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Ive heard from friends of mine that didnt get the vaccine and went in there, and understood when they were alone and were facing death, just the -- theres just this feeling of regret that came over them that this could have been taken care of. they didnt have to be in a position where they were about to get a ventilator put down their throat and afraid they were not going to live anymore. i think thats just -- its just such a tragedy that all of this is so avoidable. lets go to hawaii. >> the li...

The situation is particularly vile in normally peaceful hawaii where protests outside the home of lieutenant governor josh green, where he has two young children under 4, have been going on for weeks, ever since hawaii mandated vaccines for state and county workers. some of them yell into bull horns and shine strobe lights into apartment units and flyers with his photo with the words, quote, "jew and fraud" have been plastered around the neighborhood because anti-semitism is alive and well even ...

Unvaccinated. 90% of people in our hospitals are not vaccinated. and 99% of people vaccinated, are not feeling serious complications. this is posing other questions for local leaders, such as yourself. the mayor of dade county mandated testing for county workers. >> we did something similar. we did a mask mandate. all of our employees need to wear masks, unless you show that youre vaccinated. were doing something similar. we want to make sure our employees are safe. we have less people vaccinate...

Again it is for some groups. it is not for everybody. it might just be for example in new york a state employees or health care workers or just along those lines or hawaii said county workers. it is not that everyone in those states have to get vaccinated. it is specific groups. unfortunately there are seven states that have said you cant do mandates. so these states have said, you cant do mandates and again it is for specific groups. one state might employers and another state might say busines...

Up and down the states, cities and counties are preparing and planning for the most needy and fragile. >> county workers have already become the call down list for those on our special needs list to make sure we have the right address for evacuation assistance. >> the governor said he spoke directly with the president last night and hes also asking for a free land fall major disaster declaration to facilitate faster federal relief. as of a couple hours ago, states of emergency are now in effect ...

Because were going to close. and were going to go home. were going to start working reasonable business hours. we worked 24/7 to try and make the machine recount. as you know, we unfortunately didnt make it we gave it everything we h i am proud of the team that i assembled. workers and county workers and i think we did the very best we could under the circumstances. we cant operate them 24/7 because it doesnt work out well. we look very much to assembling new equipment for

Counting those pro visual ballots absentee ballots. what the nelson team has done is filed litigation in federal court here in florida to legislate how those vote by mail and provisional ballots are counted and verified. basically what happens is theres signatures that have to be matched between voter registration and the ballots themselves, and theres some contention between the nelson legal team and the state about how exactly those are verified. the nelson team is arguing effectively that the...

Away at the polls on tuesday? >> reporter: theres a possibility of that, anderson, for two reasons. the judges ruling today only dealt with those canceled in the last 90 days. this has been going on before that. and also, behave gtheyve got tl these voters back on the voter registration rolls. theres thousands, upwards of 4,500, i believe, voters names who have to go back on the voter registration rolls. its all going to come down to what happens on tuesday, but theres so much help at voter regi...

Ballot, because the poll workers, the county workers are really bending over backwards to make sure everybody gets their say in this election. >> all right, drew griffin, appreciate the reporting. back with the panel. kayleigh, should somebody whos been inactive in the last two elections, should they be allowed to struck off the rolls? >> certainly if theyre a dead person whos on the rolls. theres 4 million dead voters on the current voting registration rolls. >> but just if someone hasnt voted?...

In all this violence and he doesnt want to do that. >> let me freed the ap, katie pavlich. they said what the president announced would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first graders at sandy hook elementary or 14 county workers at a holiday party in san bernardino, and it would have had no impact in keeping weapons from the hand of suspects in several of the deadliest recent mass shootings that have occurred that have resulted and spurred these calls for more gun control. so theyre reall...