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PINELLAS PARK â Amid concern that the areaâs seniors are lagging the statewide average in getting vaccinated against the coronavirus, Pinellas County is receiving 8,000 more doses of vaccine in the next week.
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the local push at a Thursday news conference at Mainlands of Tamarac by the Gulf, a 55-and-older community of nearly 400 homes in Pinellas Park. The governor said Florida has vaccinated about 42% of those 65 and older, but only 35% in Pinellas have received shots.
âSo we said some of those areas that have a lot of seniors that are below the state average, we want to surge more doses there,â DeSantis said outside the Mainlands community clubhouse. âThis is part of that effort to up the doses in Pinellas County.â
let s go to will ripley live for us in new zealand. hi, will. what s the latest? reporter: they got creative to pull this off. they used a bomb disposal squad. they had on what they would wear if they were detonating an explosive device. that could protect them the best from a volcanic eruption. on the mainlands here, seismologists were working on the activity on white island. they looked at the locations. they will begin at day break to search for the remaining two. one was seen floating in the water on tuesday. and another, they don t know where that person might be. but the heartbreaking scene is what played out here when the bodies returned. there was a room with six coffins. and family members, because the bodies can t be identified, they re at auckland hospital. the identification process is under way, which will be
vantage point. i could see one or two people on the other side of the camera. that s due in part to the shutdown of bridges. the martin county sheriff s office a short time ago shut down the causeway from the mainlands across the intercoastal from stewart and jensen beach causeways to get to this beach. so you probably won t see many people coming out here. many of the locals decided to get out of town, although there are some who are here. now they know even as this storm gets closer to florida, what they will experience will be nothing compared to what the people on the islands of the bahamas have experienced for the last 12 to 24 hours. and i want to go now to keith tom kevin tomlinson, on the island of grand bahama in freeport. kevin, first, thank you for talking with us. i know communications are touch and go. tell us where you are and what you saw overnight. well, we re right in the middle of everything.
pro-democracy protests in hong kong. overnight we heard from the chinese government condemning what it called horrific, violent crimes at hong kong s airport. hundreds of flights canceled. some people detained by the crowds and tied up. china calling those terrorist acts. there s new video by chinese state media showing military-run armed police assembling near hong kong s border ahead of what they describe as large-scale exercises. the video sped up with music added to make it more dramatic and perhaps intimidating. the question is whether this is all propaganda or whether the mainlands is actually getting ready for some kind of intervention here. let s go to paula hancocks live at the airport in hong kong where at least the good news this hour could the flights have resumed. reporter: that s right, will. this is a normal functioning airport once again, there are a couple of differents, there s the chester county as you come into the airport, officials are making sure you have a pas