storm for signs of strengthening before it hits. we ll be alerting you as that happens. new this morning, more than a dozen portable morgues are en route to help overburdened hospitals in central florida according to our report. hospitals there are dealing with an overflow of covid deaths. stephanie staton is in tampa, florida, and funeral homes are feeling the brunt of this. yes. this funeral home behind me in the tampa area says it has 11 funerals scheduled this weekend alone all of this coming as covid cases here in florida continue to surge. last week the state reported more than 151,000 cases of covid, with 389 deaths. as you mentioned, as you both mentioned, hospitals and morgues are filling up. in fact, one hospital system in orlando says that it had to have
because of that. so this storm is a little bit more it s a little smaller. more consolidated. the effects will be tighter. kind of like hurricane laura last year when it came ashore and it was a stark line of major damages and you get out from the damage things quickly reduce in the amount of damage you see out there. yeah. we should point out reme remember katrina was category 3 when it hits. the experts seem to be concerned there. take care ever yourself. we appreciate it. thank you. thank you. up next, hospitals in the pandemic hot spot of mississippi, they re seeing nurses. we ll get the story of why so many have just reached their breaking point.
delta. now more than 80% are delta. action we mentioned, dr. brett giroir is starting by. first to dr. janet, fox news medical contributor who has been digging for more information. doctor, great to see you here. the white house saying the delta variant spreads quickly. the cdc say cdc says it spreads as quick as chicken pox. do you see enough data to support these claims? i ve heard enough data. we ll have more released later today. but just like when we have a tornado or a hurricane, we want the warning before it hits. that s what the cdc has done. they told us this virus, the new variant is more contagious. it spreads faster than sars, the flu, the common cold. it can affect up to nine other people. whereas the common cold affects up to two or three other people.
a new challenge for israel. reporter: 26,000 fans flooded into bloomfield stadium in tel aviv this week to see legends on the field. the excitement and revelry overshadowing an underlying possibility that such a crowded event could lead to a spaike in coronavirus cases. it s everyone, you can t stay at home. but here we are protected now. i m kind of nervous, but i m trying to live me life as much as possible before it hits. it is worth the risk. yeah, the government should not let people do this, but it s worth the risk. the game is more important. reporter: thanks to an aggressive vaccination campaign, the israeli government had lifted almost all of its covid restrictions. after nearly three month of fewer than 200 positive cases a day, the delta variant causing a
become political problems. brit: well, i think that s right. and that s smart of them to do it. the problem is, of course, holding meetings and making statements may set a proper tone but it s the result on the ground, on the border and in the city streets don t change the perception will take hold all they are doing is talking about it and not really trying to do anything about it or do anything that s effective. and you have the police union in d.c. saying the politicians won t let them do their job, that is unmistakably a democratic government in a very democratic city, washington, d.c. that pattern is repeated to some extent all across the country where the police are bailing out, taking other jobs, retiring, so on. they are having trouble recruiting police officers. this is not going to be laid at the doorstep of the republican party. this is much more likely to be laid at the doorstep that governs near all those cities and that, of course, is the democratic party. politically d