ago or six weeks ago after the summer surge of delta that happened between really mid july and the end of august. we've seen a steady decrease in the number of new cases. and today we have just three children hospitalized for covid here. >> reporter: so that's the good news. the challenge, especially in places like louisiana is going to be actually convincing parents to have their children vaccinated. if you look at the rural areas of louisiana sometimes the vaccination number can be as low as 40, sometimes 30%. that's the parent. we heard it from physicians here on the ground, convincing parents to get their children vaccinated, especially in rural parts of louisiana, that's going to be the issue. >> thank you all so much. we'll leave it there. we have breaking news from capitol hill. it looks like voting rights legislation is not dead after all. senator chuck schumer telling his fellow democrats he does plan to move forward with the