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Members. but, look, despite all of this, you have broward county public schools and alachua schools digging in. they're not budging from their mask mandate at least for now because they're saying it's about the safety of their students, 260,000 students returning to the classroom including here at bay view elementary. jim? >> and, of course, if they're under 12, they can't be vaccinated. financial penalties for trying to mask up. amara walker, thanks very much. governor of texas, greg abbott, has now tested positive for covid-19. here was the governor on monday this week attending a republic...

Portion of the population who cannot get vaccinated to this point, right? that is children. people under the age of 12. so we're already talking about boosters for adults where do we stand, to the best of your knowledge, on a decision about okaying at least emergency use authorization for vaccination for children? >> yeah, you know, hopefully, jim, we will see some movement on that in the near term. fda has been pretty tight lipped in terms of the process on that. i do think it's really important, though, that we recognize that boosters is not going to end this pandemic. what's going to end th...

Arise that the vaccines are totally ineffective against. and then from a pure equity standpoint, the fact that 80%-plus of the vaccines have gone to wealthy nations is really unconscionable. we need to do more here in america to get vaccines around the globe. >> yeah, the virus has a lot of life boats to keep itself going including among unvaccinated americans. dr. gupta, dr. boeser, thanks so much to both of you. >> thanks, jim. >> thanks, jim. ahead is the race against time for the biden administration to evacuate tens of thousands of americans and afghan stanza head of the u.s. military a...

All the news. today one of the nation's largest school districts broward county returns to in-person learning with a district-wide mask mandate. why is this so critical? the governor, this mandate, defies governor ron desantis' executive order across the state that bans mandates like that. the state is looking to punish the county. >> it's going to punish people financially it appears for trying to take simple health care steps. cnn's amara walker is in south florida this morning. what is the investigation going to look at and what legal steps is the governor trying to take to enforce the or...

Bed. jim and poppy, this man had to wait for 40 hours to get an i.c.u. bed. this man says that the president and c.e.o. of harris health says it is shameful for this to be happening in the state of texas in the united states. i have to mention there is some good news. medical personnel are expected to come into this stated to and in the days to come to help increase those numbers of i.c.u. beds that are already -- that are already here in the state of texas. they just don't have medical personnel to provide the care. jim and poppy? >> wow, rosa flores, 40 hours. thank you for your reporting on...