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I watched all these, you know, incredible stories yesterday about the amazing heroism of people running into the fire to save people, total strangers on 9/11 and i'm looking for that same kind of locking of arms now. let's lock our arms. let's put this fire out. it's cost the lives of 660,000 men americans. no one needs to die anymore and we need that unanimity in the united states. >> some are reporting higher hospitalization rates that at any other time during the pandemic. how much worse would this situation be in the majority of americans were not vaccinated right now? >> oh, we would see ...

Our e.r.s for beds. >> reporter: today, appalachian regional health care has three regular beds available across its entire system. they've cleared space and made for 200 beds that sit empty, unable to staff them. >> we have applied for fema disaster medical teams at multiple of our hospitals. our understanding is right now that louisiana is in dire need, and so most of their teams are there. so we are on the list, and once they have availability, we hope that we will be able to get support. >> reporter: the hospital system needs 170 nurses today to open up extra beds. nurses now working longe...

Normal normalcy, when we don't have most of us vaccinated puts us in these situations over and over again where e.r.s and hospitals are overflowing and where we're seeing economic harm because the basis of a good economy is good health and we're not there right now. >> so talk to me about the confusion right now. there is about boosters. a few months ago, it was an idea and now most americans will actually need a booster and d fauci says the rollout for moderna's booster could come later than pfizers isn't a good message from the white house given how many americans are so reluctant to even ge...

You. tomorrow on "face the nation," more on afghanistan. guests include white house national security adviser jake sullivan, senator lindsey graham and former deputy director of national intelligence, sue gordon. now to the pandemic. a new study finds troubling news concerning the delta variant and the unvaccinated, this as new infections now average more than 150,000 a day. that's up 21% in the last 14 days. cbs' lilia luciano has more on this dangerous trend and the latest data on delta. >> reporter: covid patients are overwhelming hospitals from coast to coast, driving the summer surge-- th...

Here in the u.s. now working in overtime to try to help the interpreters who helped them for so many years. martha, i know you're going to stay on this. we move on tonight to the pandemic in this country, the u.s. now reporting more than 140,000 new cases of covid a day in this country. tonight here, we're inside hospitals at a breaking point. and dr. fauci this evening saying the u.s. could get back to some sort of normalcy by next spring, but what he said has to happen before then. and those new numbers just in from the cdc tonight for fully vaccinated americans, how quickly does the vacci...