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The funding for ventilation systems, cleaning and sanitizing services, and critical safety measures to significantly reduce the spread of the virus and protect our children and keep our schools safe, and we will do whatever it takes this school year as well, especially, especially on increasing testing. we provided funding through the american rescue plan, to implement testing in schools for teachers, staff and students, includes bus drivers as well. i want all schools setting up regular testing...

Provided the funding for ventilation systems, cleaning and sanitizing services and critical safety measures to significantly reduce the spread of the virus and protect our children and keep our schools safe. and well do whatever it take this is school year as well especially on increasing testing. we provided funding through the american rescue plan to implement testing in schools for teachers, staff, and students and that includes bus drivers as well. i want all, i want all schools setting up r...

Tragedy. 13 individuals that lost their lives to covid or covid related ailments, none of them, none of them were vaccinated. >> miami-dade public school employees. >> four of them were teachers. the rest were support staff. a significant number of them were bus drivers. all of them contracted and perished as a result of covid based on contact made prior to start of the school year. look, this is one of many consequences of misinformation, disinformation associated with vaccines, about reliabili...

Against things like smallpox and polio. as far as children in schools are concerned, he was very specific. in fact, we saw a kind of earlier release of the plan today, and it is the opposite of puffery. it is filled with absolute hard-core programs and recommendation for everything from teachers and parents to businesses and so on. actually, it is extremely encouraged by what i heard today. a very impressive show. for parents though, i think it really is important that they do whatever they can ...

Of protecting workers. martha. >> martha: thanks. its not just chicago. nearly half of all u.s. states have issued vaccine mandates for public employees or they are required to take weekly covid tests causing backlash from first responders and unions in cities across the country. liz peek, fox news contributor and kevin walling former biden campaign surrogate. great to have you here. 90 bus drivers if chicago said they wont show up to work. parents are forced to find another way for their kids t...

As you mentioned, labor unions are starting to push back big time. the president of the firefighters union says i am 100% opposed to the mandate. it should be a personal decision. bus drivers are also quitting over the citys mandate. 90 of them. chicago public school drivers quit just days before the start of the school year. it left hundreds of parents scafmg to try to figure out how to get their kids to school days before the start of the school year. thats an industry that is already dealing ...

>> martha: so more cities and states are mandating that their state workers get the covid vaccine to come to work. but the requirement has caused a lot of uproar among some city employees like in chicago, for example, already struggling to fill vacancies among first responders and teachers. the city is seeing a spate of bus drivers quit over this mandate as one example. grady trimble from fox nice is live in chicago today. hi. >> the mandate has already led to dozens of workers quitting. many mo...

>> number one, thank you for having me. two were teachers and the others were non-instructional staff like bus drivers. most of them contracts covid-19 prior to the beginning of the school year and unfortunately, as you said, all of them were unvaccinated according to their families that represents the danger of disinformation and misinformation, which is so common these days regarding the vaccination of individuals in our community. >> i mean, its tragic because obviously the vaccine is free an...

>> specifically for the parents, what advice do you have for them? what do they need to do to ensure their child does not get covid? >> every teacher, every adult worker in the school, cafeteria workers, bus drivers must be mandated. parents should put pressure on their school districts and individual schools to push for absolute mandating a vaccinations for all the adults. theres other things too. the schools need to ensure that children and others are wearing masks. that theres enough distanci...

So many fought back through the storm on wednesday and into thursday and even now, the work that is being done in the clean-up. our first responders literally made hundreds and hundreds of rescues from cars, from subways, from basements. our colleagues at the mta, i want to thank everyone, the subway personnel, bus drivers and everyone. you also did heroic really difficult work in the midst of something unprecedented. neighbors helped each other. we know this is what new yorkers do. and i think ...