i can. todd: the president s remarks come after he addressed states that have banned mask mandates like florida and texas, the president calling the efforts, quote, disingenuous, arguing that governors should allow districts to follow cdc guidelines. guidelines. jillian: board member forced to apologize after she accused maskless students of committing murder. todd: that s some language. carley shimkus is here with her new apolicy. carley: good morning, guys. mask man dates in schools have of course become the hot button issue. but one oklahoma school board member is apologizing for saying this about kids. listen. this is just not okay for kids to commit murder by coming to school without a mask and when it comes down to it, it s possible. they will cause a death of another child because they come to school without a mask. that s not okay. carley: norman public school board of education member linda
covid-19 patients across the state. as we see troubling new data from the american academy of pediatrics showing a increase in the number of children testing positive for covid-19. almost 94,000 kids tested positive in the last week. cases have been increasing since the beginning of july. there is a lot to get to. let s start with dr. seema yasmin. dr., always good to talk to you. when you see what is happening with these mask man dates and now school boards defying the governors saying we are putting the health and safety of our children and staff first. where do you think this goes? this is like terrible deja vu, erica. we ve been here already. when you look at the numbers nationally for adults and kids in terms of americans getting infected with covid every day we re up 30% from this time last year. so we ve been here. we know what it is to see so
emergency, jazz fest in new orleans is cancelled for the second year in a row. this weekend, hospitalizations in the u.s. topped more than 66,000. a grim milestone we ve crossed twice in just six months. to keep the pandemic under control, indoor mask man dates are coming back from baltimore. baltimore s new case count has risen 374%. reporter: to durham, north carolina. and in arizona the governor it was an error to sign the mask mandate law. reporter: in texas a large crowd of health care workers protested outside of baylor university medical center where they re requiring staff be vaccinated. as the pandemic presses on, the sturgis motorcycle rally does too. i m a realist, if it s my turn, it s my turn. so i m not going to worry about
this started at 9:00 a.m. some of the people in line telling us they have been exposed by co-workers or family members. some are not vaccinated. some are getting tested so they can travel. lots of different reasons why they are in line. you feel a sense of urgency here from the people who are willing to sit here in their cars and wait for up to four hours. that is a valid sense of urgency considering the numbers there in florida. the governor is sticking by there ban on plamask mandates, vaccine mandates. we know there are some legal challenges. give us the latest on those. reporter: governor desan tis has stuck by his stance that parents should be able to choose whether to send their students to school with or without a mask. because of the state policy, some of the local school districts have had to dance around that. here in orange county, class starts tomorrow in person. they have a mask man date but parents can opt out of that.
indoor mask mandate. the white house coordinator for covid calls for companies to impose vaccine mandates on all their employees to get ahold of it. pete: i was shocked that new york city bill de blasio said it was optional. ainsley: i thought he was going to say mask man dates. a lot of democrat states are going that correction. you have san francisco where all but two counties in that region in the bay area have said you have to wear a mask even if you are vaccinated and going indoors. and masks, you have to wear a mask now at the home depot, mcdonald s and target. all their employees have to wear activist that. american federation of teachers the second largest teachers union we re always talking about pushing for universal masking in schools. pete: of course they are. steve: meanwhile the cover of the new york post are able to perfectly summarize what s going on. that s barack obama that s his fancy $12 million house. is he having a birthday party this weekend. happy birthday, mr