for violating governor ron desantis order banning mask mandates in schools. for utah children helped to create a touching display honoring the 1 american service members killed in the attack outside the kabul airport. the display includes 13 american flags with a drawing of each service member s name. the kid drew a issue of service member next to an american flag with 13 and the phrase never forgotten. wow, that s beautiful. ainsley: really sweet. steve: all right, jillian. thank you. the washington post has an item that says the headline is biden s tough meeting with grieving families and it goes into the dignified transfer that we saw on sunday and afterwards he met with every one of the families who wanted to meet with him. some families and this article is very telling and very raw and it talks about how the families a lot of them didn t want to meet the president or shake the hand of the commander-in-chief
breaking news today, a story we have been following for the past few weeks, a florida judge ruling that governor ron desantis order banning mask mandates in schools is unconstitutional saying local school boards have the right to set their own policies like mask requirements, a major defeat for the governor who has insisted only parents can decide whether their children wear masks. the state of florida is making another grim milestone yesterday alone reporting over 900 deaths. the state s largest single day increase since the pandemic began. nationwide the picture isn t looking great either. more than 100,000 covid patients are hospitalized right now, the highest number since january before vaccines were widely available to the public. joining us now msnbc medical contributor bedalia, the founding director of the boston university center for emerging infectious diseases policy and research. more than half of florida
business of the state of texas. this is the governor who issued an order banning mask mandates. his attorneys continue to argue against mask mandates in schools across this state. what s curious is that the governor has been pushing this monoclonal antibody treatment that he s taking. last week he announced that nine infusion centers were going to be launching across the state in cities like lubbock and san antonio and corpus christi. at a time that covid-19 is raging in this state, process this with me, the governor continues to say no to mask mandates in schools. and yet he s promoting this monoclonal antibody treatment which is a treatment after the fact, after people have gotten covid-19. so it s difficult to reconcile that when the solution can be wearing a simple mask.
the chaos last week. she went to school and was one of a few kids in her class wear a mask which made her ask me why she had to. my answer was because we want to take care of other people. she s 5 years old, but she understood that concept. and it s disappointing that more adults around here can t seem to grasp it. meanwhile, arizona governor doug ducey said he d cut off federal covid funds to school districts that put in place mask mandates. taking a page out of the playbook of the most craven of them all, florida governor and thinly veiled presidential candidate ron desantis who has made the sunshine state his ground zero for the battle between educators who want to protect kids and really his own ambitions. today students in broward county started school with masks, defying the governor s order banning mask mandates. yesterday the state board of education voted to punish that district and the county for rejecting the order but school boards are fighting back hard n tampa, a week i
that s what makes it especially tragic to see our hospitals on the brink once again. five states have fewer than 10% of icu beds available now. alabama, texas, georgia, florida and mississippi. florida and texas, alone, account for 40% of new hospitalizations. more covid cases than 30 other states combined. they also have defiant governors who appear to be siding with some notion of freedom rather than the combination of masks and vaccinations. we re about to talk to a county judge in dallas challenging texas governor abbot s order banning mask mandates and listen to this dire warning he gave to parents. in dallas there s zero icu beds beds or more likely if they have