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Scientists quite angry, they say the president of the united states should not be talking about something until fda and cdc scientists have been able to look at the data and weigh in on their thoughts. so let's take a look at what some of this data is. at issue is whether two shots are enough to protect people. u.s. and qatari studies suggest that two shots are sufficient but there are israeli studies that suggest that two shots are not sufficient to protect against severe covid-19. and from the new england journal of medicine, an israeli study shows that boosters do protect against severe ill...

This is it. i didn't care how many miles, i knew it was the right thing to do. >> reporter: on august 1, siller began his journey at the pentagon. >> our first mission is to make sure we never forget what happened 20 years ago. >> reporter: 20 days later, he made it to shanksville, pennsylvania. a week after that, hershey, pennsylvania. >> thank you, god bless you. >> reporter: where word of his journey had started to spread. >> emotionally i'm just wondering how this walk has affected you. >> look, every day was very emotional. many times i've broken down and cried, privately. you know, i jus...

This is now. now when it mcomes to the percentage of the population fully vaccinated -- there's one. you get the picture. we are going down. we are going down. we are going down. number 55. 53.4%, behind cambodia. biden struggled to convince americans to get vaccinated. it's against daunting numbers. covid deaths since august 1 have gone up 300%. the united states needs to get the average below 10,000. it's 151,000 right now. he needs to get down to 10,000 new infections a day before americans can start feeling comfortable. right now, to be clear, 151,000 versus 10,000. you are talking about 1...

You know, katrina was not really -- it was not a hurricane that hit the city, it was the levees that broke. a lot of people don't realize that. it was more of a manmade disaster. so we see the storm coming and we're concerned are our new levees going to work, did we prepare enough, is this going to protect us this time. and it is something that like you can't ever really prepare for, but we have a lot of small children -- excuse me, not small children, they were small children, we call them katrina babies, and you know, they lived their whole life here in the city with that trauma behind them....

Facing president biden right now. so, how much does this move the political needle? what else is driving that needle right now? here with us cnn senior data analyst. the president's approval numbers are moving in a clear direction. >> they ain't good. where is his average approval rating just 47%, down from august 1 when it was 51%. july 1, 52. it had been steady in the mid 50s but going downward and over the last month it has taken a particular hit. now what's driving that exactly? well, it turns out he's down across the board on many different issues, approval of biden's handling of the coro...