these pictures from jacksonville. there have been families rescued from their homes and tonight, emergency crews are searching for nine people missing off key west. a boat carrying 22 people capsizing in the storm. more than a dozen rescued. the images of deputies wading through the flood waters, helping to evacuate residents. homes flooded in gainesville. the storm bringing down trees, landing on cars. at least one dead in jacksonville. this image from brandon, florida, tonight, that driver was able to get out. elsa moving through florida, now ready to take aim right up the east coast. tropical storm warnings in effect from georgia all the way to the carolinas all the way up into the northeast at this hour. this is going to move right into the i-95 corridor. d.c., philadelphia, new york and boston. but of course we begin in florida with the damage already, and abc's will reeve leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, elsa has the entire east coast on alert. the storm moving inland after pummeling much of florida over th

it's going to move on up to jacksonville. really the closest approach to jacksonville, a couple hours. that's where the winds will be the strongest. up towards savannah, winds strongest later tonight. moving to 6:00 a.m., myrtle, charleston, seeing onshore flow and a lot of surge. could be two to three feet of surge along the east coast because of the wind direction. that's where we are right now, the storm coming onshore right at this hour. >> chad myers, thanks for that update. we'll be speaking to the mayor of jacksonville in a few moments. first, let's get a look at things on the ground where thousands are without power right now as tropical storm elsa pounds the sunshine state. let's get over to cnn's randi kaye live in clearwater beach. randi, what are you seeing there? >> boris, let me first tell you what's happening in the keys just south of here. there was a boat that capsized and the search is on for nine missing people about 23 miles off of key west. we're getting information from the coast guard there that they've

reportero: por varias razones, una, porque los Árboles podrÍan haber quedado pendientes y en jacksonvillede las razones es porque todavÍa existe la posibilidad de formaciones de tornados y ademÁs los cables podrÍan haber caÍdo al suelo y estar cubriendo por inundaciones. en la ciudad de perry, esto ha pasado. ilia: una embarcaciÓn procedente de cuba naufragÓ por la tormenta. por lo menos nueve personas estÁn desaparecidas, 13 ocupantes fueron rescatados por la guardia costera. borja: vamos con albert sobre la informaciÓn de "elsa". albert: tengo el informe, 45 millas, ha perdido contacto con el ocÉano, lo que alimenta, pero los vientos son intensos en florida y georgia, jacksonville y savannah, con vientos intensos. va a seguir subiendo por el sur de georgia, por carolina del norte y carolina del sur, llegando hasta el Área tri estatal el viernes. se sentirÁn los efectos de "elsa", el huracÁn ha batido rÉcords, convirtiÉndose en la quinta tormenta mÁs temprana en recibir un nombre, el aÑo pasado "edward" fue la tormenta mÁs temprana en recibir nombre. la Última vez habÍa sido en 2005 con

the university of florida health system here in jacksonville is seeing more covid-19 patients now than at any other time during the pandemic. at one point last month, theythy had only 14 covid-positive patients. now there are 178, more than 90% are unvaccinated, and doctors fear we may not see the peak of this surge until september. wha has this been like for you? 62-year-old curtis sanderlin recently lost his wife to covid, now he, too, is battling to survive. did you get the vaccine, the shot? >> no, no, sir. >> reporter: is there a reason why you decided not to -- >> i haven't not decided not to get it, i just haven't, you know-- i have been contained. >> reporter: you haven't gotten around to it? >> right. >> reporter: more than one out of every five new covid cases in the u.s. are in florida. the state's cases jumped 60% in one week. >> we're going in the wrong direction. if you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases it's among unvaccinated people. the model predicts we'll be in trouble as we get more cases. >> reporter: today a groundbreaking question from the president

and new images tonight of an ef-1 tornado touching down in jacksonville, florida. winds damaging businesses there. and authorities have now confirmed it was an ef-2 tornado flipping trailers at a naval submarine base in kings bay, georgia. at least nine people hurt. and the other storms hitting late today, even before elsa. the images here in new york city tonight. major flooding on the major deegan expressway. police using barrier trucks to rescue stranded drivers. this tropical storm expected to hit new york city tomorrow morning. 50 million people all along the coast at risk of flood flashing. so, let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee leading us off again tonight with the latest track. good evening, ginger. >> reporter: good evening to you, david. i do think flash flooding will be the main threat for everyone going through tonight. however, elsa has caused a tornado in ever state that it has touched. so, we need to start with the imminent threat of tornado watches that extend through virginia, into the delmarva peninsula. maryland and delaware, you'r

that trail of destruction you mentioned is apparent here on the south side of jacksonville.as those possible tornadoes rip through this area in elsa's wake. on the other side of town, a man tragically losing his life in the incident. overnight, elsa slamming south carolina, a possible tornado leaving destruction in its path. the tropical storm turning deadly in jacksonville, florida, after another possible tornado touched down. aornado right there. that is a big tornado. >> reporter: one person killed after a fa his car. >> this poor gentleman was just driving probably heading home and tree came down and hit his car. >> reporter: this security camera capturing strong winds barreling through the street. the storm wreaking havoc causing this tree to crash into an apartment building. >> this power line came here and hit right on this fence, ba-boom and then that porch came down. >> reporter: the storm also spawning a possible tornado that tore through this rv park at kings bay naval base in georgia. >> it is utter chaos over here. >> reporter: flipping trailers upside down. >>

en jacksonville un hombre muriÓ cuando un Árbol decayÓ encima.rboles, destruyÓ techos se inundÓ un vecindario, luego centro su furia en georgia causando destrozos como estos. donde decenas de Árboles y tendidos elÉctricos quedaron esparcidos sobre casas y avenidas. tambiÉn en georgia un posible tornado golpeÓ una base de la marina dejando 10 heridos que tuvieron que ser hospitalizados. en carolina del sur las imÁgenes no dejan de ser menos fuertes. los aguaceros provocaron inundaciÓn como esta afectando la movilidad de miles de residentes. borja: albert martÍnez, nuestro experto. ¿hacia dÓnde se mueve elsa? albert: viento muy intenso y hacia dÓnde va? a 20 millas por hora. se ha acelerado un poquito y ahora estÁ en carolina del norte . si nos acercamos podemos ver esas bandas de lluvia, tambiÉn en jacksonville, una banda de lluvia que se llega a extender a 200 millas. un cono que nos demostrarÁ que lo largo de las prÓximas horas seguirÁ elsa moviÉndose paralela a la costa. luego en la noche y la tenemos delante de filadelfia, viento y lluvia, en

let me bring in the mayor of jacksonville, lenny curry. good to see you.duval county emergency operations center. what's the latest on the potential impact for your city? >> good morning. well, since we went to bed last night and woke up this morning, it took a slight move to the west, which is good for us, good for jacksonville, but we've been through this multiple times over the last five years. i've had to issue two evacuation orders over the last five years. so the weather is unpredictable. we're prepared for this one. we could have flash flooding. we're just asking people to be ready. but really, given that it's moved away from us a little bit, we're reminding people that it is hurricane season. you should know your evacuation zone. you should have your storm kit prepared. if you don't, this one is a reminder to do it. >> let's talk about the pace of this storm season. already ahead of last year's, which had held the record. how much does that worry you about how early we're seeing this? >> well, it's not a good feeling. again, having been through erm

do the right thing. >> cbs news, jacksonville. >>> this morning the congressional investigation into the deadly riot on the u.s. capitol is getting underway. it's getting back to the causes of the attack. according to a review of court documents, at least 543 are being charged and 23 are pleading guilty and the fbi has yet to identify more than 300 individuals believed to have committed violent acts on the capitol grounds. laura podesta is in new york. what can you tell us about what we can expect today? >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. today we'll hear opening statements, including one from congresswoman liz cheney. the last-minute decision to have cheney speak is to support the argument this party is in fact bipartisan. four officers say they were physically assaulted by the mob on january 6th. >> reporter: 6 1/2 months after a crowd stormed the capitol, they're holding the first hearing. >> an important opportunity to remind everybody about the necessity of accountability for what happened, for making sure tat it never happens again. >> the first witnesses are four police of

they say they've seen an explosion of cases, cases in the jacksonville area are doubling every week. take a listen to what one nurse told me about the recent surge and how it compares to what she saw in january of this year. >> we were told on thursday of last week that we would be going back to double beds and by saturday we were full of double beds. it was insane to go from having one covid patient to having all covid patients again. and it's just insanity. it really is. >> geoff, this hospital has seen a dramatic increase in just the last couple of days. i can't tell you, speaking with officials here a short time ago, they now have about 123 covid patients inside this hospital. at the beginning of sunday, they started with 86. that's a huge increase in 24 hours, more than 40% increase. they expect this to continue and to break their record they had in january at this hospital of 125 patients. they think they could break it today. again, four covid units here, they're planning to expand. the statewide positivity rate is 10%. back to you. >> we also have to talk about misinformation

host: janet in jacksonville. what do you say? caller: it got politicized when we see these people pouring over our border unmasked and unvaccinated and untested. what are we to think? we are just ignoring the southern border. my husband and i are vaccinated. we are fooling the american people by lying to them. that's my point. host: ray in colorado. a little history for you this morning. this is from a washington post article where the headline says the battle over masks has always been political. they went back to the 1918 flu pandemic. during that time, directives to wear mastic apolitical battle over gender and power. although they did not necessarily accord with partisan division. part of it was because of the different political situation in 1918. the pandemic coincided with 19 -- world war i and americans were more likely to side with the government. host: frank in pennsylvania, and independent. good morning two. caller: good morning. the statement you read a few moments ago regarding the psychology belonging to groups. tha

actividad de lluvia, vigilancia de afectaciones para nueve millones de personas en riesgo desde jacksonvilleviento el movimiento hacia el norte llevarÁ este sistema miÉrcoles en la madrugoadas, cerca de tampa, y vean, las zonas en amarillo son zonas que van a estar viendo vientos con intensidad de vientos tropicales, de 39 a 73 millas por hora, para el miÉrcoles a media maÑana entrando en algÚn punto del noroeste de la penÍnsula y el miÉrcoles en la tarde saliendo por jacksonville nuevamente con vientos de tormenta tropical, hablamos de los acumulados de precipitaciones, pueden caer de 4 a 6 pulgadas de lluvia sobre todo en las localidades en amarillo y rojo oscuro, si se fija en el movimiento al nordeste del paÍs no solo florida, sino georgia, las carolinas y tambiÉn asÍ localidades del noreste de los estados unidos, estarÁn viendo lluvia intensa, los residentes en tampa se preparan para lo que es la marejada. puede aumentar de 2 a 4 pies de altura, y recuerden que la marejada ciclÓnica es la entrada de agua sobre el litoral, no es el oleaje, es un aumento en el nivel del mar que de igual f

because it camped is kind of the tail that wags the dog in jacksonville, north carolina. economically, the population and many of the member of our churches work retired marines and navy. people worked on the base and civilians. so my first time to really rub shoulders with military personnel and i can remember when my wife and i came down for the job interview. late-summer in 1981. when i graduated seminary i consider myself a pacifist, think many seminaries do pretty so i can remember entering the area within the search committee asked me how you feel when you drive under the camp i'm certainly going have opportunities to do that, work with military family so how are you going to feel when you do that predict remember exactly what is remember back to the hotel but i did tell my wife and it think i just blew the job interview because i said them a pacifist and i don't have problems working with military people but on antiwar pretty well fortunately i did not blow the job interview so we came there. i began to learn what it's like, military people are like everybody else

. >> reporter: at uf health jacksonville the number of covid-19 cases has doubled since last week. >>se we thought that we were towards the end of it, and within not even two days we are back to being just like it was in december/january. >> reporter: the director of infection prevention, chad nielsen, tells us the surge is driven by the highly contagious delta variant and the unvaccinated. the overwhelming majority, 90% of their covid-19 patients, are not vaccinated. >> we could be an entire hospital full of covid in a matter of a month if things don't begin to slow down or vaccinations don't increase. we need policymakers at a higher level though to really listen to us, start doubling down on vaccination pushes, stop with disinformation campaigns on social media and really start helping the health care community because we're starting to reach a breaking point across the state. >> reporter: according to the white house last week, one in five covid-19 cases can be found in florida, and only about 48% of residents are fully vaccinated. governor ron desantis is encouraging floridians t

tonight reports of a likely tornado in jacksonville. elsa making landfall this morning on florida's gulf coast, bringing driving rain, whipping winds, and some road flooding, and thousands are without power tonight. the tornado threat in georgia and the carolinas continues, and this rare early july storm is headed for the midatlantic and northeast later this week with tropical storm alerts now extending about a thousand miles. we begin tonight with catie beck in tampa. >> reporter: elsa is charging north, after intensifying to a category 1 hurricane and hammering florida's west coast. heavy rain and wind gusts up to 75 miles per hour. >> i wouldn't -- wouldn't want to live through a bigger hurricane, that's for sure. >> reporter: it was downgraded to a tropical storm earlier today after making landfall for the third time. >> a lot of rain, a lot of wind. shut us down for work. >> reporter: tonight a likely tornado in jacksonville leaving at least one person dead and a trail of destruction. in gainesville, emergency crews are evacuating

the university of florida health system here in jacksonville is seeing more covid-19 patients now than at any other time during the pandemic. at one point last month, they had only 14 covid-positive patients. now there are 178, more than 90% are unvaccinated, and doctors fear we may not see the peak of this surge until september. 62-year-old cu s d ythecoo >> no, sir. >> rorter: is ere a reasonwhy y- >> i haven't decided not to get it, i just haven't, you know-- i have been contained. >> reporter: you haven't gotten around to it? anne out of eve five new covid cases in 6 one week >> we're going in the wrong direction. if you look at the inflection of the curve of new cases it'prpl e cases. >> reporter: today a groundbreaking question from the president, the lingering impacts from covid including brain fog and chronic pain are now covered under the americans with disabilities act. meanwhile, pfizer and moderna are both weighing expanding the size of their vaccine studies in kids as young as five, recommendatisevorhe unvaccinate. today more than 50 health organizations including the amer

health in jacksonville, they have more than 100 covid patients right now in the jacksonville area. they're seeing cases double each week, chris. what's going on here? as we have been hearing, the vast majority, almost entirely really of patients that are in there are patients that are unvaccinated. speaking with several people in arkansas and tennessee last week, the vaccination rates there are lower than here. in florida, vaccination rate is 47%. relatively high, considering other parts of the country are lower than that in the 30s. but there's a great reluctance and distrust of the vaccine. we have been hearing that play out with the surgeon general saying warning of misinformation, when it comes to the vaccine. there are certain pockets in the country, certain parts of florida especially, that they're not getting vaccinated. they made a decision not to get vaccinated, and they're ending up here. the positivity rate in this state, chris, is around 10%. again, right now, there are more than 100 people, 100 covid patients in the hospital alone. doctors and nurses we speak with say

now, cnn's randi kaye visited a florida hospital in jacksonville that's now really in crisis mode, randy, and i understand people there are more or less begging at this point for the vaccine. >> they absolutely are, and you will hear from some of them in a moment, john, but this hospital i visited, baptist medical center in jacksonville where nearly 100% of their new covid patients are unvaccinated. they're getting new patients every day, and even if they are eligible for the shot, they didn't get it. that's why they're in the hospital now fighting to survive. >> the increase started happening so quickly, and it's multiplying so fast every single day, we can't open up beds fast enough to meet the demand. >> we met chief nursing officer tammy daniel in jacksonville's baptist medical center on one of the hospital's covid floors where those battling covid are kept in special rooms, reserved for patients with infectious diseases. baptist is treating 389 covid patients. that's an increase of about 11% from last week. 83 of the patients are in the icu and on ventilators fighting to survive. ba

luego se desplazara hacia jacksonville y durante el miÉrcoles y jueves las carolinas tambiÉn se verÁn0 a 4:00 pulgadas. el viento en tampa entre las 20, 30,40 millas y atenciÓn a esa subida del nivel que puede llegar a dos o tres pies y la lluvia que puede provocar estas inundaciones y recuerda algÚn tornado aislado. toca estar pendiente del celular. patricia: gracias, albert. como siempre el sur del paÍs muy afectado por esta clase de tormentas. mientras tanto, en la otra costa los equipos de rescate siguen trabajando noche y dÍa para encontrar a las vÍctimas del derrumbe del edificio en surfside. siguen sacando escombros y pertenencias de quienes residÍan en ese edificio. todos esos objetos eran analizados por los investigadores en busca de pistas sobre las causas del derrumbe. allÍ en surfside esta guillermo gonzÁlez con la Única informaciÓn sobre esta tragedia. guill es la cara mÁs cercana de la tragedia ocurrida en surfs. por primera vez desde que ocurriÓ las cÁmaras muestran la dimensiÓn del desastre desde otra perfectad —— perspectiva. todo cobra mayor dramatismo. a pesar de qu

a good primary and secondary education went to stand in high school in jacksonville later he became therincipal. deeply into music early on from his parents to all and a piano. he lived in a house with the piano. his brother become a great pianist and composer. as a first career it was on broadway. for about six years him and his brother moved to new york and his brother stayed. 1900 through 19 oh six and black performer musician had a vodka lacked and they also wrote songs for the early broadway. some of these were plantation songs. they were sentimental southern songs in some ways and are the bamboo tree is the most famous that stayed in our repertoire of the music companies for a long time. but they traveled the entire country with the vaudeville act. but then he lost that went into the foreign service as a diplomat. had you go from vaudeville to diplomacy? [laughter] he served as the consulate to nicaragua and venezuela over a four-year period he was in venezuela during coup d'État. he quits the foreign service around 1910 it comes back to new york city although he had some periods

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jillian: a massive funnel cloud spotted over jacksonville, florida. authorities say at least one person was killed after a tree fell on his two cars, a tree falling during heavy rain and no one else was hurt. also taking aim at georgia. >> trailers upside down, trailers in the lake. >> possible tornado splits trailers wide open at a naval submarine base in georgia. the military says 10 people were hurt, no damage was done to any military equipment. tropical storm elsa remains weak and bus resilience at the national hurricane center says elsa is packing wind speeds of 45 miles per hour. a tropical storm watch is in effect the coast of north carolina, virginia before forecasters say it will move out to the atlantic friday. jillian: fox news alert police killing four suspect and arresting two others in the assassination of haiti's president, the police officers got into a gunfight with the assailants, three officers were held hostage but have since been freed. none of the suspect has been identified. they were shot and killed after calm. the first lady w

and this hospital in jacksonville is now one of the many scrambling to keep up as the cdc director points out this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. this morning a troubling sense of covid deja vu. many hospitals are seeing younger and sicker patients. >> we'roverwhelming numbers. it is a lot faster. things are worse. >> nationwide cases are up nearly 70% in the last week. deaths 26%. >> california is open again. >> a month after california essentially put covid in the rearview mirror, it boomeranged in the state. los angeles just reimposed it's indoor mask mandate even for vaccinated people as it deals with 1,000 new cases every day. >> m afraid this mask will start to adhere to my face. >> over the weekend five texas democrats that travelled to dc to stall their state's controversial voting rights legislation tested positive for covid even though they had all been vaccinated. today illinois will announce the winners of the statewide lottery in an effort to encourage them to get the shot. around the country vaccination rates dropped by more than 35% in the last week. in part th

. ♪♪ jillian: live look at jacksonville, florida. they might, it would be welcome to us.d: happy thursday. it has been discussed that if you listen to pentagon briefings they said it is not all going to be fun and games. jillian: you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning. todd: i am todd piro, 30 or veteran of the police force & killed outside in fbi building hours after another officer and two federal agents were shot in chicago. jillian: president biden touched down in the windy city. here is more on the meeting between the president and chicago's mayor. >> reporter: terre haute police say a member of the police department and fbi task force was ambushed and killed in broad daylight wednesday afternoon outside in fbi building, the suspect later shot by another agent and is in custody in the hospital. police have not said what the motive was an are expected to release more details today. >> it is not a good time to be a police officer in america. this is an example of who they are. we are not bad people. >> his death, three undercover officers riding i

high winds caused a tree to fall on two cars in jacksonville, florida killing one person.vy rain is across the state and thousands of customers lost power. meanwhile a suspected tornado has injured several people at the naval submarine base in kings bay, georgia. more now from karen maginnis. >> already during the overnight hours there was a report of a tornado associated with elsa in the vicinity just to the south of charleston, south carolina in a coastal area. we don't have any reports of any injuries, but some damage reported there. there is one fatality in jacksonville and in coastal georgia, ten reports of injuries, most considered minor. right now tropical storm elsa, 45-mile-per-hour winds. doesn't sound like it is very significant, but just wait. this is doing to have legs. it will move up towards the mid-atlantic. eventually on towards the cape region and chesapeake bay area. and then towards the delaware bay area. eventually into new england. and still could see potential for flooding, even an isolated tornado as some of the bands with this will usher in some gu

embargo, la mayor actividad de lluvia recae sobre el cuadrante noreste, por consiguiente, tampa y jacksonville, georgia, carolina del sur y carolina del norte, la situación de inundaciones pudiera ser significativa . >> cuando hablmaos de 8 pulgadas de lluvia cuánta agua es esa? 14 mil galones de agua que pudierna caer en una residencia, por consiguiente, hablamos que las inundaciones pudieran ser inminentes en esas localides, hay que resaltar que esta noche se pueden desarrollar pequeños tornados en la oscuridad donde las personas deben estar alertas. >> mucho cuidado con eso, muchas gracias . >> buenas noches . >> también las lluvias han causado estragos en ciudad de méxico, el aguacero inundó calles en tres municipios del estado de méxico, un hospital también quedó sumergido en agua, lo que obligó a evacuar a pacientes y bebés . >> familiares no sabían dónde habían sido trasladadas las personas. >> no sé, no dicen nada desde ayer, bueno, desde ayer que venimos nos dieron un número . >> las inundaciones causaron la muerte de una persona, daños en más de 400 casas . >> (música) (música) los d

jacksonville. 140% increase in cases in less than a week. we visited them last monday. they had three covid-19 patient units. today they have five. and they are begging for more help, more help from the state and more help from federal government, saying they need more funding to deal with staffing shortages, to hire more travel nurses, as well as more logistic resources. otherwise this is a health system that will break very soon. >> leyla santiago in miami, thank you so much. the pandemic resurgence is also looking grim in alabama where the number of hospitalized covid patients has spiked to 870. that's a number that has more than quadrupled since the fourth of july. republican governor kay ivey shared a blunt message for the unvaccinated. >> these folks are choosing a horrible lifestyle of self-inflicted pain. folks are supposed to have common sense. but it's time for them to start blaming the unvaccinated folks, not the regular folks. it's the unvaccinated folks that are letting us down. >> joi

tonight tropical storm elsa is barreling up the atlantic coast after unleashing a tornado in jacksonville, florida. one man was killed when a tree fell on his car. farther north, roads in new york city were flooded today, several vehicles got stuck, and drivers had to be rescued. let's get the latest on the forecast from cbs's lonnie quinn. good evening, lonnie. >> reporter: good evening to you, major. new york city catching a little bit of a break but the area outside the city got pounded up to 3, 4 inches of rain and that was not even related to else a e. there are two systems we're watching, both sort of moving in the direction of new york city, but you've got elsa down around richmond, virginia. then in portions of lehigh valley, you've got a front. they're going to squeeze in on the same area, so the rainfall totals are going up. right now the storm is getting stronger. winds up to 50 miles per hour moving to the northeast at 21 miles per hour to the south of richmond now. by 2:00 in the morning around shrank city with wig rain. in new york city, long island into philadelphia by 2:00

she is the chief nursing officer at baptist medical center in jacksonville, florida. it is your medical center which is seeing this problem right now. you have said that you can't open up beds fast enough right now. what's happening in your hospital? what are you seeing? >> hi, kate. what we're seeing right now -- we actually have five hospitals over the jacksonville area. we're seeing patients coming into the emergency rooms very, very, very sick, needing to be admitted. the ones that need to be admitted are not vaccinated. the patients that come into the emergency rooms that have covid that have been vaccinated are going home. the really sick patients coming in are going into our progressive and icu areas. they need a high-flow amount of oxygen and they're creating the need for us to make more beds outside of our intensive care units. >> my colleague randi kaye spoke with a few of the unvaccinated patients you're talking about, that are so sick they need a high level of care in your hospital. i want to play something from two of them for our viewer. >> i have shortn

you can go to any store in town now in jacksonville and nobody is wearing a mask. so the statistics tell us we have a large number of unvaccinated people not wearing masks according to cdc recommendations. so for this to turn, we need people to get vaccinated, we need people to start wearing masks if they're unvaccinated and we really have to start thinking that this could spill into the under 12 population in the coming months as school restarts. and so if you're not going to get vaccinated for yourself, please at least do it for your children. >> yeah, the children under 12 who aren't even eligible to get vaccinated. chad nielsen, appreciate you spending some time with us today. thank you. >> thank you, erica. >>> the battle over investigating the insurrection, enflaming partisan tensions and sparking president trump to launch an unprecedented revenge effort against congresswoman liz cheney. delayed, controversial, but moving forward, the olympics now officially under way after the opening ceremony a short time ago in a mostly empty stadium. and here at home, som

of course different parts of the state are seeing this differently, but here in jacksonville and some of the surrounding counties -- or rather in the surrounding counties where there is less of a vaccination rate, there is some concern that this surge could continue not just for the coming weeks about you into the fall especially with back to school. >> and i emphasize that, doctor, because obviously florida is not alone. there are a number of states that are seeing surges. and the american academy of pediatrics came out today and said we think, our recommendation is, that students 2 and up ought to be wearing masks in a classroom even if they are vaccinated. that is not what the cdc policy is right now, would you expect them to follow suit, should they follow suit? what do you think? >> yeah, talk about how confusing it gets for the average person at home trying to figure it out. you have multiple agencies saying multiple different things. ideally the pandemic could have been beaten, but alas here we are. but everybody agrees that kids should be back in school in-person learning. and

hablamos con una doctora en jacksonville florida, que nos dice que 97% de las personas internadas constÁn vacunadas. >> no importa lo que alguien piensa antes de entrar al h hospital, si es verdad o no la vacuna. no importa lo que piensan. cuando estÁn en el hospital y una persona no puede respirar es horrible >> la doctora dice que estÁ completamente de acuerdo con la nueva recomendaciÓn de hilos l, y con la nueva variante delta estÁn viendo mÁs casos infantiles. es momento de extra e extremar precauciones para e enfrentar esta ola >> no estamos libres de la pandemia, gracias lourdes hurtado. es importante recordar eso y vacunarse. si quiere mÁs informaciÓn sobre la vacuna c contra la covid-19 puede visitar planifica tu vacuna. en medio de esta pandemia en california los mayores de 50 aÑos cuentan con cobertura mÉdica aunque sean indocumentados. experto esperan que 250,000 personas incluyendo migrantes sin papeles apliquen al programa. >> (mu la versiÓn californiana de medicare solo cubrÍa a un pequeÑo grupo de personas. hablamos del calor, calor y mÁs calor. una alerta de temperatur

randi kaye reports tonight on what she saw at a major hospital in jacksonville, that's struggling justthe increase started happening so quickly and it's multiplying so fast, every single day. you can't open -- enough to meet the demands. >> reporter: we met chief nursing officer, tammy daniel, in jacksonville's baptist medical center. on one of the hospital's covid floors. where those battling covid are kept in special rooms, reserved for patients with infectious diseases. baptist is now treating 389 covid patients. that's an increase of about 11%, from last week. 83 of the patients are in the icu and on ventilators. fighting to survive. baptist says more than 99% of the infected patients here are not vaccinated. and dr. michelle akino says, those getting really sick are younger, too. >> i've admitted perfectly healthy 19-year-old woman. okay? a perfectly healthy 25-year-old. so you are seeing these healthy people, that are walking around saying i don't need a vaccine. i'm fine. if i get covid, i'll be fine and that's not true. for the delta variant, we are really seeing that is not tr

it's a story our randi kaye heard, quite a bit, during her visit to a hospital in jacksonville, florida, and she joins us now. so you went to the covid ward at the hospital. what did you see there? >> anderson, we were at baptist medical center on the covid floor in jacksonville and i saw doctors and nurses gredesperate trying to save lives. the number of covid patients is increasing right now. they have 349 covid patients. 74 of them are in the icu. 72 of those 74 are on ventilators. that's how serious it is. they are also turning regular hospital beds now into icu beds because they need them so badly. we were there yesterday and on that same day, they had 60 new-covid patients come in. and i am told that 57 of those 60 were eligible for the vaccine. and, anderson, only one of them had, actually, received it. and that's the problem. 99.6% of the covid patients at that hospital are unvaccinated. so, i spoke to one nurse. and she told me that, in their desperate times, here they are facing a ventilator or being intubated. these unvaccinated patients are begging for the vaccine. listen to

we're joined from jacksonville. manny, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anthony. a the -- at one point, they had only 14 covid positive patients. now there are 178. more than 90% of them are unvaccinated. for the staff here it's not necessarily reliving the worst of the pandemic because this is the highest number of covid-19 patients they have seen since it started. >> my wife and me had been together for 31 years. >> 62-year-old curtis sanderland lost his wife joy from covid-19. now he's fighting for his life at this jacksonville hospital. >> how are you feeling right now as far as your ability to breathe and what this virus has done to you? >> it goes -- my breathing goes -- it comes and goes. >> reporter: but the grief remains. sanderland who struggled to get through the interview is not vaccinated but interestingly, neither are about half the staff at the health system where he's being treated says chad neilson at the university of florida health. >> people frequently ask, why aren't more of your staff vaccinated? we say they'll still part of the general popul

i'm actually on the ground right now here in jacksonville and it is a very tense scene. a lot of the cavalier attitudes we have seen before when it came to the virus have looked to be receding are now back. more people are wearing their masks. we see less folks outdoors. and i think a lot of that has to do with rond desantis's disastrous approach. but really kudos to president biden, who today took control of the situation that even was harming him and his administration. let's make no mistake. the success or failure of the biden presidency, you can even argue the success or failure for the united states is about containing the covid virus. with the delta variant spread, that was harming president biden. how do we know that? because his approval ratings were dropping and they were tracking his approval ratings on his handling of the virus. today, though, as you heard dr. roy mention, they have reasserted control. these mandates on masks and vaccines for federal employees i think will start to set a tone. and how do we know this is working? because in the state of kentuck

chad nelson is the director of infection prevention as uf health jacksonville.for being here. it's astonishing to hear you broke a record for covid-positive patients that you had set back in january when most of us felt that the pandemic was at its height. and now, of course, that's preventible. so how frustrating is it for all of the folks there at your hospital? >> yeah, thanks for having me on, alisyn and victor. extremely frustrating to be honest. when the vaccines became eua approved and we started to disseminate them into the communities, there was almost a sigh of relief amongst health care workers, myself included, our hospital workers, because we saw a way out of this. now that we're two, three months after the vaccination campaigns have started to stagnate, cases are exploding in our hospital and in our communities and everybody is getting really worn down and frustrated. >> one of the frustrating things, i think people choosing not to get the vaccine think that they're just making a choice for themselves. they are willing to take their own risk but th

. >> reporter: amanda of jacksonville, florida, says she now has second thoughts about not getting vaccinated. the 20-year-old's father died from covid last month, and her mother is now fighting the virus in the icu. amanda, who was also infected, says she and her parents decided to wait to get the vaccine. >> we wanted to do a little more research and, you know, it's just something that we just didn't do right away, but it's definitely now something that we are going to want to get after all of this gets taken care of. >> this morning the american hospital association is now calling for mandatory vaccination for all health care workers. >>> and we turn now to the incredible images coming in from extreme flooding in colorado in areas previously burned by wildfires. meanwhile, farther west authorities in oregon and california are taking new action today hoping to prevent more wildfires from spreading during this historic drought. this morning, extreme weather conditions now coming in the form of deadly mudslides and raging wildfires. at least 78 fires are burning across 13 states. the biggest

roll through tomorrow morning, 75 miles per hour, category 1 hurricane, then just to the west of jacksonville. 65 miles per hour winds and through the carolinas by thursday morning, 40 mile-per-hour winds and start to exit towards virginia with winds of over 35. as it moves into florida, here's what we can expect, two to five inches of rainfall. isolated flash flooding. >> we have a lot happening with weather. another live look in florida. next hour, nightly news will continue our coverage of this hurricane. be sure to watch nightly news at its new time, 6:30 p.m. >>> it is going to be a tough fire season. check out this map. crews are gaining ground on the three big wildfires up north, the lava fire at the foot of mt. shasta, about 70% contained while the tenant fire is just over 50% contained. redding, firefighters are concerned about wind this is week. >>> we have new details on the explosion down in l.a. a cache of illegal fireworks found in a home. the suspect is out of jail tonight but neighbors are still suffering from the explosion. here's kim baldonado from nbcla. >> their faces show

in jacksonville, a tree fell landing on two cars and killing at least one person. officials have yet to release a tally of injuries and deaths due to this storm. >>> well, new video tonight shows the scary conditions firefighters are already facing this fire season. the national weather service tweeted out this video of a fire tornado from this fire burning. crews with the u.s. forest service shot this video last tuesday just one day after the ten innocent fire started. the national weather service says its radar also picked up this fire tornado. the ten innocent fire is one of three big ones burning right now in northern california. the s contained. the lava fire burning near the town of weed is 51% contained. and the tenant fire is 71% contained. >>> i'm jeff ranieri. heat warnings here for parts of the bay area. we will go over that hot weather coming our way in just about eight minutes. >>> plus, the bay area's reservoir in danger. but don't worry. a fix is now underway, but it will take years. how the south bay be get its water in the meantime. >>> and making

. >> reporter: in jacksonville, a driver was killed when a twister blew a tree down on to his car. >> this is dangerous. this is force. mother nature is taking effect. >> reporter: several suspected tornadoes were reported as elsa lingered over the south. >> the sky got real dark and then real bright over here. then the rain stopped. dead stop. i walked on my porch and i look over and i could see the twister going by. >> reporter: the storm is now creeping up the east coast. national weather service says elsa could intensify as its eastern side spins out over the atlantic. storm watches and flood warnings have been extended as far as new england. >> officials in georgia say they believe around ten people were injured when a possible tornado struck an rv park. >>> national hurricane center says tornadoes in carolinas are possible before the system moves north. >>> in california, evacuations and road closures in mendocino county have been lifted after a fast moving brush fire sparked near red wood valley. last check cal fire says flames have burned at least 80 acres and fire is 20% cont