stands in alabama which has the lowest vaccination rate in the land. in south carolina, which has the highest infection rate in the land, and in georgia where near record numbers are already in the hospital. so, i just told you about the deteriorating situation in idaho. and we just saw those crowds in alabama and arkansas. well, the u.s. military just announced it is going to send 60 medical personnel to those three states to help. erica? nick watt with the latest, nick, thank you. joining me now to discuss cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, a lot of folks traveled despite that cdc warning. people getting together for labor day. as of today pretty much every school almost is back in school across the country. and we also just learned that kids now account for more than one in four of weekly covid
that s bigger than the state of new jersey, if i m not mistaken. 5 million acres. and you see it by the smoke that ends upcoming over the east coast. folks, we re all in this. it s about time we stopped the regional fights and understand, helping somebody make sure there s no fewer fires in the west warrants helping people in this alley make sure they re not flooded. and it s not just the flooding. i ll end with this. flooding ends up overrunning sanitation systems. and it causes disease. and people get sick. and it s serious, serious business. so we got a lot of work to do. again, it s good-paying jobs, we can put the economy back on a path to real growth. but in the meantime, we re going to save a whole hell of a lot of people s lives and we re going to save a whole hell of a lot of money. god bless you all. let s get this done.
we talk about that all the time. a quarter of the country, eligible adults still not vaccinated. wear the right type of masks. ventilation, making sure you have enough ventilation indoors is really important. get testing when you can. and reassess your risk. you got to reassess your risk in different situations depending on what s going on. a big crowded indoor setting, it should surprise no one now that that would be a riskier situation than a less crowded outdoor setting. we have learned a lot. the question is how many of us are actually putting that knowledge to use at this point. this morning dr. fauci said that a third dose of the covid vaccine could perhaps just be part of a full vaccine regimen. here s a little more. it looks very much like it isn t as if two doses of a vaccine are failing. it s that the proper regimen will very likely, as we look back on it months from now, will be that three doses it really what you should be getting of an
that when this kind of extreme weather event happens, the president goes to the ground, meets with community leaders, meets with the folks who have been affected. and it is a way for him to show and to tell these people that he can see them, that he wants to bring help to the ground. but i think you raise a really important point for all the talk about climate change legislation and dealing with that. a lot of the folks we talked to, they are looking for immediate, immediate help and they are just not sure that they are going to get it any time soon. and that is a tough thing. do you think biden did his job as consoler in chief? yes. you know, look, i think this is something that joe biden does very well. and most of us even sitting at home watching these scenes from all over the country have been struck by the level of catastrophe that s going on all over. and i think, you know, his compassion, what he brings is
1:00. we put out many both tornado warnings and flash flood warnings, social media. we threw a lot at this. but when you ve lost 27 lives, you ve got to look in the mirror and ask yourself what else needs to be done. and we will do just that. i know you ve been warning today about more rain in the forecast, possible flooding tomorrow. how do you prepare for that when it s still saturated in many areas? that s the issue. the ground is saturated. trees are loose. and i don t think tomorrow, as i sit here at this time, is going to be at the level of last week, please god, but we are trying to do everything we can to both assess how serious it is and give people ample warnings to do the right thing, including, sadly, we had an overwhelming amount of those 27 losses of life were from flooding and folks in cars. and so staying off the road in a serious storm is always good