The American Academy Of Pediatrics reports more than 250,000 new cases involving children arise in the last week. Thats a 23 increase from the week before. And 250 increase from five weeks ago. Nearly 27 of all new weekly cases are children. That is a much higher percentage than we have seen over the course of the pandemic. Now, it is important to note that while a quarter of all new cases are now among kids, they represent a much smaller portion of those hospitalized, about 2. 5 of hospitalizations. Though, the raw number of children hospitalized does continue to climb. Look at that graphic, higher than its ever been. Nearly 2,400 kids in hospital beds at the moment. Overall hospitalizations and hospitalizations have been one of the more accurate ways to measure the trajectory of the pandemic, they do appear to be leveling off. Lets hope that trend continues. Yeah, lets hope. Now schools that reopened in the south where governors fought Mask Mandates are paying a deadly price. One dis
Resurgent, the Job Recovery severely decelerating. And this morning there are growing questions about when a Vaccine Booster will actually be available. Top health officials have warned the White House that more time is needed to review all the data. School is back in session as the u. S. Is now averaging more than 160,000 new coronavirus cases a day. That is 300 higher than Labor Day one year ago. And dangerously high level of Community Transmission in nearly the entire country. Dr. Anthony fauci says the country is getting perilously close to having to make tough decisions about who getting an icu bed. But hospitalizations have dropped below 100,000 again. That is a positive trend that hopefully will continue. And overnight, the taliban announced they seized panjshir province, that was the final holdout of Resistance Forces in afghanistan. The White House is still insisting that the u. S. Will find ways to get the remaining americans out of the country. And on this holiday, that was
This is just over 40 minutes. Heat advisory coming up, if you need help with the damage at your home, that is the number that you need to call. We have a full individual Assistance Team that will help you get the things that you need to. If you are from louisiana and you are in the state of mississippi, there are opportunities for help, as well. We talked with our counterparts in New Orleans and it is ready. Nola. Gov. In the state of mississippi, you can call us and we will help you transition to make sure that you have a home to go to and that you can be taken care of and have the right Support Mechanism back in your state when you get there. We are here handinhand with the Emergency Management Agency for louisiana, as well. Governor, that is the end of my briefing. Thank you, and we will take questions after everybody has an opportunity to update you. I will call on the Mississippi Department of health, Jim Craig. Instrumental in the movement and activations of our health care space
Is this the only option that you will use. Did they stop that ball. I will ask The General to provide context. But used the Word Dynamic a lot. Dynamic, moving, fluz, quick, that is how Isis K operates. When you have what we believe to be an imminent threat, we took the action that we believe is the most necessary At The best opportunity to thwart that attack. Commanders always minimize collateral damage. In this case like mr. Kirby said, this strike so as we looked At The information that we had At The time of the strike, we took all of those measures in place, and we decided to thwart that. So the u. S. Protection measures engaged those rockets and apparently it hit one of them or you didnt engage the other ones. One did land in an area that was not effective. You didnt intercept . Yeah, we intercepted one and it was effective. I just want to clarify the numbers you stated earlier. About 122,000, is 5400 part of that number or is that a separate number . 122,000 plus evacuated over t
The taliban trying to instill a sense of calm but with all of these Al Qaeda fighters, Isis Cells being released from the prisons, they pose not only a shortterm threat to this Evacuation Operation but also to the Talibans Ability to create a Calm Environment once we pull out and they no longer have even most likely a working airport there, alex. So right now the White House is saying that they stand by the original mission, the original timeline, which is tuesday. At the same time theyre saying that we are not leaving and we will not end until we get everybody out. Okay. Heidi przybyla at the White House. Thank you so much. All of you, we are past the top of the hour, so stay with us here on msnbc. As we bid you all a good day from Msnbc World headquarters here in new york, welcome to this hour of Alex Witt reports. We are just past 2 00 p. M. In the east, 11 00 a. M. Pacific time. We will bring you an update on what we learned from afghanistan, Breaking News from the taliban in the l