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She's also called for voluntary evacuations inside the levy system. our next guest is the chief physician at new orleans children's hospital where the surge in hospitalizations was so intense this month that the state called in a federal surge team of doctors, nurses, and paramedics. louisiana is among the states with the lowest vaccination rate. just 40.9% of people in louisiana are vaccinated. on tuesday louisiana set a new record for coronavirus deaths in a single day with 139. the day after, louisiana reported 110 covid deaths. one of them was a baby less than a year old. it was the first ...

Just 40.9% of residents are fully vaccinated. a new record for covid deaths was recently set. one death recently was a baby less than a year old. it was the first time in six months that a child had died from covid in louisiana. since the pandemic began, 11 children under the age of 18 have died from covid. and right now about 31% of new covid cases in louisiana are among children younger than 18. the picture, across the united states, is just as bad. across the country more than 100,000 people are hospitalized for covid-19, the highest number since january. daily covid deaths have increased b...

Referring to the same quake. it is adjusted to a 7.0. 40.9 kilometers deep. in terms of earthquakes, anything under 70 kilometers is shallow. the main concern with shallow earthquakes is a tsunami threat. this is where the area of the earthquake occurred. we had at least one aftershock. this is what you are looking at. that aftershock was a 5.8 a little bit south of anchorage alaska. the inlets and peninsulas that take place here. what we know is there is a localized tsunami warning that has been issued for the cook inlet and the southern peninsula around this region. we don't have a widesprea...

You see the water here, kind of picking up in some of its furious nature. have said we're not even allowed to walk there. they're just concerned for everybody's safety. what we'll do, which is somewhat different, i'll show you a device here. it's going to help us for all the folks who want to get instant weather data, we're going to be able to monitor that with things like the wind speed and everything else. so i'm standing right now with a building protecting me. i'm going to step out of the way. randy who's on the camera is going to zoom on the water. i'm going to come around to the side and...

We're back now and following all the developments in the race in our special election coverage. let's go to kansas now. look at the one in kansas now. kris kobach pulled into the lead now, 40.9% to jeff colyer's 40.3%. this one is too close to call as well, and keep in mind, chris kobach is the candidate that the president threw his support behind. jeff colyer, though, is the incumbent there. so an interesting move by the president. we'll keep you updated on that. but we have other news we need to cover. another big night tonight, to cover. rick gates, the former right-hand man to paul manaf...