Here. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka whitfield. Breaking news. Haitian officials say at least 29 people are dead after a major Earthquake Hit the island this morning. The epicenter was far enough from the Capital City of portauprince that the country may avoid the kind of devastation that we saw from an earthquake that hit the area in 2010, but the nation still feeling aftershocks now and the damage is significant. This is new video. Just into cnn that shows the extent of some of the damage. You can see part of the building there, reduced to rubble. Haitis Prime Minister declaring a month long state of emergency. This disaster coming as two named storms are baring down in the area. Patrick oppmann is with us now from havana. Are we learning anything more about the damage and lives impacted . Reporter absolutely. It will probably take hours if not days to really get a better idea of the scope, the magnitude of this disaster. Areas that have been h
In mississippi. The hospitals are full from memphis to gulf port, natchez to meridian. Everything is full. Everything is full. The i. C. U. Crisis is getting more critical by the hour. Some states are at or they are near capacity. Only a few hundred beds are left in some of the largest states in the south, or in the case of mississippi you see there on your screen zero. Mississippi is now requesting help from the federal government as they are dealing with this crush of coronavirus patients. And a critical staffing shortage. Theres a Field Hospital thats now being set up in a Parking Lot that could be used to take Care Of older teenagers with coronavirus. Some schools in mississippi, Indiana And Georgia have already gone back to virtual learning because of growing case numbers. Many are now rethinking mask policies. West Virginia Republican Governor jim justice warns that if cases continue to climb, as they clearly are, masks may be required in schools there. More children are now hosp
Preventable. The United States averaging more than 108,000 new cases per day. The sevenday average is showing 19,000 new cases per day and the Hospitalization Rate for florida more than triple the national rate but the governor there Ron Desantis is going to take a stand against measures that can stop the spread before its innocent kids who before it hits innocent kids that cant be vaccinated and hits them where . It hits them in their schools. He feels so strongly about this, so strongly School Boards not take steps that they and medical experts say are needed to protect the kids that tonight he is tHreatening to withhold the salaries of superintendents and School Board members who disregard his Executive Order prohibiting Mask Mandates for School Districts. Previously he tHreatened to cut funding to School Districts that require masks. Seriously . Hes declaring war on local School Officials who may feel its necessary for children in their districts to wear masks . Is making kids sick
Than 108,000 new cases per day. Florida The Virus is raging. The sevenday average is showing 19,000 new cases per day and the Hospitalization Rate for florida more than triple the national rate but the governor there Ron Desantis is going to take a stand against measures that can stop the spread before its innocent kids who before it hits innocent kids that cant be vaccinated and hits them where . It hits them in their schools. He feels so strongly about this, so strongly School Boards not take steps that they and medical experts say are needed to protect the kids that tonight he is tHreatening to withhold the salaries of superintendents and School Board members who disregard his Executive Order prohibiting Mask Mandates for School Districts. Previously he tHreatened to cut funding to School Districts that require masks. Seriously . Hes declaring war on local School Officials who may feel its necessary for children in their districts to wear masks . Is making kids sick somehow a winnin
Take their own life. Really shines a light on how we have to treat each other with respect and let people know its okay to talk about how they feel and to express their pain and that it wont be seen as weakness. I agree 100 . I think he will as well. As a matter of fact, after i heard about this i didnt hear from him, text him didnt hear from him. I call today and said are you okay, and he says yeah, im fine. And we talked about he should go on the show and discuss it because that has the greatest impact of being able to say it publicly. What he actually said to me was the first time i actually talked about this publicly it really helped me because there i was saying it in front of the world on your show, and it really helped me. It made it easier for me to actually be able to talk about it in therapy. Hell tell us about it a little later on. But i think anything we can do, chris, to get the stigma off of Mental Health issues in this country. I know youre a big proponent of that, i thi