cases are being reported. >> the delta variant is beating us. covid-19 is beating us >> reporter: average daily first doses dipping conspiracy-fueled hesitancy, still an issue, and in west virginia, record numbers are now in the icu. >> for god's sake of living, how difficult is this to understand? why in the world do we have to come up with these crazy ideas, and they are crazy ideas, that the vaccines got something in it and it's tracing people wherever they go, and the same very people that are saying that are carrying their cell phones around. i mean, come on. come on. >> tonight, just hours after the president speaks, the nfl season kicks off in tampa. packed stands, masks encouraged but not required. now on the flip side, american express was planning to each its offices here in the u.s. middle of next month.