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0 from the shoreline to the back bays and also to rivers inland. so, know your high tides. >> we are looking at the images, increasingly dire. stay inside as the storm approaches and wreaks havoc, pray for the charlotte county community and the rest of florida as we toss it over to "america reports." >> john: any moment now we are expecting an update from florida governor ron desantis as the eyewall of hurricane ian begins to move on shore bringing with it the potential for catastrophic damage. hello, john roberts in washington. sandra, welcome back. >> sandra: good to be with you, sandra smit...

Communicating with the city about them. at the moment, we certainly have enough hospital beds but we're seeing more hospitalization. as you know, we sounded an alarm last friday on december 24th about the disproportionate rise in hospitalizations for young children, for children. so at the moment, we are okay with hospitalizations and bed availability. we're putting in place measures to make sure that we continue to be able to respond to hospitalizations. whoever pointed out that a small fraction of a big number is still a big number got it exactly right. that's been our concern. our tools rem...

Why is that? very high vaccination rates in these counties in addition to actual major hospital capacity. but let me take you to some parts of rural america. here's just five counties, tennessee, nebraska, oklahoma, montana, and wyoming. right now their case counts are below the national average. omicron surge has not come to these counties yet. but right now, icu bed availability, it's not a typo. we didn't form get to fill out this graphic. it is zeros across the board, and omicron, has it come, the vaccination rates in these counties are below 50%. you see where this could be headed. rural ...

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Smaller when we are talking about pediatric vaccines. pfizer and moderna has been conducting trials since the springtime but they want to accumulate a lot of data before we present this to the fda in order for it to be approved. >> understandable. okay, let's talk about the situation right now. because texas is a state with a lower vaccination rate. how severe is the shortage of icu beds in texas. >> texas is one of the five states across the u.s. reporting less than 10% of icu bed availability. here in the texas medical center, our icu beds are full. they have deployed some surge capacity but...