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But they are motivated. they are fired up. and they are committed to complete this mission. >> one more about any covid mitigation efforts that you're taking. are you doing anything to ensure that your crews are safe from covid? and you can give us a little bit of detail what that is, looks like? >> well, that's a great question. you know, we shouldn't forget that we're doing this operation in the middle of a pandemic. so, all of the crews are obviously masking and -- but, the afghans that are, you know, on the aircraft are not masked. so, that's one mitigation. there. is some screening that o...

The governor's order which has prevented any mask mandates going into effect. however, we've seen districts from across the state in houston, san antonio and austin and openly challenge the governor there with a bit of back and forth happening in the courts, but as it stands right now, the governor not changing his tune and keeping that ban in place as he recovers from covid-19. garrett? >> that's interesting, morgan. my public high school had a strict dress code and that they couldn't control what students were wearing including on their faces is an interesting one. thank you for that report....

Second, i think very important for us to talk about, is if we want to keep our kids in school the entire year, our goal is 175 days of school, and we need that. we need each and every day of our kids being in school. if we want to do that, masking our students and our staff ensures or at least greatly increases the likelihood that we will remain in school for the entire school year. >> despite the mitigation efforts, as you noted, school started on wednesday. you had 29 positive cases after the first day. two teachers, 21 stew accidents, 200 people had to be guaranteed. what are the numbers? a...

Hartford Public Schools is the latest district to mandate masks inside schools regardless of vaccination status.

Students and that will force al the schools to become better in florida, or any other state for it. >> what does the science and data tell us about masking youn children or they're ability to transmit or become seriously il with covid as they're headed back to school right now? >> if you ask me that two month ago i would've said kids are lo risk and they don't need to wea masks, but now were dealing wit delta and it's a completely different strain. we are seeing over 500 percent increase in the number of cases in those under the age of 18, s kids can't spread this disease they can become infec...