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You back the blue and then, you know, sort of weasel your way out of conversations with some of these capitol police officers. i also want to talk to you about covid. florida has seen coronavirus cases explode in july, almost exclusively among the unvaccinated. governor ron deseesantis maintad a hands-off approach throughout the pandemic, vowing no mask mandate in schools, no lockdowns this fall. so far, florida has done relatively well in comparison to some other areas during the pandemic. what...

Second string tailgaters with james. and its crazy that we have to talk about this right. now its crazy, theyre putting us in -- this >> its insane. theyre interfering with everybodys life. seven months after we -- now theyre saying its a good idea? i mean, -- it they put up so many lives about this, so many people are dead. i wish that the people who refuse to get vaccinated refused to get medical treatment. theyre sleeping people who are not vaccinated are going to be taking up spots. theyre a...

Situation in missouri closely over the past couple of weeks. obviously were seeing a surge nationwide. but in missouri hospitals there sounded the alarm a couple weeks ago that they were nearing capacity, and then after that they sounded a further alarm that they were at capacity. and after that they sounded a further alarm that they were over capacity including in their icus. hospitals in southwest missouri had to get more ventilators shipped in from other places within the past couple of weeks...

Unvaccinated people which is really blunt, but it looks like very accurate. dr. marty, lets talk about specifics. your in florida, and it leads the cases in new cases, what do hospitals look like there. >> hospitals are once again at very high levels. were having to restrict the entry of visitors again and as i said, the vast majority of our cases are young, unvaccinated people. both in for here in miami-dade, where we have the jackson and the baptist system, were again struggling with the high ...

County reporting a 20-fold increase in new covid cases since last month. amid soaring case numbers, missouris governor announcing new incentives to encourage vaccinations. 900 missouris eligible to win cash or education savings worth $10,000. >> so if the incentive program boosts those numbers, thats great. you know, thats exactly what we want. we just want to make sure people are getting good information to make the decision. >> reporter: austin, texas, public health officials now urging people...

Backgrounds. it is hard to say that covid is a hoax when icus are filling up with young, healthy, vaccinated people. >> lets talk about where you are, nearly a third of all new cases are among kids 17 and younger nap is a devastating statistic. >> yeah, chris, the numbers are not good and they changed pretty rapidly here. north carolina has seen a 32% of cases and here in durham there are children that are already back to school as they have year round education here. so there are kids in classr...

People who are 45, who are 50, who are 25, who are 30? we dont have a good handle on that yet. we do know in our icus were seeing younger people intubated who are very sick or who are on the floors and are very sick. that should be a gigantic wake-up call. i think as we get those stories and those data out there, im desperately hoping that younger people will say ive got to do my part, not only to protect myself, but protect everybody else with this wildfire raging out of control. those are the ...

Covid is not a problem, that it only affects younger people and sadly, a lot of the icus in the hospitals where ive spoken to staff are filling with much younger people, people in their 30s and 40s, and those people are much sicker than they were this time last year. >> so im hearing, thats -- the reporting is reflecting what ive been reading across the country, when there is a rise in covid patients in hospitals, they are younger and they are much sicker. but ed, you talked about this being so ...

Are not vaccinated were unmasked and they call a super spreader event and it turned into a huge political football, corset is not happening now, not that i think it should happen now but its a reminder of how differently this white house is getting cover compared to previous white house. >> the ongoing battle between the white house and facebook some suggesting the white house is trying to censor or scapegoat facebook for the administration not meeting the vaccination goal, matt, what is your as...

Mandate you mentioned earlier, a lot of this was about the unvaccinated, including children, children that cant get vaccinated yet. as weve seen, there is a big explosion of cases there in l.a. county. do you see this also -- i mean, couldnt you argue that enforcing a mask mandate is part of your role in protecting these kids, sheriff? >> you may be trying to tug at heart strings, but your argument falls apart when 99% of everyone in the hospital right now in the e.r.s and the icus are the unvac...