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let's get more from the state attorney for palm beach county, florida. this is a huge development.f a win is this for britney spears, all of her fans for months and months have been begging for this to happen. >> yeah. jim, this is a big win for brittney and all of her fans. they have been trying to get jayny off the conservatorship because once he's gone then the conservatorship can wrap up. he's the problem here. he's making money off her performances and albums. at the same time, he's supposed to protect her best interest. it seems like there is a conflict of interest. well, now that he seems to be going out of the picture, you can expect this conservatorship to start wrapping up because, although the it won't end immediately, the process will be begin now that she has her own lawyer that she herself got to choose. >> jaime was fighting to remove him. what led to this change? >> you know, it is hard to say, but the rhetoric has ratcheted it up. she has her own lawyer for the first time in 13 years because before this the court appointed her lawyer and there was talk that her law

. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida. >> in one florida county covid has claimed the lives of two teachers and a teaching assistant all before the start of the school year. all three were unvaccinated and all three died within one day of one another. i want to bring in the president of the broward county teachers union. anna, this is all so tragic. how are your teachers coping? >> our teachers are coping because they're having faith in our broward county public elected school board members and our newly appointed interim superintendent. they are standing really strong and really giving out some great conversations that they really care about the community. they voted in favor of the mask mandate, keeping all of our protocols that we had in from last school year and what we put in through our summer experience to make sure that everybody that comes onto campuses and into school buildings in any broward

i live in palm beach, florida. so i see the people that come through here every single week and kissed the ring of donald trump and some of them would surprise you greatly. ok, david, i saw you were being dismissive, explained it was all go ahead, david. well, i think it's important to remember when john was elected in 2016, the republican party held the white house and both houses of congress. and over the next 4 years, they proceeded to lose them all which, which probably says a lot about the power and i was just talking about florida. that was just a special election of florida. we are trans canada a last i remember. ready when he was elected in 2016, i told friends, it actually might be a good thing, because you had requested one. the republicans would have had 4 more years to increase their margin. and that house increase their margin in the senate and eventually a rubio or a cruise of. busy one of one and they really would have control the power and what trump has done as he has made the public party not bigg

palm beach county at it state's tenth largest school district.have a mask mandate, but parent are allowed to opt out for any reason, but this is exactly why you saw scenes like we saw playing out across the country. parents are very concerned about the masks. many of them fighting to get those masks in place so it doesn't happen -- what they see in palm beach county doesn't happen to them. here in florida, it's an uphill battle, because as you know, the governor banned mask mandates in schools. he wants parents to have a choice and he wants them to be able to opt out, and the cdc, of course, wants universal masking for students k-12. but again, you see those scenes playing out across the country. it's certainly a battle, anderson. >> randi, thanks. for more on the threat posed to kids by the delta variant surge, we want to bring in medical analyst dr. leana wen. you saw the parents questioning whether masks work. last night i spoke to a researcher from duke university who studied more than a million students and staff in north carolina. according

talking serious money and we're just talking about palm beach county.o here they've decided, kids must wearing a masks, but the parents can sign something and they can opt out. 's in broward county, the decision will be, there's no opting out. you must -- you must -- go to school with a mask when school starts later this month. listen to what some of the parents had to say about government telling them what their children must do for safety purposes. >> i want them to be protected when they go back to school. i don't want to send them into an unsafe environment. we knows mask kids safe. >> people want to wear masks, it's their choice to do that, but as a parent who does not want their kid wearing a mask we should have a choice as well. shouldn't just be one-sided. >> reporter: this is very much a political debate in the state of florida and the best way to reflect that here on "meet the press" daily look at the counties that pushed back against the governor and look how those counties voted in the presidential election. the counties coming up with eithe

, and i actually spoke with a school board member from palm beach county school board, alexandria ayalaas improved to impose the mask mandates in the school. she tells me it's actually the strictest mask policy that they have having in the state when school is back in session on monday. she says that it's strict because it does not give the parents the option to opt out. they were not allowed to use medical exemptions as well. the only way they can get out of these mask requirements is if they have a disability, and this will be determined on a case-by-case basis. or for miami-dade and hillsboro they also last night passed a mask mandate in their schools although they do allow for medical exemptions. here's ran desantis, the governor today, near tampa criticizing these moves along with the white house. >> you have this obsession that a little 5-year-old, you know, should not be able to go to school without wearing that mask for eight hours a day and just as a parent, you know, i'm offended that the figured thinks that they know better than we do as parents. >> reporter: as you are aware

>> yeah, anderson, that's happening right here in palm beach county.nd day of school 440 students are in quarantine after covid was detected. according to the online dashboard for the palm beach county school district, they say that more than 50 cases have been confirmed among students and teachers. they are spread across 20 schools. at one high school there are seven students who tested positive. one elementary school there are four students who tested positive. now, palm beach county is the state's tenth largest school district. they do have a mask mandate. but parents are allowed to opt out for any reason. but this is exactly why you saw scenes like you saw in our story playing out across the country. parents are very concerned about the masks, many of them fighting to get the masks in place so it doesn't happen what they're seeing here in palm beach county doesn't happen to their district and their children. but here in florida it is an uphill battle because as you know the governor issued that executive order banning mask mandates in schools. he w

in miami-dade, palm beach, parts of the interstate four corridor.re are certain parts of florida i would see you doing just fine and. but i'm not sure what's your sales pitch is to desantis republicans. why they need to get rid of a governor that by many accounts, they appear to be perfectly happy with. especially since florida has not had a democratic governor since i was in high school. and the republican governors in florida, have really tried politically and culturally with the gop. including its support of donald trump. what is your pitch to desantis republicans, for why they should fire him and hire you. >> first of all, i just one two and a half years ago. commissioner of agriculture. this is typically held by a republican. i swung that by 17 points. and i had a very consistent message. it was issues that transit bipartisan politics. things that were important to the people of our state. back in 2018 i was very messaged and disciplined. we'd, water, weapons. that's the same message i'm going to continue to take across our state. it's not abou

de miami dade y condado de broward inician ciclo escolar esperando que no suceda lo ocurrido en palm beachados están afectados 440 estudiantes están en cuarentena el superintendente responsabiliza a ron desantis al permitir que la mascarilla sea opcional una batalla idéntica libra dallas se impuso ya también el uso obligatorio de la mascarilla y según darío washington post 10 mil estudiantes ya están e cuarentena y esto esperan que se supere al abrir más distrito escolar en las próximas semanas >> muchas gracias, muy complicado pero en todo esto algo hay de positivo aumenta nuevamente la vacunación casi un millón de personas pusieron la vacuna este vienes, en promedio 712 por días, casi 200 mil más que a mediados de julio. todavía hay muchos casos que ilustran la tragedia como una dre en la florida, que murió de covid-19 a días de haber dado a luz, son las pocas fotografías que alcanzó a tomarse con su hija, la mujer de 30 años tenía neumonía por covid-19 y tristemente falleció. el repunte de casos tiene al límite a muchos en texas, llamados al 911 dejaron al sistema sin ambulancias, tambi

schools and on buses for all students attending palm beach county district-operated schools, unless student's parent/guardian chooses to opt out of this requirement. to opt out, a parent has to send a signed note telling the child's first period teacher. it was noted this policy may change in 30 days after it's re-evaluated. this comes after governor ron desantis signed an order threatening to withdraw funds. on friday it was said the schools could mandate masks with parents opting out. former president donald trump said people should get a vaccine but says parents should be able to opt out. >> i got a vaccine. it took five months. it was supposed to be five years. i'm a big fan. at the same time, i'm a big fan of our freedoms, and people have to make that choice for themselves. i would recommend that they get it and they get it done and they're being protected and the vaccines turn out to be a tremendous thing. i also feel strongly there are some people who do not want to do it, and i really believe in somebody's choice, somebody's freedom, and that's the way it is. >> former presi

la florida 3 profesores y un ayudante de maestro murieron, 3 de ellos no estaban vacunados ,en palm beach a martín berlanga por su reporte, sabemos el estado de la florida lidera el número de casos de todo el país ,pero mientras tanto en los Ángeles una preocupante denuncia ocupa fuerzas en las redes sociales y es que algunos policías no usan mascarillas cuando patrullan o atienden una emergencia. >>> a veces cuando acuden a una emergencia o simplemente patrullando las calles algunos policías en los Ángeles no usan cubrebocas, videos así aparecen en redes sociales, en este la oficial le pregunta al hombre si no tiene nada mejor qué hacer, los policías de los Ángeles están obligados a usar mascarilla en público, se confirmó solo 44 por ciento de los oficiales están vacunados, (nombre en inglés) un activista, calcula que tiene grabaciones de aproximadamente 800 oficiales (habla en inglés). >>> solo en esteía se ha tenido que utilizar entre 40 50 mil dólares en pagos por enfermedad a los policías por covid ,hoy vio a dos oficiales que no usaban las reglas, uno en la misma estación de policía

aseguró que dará recursos federales y en el condado hillsborough hay unos 2 mil niños aislados y en palm beachemundo. >> pasamos a haití porque crece la tragedia por el terremoto que ha dejado más de 1400 víctimas fatales y miles de heridos y ahora están amenazados por la tormenta tropical grace, vamos con los detalles. >> la llegada de la tormenta tropical grace amenaza con agravar la devastación del terremoto del sábado que afectó a la nación más pobre del continente sudamericano. >> los rescastistas tuvieron que apurar las labores antes que lleguen las lluvias y también ayudon a miles de desplazados que montaron casas de campañas con sábanas y palos en las calles y estadios pero la prioridad es encontrar sobrevivientes y estas bajan en esperanzas. >> a medida que remuev escombros la realidad golpea, acaban de encontrar un cuerpo en un hotel que se derrumbó aquí en los cayos. >> varios países ya enviaron ayuda, estados unidos un equipo para búsqueda y rescate, y países como méxico, colombia y chile enviaron toneladas de alimentos y medicina. >> colombia envía ayuda de búsqueda y salvamento c

♪) >>> un grupo de médicos de la florida se concentran para llamar la atención en el condado de palm beach luchar contra el covid-19 porque algunos confían en este medicamento según la administración de alimentos y medicamentos (fda) como remedio contra el covid-19 tenemos más información >>> la administración de alimentos y medicamentos (fda) lanzó una oferta ante el aumento de hospitalizaciones por el consumo de este medicamento para ganado que muchas personas lo están consumiendo como cura contra el covid-19 lo que puede ser peligroso según expertos >>> tienen efectos secundarios como dolores de cabeza vómitos y una sobredosis como para un caballo puede matar una persona >>> tiene uso médicos legítimos pero no contra el covid-19 pero sí las vacunas disponibles la pfizer está a punto de recibir la aprobación total por parte de la administración de alimentos y medicamentos (fda) (habla en inÉs) (información en pantalla) >>> (mostrando estadísticas) >>> de acuerdo a los centros para el control y prevención de enfermedades (cdc): >>> (mostrando estadísticas) >>> de ahí el llamado y esfuerzo

palm beach governor desantis said no mask mandates.rict there has said now the kids, no matter if they're vaccinated or not, they cannot opt out of this mask mandate they have to wear masks. steve: we will keep you posted. we have a parent's panel coming up in the 7:00 hour. 6:30 exactly here in the east. coming up, as the clock particulars towards the august 31st deadline next tuesday in afghanistan. our next guest is spending every waking minute to save her fiancee from the taliban. she joins us live with the being exhaustive effort in trying to get them out. brian: plus -- the six figure reward trying to find the gunman responsible for killing off duty police officer. the clues detectives have next. ♪ is struggling to manage your type 2 diabetes knocking you out of your zone? lowering your a1c with once-weekly ozempic® can help you get back in it. oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! my zone... lowering my a1c, cv risk, and losing some weight... now, back to the game! ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c un

this is in palm beach county. the kids here have been told to wear masks. their parents can opt out. in some of the community in the state they're defying the governor saying no, you must wear masks and there won't be an opt out. the governor says while the numbers are increasing and gives a nod to the fact the percentage of kids that are testing remains the same. so more kids are indeed, also showing at hospitals that they're testing positive for coronavirus, but it remains a constant of 1.3%. this is what the governor had to say a short time ago about his continued support of no mask mandates. >> our view is, of course, that we believe that this is a decision for the parent to make. what we found, fortunately, is there's actually higher infection rates when you're just in the community versus when you're in the classroom particularly for the younger kids. these kindergartners and first graders are not people that are really transmitting this in significant levels. i think what they do is do what they've been doing and if there's somebody that's sick, stay

parents of about 4% of students opted out in orange and palm beach county public school districts. in lee county. in palm beach county where schools started this week, father of two michael says that he thinks parents should not be able to opt out at all. >> just because you have rights doesn't mean you have no responsibilities. and i think you've got to take the responsible thing and let your kid wear a mask in school. >> reporter: sean sykes disagrees. >> it comes back to personal responsibility. i'm not going to tell anybody what to do, but they should support the fact that we may feel differently. >> reporter: some kids will be going masked and others maskless in the same classrooms as the debate and public health crisis continue. and broward county under a tight deadline right now. they have about another five minutes to respond to the state on how they plan to move forward or face a noncompliance investigation. >> all right, leyla santiago, thank you so much. >>> the entire world just set a brand-new record, and it isn't a good one. we're going to explain, up next. because we

leslie diaz, an infectious disease specialist in palm beach county.l karins for a check on the forecast. >> we continue to watch the devastation of henri. overnight henri is finally pushing past the coast of cape cod. it went across the catskills and crossed where it was at rhode island nearly two days ago. we have three areas to watch. the only area i'm concerned with is possible development in the lower caribbean. this could sneak up to the yucatan and possibly south texas in about a week from now. we'll watch that. otherwise it's the dog days of summer. 30 people under heat warnings today and it's going to be especially hot in areas of the deep south. look at new orleans, 112 degrees, 108 in st. louis, and that heat is spreading all the way to the east coast and the northeast from henri. >>> also we have the floods in tennessee. sam brock joins us from tennessee. >> reporter: the city of waverly is in a state of shock. >> there's people their whole lives are gone. >> look at that. >> reporter: floodwaters carried homes, upended businesses and stole

health officials in palm beach county say many getting vaccinated saturday at a mobile event were young people. >> covid is heating up and i think it is important that you know my kids get vaccinated. >> dr. fauchi does not think we will see a repeat of last year but warned that things will get worse. >> the unvaccinated by not being vaccinated allowing the propagation of the outbreak impacting everyone. >> the u.s. is seeing positive trends in getting people to roll up their sleeves. the white house saying four straight days of more than 700,000 vaccines being administered. as the country continues to grapple with the virus millions of americans are facing possible homelessness now that the eviction moratorium put in place last year to help people stay in their homes for the pandemic has expired. elwin lopez. abc news atlanta. >>> new developments now with evander kane. the sharks player is responding to allegations by his wife that he bet on his own games and threw them. the nhl has launched an investigation after a series of posts on social media yesterday by anna kain. he responded

officials in palm beach county saw many getting vaccinated and they were young. >> covid is heating up and it's important that my kids get vaccinated. >> reporter: dr. fauci does not think we will see repeat of the lockdowns but warned that things will get worse. >> the unvaccinated are allowing the propagation and the spread of the outbreak, which ultimately impacts everyone. >> reporter: the u.s. has seen positive trends getting people to get shots. there were four straight days of more than 700,000 vaccines being administered. as the country continues to grapple with this virus, millions of americans are facing homelessness. now that the eviction moratorium that was put in place last year to help people stay in their homes has expired. >>> new developments with evander kane. he is responding to allegations that he bet on his own games and through them. the nhl said they have launched an investigation after a series of posts on social media. he responded saying that he denied throwing a game or betting on the sharks games or any hockey game. he said he welcomes the investigation and

parents of about 4% of students opted out in orange and palm beach county public school districts.ly 15%. same in lee county. in palm beach county, where school started this week, father of two michael says that he thinks parents should not be able to opt out at all. >> just because you have rights doesn't mean you have no responsibilities. and i think you've got to take the responsible thing and let your kid wear a mask in school. >> reporter: shawn sykes disagrees. >> it comes back to personal responsibility. i'm not going to tell anybody what to do but they should support the fact that we may feel differently. >> reporter: some kids will be going masked and others maskless in the same classrooms as the debate and public health crisis continue. and the superintendent here in broward county doubling down, telling the state education commissioner in a letter that she plans to move forward with a mask mandate that has no opt-outs available for parents, something that the governor has said is noncompliant with his executive order. leyla santiago, cnn, ft. lauderdale. >>> joining me n

the latest coming last night at the palm beach county school board meeting due to rising cases of kids of boys and girls now in quarantine. in the 6-1 vote the board removed parent's ability to exempt their children. the latest school strict to dough phi republican governor ron desantis. miami-dade in tampa's hills bow row county did the same wednesday. orange county may join their mask mandate policies tuesday. broward and alatch i can't county already had for which the state board of education demanded for unspecified sanctions. while the president didn't name names, the administration clearly is aiming at republican governors like texas' greg abbott now covid positive and florida's ron desantis, both staunch opponents of mask mandates. >> i'm directing the secretary of education educator himself to take additional steps to protect our children this includes using all of his oversight's authorities and legal action if proponent against governors who are trying to block and intimidate local school officials and educators. >> education secretary miguel cardona is looking at deploying t

he's live from palm beach gardens. were really glad to see that. they are saying we're not able to perform basic surgeries that we need to perform on the people who desperately need them. >> reporter: absolutely. i mean the frustration reaching a level where you have about 100 doctors make being their way here for that simulated walk out. we put the drone up to give the visual so people can understand that this is incredibly rare where doctors, some coming off their shift from the covid wards, others getting ready to go on shift, gathering out here. among the drivers that drove an hour and a half here to union that gathering is dr. nelson. i'm curious, first of all, what's the message, the symbol jim of you all gathering. >> it's important for everybody to understand that this is a preventable condition that's running into disaster in health care because something that we have available for everybody, something that can be given, people can get, actually prevent these complications and they are not really going for it.

crystal is next out of west palm beach, florida. democrat. go ahead. caller: good morning. would definitely welcome the refugees in the community, but more than that, i would say that these people are obviously a part of our military, therefore they have a lot of military knowledge of operations, so i would say the country needs this community. i would also say, too, that i looked at some other news networks, not american, and they were saying the border countries surrounding afghanistan were actually ready for this great influx into their countries and it never happened, so these people are being transported to other countries, not just america. and i would say to fox news, i believe, is america's public enemy number one. host: that is crystal out of west palm beach, florida, taking your phone calls on the issues of other countries accepting refugees from afghanistan. a chart from -- again, these numbers change very rapidly, but this chart showing where the vast majority of refugees from afghanistan and up, and that of course is in the border countries there, pakistan and

one of those doctors is leslie diaz, infectious disease specialist to palm beach medical center.the medical director of found care, community health center county, and lucy advise geller is a member of the school board in miami, she voted in favor of the mask mandate and defiance of desantis and they both join me now. doctor diaz, let me start with you, and ask what you are seeing there and where you are at? what you are thinking and feeling, and where your colleagues are at during this awful summer that you are having there in florida? >> thank you, chris for having me here, it is a pleasure being here. the way that i can describe it is that every day, you walk into the er and it's like a war zone. there are patients everywhere in the hallways, etc, and you're trying to move the patients to the floor, not fast enough, they come in faster then you can move, and it is very very taxing on all the health care providers and it is tiring, world tired. we've been doing this since the beginning of july, it doesn't seem to want to stop. >> what has been your experience in terms of the le

thank god for broward county and miami-dade county and palm beach standing up to this guy.nly raising $25,000 a head fund-raising, but one of his biggest donors is a guy, his top donor, as a matter of fact, citadel investments has $15.9 million in shares in regeneron pharmaceutical. its ceo ken griffin has donated $10.75 million to a pac supporting desantis. $5.75 million in 2018, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. the investment in regeneron is a fraction of its overall investments but this guy is taking donor money and suddenly being my only plan is all y'all take regeneron if you get sick. nothing else. get sick and then take this expensive treatment. your thoughts. >> my thoughts. you know, first off let me acknowledge and accept what dr. ashby said. as you alluded to, joy, i am the parent of two small elementary age 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

here in palm beach county, you have worked within the system to say we want kids to wear masks. parents can choose to opt out. meaning they can fill the paperwork out and i know there's not an exact census right now, but we're talking about 3,000 kids or so, so explain to me the mathematics of all of this when people are opting out, showing up in class and johnny is in one chair wearing a mask and jane is right next to johnny without a mask. >> i'm imploring everyone to wear a mask, and you know, right now we had about 5700 students opt out and take advantage of the parent opt out to not have to wear a mask. it varies from school to school, and you're right. part of the state emergency rule is we're not allowed to isolate students if they choose to opt out. we're not allowed to partition classrooms and not allowed to tell students where to sit on the bus and that sort of thing. >> thank you. any last messages to the governor. >> if we are committed to keeping kids in school, we should re-assess the situation. >> thank you for joining us. it's interesting to note that i've spoken

i'm from west palm beach. >> yes. >> so we know florida and we know south florida.e. and i wonder if you think that just getting the vaccine publicly and showing leadership is going to be enough to make a complex political state like florida where people kind of like to do their own thing fall in line. i mean, i think that's one of the biggest concerns i've heard from people i know who are still in florida, is that some people around them just don't seem to give a damn and they don't know what to do. >> yeah, i think a combination of a couple of things. one, we need to be relying on our elected officials. we didn't see that this entire pandemic. but it's more than just that. it's using our local influencers, that is, our music industry members, that's our athletes, those people that are real true influencers in our communities, and giving everybody the tools and having those conversations because at the end of the day we don't live in an isolated society. you know, love thy neighbor, the fundamentals of our religions. and that is not what's happening. so you have to

hospitals are turning away ambulances, a similar situation in florida where a hospital in west palm beach had to transport a police officer to ohio after running out of ecmo machines, a life support system that provides oxygen by bypassing the lungs. >> it's a nightmare that i can't wake up from. with the pandemic going on, there are no ecmo machines available in the state of florida. >> reporter: in central florida they're running out of places to put bodies. >> this is not being exaggerated or blown out of proportion by the media. this is real. >> reporter: with morgues at capacity, some hospitals are now using refrigerated trucks to store the dead. it comes as florida's ban on mask mandates returns to court with a judge set to rule on its legality today. meanwhile, in illinois the governor is now reinstating mask requirements. >> hospital staff are becoming overwhelmed and overburdened. people are dying who don't have to die. >> reporter: and in washington state one high school's plan to fight covid igniting a firestorm of controversy. the school wanted to force athletes to wear ankle

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epstein sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in manhattan, new york, and palm beachlocations, using cash payments to recruit a vast network of underage victims, some of whom were as young as 14 years old. michelle la cotta says she was just 16 when she was recruited by another high school girl to give epstein a massage. >> he kept saying, like god, you're just so beautiful and sexy and gorgeous. it was making me feel really uncomfortable. >> reporter: licata told investigators in a police interview at the time that epstein sexually assaulted her. >> he wanted me to rub his back, asking me to go lower and lower. kind of talking to me and trying to get me to talk about sex. >> reporter: because of epstein's death, many of his alleged victims never saw justice served. epstein's one-time girlfriend and associate, ghislaine maxwell, now also behind bars, currently awaiting trial on charges that she aided epstein's alleged abuse of four underaged girls. >> she has pleaded not guilty and denied it all throughout. >> she's facing the possibility of decades behind bars if con

schools in palm beach county today sent home more than 1,000 kids for possible exposure. in broward county, three teachers died of covid within 24 hours. >> it's extremely frightening. >> reporter: florida leads the country in new cases, new covid hospitalizations, and in pediatric hospitalizations. yet, governor ron desantis refuses to bend on his ban against mandatory masking. today, the c.d.c. approved something new: a third shot of the pfizer and moderna vaccines for some of the seven million immunocompromised u.s. adults-- cancer patients, transplant patients, and people with advanced h.i.v. infections could start getting those shots this weekend. back in georgia, these east side elementary parents feel lost, their kids too young for vaccinations, and a school board that also says no new virtual schooling. >> because they are playing with our children's lives. >> reporter: it's nerve- wracking. >> it is. >> reporter: here's how those third shots recommended by the c.d.c. are so important to the immunocompromised folks. they get one of every three hospitalized breakth

and in west palm beach, we cross to gene allowed and she is like psychology expert. and a long time, trump advisor, her across stock rules and effect, that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate it. david, let me go to you 1st here. let's start from the basics here. what is the identity of the republican party as we speak right now? and is donald trump a reflection of that party? go ahead david. well, i think it's of warranty and search of an identity. you know already here it's become known as call 45 where the where so many millions of people sort of mindlessly follow whatever trumps.

. >> reporter: in palm beach, doctors gathering in solidarity before dawn to beg members of the community to get the shot. >> the science is there. we must stop denying the data, so please get vaccinated. >> reporter: and tonight, the number of children infected with covid is skyrocketing. more than 180,000 cases last week, nearly five times more than just a month ago. 14-year-old preston timmins has autism and was hospitalized in arizona for days with covid. >> it's terrifying. he doesn't like, you know, them poking him and prodding him. he has to be on oxygen because he can't breathe well on his own. it was hard. >> reporter: preston is finally home recovering. his mom now plans to get him vaccinated as soon as he's better. >> and eva pilgrim with us tonight. and eva, we should point out that with this full approval of the pfizer vaccine, the fda still warning that the vaccine should not be used in younger children around 12, but that they're still working on this? >> reporter: that's right, david. the fda making it very clear that the vaccine should not be given off-label to children u

. >> reporter: just days into the school year in palm beach county, more than 400 students have been told to quarantine after being exposed to an infected person. the district says 37 students and 14 staff members have confirmed cases. major. >> garrett: manuel bojorquez, thank you. tonight, roughly half of all tonight, roughly half of all americans are living under heat alerts, as two heat waves bake much of the country. and, as meg oliver reminds us, this extreme weather can be deadly. >> reporter: coast to coast, heat indexes are in the triple digits. along the east coast, feels-like temperatures are as high as 106 degrees in washington, d.c., 107 in philadelphia, and 104 in boston. >> we don't have air conditioning at home so we have to get out and stay cool the best we can. >> reporter: in omaha, nebraska, 16-year-old drake geiger collapsed at his football practice tuesday. >> the doctor came in and said his body was so overheated and his organs were working extra hard and that he was very, very sick. >> reporter: his father, scott hoffman, said doctors told him drake had an int

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in palm beach county we see this rolling wave of hospitals stopping elective surgery.do county. yesterday we found out the hospital i perform surgery in will be stopping elective surgery. that starts this coming monday. today is friday. that's a bell weather of the significance that we're seeing in the emergency rooms and in the hospitals and in the icus. the hospitals are nearly full or full. the icus are nearly full or full. one infectious disease doctor, dr. diaz, probably the busiest that i know and have reported on, she has 120 patients -- in-patients right now between two hospitals in northern palm beach county. she describes the emergency departments a z a war zone and could never imagine it could be this bad. she equates it to the aids epidemic where she worked very, very diligently and this is worse. >> dr. dave, of course, the overwhelming majority of those people -- some of the numbers i've heard actually across florida, many of those emergency rooms and icu beds, even 100%, 99%, 100% of the people filling those beds unvaccinated. first of all. secondly, i'v

from pensacola, down, you know, to palm beach. joe, in the polls, the governor is singularly motivated by running for president in 2024. he seems to overlook he needs to get re-elected as governor in 2022. his poll numbers have been dropping. who knew threatening to de-fund schools is unpopular. it's about as unpopular as befunding police. she back tracking, i didn't mean de-fund schools, the salaries of the school superintendents and the school board members who vote to require max in schools. but you can't do too, there is labor and employment law and contract law. now they're back tracking saying they will deduct the salaries from the everio all school buthsz. to put it in perspective, palm beach county where i live. we have a $3.8 billion school budget. so it would be a deduction of $625,000. not cool. but still less than a rounding error. so it shows the governor's bark is worse tan his bite. that's why people are starting to sue him to overturn his executive orders. that can be an uphill battle. onening on that, it is ironic

and in west palm beach, we cross to gina loud, and she is like psychology expert and a long time trump advisor. hi cross up rules and effects. that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate it. david, let me go to you 1st here. let's start from the basics here. what is the identity of the republican party as we speak right now? and is donald trump a reflection of that party? go ahead david. well, i think it's a party in search of an identity. you know, here it's become known as call 45 where the, where? so many millions of people sort of mindlessly follow whatever. trump says, you know, the question becomes, are there enough of those people just swing national election and we don't know the answer. yeah. okay, so let me go to chat here. i think that's very interesting because, you know, i, obviously, if trump wants the denominator, it's his, i mean there's no competition there. but the question is, is that for in my mind is the republican leadership. i mean, they would look warm towards them during the entire part of his presidency. and since then. okay, so i mean t

and in west palm beach, we cross to gina loud, and she is like psychology expert and a long time trump advisor. hi cross up rules and effects. that means you can jump any time you want. and i always appreciate it. david, let me go to you 1st here. let's start from the basics here. what is the identity of the republican party as we.