transmisable? will it be some ways resistance to the vaccines that are out there? the third thing is will it be more dangerous? will this particular variant cause more hospitalizations and more fatalitys? all of these factors are being watched very carefully. but those have also heard about the spiked protein with this virus will understand that this is the new variant has caused a lot of mutations on that particularly critical protein. a couple dozen new mutations which is why we don t understand yet what the trajectory is going to be of this new threat. and by the way, i m calling it a threat, but i want to even keep that on check a bit until we have more information really start following this the way it needs to be. and by the way, this is not the end of new mutations and
hospital has just confirmed patients have come to the hospital from santa fe high school, school of about 1400 students. it is just about half an hour outside of galveston. these students en route to utm, the hospital there in galveston. total number of patients at this hour unknown. i did speak last hour with a 14-year-old named anjelica martinez who was in the school at the time of the shooting. she recounted what happened. first period was going on. she and her classmates heard a fire drill. they then started to evacuate within minutes as they were trying to run out of the school building, she heard gunshots over and over. teachers, students teachers told students to stay in place but the students ran when they heard gunshots. and that they escaped. she also said that it sounded like four shots to her. let s go to polo sandoval. this just happened about an hour and a half ago. do we know anything about injuries or potential fatalitys? not yet. let s start with information
unlike a fire which you can see it and hear koeuplt it coming. the mud comes at once. the rain that caused this slide happened in four hours. why the difference in fatalitys? sheriff said up to 90% of individuals that did not listen got evacuated. we have history of flooding in the area, but with the fire, the ash and then little to no vegetation, the sediment just builds up quickly, and it starts to clog the streams and that adds to the problem. reporter: so just three inches of mud i am told by experts to literally good news is we have sunshine today. bad news is the first rain of the season. right next to me is an orange county search and rescue team. they re still looking for individuals in and around the houses. dana? dana: all right, william. thank you very much for that update.
approa approaching the bot toll of the hour, hurricane patricia is downgraded as the winds dipped to lower than 35 miles per hour, and no fatalitys have been report and the damage is lighter than expected. patricia was the strongest hurricane on record before making landfall friday night. however, the threat of heavy rain and flooding has spread from texas, and you can see now that the effects of a union pacific freight train that ran off of the rails in corsicana, and the two-man crew have been rescued. let s bring in lieu ttenant russe russell honore who helped with the efforts after katrina in louisiana. thank you for coming here. thank you, alex. and this hurricane did not do the damage that we feared, but this area that it hit is extr e extremely rural, and so, sir,