Times more likely to end up in the hospital. Thats what drove this decision. Theyre likely to have a weakened immune response to the vaccine and more likely to get sick as well. Its a testament to the pharmacist that you fall into one of these categories and you should gept a third shot. Third shot of which vaccine . What the official guidance is you should get the same shot. Let me explain that. The reason thats the official guidance is because thats what was studied. Thats what they can say for certain. We do know it should be okay if you Mix And Match these shots. Theres been a few studies to she it may be beneficial to Mix And Match. The official guidance get the same shot, you mix and get another shot indead. You should be okay. These numbers came out today from the cdc. Im surprised by them. More than A Million people actually skipped the Fdas Guidance and already have this third shot. What do you think about that . I think what we have been trying to be really steady about and consistent about is to follow the science here. What we know is that for this particular group of people, about Nine Million people, the third shot makes sense. I know this may sound like for people who are worried about this, i hope this gives them some comfort to remind them how well the vaccines work overall in the general population. We can show you some of the graphics here. If you received the vaccines, your protection of dying or being hospitalized, 90 . I wouldnt say a problem. They have studies now to show there was some Dollar Side effects. I dont think its dangerous per se. Its a question of whether its necessary. I get the idea of i want to keep improving my antibodies. Thats not necessarily the goal. Theres all sorts of different components to immunity. The people who are working Immune Systems and have the Vac Vaccine are way well protected. All right. Thank you. Five states are reporting 90 of their Icu Beds are occupied and Hospital Staff in alabama, texas, florida, georgia, mississippi are struggling right now. Whats the situation there in jackson, mississippi . Reporter we just got an update from the dpgovernor. He is still speaking and he said new covid numbers, more than 5,000 new cases. Among the new cases, he said 97 were unvaccinated. About two miles or so away from where we are here at the governors office building, team of doctors and staff are transforming the lower level of a garage. Thats right. Where cars normally park, you will see hospital beds. Thats to relieve the strain on the Emergency Department there. As the new numbers come out, doctors tell me they are terrifying. Listen in. We reported the largest number a day we have. We reported 5,023 cases and 31 deaths today. 166 Nursing Home outbreaks. When we look at the deaths that we had over the past four days, i want to do a dive. We have lost four healthy people in their 20s. Two of whom were pregnant. Zero vaccinated. Reporter meanwhile, the governor says he will not institute a Mask Mandate but he wanted to make it clear and share with the public that he has received the covid19 vaccine, so has his family and hes encouraging others to do so. Victor. These numbers are heartbreaking. The numbers of new cases and deaths and 78 covid beds, Icu Beds there for a state that has a population of three million. Thank you very much. Lets go to another one of the statements with limited icu capacity. Florida. Were learning that four educators in Broward County have died in a 24 Hour Span from covid19 related complications. Thats according to the president of the Broward County teachers union. What do we know about what happened there . Reporter its really troubling numbers. You talk about those four educators who all died within that 24 Hour Period of one another. Thats more than 130 epgducator who have been contracting since August 1st and its only august 13th. Were still early on in month. Its the reason why the School Board voted to keep the Mask Mandate. Schools start there next week. There are already seeing the numbers. They are fearing it will only get worse as the schools get back into session. They want the Mask Mandate for all the districts. They are going up against their own governor who is pushing forward with an antiMask Mandate. He said it should be the Parents Choice on if their kids should have to wear a mask or not. Hes threatening to strip funding from the schools that do have Mask Mandates. Theres several lawsuits challenge fg the governor has the power to do that. All of that is happening while hospitalizations in cases here in florida are skyrocketing. Even when you just compare numbers now to june. Were hear in jacksonville florida, we spoke with an Emergency Room Doctor over at Uf Health and he said they had just about 16 or so hospitalizations for covid19 midjune. Now they are up to 247. He says they only fear this will get worse as all the schools around here go back to the classroom. Those teachers who may have covid19, those kids and they will spread it if they bring it home to their family. Hes concerned because they are seeing it more likely in children than ever before. We know how strong, how powerful this Delta Variant is. That hospital here in jacksonville is a Trauma Center. He is worried about the Trauma Center operations being impacted by covid19. Right out front they have an over Flow Hospital where they can accommodate about 10 more patients if they Run Out of room in their hospital building. They are putting Covid Patients in other units that they wouldnt be because they have too many. Here in jacksonville behind me is the governors rapid response team. Its a mobile unit. They have antibodies there. They are offering that to people who have covid19. Telling you if they get that, that will limit your symptoms of covid19. We continue to see the hospitalizations skyrocketing all across the state. Thank you. From the Northeast Portion to the southwest. Bring in my next ghoeuest who i seeing a surge in florida. You said that the crisis in Southwest Florida is becoming bleaker by The Day. Explain what you mean by that. Were seeing an unprecedented surge in covid hospitalizations in our region. In june we had 30 people in the hospital with covid. Today we have 498. Our Childrens Hospital has 13 patients with six of them many the icu. Throughout the entire pandemic, we have aver rajjed no more than one twor two. We are seeing a dramatic increase. This Delta Variant is a different virus. It spread rapidly among the unvaccinated. The dramatic surge of patients is clear from up to 498 now. Are they sicker than they were . This virus seems to have a more virulent effect especially on the lungs. The population of patients were seeing now is younger than we saw a Year Tality is lower. In those patients, they are very sick. We have learned in Lee County that the School District reports about 15 , roughly 1 in 7 of the students in the School District have opted out of wearing a mask. In the context of what you told us about the Childrens Hospital there, whats your reaction to that number . Well, from the very beginning, we supported the Cdc Recommendation to wear masks in schools. Our approach has been education, education, education. Were doing everything we can to educate parents on the benefits of wearing mask especially now that the vaccine is now available to those children under 12. We just heard from Nadia Up In Jacksonville about the governors first, i believe its the one in the state at the moment, the rapid Response Units thats offering antibodies. That type of therapy for high risk people when they first see the early signs of covid. How important is that in the strategy to fight this virus spreading across the state . Its important one because given in the first ten days, you are reduce your hospitalization by 70 . We have been giving it about 50 doses a day. It requires an iv infusion. That takes up significant resources in our Emergency Department. We welcome these type of Strike Forces that are coming to the state. We have applied to do the same thing. Thank you, sir. Thanks for having me. From florida to texas now with fewer than 10 of its Icu Beds available, the situation is especially dire for children in dallas county. Dlallas, we have Zero Icu bes left for children. If your child is in a Car Wreck or had a Heart Defect or they have covid, we dont have one. Your child will wait for another child to die. Hospitals in houston are filling up. Creating a Bottleneck Situation. Long delays for City Ambulances there. With me is the chief of the Houston Fire department. Thank you for being with me. It makes sense that if the beds are full and the ambulances arrive that youve got to wait for some space to open up there. How bad is the problem where you are . Victor, first of all, thank you for having me on. Youre correct. We have seen an almost 20 in daily Call Volume from just a few months ago. We were averaging about A Thousand calls for service per day. Now were up to 1200 calls. Its placing the significant pressure on the entire medical system. Its Impacting Patients who dont have coronavirus by increasing the response times for our ambulance. That 20 , are you attributing that to calls related to covid symptoms . I can tell you the last week we had the highest Percentage Increase in Covid Related Calls that we had since june of 2020. The majority of the calls that we are getting, the additional calls are related to symptoms of covid19. That is really placing the stress on our ability to deliver the patients to the hospitals. In some instances were waiting an hour or two to deliver our Patient S on the stretcher to Te Emergency waiting room. Last week we had a patient on our stretcher for over five and a half hours. Its really placing a stress on the entire system. When we Run Out of resources, we Run Out for everybody. It doesnt matter who you are or what your injury is. When we Run Out, we Run Out. Not to wait until you need the Emergency Care before you take the coronavirus precautions. You mentioned that when resources Run Out, they Run Out for everybody. I understand that this Bottleneck Situation is on top of an ambulance shortage, too, right . Look, we have 104 ambulances in our system. Were already stretched thin. The firefighters here in houston have been working just like all first responders and Emergency Care workers for the last 18 months under this incredible suppress of coronavirus. Yes, this is just adding to the already stretched thin resources that weve had for a long time. Whats the impact primarily directly on the members of your department . Are you seeing officers who are now covid positive . Members of the Fire Department who are quarantined because of the virus . Yes, as of today we have nearly 60 firefighters that are covid positive. We have a total of 100 that are symptommatic including those 60. Its placing an additional stressor on our department because those people are not available for staffing. We are short several hundred firefighters. Our folks are battle weary. They have been at this for the last 18 months. That places incredible stress on them and their families. Its always in the back of their mind as far as getting infected and taking that to their family. Were doing everything we can to ensure they have the tools and equipment and the decontamination because our primary Focus And Goal is to ensure were available to serve the community. 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We were expecting an update from the Judiciary Committee until monday. Now we are learning they are not going forward with the impeachment process. They had two objects with this. First was to remove cuomo from office, which he resigned. The second they say, according to their attorney, theres no Pres Precedent in the constitution. To remove him from office has never been done before. They found it hard to apply that to whats on the books right now. Also this idea of disqualifying him from future office because this has never happened before. Again, its hard to go forward with that. Those are the two reasons. I want to make point, they said they did receive a lot of evidence about the cases they were looking into which we know is not just the Sexual Harassment allegations against the former governor and they also have evidence regarding the Nursing Home issue that we talked a lot about at cnn and the state resources used for his memoir. He said this evidence could likely have resulted in articles of impeachment had he not resigned. We talked to carl hasty on monday. He gave us an update. It was just on monday they had that update. He said there were no deals struck with cuomo at that time. It was 24 hours later that we saw Cuomo Go in front of the world that he would step down. Were there conversations happening about any deal struck of going forward . We dont know. Thank you. Now to afghanistan where cnn learned americans of the u. S. Embassy are being destructed to destroy Sense Itive materials. Its a sign of deteriorating conditions as the taliban makes significant gains across the country. The group has captured half of the 34 provencial capitals. We are concerned by the speed with which the taliban has been moving. As weve said from the very beginning, this it still is a moment for afghan national Security And Defense forces as well as their political leadership. No outcome has to be inevitable here. My next guest says americans should be alarmed and ashamed about how Hast Hastty hastily t u. S. Is leaving afghanistan. Brett, welcome back. The conversation about speed is one element that is valid here. Is there any surprise after President Trump and President Biden announced the date certain of withdrawal that what were seeing was going to happen whether its in august or a august . Youre right. Its a question of how and when. My concern, my Grave Concern at this hour is that President Biden rushed towards a political talking point. He wanted to be able to say by 20th Anniversary of the attacks on our pentagon as well as the World Trade Center and the plane that crashed in pennsylvania, that we had our troops out. That was reckless. It was wrong. My former colleagues who are now holed up at the embassy in kabul are seeing first hand the consequences of that decision. If you knew this and many others, analysts we were talking about say this was inevitable then the president s decision was based on what . Poor advice. Why did he make this call . Look, i worked alongside President Biden on the national security council. I know this is a position he has long held. It is a question of how its executed. I think his advisers did not serve him well. I think this is a moment where biden needs to take a long hard look at his national Security Team which ive rin about in Businessed Inner and my column is they are too insular. They are not taking enough input especially from the Career Officers out in kabul right now. They did not have a voice in this process. More than how the withdrawal happens, do you believer there should be some enduring Military Presence there in afghanistan in. Absolutely, i do. We owe it to the people of afghanistan. We owe it to those women and girls, who we said should stand up for their rights and who are now being left to fends for themselves against the taliban and victor, Let Me Emphasis here theres still time. The united states has to step in now and to sure up the defenses of kabul to protect the afghan government. To protect those who stood by us and those translaters, those who worked for american ngos. We need to hold kabul so those folks have enough time to be processed and to be safe. I want you to listen to fareed who makes an important point. I want to get your reaction to it on the other side. There is no real afghan army thats able to defend its country. What youre seeing is the most telltale sign is the taliban is taking them over without much of a fight. The afghan troops just melt away. An army of 300,000 just melts away in town after town. Its happening so quickly it appears there is no real fight from the afghan forces. Your reaction to what you heard there in. I have to agree with fareed. I do think we could have. We had just 250 troops that were in the country and the situation was stable. Those are fewer troops than we have in spain at the moment. I think in order to preserve both the right offense the afghan people, the operation of the government and lets not forget the reason why we went in there in first place to protect our country from places like afghanistan being used. I know as you mentioned at the outset, they are engaged in processes right now to destroy materials and thinking about themselves, their safety and i hope americans are thinking about them as well. I hope our Commander In Chief is doing everything he can that his team can to get them out of harms way. Thank you very much. The Defense Department said kabul is not in imminent Threat Environment right now but we take your point. Thank you. Thank you. This just in, the sobering warning from Homeland Security ahead of the 20year anniversary of september 11. 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Believing that trump won the election last year or restrictions by the government when it comes to covid and things like that. They say in the coming in the near future there could be attacks by those types of Domestic Violence extremists who are resisting and who are angry about these restrictions and some of those attacks could be carried out against religious institutions and other types of institutions around religious holidays. Theres a string of Jewish Holidays coming up in september, next month. Were also hearing from the head of intelligence at the department of Homeland Security. He says the chatter they are seeing online, on Social Media in different online forums is akin to what they were hearing to the lead up of january 6th. They are seeing an uptick in that violent language that they say john cohen, the head of intelligence at the dhs says could lead to more violence. This is something they have been warning for quite some time. There are a number of Conspiracy Theories that are fueling this potential violence. Through that, there is one common element and that is a Police Chief that Donald Trump is the real winner of the 2020 election. This Big Lie, as we have been calling it, has the real potential to fuel violence. That Big Lie is not going away. Donald trump continues to spout it at rally and speeches and he has others doing the same. Dhs warning theres potential for violence on a number of different fronts. Victor. Clear danger in repeating that lie. Thank you. The Homeland Security secretary says that the surge at The Border, the surge in Border Crossings unprecedented. We have a live report from The Border, next. Machine this is andy, my schwab financial consultant. Heres andy listening to my goals and making plans. This is us talking taxsmart investing, managing risk, and all the Ways Schwab can help me invest. 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Ted joins me now. Thank you for your time. I want to start with why you got it. You had asthma, kpneumonia and swine flu. Why the third shot in. Its clear from the guidance from Israel And Germany that people over 60 or 645 are recommended to get a third Booster Shot because its very clear that the original full vaccinations wear off after five months different studies show different percentages. I feel better safe than sorry. I read a lot of articles about how tens of millions of vaccines are in danger of being thrown away due to Vaccine Hesitancy in this country. I thought if theyre just going to throw them away, i want the third shot. We recommend when it was difficult to get an appointment for a vaccine. I thought as soon as the biden White House that issues that says people will need a booster, we might go back to that shortage so why not get ahead of the curve. They said A Million people have gotten that extra dose. We know that some people felt some mild symptoms after they got those injections. How do you feel after a third dose . I had mild symptoms after the first and second doses. The same exact thing after the third. You wrote in first paragraph about going in, the experience of getting it. You said i didnt tell the pharmacist it was my third. She didnt ask. I manage this requires a degree of dont ask, dont tell to get this third shot. Would you have told her if she had asked . I think i probably would have lied. I wanted to third shot. I didnt i wasnt put into the position of having to. I was really happy about that. I wanted that third shot. They will throw them away. I understand the policies. The Policy Makers have a different agenda. They are trying to get as americans vaccinated as officially add possible. I thought i could make an individual decision for myself. Thats what i did. From what i understand about getting a third shot, if you went in with the Discussion Or Prescription from a doctor, youre fine but if you do something deceptive then you have broken the law. You were willing to break the law to get the third shot. This is the first ive heard of that. Im a pretty well read writer, columnist, political cartoonist and i didnt know there was any kind of legal issue here. Okay. When you say that you would have lied, you got this third shot. Do you have a second card now with a single shot on it. Do you have two Vaccine Cards now . Yes, i do. Okay. I just imagine that some people, this took a turn i did not expect. There were probably some people with you up until that point. When you said i would have just lied to the woman to get the shot, why you and not other people . I think everybody wants anybody who got the vaccine wants to protect themselves. Why you and not the rest of us . I think everybody has to make a decision for themselves. Youre talking about literally tens of millions of vaccination doses that are being thrown away. Im not taking a shot from anyone. The place where i went told me they were getting rid of doses all the time routinely. Its a matter of Life And Death. I have either Covid Or Something like covid in late 2019. Im sure that i dont think i could survive something like that again. When its matter of Life And Death and youre not hurting anyone else, i just dont see any ethical issue with taking something that is going to be thrown away otherwise. All right. I appreciate the conversation. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, we have more on the tragic situation unfolding in florida where the governor has banned schools from mandating masks even as four members who work for the Broward County School District there, single district, died from covid in one day. You founded your Kayak Company because you love the ocean not spreadsheets. You need to hire. I need indeed. Indeed you do. 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And according to government statistics in july, there was 212,672 apprehensions during a time that is notably low during the sweltering summer months, heat, the global Heat Index was a Record High in july, but still we saw tens of thousands, Hundreds Of Thousands of migrants trying to go for a better life here in the united states, unaccompanied children, those minors are also crossing at a historic rate according to the u. S. Government, 18,962 arriving at The Border in july. And if you ask the biden administration, theyre very skeptical or stopped short, i should say, of calling this a border crisis. I say this has a lot to do with whats happening in their Home Countries. Critics of the biden administration are labelling this a broken border and a crisis created by the biden administration. We are at one of these legal crossing points. Its a ferry that goes between mexico just on the other side here of the rio grande. Were standing on the u. S. Side. This is a legal border crossing, but the area that surrounds me is one of the problem areas that Border Patrol is dealing with here as they see an unprecedented number of migrants trying to cross The Border for a better life. They are overwhelmed. These numbers are at a point what we saw at the height of, you know, the Zerotolerance Policy when Border Patrol stations were overcrowded and held in inhumane conditions. Those crowded facilities are back again. Those images are certainly something that the biden administration is going to have to deal with in The Days and weeks ahead. Victor . Nick valencia on The Border for us, nick, thank you. Well be right back. Ah, theres no place like panera. Enjoy the cool, refreshing strawberry poppyseed salad. Panera. Order on the app today. At pnc bank, we believe in the power of the watch out. The make way, coming through. Great. The storm alert. Dad. And the subtle but effective ding. Thats why we created low Cash Mode. 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