>> florida, florida. >> sean: florida, texas,ko south dakota. >> you askedta a question and lt me answer it. until recent weeks, florida did a great job. governor desantis did a great job. >> sean: i have to go, but i hold on,emind you -- dance show this weekend,in "unfiltered" and how can you imagine dan bongino anyway president trump will be his guest on the fox news channel peer that a saturday night 10:00 p.m. we will take a deep breath. when we come back congresswoman cori bush said she is happy to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on her own personal security, but wants to defund the police and everybody else. wait untilor you see this tape. leo 2.0 terrel to respond ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: well, now some shocking honesty from far left squad congressman cori bush, who is saying she can have all the private security she wants, but that we need to defundat the police for a week, the little people, i guess, all of us, not her. take a look. >> you want to see me die? that can be the alternative. so i spent $70,000 on private security over the last few months. and i'm here stan

it's not just florida. i've heard the same from superintendents in phoenix, and the line over and over again. i think we're going to hear it over the next several weeks, i think we'll hear it again as we head into 2022 that this isn't about politics. this is about the health and safety of our students, of our workers and of our community. and local leaders are so desperate, mika, to take politics out of the equation and it keeps being injected over and over again by some of these leaders at the state level. >>> coming up, we'll talk to the leader of one of arkansas's medical centers that has too many covid patients and too little staff. a look at that untenable position when "morning joe" comes right back. s right back vo: the climate crisis is here. berardelli: these temperatures are almost unbelievable even for a meteorologist. vo: and the solution is here too: clean energy. like wind turbines and solar panels. now, congress has to invest in it and the millions of workers ready to install it across the co

looks like it's starting to happen in florida. you can deny this all you want and say that this is just a hoax or political ploy but florida has the highest rate of the coronavirus on the planet right now. it is a hot zone. and the governor of florida is doing nothing to put that fire out. >> but he is trying to claim this is about parents deciding what is best for their kids but listen to what one parent said in broward county today. >> my child is 14 years old. she's vaccinated. had a liver transplant, she's immune suppressed. my child needs to be protected. all she wants to do is go to school and learn. learn science, ironically. learn science. she wants to live. >> dr. reiner, it's what's been true for the entire pandemic, protecting our citizens, older americans in the beginning, rest of us this year with vaccinations, now children with delta. >> our children, particularly less than 12 years old, are now our most vulnerable citizens. when the pandemic began, our most vulnerable citizens were elderly, now 90% of folks over 65

say they will defy florida's governor and mandate masks with an option to opt out. but tonight florida's governor says any school superintendent that mandates masks risks losing their salary lester >> all right, kerry sanders, thank you with tens of millions of unvaccinated children caught in the middle of this battle, a reality check tonight in the virus in kids. while some compare covid to the seasonal flu, experts say they are far different. here is kristen dahlgren >> reporter: 73 million children in the u.s. now at the center of the covid debate, and why covid protocols aren't the same as those for the seasonal flu. >> there are more differences between the seasonal flu and covid-19 than there are similarities the only similarity is they're both airborne. >> reporter: pediatricians say comparisons reveal clear differences on almost every level >> number one, we don't even have a vaccine for our children under the age of 12. >> reporter: two-thirds of american children get the seasonal flu vaccine, and 90% of child flu deaths are among the unvaccinated more chil

and the florida governors on this one. all these hospitalizations and deaths would have and could have been avoided if misguided americans did not follow the crazed teachings of a growing death cult. >> tucker: [chuckling] it is wrong to put people that unhappy on television. it's just wrong. oh, but she had numbers. what are those numbers? they are from the cdc. earlier this month the cdc claimed 28,000 people tested positive for covid-19 in florida in a single day. that sounded pretty scary but it turned out not to be true. health officials in florida prove the actual number is 30% lower than that. so how did the cdc get that number wrong russian mark that's an interesting question. part of the answer may be ron desantis runs the state of florida. 1 of 50 governors. but more publicity than any group from the past year because people are moving to his state. in washington they looked down in florida and they think that there is a potential challenge to the white house. they get the cdc involved to make up numbers. ron des

they're going to hate on florida. they will continue to hate on florida. ask governor gretchen whitmer, she put a travel ban on florida and then she traveled to florida. i think let the numbers speak for themselves, 900 people a day are moving to our great state. you know, it's a great place to live. i'm born and raised there. i'm raising my family there and people are learning that every single day. todd: thanks for getting up with us. we appreciate it. >> sure. take care. todd: you too. time now 19 minutes after the hour. parents across the country have been flooding school board meetings to protest critical race theory and the debate taking center stage in middle america. a kansas mom who says parents are the last line of defense joins us live next. jillian: a patriot looking to honor patriots, first responders and freedom, taking the stars and stripes to new heights. the details still to come. ♪ what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. ♪ stand a little taller. ♪ doesn't mean i'm lonely when i'm alone. [engine revs] now let's go borrow a boat and

you mentioned florida. that's where we've seen an increasing war of words between the governor and the white house. take a listen to jen psaki yesterday speaking about the governor's actions. >> i think i've spoken to this a few times, but i will say as a parent myself, i have two young children that i want public health officials to make decisions about how to keep my kids safe, not politicians. not only is governor desantis not abiding by it, he's fund-raising off of this. >> now, you remember just a month ago when president biden traveled down to florida. i was with him. he sat side by side with governor desantis talking about the surfside tragedy. both of them were praising one another. a very different situation here. psaki telling me this week she doesn't want to start a political food fight here, but there's very real concern these governors are standing in the way of progress. >> stephanie, we heard the war of words, but governor desantis is dealing with a massive surge in cases and now a lawsuit ov

i'm a constituent of yours, president of florida. what you plan to do about these new mask guidance from the cdc? is there any potential we could have mandate band in florida? i know you signed an executive order but is there a legislative situation to ban mandates? >> we've already done it. i signed a law in june that terminates local governments ability to impose restrictions or mandates on individuals or businesses. that's not happening in florida and it certainly will not happen by me or at the state level as well. the one area where we did necessary legislate was with the school district so last school year some school districts have mask policy and others didn't. many private schools have mask optional and same with charter schools. the results were no different, there were not major outbreaks no matter what so this coming school year, every district in florida planned on doing optional for masks and i think that's the right policy. the cdc comes in and says every single person in a school, students, teachers and staff have to

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right now, in florida, there are almost twice the number of daily cases in florida as in the united states entirely on july 4th and again, it's increasing by about 1,000 people per day. the governor only has three sort of tools at his disposal. he can get the public to mask up. he can mandate masks. he can get the public to increase their vaccination rate by essentially either mandating vaccines or empowering businesses to use vaccine passports, but he's refusing to do that, or he can shut down. the governor of florida refused to do all three of those. the state is on fire, and if you prevent the fire department from coming to the rescue of a house fire, that house is going to burn to the ground and that's what is happening in florida now. >> it's interesting because andy said to me this week that it's almost like these governors are getting caught being too caught by half because they can put these bans when the case counts were on the decline looking like we were moving out of the pandemic and now they're not dealing with the reality. we know desantis is not likely a presidential contend

florida up 78%. a local pharmacist in missouri encouraged by the new demand. >> i can comfortably say it's gone up by at least 50% now from where it was at the end of june. >> reporter: why now? what took you these many months to finally get the shot? >> because i saw the cases are rising. i've seen more people in my family and friends have taken it and they're okay. >> reporter: one entire family in st. louis decided to roll up their sleeves before school starts. >> i want to protect myself and others. >> we know some that have passed. >> reporter: some states offering $100 with the shot. >> the more i research about it, the pros outweigh the cons. so that's why i decided to get it. >> reporter: an urgent push from the fda saying it's all hands on deck before it works to formally approve the pfizer vaccine. >> if that means additional people will feel comfortable getting vaccinated, that's a good outcome. >>> florida is quickly becoming the epicenter of this fourth wave of infections, accounting for

proteger a nuestros maestros basada en las recomendaciones cientÍficas de los expertos >>> aquÍ en florida los distritos escolares de miami-dade y broward se preparan para regresar a clases la prÓxima semana con el objetivo de que no se repita en donde mÁs de 400 estudiante fueron puestos en cuarentena >>> porque regresaron a la escuela el martes la inmensa mayorÍa sin mascarillas y resultaron positivo mÁs de 30 alumnos y empleados >>> preocupante, mis hijo estÁn utilizando las mÁscaras y podemos prevenir mÁs contagios >>> el intendente seÑalo como responsable al gobernador de florida y asegura que al permitir que habrÁ mÁs contagio una batalla idÉntica >>> pues realmente lo mÁs importante para nosotros no era ser primero pero era proteger a nuestros alumnos >>> de acuerdo con un conteo >>> en este regreso a clases solamente en 14 estados mÁs de 10.000 estudian y maestros estuvieron expuestos al covid y estÁn en cuarentena >>> rogelio mora tagle, noticias telemundo >>> pese a todas las alertas todas las advertencias y tragedias siguen ocurriendo cÓmo una mamÁ de florida que

desde miami florida danae rivero. patricia: 16 tripulantes dieron positivo a covid—19 poco antes de que una embarcaciÓn abarcarÁ en belice. los centros para el control y prevenciÓn de enfermedades dijeron que el crucero sigue en investigaciÓn. en dallas los contagios siguen aumentando. el departamento de servicios de salud respondiÓ que la escasez de camas estÁ relacionada con la carencia de personal mÉdico. estudiantes y maestros se enfrentan a una nueva normalidad que incluye la imposiciÓn de medidas para minimizar contagios. locutora: en los salones de clases, los estudiantes de california saben que deben usar cubrebocas. esto incluye la clase de educaciÓn fÍsica. en esta preparatoria de santa ana muchos lo utilizan cuando estÁn afuera y aÚn cuando practican deportes. >> estamos buscando un plan de mejoras. que se mantenga la estancia de los niÑos. locutora: el almuerzo se sirve a la intemperie. el equipo de limpieza desinfecta los comedores antes de ser usados por cada grupo. el gel desinfectante si

florida. that's where the governor is finding his long attack for safety measures is blowing up in his face. but more importantly, in the face of his constituents. cases and hospitalizations breaking all-time records. experts say the state's icu's look like a quote, war zone. this is a time when state's need objective, sober leadership, but desantis is doubling down on his bipartisan approach blaming everything from the media to immigration policy for what is happening in his state instead of addressing what he and the state government can do now to curb the spread. >> obviously media does hysteria. joe biden has taken to himself to try to single out florida over covid. you try to fear monger. he's imported more virus in around the world by having a wide open southern border. and this has been a really negative thing throughout this whole thing with some of these quote experts, some of the media. >> while desantis talks about these quote experts with scare quotes, the actual people and leaders

she joins us from florida. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, lindsey. >> stephanie, what are we seeing in florida? we've seen governor desantis, how anti-mandate he's been. he's introducing measures to combat covid in the state. >> reporter: yes, indeed. in fact, earlier this week governor desantis was in jacksonville, florida, where he announced a rapid response unit. he said the state has started to dispatch these mono clonal antibodies to those who are sick. again, when you talk about those hospitalizations, we're seeing a spike there. the florida department of health releasing its latest data as of yesterday for the previous week. florida saw more than 151,000 cases of covid-19 with about 286 deaths, so that's a positivity rate of about 19%. even though we've had this anti-mask mandate from governor desantis, he's stepping up. and he did talk a little more about it, so let's listen to that sound bite. >> what we're going to be doing today is deploying a rapid response unit. starting today we'l

the top rnc official in florida. this guy has been comparing the biden administration's vaccine efforts to nazi-era brown shirts. i mean come on with this crap. our friends at k-file found this. peter feman is the guy's name. he wrote stupidly on his blog the biden brown shirts are beginning to show up at private homes questioning vaccine papers. look, not only is it not true. when are they going to stop with this type of just ugliness, and when will desantis, because this is his state, but republicans in general in leadership not just say i don't agree with that, not just say that's wrong, say he shouldn't say it. shut up, that's what they should be saying. we need to hear it. it's not one and done with this guy. in may he called vaccines a mark of the beast and it wasn't a throwaway. he was making a reference to a symbol from the biblical book of revelations showing allegiance to satan. thursday he wrote the wolves wanting control and power. as for me and my house, we will fight them. look, on one level there is no

reportero: durante la pandemia, la florida es el mayor epicentro del coronavirus. los centros para control y prevenciÓn de enfermedades dijeron que se registraron mÁs de 21,600 nuevos casos, todo un rÉcord. >> en el estado de la florida y en estados unidos en general, este repunte al nÚmero de contagios, sin duda es por la resurgencia de la variante delta. esta variante es muy contagiosa. con esta variante, una persona infectada puede contagiar hasta a nueve personas. reportero: algunos expertos sostienen que no existe un Área de mayor riesgo que el estado de la florida y que los nÚmeros son increÍbles. segÚn el departamento de salud, la tasa de positividades del 18.1%. >> no en todas las personas, pero es un nÚmero que estÁ todavÍa por determinarse. la vacuna no es tan efectiva en impedir que la persona se pueda enfermar. reportero: la batalla por el covid—19 no solo es cientÍfica. en la florida estÁn enfrentados gobiernos demÓcratas locales con el gobernador republicano. la razÓn, las medidas restrictivas que unos defienden y otros critican. el u

so let's talk about florida, shall we? 28,317 -- that is the number of new cases the cdc says florida has sunday august 8th. it turns out they overshot their estimate by almost double. florida's department of health saw the cdc stats and noticed the numbers were way off. by their count, the caseload was more close to 15,000. they said they rolled them into one, eventually the cdc met them in the middle and devise the caseload to about 19,000. so why is that important? well, think about it. joe biden and ron desantis have been going at it for a week. joe biden wants to bring back the lock down and ron desantis is getting in the way of that. we can't say for sure that the cdc intentionally cooked the books, but i can darren do not guarantee you that they never would've made that correction if florida did not stand up and say something. remember a few weeks ago when they told us that the delta variant is far more contagious than the chicken pox? turns out, they were simply exaggerating. belgian scientist at some actual resear

brett: florida makes up 6.5% of the u.s. population and as the president mentioned it does account for nearly 22% of the country's new covid cases. you have 60% of the hospitals saying they could see staffing shortages, 187 children in the hospital there in florida which is a record down there. yet during this time governor de santis, florida's governor, signed an executive order barring school districts from forcing kids and students to mask up. to protect their freedom to choose. should he have done that now? >> well, first off, i have a lot of concern for all the people that have gotten covid. i had covid. i also took the vaccine. if you feel comfortable, i think everybody ought to get the vaccine and you ought to do whatever you can to make sure your family is safe. here's what i think government ought to do. give us good information. i mean, here's what's been frustrating about this. since covid started it's been all political. just give us good information. americans are smart. they'll make good decisions for their fam

>> florida congressman and former florida governor charlie crist joins me now. he is now running for his old job in hopes of replacing desantis. welcome back to "prime time." >> thank you, chris. great to be with you tonight. >> what he's doing has him with good numbers in florida, your governor. but the case numbers, the hospitalizations, are worse. so what does that tell you? >> well, they are worse, no question about it. and we're number one in the country right now, chris, as you indicated. and it's appalling and it's heartbreaking. but we just got some new polling yesterday, independent of us, independent of our campaign that has me up on him by about two points if the election for governor were held today. so i think it's starting to take hold finally. and people are understanding that what he's doing is wrong. it's dead wrong. >> what do you think in terms of why so many people in this state are anti-vaxx, anti-mask? >> i don't know. i really can't explain that, except to say that, you know, we have all heard so much about misinformation. and in our state

would that work for florida? >> well, i think what we need to do is make sure it's at least encouraged. we don't even have that in florida. first things first. let's get it encouraged. i understand some people have qualms about it and i think it's important to be respectful of that. but i also understand that my fellow floridians are dying. so at least we could have a governor who would encourage people to get the vaccines, jim. that's step one. and also not issue edicts that say that you cannot wear a mask in schools in florida. that's insane. i mean it's just unbelievable. every medical and health care professional tells you it's the right thing to do. as governor and a lawyer, you decide that's not what you're going to do because you're pursuing an ideology instead of the safety of our people? it is unconscionable, it is irresponsible leadership, it is wrong, and it needs to be gone. ron should be gone. >> do you think that these school districts should defy governor desantis in your state? just do what they n

florida's number one in hospitalizations and child, an ominous sign and florida and mississippi they started school already and have a high transmission rate, not a lot of -- but a couple of schools in certain districts that have closed down because of outbreaks and i definitely expect that to happen in florida, and i don't think we have any plan to deal with that, because that will come. the schools are starting to open next week and we are number one in the nation when it comes to viral transmission. so all ominous signs and again, the delta variant has changed the equation. >> is there any sign of encouragement or optimism for you? ominous signs as you say, unmistakably clear. vaccination rates are going up where you see increased number of cases. does that signal okay, people are getting the message it took something terrible for this to happen, perhaps a loved one gets covid, perhaps somebody they love passed away from covid. can you draw any positive news out of that, doctor? >> i'm going to look at the glass half full. i'll take anything i can get especially being down here in

that's coming from the florida hospital association. the same association that is raising the red flag saying, look, 60% of hospitals will have critical staff shortages in the next seven days. so those two things right there give you an idea of where florida stands right now. i am in hialeah where the governor just spoke. he did not address covid or take any reporter questions, but listen to the last time he talked about covid. >> joe biden suggests that if you don't do lockdown policies, then you should, quote, get out of the way. let me tell you this. if you're coming after the rights of parents in florida, i'm standing in your way. >> reporter: and the governor saying that he will be reviewing how he will not prohibit masks, but make it optional or give parents, rather, an opt out for the upcoming school year. but one thing i want to highlight here, ana, the superintendent of leon county wrote the governor a letter asking him to be flexible and give them autonomy. and he said, please don't allow pride or politics to cloud our better

time florida has more kids hospitalized with covid than anywhere in the country. at least 172 children are currently being treated and it's not just kids, 47% of staff icu beds in the state have coronavirus patients in them. the highest percentage in the u.s., you would think that a covid crisis like that would incentivize the government to change his behavior and encourage measures that would reduce transmission like vaccines, masks, but instead, florida republican governor is standing by his executive order against mask mandates in school, and he's threatening to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who defied that order. but now some families are fighting back. a group of fans across the state are suing the governor on behalf of their children, saying his order is unconstitutional. alicia taught is one of those parents, her son attends a special needs school, but wear masks have helped prevent the spread of covid. alicia, thank you so much for joining us. today was the first day of school, did he go to school in person today? how wa

and it's not just florida. bit later in the program, we will hear from a doctor in tennessee who lost her job as the state's top-vaccine official, what turned out to be a political firestorm. but first, this bookster news. cnn's phil mattingly joins us from the white house for more on that. so what are you learning regarding booster shots? >> what we are learning is fda officials have kind ever centered around the idea of having a full kind of layout for a proposal for all vaccinated individuals as it relates to booster shots at some point in early september. that would be for everyone. it's worth noting, according to an administration official that, perhaps, boosters would come for those who are most at risk at an earlier point in time. but i think what this all underscores, anderson, is other countries around the world are starting to move forward on the pr process of booster shots. but this planning makes very clear, there is an expectation and you get it when you talk to administration officials across the

barbara jenkins there in orange county, florida. thank you. >> pleasure. >>> brand new hour, same victor blackwell. good to be with you. moments ago the nation met the president's july 4th vaccine goal about a month late. the cdc just reported 70% of adults in the u.s. have received at least one dose of covid vaccination. overall, 49.7% of the population is fully vaccinated. and the milestone comes as the cdc releases data showing how lifesaving vaccinations are. the cdc found that 99.99% of vuly vaccinated americans have not had a breakthrough infection that's resulted in death or hospitalization. again, 99.99%. and for any kind of breakthrough infection, not just severe, under 1% of the vaccinated are impacted, according to the kaiser family foundation. but cases of coronavirus mainly driven by the unvaccinated continue to grow. the u.s. is now averaging more than 79,000 new infections a day. that's a 54% jump from last week. 88% of americans live in an area with substantial or high transmission. the pressure campaign to get vacci

case in point, florida. >> what is he so upset about florida? his solution is he wants to have the government force kindergarteners to wear masks in school. >> florida's republican governor, ron desantis, is barring school districts in the state from enacting mask mandates. never mind that conservatives tend to support local control over their schools, that's only part of the problem. the problem is that florida has been one of the leaders in the u.s. in covid cases. just as kids too young to be vaccinated are heading back to the classroom. the delta variant is slamming states where vaccination states are lagging behind much of the country. the map is very clear there. one of those delta hot spots is missouri, where senator josh hawley has been going after the biden administration for requiring vaccinations for federal employees. >> what we're seeing is joe biden and the left using a campaign of fear and intimidation in order to try to keep the country in a perpetual state of crisis and centralize control and power over people's lives. >> he see

florida is on fire when it comes to covid. you read the numbers off this morning and when ron desantis says parents should be able to make decisions, that apparently only means parents would agree with him because we have local leaders and school boards and parents who are begging him to let them make the best decisions, whether that's a mask mandate, whether that's mask recommendations, ron desantis claims to support local control, state control, and yet he doesn't give that same control to local leaders in his own state. we know that the bottom line is people need to get vaccinated, and the good news, bret, is that this week, the states where they fed the biggest outbreaks of delta actually have some of the biggest vaccination rates. they really jumped the last few days. that's great, but in these places without breaks, governors need to let local leaders make decisions. if that's why you hear other republican governors saying they regret preventing local leaders from doing just that. >> bret: steve. >> i agree substantively

this as the virus ravages florida. but the govern's controversial ban on mask mandates sparking fierce debate. here's abc's victor oquendo. >> repoter: this back-to-school season, it's the question parents across the country are facing. mask or no mask? >> okay, shar, we have to wear masks at school. you have to wear it all day because that's the way we stay the safest, okay? >> okay. >> reporter: for 5-year-old charlotte in florida, it's not just lunch and a backpack she's taking as she heads to kindergarten. but even with added protection her dad is worried. >> first week back. and feeling much trepidation. much trepidation about this current climate right now we face. >> reporter: despite the availability of vaccines, the nation is grappling with a fourth surge of covid-19 spurred by the delta variant, once again leading to a fierce debate over how states can best protect communities. the.s now averaging more than 110,000 new covid cases a day. hospitals now admitting about 9,300 new patients on a daily basis. the m

more than half of florida counties start school today, even as florida leads the u.s. for the number of children hospitalized with covid-19. about 1 in 5 young children tested for coronavirus over the last week in florida had an infection. even so, republican governor ron desantis is not only threatening to withhold funds from school districts that impe mask mandates, but is now threatening to withhold the salaries of school officials who require masks. in texas, the dallas independent school district on monday ordered everyone on public school grounds to wear masks, defying a ban on mask mandates by republican governor greg abbott. we will go to houston to speak to a pediatrician after headlines. canada has reopened its border to u.s. travelers for the first time since march 2020. visitors will need to show a recent negative coronavirus test result and must prove they're fully vaccinated against covid-19, with exemptions for unvaccinated children under the age of 12. california officials say it could be several more weeks before the largest single fire in the state's

show biden's numbers in florida. >> look at this. much worse than ron desantis' numbers are in florida. this is what politics is basically coming down to right now. it is negative partisanship. it is not just how am i doing. it's how is my opponent doing or how are the democrats doing? what we see here is that desantis, you watch him go on fox news. he always plays off against the democrats. this is a smart move in a state like florida where joe biden's approval rating is down significantly over the last few months and so for him he's like, you know what? i don't have to be doing that great. i just have to be doing better than the other guys. >> covid, well, right. it is who is worse, right? that is the breakdown. who's worse? and it is all partisan. if anybody thinks that covid created clarity that was transcendent of politics it just reinforce the same old rules. >> that is exactly right. just reinforced the same old rules. what i'll note here is that i think a lot of people expect a certain relationship with covid, right? when cas

mandates have always been a part of school all over the country, including in florida, right now, florida's kids, 6% of the u.s. population, but florida has accounted for 20% of the country's pediatric, 20%, 1/5 of the pediatric coronavirus hospital admissions since july. taylor county, southeast of tallahassee, you'll know taylor county, they have closed their schools because of covid outbreaks, and the governor of florida, ron desantis, despite the court ruling against him, is withholding the pay of school boards in broward county. your thoughts? >> again, we put the health, safety and well being, we trust the school administrators, and others who deal with our children every day, we put the safety of our children in their hands every day, and why would you treat taylor county the same way you might treat miami-dade or orange or broward county? those decisions are best left into the hands of those local first responders and other officials who respond to those calls every day. i heard someone say when a person deals 911, tallahassee is not responding. the local first responders, local pol

florida. last week the state reported an all-time death record with 1,486 deaths nearly 15% above the record of 1,300 deaths for a week back in january during the last waves. this is florida. the state has become one of the worst hot spots in the nation. as the delta variant continues to climb in terms of the case count. according to the associated press, florida hospitals slammed with covid-19 patients are suspending elective surgeries and putting beds in conference rooms and auditorium and cafeteria. florida, georgia and louisiana and mississippi alone account for more than 40% of all hospitalizations in the country. and there's one common factor here. people not getting the vaccine. let's bring in, infectious disease specialist in north palm beach county, dr. leslie diaz, it's great to have you on the show. you and i have been going back and forth about what your doctors, nurses, colleagues have been going through, what you personally have been going through. tell us what exactly it's like

i'm from west palm beach. >> yes. >> so we know florida and we know south florida. and we know how floridians are. and i wonder if you think that just getting the vaccine publicly and showing leadership is going to be enough to make a complex political state like florida where people kind of like to do their own thing fall in line. i mean, i think that's one of the biggest concerns i've heard from people i know who are still in florida, is that some people around them just don't seem to give a damn and they don't know what to do. >> yeah, i think a combination of a couple of things. one, we need to be relying on our elected officials. we didn't see that this entire pandemic. but it's more than just that. it's using our local influencers, that is, our music industry members, that's our athletes, those people that are real true influencers in our communities, and giving everybody the tools and having those conversations because at the end of the day we don't live in an isolated society. you know, love thy neighbor, the fundamentals of our religions. and that is not wh

and that's why tropical alerts are still in place for the florida keys, and portions of southwest florida. it's not time to let your guard down, due to the storm system, only being a depression. the impacts are still the same and we've always said that this storm is a big-time rainmaker. the flood threat is big across the keys to miami, due to low-lying areas, this is a flood prone area. now forecasting three to five inches, but there will be some isolated spots that could pick up ten inches of rain. now the change in this forecast that just happened at 5:00 a.m., it first will take a right turn. then we'll start to see the movement more to the left, and it goes back into the gulf. the problem is, it's not just southwest florida, now it's alabama, to mississippi, the florida pan handle and i will not rule out louisiana. so sustained winds of 35 miles per hour, you can see later on this afternoon into the overnight hours it really starts to reenergize. the strength starts to pick up and then we'll watch for that potential landfall going into overnight hours for monday into tuesday and then

florida and texas accounting for 40% of new hospitalizations dr. fauci is here answering your questions. a tropical storm watch issued for parts of florida as fred takes aim. and over 200 million americans under extreme heat alerts in 43 states. al roker is here >>> just in, the battle of britney spears with her father verdict is in. >>> and if you build it, they will come tonight's first ever mlb game in iowa on the real life field of dreams >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone there is breaking news out of afghanistan tonight where a swift taliban advance and the rapid crumbling of the afghan government is triggering the return of 3,000 u.s. troops to evacuate american civilians the state department accelerating its reduction of embassy staff in kabul, and warning americans should leave the country immediately. tonight some of afghanistan's largest cities are back under taliban control as fears grow that the capital itself, kabul, could fall soon. the reintroduction of american ground troops coming j

>> florida! he doesn't know, sean. >> sean: florida, texas, south dakota. >> let me speak! you asked me a question, let me answer it. >> he doesn't know this. >> until the last couple weeks, florida did a great job. governor desantis did a great job -- >> sean: i've got to go. >> geraldo doesn't know that! >> sean: dance show this weekend, unfiltered, how could you imagine dan bongino filtere. saturday night 10:00 p.m. all right. we will take a deep breath. when we come back, congresswoman cori bush says she is happy to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on her own personal security but still wants to defund the police for everybody else. wait until you see this tape congresswoman dan crenshaw, and leo 2.0 terrell. [relaxed summer themed music playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. savor your summer with lincoln. woman: my reputation was trashed online. i felt completely helpless. summer is a state of mind, you can visit anytime. my entire career and business were in jeopardy. i called reputation defender. vo: take con

florida is the epicenter. and desantis is making all of this about politics. >> don, i would urge governor desantis and other republican governors to listen to governor hutchinson of arkansas who deeply regrets to sign a bill into law that restricted local jurisdictions' ability to impose mask mandates. no one likes to impose those mandates. but it seems to me that we have to give local authorities some flexibility to deal with the crisis in their communities. it's as simple as that. what's even more disturbing is that many of the same people, i'm not saying governor desantis, but many of the same people fighting mask mandates are also some of the same people who are cast doubts on the efficacy of vaccinations. and, you know, for those of us who are vaccinated, we think it's now time that some of these leaders start using sticks, not just carrots, to get people vaccinated. you just mentioned the secretary of defense is likely to impose a mandate. many leading businesses are doing the same thing. if elected off

, ron desantis rogelio con más información en florida la variante delta está arrasando >> así es las cifras son preocupantes las cifras de muertes diarias había pasado la barrera de los 2 mil debemos sumar con las hospitalizaciones en todo el país >> es algo que estamos viviendo en todos los hospitales que tengo conocimiento , posiblemente los números peores >> un sistema de slaud ha tenido que dir 14 morgues móviles no hay espacio para las personas fallecidas están esperando que esta situación se ponga más grave al pasar las horas hay que mencionar que en florida un juez ha permitido a los distritos escolares que decidan ellos si es que la mascarilla es obligatoria en escuelas algo que no fuea obligatoria esta orden >> me parece perfecto que el gobernador de florida no pudo hacer lo que quiso no le importan ni los niños ni la comunidad >> si una mascarilla puede salvar vidas es absurdo no hacerlo cualquier medida contra la pandemia hay que hacerla >> losxpertos están llamando que la gente se vacune es la única forma de combatir el coronavirus (covid-19) en florida poco má

if they believe masks should be more and in parts of florida, the florida governor shouldn't cut off funding to an area that believes in masks should be worn to my parents come to the school district and school board others come together around that. i hope that we can find some sanity around this and all recognize that none of us want to wear masks, none of us want to see transmissions up, none of us want to see hospitalizations or deaths up. but we have a new variant and the variant is causing us to look at the things differently. they trigger tagging between biden and ron desantis, stop, both sides. for the comments, i side more with president biden on this but they need to stop. citizens are counting on government to get the best advice in the best counsel about how we should behave and more importantly what we should be doing with the kids. one thing i know, consider 12 minot vaccine for them yet. we should be extraordinarily careful, extraordinarily careful with the guidance in the direction and what we urge parents and teachers and school systems to do in light of that with th

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. >>> the disturbing covid milestone. 100,000 americans hospitalized we're in florida, one of the states now an epicenter. >>> dangerous heat still gripping much of the country and the new tropical threat taking aim al roker is here >>> and inspiring lessons from a young man now fulfilling his olympic dreams >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone a war that over 20 years has cost our country so much grief is still taking american lives practically to the bitter end at least a dozen u.s. troops were killed after two explosions rocked the area around the kabul airport. just five days before u.s. forces are scheduled to depart for good a suicide bomber detonating at what's known as the abbey gate to the airport where crowds gathered. a second bomb struck outside a hotel adjacent to the airfield in addition to the dead, at least 15 american service members were hurt. there were heavy civilian casualties as well president biden speaking from the white house shortly before we came on air tonight saying to the terrorists behind the attack, we will m

mandates, but what it does do is it orders the florida department of education and the florida department of health to issue emergency rules that gives parents choice. now, florida governor ron desantis, a staunch critic of the new cdc guidelines on mask, so much so he made fun of them at a conservative conference last week in utah. meanwhile in his state, florida, the number of cases were surging. florida making up one out of five cases in the entire nation. last week florida reporting 110,000 cases. now, just to give you an idea of what that means, in the weekending of may the 21st, that number was 15,000. so when you compare those two numbers, you realize how much these numbers are growing. a huge concern for a lot of the local leaders here. now the positivity rate in this state, 18% when you look at the positivity rate for the children ages 12 to 19 the positivity rate is 22%. if we look at the counties here in this area where i am, miami-dade, 12%, broward 14%, and palm beach county 15.5%. the frustrating part for local leaders and county leaders here in the state of florida is that