the meantime. hunter. >> i'll put it here. >> no problem. >> okay. >> the fact that hunter didn't sit down means i'm negative. >> reporter: the numbers of schools and staff out with covid are high. the hope here is that conditions can be made safer with the help of these four-legged warriors. >> are these dog patrols used elsewhere? >> i understand it is being done in localities. the most prominent is miami-dade county where fiu, florida international university, where the research taking place is located. will this grow across the country, i don't know. but the sheriff in the story, he says he's going to start lobbying members of congress to fund sheriff's departments around the country so they can all afford a covid k-9 program. >> appreciate it.