the nevada state assembly and tiktok aficionados. he authored the mail-in voting bill that became the law in nevada. good to see both of you thank you for being with us. i want to talk to you senator about this fact speaker fire son was making in his tiktok quoting from the l.a. times 40 years ago women made up 12% of state lawmakers nationwide. women hold nearly 2300 of the roughly 7400 legislative seats nationwide, just over 30%. that s a whole different story in nevada where women make of more than half the legislator. thanks for having me. that s, right in nevada we have over half of the legislator comprised of women legislators and as the speaker mentioned in his incredible tiktok, we also have a large number of women who are serving in leadership positions as chairs of legislative companies, in both the state senate and also in the state assembly.
for in large part, a much better place. right now, as of yesterday, the seven-day average of cases, about 7,400, remember, just in january of this year, we were averaging over 200,000 new infections per day. so, when you look at those numbers and the fact that about 40% of the country is fully vaccinated and i think about 60% of the country has at least one shot, so i think those numbers in combination make me a lot more reassured, chris, so when you see these large gatherings, my hope is that the vast majority of those people are vaccinated, and if they re not, they should be wearing a mask. it is interesting, though, when you see, for example, those numbers with rvs and people feel that they can travel safely. i get a lot of emails from folks because i ve traveled pretty much throughout the pandemic for my job, and people have asked me, do you feel safe? how are you safe?
appointments and they went in just under ten minutes. reporter: in arizona, 85-year-old leonora ochoa and her son drove 400 miles to phoenix to get her vaccinated because there were no appointments closer to home until april. yuma has one of the nation s worst infection rates. we ve only had 7,400 doses sent to yuma county. we re not meeting the needs. reporter: and for so many, it s sadly too late. brianna trejo lost both parents within days of each other. her father got sick before his second dose of the vaccine. we re just like, okay, he gets the first dose, we ll get it and then we ll be fine, you know? but i guess we just ran out of time. reporter: dick and shirley meek had just celebrated 70 years of marriage when they contracted covid. dying in each other s arms, only three days before they were scheduled to get their first shots. which is why we have to get these vaccinations up and running across the country even
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contact with covid-19 positive patients. they don t know if they have it. they have not been tested, and they don t know if they will be tested. david? eva, thank you. we re live in california with more of our interview with the mayor of los angeles. saying california will be the next new york. and what we re learning about the massive response in california after the call went out that they need more health care workers. here s matt gutman. reporter: tonight, a mass quarantine ramping up in los angeles. people moving into these rvs as cases in california have spiked roughly 30% to over 7,400. los angeles, of course, will be the new new york in the way that new york is the new italy. reporter: with hospitals nearing peak capacity, health care workers are falling sick in increasing numbers. 12 testing positive at one hospital in oregon. new jersey icu nurse michael kouridakis telling us about a son facetiming with his dad moments after he died. it was hard.