NYC mayor: vaccine proof required for many indoor activities; NY AG finds NY Gov Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women; Biden updates efforts to increase COVID vaccinations;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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NYC mayor announces vaccine requirement for indoor dining, fitness centers, entertainment & performances; Mote corporations require vaccinations, masks as cases surge; Hospitalizations top 50K for first time since February; Report: “substantial” jump in kids & teens testing positive, more than 72K new cases just last week; 70% of US adult have at least one vaccine dose; NIH director: parents could consider wearing masks at home to help keep children to young to be vaccinated safe; Cuomo insists allegations against him are false, despite state AG report finding he sexually harassed multiple women; NY AG: Gov Cuomo creates “hostile work environment for women”; NY AG: local prosecutors may use report to pursue charges; Albany County district attorney to request materials form NY AG on Gov Cuomo report for criminal investigation; Biden: Delta variant accounts for 80% if U.S. cases today; Biden: Almost all new cases, deaths among the unvaccinated; Biden: About 90 million Americans are eligible for vaccines but haven’t gotten their first shot; Biden: “Encouraging signs” in states with low vaccination rates; Biden: By offering $100, we’ve seen uptick in daily vaccination rates; Biden: Private sector “stepping up” by requiring vaccinations; Biden: “We have a pandemic of the unvaccinated”; Biden criticizes states that banned masks in schools; Biden: if govs aren’t willing to help, “at least get out of the way”; Biden: U.S. is committed to be the “arsenal of vaccines”; Biden speaks about efforts to limit evictions; Biden: CDC will have something to announce on evictions in the next one or two hours; Biden calls on Gov. Cuomo to resign; 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	New York City's hottest ticket, vaccination cards, the lead starts right now.
0:08.6	No shot, no service, New York City says if you want to do many indoor activities, you're
0:12.7	going to have to show proof of your dose.
0:15.4	Is this just the start?
0:17.1	Plus, pressure to resign, a defiant denial by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, after a
0:22.9	damning investigation finds he sexually harassed almost a dozen women.
0:29.1	An Olympian, afraid to go home, fearing jail, and now talking to CNN about her race for refuge.
0:41.1	Welcome to the lead. I'm Pam LaBrown in for Jake Tapper, and we begin today with
0:44.8	breaking news in our health lead. Any moment now President Biden is set to speak about
0:49.5	his administration's coronavirus vaccination efforts as the highly contagious Delta variant
0:55.2	rips across the country and threatens unvaccinated Americans.
0:59.3	You can see the burrowing number of companies reinstating mask mandates or requiring vaccines
1:04.8	for some of their employees. Donalds and Microsoft are just the latest.
1:09.6	And in New York City, a major announcement from Mayor Bill de Blasio ordering everyone,
1:14.0	including employees and customers, to show proof of vaccination at restaurants, gyms,
1:19.2	and entertainment venues, all the effort to get more people vaccinated.
1:24.3	CNN's Lucy Kavanaugh is covering the new mandates across the country,
1:27.5	and how it could affect your family. But we're going to start at the White House with CNN's
1:31.3	Caitlin Collins. So Caitlin, what exactly do we expect President Biden to say at just a moment?
1:36.8	Well, obviously Pam, he's been grappling with so many issues facing him with the surge
1:41.1	of the Delta variant, fueling these new outbreaks across the country. And the White House really
1:45.2	this week has been trying to reset the messaging after the CDC sparked a lot of confusion
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