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The influx of patients. last week we heard from state officials who warned residents that they should be extra careful when driving a car or riding a bike, because you don't want to end up in the emergency room and take away resources that are already there, with the lines you're seeing for the emergency rooms. many of them converting hallways, converting conference rooms into extra beds for patient care. they're having to lower the standards in a way that they say is frustrating. the idea is not only do you have the high positivity rate here, where you have one in four people coming back with...

From the beginning. we know that other mitigation efforts like masking and distancing are important. we know that testing is a part of the response infrastructure and we know that suring up and strengthening our health care system so we can take care of those are essential too. >> let's bring in dr. ebony hilton. let's take a listen to arkansas republican governor from this morning. >> we have to overcome resistance. this is a very serious deadly virus and we're all together in trying to get and increase level of vaccination out in the population. the problem is that i'm trying to overcome res...

Have, and again, looking at what we've learned from that period of time and having tools like masking, vaccines, all of the ventilation issues, we used a multi-layered approach to create the safest possible controlled environment in schools so we can keep kids safe while they learn in the best environment possible. i think it's the thread of delta and the information and frankly the science that's been collected around the delta variant and its transmissibility and the fact that it is affecting kids. because it is so transmissible. we worked with ucla. we worked with stanford and johns hopkins...

To re-set. he's got to explain again and push harder against those people who are resisting him on vaccines, resisting public health science, resisting what will get the nation out of this nightmare that we're in to try to get us out of that nightmare. that is going to be the critical. we've seep his assessment and competence on covid go down and that is a function of circumstances and he has to get on top of that. >> but will folks be listening. john harwood at the white house and dr. sanjay gupta, thank you so much to the both of you. in vain, los angeles public schools will become the fir...

Infrastructure and communities grant program that was authorized by the disaster recovery resilience act is going to continue to give us larger amounts of money than we have ever had before. this is a start. we do have a long way to go and a lot of investment that needs to be made. >> chris: well, let's talk about investment because the senate passed this 1 trillion dollars bipartisan infrastructure plan. i have to say, i studied a lot of stuff with what's in it, but i didn't particularly study things that would help in terms of climate change. are there elements in that bipartisan infrastruct...