most populace county. she is keeping this competitive with katie hobbs, within 5%. when we get the big maricopa vote drop tonight, does katie hobbs add to this total? does she net more votes out of this population center to increase her lead here and perhaps put this race in projectable territory. all eyes on arizona and nevada, which was the case yesterday as well. david, don t go too far away. i want to get some more now on the tight and critical senate race in nevada. joining us is elizabeth thompson the editor of the nevada independent. what are you hearing from each side right now on the ground as we await the votes that are about to come in? well, it has changed a little bit from the two campaigns since
dramatically compared to the peak of then pandemic. also l.a. county, the mission nation s most populace county, has 10 million people. right now 452 are hospitalized, less than 1%. but the number of hospitalizations has doubled from 216 a month ago, and test positivity in this county has jumped from .4% in early june to 3.8% today. about 60% of residents here are vaccinated, but with covid cases on the rise, local health officials say a mask mandate is a better option than increased restrictions. anything is on the table, you know, if things continue to get worse which is why we want to take action now given that we re at this level of substantial transmission. the next level is high transmission, and that s not a place where we want to be. reporter: but critics question whether the mandate is actually backed by science since it does not align with the cdc s
selling hats and shirts that say don t fauci my florida. telling cruise lines they cannot mandate passengers show proof of vaccination status. by the way, the companies don t like that. norwegian is suing florida because they want to know if you re vaccinated. the nation s rise in cases is as the war of masks is heating up again. we re hours away, you may remember, from the indoor mask mandate returning and not just there. health officials in the san francisco bay area today followed suit, that means another 7 million people there will be told to mask up, whether vaccinated or not. and in nevada in the most pop l populace county, las vegas recommending vaccinated and unvaccinated people wear masks indoors. the u.s. is heading in the right direction and an infectious disease expert in louisiana sounding the alarm.
one to go back. the work can t get done after september 1. let s talk about what s in the bill that you oppose because the bill last time is different from this one. they dropped the sunday voting prohibition and they dropped the process that would have made it easier to overturn election results. so what is still in the bill that is worth doing this for? yeah, absolutely. so, there is a voter i.d. for vote by mail, which is very interesting, you know. texas got slammed before for voter i.d. we still have it, but the court decided, hey, you need to make some provisions for those that maybe can t get an i.d. so there is a voter i.d. issue when it comes to vote by mail. 24-hour voting, that became a huge sticking point. what we saw in harris county, which is the most populace county and one of the most populous counties in the country, we heard testimony on saturday from first responders, those that have been on the front lines of covid-19 saying,