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And 17, they're getting infected at a higher rate than any other age group. and since school started back in july, 960,000 children have tested positive for covid. david? >> all right, kaylee hartung tonight. kaylee, thank you. you heard dr. fauci say there, we must remain focused on the delta variant here in this country, spreading and quickly. but there is also concern over this new variant, the mu variant. and still major questions about the potential for booster shots, a third shot. so, let's get right to dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, great ...

General robert e. lee comes down. and as we approach the 20th anniversary of 9/11, robin roberts and the last person rescued. you'll hear from her tonight. good evening and it's great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. the northeast bracing for a new round of severe tomorrows tonight. flash flood watches are up and it comes, of course, after those deadly storms already so rob marciano is standing by with the track here in just a moment. but we are going to begin tonight with that staggering new number of covid hospitalizations in the u.s. now four times more than what the u.s. ...

Tonight, the coronavirus and the alarming new numbers and the questions over this new variant. the u.s. now heading into fall with four times more covid patients hospitalized than last fall. some hospitals now at a breaking point. in idaho, where they're now rationing care, forced to decide who gets treated first. we're with ems workers tonight responding to covid calls and the number of them coming in from the unvaccinated. more than 1 in 4 new covid cases now children. and tonight, the new mu variant, now seen in at least 28 states and concern over whether it could evade vaccines. and are bo...

Causing more severe illness, or evading the production from a vaccine or from natural immunity. the combination of the mutations that they are seeing in the mu variant is concerning for invasion of protection. but an important thing to remember is that we have not seen that yet in real life. this is something that they are just sort of studying the biology of this variant, this is what they are seeing, this is how it starts. it is something that doctor fauci has assured all of us that they are watching very closely. if we start to see significantly increased transmissibility with this variant,...

Is, this is going to be a marathon. as a sprinter, i had hoped that once we got to a point where we had vaccines as well as the non-pharmaclogic interventions such as masking and distancing that we wouldn't be back where we were last fall and winter but unfortunately we're there and the virulence of these variants means that more people are contracting it. so unfortunately, i do see that following the pattern of other major holidays that we are likely to see a surge and then compound that with the return to school. as a parent, i'm enthusiastic to have my child in school today. however, what w...