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I watched all these, you know, incredible stories yesterday about the amazing heroism of people running into the fire to save people, total strangers on 9/11 and im looking for that same kind of locking of arms now. lets lock our arms. lets put this fire out. its cost the lives of 660,000 men americans. no one needs to die anymore and we need that unanimity in the united states. >> some are reporting higher hospitalization rates that at any other time during the pandemic. how much worse would th...

Our e.r.s for beds. >> reporter: today, appalachian regional health care has three regular beds available across its entire system. theyve cleared space and made for 200 beds that sit empty, unable to staff them. >> we have applied for fema disaster medical teams at multiple of our hospitals. our understanding is right now that louisiana is in dire need, and so most of their teams are there. so we are on the list, and once they have availability, we hope that we will be able to get support. >> r...

Normal normalcy, when we dont have most of us vaccinated puts us in these situations over and over again where e.r.s and hospitals are overflowing and where were seeing economic harm because the basis of a good economy is good health and were not there right now. >> so talk to me about the confusion right now. there is about boosters. a few months ago, it was an idea and now most americans will actually need a booster and d fauci says the rollout for modernas booster could come later than pfizer...

You. tomorrow on "face the nation," more on afghanistan. guests include white house national security adviser jake sullivan, senator lindsey graham and former deputy director of national intelligence, sue gordon. now to the pandemic. a new study finds troubling news concerning the delta variant and the unvaccinated, this as new infections now average more than 150,000 a day. thats up 21% in the last 14 days. cbs lilia luciano has more on this dangerous trend and the latest data on delta. >> repo...

Here in the u.s. now working in overtime to try to help the interpreters who helped them for so many years. martha, i know youre going to stay on this. we move on tonight to the pandemic in this country, the u.s. now reporting more than 140,000 new cases of covid a day in this country. tonight here, were inside hospitals at a breaking point. and dr. fauci this evening saying the u.s. could get back to some sort of normalcy by next spring, but what he said has to happen before then. and those n...

Effect that then clogs up our e.r.s, clogs up everything else. >> reporter: with more than 121,000 new child covid cases reported in the u.s. last week, texas and florida lead the nation in new pediatric cases. while in mississippi, a 13-year-old died just one day after testing positive for covid. >> the child went to the hospital but they sent her home the same evening knowing she was sick. they should have sent her to a hospital to get her some help. >> reporter: but the debate over masking in...

Now, there are across the state makeshift icus. icu patients in hallways, icu patients being held in e.r.s, med-surge patients on high flow oxygen and more invasive devices that are in nontraditional areas that they should be. look, in terms of the state of the hospital system, were standing in a garage with field hospitals. i think that speaks for itself. i mean health care in mississippi is not good right now in terms of what we can do just from -- just from the standpoint of being able to car...

Limits. that field hospital, though, in the basement at the university of mississippi medical center is still not enough in mississippi. today mississippi health officials held a press conference to announce a second field hospital being opened in a second parking garage at the university of mississippi medical center. one of the doctors at the press conference today, dr. alan jones, said last week that the state was on the brink of the states hospital system failing. a reporter today asked him ...

Diseases at the university of alabama birmingham. doctor, thanks for being with us this morning. can you explain, what is a negative 11 beds? does that mean theyre converting other spaces into i.c.u. units? what is that? >> yeah, good morning, brianna. unfortunately it means several very bad things. so, first of all, it means that you have patients who qualify for entry or admission into the i.c.u., but simply cant be accommodated. so where do those patients go? unfortunately they stay in the em...

Running out of nursing staff in e.r.s, icus and operating rooms. >> this pace is simply not sstainable. we will not have enough hospital space. we will not have enough nursing staff. >> reporter: 1,500 covid patients now streaming into hospitals, but the state tonight has just 368 icu beds available. covid patients like tim cotto have been waiting for days for an open icu bed. >> the nurse comes running out that hed gotten a bed in new mexico. we were so excited, and we celebrated, but unfortuna...