Pediatric group warns cases in kids are rising “exponentially”; Final stretch of voting in election to keep or replace Gov. Newsom; Blinken defends U.S. Afghan exit in testimony before congress;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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New data: cases in children Jump 240% in three months; Former FDA head: vaccine for kids could be approved by Halloween; Reports: multiple members of New Orleans Saints test positive; One-on-one with Biden chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci; CNN analysis shows Black & Hispanic Americans are underrepresented in tested and vaccinations; CDC: no proof vaccine causes a loss of fertility in men or women; Today: voters decide whether to keep or remove Gov. Newsom; GOP challenger Larry Elder baselessly claims fraud ahead of election; CA data firm: 9.1M ballots returned early in recall, almost 51% of total cast in 2020 presidential race; Newsom makes surprise campaign stop in final hours of voting; Blinken faces tough questions on Afghanistan withdrawal; Blinken: “about 100” Americans still trying to leave Afghanistan; Blinken: Taliban’s ties with Al Qaeda have “not been severed”; Woodward book: Gen. Milley took secret action, worried Trump would “go rouge” and order military strike after Jan. 6; Pelosi asked Gen. Milley after Jan. 6 if there was anyone at the white house not kidding Trump’s “fat butt”; Bannon encouraged Trump to return to DC for Jan. 6 protest, “we’re going to bury Biden… f***king bury him”; CNN poll: most republicans want trump to lead the republican party; Tropical Storm Nicholas slows, dumps torrential rain over Texas; Tropical Storm Nicholas expected to bring life-threatening flash floods across the deep south, including Louisiana; Biden in Colorado to push his infrastructure & climate plans; 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	It is a scarier time for children than any other time in this pandemic.
0:06.0	The lead starts right now.
0:08.0	Cases in kids in the US up 240 percent as they go back to school and some states
0:14.0	continue to fight against masks in the classroom.
0:17.0	When will the FDA approve a vaccine for kids?
0:20.0	Dr. Anthony Fauci will join us live.
0:23.0	Stripping the football, the top general's secret action to try to prevent
0:27.0	from ordering a nuclear strike in those hours after Trump's supporters stormed
0:31.0	at the Capitol.
0:32.0	How the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed with the conclusion
0:36.0	that Trump was, quote, crazy.
0:38.0	Plus, deja vu all over again New Orleans, bracing for another nasty flood
0:44.0	before everyone even gets their power back from the previous storm.
0:52.0	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tap.
0:54.0	We start today with our health lead and alarming new coronavirus trends,
0:57.0	especially among children, new data from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
1:01.0	Chose that infections in children have risen exponentially in the last few months,
1:05.0	up 240 percent, 240 percent since July to put that into context.
1:10.0	More than 240,000 kids in the US tested positive for coronavirus just last week.
1:17.0	Now, it is important, as always, to note, the kids remain far less likely than adults
1:22.0	to get seriously sick or to die from coronavirus.
1:25.0	But that does not mean that some don't get seriously ill or worse.
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