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but they are putting those kids first instead of in the middle. debbie jordan is here. she's the school board chair for lee county schools. and i've got a whole lot of questions for her after the break. - that moment you walk in the office and people are wearing the same gear, you feel a sense of connectedness and belonging right away. and our shirts from custom ink help bring us together. - [narrator] custom ink has hundreds of products to help you feel connected. upload your logo or start your design today at customink.com facing expensive vitamin c creams with dull results? olay brightens it up with new olay vitamin c. gives you two times brighter skin. hydrates better than the $400 cream. with dexcom g6, i don't have to prick my fingers anymore. this little wearable
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of covid. but we know that masks do. and schools need them if kids have any shot at a normal school year. but these people are fighting against that. even though florida already has more than 26,000 students and staff testing positive for covid. more than 45,000 students and staff quarantining. and let me remind you that florida is one of the five states with less than 10% icu capacity remaining because of the delta surge. but is that what the governor is worried about? no. his education department is penalizing two school districts for their mask mandates withholding funds until they get rid of those mandates. all this leaving children in the middle. but down in lee county they are still implementing a mask mandate. they've got it down on the books for the next 30 days, at least. they might get shouted down. they might have to contend with an anti-mask governor.
everybody's coming after you. >> you can lightly threaten them. congressman cawthorn's spokesman says he was clearly advocating for violence not to occur when he talked about having to pick up arms against a fellow american. okay. all right. but words matter. words that spread lies, the lies that i have said before are killing us and our democracy. case in point, here it is. remember that school board meeting in fort lee county, florida yesterday? the one where a fistfight broke out over the county's new mask mandate happened, was caught live on television? well, there is more p much more. what happened outside is really nothing in comparison to what went on inside. >> these are demonic entities and all the school boards of all the united states of america and all of us christians will be
wh ilikeeing in that room? >> it was tough eing what was taking pla, seei what s taking place outsi as we. wee never exrienced that before. so this was the firstime that we've actually seen the ant into our public comment to ask that. are you a lee county resident? are you a, you know, a parent, so that way we could get a guesstimate of who actually lived here in lee county. we did have a meeting a couple weeks ago where we had a scene that we had a large population of people who did not even live within our area. >> yeah. >> it was more regional.