Covering the infrastructure debate, and in Mississippi And California covering the dangerous spread of coronavirus. In fact, that is where we will start. Nbcs Allison Barber is outside a hospital in jackson, mississippi, where they are starting to see a rise in children hospitalized with covid. Las vegas an indoor Mask Mandate is back in americas second largest city and i want to bring in Dylan Byers and dr. Patel. Lets start in mississippi, one of the least vaccinated states in our country and now children make up 7 of Icu Covid patients statewide there. What are you hearing from folks on the ground about the crisis . Reporter yeah, the numbers are rising here. Theyre rising quickly. Thats whats giving a lot of Doctors Concern is the rate at which theyre seeing these numbers really start to pick up. We are outside of a childrens hospital. Its part of a larger medical system. One of the largest in this state. They say they have seen hospitalizations pick up across all ages in recent we
Im michael holmes. This is cnn newsroom. First to germany where the Death Toll has jumped to at least 81 in dangerous Flash Flooding in the western part of the country. In one district alone, 1300 people are assumed missing. Some regions receiving more than a Months Worth of rain in just 24 hours. At least 12 people have died in belgium, meteorologists describing it as the heaviest rainfall in a century. Nina Dos Santos is tracking developments. Weeks and weeks of rain. What is the impact of the floods . Reporter thats right, michael, the impact as you see is loss of life, severe devastation to a number of buildings, infrastructure is being blown up. Across one part of the three stricken regions of germany, one of the most populous regions, were seeing some of the Telephone Lines having been cut off, Hundreds Of Thousands without power, indeed running water and basic supplies. It is a pretty dramatic situation and in one part of the vehicle stricken part of the country, authorities rec
Simone biles, perhaps the greatest gymnast of all time and maybe the best athlete on earth right now, announced moments ago that she will not compete in tomorrows allaround Gymnastics Competition for Team Usa at the olympics. Usa gymnastics says shes withdrawing to focus on her Mental Health. And she has their support. This is a move that comes one day after biles pulled out of the Team Competition following a stumble during a vault. Coy wire is joining us now live from tokyo. Coy, tell us what does this mean for Tomorrows Competition . Yeah, brianna, Jade Carey will take her spot in the individual all around and the highly anticipated events of the Summer Games will now go on without the athlete that everyone wants to see. The individual all around Simone Biles could be the first woman in 53 years to repeat at the olympic champ and means that biles who is already the most decorated american gymnast ever will miss out on at least one more potential medal that she could have won here in
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Welcome, everyone. Dramaticrescue efforts underway, across western europe, as catastrophic floods sweep tHrough parts of germany, belgium, and the netherlands. At least 125 people are dead, and hundreds of others, still, unaccounted for. Bridges have been washed out. Thousands, left homeless. And entire villages, washed underwater. In the coming hours, Germanys President will visit the state, one of the countrys hardesthit areas. And have look at this. This house in eastern belgium collapsing, as the Floodwaters Rush by. You can see, people on the Roof Waiting to be evacuated. Belgium announced it will hold a national day of mourning for flood victims, on tuesday. In the netherlands, dutch officials have just ordered 10,000 residents to evacuate the city of venlo, about 40 kilometers north of where these pictures were taken as the river there is rising faster than expected. Cnns Melissa Bell is in the Disaster Zone with more on these historic floods. Reporter the floodwaters were movin