Doctors worry Labor Day travel could fuel another surge; Taliban claim capture of final holdout province; WH pivots to domestic agenda as Biden faces several crises;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hospitals face tough choices about who gets ICU beds; Fauci predicts three doses of COVID vaccine may be best; Fauci: Moderna booster may come later than Pfizer; Average of new daily cases is up 800% since Memorial Day; Israeli officials to brief FDA on booster shot data next week; Labor Day travel slows from summer highs amid COID surge & CDC warning to the unvaccinated; 1.63M travelers passed through airports on Sunday; Biden White House defends Afghanistan evacuation efforts; Source: U.S. not aware of Americans held hostage by Taliban, as claimed by GOP Rep McCaul on Sunday; Taliban hope to announce new government in “a few days”; Biden approval rating hits new low after Afghanistan withdrawal; WH: Manchin “very persuadable” on $3.5T reconciliation plan; Unemployment benefit expire today for 7 million Americans; Kinzinger: GOP shouldn’t win house majority if it embraces conspiracies; Some GOP wary Texas abortion law could cost seats; Attorney General Garland pledges to protect abortion clinics in Texas that may come “under attack”; Big push by Dems in final days before recall vote; Newsom puts focus on union workers one week before recall; 510K+ in Louisiana still without power one+ week after Ida; Hundreds still displaced in Mamaroneck, NY; Caldor fire evacuation orders lifted for South Lake Tahoe, but new CA fires ignite; Droughts & fires threaten California’s sequoia trees; Police identify ex-marine as gunman in rampage that leaves 4 dead; ex-marine charged with killing 4, including mom holding infant son; Sherriff: ex-marine had no known connection to victims of rampage; Sherriff: suspect’s girlfriend says he suffers from PTSD; To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy Labor Day, the virus isn't taking the day off, the lead starts right now.
0:08.6	Welcome to the new normal, packed stadiums, packed airports, packed ICU.
0:13.5	Our three shots are best hope for getting out of this mess.
0:18.3	Then keeping a low profile after his awful August President Biden spends a relatively quiet
0:23.1	Labor Day close to home will his September be any better.
0:27.4	And their nearly as tall as moon rockets have been around since before the Roman Empire,
0:32.2	but can California giant Sequoias withstand climate change, drought, and wildfires?
0:42.5	Welcome to a special edition of the lead American Hill in for Jake Tapper.
0:45.9	We start today with our health lead and new concerns on this Labor Day that the long holiday
0:50.2	weekend could worsen the coronavirus surge in the US.
0:54.2	Despite travel warnings from the CDC, millions hit the roads, rails, and skies for a getaway.
0:59.3	College football is back with tens of thousands of mostly maskless fans packed into stadiums
1:04.4	and some of the last districts to return to school are back tomorrow for in-person learning,
1:10.1	including many in the Northeast.
1:11.8	As seen in Snickwatt reports, top health officials worry this could put even more strain on
1:17.0	hospitals which are already running out of ICU beds in parts of the country.
1:23.0	Good morning.
1:24.3	Summer is over.
1:25.7	This week in the Northeast many schools start back, but ominous signs from the South, Kentucky
1:31.4	schools opened already and already one in five districts have closed at some point due
1:37.2	to case counts, quarantines, or just lack of staff.
1:41.0	We have a record number of Kentuckians in the hospital battling COVID in the ICU battling
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