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>> reporter: kansas city hit their highest positivity rate of covid since the pandemic began at 34.4 percent and fully vaccinated rate, are just below 40%-- the highest since spring 2020, missouri is near capacity recording more than 175 covid patients and reporting 27 deaths in the last week. >> what are the cases like? >> both of our hospital partners told us this he have had children in their facilities and they needed interventions that they did not see before such as being intubated. >> reporter: springfield a largest school district is requiring students and staff to start the new school...

The alarm warning that they're running out of beds as the delta variant spreads. in alabama, hospitalizations have risen to the highest level in nearly six months. you can see on that graphic right there. the state has the lowest vaccination rate in the country with just 34.4% of the population fully vaccinated, which is well below the national average, but there are signs that demand for vaccinations there is accelerating. in alabama and a number of other states across the south. >> louisiana has seen a 302% increase in the average number of newly vaccinated per day. mississippi, 250%. alabam...

That was the conservative perspective on the result in batley and spen. let's get some more analysis of results, lewis is with us for some details. the analysis of results, lewis is with us for some details.— us for some details. the labour party has _ us for some details. the labour party has pulled _ us for some details. the labour party has pulled off _ us for some details. the labour party has pulled off what - us for some details. the labour party has pulled off what a i us for some details. the labour party has pulled off what a fewl us for some details. the labour i party has pulled o...

Onto batley and spen in west yorkshire. it was a narrow sliver of a victory. the share of the vote, labour with 35.3, and the conservatives on 34.4, only 323 vote majority. george galloway coming in with 21.9%. two factors made people think labour were finished before today. one was george galloway standing, targeting the british muslim vote in the constituency, which is sizeable. people assumed it would eat into the labour vote. and if we go back to the 2019 election there was another independent candidate at that time in the seat and they did very well at the other end of the spectrum, pro b...

So things like paid family leave, things like abating student debt. all of these things would make the dollar in a wage increase go further and these are the kind of policies that one can pursue. but the biggest policy is, you know, let workers organize in a real way, not have companies try to stop it in every which way -- >> so let me ask you about this. let's just look at workers organizing. 10.7%, according to the bureau of labor statistics, you and i both like citing their numbers. 10.7% of u.s. workers are unionized. 6.5% of private sector workers are union sized. 34.4% of public sector w...