Now account for more than one in four of all weekly new coronavirus infections, with over 250,000 new infections in the last week alone. Child hospitalizations, they re also at an alltime high. But to be clear, less than 2% of all pediatric covid19 cases result in hospitalization, far below with older people. Dr. Anthony fauci says the uptick in cases is still avoidable. If we do things right, we hope that we don t see much increase at all. If we want to protect the children, particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated. Teachers, school personnel, everyone else. Some schools in the south have been particularly hit hard since reopening. One district in central georgia has temporarily moved to virtual learning after three transportation staff died in recent weeks. In florida 13 employees in miami dade public schools died since mid august. We should note, all of them unvaccinated. That statistic remains cons
Are in new jersey and at least 4. 5 million people are still under flood warnings at this hour as swollen rivers continue to present a danger to so many residents. We ve already seen thousands of people in multiple states being rescued from the high waters. Millions of others are now beginning to clean up the debris, clearing out their flooded basements, trying to move downed trees, many of them off of their cars. Let s get the very latest, what it looks like today with cnn s polo sandoval. He s live in one hardhit community in new jersey. Hey there, polo. Reporter: hey, kate. Some of the hardest work is just getting started for so many residents here in new jersey. We ve driven and walked these streets and you see those scenes we ve seen in the past with other similar incidents where you have people putting out their belongings that were destroyed out on the curb and then there were some that lost their homes altogether. You see the house behind me or what was left of the house behind
Nearly 5 million are still under flood warnings. Still dangerous conditions in a lot of places. At the same time, we re moving into a recovery mode and a cleanup mode. The recovery process for this is going to take months. We now know that at least eight tornados hit multiple states. New jersey was hit with its strongest tornado in 30 years. In louisiana and mississippi where 13 people were killed, hundreds of thousands of others still face fuel shortages, power outages, and sweltering temperatures. The heat index in parts of louisiana will top 105 degrees today. Let s start there. Cnn s adrian broads is in new orleans, adrian, you re up first. You ve been talking to people and bringing us their stories, desperate for gas and food and some comfort, electricity. Describe what you re hearing that they want to hear, what they want to see from president biden. Reporter: when president biden comes, they want answers. These are people who are starving for hope. You got to keep in mind, this
No more masks! shannon: a crowd of students and parents chanting no more masks outside of school board meeting in tennessee. It got heated. We have breaking details. Tensions flare across the country over backtoschool covid restrictions and mandates. Why proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic is really no longer required for high school students in the blue state of oregon. Supporters of the moon say it s meant to benefit disadvantaged and minority students but there s plenty of backlash. We start with him battle governor andrew cuomo resigning. Laura ingle has the latest from new york. Hi, shannon. Admitted sexual harassment scandal and under fire for both local parties, and battle governor andrew cuomo gave the people of new york his two week notice. Given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. The stunning aboutface came during a live news conference tuesday in which the governor of new york who have been d
Now they re getting for care packages. Do they really need salsa sentence impaired in the number of violent weekends. We begin with a federal agency note mandating a covid vaccine for a significant chunk. David good evening to you. A big story when president biden took over in january, his team said that they would not mandate vaccines this of course was before the general public was largely able to get vaccinated. Six month later vaccination numbers are much lower and it appears they will mandate vaccines, but in certain settings only. After months of seeing vaccination numbers fall and delta variant covid cases. When ever a veteran or va employee sets foot in the va facility, they deserve to know that we have done everything in our power to protect them from covid 19. With this mandate we can once again make and keep that fundamental promise. The va is not alone. All state employees in california have to choices, get vaccinated, or get tested and b forced to wear a mask. Our projecti