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That message may be getting through. tonight, all 50 states now reporting more residents getting their first dose. but for this texas family, that message was too late. lawrence rodriguez, a father of four, died after a weeks' long battle with the virus. his wife lydia is still on a ventilator in the icu. >> when she was in the intensive care unit before she went on the ventilator, she had asked the doctor if she could get vaccinated then, and he told her it was too late. one of the last things she said was to please make sure her children were vaccinated. >> we continue to hear those pleas fr...

Mou mountain communities and shelters who are coming here, donating their time and compassion to these evacuees. >> it's so important, the volunteer element. keep that in mind when looking at how to help out west. i appreciate your time. thank you very much for sharing that context. for more information on how to help the wildfire victims, visit cnn.com/impact. still to come, a new warning from dr. anthony fauci. get vaccinated or a new variant could be even worse than delta and could be on the way. [relaxed summer themed music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

The u.s. is now averaging more than 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day. for context, we have not seen numbers this high since february according to data from johns hopkins. this comes after new infections sank just seven weeks ago. it's the delta variant that's fuelling the surge in cases and hospitalizations and death. almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. dr. fauci says as long as we remain unvaccinated, future variants could come. >> but if you give the virus a chance to continue to change, you're leading to a vulnerability that we might get a worse variant and then that will impact...

If you're unwilling to get vaccinated and you're spreading this virus, it fills up hospitals and takes a bed away for people who are a heart attack or stroke or have another need. it can cause death in ways that aren't directly related to covid. then my other piece is about the economic resurgence. we have an economy on fire in kentucky. 1800 new jobs in the last two weeks. the only thing that's going to keep us from reaching a bigger potential than i ever knew was possible is if we can't combat this variant. masks are not a big thing to ask people to do. to save one another's lives or to ulti...

Probably a few more weeks out from the peek of the current surge we're in. >> to what may be coming, at this point in time, everybody's focused on delta, but experts are closely following the lambda variant, which has been identified in the states. a variant not nearly as worrisome as delta, but studies suggest it could be more transmissible than the original strain of coronavirus. does the fact there are so many different variants emerging mean that covid-19 is basically here to stay and we're just going to have to learn to live with it? >> so i do think when i look at the end game of what is...