From the week before. In six states, alabama, florida, louisiana, mississippi, oregon and washington, new admissions of patients with coronavirus are currently at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic. Hospitalizations and Infection Rates for children are also on the rise. Nbc news reporting, as of wednesday, u. S. Hospitals were attending to an average of more than 1200 children a day. Twice the number from the end of july. Alabama admitted nearly 260 kids between August 10th and 16th. An average of 37 per day. And an increase of more than 300 from the previous week. Florida leads the nation entrails children hospitalized with covid19, averaging 54 new admissions a day over the past week, according to the cdc. Of course, floridas republican governor, along with a number of other republican governors across the country, are still banning Mask Mandates in schools. But parents and School Boards, they are fighting back. Millions of students in florida, texas and arizona are
Towards New York city, and all over the Long Island sound, people are saying we have one day to prepare. We have saturday. This storm is coming in a hurry. The landfall time has been up, saturday morning. We are still dealing with it as a tropical storm. It did not reach Hurricane Intensity quite yet. Its getting sheared and now heading towards the north finally. Nine miles per hour. Anna cherney to New England, it will parallel the coastline of the carolinas. How about that band at The End to the left . Very unusual, doesnt happen that often. Its kind of similar to that band as to what sandy did. Sandy is a different beast. It was much, much larger. Sandy was a huge immense storm. This may be the same Intensity But Size wise no comparison. This storm will have its own problems. You notice that the winds will quickly die off, by the time we get to monday morning, Wind Damage is done. The Wind Damage of the storm is as three go throughout sunday. Its already getting close to Long Island
Us. bill kairns, thank you as always. still ahead, lawmakers ramp up the pressure on moscow. the house has passed legislation banning the u.s. imports of russia oil and other energy sources. we ll talk about what kind of impact this will have on moscow and whether more will be done. way too early will be right back. ill be done. way too early will be right back for the lowest price ever. plus choose from the latest 5g smartphones. get more 5g bars in more places- switch to t-mobile for business today. trelegy for copd. birds flyin high you know how i feel (coughing) breeze driftin on by you know how i feel copd may have gotten you here, but you decide what s next. start a new day with trelegy. .feelin good no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler,
Moment with late live update for that. our meteorologist bill kairns is standing by with the latest. all day i ve seen models bring this thing through the mouth of new york harbor. other marvels bring it through the guts of new england. neither place is used to hurricanes. neither is a good solution. and brian, i m just seconds ago looking at you at this for the first time. it came in five seconds ago. the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5 pm advisory into the hamptons, right around southampton. it has shifted westward again. now we are making it towards islip. who is only 24 to tory four hours ago, this thing moves into buzzers bay. now in cape cod, they ve pulled their boats at the water, saying we may catch a break. but the people from long island are now all of a sudden heading
But joe biden did indirectly reference some people, two senators from new hampshire, and also sally yates. so that would be pretty interesting that he would directly name these people. incredibly interesting. emily larsen, thank you so much. appreciate it. let s take a turn now and get a check on your weather once again with nbc meteorologist bill kairns. let s address storm two. and you know it is serious when they re telling people in southern organize to get to their destinations by noon today in oregon or you risk getting stranded on the roads and asking people not to travel until wednesday afternoon. so a 24-hour period, they re telling people this storm will have a huge impact. all of the bright white is the clouds. we can t show you the radar because the radar only shoots off the coast about 100, 200 miles here. one of the strongest storms in a while. it moves onshore today. the blue here is snow. code cold enough for significant snow at the lower elevations so