ashby, thank you. i want to go back to the news that we started talking about at the top of the broadcast. nbc news has now confirmed that "new york times" reported the city of new york will now require proof of vaccination for indoor activities like for example going to restaurants, going to the gym. our sources at nbc news we can confirm that that is what we expect to hear from mayor bill de blasio coming up in a couple of minutes. he was supposed to start just to let our viewers know, speak being 12 minutes ago. that news conference is obviously running a little bit late. we're keeping an eye on that. this is significant because we've seen corporate america do this. we've seen some private companies, gyms, et cetera, require proof of vaccination. think of theme parks, et cetera, to be able to participate. this is a first time we're seeing some sort of public entity like a city or like a state require this. dr. ashby, you said something interesting and a good point. this is going to be touchy. when i

ashby said. children here in miami-dade county. i'm not alone. millions of parents across the state of florida right now are debating what to do. the other thing that hasn't been important in the news is governor is governor desantis himself ruled against the ability for parents to do the virtual learning option at home. so you're not even allowed to do an online class without withdrawing your children from school. and as inexplicable, off the rails and insane as all this sounds, the only conclusion i think we can logically come to is ron desantis is betting his road to re-election as governor of florida and the 2024 nomination as republican nominee for president is going through the grave yards, the morgues and the hospital rooms of adults and children in florida. there is no logical or reasonable explanation for this, and i think mary trump had a right on the air waves of this inetwork a couple days ago. and she said it's time to stop calling this person a reputable governor and more a homicida

ashby. and dr. ashby said it well, science is clear on the role of masks. i can tell that the mayor is trying to emphasize vaccines is, vaccines, vaccine s and we can do both. one of the lowest vaccinated areas is in the new york metropolitan area is staten island and to think that they are going to be staying on the island and not intermingling with others, and we have all countries opening up, and travel to and from, and it seems naive. we have been here before, and what is boggling and not making any sense and mind boggling is the surge that we are seeing now is actually exceeding in terms of the daily new cases is one and two, and not near the winter surge that any of us does not want to get close to. but this is not a mini blip, but the cases that is the entire country is lit up in red or orange. so to think that we can limit new york city, and protect people is being naive, and unfortunately, you know, politics is politics, and it does not matter what party, you are in, but it is coming ahead of people's health, and direct advice. and people are, when

the ap reports for more, we welcome bernard ashby. he's a miami-based cardiologist and he's committed to protecting health. care thank you for being with us doctor ashby. florida is now the epicenter of this virus. he told my colleague jeff jeff bennett earlier this is groundhog day all over again. tell us about the flood of patients who are seeing now, and how quickly the situation has worsened. >> pleasure for having me here, it's great to have a platform to speak on behalf of floridians and health care professionals down here. this is like we are having ptsd. the initial surge that we went through was very disturbing and stressful. we thought this was behind us. we have the vaccination campaign. we thought the light was at the end of the tunnel but, yet, here we are again. the difference is, our leaders particularly our governor, has really done nothing in terms of slowing this freight train now. really, he is opposed to any mitigation measures. he has come out staunchly against really any mandates against enforcing masks, we know

bernard ashby, a cardiologist based in miami. great to see you. thanks for being with us. we know as randi laid out, you're at the center of it in florida. first, tell us what you're seeing. >> so florida is now the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states. currently our hospitals are actually overwhelmed. we're seeing some of the highest numbers we've ever seen at any point in the pandemic. my hospital in particular has basically switched to emergency status, which basically incorporates a number of measures that prevents people from coming to visit the patients. also includes an increase in icu capacity because our icus are filling up. now we no longer do elective cases as a result of the surge. this is having a huge impact on our life and ability to practice medicine. >> absolutely. on you all's life and the health systems. if somebody has a heart attack or needs other treatment. sounds very limited in terms of where they can go. your governor, ron desantis, is digging in on masks and also on restrictions that would clearly save lives. let's listen to his take on

ashby, great having you on, thanks so much. florida leads the nation in new covid-19 hospitalizations for both adults and children. that is so scary, at least 47 children were admitted with covid-19 into florida hospitals on thursday. what's your message to florida parents right now? >> jim, thanks for having me. it's a pleasure to be here. i just appreciate having a platform to communicate to our fellow floridians, our community. so basically the issue that we're dealing with right now is we have a leader and leadership that just refuses to take this pandemic seriously. so really it's up to us to bond together as a community to do what we have to do for ourselves. i'm happy that many of the districts have divide desantis and decided to institute their own mandates. but if you're a parent and you're concerned about your child, consider putting them in an n-95 mask if they can tolerate that. also ensure that your school is taking the necessary mitigation measures to prevent further spread. but, you know, there's only so much you

this was on sacramento near ashby. the first calls came in about six. flames, black smoke out of the ground unit apartment. one victim was found taken to the hospital. the cause of that fire still under investigation. >>> and new evacuations just issued as the dixie fire burns to the north. check out new video of the wildfire. stark smoke into the sky. alameda county fire one of the agencies supporting the effort to get the fire under control. crews have the fire 35% contained now but more than that 253,000 acres have burned. >>> california's drought is helping firefighters. now some businesses are going to great lengths to stay going as the water runs out.at the struggle. >> this is what it's come too. businesses like this inn trucking in water so guests can take a shower. >> right now costs $600 for 3500 gallons and that lasts about a week. >> he already saves as much as he can. using dirty dish water for the flowers and buying new light weight sheets for guest beds. >> you can get more of them into one load of wash and cut your water use significantl

ashby, a vascular cardiologist and the florida state lead for the committee to protect medicare. doctor, thank you so much for everything that you do. i understand that you are working in clinics and in hospitals and the primary people you are seeing people who are unvaccinated. help us understand what you are hearing from them and how sick are they getting. >> good morning, and thanks for having me. so, basically, i tell folks before i was a cardiologist, i was an internist. i have never quit being an internist. so i treat everything, including critically ill patients. unfortunately, what we're seeing is a sharp rise in the number of folks coming in to the hospital and to my clinic with positive sars cov 2 results when they get tested. and as we all know, the delta variant is highly transmissable and as a result a lot of these folks are ending up admitted to the hospital and there is a large portion of patients are getting admitted to the icu and the vast majority of them are unvaccinated. >> what do they tell you about their decision to remain unvaccinated? do any of them have

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bernard ashby, florida state lead for the committee to protect health care. dr.ou about it. this is just coming in to us reporting out of the "new york times" this big move potentially by mayor de blasio who,

ashby, it's good to see you again. i will be honest. we haven't seen you for a few months on this broadcast because things were going pretty well in florida. were you with us all the time in the beginning when the numbers were really bad. we watched them rise. they're rising again. talk about who these people are that are coming in for care. are they vaccinated? are they unvaccinated? who is coming in to the e.r.s? >> alex, it's a pleasure to be back but not under these circumstances. and so in terms of who is getting hospitalized, who is getting infected, that has shifted down wards meaning that the overwhelming majority of patients who are getting infected now are less than 65. in fact, in florida over 85% of our 65 and older populations have been vaccinated. and we're seeing that in the hospitalization data. we have one-third of the hospitalized population represented by individuals in their 20s to 40s and, furthermore, we're seeing a lot of folks still younger being admitted to the icu under critical care monitoring. and so it's rea

i love this photo, though, of ashby. you can see right there, proudly, on his chest that gar medal right there on his jacket. >> there's -- there's an interesting comment in a letter from one of the officers that wrote a letter supporting his pension application which was denied. wrote him a personal letter that he is that's in his pension file that seems to indicate that his sister worked for the regiment, as well. because she died at a -- at a site where this regiment had fought. and -- >> that's incredible. >> i can't remember the exact comment. but there -- there are -- and i mention these in the book -- there are a couple of stories in the book about women working with the regiments the wisconsin men served in. >> yeah. all right. mike, next question. weren't there several black settlements in grant county at this time? >> pleasant ridge is the one i know of but it wasn't the only place in grant county where there were black residents. it was kind of the -- the central focus. but there were -- um -- there were black

ashby? >> deal, deal. >> thank you so much, sir. always appreciate your expertise. >>> you know, move-in day for thousands of college students will look different this year as covid cases surge across the country. let's go now to nbc's scott cohn at california state university east bay in hayward. scott, how you doing? what protocols are they doing there as kids get back to campus? >> reporter: there's quite a bit, richard. this is one of a couple dozen campuses in the cal state system, which is the largest university system in the country with about half a million students. they were also among the first, the system was, to put in place a vaccine mandate for this fall semester. they only did it a couple of weeks ago, and so it doesn't officially go into effect until september 15th. ahead of that, a lot of precautions particularly on move-in day. you have to have a negative covid test less than 72 hours old to get in here in the first place. if not, if you don't have one, well, they will provide one for you. you can see they're set

ashby. thank you for doing that. do you have any thoughts on this subject, just the r&d level initiatives that we need to upgrade and protect our electricity grid? >> thank you for the question. first of all, very generally, i see that act as really addressing american competitiveness in a very broad ends and at the root of that is investment in basic science. it very specifically tries to connect into other parts of the ecosystem so we can innovate. coming back to the power grid specifically, if the power grid comes down, cyberattack will be more and more of a concern. that hurts our competitiveness in terms of our economy. there will be massive issues as electricity may be not available because of a failure in the power grid that we really need to pay attention to this and we have an increasing need for power throughout the country as well as all of these things are important but there are many components around the energy storage to make sure there are sufficient reserves for short-term disruptions in the power. i

it sits in berkeley between shaddock and newbury on ashby avenue, which she was crossing on foot monday night after visiting a relative with her son, daughter and another woman. i don't know where car just comes out, and just here's mama and i see her. i'll see you fly in the air. i see her hit the ground, and i'm just i'm in shock. albania says she darted into the street to tend to her mom, sharif says the driver appeared to be preparing to leave. so he tried to stop her. so i go reach further willing to steer and the keys and she she hit the gas and when she hit the gas i grabbed, i tried to grab a whole of pretty much the car her, the siblings say while leaving the driver hit their mother a second time and hit del bania, too. ahmad died at highland hospital, the same hospital. her daughter was released from tuesday after being injured my legs they're they're they're numb. sometimes i feel like i don't know. i'm just grateful that i can i'm still walking. the siblings say the driver never attempted to remain at the scene, so they consider the case of fatal hit and run. berkeley. polic

it hd and ashby about 6:00 in the morning. flames, black smoke coming out of the ground unit apartment. units were called shortly after . crews were able to put out the fire and transport a victim to the hospital. >> there's a lot of fuel inside that apartment, a lot of heavy fuel, so it stands to reason that it would catch fire and just spread. >> the fire damaged two apartments, leaving residents displaced. the red cross has been called into . >>> coming up, get a covid shutter get denied service. a bay area city official calling for vaccination proof for most indoor businesses. >>> mark wow did this happen? a pair saved from a northern californwis s enclosure. the search now to find tamarac. >>> coming up all new at 6:00, the north bay city struggling to get more residence vaccinated, despite being in a county with some of the best vaccination rates in the state. >>> here comes the virus, and here comes the recall. these two major stories about to land right on to this unplugged device is protecting our beautiful coastlines

it sits in berkeley between shaddock and newbury on ashby avenue, which she was crossing on foot monday night after visiting a relative with her son, daughter and another woman. i don't know where car just comes out, and just here's mama and i see her. i'll see you fly in the air. i see her hit the ground, and i'm just i'm in shock. del bania says she darted into the street to tend to her mom, sharif says the driver appeared to be preparing to leave, so he tried to stop her. so i go reach further willing to steer and the keys and she she hit the gas. it was she hit the gas. i grabbed. i tried to grab a whole of pretty much the car her, the siblings say while leaving the driver hit their mother a second time and hit del bania, too. maude died at highland hospital, the same hospital. her daughter was released from tuesday after being injured my legs they're they're they're numb. sometimes i f i don't know. i'm just grateful that i can i'm still walking. the siblings say the driver never attempted to remain at the scene, so they consider the case of fatal hit and run. berkeley. police say

keys, it will only recognize the thought about when basic human rights are respected. britain says ashby, no recognition tool. all this other countries such as count as a say they have no plans to recognize the taliban whatsoever. want to bring in now which has met the breast john, this to folks is an international says welcome to the program. the last thing i want to ask you is the taliban today in that press conference, there was a huge charm offensive. they would, they definitely had a game plan out that. do you think the game plan for the west to recognise the town of bon is going to walk? thanks for having me on. well, i mean the taliban, they made promises. they're saying that they're going to respect women's rights and you know, they're trying to establish some sort of detox with, with the west saying that they're going to incorporate all the values that were supposed to be essential to the afghan government that was set up by the united states and nato allies and obviously failed and then mission. and so they've lost all legitimacy and ghana stand, their government crumbled withi

bernard ashby, a miami cardiologist and olivia troy who is currently director of the republican accountabilityee kids went to schools in broward county schools. i would be afraid to send them. i am not sure i would. talk about this letter that you all sent and about the impact of the ban on mask mandates in florida. >> joy, as always it is a pleasure to be here. i wish it was under better circumstances now that our kids are at risk in this pandemic. quite a few physicians decided to basically speak from the point as frontline workers and physicians with our mandate of ethnics. we protect the well-being of patients and it goes for the community as well. we were asking him to do your job. your job as the governor is to protect the health and the wellness of the community, and heis -- the point of the letter was to communicate the message and hope he would do what is right for our children and for our entire state. but he is not. his response to that is to sell the stupid fauci t-shirts and urge republicans to use regeneron and deploying mobile units does that make sense to you as a physician? >>

it's henry ashby, who's one of those cases. in your book, you really get that sense if you're registered or on the rosters versus if you're not, the additional hurdles on top of everything else they had to go through to be accepted as veterans, to get a pension possibly or not or even being denied for a pension. i love this photo. you see proudly on his chest that g.a.r. medal right there on his jacket. >> there's an interesting comment in the letter from one of your officers that wrote a letter supporting his pension application, which was denied. he wrote him a personal letter that's in his pension file that seems to indicate that his sister worked for the regiment as well, because she died at a site where this regiment had fought. >> that's incredible. >> i can't remember the exact comment, but there were a couple of stories in the book about women working with the regiments of wisconsin. >> all right. mike, next question? -- several black -- in grant county at this time? >> just one that i know of but it wasn't the only pla

ashby, the lead for the committee to protect health care, group of medical professionals dedicated tod to see you. describe for me if you can, what are you seeing at the hospitals in your area? >> good morning, fredricka. where do i start. the numbers continue to rise. seven day average of deaths are the highest we have seen in a long time, over a thousand deaths in the past week. we are at the highest level ever at any point of the pandemic of hospitalizations. over 15,000 hospital beds have been taken by covid-19 patients, 1 in 4 icu beds are occupied by covid patients. in my own hospital, we are back into the emergency state where preventing visitation of loved ones, we are delaying or cancelling elective procedures, and we're expanding icu capacity. this is dÉjÀ vu. we are back where we started. >> dÉjÀ vu. you sound exhausted, exhausted and exasperated. and you have to feel very frustrated, too. how do you and your fellow medical staff keep yourselves safe when you're seeing this flood of patients coming in similar to where we were at the height of the pandemic last year? >> well

ashby, florida now the epicenter of the virus. it's groundhog day all over again. tell us about the flood of patients you are seeing now and how quickly the situation has worsened. >> well, pleasure for having me here. and it's great to have a platform, to speak on behalf of floridans and health care professionals down here. this is, you know, we are having ptsd, i mean, you know, the initial surge that we went through was very disturbing, very stressful, and we thought this was behind us, we had the vaccining nation campaign. here we are again. but the difference is, our leaders, particularly our governor, has really done nothing in terms of slowing this, you know, freight train down. i mean, really, he is opposed to any medication measures, he is come out staunchly against really any mandate against enforcing masks. and things that slow down the transmission of the coronavirus and the fact that he is making it a public health issue is impacting the hospital. >> well, for example, broward said they are going to a mask mandate, an

here in iowa and one by the name of dorothy ashby, writing about camp taji during world war i in 1918 -- camp dodge -- where she would put herself in the story, girl reporter gets messed with reporters. girl reporter gets gas, just write about it. it was a spectacle, right? lets you with this girl can get yourself into this type. time. it was treated as entertainment. it was a bit scandalous because these women are putting themselves in danger, putting themselves, their putting them, putting themselves out in public but it got attention and it got eyeballs. so they got the mask over the class. a tween type of role that emerges at this time was often given the derogatory name of sob sister is well embodied by a woman named dorothy dix. she was a pioneer of advice columnists. at the time she was, she became the most widely read and the richest women journalists in the country. her name was elizabeth merriweather gilmer picture began her career in new orleans. she was married, but, you guessed it, she was also widowed. widowed. her husband had been mentally unstable, had a lot of problem

it sits in berkeley between shaddock and newbury on ashby avenue, which she was crossing on foot mondayt after visiting a relative with her son, daughter and another woman. i don't know where car just comes out, and just here's mama and i see her. icu fly in the air. i see her hit the ground and i'm just i'm in shock. del bania says she darted into the street to tend to her mom, sharif says the driver appeared to be preparing to leave, so he tried to stop her. so i go reach further willing to steer and the keys and she she hit the gas. and when she hit the gas, i grab i tried to grab a whole of pretty much the car her, the siblings say while leaving the driver hit their mother a second time and hit del bania, too. ahmad died at highland hospital, the same hospital. her daughter was released from tuesday after being injured my legs they're they're they're numb. sometimes i feel like i don't know. i'm just grateful that i can i'm still walking. the siblings say the driver never attempted to remain at the scene, so they consider the case of fatal hit and run. berkeley police say the uniden

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ashby, the latest in your state, it hits a record for daily cases. i am not in florida but that is incredibly alarming to me. can you talk me through what that looks like on the ground? >> alarming is an understatement. where do i start? we are number one in hospitalizations in the u.s. we are number two in hospitalizations [ inaudible ] in the u.s. we are number one for admissions to critical care in broward county in the u.s. now we have broken our record at 21,683 new infections. the positivity rate above 50%. all told, florida is surging and our leadership is not helping us at all. our hospitals are getting overwhelmed. we're starting to shut down [ inaudible ] as a result of that and that impacts other issues like hard disease, like cancer, like colon cancer, so on and so forth. so right now, we are struggling to deal with the surge, yet we have zero leadership from our governor, from many of our politicians. they're illegitimately putting politics over people's lives. it's tragic. i don't know what else to say except that something needs to be

the fire started around six o'clock this morning at a building on sacramento street near ashby avenue. when firefighters got there, flames and heavy smoke. we're coming from a first floor apartment. firefighters found one man trapped inside. he was taken to highland hospital for treatment. the fire was put out quickly, but the flames also spread to an upstairs unit. the cause is under investigation. pg and e. says it's working with the forest service to investigate whether a tree leaning on one of the utilities, power lines might have sparked the so called fly fire. the fly fire eventually merged with the dixie fire in plumas county. pg and e. says sensors detected an issue with a particular circuit on july 22nd. then 11 minutes after the alarms went off wildfire cameras recorded smoke coming from the area. that tree and the line were located. the dixie fire continues to grow and butte and plumas county is forcing a new round of evacuations. cal fire says the fire jumped the containment lines last night, and it's now threatening the community of greenville in the plumas national fores