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it comes at a critical moment where covid cases among the youngest and most vulnerable are soaring nationwide. doctors treating kids sick with covid reflecting on this point in the pandemic. it s scary. it s sad. and it s exhausting. it s sad that some in society have not prioritized children. i thought that was a place where we could all come together. we start with this huge news from pfizer. what it could mean in the fight against the pandemic. gabe gutierrez has been following the pfizer announcement for us. he s outside a hospital in spokane washington where hospitals are turning away patients from neighboring idaho. and cases continue to rise among children. and i also want to bring in dr. derek cast. he s an emergency medical physician. doctor, always good to have you. gabe, let s start with you. pfizer says the data shows the vaccine is safe and effective for children between 5 and 11. what more have we learned? hey there, craig. yes, as you said, this is ....
approval for younger kids can t come soon enough. for elementary school aged kids, pfizer tested a much lower vaccine dose. a third of the amount that s in shots for teens and adults. but doctors say that low dose in kids produced the same strong levels of antibodies with fewer side effects. pfizer says it plans to seek u.s. authorization by the end of the month. and once it does, the data will have to be examined by the fda and the cdc. and the timing appears to be in line with what dr. fauci said, his prediction of shots by late fall or early winter. so the company wanted to find a dose that would be very tolerable in the young kids while still providing adequate efficacy, efficacy on par with what we were seeing in older populations. hopefully this dose strikes that balance. fda will have to make the careful review. assuming that the fda s review takes from four to six weeks, which is what they ve signaled, a vaccine for children could be available as soon as the e ....
it would be more extreme and climate change was here and we re living through it now. we don t have any more time. cnn s athena jones is in manville, new jersey. cnn s m.j. lee is in queens, new york. athena, let me start with you. what will the president see there? reporter: hi, alisyn. well, this is what he will see. he will see street after street that looks like. this scene is repeated on several streets throughout this community, one of the hardest hit in new jersey. you are seeing mattresses out on the street, kitchen tables, couches, all kinds of apply answers from refrigerators to washing machines. in houses like this one where we are now it is being entirely gutted. you can see these are the walls having been ripped out of this house because of the levels that the flood got to. we also are seeing the insulation being ripped out because this is how high at this house. come on in, tom, and you can show them how it is completely gutted inside. we are talking a ....
hello, everyone. i m alisyn camerota. welcome on this holiday. america s doctors and nurses are short staffed, working overtime and begging for help. about 80% of icu beds across the country are full right now, a third of them with covid patients. it s gotten so bad in kentucky, the governor is sending in the national guard. our situation is dire. we are setting case records. we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital, in the icu battling for their lives. we have a record number of families praying for their loved ones on a ventilator, needing that assistance to breathe. new cases are spiking. the seven-day average is 300% higher than it was last labor day. this as the white house planned to roll out booster shots that maybe by changing. let s bring in elizabeth cohen. so, elizabeth, what is the update on boosters? this roll outmay start on september 20th, for many americans, but not necessarily for everyone. before i go into details, i want to giv ....
trying to wrap our arms around the sheer scope of the damage in new york, new jersey and pennsylvania, and the death toll across six states stands with 49 people including children who were trapped in homes and basements and some in cars as they tried to escape. as we await the president, it is going to be a long labor day weekend for the families grieving the loss of loved ones and for many more loved ones the loss of their homes. and so you, this is the first time that you are coming back to seeing your home like this? yes. and because of all of the flooding, the firefighters had a tough time getting to some of the areas, because of that flooding. did you ever expect it to rain this much in this area? no. no, we have had heavy rain, but knotting with the flooding and maybe a little bit of the water in the basement, but nothing to get significant flooding and we have heard in the past that there were floods in the area. and you found something in the debr ....