biden administration s open border policies and announce additional actions next week to respond to these unprecedented illegal border crossings. at this timely turn it over to director steve mccaul. thank you, governor. neil: you been listening to texas governor greg abbott. he s declared war on what other republicans have been saying is an invasion going at the border and to quickly address it. he s already been installing texas s expanse more border barriers and allowing troopers in this case to arrest migrants on things like trespassing charges or to aggressively get in front of a problem that the governor and others say will get worse once this protection of title 42 ends next month. that s when a lot of people fear that we could be started to see 18,000 arrivals daily once this policy ends. last week we had 7,100 migrants
9% of hospital icu beds are available in illinois right now. and that s an icu bed for anything, covid or non-covid. every hospital bed occupied by someone with covid who was no vaccinated potentially could have averted that hospitalization. more than 7,100 people are in the hospitals across illinois with covid-19. and the vast, vast majority, 80%, are unvaccinated. unvaccinated. what the illinois public health director describes is happening around the country while a new study finds omicron causes fewer
available in illinois right now. and that is an icu bed for anything, covid or non covid. every hospitalization beds occupied by everyone with covid who is not vaccinated potentially could ve averted that hospitalization. more than 7100 people are in the hospitals across illinois with covid 19 and the vast majority were 80% unvaccinated. unvaccinated. with the illinois public health director describes is happening across the country, while the new study finds omicron causes fewer hospitalizations. the u.s. health care infrastructure is struggling. in california, asymptomatic covid positive medical workers are not being told to return to work immediately. in some health care professionals, including our
already. 7100 votes, that s what separates the democratic incumbent phil murphy from jack citterelli. where is most of the remaining vote? well, we think largely from the blue counties. let s take a look, if we can, at the counties that have 85% or less reported at this point. you can see almost all of them are blue. in some cases very, very blue. take hudson county, the home of jersey estimate you can see phil murphy has 73% of the vote, 80% reported. essex county where neuralgic is, the biggest urban center, phil murphy has 72%, jack ciattarelli. the only red county you see is down here this is cumberland county. you can see just 71% reporting. it s a much smaller county.
there is still some republican voting out there. monmouth, the fifth largest in the state. jack ciattarelli 61%. in some areas it s very democratic where the votes still need to be tabulated. we can think right when you were coming on air. it was like a 61-vote difference between the two. and part of this whole picture is a big swing just one year later than joe biden saw. let me do this right. how big of a swing in phil murphy is leading by 7100 votes. how much did joe biden win? yes, i did it right. 700,000 votes! there is a big difference between 7,000 and 700,000.