last week cdc reported 32% of the u.s. population is living in a high covid-19 community level represented in or range. in these areas the cdc generally recommends masking policies and that individuals wear a mask in indoor public settings to protect themselves against infection. we also reported last thursday that 42% of the u.s. population is living in a medium community level represented by yellow. in these areas the cdc encourages individuals to make decisions about masking based on their own individual level of risk. to find your covid-19 community level, please visit cdc .gov or covid .gov and type in your county to see your own community levels. at cdc we will continue to monitor and provide timely updates regarding the latest guidance as we have done throughout the course of the pandemic. we know as the virus continues to evolve, our response and guidance must evolve with it. thank you and i will now turn things over to doctor fauci. >> thank you very much. i would like to talk a little bit more specifically now ab

i am doing today by head of the cdc dr. rochelle walensky to help us make sense of the latest virus surge and what is to come. welcome to washington post live. dr. walensky: thank you so much. delighted to be with you. host: let's start with the president's health. more than 500,000 americans have tested for positive for covid this week. joe biden is one of them. if we can't protect the president from it, what does it say about how we protect the most vulnerable americans. dr. walensky: a really important question. good wishes to the president for a speedy recovery. we know he is on paxlovid. in addition to receiving the vaccine and booster shots. we know now that there is a lot of covid out there. a 500,000 documented cases this week. hospitalizations have been on the rise and's early april. and what we are doing is the messages we have been sending all along. if you are in an area of high covid-19 community level, that is about 60% of the population living in those counties. we are asking people to take the necessary prec

would you follow the cdc guidance here? dr. walensky: our guidance says if you decide to go ahead and do a test and it's positive, to go ahead and stay home. i'm saying not every american has the capacity to do those tasks. and a very good surrogate for a test if you don't have the capacity is to wait for five days, see if your symptoms have resolved. if so, you are pretty low risk of continuing transmission but because you are still some risk, we have recommendations to go ahead and wear a mask. i believe that is a safe way forward. host: tell me more about the wave of infections and what we are facing. the contagious ba.5 variant has been blamed for the recent surge. the waves of variants leading to more infections in the foreseeable future? dr. walensky: we have seen numerous waves of subvariants of omicron. we saw ba.1, ba.2, the ba.2121, ba.4 and ba.5. those have been since thanksgiving or christmas. so we have always and anticipation that there could be another omicron subvariant coming. and a potential for another varian

he followed cdc guidance. but you are trying to make a connection is far-reaching. >> you said the walter reed suite is already ready so whatis do you need to see from the president to go there? >> and in general want to give the hypothetical he has a mild illness he's feeling fine in his words. he is working. he is getting the care that he needs here. that's all i have to say at this point in hypotheticals of the future are so hard and there will be a decision made by his physician. >> [inaudible] >> you are just trying to get me into trouble? he should follow cdc guidelines that he is isolating. first lady is -- because she -- i think she's wearing -- she's tested negative, been wearing a mask. i have to say, i have not engaged on the question of what happens when the first lady returns back. reporter: [indiscernible] is it time to realize that masks may not really be -- have the effect that we try to make them to be? dr. jha: so i think the science on masks is actually quite clear and there is broad agreeme

>> the cdc has very clear particles on this. in terms of when people are contagious and before symptoms. they are conducting contact tracing and every single person who meets the definition. >> they recommend wearing masks and people back and forth in that category. i can't remember where he is on the orange, yellow and green map, so double bottom line is we follow the cdc guidelines and in terms of mask wearing based on cdc's community levels. >> will they be more cautious and isolate -- >> we go beyond the cdc guidelines, so certainly i say for at least five days and he will return to normal activities after he's had a negative test. >> i want to touch on a couple of things. so, right now we heard from the doctor, his personal doctor he had mild symptoms and he's continuing to do the work of the presidency frompr his residence and i think that's important. every person reacts differently so it is a hypothetical. we are going to keep an eye on him and i think what's important though, and i really want to take this opportunity t

the cdc sa s if who meets the cdc close contact. the cdc says if you are in a high risk area _ cdc says if you are in a high risk area and — cdc says if you are in a high risk area and a — cdc says if you are in a high risk area and a large _ cdc says if you are in a high risk area and a large swathe the - cdc says if you are in a high risk. area and a large swathe the nation is, area and a large swathe the nation is. they— area and a large swathe the nation is, they recommend _ area and a large swathe the nation is, they recommend wearing - area and a large swathe the nationl is, they recommend wearing masks indoors _ is, they recommend wearing masks indoors in — is, they recommend wearing masks indoors in this— is, they recommend wearing masks indoors. in this white _ is, they recommend wearing masks indoors. in this white house, - is, they recommend wearing masks indoors. in this white house, we i is, they recommend wearing masksi indoors. in this white house, we are still seeing _ indoors. in this white house, we are s

but i want to ask you first about the cdc moratorium on eviction. when was that put in place and did that solve the problem or further complicate the problem? >> i think housing experts would tell you that it helped solve the problem. so the cdc, the centers for disease control and prevention issued a moratorium in september of 2020. it was a more broad and farther reaching moratorium than what had initially been implemented as part of the cares act. so when the cdc moratorium came into play, it made, it gave wider protections to tenants and it helped millions of people, tens of millions of renters who were facing eviction, and it really helped them feel, i think, more secure, like they had rights. >> do you think that the part of the problem is complicated between the cdc moratorium and each state having its own laws that govern evictions and renters rights? >> that was another really interesting thing, right? we all heard this phrase, eviction moratorium. it was so bizarre because never before in history has anybody thought of and eviction morator

kristen: you mentioned the cdc online resources about monkeypox. here is the resources more information about social gatherings, safer sex, how to protect yourself do cdc.gov/ monkeypox. coming up, dr. patel will join us to weigh in on the cc response every search you make, every click you take, every move you make, every step you take, i'll be watching you. the internet doesn't have to be duckduckgo is a free all in one privacy app with a built in search engine, web browser, one click data clearing and more stop companies like google from watching you, by downloading the app today. duckduckgo: privacy, simplified. kristen: you heard from the cdc and our last segment explain some of the challenges of federal government is trying to overcome with regards to procuring more monkeypox vaccines and tests. joining us now to talk about monkeypox and the latest covid news including the possible return of mask mandates, abc news special correspondent dr. patel. thank you for joining us. >> happy friday to you. >> we will start with monkeypox, you heard the

definition of a potentially close contact. >> speaking of the cdc, this last question, the cdc says if you are in a high-risk area, a large swath of the nation is in high-risk area, they recommend wearing masks indoors. in this white house, we're still seeing people back and forth, d.c. is high, it's in the high category. is there now a push to tell people to start wearing the masks indoors, especially as the president now we see has covid? >> i actually, off the top of my head, can't remember where d.c. is on the orange, yellow, green map, so i'm not going to do this off -- but the bottom line is, we follow cdc guidelines and the policy at the white house is to follow cdc guidelines in terms of mask wearing based on cdc's covid community levels. >> go ahead, ashley. >> will the president resume public events in five days if he tests negative, or will the white house be more cautious and have him isolate for ten days? >> the plan right now is to follow -- it's actually, we do cdc guidelines, but we go beyond cdc guidelines, so he's certainly going to isolate for at least five days,

jha: i think the cdc guidance is clear. the problem is me commenting on what the vice president is doing when i have not seen it. >> she embraced someone. you don't have to see it. dr. jha: usually, when we think about people having contact is for an extended period of time. again, i did not see the hug, i'm not sure how long the hug lasted. it's hard for me to comment on something i did not see. >> the president has said, he was going to receive a report on monkeypox today. is that happening. dr. jha: i don't know where that report is. i know there is a report that is been written for the president, whether the president had a chance to see it, i don't know. >> it's an internal report he will be receiving from his advisor. will that be made public? dr. jha: i don't know. the president gets lots of reports. i don't know which ones get made public. karine: i would just look at that as an update to the president on what we have been doing it and responding to the monkeypox. it is not a report to share out. it is something for

would you saying would you include cdc in that? you know, i don't know what the cdc was thinking at that time, but i can tell you that they did not prepare the country for a a country-wide pandemic that was evident already in china. and what do i mean by that getting up the data streams that you needed bringing in the commercial laboratory developers, you know, it's great that they worked on tasks for the public health lab, but we all know public health labs. they're not what we call high throughput laboratories the platforms that they made the tests for were in general platforms. that could do a handful or less than a hundred tests a day. we were going to need millions of tests a day so we had to bring on board our commercial laboratories until nancy messi'' a made that comment the end of february. i i don't know. i haven't saw our audience knows senior official at cdc. yes, so in nancy said she was worried but that was the end of february. i was worried in six weeks earlier so i don't i wasn't here i didn't watch it play out. i i

course decided that that cdc were no longer applied in texas. as crazy as that is. they started allowing landlords toevict people at will . >> in texas you have one of the first states to challenge thesucdc moratorium and successfully so . >> throughout the pandemic emily was tracking how states were handling evictions. >>much of the tenants experienced during the pandemic was dependent upon the zip codes they lived in . >> whether or not you stayed in that home depended whether or not your landlord was going to comply with the moratorium or a local .oratorium for that matter what sheriff showed up at your door and what judge you appeared before. >> and bonnie bertram the narrator saying alexis hatcher, one of the first convicted under texas's law . how did you connect with her or were able to be there when the day she's being essentially evicted ? >> so we have been in touch with mark melton who is an amazing attorney in dallas. he was a tax attorney but he quickly realized that tenants had so many questions about how to navigate the moratorium

if you are over the age of 50 or have any chronic condition, the cdc criteria -- that meets cdc criteria, please consider getting treated. i also want to share data about the progress we are making on vaccines and treatments over the last couple weeks. over the last several seven days, we had 2.2 million shots into arms. that is the highest we have seen in a month. or the 900,000 americans have gotten there second booster shot in the last week. that is the highest number in six weeks. as americans go about their daily lives, they are heating the public health merit -- message and not just on vaccination but treatment. when i started in this role about 3-3 point five months ago, we're seeing less than 4000 prescriptions a day of paxlovid. now they are at their highest level. last week, about 40,000 courses of paxlovid were prescribed every day across america. as a remarkable fact. if you think about the fact that we have 125,000 it is a five -- identified inspections, it is a large portion of people getting paxlovid i think that is really good and is preventing hospitalization and death e

cdc decided to develop its own. tell us a little bit about that story. >> to this day i do not know why itit happened. i got so frustrated after i left in january of 2021 with the covid response. i talked to the laboratories our big commercial laboratories and said to them, what kind of dialogue or you have with the cdc andnd hhs? and how come we did not have these tests? what was going on? what they told me was they were actually calling the cdc in january saying how can we help? how can we help? we can help develop commercial test what you think you're going to need? cdc told them they were not going to need help. i guess for working in resource limited settings i never turn away help. even if you are not sure you obsolete need it, when people say how can i help? i give them a list. [laughter] you cannot know how bad things hare going to get so you prepae for the worst and hope for the best. but you prepare for the worst. and in my mind because so many people focus on the contamination. in my mind that's not the p

so what i heard back from the cdc in that meeting if they went back to the cdc in atlanta and said well she thinks, she doesn't understand how viruses are transmitted and she's trying to use thehe learned model which wasn't my point at all. my point was you can't see the virus. eiyes it's being spread in a different way but you have to make invisible viruses visible and they completely discounted what i said because they were like let's use this on malaria and ebola. she hasn't worked on the flu. we have all worked on the flu. if you work on a nationally you've worked with the flu and you worry about evianus flu. what concerned me than concerns me now that unwillingness to listen to others' ideas. i think the cdc has gotten quite insular by being in atlanta and i do think they really have to be much more open to really looking transparently at the date and letting the day to teach them and get them out of their perceptions and assumptions and into a place that really is data-driven. >> the idea of you know in theai beginning there was this resistance against the ideas of the asymptomati

will pose the question directly to cdc. they are in the business of prevention. they are in the business of education. we will be using every agency, including the cdc to make sure we are getting to americans the information they need so they can exercise their rights. the cdc will play an important role, especially as we look at this on a grander scale of the impact of public health. >> another question at this point. new york times. >> i am cheryl from new york times. with respect to medication abortion, is this the position of the department that because the fda has approved these pills that any doctor in any state may prescribe them? second, with respect to planned parenthood, you know planned parenthood has been excluded from medicaid family-planning programs in certain states, including missouri. is that the department's position that those violations are violations of federal law? sec. becerra: because those are precise questions i will try to give you as precise an answer as i can and with my legal counsel in front

the cdc suggests he wears a mask around others. the president will follow cdc guidance. repoter: does the ba.5 variant affected the window where you have that immunity? dr. jha: what we know is that it is true in the past with previous variance, we used to say you have a 90 day warranty if you got infected. what we know because of ba.5 being so invasive, getting reinfected is very common. the duration of protection from ba.5, we do not have any data. we do not know. we will track that closely. we will continue to make sure he is up to date on his vaccines as time goes on, but we do not have any data. repoter: cdc guidance says also not to travel for 10 days. does that mean the president will not trouble? dr. jha: i do not know the details of the president's schedule. the president tends to follow the cdc's guidelines. right now, we are focused on that. repoter: will you see him in person? dr. jha: i have been speaking to the president on a regular basis, sometimes by phone or face time. dr. o'connor season. you want to limit the number of contexts. -- contacts. repoter:

we have the vaccines. >> there are two children with it that the cdc knows of at least, and the cdc said both of these children are traced back to individuals who come from the men who have sex with men community. how actively is this being spread and are you still only talking about the gay community because you are only looking there? >> yeah. so we, obviously, know that this virus is spreading largely in the gay community among men who have sex with men. but, obviously, there are other people who are at risk as well, people they interact with. anybody who has monkeypox can spread it to others. it is through skin-to-skin contact, direct and prolonged contact. we are doing a broad surveillance. this is why we have ramped up testing capacity, we're encou encouraging physicians to do more broad scale testing. >> one other issue right now, we heard in the state of new york the first case of polio in nearly a decade was confirmed in an unvack. he was hospitalized back in june. are there other cases, and if he was infected in june, why are we only now hearing about it? >> this is a place whe

but the texas courts decided that the cdc order no longer applied in texas, as crazy as that is. they started allowing landlords to evict people at will. >> in texas, you have one of the first states to challenge the cdc moratorium, and successfully so. >> narrar: throughout the pandemic, emily benfer was tracking how states were handling evictions. >> much of a tenant's experience during the pandemic was completely dependent upon the zip code that they lived in. whether or not you stayed in that home depended almost entirely upon whether or not your landlord was going to comply with the cdc moratorium-- or a local moratorium, for that matter-- what sheriff showed up at your door, and what judge you appeared before. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: there were some judges in texas still willing to consider the cdc moratorium. >> ...in the county of dallas in the state of texas, the honorable judge katina whitfield presiding, is now in session. >> good morning, everybody. let's get started here. sir, can you hear me? >> um, yes, ma'am. >> oh, okay great. >> in texas, a federal court judge did

so what i heard back from the cdc that was in that meeting is they went back to the cdc in atlanta and said well, she thinks, she doesn't understand how viruses are transmitted. she's trying to use a blood-borne model for our respiratory disease which wasn't my choice at all. my point was you can't see the virus r. yes, it's being spread in a different way but you have to make invisible viruses visible and they completely discounted what i said because they're like, she's just work on hiv, tb, malaria and people up. she has worked on flu. of course, we all work on flu . if you work internationally you work on flu and you're worried about avian flu. it was that dismissiveness that concerns me then read that concerns me now. that's unwillingness to and i do think they really have to be much more open to really looking transparent way at the data and letting the data teach them and get them out of their perceptions and assumptions and into a place sthat really is data-driven. >> and the idea of at the beginning there was this resistance against the idea that ymthe asymptomatic spread was

la agencia federal de los cdc asegura haber encontrado una manera d. reportero: con el incremento de casos de covid diecinueve, los cdc nos confirmaron lo que se temÍa se podrÍa decir que estamos en la cuarta ola de covid? >> creo que estamos iniciando lo que esperamos, una cuarta hola durante el verano que es cuando la gente se preocupa menos. reportero: enfatizÓ que las vacunas contra el covid diecinueve son la mejor defensa y que los cdc estÁn consciente de dos millones que deben vacunarse pero le tienen temor a la reacciÓn de la vacuna. los cdc lanzaron esta aplicaciÓn para poder registrar todos los sÍntomas que usted tenga. >> el programa logra capturar cualquier evento o sÍntoma que las personas pueden sentir reportero: el portal dice es en espaÑol y para inscribirse sÓlo tiene que seÑalar la cuenta si es para usted para su hijo. >> en cuanto se reporta, si es algo de consideraciÓn,los servicios de salud lo llamarÁn para investigar mÁs. presentador: para enterarnos en detalles de cÓmo estarÁn las condiciones de tiempo para este fi

nationwide the cdc predicts the number of new infections will increase. the cdc says while the numbers are up, the cases are mild. >> they're being admitted into acute care, not the icu. >> reporter: the hospital admissions rate for that group is nearing last summer's peak. >>> and the cdc says in california, arizona, hawaii and nevada hospital admissions for americans 70 and older is already worse than last summer's peak. an air quality advisory has been, tenbeen extended for at least tomorrow. officials say the marsh fire has been burning for six weeks after it started at a bay point homeless encampment. they say expect air quality to be at its worst late tonight into tomorrow morning. let's get over to meteorologist jessica for a look at forecast across the bay area. >> thanks, amanda. for now at least air quality in the bay area remains in the green. that's thanks to a lot of contributing factors. an on-shore flow is keeping us cool and fresh in san francisco. a little bit left of that fog close to the golden gate bridge. let's just tilt the camera. a

administration's including the cdc director, the epa administrator, and the transportation secretary. health care in the black community, environmental justice, and infrastructure investment are among the topics. this is about one hour and 20 minutes. --. >> the national urban league annual conference in washington. we hear from several administration officials including cdc do like -- different -- director, and epa administrator michael regan -- health care in the black community, invite -- environmental justice, -- were among some of the topics. this is about an hour and 20. -- 20 minutes. >> over the past decade, the national urban league movement has served more than 22 million individuals in key programs in justice and civic engagement, education can reuse development, jobs, entrepreneurship, housing and community development, and making sure everyone has access to quality and affordable health care options. throughout the pandemic, your work and impact did not stop. you built covid-19 vaccine confidence and bolster confidence by recruiting, hiring, training, and supporting commu

up next we will hear from several biden officials including cdc director. and transportation -- transportation secretary pete buttigieg. this is about one hour 20 minutes --. >> the national urban league annual conference in washington. we hear from several administration officials including cdc do like -- different -- director, and epa administrator michael regan -- health care in the black community, invite -- environmental justice, -- were among some of the topics. this is about an hour and 20. -- 20 minutes. thank you for inviting me to speak with you today i'm delighted to be here with you. as one of the nation's leading civil rights organizations, dedicated to empowering african-americans and others in underserved communities to achieve their highest potential, vaccinations by recruiting, hiring, and training and so , we need your help to reach them and now we need to vaccinate our children. we all remembered the surge of hope when the first covid vaccines became available. now, we have vaccines for everyone, what an accomplishment. you are instrument

so is he really following the cdc guidelines? so a couple of things, anyone who is interacted with the president it is been a much smaller footprint, has been socially distance as much as possible they are all wearing a ands, 95 and when possible we he done this outside with windows (. >> the guidance for the person with covid which we were in and their people around as well. >> look, if you think about the president, he doesn't generally wear a mask when he's around other people per he does sometimes take the mask off what is getting a photo taken. most of his interactions with others he has been wearing a mask. in the bottom line is, everybody around us fully vaccinated andnd boosted. he has been following cdcin guidelines very carefully. >> are able. >> thanks. i just want to find out the results of your contact tracing, and you have any results from that yet? >> i can give you an update as of midday today but i think there are 17 people want to get the number right, 17 people who are identified as potential close contact they

up next we are from several by administration officials including cdc director doctor rochelle walensky. epa administrator michael regan transportation secretary pete put a judge. healthcare in the black community, environmental justice and infrastructure investment were among some of the topics. this runs about an hour and 20 minutes. >> at this point, i want you to direct your attention to the screen. were video remarks from doctor rochelle wilensky. you know her. she is director of disease control prevention administrator of the agency toxic substances and disease registry. ladies and gentlemen, by video doctor rochelle berlinski. >> thank you so much for inviting me too speak with you today. i am delighted to be here with you. one of the nation's leading civil rights organizations, dedicated to empowering african americans and others in underserved communities to achieve their highest potential. national urban league is an important part of our collective effort to improve our nation's health. and black health in particular. you are uplifting and empowering americans, improving the

we hear from several administration officials including cdc do like -- different -- director, and epa administrator michael regan -- health care in the black community, invite -- environmental justice, -- were among some of the topics. this is about an hour and 20. -- 20 minutes. >> thank you for inviting me to speak with you today i'm delighted to be here with you. as one of the nation's leading civil rights organizations, dedicated to empowering african-americans and others in underserved communities to achieve their highest potential, the national are been the has -- is an important part of our collective effort to over nation's health. and black health in particular. you are uplifting and empowering americans. vaccinations by recruiting, hiring, and training and so earning community health navigators in six cities. and you address racial and ethnic disparities in adult immunization in more than 50 urban league chapters. -- nationals -- campaigns -- years was the trusted voice that was needed. we are grateful for everything reduce health and equities in the united states. and to su

white house is to follow cdc guidelines in terms of mask wearing based on cdc covid community levels. >> will the president resume public events in five days if he tests negative or will the white house be more cautious and have him isolate ten days. >> we do cdc guidelines, we go beyond cdc guidelines. isolate at least five days and he will return to normal activities after he's had a negative test. >> curious, what precautions, we saw the president the video put out, what precautions do you take for the person who filmed the video? >> touch on a couple of things. so, look, right now we saw, we heard from the doctor, dr. o'connor, his personal doctor and he has mild symptoms and is continuing to do the work of the presidency from his residence, and i think that's important and you know, and to your question, april, every person reacts to covid differently. so it is a hypothetical, right. we will keep an eye. the doctor will keep an eye on him. i think what's important though and i want to take this opportunity to say this and dr. jha said as well, that he is vaccinated and he is dou

. >>> the global health emergency declared over the growing monkeypox outbreak inside the cdc response, why it believes the virus i spreading faster than before >>> and celebrating the tough guy actor beloved for his roles on both sides of the law. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening in a summer of extreme temperatures, the worst wildfire of the year is choking the skies of northern california tonight smoke advisories posted in the bay area due to a rampaging wildfire more than 175 miles away near yosemite it's already sent thousands in the path of the fire to seek safer ground the oak fire broke out friday near the park and has destroyed several structures and breaking in texas tonight, grass fires have destroyed at least eight homes in balk springs and forced evacuations there. meantime, back in california crews doing all they can to slow that big blaze before it makes another dangerous run. drought conditions ensuring plentiful fuel for the fire. miguel almaguer is on the front lines for us tonight. >> reporter: this is what california's wildfi

especially by the cdc. william: help me understand what we ought to think about this drug, paxlovid. it did not turn out to be a preventative, but it did show promise in stopping people who were infected from getting very, very sick. there have been a lot of subsequent complications about it, and slow rollout of the use of that. what do you make of that drug? william: it is -- dr. topol: it is certainly one of the triumphs of the pandemic. it went from designing a new drug to having it validated with almost a 90% reduction of hospitalizations and deaths in less than two years. usually that takes many years. it was very high velocity validated. the problem is what was not seen in the trials is being seen now as this frequent rebound where people take it for five days, they get much better, than a couple days later, it starts back up with all of the symptoms and infectiousness. the rebound problem is likely tied to the fact that the omicron variants were not the ones that were tested when the trials were cond

. >>> the cdc says more tests will be coming to check for monkeypox. and california has now passed new york as the state with the most cases. aegis sciences will start testing for monkeypox and the cdc director says this will be a w big help. by the end of the month commercial labs should be able to handle 70,000 tests per week. we have more on the bay area monkeypox response and the signs to look out for on kpix.com. this is obviously not the only health issue our country is dealing with right now. doctors are pretty concerned about a new covid subvariant and more people ending up in the hospital. mask mandates may be making a comeback. >> reporter: los angeles county has reached what the cdc defines as a high level of covid infection as the number of hospitalizations keeps climbing. >> over the past few days we've had to hold patients in the emergency room 12 to 24 hours until we have beds available in our hospitals. if we continue at this pace in the next week or two, we may have to go back to those days where we are rationing care. >> reporter: hea

the cdc was ridiculously stringent with what they gave out. so was hhs. but the australian parliament had done an inquiry into another outbreak so through the investigation done by australian parliament, that is where we got hundreds of leads and sources and pages. susan: has the corporation responded to your book since it has been published? michael: not so far. they gave us a boilerplate response to our book, it may be a couple of sentences basically saying they did everything they could to keep people safe, as they always do. but we have not really heard from them as the book was published. susan: let's get into some particulars about the zaandam. who owns and operates the ship? michael: it is part of the holland america line, one of the cruise lines owned by carnival corporation, the largest, one of the largest leisure companies in the world. it is basically under the carnival corporation. susan: what country is she flagged under? michael: different ships are flagged under different countries. the zaandam is under the dutch flag but the corporation ha

host: that was the cdc director. we are talking this morning about president biden's covid diagnosis and taking your calls. next up is harry in georgia, i am 71 years old. i'm afraid. on the other hand, if i had everyone taking care of me like he's taking care of, i'd be ok. host: let's go next to karen. bradenton, florida. republican. rep. raskin: hi. my best wishes to biden. i think the origin of the disease needs to be looked at. we don't seem to be investigating the cause of this disease. i think it has lost a lot of trusted people. fauci says it did not come from a lab, which we know is false. i think the trust is what the bottom line is. we have lost trust in our government. it has been so politicaliz ed. people want the truth and we have not gotten it. thank you. host: linda from rocky mount -- spring hills, florida. independent. caller: hi. hello? yes. i have a very, very strong thing about what have these people are talking about. first of all it was brand-new and trump did the right thing. no one knew what

but without response from the cdc. good evening, everybody. i'm vicki liviakis and i'm catherine heenan in for grant lotus today on the steps of city hall, the city's health director along san francisco supervisor blasted what they say is a week federal response kron four's rob nesbitt. talk to someone who spent the last 2 days waiting in lines trying to get a vaccine. he joins us live with more. rob, that's got to be frustrating. it is kathryn. i start to see the posts online. >> of long lines and monkeypox vaccination sites in san francisco starting friday. those waiting for their first dose 2 doses. hope that the city's request for more will be approved. eager to get the monkey pox vaccine. jake lar waiting in this long line at san francisco general hospital monday afternoon. he was eventually told that all shots were spoken for before making it inside, make up a line in front of us and fed. >> you guys have to go. the folks who i know we're just in front of us who didn't stay in the line. i think that in almost 2 and a half hour. >> he ret

ama: the cdc could approve a new covid-19 vaccine from novavax as soon as next week. the company claims its preclinical data shows the vaccine induces an immune response against all covid variants. new details, a man has died in a fiery crash after his car collided with a tree, hitting another vehicle this morning after 10:00 on james donelan boulevard near country loma in antioch, a road notoriously known for dragracing. the driver and passenger were treated for minor injuries. witnesses say both vehicles were speeding before the accident. >> this particular area comes down from a slope just east of us, so cars, motorists tend to get a lot of speed coming into this area. once we get more details, we are still looking at the evidence to re-create the collision. ama: the road is lined with memorials from other fatal accidents, including at that tree that was hit today. antioch police say they are working to crack on people driving recklessly throughout the city. new york police are investigating whether ivana trump fell from the stairs in her apartment where she was fo

when the cdc drops the ball, the white house steps in. we need to fundamentally reform how we respond to these crises. >> you wrote a book on that. i want to ask you about covid. 54% of americans live in an area of high covid community spread. that's up from 31% the prior week. that seems fast moving. what is different about these variants now? >> well, look, it's the b. 5 variant that's growing. it does seem to be the b. 2 infection confers more robust immunity against b. 5. northeast will be more protected. there's over 100,000 cases on average being reported on a daily basis. we're probably detecting one in ten. it's probably more like a million. i think most americans have started to accept this as part of the fabric of daily living. it's based on the fact that people feel more impervious to a bad outcome. this is a backdrop of normal living. >> the white house is saying put a mask on if you go into indoor gatherings. the city of los angeles says they might institute this. >> i don't think we're going to see mandates. there isn't a lo

and the cdc director says that will be a big help, getting more and more people tested. by the end of the month, commercial labs should be able to handle up to 70,000 tests each week. we have more on the bay area monkeypox response and the signs to look out for on kpix.com. coming up at 5:30, we'll talk with ucsf infectious disease expert dr. peter chin-hong about the monkeypox vaccine short, as well as rise in covid hospitalizations that has one california county on the brink of another indoor mask mandate. >>> this evening authorities investigating a fiery crash in antioch trhe scene of that crash. it happened around 10:30 this morning near james dolan and contra loma boulevards. officers say two cars were involved. one of them hit a tree and then caught fire. you can see in this video the extensive damage to that car. the victim inside had to be pulled from the burning vehicle. and the second victim was thrown from another car. police say they believe high speed played a role in the crash. and woman walking her dog heard it all happen. >> i hear cars driving super fas