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Different than the ones were seeing now. delta has the capability, unlike alpha, of transmitting extraordinarily readily and effic unitunitly from person to person, thats the reason weve seen that surge that weve been through over the last few months where we went from 11,000 cases a day up to 150, 160,000 cases a day. one of the reasons why we want to make sure we get as many people vaccinated as we possibly can is that viruses will not mutate if they dont have the opportunity to spread and rep...

Society. >> dr. fauci, the back and forth you just had with willie was both interesting and informative, as usual. my question is one that i think is on the minds of a lot of americans, and it is this. is this the fight against this virus virus, our real forever war? >> i dont believe it needs to be. i mean, obviously, we will always be challenged by emerging and reemerging infections. we have very good vaccines right now. the virus will mutate and get new variants if we allow it to circulate an...

In the gulf tonight. ginger, thank you. the other there will be boosters for adults in the u.s. the uk planning to give boosters to those 50 and older to prepare for the winter ahead. heres stephanie ramos. >> reporter: for millions of parents eager to know how soon their younger children could finally get a vaccine, tonight, a clearer picture. pfizer today revealing it will submit data from its trial for 5 to 11-year-olds to the fda in early october. followed by trial data for children 6 mont...

Right now, the data being accumulated, theres two separate companies that are doing it. pfizer and moderna. pfizer is a bit ahead, maybe a few weeks ahead in the testing. end of september, beginning of october, there will be enough data in the testing of kids 11 to 5, in the sense of getting safety and data. it may take a few weeks to get that. we assume, and i believe itll work out this way, that by the time we get to the mid-fall, october or so, that we will have the capability of giving vacci...

This coming saturday, but today the capitol police chief also briefed lawmakers on security preparations for that event, including bringing back that seven-foot-tall security fence on a temporary basis. lester >> all right, garrett haake, thanks. tonight a new challenge from north korea, where state media reports that test firing of that countrys first long-range cruise missiles, a clear provocation to the u.s., south korea and japan. with more on this, here is andrea mitchell. >> reporter: py...

Country but also russia, china, iran. this is the first important question i asked the secretary, what are you doing to restore that in a nearby country and there have also been allegations that mr. putin talked to president biden and basically threatening him that he could not build intelligence capability in the region. right now hurricane nicholas is battering the texas coast after making landfall in the past couple hours. more than 130,000 customers are without power as the state braces fo...

Dozens of times over the years. its a very different structure. but in both cases, these are hard questions and secretary of state blinken, who i know well, very smooth, very capable, very study in a situation like this, but boy, hes got a tough hand of cards and hes got, andrea, three big things hes got to be able to respond to. tactically, the real question is how are we going to get the rest of the people out of here? american citizens. green card holders. and of course our at-risk afghans. w...

Follow through on a campaign promise and get the american military out of afghanistan and end this 20 year war. they believe that history will look kindly upon this decision even though in this early going to has been a very difficult process. ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. house republicans had plenty more to say about the biden administrations afghanistan policy after the hearing. and a lot of it centered on the prospect of u.s. relations with the taliban. >> i asked the secretary specif...

Correspondent trey yingst has that part of the story tonight from kabul. >> we are already indications of some potential movement of al-qaeda to afghanistan. >> deputy cia director david cohen issuing a warning today speaking at an intelligence and national security conference. cohen said estimates are that al-qaeda could have the capability to launch attacks against the u.s. in one to two years. the taliban claims it wont allow that to happen but their actions so far arent promising. >> we want...

Would have the capability of reaching anywhere in japan which is a concern for officials there. another concern, these tests went undetected by authorities in south korea and the u.s. the statement from u.s. inld oh pacific command says theyre monitoring it with allies, shows that north koreas activities are a threat to its neighbors and the international community. >> appreciate it. back at home, businesses are preparing for president bidens new vaccine mandate. he said companies with more than...