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Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. Hurricane milton is Bearing Barreling toward florida as one of the recent hurricanes in recent history and dangerous category 4 storm is churning north of mexicos yucatan peninsula. Milton is set to make landfall in florida late wednesday in to thursday and its expected to trigger a Lifethreatening Storm Surge and it could be the worst storm to hit the Tampa Area in more than a century. The mayor saying if you choose to stay, youre going to die. J...

He criticized republicans for either wanting, and im quoting him now, to do nothing or not enough. Meanwhile, the new jobs report is out today, underscoring the severe Economic Impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Economy adding just 49,000 jobs last month, leaving the country still down almost 10 million jobs since the pandemic started one year ago. Lets begin our coverage this hour over at the white house. Our chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins is standing by. President b...

Upgrades. what do they do now? if kids and teachers are vaccinated, teachers can be boosted. if people wear masks, people can go back to school now safely in the middle of the surge. i dont believe that people should be sitting out the surge. i dont think its necessary. we can run schools and not see a lot of spread within the schools themselves. >> one of the disputes i heard from teachers unions in particular is the lack of testing. obviously, administration acknowledged they need to do better...

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Vaccines have responded well to any previous variants and thats especially true when it comes to boosters. so that boost really does improve your protection for anybody who may have been thinking i already have my two shots, im good. >> absolutely. i think what we see when we get a booster is you get a very enhanced response. you get more antibodies and more protection than just after two doses. not only do you recover any loss of immunity, you actually way overshot that immunity. so my recommen...

At the end of the day, while people will listen to what you say, they believe what they see. and while i hate that these are the experiences that have been cast upon our community, our school districts, these are the realities and we have to find a way to mitigate them. many would say that closing schools would be the best way to go about that. many would say that vaccines would be the best mitigation effort. but in some ways we have observed vaccinated employees come down with the virus and we ...

To put those things into words. i remain heartbroken for each of those families and their loved ones. but thats where we are. >> losing your life to covid complications, thats the way its reported. now, look, there could have been comorbidity, but covid seems to have been a factor. does that drive kind of a breakthrough for people in your area that, hey, listen, this is more serious than we expected, the vaccine, i have to consider it? >> i hope that it does. i believe that it does. and thats th...

New daily cases, a ten fold increase from early june, people are angrier on all sides. >> a lot angrier. what i find curious, the debate is very focused on masks and mask mandates even though you still have -- in areas of the country where vaccination is very high, you still are not seeing an uptick in deaths. the vaccines are working, they dont prevent all breakthrough infections but theyre a tremendously good mitigation effort. yet in places like florida, so the coverage, the criticism from th...

Another. youre either going to infected, run the risk of death and miss starlings case, she had a ten-fold higher risk of dying than say a child with this infection. you get up in your 80s, talking 600 fold higher risk of death. so youve got a choice. your fears and infected or go with the science, get a vaccine. as miss starling said, save yourself all that misery. >> where are you on mask mandates? do you believe it was a mistake to remove some mandates that were in place or is it time to reim...

Dollars of work. the objective was to shore up the side and to allow control of the channel so the channel didnt move anywhere else. part of it also that it would essentially catch small land slides sluffing off one side or the other that would come through. that was in 2006. we have been through, good grief, a lot of floods, and that community felt safe because of that mitigation effort. it was extensive. people knew this was a landslide prone area. sometimes big events just happen. sometimes l...