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I want to bring in dr. rochelle walensky, the director of the centers for disease control and prevention. thank you, doctor, for taking the time. children hospitals are telling us this is the equivalent of what health care facilities were experiencing when covid first hit and they were so overwhelmed, so stressed, only these are facilities focused on children. administrators at minnesotas childrens hospital are telling us theyre running out of the icu beds. take a listen. >> were seeing the bigg...

- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but dont know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. is -- a triple demic is putting a strain on hospitals across the nation. the flu, rsv, covid hitting at the same time. rsv rates are roughly 10 times higher than this point in the season. so bad, in fact, children health leaders have called on the federal government to declare an important and support hospitals. to make opt matter...

Go out if youre sick, wash your hands, wear a mask. if you are sick present to your clinicians so you can get the anti antivirals you need. >> why isnt the health care industry better equipped to handle the level theyre seeing, even if it is earlier than expected? >> yeah, so we have done a lot to foster improved and increased capabilities in our health care systems. it is also the case that, you know, these every year during respiratory virus season we see the peaks and the challenges in the he...

Get exposed to rsv. so we have several years of children who have never seen rsv before. and because of that, we have these layers and more children who are requiring hospitalization than we see generally in a given season. >> you had said this may be an early peak. and we all hope thats the case. its going to start coming down. i think the fear is this is not the peak yet. and its already this bad. how much worse could it get? in the past weve seen covid cases spike a couple weeks after holiday...

Coming very high earlier than we usually see them. so rsv impacts the littlest children. we saw really high numbers of rsv earlier than we generally do. we are in some of those areas where weve seen high numbers in the south, south central region, even the mid atlantic and midwest, seeing some of those numbers come down and plateau so were hopeful for those trends. infl influenza is also peaking earlier, we havent seen rates as high in a decade as were seeing right now. so in the big picture of ...

Nowhere on the desolate desert roads. you mentioned the sex offender arrest. look at the mug shot out of border patrols tucson sector in arizona where they arrested this mexican national. he had a previous conviction of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor under the age of 16 in california. covid hitting border patrol hard as well. dhs source saying just yesterday they have more than 200 employees quarantined. 188 confirmed to be infected with covid. well send it back to you. >> dana: a big ...