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It was a different type of conflict. if youre going to take them out, tell me what youre doing to keep our country safe. thats why they were there. when president trump said we are going to pull the troops out, my comments were, give us a plan and an objective for sure. pull them out. but really what we need to know is how do we stay safe? does having the matter keep us safe? i havent heard either presidency one thing or the other on that. >> harris: thats an excellent question. miranda devine, ...

Pediatric intensive care units, which is nothing weve ever seen before. and the thing that scares me, ali, schools are just starting to open now. so its only getting worse, the schools will act as a really serious accelerant now. >> the florida constitution says the state has a paramount duty to provide safe and high quality public schools, its one of the highest constitutional standards for public education in the nation. we hope and expect that our state leaders will live up to that duty. as o...

Admissions. even pediatric-icu admissions. and the scary part for me, anderson, is all of this is happening before schools open. schools are just opening now and i worry that is going to be an accelerant. and the problem is a lot of the executive leaders of the red -- of these red states, these southern states, have now put in place policies to protect the kids. they have not mandated masks. they have not mandated vaccines. when you have got the highest levels of transmission in the world, i don...

Accelerant. and the problem is a lot of the executive leaders of these red states, southern states, are not going to replace policies to protect the kids. theyve not mandated masks or vaccines, i dont see how it will go well unless we maximize all the tools we have. >> that graph we showed is really alarming. sa sanjay, thank you. appreciate it. more on the threat in florida. case numbers and four deaths associated with one school district in a battle with ron desantis plus a member of the schoo...

Starting to open now. it will only get worse, the schools will ask act as an accelerant now, as bad as things are now. >> superintendent carlee simon, you wrote an op-ed for the washington post. the florida constitution says that the state has -- state has -- you and the school board are both on the same side of this thing. that protecting these kids as your primary objective. >> yes, of course. we are really dedicated to making sure that we have a face to face option for our students. we know t...

Country that might escape delta are the high vaccination areas in the northeast, new england, midatlantic states. theyll have some trouble, but i think theyll weather it a lot better. and then the west coast. but the south is getting hammered the worst right now because the vaccination rates are so profoundly low, and in a very unique way. theyre low among young people. and thats whos piling into hospitals right now and into intensive care units, and even pediatric hospitals. in the texas medica...

For toesh understand the importance of the vaccine. >> superintendent, ill sure you know the infectious disease expert in houston, he fears kids going back to school without masks, it will be an accelerant among kids. he feels there will be back to school tragedy in the south. it has clearly become a political football. it has to be incredibly frustrating to be in the middle of it. >> i dont necessarily see myself in the middle of it. what i see myself is just doing the right thing. as she indic...

Waited hours and hours and hours to get that vaccine. our teachers that were the most vulnerable that couldnt wait to get the vaccine. >> but youre not necessarily supporting mandatory ones. you talked about, you want masks because you want to follow the science. obviously the science is clear on vaccines. >> im not in support of it right now because there are a lot of people that are vulnerable with medical conditions. when they get it out there that the fda has approved it, i think that well b...

Vaccinated and that has huge benefits, halting transmission. were looking at a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in in the south. as schools act as an accelerant you should assume were going to see pediatric care units across the south overwhelmed and even a possibility of small tent cities of sick adolescents and kids. and i dont want to see that happen. i know nobody duds. we somehow have to get the word out to parents that this delta is something different. and it is the -- it is picking off...

Country where the virus is surging. do you agree with that? >> more or less. i think that what is happening is a firestorm across the southern states, and everyone who is not vaccinated is getting swept up in this including kids and even younger kids. i think that probably accounts for a lot of the pediatric icu admissions. there is also some evidence, and it is not strong yet overall that delta may cause more severe illness as well, and that is a component, but it is clear what is happening eve...