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Right now the u.s. is averaging more than 165,000 new cases a day. that includes children who are still too young to be vaccinated. a group of the nations childrens hospitals are pleading for help, writing to president biden theyre at or near capacity with the school year just beginning. its the highest rate of infection the u.s. has seen since late january. icus across the country say theyre starting to run out of life saving resources for patients. joining us now is dr. ben gupta. you were abl...

Company thinking of moving to texas, can we focus in on that? if you have a child under 12, they wont be permitted to go to a school that mandates masks. thats life in texas. if you have a heart attack, you may not get a bed. you may die of something that people dont have to die of because icus are full. governor abbott who has had three booster shots wont require masks, wont do anything to stop the spread of covid in his state. i want to focus on abortion. what is the practical reality of a ban...

A crisis in americas hospitals, icus nearing capacity all because of coronavirus patients. we begin this hour with breaking news. the right to an abortion effectively eliminated in the state of texas today. the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation went into effect this morning in the state after the u.s. supreme court declined to step in overnight. the texas law bans abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy with no exception for rape or incest. make no mistake, the real life applicatio...

End of the fall well into cold and flu season. >> we are seeing on average of 129,000 people testing for covid daily and we dont know what the real number is. thats higher than at any point, and the icu near capacity to say nothing of what theyve been suffering with ida. >> thats right, andrea, and the big limitation here is not ventilators. its not do we have a bed. staffing shortages. we speak to icus across the country. they are lacking icu nurses and that is the big limitation there. even if...

With covid over the past couple of months. >> what we are asking of our health care providers. louisianas largest health care system says a lot of campuses are using jen generator power. icus in louisiana are 88% full and in neighboring mississippi there are only nine icu beds available. >> on top of it all, a heat advisory in effect for new orleans and the surrounding area. making conditions unbearable for millions without power in the wake of hurricane ida. lets get the forecast from pedram ja...

Positive in early august reached highest levels since last winter. >> hospitals are saturated everywhere. >> reporter: with mnew covid cases battering, overwhelmed hospitals reaching a breaking point. mississippi, the hardest hit state has just nine intensive care unit beds available and in five southern state, less than 10% of icu beds are free. kentucky hospitals are seeing a record number of covid patients and critical staffing shortages. >> were living in reality where some covid patients th...

Your children to be able to do. so this is extremely serious. not to mention what tony just said, what dr. fauci just said, that about 100,000 more people may die. around the world you see that where people are vaccinated, they dont go to the hospital. theres a huge difference between being vaccinated and not being vaccinated and how likely you are to be hospitalized even if you catch the virus. theres an enormous difference, a 90% difference. we dont need to go through this again. >> louisiana ...

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Michelle, i am so sorry for your loss. >> thank you. >> and first if you could just tell us, this is the side effect of these icus that are so full. and now your family has paid this ultimate price. can you tell us, first -- tell us a little bit about danny. >> danny was pretty much a bigger-than-life personality. he was a wonderful son. when he made a friend, he made a friend for life and a brother to all of his army buddies. he took care of me for two years while i was going through breast can...

With about 40 people still trapped on the island, jefferson parish president briefing the president today. >> it is very hard to not have any word from the island and people on it. our systems are down, we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we are losing pressure. had to do a boil water advisory. the sewer system is based on electricity. were going to start having backups there, that will be a hygiene problem. >> thats just some footage from that fema update for p...