single day. the state is lagging in vaccination rates making things even worse hospital resources are dwindling. let s go to knoxville where we find nbc s liz mclaughlin. liz, talk to me about the situation there when you think about some of these astounding numbers, how hospitals really they re buckling under the pressure of these high covid numbers. reporter: absolutely. it s nothing short of a dire situation. and here in eastern tennessee they re being hit especially hard. we re looking at icu beds as one of the biggest challenges here in this region of eastern tennessee. they have these community calls three times a week where they kind of talk about the capacity. and sometimes there are zero icu beds for adults available, zero. other times statewide there s between 2 and 6% available. so really dwindling, and resources are very much stretched thin. this surge is even higher. some numbers even higher than the winter surge we saw before the vaccine was widely available to the popu
i have daughters who are 22, and 19, 15 years ago when they were little my daughter couldn t wait to be the hawaiian little girl, i had another daughter who dressed up as pocahontas, there was no cultural outrage, it is hypocrisy at its best like kathy said where you are trying to be inclusive, the left is the party of inclusion yet it is showing racism, teaching little girls how to be racist. we are out of time. thank you so much for joining us. twitter taking steps to control so-called fake news, the big change to the newsfeed. let s go to knoxville, tennessee to see what is coming up. we are opening up at 6:30 this morning. what a great city and we are