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Grain of truth to the idea that taliban would like to negotiate a settlement. would it involve a transitional government or involve no siege of kabul. well have to wait and see. but there is panic in the capital right now. >> understandably so. thank you so much. and lets get over to the pentagon with more on what the u.s. troops are doing as part -- what is clearly a rescue effort. barbara starr is there. what are you hearing from your sources? >> i think right now all bets are off on any predi...

Four teachers there died from covid complications and they were not vaccinated. aif you look at this map there are low vaccination rates in southern counties. half of covid patients are in eight states. but back here in mississippi, the state department of health released new numbers a short time ago, the number of new covid cases have gone up to more than 5,000 and that is a number that frightens the vice chancellor. back to you. >> understandably so. thank you so much. what a stark report you ...

The white house now in damage control, understandably. any sense, any sense of a shift in strategy? >> reporter: you know, for as rapid as this situation has been over the course of the last several days, as fluid as so many things have been, the one thing that has been steady is the presidents view on the decision that he made. there is no shift or new strategy thats going to be rolled out. u.s. troops are mostly out of country already. theyre removing a significant number of u.s. embassy perso...

High. enough to do what weve documented and seen that they could transmit it. so there are a couple of things you want to separate. protection against severe disease, which the vaccines do really, really well. theyre holding up very well against delta versus protection against getting infected to the point where you may then transmit it. and thats the thing that sometimes confuses people. understandably so. >> but i read an article in the atlantic today that kind of clarified it for me. i wish i...

Hospitalization, but theres the issue of prevention of transmissibility among people who might have a breakthrough infection, as unusual as that is. it has occurred and will occur because vaccines are not 100% protective. the thing that were seeing with delta is that when you do get a breakthrough infection of someone who is vaccinated and gets infected, even if they have minimal or no symptoms, the level of virus is still quite high. enough to do what weve documented and seen that they could tr...

Every day for our safety and security. that reality became very real last night in an emergency room, amongst tears and fears from the finest and most courageous people i know. a mother lost her daughter last night. a brother, his sister. a family forever shattered. another continues to keep vigil at a hospital bed, sending up powerful prayers but no doubt fearing the worst. they are hurting, understandably so. moments like these, life gets boiled down to its basic essence. and so it will be for...

The combination of those two will provide a kind of herd immunity. and i suppose if you look at britain where the delta variant has begun to decline, that could be the trajectory we could expect. is he right? >> ultimately that is correct. thats the concept of herd immunity. when you get enough people vaccinated together with people who have been infected and assume to have, understandably, likely, have good protection against the same virus. you get to the same level where a virus has no place ...

So lets let these folks that have been doing great things in our country and producing money and jobs and all those things. lets let them continue to do so. >> and we should know, there are plenty of industries right now, including agriculture, in parts of the west -- western part of the country that are, i think, quite concerned about what that will turn into, understandably so. also, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted, in response to a report that senator kyrsten sinema of arizona ...

So. >> and we should know, there are plenty of industries right now, including agriculture, in parts of the west -- western part of the country that are, i think, quite concerned about what that will turn into, understandably so. also, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez tweeted, in response to a report that senator kyrsten sinema of arizona would not support that larger-spending plan. basically, saying, good luck tanking your own partys investment on childcare, climate action, and infrastruc...

Breakfast when you heard about what had happened and you raced to the scene. tell us what you found. >> we almost felt the building vibrate a little bit, and then when we went in, we saw the car through the store front and then we were being advised that there was a woman in front of the car and then later on somebody was saying that there was a baby with her and they didnt know where the baby was. going back when we heard our body cam, we heard the baby scream on the body cam, but in the incide...