the israelis are accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all the women and children being held hostage. cnn s oren lieberman and matthew chance are tracking the latest from tel aviv. we ll start with oren. walk us through how these negotiations break down and what happens now. reporter: so the negotiations to this point focused on a very specific group of people, women and children. that was what the agreement was, to release 50 women and children at the start, and then ten women and children per day to extend the truce for 24 hours. this is where the disagreement comes in. israel and the u.s. believe that hamas is holding at least 17 women and children which would allow for at least one more day of pause. hamas says they re not holding women and children at this point and wanted to move the discussions on to elderly men as well as men and women who were soldiers. it is on that point that the discussions fell apart. hamas insisting that the women t
this is not january s covid virus. this is something brand new. we have to take what we thought we knew about covid and put it aside and look at this delta variant head on. what it s doing, number one, much more transmissible. number two, it s causing illness quicker. people are getting sicker if they re not vaccinated. three, as you just reported, kids, we did not see this with the original covid strains. we are now seeing it. it is quite alarming. our icus at the children s hospital are starting to get kids with covid pneumonia, our ers are filling up. covid pneumonia is not something we saw very much of in children. we re seeing it now. as you talk about icus and hospital beds filling up, the stress and toll on health care workers as another wave washes through is a big problem. i want to play for you how one nurse out of tennessee, how she describes it.
the pandemic is spiraling out of control yet again. with hospital beds filling up, even the sick turned away. and those devastating stories of loss and so much death are back. and still, none of this seems to be swaying the millions who refuse to get vaccinated or even wear a mask, which is why some state governments and agencies are stepping up the mandates. today california announced it will require all state employees and health care workers to be vaccinated or face regular frequent testing. that s almost 250,000 employees. and the u.s. department of veterans affairs will require its 115,000 front line health care workers to take the jab, making it the first federal agency to mandate that employees be inoculated. elected republicans who have sowed vaccine hostility for political gain are fighting