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Girl's restroom to be placed in another school and then it happened again. griff jenkins gives us the background on this story for us today from washington with more. hi, griff. >> good morning. this is far from over. loudon county's top cop sheriff is in a war of letters blaming the superintendent ziegler for enabling a male student found guilty of sexual assault in a school bathroom to strike at a different school. he said he knew of the alleged sexual offense the day it occurred. . despite knowing the serious nature of the offense they decided to place this individual into another school po...

Take care of your kids and yourself by wearing your masks and get the vaccination. >> reporter: one thing one of the pediatricians we spoke to kept emphasizing saying the number of childrens being hospitalized are not that high people say, but she said every one of those cases is preventable. one child's death is too much but in this situation they know that masks would prevent this and they're not required in the school. so every number you see, particularly related to children hospitalized or dying, every one of those are preventable. >> as you say, more than 20,000 students after the first ...

Because the governor decided that masks were not a good idea. and five students have died. so this is really significant and people can see it in their own communities and their families, maybe more will be getting vaccines. but the federal government has to clamp down in order for the rest of us to be able to survive this thing. >> yeah, i mean, talking about what the look back will be, we know how to keep kids alive inside a classroom, and they're five easy things. i talk about them most days on this show. a vaccine mandate for everyone eligible, mask mandate for everybody vaccinated and unv...

In session? i mean it will be six weeks, right, before anyone who's fully vaccinated is protected. why wasn't that message sent earlier in the summer to encourage teachers who have not yet been vaccinated to get vaccinated before school starts? >> fredricka, we're following the science. we know now that the delta variant is more virulent, it is increasing the rates of infections. it is having a greater impact on our youth, our students. we're seeing children's hospitals being overrun by sick children. as we get more information, we must do better. this is not new for us to talk about vaccines ...

Get the vaccine into the people for whom it was prioritized and school staff are certainly part of the early prioritization of the vaccine. so that will help, but fundamentally what's needed in the schools in order to protect the children and the adults is to have universal masking in place until we can get 80% or 90% of the school population vaccinated. >> i want to talk to you more about masking in a second, but it's a good opportunity to bring in dasha where it's the first week of school in tennessee where you are, and those kids are going back to school without a mask requirement at all. w...