the delta variant wreaking havoc among -- among unvaccinated americans. louisiana seeing more new cases of the coronavirus, today, that at any other point -- than at any other point in the pandemic. louisiana's governor, john bell edwards, announcing that he is temporarily reinstating the statewide-mask mandate for vaccinated and unvaccinated residents, as many state hospitals are getting overwhelmed. >> it has become extremely clear that our current recommendations -- um -- on their own, are not strong enough to deal with louisiana's fourth surge of covid. in fact, nobody should be laboring under the misapprehension that this is just another surge. we've, already, had three of these. this is the worst one we've had, thus far.