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The climate crisis disaster spreading all across the country this summer. california officials warning extreme heat creating a normally hot under water conditions in the sacramento river which could kill off nearly all juvenile chinook. salmon. because the water is too hot. those are facts. covid, climate change or january 6th, the insurrection and the big lie our third big story tonight. the bad faith actors, the pandering politicians. they care about their polling right now or their political ...

Cases. icus in northern texas are at 96% capacity. in austin, the state capital of texas, all-local hospitals icus are expected to hit full capacity, before the end of this month. again, that is in austin. the governor of texas, today, republican greg abbott. today, he asked all hospitals in the state of texas to delay nonessential procedures, as covid patients strain capacity. in brunswick, georgia, icu beds, today, are completely full at two different local hospitals. you see that -- the headl...

Because of being overwhelmed by sick people with new covid cases. icus in northern texas are at 96% capacity. in austin, the state capital of texas, all local hospitals icus are expected to hit full capacity before the end of this month. again, that is in austin. the governor of texas today republican greg abbott. today he asked all hospitals in the state of texas to delay nonessential procedures, as covid patients strain capacity. in brunswick, georgia, icu beds, today, are completely full at t...

Their child because they died of what could be a preventable disease. >> and chuck, these are not the same minor cases that we might have seen in children at the beginning of the pandemic. if theyre hospitalized, its often doctors tell me they are getting intubated, they are having severe reactions and even respiratory issues after they get covid and leave the hospital. and right now theyre seeing their icus fill up to what they might normally see in the winter. and this is again as were going i...

Yes, we know that masks can help. there are people who want to dispute that like the governors of seven states now and climbing. hopefully some of the local officials will kind of reign victorious as theyre trying to bring forward their own ordinances. i cant stress enough to do everything you can to make sure your child is safe through their own wearing of protective masks but also ventilation. we need to do more testing. were watching numbers closely. we dont think this virus is resulting in m...

Weather, climate change, two different things. the facts. the climate crisis disaster spreading all across the country this summer. california officials warning extreme heat creating a normally hot under water conditions in the sacramento river which could kill off nearly all juvenile chinook. those are facts. covid, climate change or january 6th, the insurrection and the big lie our third big story tonight. the bad faith actors, the pandering politicians. they care about their polling right now...

>> you know, weve been up to stage 5 before, but the numbers -- its been a while and, frankly, we never thought we would be back here again. this is a meaner, more aggressive virus and whats real frustrating is the situation we are in right now is preventable. vaccines work and theyre safe and we need more people to take them. in the meantime we know that masking works and its real effective and its something we can do and still keep our cities safe and open and vibrant. the fact that theres dif...

Physician in houston, texas. we appreciate you talking to us. its an extremely busy time. paint a picture for us. what is the covid—19 situation like in texas compared with other parts of the pandemic? thank you for having me. i would say there is situation is grim. we have many weeks of increasing cases and hospitalisations and now i a icus are full. this morning i was looking at some of the reports and 53 of our icus are completely full and those in cities like austin and houston are in the ...

>> upping in now for the last 18 months the experience with the pandemic, kids have come in for other reasons, trauma, broken bones that sort of thing and just happened to be positive and ended up in our covid area. thats different than what were seeing now, kids come in with respiratory illnesses, cough, shortness of breath, needing supplemental oxygen on a respiratory floor and unfortunately some needing to be intubated. >> reporter: kids are more impacted by the delta variant and hospitalized...

I go away for two lousy weeks, and all he double hockey sticks breaks out while im gone. and i -- i -- i mean, take your pick. i know that is true, on climate, the world appears to be on fire, at the moment. also, on covid with the country back up over 100,000 cases, a day. and the icus and the ers being overrun in a whole bunch of states where the vaccination rates are low, as we were just discussing with dr. fauci. it also applies, of course, to our democracy. one of the stories the team here ...