Good evening. We begin tonight with five words that define where we are in the pandemic.

Acknowledged, the war has changed. Those words come from a slide presentation produced

within the CDC, which we learned about overnight. The war has changed because the enemy has.

The Delta variant, according to the CDC presentation, travels as easily as chickenpox, meaning

every person, each person, can infect on average as many as nine other people. Additionally,

today, the agency released the study. It based its new recommendation on to wear a mask

in doors, even if you've been vaccinated. And it showed that infections with the Delta

variant produce similar viral loads, regardless of vaccination status. In other words,

even the vaccinated who likely won't be anywhere near as sick, thank goodness, can still spread

Delta. The war has changed. Late today, the President Biden acknowledged that additional

measures might be coming because of it.

In all probability, by the way, we had a good day yesterday, almost a million people

got vaccinated. So I'm hopeful that people are beginning to realize how essential it

is. The President today signaling some tougher tactics against this tougher adversary.

The CDC study was based on a large outbreak in the Massachusetts vacation spot province

town at the tip of Cape Cod. Ken Horgan owns a hotel there.

We started to get the initial reports of some strange infection rates among vaccinated

individuals. And then as time went on, we saw more and more cases until we eventually

saw a number that was large enough to make a lot of us kind of scratch our head and say,

wait a minute, is this something?

And it was, but because the vast number of people in province town are vaccinated, few

people have gotten seriously ill. That's the good news. But later in the hour, we'll

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