonna start leaning a lot more about this type of thing? >> i mean ultimately, brian, we don't know. i would caution to all the viewers, we just don't know enough data about the yankees and these eight cases of positive test after vaccination. were they actually fully vaccinated before they got exposed and infected? we know brian you can test positive for covid weeks on and after the initial infection. it's really great and use for that everybody was asymptomatic. it's indicative of the strength of the vaccine, the reason why we get it, to keep you out of the hospital. we know vaccines are not perfect in preventing asymptomatic cases. we don't make more news of this the necessary. we need more details to find out the details with the yankee

have been tested positive, one of the yankees does have symptoms of covid, how can you get covid, ifn we see the breakthrough .00 and 0 and some number of times there usually asymptomatic your meaning they have most symptoms and not associated with contagiousness, these are exceedingly rare and don't shatter my confidence in the vaccine, there were some of the most highly effective with overdeveloped, i don't think the breakthrough infections even though they're getting headlines when they happened to the yankees are bill maher change a confidence that i have in the vaccine these infections are not that important in the point is we should not test people, they have been fully vaccinated and have no symptoms they see those people should be tested because were picking up cases that are not clinically relevant. eric: that is interesting what you mean by clinically relevant can you explain that. >> when you see the cases, most are asymptomatic they have no symptoms and picked up on screening because a major league baseball screens or athletes even if they are vaccinated although the cdc

prisoners or his prisoner yankees and he and cullen mentions that he had asked for a drink of water. i mean, he's wounded at that point. he doesn't his arm as an amputated for a little while longer. but so he's he's wounded and he asks for a drink of water and i guess it's it's a little bit later. anyway the kind of some of the the periodization and the timeline is a little bit a little bit different here, but in any event he remembers this cruel confederate guard. had asked him for a drink of water and the guards as you know, like i'm not doing this i got into this war not to take care of yankees but to kill and cripple them and with any wished every yank in my position just as that and so you can see that at the top of that last page of the third page that this is a very visceral memory and then he says and just at that point in time all of a sudden the stars and stripes come over the hill and here come here come the yankee here come the union soldiers and this individual this cruel guard was was wounded and is on the really it sounds like he's basically on the ground next to next

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the yankees and the mets among them. and tonight, a number we're watching, as well. 22% of new cases are among children. and we know pfizer's vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds is expected t146,335,000 have justay. received at least one dose. that's more than 56% of all adults in the u.s. now. there's also news tonight from moderna and their vaccine, specifically their booster, if it's needed. and what they're now seeing with the variants. abc's whit johnson leading us off from new york tonight. >> reporter: tonight, hope on the horizon. a new cdc projection shows high vaccination rates and continued masking and social distancing could bring a "sharp decline" in covid cases by july. >> we have the path out of this and models, once projecting really grim news, now offer reasons to be quite hopeful for what the summer may bring. >> reporter: but officials warn variants remain a wild card and there could still be setbacks. >> we are not out of the woods yet, but we could be very close. >> reporter: and should vaccine booster sh

yankee stadium. great to know fans are back. stephanie you were telling us earlier they'll be separated into two sections? >> reporter: exactly, david. yankee stadium will have a section for fully vaccinated fans and a section for those who are not vaccinated in a lim to encourage vaccinations is mber can tirccinatio status and >>> we move on to a horrific headline out of california tonight. a 6-year-old child shot and killed simply while ride in the backseat of his mother's car in his booster seat. police say it appears to be a case of road rage. here's will carr. >> reporter: tonight, the danger spreading across los angeles area highways. an apparent act of road rage on the 55 freeway claiming the life of a 6-year-old boy shot while travelling in the backseat with his mother driving. authorities pleading for the public's help. >> if you were in the area and you have a dash cam, please call our office. we want to look at that video. >> reporter: police say this tragic incident is separate and unrelated to a string of terrifying

the yankees, the second place new york yankees, i know you don't love the yankees, but the fans did ae nation last night. only about 10,500 fans there, that was a sellout crowd because of restrictions but it sounded like a full sellout the way they booed the houston astros. it was truly a beautiful thing. then they got the win, 7-3. that had to please you at least. >> america thanks the new york yankee fans. i am reminded when you're talking about pitchers cheating, again, we talked about it before, but i mean, read earl weaver's obituary sometime. top of his obituary he walked out with a mic on and said to his pitcher bases loaded, in trouble, kid, if you know how to cheat, do it now. that was the lead of his obituary. that's a life well lived. >> just one of many for earl weaver. >>> let's turn back to the news. president biden is setting new vaccination goal to deliver at least one shot to 70% of adult americans by july 4th. this comes as demand for vaccines has dropped nationwide, with some states leaving more than half of their available doses unordered. according to the associat

with regard to the yankees, we obviously need to learn more about that situation.my understanding is that six of the seven infections were indeed asymptomatic infections, and we will look to more data from that report to understand what happened there. all of the real-world data that we've seen that's been in the published literature large studies in many different settings have demonstrated that those vaccines are effective, have a high effectiveness against disease. >> next question. >> let's go to zeke miller at the a.p. >> i was hope -- what is the federal government's message to people who are not fully vaccinated right now? what should they be doing while they are fully vaccinated peers and family members may be taking off their masks. what is the message to businesses, schools, others, and anyone else in a setting where it's hard to determine who is and who is not fully vaccinated in terms of monitoring or response or bringing their patrons into compliance with cdc guidelines? >> thank you. so, my first message is if you are not fully vaccinated, you are not

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