Rates of vaccination. Then there s this. One health system in missouri is transferring covid19 patients to hospitals in different health systems as they struggle to meet staffing needs amid those surging infections. And in texas, more than 145 campers and counselors who attended a churchrun summer camp have tested positive now for covid19. Let s begin with cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. And, elizabeth, as so often with this pandemic, it s in the data. You have states with high infection rates high vaccination rates, rather, low vaccination rates. What we are seeing now is where the vaccination rates are lower, you re seeing a much bigger spike in new infections. That s right, jim, in states with low vaccination rates they have higher death rates from covid. It could not be more clear. If you are unvaccinated, basically it s 2020 all over again. This delta variant spreads quickly. There is evidence that it makes people sicker, and you are not protected against it. So,
these are live pictures from tampa, high winds continuing to batter the highways as storm c surges threatened to overpower low lying areas. some areas of the state are already seeing flooding, with knee deep water covering roads and inundating towns. these are the latest pictures from jacksonville near to where the hurricane hit land. although the storm has continued to weaken, it is still bringing sustained winds of up to 105 miles per hour, that s 165 kilometres an hour. in a briefing just before the storm made landfall, florida governor ron desantis warned people against taking any risks. more than a quarter of a million people are without power. you don t want to be messing around with these winds. there s going to be things flying all over the place. obviously, if you re in a place that s close to the coast and you see that surge, that s going to be a legitimate surge. it s going to be a big, big deal and it s going to be very, very dangerous. and there we go with our po
could be. neil: the first major hurricane of the new season is on. certainly in the atlantic. idalia is anyone s guess. a category one could be a category three by tomorrow at this time with winds in excess of 120 miles an hour. 16 million americans are in the path of this with the dangerous winds and surge. governor desantis warning residents to make sure that they have a plan to get out and get out fist. welcome. i m neil cavuto. we re following this thing. hard to gauge exactly the path of this storm when all is said and done. let s get the very latest from steve harrigan in duneden, florida. steve? the path could be huge chunks anywhere along the westest coast. throughout much of that territory today, people were filling sandbags. right now, a lot quieter. like a ghost town here. most businesses have shut down. the 120 miles per hour winds, that could knock down houses and uproot trees. the storm surge could be eight to 12 feet. that could submerge cedar key. there s
our house with ian. we ll make sure we have more sandbags than we did last time and more prep for water. better to be prepared versus not prepared and have regrets. we are getting prepared as best we can. adam is live from the fox weather center. it has been in cancun for two days. we watch it lift itself farther to the north running into the gulf of mexico waters. winds only around 30 miles-per-hour currently. it is only a tropical storm now and set to infence tie. this is that track and the intensification. it will lift across the gulf of mexico and over across the state of florida and into the southeast. don t just pay attention to what i m about to show you it will make landfall. the initial landfall early wednesday morning. still likely the nighttime hours overnight. tuesday night into early wednesday morning winds at 115 miles-per-hour a category 3 hurricane. big area here from near tampa stretching toward tropical storm storm watches stretching farther to the
dead. that number sadly is expected to grow welcome to fox news but i am alicia in for arthel. super i m eric shawn. at least four people remained missing at this hour. dozens more injured from the powerful storms. the catastrophic twisters and the town of rolling fork, mississippi about 60 miles northwest of the state capitol of jackson account basically has been wiped off the map. national weather service is the same tornado that devastated that town is believed to have raced eastward going 70 miles an hour pretty did not weaken as it then slammed into mississippi in several towns in alabama on a 100-mile path of destruction. x thousand the twisters path and loss of power some reporting on port 80% of customers without electricity. mississippi governor kate reeves declaring a state of emergency today president biden says fema director on the ground there tomorrow. too far from the very latest coach of the ground charles watson is an armory, mississippi or is the hardest hit