Covid spread sharply accelerates, topping 100k new daily cases; Feud escalates between White House, FL Gov over restrictions; New details reveal extent of Trump’s push to overturn election; California mountain town decimated by state’s 6th largest wildfire
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
WH: Daily vaccinations at highest level in more than a month; WH praises businesses with vaccination requirements; Fauci warns of future covid-19 variant worse than Delta; Covid cases, hospitalizations spike across all age groups; FL Gov DeSantis calls Biden a “Tyrant” for pushing mandates; Biden’s approval rating on covid falls as cases, hospitalizations spike; WH may mandate vaccinations for all foreign visitors to the U.S.; Biden asked about criticism by Florida Gov, says “Governor who?”; U.S. intelligence digging through trove of data from Wuhan lab in covid origins investigation; U.S. intel agencies searching through genetic data gathered from Wuhan lab at center of covid probe; Trump loyalist at DOJ wanted dept to intervene in election; CNN: DOJ official drafted resignation letter over Trump’s big lie; Half of all new covid cases & hospitalizations in seven states: FL, TX, MO, AR, LA, AL, MS; Vaccinations in Alabama hit fastest pace since April; Alabama ties Arkansas for lowest vaccination rate in U.S.; More vaccinations in Alabama ahead of the return to school & work; CA congressman gets emotional after fire destroys town; California’s Dixie fire explodes overnight, burns land about the size of DC in 12 hours; American prisoner in Russia mysteriously disappears; family state department, don’t know whereabouts; Spirit airlines cancels hundred of flights for fifth straight day; Spirit airlines cancels almost half its flights today; Biden orders half of all U.S. cars to be electric by 2030
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| 0:00.0 | The New Warning about variants even worse than Delta. |
| 0:05.6 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:07.9 | 95% of the country is now seeing a substantial amount of COVID spread as the Delta variant takes |
| 0:13.9 | over. |
| 0:14.9 | But there is some good news. |
| 0:17.2 | Then, within two hours, our town was gone. |
| 0:21.1 | A whole community essentially wiped out by a wildfire. |
| 0:25.6 | We are live on the ground. |
| 0:27.9 | Plus, five days straight of canceled flights leaving passengers stranded and angry. |
| 0:33.8 | How long will it last? |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome to the lead. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm Pamela Brown and we begin this hour with our health lead. |
| 0:44.2 | Momentum is building for vaccine requirements as we learn sobering new details about the |
| 0:49.6 | pandemic. |
| 0:51.0 | More than 103,000 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 just yesterday. |
| 0:56.4 | Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that number could double soon if Americans don't take |
| 1:01.4 | action. |
| 1:02.4 | Hospitalizations have spiked more than 40%, spikes in cases and hospitalizations being seen |
| 1:08.5 | across all age groups, not just the elderly or the frail. |
| 1:13.2 | The Biden administration says there is a silver lining, however, more people are heating |
| 1:17.7 | the warnings and getting vaccinated. |
| 1:20.0 | More than 864,000 doses reported administered in one day, and the majority of those were |
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