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Erica, that is the key thing. and the man who runs city hospitals here said that what they are seeing is about 50 or so people in covid icus across the city-run hospitals, 11 of the city-run hospitals. that is much less than what they saw during the march 2020 peak, where there were 900 covid icu hospitalizations. so the city is looking at those numbers and saying, okay, we seem to be doing okay. that is why right now for them they are focusing on vaccinations. they want more people vaccinated a...

Projectile. its good people are out of the is area. with the massive storm there was no mandatory evacuation order in place, but we saw lines of traffic trying to leave new orleans. my uncle trying to get out of here going to mobile, alabama, about two and a half hours and him nine hours yesterday. the mayor of new orleans said not enough time to order people to evacuate. the storm got too big, too quick. the storm will collide with new orleans as the city enters its fourth wave of the pandemic....

Covid patients and going into lockdown. tom llamas reports from new orleans. >> reporter: tonight, nbc news taken inside one of new orleans busiest covid icus. the state already swamped with nearly 3,000 hospitalized patients. >> sometimes just spinning thinking dealing with a pandemic another saurngd now a major hurricane? >> yes. it does. last year we had a lot of uncertainty we thought hurricanes were coming. this one is headed right towards us. really terning. >> reporter: the timing couldnt...

The daily number of people getting their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine has risen by more than 70% since mid-july. that is good news. but many hospitals are still overwhelmed right now. nbc correspondent gabe gutierrez has the latest. >> reporter: at st. josephs hospital in tampa, the pandemic is peaking daily. >> this is not our normal. >> reporter: nurse jamie lewis said she brought four patients to the morgue. >> i went home last night and i was mad. >> reporter: why? >> because i dont...

Infections soar -- 227,000 cases and almost 1,400 deaths reported in the last day. gabe gutierrez tonight in florida where some hospitals are overwhelmed. >> reporter: at st. josephs hospital in tampa, the pandemic is peaking daily >> this is not normal. >> reporter: nurse jamie lillow says just yesterday she brought four patients to the morgue >> i went home last night, and i was mad >> why >> because i dont need to be doing this right now. we could have avoided this whole wave if more people i...

The taliban putting kabul at risk of being next. and inside covid icus, what the youngest victims of the pandemic are saying about their battle with the virus. health officials in the u.s. are racing to expand vaccine protection as a surge in covid cases driven by the delta variant has patients overwhelming hospitals. a source says within 48 hours the food and drug administration is set to approve a third dose. and then they will discuss and vote on the need for additional vaccines. the push i...