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So that discussion is ahead tonight. we also, today, saw the federal government deploy a different kind of expedited-rescue force. this time, here at home. in the great state of mississippi. local officials today in mississippi expressed gratitude for the team of federal doctors and nurses and pharmacists and other medical personnel that have been deployed from the federal government as disaster-response personnel. basically, to try to save the collapsing-hospital system in the state of mississi...

Smoke. we should see those temperatures cooling down. >> all right, thanks so much. it is giants night, you can see the orange and black. >> "nightly news" is next, well be back at 6:00. see ya. tonight, the first u.s. marine units arriving in kabul in the race to evacuate americans. u.s. embassy personnel being told to destroy documents and equipment as afghanistan crumbles to chaos the taliban rapidly closing in, now said to control two-thirds of the country most of the 3,000 additional u.s....

To have impacts from this on monday. so that could be another factor. again, talking about rain hindering some of the recovery efforts. >> still so much more ahead potentially. allison chinchar, thank you so much for that. now turning to the coronavirus and the critical situation unfolding in the u.s. as the delta variant spirals out of control. its an unimaginable deja vu for some hospitals forced to build overflow facilities just as they did at the height of the pandemic last year. i mean ta...

Protect against infection. >> reporter: meanwhile, icus are filling up mostly with the unvaccinated. florida reported more covid-19 cases over the past week than any other seven-day period in the pandemic. thats according to the latest data from floridas health department. in broward county, florida, three teachers in the same school district died in a span of 24 hours. and two more are hospitalized. broward county also ground zero for the governors fight to ban mask mandates in schools. the sch...

Another was a 49-year-old teacher from dillard elementary. and a 49-year-old teacher -- teaching assistant from dillard elementary, as well. the union president, also, tells me that two others are hospitalized. one is a teaching assistant, who was vaccinated and ended up in the icu. she was quite sick but im told she is doing better. and also, another teacher, who is hospitalized. unclear, if that teacher was vaccinated or not, anderson. >> the four who died. were they vaccinated? >> well, thats...

Able to walk through some logic to see if they qualify and self-schedule themselves. be able to drive right up, walk in, get the therapy. we do require a little bit of monitoring, after the therapy. and then, theyll be able to leave. we hope that, by offering an outpatient treatment venue, we will decrease the number of patients that we have to see in here. by virtue of that, well decrease the number of patients we have to transfer, from here, to the icu. so, theres a logical-thought process at ...

Over time similar to israel. weve seen information from the mayo clinic that we are seeing a decline in the ability of more of the pfizer vaccine than moderna to protect against infection. >> meanwhile, icus are filling up mostly with the unvaccinated. florida reported more covid-19 cases over the past week than any other seven day period of the pandemic. thats according to the latest data from floridas health department. three teachers in the same school district died in the span of 24 hours an...

Available. theyre primarily preventible. our next guest is an icu nurse who says for his own mental health, hes that to take a break. christopher hayes is his name. hes a registered icu nurse. christopher, thank you for being with us and thank you for the work youve done. we cannot imagine what this has been like for you. as i understand it, we keep hearing about hospitals and icu units that are overrun. that the bed availability is just not there like it had been for a while. and its not just t...

Monetary after this therapy and then they will be belief. we hope that by offering an ill treatment then you, we will decrease the number of patients that we have to see in here. by virtue of that, we will decrease the number of patients we have to transfer from here to the icu. so, there is a logical process of the medical components of this that we hope will help us have a band-aid to get through the next several weeks. as dr. doff mentioned, we are not at the peak of the yes. so we will need ...

Posting a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting coronavirus. the video argued without signing evidence that most over-the-counter masks dont prevent infection including cloth masks. also in the social media penalty box this weekend, gop congresswoman and one time qanon advocate marjorie taylor greene. she falsely tweeted that the vaccines were, quote, failing. not true. that was enough to put her account into read only mode. but each of them will be back at full strength by tuesd...