host: let's go to gainesville, virginia. i apologize, do not want to butcher your name. caller: caller: nobody gives a crab about what lindsey graham says anymore. i think biden is doing the right thing withdrawing the troops. he had the backbone to make a decision and stand by it. too many soldiers killed, innocent people killed. imagine what we could have done in this country. we have a broken health care system. the middle class is struggling to survive. how many morell

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victor oquendo is in gainesville, florida, with the latest.lle where the medical director told us that this current surge is bigger than anything they've seen before. this morning, abc news confirming the fda is expected to authorize a third booster shot for immunocompromised people today. the cdc advisory panel then set to meet friday. director walensky could green light the shots soon after. the news coming after the cdc confirms more than a million people getting a third shot, even without authorization. it comes as the delta variant surges across the country. hospitalizations now at their highest level in six months. more than 17,000 icu beds in use across the country. amy spoke with dr. anthony fauci about who will be eligible for a booster shot earlier this morning. >> we know now that the fda is expected to authorize those booster shots for people who have compromised immune systems. do we know exactly who is eligible for the shot? can you walk us through it? >> yes, the fda will come out with the final determination but almost certainl

but we should also recognise the gainesville maids, they draw some partners went off on the stone, often on the 11th to prevent the country for serving us, a safe haven bring national terrorist to attack us in the last 2 decades. that have been noticed. the attack on allied soil organized from of johnstone. those now taking power have the responsibility to ensure that in national terrace do not re gain a foothold. allies have the capabilities and the vigilance to address future toes. the threats from, of almost all due to our military presence on the support of the national committee and new generation are men and women have grown up in you. i've gone on able to get education, take part in the political process, run their own businesses and the joy of vibrant media seem to days of calling. this song is very different to the calling this donald to tell us on one. so dos gains cannot be easily reversed, the world will be watching and must continue to support a stable and peaceful of constant without. i'm ready to take some questions. ok. now for the 1st question, we'll go to lawn cook from

tonight, inside this icu in gainesville, florida, they're overwhelmed. teams trying to make room for a crush of new covid cases while trying to keep the patients they already have alive. what does that mean? >> that's a code. >> reporter: what's happening now? >> that's a patient who is unstable right now, either no blood pressure or oxygen nation is bad or heart rate just went to zero. >> reporter: how often does that happen per day? >> almost every day. this hospital is seeing younger patients getting sicker faster. nearly all unvaccinated. >> this is the second major surge. this surge is actually much bigger than anything that we've seen before. >> reporter: 38-year-old ian woods has been in the hospital with covid for more than a week and says he was waiting to get vaccinated. any message you might have to people who like you were on the fence about getting the vaccine? >> i would say don't be afraid to get it. just go ahead and get it. it's worth it. i mean, i wish i'd gotten it. otherwise, i probably wouldn't have wound up in the hospital like this

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host: let us go to gainesville, virginia. we hear from -- what is your name? caller:ashoka.efore i touch on the withdrawal, i want to refer to lindsey graham being on the face of the nation. i do not think he has incredulity. this guy -- this guy has any ability. this guy said trump was bad, then he was for trump. he was against extreme court justices being appointed during an election year. he changed his mind with trump was in power. no one cares about what lindsey graham says anymore. i think biden is doing the right thing. he had the backbone to make a decision and stand by it. so many soldiers, killed. innocent people, killed. millions of dollars, we could have done in this country. we have a broken health care system, middle class is struggling to survive, we have broken infrastructure. $2 trillion, how men were trillions are we going to spend and how many precious american lives are we going to lose? america has never gone through a war in the muslim world and met success. every time it was a failure. you cannot do the impossible. you can introduce nations to democrac

lauderdale and gainesville. state says if they do not walk back their mandates, it will withhold voting of school board members of those who voted for the mandated in there. are 3 million covid cases. the state added a half million cases in 25 days. vaccinations have been holding steady this month to 60,000 to 70,000 a day. but hopizations are way up. more than 17,000 people have hospitalized in florida right now. 94% of the state's icu beds are occupied. you have yet to get vaccinated, it's not too late. you can get what you need online, at plan your vaccine.com. back on the panel, bean obeidallah, you want to you know, i already like turkey bacon. i wonder what your thought is on the florida situation as a native floridian. i'm stunned by it, but one of the producered pointed out that officials in orlando are asking residents to cut back on watering their lawns, and the reason is because a check cal that is used to treat the water that is potable water in around is also using it to used for liquid oxygen. so t

host: gainesville, georgia, the line for those who have been vaccinated. caller: thank you for allowing me to speak. in one of your comments a while ago, one of the big arguments and -- it has not been approved so i will not be vaccinated. however, i did pull up an article i thought was interesting this last week that said there was an application, the only application that has been set up and sent to the fda, it was pfizer. they were looking to expedite the approval sometime between now and february 2022. what i also thought was interesting was they said by dharna and -- they said moderna and johnson has not filed the application yet. that might be a roadblock people are looking at saying, it has not been approved. i would love to hear the comments from the doctor. guest: these up all been authorized under emergency use. there are a number of people who have said once against the full approval from the fda, they will roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated. that process from the fda often takes longer than a year. there is a lot of pressure on fda to try

he sent to gainesville, florida, logan, utah, davis, and palo alto and he said all of the bees died inhey do not like the cold, whether utah, they cannot compete in florida. >> reporter: he also went to stanford professor george schaefer in palo alto. >> on the colonies sent to dr. schaeffer survived and palo alto, for eight years. >> more like 70 years later. >> i know, for 70 years there around and nobody noticed. >> and a four-year-old girl noticed them this year. >> we have a new perspective, the eyes of a child, she looked at that and she says there is something to do with these. >> reporter: they were certainly descendents of ones that had been brought in as usda pollinators. they were presumed dead and had no representatives in dr. hauser's vast collection. in fact, dr. hauser had not heard of stainless bees from brazil until nearly 20 years ago. >> i got a submission from pest control guy in palo alto, and first i thought he was pulling a practical joke on me because it was a stimulus be. look at somebody says they have a kangaroo in the backyard. >> i was richard schmidt, aske

and i want to bring in the chair of the alachua county public schools board in the gainesville area.day was the first -- >> how's it been going? and have any parents so far used the doctor's note to get their child out of wearing a mask? >> i don't have a number on that, possibly tomorrow after they have a chance to look at the opt-out forms that may have been submitted today. but today was the very first day, it's an exciting time in the alachua county public schools. >> well, congratulations on your first day of school today. governor desantis does not agree that a doctor's note gives parents enough of a choice. and he is threatening to withhold your salary. are you willing to give up your pay over this fight? >> well, you know, it's very important for our children to be safe and have well-being as well as our staff. and so i'm all in if he wants to take the salary away from us, our board members as well as the superintendent, i feel even more empowered that i know i'm doing something correct. >> so, what happens if a student shows up to school without a mask and a note? is there d

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the gainesville area county school board voted to require students to wear masks unless parents fillwork to opt out the superintendent of a 3rd school district actually sent a letter to governor desantis asking him to allow the use of masks. >> the biden administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to be vaccinated for coronavirus the requirement would come as part of the administration's phased approach to easing travel restrictions for foreign citizens to the u.s. no timeline has yet been determined has interagency working group study. how and when to safely move toward resuming normal travel right now. all travelers to the u.s. are required to show proof of a negative covid test taken within 3 days of travel. >> and now kron 4 sports from the 18 t fiber sports desk. >> after waiting. what feels like forever even though it's actually been less than a week. we finally got to enjoy the debuts of the warriors. 2 first-round draft picks tonight. jonathan and moses moody both suited up for the california classic in sacramento. so let's head up to

we are following the latest from gainesville, florida. good morning. >>reporter. good morning, erica, it is the first day of school and we've seen students coming in, parents even dropping them off and teachers wearing masks to school. the principal telling us they haven't had any major issues but i spoke with teachers yesterday getting ready and they admit, that this sort of back and forth with the governor, the politics of it all created a cloud of uncertainty. so here's the policy for the county where i am right now. they are requiring students to wear masks at least for the first two weeks of school. and the only way you can get out of that is if your parent sends a doctor's note with the student. and that is where the governor's office is taking issue. i checked with them this morning and they believe requiring a doctor's note does not protect parental choice. the superintendent of the county is asking the governor to let her do her job and protecting children in school. here's what else she had to say. >> the governor should take the conservative step and do

florida, as the new school year begins today for students across the state, parents of 15 children in gainesvillexecutive order by republican governor ron desantis banning mask mandates in florida schools. the parents say the governor's order will cause the virus to spread even more putting their kids at risk. dr. anthony fauci issuing a stark warning to florida earlier today on "morning joe." >> the people of florida are going to suffer unnecessarily. they will be unnecessary hospitalization and tragically unnecessary deaths. that is exactly what is going to happen. it is entirely predictable on the one hand and entirely preventable on the other hand. >> kerry sanders is outside an elementary school in naples where the battle over masks and vaccines is raging. it is the first day of school. what are parents and kids telling you? >> reporter: well, of course first day of school is always exciting for the kids coming with their parents, new backpacks, new sneakers. and in this case, some kids coming with masks. as you know, this is one of the communities where there is no mask mandate. the whole s

the state promises to start withholding the salaries of school board members in gainesville, broward county, if they don't reverse their mask mandates by the end of the weekend. but it's not just democratic strongholds defying the governor. last night sarasota county approved its own mask mandate in schools. it's the first florida county that donald trump won in 2020 to require masks in the classroom. the chair of the school board says it is the right thing to do. >> i have a responsibility to provide for the health and safety of our children. and i also have to provide education for them. we can't educate the kids when they are home because they're quarantined because some parent doesn't want to get a vaccine, some parent doesn't want to put a mask on their child. >> it is not just the war on mask mandates. some republican leaders are searching for scapegoats to explain their botched pandemic response. texas lieutenant governor dan patrick has growing backlash after he unblamed unvaccinated black people for the state's hike in hospitalizations and deaths. but as the associated press

lauderdale area and a county in gainesville. the state has given them 48 hours to reverse their mandates. otherwise, the florida board of education says it will deduct funding equal to the salaries of school board members. they cannot dock the members' pay directly because they work for their counties, and not for the state. but according to the board of ed, these mandates violate an executive order from governor ron desantis. the order limits how far districts can go in implementing mask restrictions. covid cases in florida have increased steadily over the last six weeks. hospitalizations and deaths are, also, rising. this week, florida became the third state to pass 3 million confirmed cases. >>> meanwhile, nationwide, just over half of americans are now fully vaccinated. and the u.s. government is preparing to roll out booster shots. you can get your additional dose eight months after your last vaccination. the booster shot program is set to begin late september. that comes as the fda prepares to give full approval to the pfi

the same for one other county around gainesville. districts are defying republican governor's order which requires parents get to make the final choice on mask or no mask for their kid the state board of education held an emergency meeting whether to punish the two districts. the board decided for unspecified sanction >> they have the duty to comply with the law whether they agree with it or not. >> miami-dade schools superintendent held a meeting monday with medical experts to advise the district what should be done. they advised a mask mandate 100%. >> we don't have a choice. if we care and love our children and our society, we have to take the actions that are going to smolder this horrible raging fire. >> in tampa the school district is holding an emergency meeting this afternoon and other districts through the week. mask mandate with operate out and 13% did. 9 thousand students are now in quaranty and case count is 20 times higher than this time last year. orange county also seeing a big surge in covid cases happening this week

now, i think it's important to note that, for instance, one of these counties, alachua county, gainesville, the home of university of florida, it's only in place for the first two weeks and then they are going to revisit it. so the question is, well, what happens if the cases begin to tail off, if the situation begins to get better over the next few weeks, which is what governor desantis has said it's going to do. so are you going to continue to go through this sort of, you know, elaborate political and possibly court battle over who is right and who has the power. >> what is the motive here? what does he gain by overriding local communities? >> well, what he gains is basically that he is going to be the defender of freedom, as he puts t freedom over fauci-ism is one of his catch lines he's been using when doing campaign appearances over the last few weeks. so essentially as he positions himself as a potential contender for the 2024 presidential election, he's clearly put himself in a position that he's like -- he's not going to go along with any mandates. and i would like to emphasize tha

the state promises to withhold salaries of school board members in gainesville and broward county if they don't reverse their mask mandates by the end of the weekend. it's not just democratic strongholds that define the governor. last night, sar ro so that described the first mask mandate, the first state donald trump won if 2020 to require masks in the classroom. the chair of the school board says it is the right thing to do. >> i have the responsibility to provide for the health and safety of our children and i also have to provide education for them. we can't educate the kid when they are home because they are quarantined because some parent doesn't ask want to get the vaccine and doesn't want to put the mask on their child. >> some republican leaders are searching for scapegoats to explain their botched respond. texas lt. gov. dan patrick blamed unvaccinated black people for the state's spike in hospitalizations and deaths. but as the associated press reports, statistics from the department of health do not back his claim. blacks texans make up about 12% of the state's population

hospitalized with covid, which is why education professionals in large-school districts in the gainesville area and broward county decided this week to follow cdc guidelines and require students to mask up. >> we know that if we have masked children in our classrooms and all of them are masked, we are going to have fewer quarantines and when we have fewer quarantines, that means our children are going to have direct instruction, more often. >> so that sounds reasonable enough, which bring us us to the governor, ron desantis. he is still standing by his executive order barring public schools from imposing any mask mandates and threatening their funding, if they do. when he signed it last friday, the state recorded just under 9,700 new cases. today, six days later, it's nearly 13,000. and again, more kids are hospitalized with covid in florida than in any, other state. the executive order claims the cdc guidances on masking in schools lacks a well-grounded scientific justification. presumably, the cdc, for weeks now, about the delta variant. all he has to do is visit one of the overloaded ic

those districts include sarasota, miami-dade, broward, tampa, palm beach county, gainesville, tallahassee desantis is not being persuaded by skyrocketing covid cases kids and teachers and thousands and thousands of kids back at home in quarantine. >> i think it's something that the parents should be deciding. i don't think it's something that the government should be deciding. >> and in tallahassee court today, the first lawsuit challenging the desantis' mask mandate ban is being heard a grouch parents says it impairs the safe operation of schools. >> obviously, we don't want our kids to get sick. losing a kid is a parent's worst nightmare. >> plaintiff cannot prove its case based on its position that local school districts have summoned parent right to mask mandate. they don't. >> and from mask mandates to vaccine mandates, all new york city public school teachers and staff must now get vaccinated with at least the first dose administered by this friday. and today new jersey's governor ordered all state employees, including educators get vaccinated or get tested once or twice a week. bre

where the state board of education voted last night to sanction two school districts, the home of gainesvillefying governor ron desantis' ban on mask mandates. the first day of school gets under way and also joined by dr. william shatner infectious disease specialist at vanderbilt. let me get to this dispute between the state and the county. the state voted to sanction the county but they didn't say what they're going to do. it does feel as if the state's looking for an exit ramp without embarrassing the governor here. but the county at this point, it sounds like, feels like they won this battle, don't they? >> well, look, chuck, there's no question that broward county is kicking off its school year in the middle of a political tug of war about masks. that's frustrating to parents and teachers and administrators who want the focus to be getting students back in the classroom after a year and a half of disrupted learning. instead, they're facing these sanctions. last night the first punitive measure taken against school districts that are requiring masks. but, you're right, chuck, they did not

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he sent to gainesville, florida, logan, utah, davis and palo alto.her in utah. they couldn't compete in florida. >> they also went to stanford professor george schaeffer -- >> only the colonies sent to dr. schaeffer survived in palo alto for eight years. but then -- >> more like 70 years later now. >> i know. for 70 years, these bees are flying around in palo alto, and nobody noticed. >> and a 4-year-old girl noticed them this year. >> it shows us when you new perspective, the eyes of a child, she just looked at that and says there's something different with these bees. >> the stingless bees anika found were certainlyugn usopollinators. they were presumed dead and had no representatives in dr. hauser's vast collection. in fact, dr. hauser hadn't heard of stingless bees from brazil until nearly 20 years ago. >> i got a submission from pest control guy in palo alto, and first i thought he was pulling a practical joke on me because it was a stingless bee. like if somebody says they have a kangaroo in their back yard. >> the guy was richard schmidt. aske

southeast, florida, one in tampa, and then there's sarasota county and there's alachua, florida, gainesvilleto require universal masking. you can penalize us. take us to court. i think today the state is given a deadline for broward and alachua counties to comply with the state's mandate or the state's rule that says that you can mandate masks, but you can have a parental opt out. if that goes forward, there's going to be some interesting politics to it. the science is changing and the virus is changing. our infection rates are high. hospitalization rates are really high. it does appear cases are plateauing, but they're plateauing at a really high level. >> at a really high level. >>> mark, the president has made veiled remarks about governor desantis and governor abbott about if you're not going to help, at least get out of the way. has governor desantis responded in any way to the veiled comments from the president? >> well, yeah. at one point a few weeks ago, desantis kind of changed the subject to james' point earlier to talk about immigrants at the border. saying if you get out of our w

host: gainesville, georgia, the line for those who have been vaccinated. thank you for allowing me to speak. in one of your comments a while ago, one of the big arguments and -- it has not been approved so i will not be vaccinated. however, i did pull up an article i thought was interesting this last week that said there was an application, the only application that has been set up and sent to the fda, it was pfizer. they were looking to expedite the approval sometime between now and february 2022. what i also thought was interesting was they said by dharna and -- they said moderna and johnson has not filed the application yet. that might be a roadblock people are looking at saying, it has not been approved. i would love to hear the comments from the doctor. guest: these up all been authorized under emergency use. there are a number of people who have said once against the full approval from the fda, they will roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated. that process from the fda often takes longer than a year. there is a lot of pressure on fda to try to get

the state's largest school district, broward schools did the same with gainesville's alachua county.could include lost salaries. this weekend miami-dade superintendent says he is content with whatever happens. >> i don't want to be the person who has to call a relative of some of the individuals who reached out to me that i've spoken with, nor do i want to make another phone call to someone to say how sorry we that their loved one is no longer here. reporter: the state's largest school district defying republican governor ron desantis' executive order the parent must have the right to exempt their child. they include miami-dade, broward, palm beach, hillsborough, tampa, a latch awwa, leon which is tallahassee, likely tomorrow orange county around orlando. sarasota is the only majority republican county to defy the governor who is not budging from the pushback. >> i think it is something that the parents should be deciding. i don't think it is something that the government should be deciding. reporter: also happening up in tallahassee today, the first lawsuit filed by parents against

host: let's go to gainesville, virginia. i apologize, do not want to butcher your name. caller: that is all right. good morning to you. before i touch onto the withdrawal, i want to refer to lindsey graham being on "face the nation." i do not think lindsey graham has any credibility. this guy does all kinds of things based on political whims. he said trump was a nasty man, and then he came back to support trump. he was against the supreme court justices being appointed during obama's time in election year, and he changed his mind when trump was in power. nobody cares about what lindsey graham says anymore. secondly, i think biden is doing the damn right thing with withdrawing these troops. he had the backbone to make a decision and stand by it. $2 trillion, soldiers killed, innocent people killed. $2 trillion, imagine what we could have done in this country with a broken health care system, middle-class struggling to survive, and broken infrastructure. two trillion dollars. how many more trillions are we going to spend, and how many precious american lives are we going t

also have the support of my county commissioners, i believe my city commissioners in the city of gainesvillecontinue to push forward. this is a challenge. i mean, i understand the power that i am pushing up against. i don't under estimate that, but i also feel that i need to do this in order to look at myself in the mirror every night and to sleep at night. and this is just something that i have to do. >> i so wish some politicians would do that as well. look in the mirror at night and actually think about this. i really appreciate it, carlee simon, superintendent. thank you for staying strong and for protecting the children of your county. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. i appreciate it. >>> gene robinson -- yeah. yep. >>> gene robinson, i again, i cannot -- i cannot believe we are here, but then again, we always ask, where is the bar? and for the republican and for this specific republican governor, it appears there is no bar. there is no lower low than he can go. he keeps going lower. and he's going to have more and more dead constituents. i don't understand the math here at