President Kamala Harris to speak together at a Labor Day Rally in the key Battleground State of Pennsylvania President stepping up his new role as a top Paris Campaign surrogate also this hour, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing hamas will pay a heavy we price after the bodies of six hostages were recovered In Gaza. And hes asking for forgiveness amid huge protests over his failure to secure a hostage release deal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the race for the White House we begin with the race for the White House as Labor Day, marks, the unofficial kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day. Were standing by for Kamala Harris to make her pitch to Working Class Voters in pittsburgh with a high profile assist from president Joe Biden, cnns kayla tausche. She is on the ground for us and joins us now, kayla, pennsylvania is a mustwin for K
Ho Chi Minh City’s Health Department has requested the setting up of more vaccination points, particularly targeting children aged 5-18 and vulnerable groups, following a sign of increasing number of COVID-19 recorded in recent days.
firefighters and some police as well. so how are they going to close the gap that the unions are protesting. as you know vaccine mandates are doing this. they have until october 29, and mayor bill deblasio says they have plenty of time to get vaccinated and he is standing firm on that october 29th deadline. this applies to 160,000. this includes firefighters, ems, and police officers. and it shows you where the vaccination points are, right. it impacts thousands in that category and union leaders are pushing back. and there is resistance already.
room. and let s begin our coverage with more on the alarming rise in covid cases and the biden administration s renewed push to get americans vaccinated. our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is joining us with details. kaitlan, the president and his team are increasingly concerned by the surging pandemic. reporter: they re becoming incredibly concerned about this because they are sitting back and watching as this highly contagious delta variant is fueling these new outbreaks in the united states among the unvaccinated, with over half of the country still unvaccinated. and right now we just got new data from the cdc that shows today was one of the lowest vaccination points since january. when of course that vaccination campaign just got kicked off. what we are hearing not just here at the white house but from leaders nationwide is they are growing very concerned about what s to come. a new sense of urgency in the white house tonight as the u.s. enters a troubling p