paused its school mask mandate ban after several court rulings struck down local bans. the courts are weighing in here. mask mandate bans remain in effect though in montana, south carolina, utah, arizona along with florida where an appeals court reversed a lower court s decision finding that desantis had overstepped his authority. hospitalizations in the u.s. are finally leveling off after peaking at over 100,000. but many hospitals are still at or over capacity. woone kentucky hospital officia says that medical assistance team is scheduled to leave this week. it is not so much about the physical space, although that is becoming a big problem, it is our lack of staff. right now the only reason we re holding this lifeboat together, i have a medical assistance team here, 14 people who have just been heros to us. and unfortunately, their deployment is over on friday and i m going to lose 14 health care
and hoping that the administration will address, includes schools, as you heard cal talking there, nbc news tally about a thousand schools closed because of outbreaks and they re just past labor day. there are questions that remain about how schools should handle testing, how they should handle outbreaks and if there s anything more the administration can do to address these issues of mask mandate bans and what more they could do to help out those schools. another area to watch out for booster vaccination rollout plan. the administration has had a seth back last week. they do not expect to have the moderna boosters cleared by the fda by this september 20th deadline, they set for themselves. they plan to go forward with pfizer, how are they going to encourage people to go get a third shot when they have struggled to get people to go in and even get their first shot and what s the distribution of that going to look like? are we going to see millions
days. tomorrow president biden will travel to new york and new jersey to survey damage of remnants of i d do. new intense body camera video shows mpd officer trying to save a family trapped in a flooded basement. unfortunately the search was unsuccessful due to locked doors. rising waters. and live electricity. two adults and a toddler were found dead in the apartment. tragic. at least 1,000 schools have already closed across 35 states due to covid-19. closures reportedly range from one day to several weeks. the report comes amidterm oil in many states over school mask mandates. the department of education is investigating five states with mask mandate bans for civil rights violations a parade of supporters frank sillner new jersey as he ends the end of the tunnel 2 towers never forget walk. the last public stop until saturday when he plans to walk through the tunnel in manhattan. siler began his 500-mile walk
especially in the context of this very transmissible delta variants. 18 states in blue plus d.c. require masks in schools. and those in yellow allow for local flexibility. starting today masks are mandatory for every boy and girl in class in pennsylvania. the guidance has evolved based on lessons learned. the goal is to keep students in classrooms and keep the surging delta variant out. the pushback on republican governors led by the biden administration includes the secretary of education who is investigating five states that have republican governors imposing mask mandate bans because they are looking into whether those violate the civil rights of kids with disabilities and fragile immune systems. julie: phil keating. thank you so much. we have a power panel now.