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School board members and administrators who dont comply with his order banning mask mandates, the white house says its looking into its options with respect to covid relief money that was distributed to the states, distributed to florida. there checking to see if they can use some of that money potentially to cover the salaries of those administrators who may not get paid if they dont comply. now in the briefing, white house press secretary also was asked about over it for hundreds more ventilat...

Has he couldnt move forward with that man tat in his drikt. lets head to texas. ed lavandera is in dallas for us. whats the lay of the land there today? >> reporter: kind of a similar argument and similar fight youre seeing. a slightly different bubbling below the surface. here governor abbott hasnt come out and responded directly to the stwo school districts that announced they will require masks from students, teachers and administrators when classes resume here in the next week. dallas and au...

She had to be flown to a hospital 150 miles away in dimple texas where that little girl could get help. and that is why the word is getting out please get vaccinated, please mask up. essentially the public is on their own at this time. businesses can post on the door if they want people to wear their masks. but also school districts and administrators are at risk of losing state funding if they put those in place as well. with school just around the corner we heard from the teacher state teacher...

Will be no new mandates or shut down. and this as schools are set to launch here in texas. the first school district has come out today here in dallas saying that they will require students when they go back into school next week, teachers, administrators and students, to be wearing masks. i spoke with the superintendent here in dallas this afternoon who said that based on what he has seen in recent days in the number of spiking coronavirus cases in this -- in dallas county, this is a move he in...

Website or the local boards of health, and you have an appropriate places you can give, and your answer is i dont want to take sides and i dont want to get involved, then you dont need the job. unfortunately you are representing a group of people that will likely re-elect you next year, and they need to ask themselves if they want to be alive to do that, because his answer will get you killed. the governor of florida needs to stand down, he is not leading his state, hes killing people in his sta...

Emergency alert via text urging people to stay home as much as possible and wear mask. texas area schools are returning to in person learning in a few days but mask mandates are not allowed to be enforced by superintendented or principals. thats thanks to an executive order signed by governor greg abbott back in may. evan got back from austin. how are the school officials there planning with these bans on plan dates to keep kids safe? >> reporter: the main thing they are trying to do is work aro...

Lets look at some of the days other news... a compensation fund set up for the sexual abuse victims of american financier, jeffrey epstein, says it has paid 138 people. 121 millions dollars were payed out, with administrators saying more than twice the number of claims expected were received. the announcement comes more than two years after epsteins suicide in a new york prison, while awaiting trial. the un says at least 27 children have been killed in afghanistan in three days amid fierce fight...

Buildings. the cdc added to prevent that spread of covid, the delta variant of covid. i went down to texas and spoke with her about this. it was one of the most emotional stories ive done about education since this whole thing began. >> i have in my mind, what if a child dies on my watch? how do i go say to you, im really sorry, we did everything we could. the governors executive order kept me from being like, what is that like for the parent? im like, i dont want to have that conversation. >> t...

>> thank you very much. reopening schools and keeping students safe during a pandemic is no easy task. reopening schools in states certainly that ban masks is all the more difficult. texas governor greg abbott has refused to implement statewide safety precautions even as the weekly average of new covid cases reaches levels not seen since february. how are school administrators reconcilen the governors stance with this need to keep kids safe. >> reporter: you set that up perfectly. the reality ...

Rules the governor is talking about only apply to floridas public schools, not charter schools, not private schools, not anyone else. and what that really shows here especially with what theyre doing, theyre talking about saying that if students are quarantined or isolated because they have covid or others have covid and they were exposed, that thats considered bullying and therefore they should get a voucher to go to a voucher school thats completely unaccountable. this is putting politics over...