Being so close to 80%, even if the lagging pools join the signaling for last few hours should be enough to reach the goal.
It will not take many hours for us to have a general panic attack
https://news.bitcoin.com/predicting-the-august-1-split-flow-chart-the-hard-way/
In the news has only one subject: Predicting the August 1
No need to panic. It will probably lock-in by sunday on the second activation period. Miners started signaling earlier. It should have been started at 21 july.