a covid outbreak last month at eastside elementary in metro atlanta's cobb county.t tini krisman. >> we're trying to prevent school transmission. >> reporter: since school began, covid has exploded week by week in cobb county schools withss hundreds infected in schools and staff to nearly 5,000. >> mask in class >> reporter: school masking policy divides the county. not chris ragsdale, the school's superintendent he's dug in. masks will stay recommended, not mandatory. >> the data clearly indicates a mask mandate does not provide a significant change in the cases. >> reporter: a c.d.c. study published last week showed that schools without mask mandates are three and a half times more likely to have outbreaks. >> my worst fear did become reality. >> bye, guys. >> reporter: tini krisman's two sons go to eastside elementary. three weeks after the major outbreak -- >> it was a third grader who showed symptoms and both tested positive on the same day. >> reporter: then she tested positive. many teachers and staff also worry, especially with nearly all georgia students le

all right, have chinese truck life is there in cobb county? thank you for that. meanwhile, talk about officials of health talks with the united nations humanitarian relief coordinator in cobb, old martin griffin. i met with taliban co founder and other members of the group you and says the meeting was to resolve afghanistan's humanitarian crisis. the envoy called all civilians, especially women and girls, minorities to be protected for the talk. so expected in the coming days. jennifer brick motors ashley's from the atlantic council. she says different views within the taliban. there are challenge for the groups leaders. despite the fact that they remain quite cohesive as a group to gain control of cobbled governing is a different issue altogether. and it's not clear that they have had a clear coveted strategy in mind and to their political factions that are buying for control. obviously there's more internationally oriented side leadership that's been that's that much of the past several years. and bill ha, a meeting with the international com

a covid outbreak last month at eastside elementary in cobb county. >> what we are trying to prevent is in school transmission. that is what failed this year. >> reporter: covid has exploded week by week. from hundreds of infected students and staff to nearly 5,000. >> mask in class! >> school masking policy divides the county. the superintendent is dug in, masks are recommended and not mandatory. >> the data indicates that a mask mandate does not provide a significant change in the cases. >> reporter: a cdc study published last week showed that schools without mask mandates are 3.5 more likely to have outbreaks. >> my worst fear is reality. >> reporter: her two sons go to eastside elementary, three weeks after its major outbreak -- >> it was a third grader who showed symptoms and then, both of them tested positive in the same, on the same day. >> reporter: then, she tested positive. many teachers and staff also worry, especially with nearly all georgia's students learning in person this year. >> cobb is a situation where we have a school board and a superintendent who are listening to

and bryan have pleaded not guilty and this case is now being handled by the district attorney in cobb county, just outside of atlanta, a completely different county from where johnson worked. dan. >> thank you very much. much more to come on this case. >>> time now though to check the weather again. let's go back to rob who is in rye brook, new york. rob, good morning, once again. >> hi, dan. like i mentioned earlier, a beautiful day again for the northeast, low humidity and some sunshine, but we are getting into the heart of hurricane season, and we have another major hurricane that's in the atlantic right now. let's show it to you, and also another disturbance that is scheduled to get into the gulf of mexico. hurricane larry, 115-mile-per-hour winds at the moment and scheduled to increase in intensity to a cat 4 as it heads its way toward bermuda on wednesday or thursday. computer models kind of pretty confident hopefully turning out to sea. this will create rough surf but likely not until after labor day for the east coast. and that disturbance in the caribbean, we have 30% of it lisa: go

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cobb. she's among thousands of new born here in a county son who desperately need immediate treatment. as i, as you see here is the time horton exchange. they mature and he made a constant supply of boston and the appropriate temperature in order to survive. and in the absence of resources were willing to volkswagen. incubator in this was poor shape. this shortage of math love medicine and beta. her middle east is the uni, seth representative enough. gone is is visiting this hospital to see what are the most urgent needs. delays is raglin to address the growing needs of health facilities, enough gone and with each passing day, afghan children are dying of disease and monetization. while there is always life at the end of the tunnel and that's what we do. we do if there was no life again, at the end of the tunnel, we will not be here. the government officials have other priorities. taliban leaders are desperate for international recognition and financial assistance. but the gun is big donors remain captain of the taliban. in the meantime, the health system is on the verge of collapse. d