arkansas has a high rate of poverty. and my personal children are special needs and need to be in-person learning. but yeah so -- >> and veronica mcclain, everyone is mandated to wear seat belts and there's no big protest about it. you do it. and the car insists you do it. it makes a lot of noise and beeps at you if you don't. but here is masks that are saving lives at this point possibly at a rate greater than seat belts do. how did it come to this in arkansas? >> it came to this because we have a majority republican legislature, and they are digging their heels in and politicizing the public health of arkansasans. masking and vaccines are the only thing that are going to get us through this. and so what we're seeing is, you know, the person -- the senator who wanted this bill, you know, will tell people that his children will never wear a mask and that, you know, it's your choice if you want your children to wear a mask that's fine. but we know scientifically everybody needs to be wearing a mask in order for it to have

more arkansas kids are getting covid-19 and they are getting sicker. state health secretary jose romero said that 19% of active cases in the state are people under 18. more than half of those are under 12. dr. gupta, how worried should parents be around the country about their children's exposure to covid, especially given the rampant nature of the delta variant? >> jonathan, first of all, i love what the senator just said. i appreciate his honesty and his owning what has happened in the past, as has the governor of arkansas. what i would say to all parents out there as a parent is that it's okay to be worried because there's been a lot of confusing messaging. it's clear that at least in certain spots, children do appear to be getting sicker. louisiana, florida. however, let me be clear, we're not seeing some sort of nationwide spike, jonathan, in children going to the hospital in droves here. it does not appear that we're there yet. it's happening in spots. what i would recommend to the parents of all school-age children in arkansas is to ignore what

republicans were not given any sympathy whatsoever in arkansas. interestingly enough, clayton was later declared the winner of the election so they had to do another election because the seat was left vacant. his assassin was never found. bentley, deputy bentley later became the justice of the peace and he presided over a trial in which they put a man on trial for the murder from minnesota. by that point the man had been dead for two years and bentley found him guilty and said "case closed." they didn't look into it any further. so that's kind of one story of how this idea of, we can just take matters into our own hands, manifested itself in arkansas. in arkansas where it is really tied to organized politics, out west it was more of the men who made their own law or they disregarded the laws that were in place. michael fellman is a historian who wrote "inside war," which is really the definitive work on guerilla war during the war. he concluded male kin, property, security, decent communications, all building blocks of the normal life, they had to

joining us now emergency room physician in arkansas dr. lee johnson. he's also a republican member of the arkansas house of representatives. sir, these deaths are preventable. the u.s. surgeon general saying every death from covid right now is completely preventable. i don't know what convinces people to get the vaccine but perhaps you could explain what you are seeing and also explain what the suffering is like for those who are in the hospital, in the icu, alone without their family members suffering from covid. >> sure. you know, it's a difficult decision for many people. and i think we have to respect that when we discuss our -- the issue with the people in our community. you know, they're struggling with this decision. you need to listen to their concerns, take them seriously and not discount them. most people that i discuss this with, they have a question or two and they're able to be

how did it come to this in arkansas? >> it came to this because we have a majority republican legislature and they are digging their heels in and politicizing the public health of our city. ? maxing invest scenes are the only things that are gonna get us through this -- maxing and vaccines. we are seeing that the senator who sponsored this bill, you know, we'll tell people his children will never wear a mask and that, you know, it's your choice if you want your children to wear a mask. that's fine. we know, scientifically, everybody needs to be wearing a masks in order to and have the full protection. we know they are not 100% but, we have to stop playing political games and put the lives of our children at the forefront of this pandemic. >> veronica, how do you feel about your children gathering in schools or anywhere else in the situation? >> i am terrified. i am sad, i am angry. my child, i have an eight year old and three-year-old, my oldest has been virtual since march of 2020. we have been lucky to be able to provi

that's some hefty coin in arkansas. but sarah huckabee sanders, she's raised $4.2 million for her bid for arkansas governor. are you concerned that she's just -- if you two end up going head to head, she's just going to swamp you in the money race? >> no, not at all. i think -- here's why. look, number one, we are out raising money, we're pounding the pavement, and we, of course we need the resources. the thing that's more important than money is the votes. we're out across the state and we're knocking on doors. we're getting out in front of folks safely. but i'll tell you this. arkansans have a choice. it's either sarah huckabee sanders who seeks to divide our house and we know that will lead to our fall. or me chris jones who seeks to unite our house so we can stand and launch into the 21st century. it's clear to me as i listen to arkansans that what we're seeking is someone who is going to follow wise counsel, who is going to listen to scientists, particularly in the midst of covid, listen to medical advice. is going

you also saw it in the ozark mountains, missouri to arkansas. it was really prevalent and concentrated on the front tier, missouri, kansas, where it had existed even before the war, obviously. but -- and again, that was just -- it's -- if you research the topic, it's just an absolute mess. it really was a free for all. and some of those ways that they fought continued on until after the war. but before you can understand what it morphed into after the war you have to understand this mindset actually existed even before the war when the british army and the revolutionary war landed in south carolina and started marching north to virginia. they encountered guerilla warfare and guerilla fighter after guerilla fighter. the most known of those would be the swamp fox, francis marion. but he was not the only one they encountered. they basically dealt with guerillas on the way up to virginia. on the frontier, you had bleeding kansas, you've got the whole fight over the settlements, making the states between kansas and missouri and the fight over whether

. >> so you know, we just saw that story from arkansas which he alludes to. here is a state where the legislature ruled out with the forced lifting on any mandate on mask business and the governor had to sign on that and had no choice, he said. we are seeing children now getting infected and hospitalized in increasing numbers. in arkansas alone, we are told between april and july of 2021 there's been a 517% increase for those under age 18 and a 690% increase for those under 12 who can't be vaccinated. what can parents do? what do they have to know? the most important thing parents can do is to get vaccinated themselves. they want to surround children who can't get vaccinated and the older kids can get vaccinated if they're 12 and up right now. i think there's no question that the benefits of the vaccines far exceed the risks for those kids at this point. this is a serious illness, and you know, the consequences can be severe in the short term and there can be long-term consequences, as well. i hope that, you know, the various posturing has been a feature of t

in arkansas, for one, just eight icu beds now available. in austin, texas, tonight, reports just six icu beds left. florida tonight requesting 300 ventilators fratatatatororororor and with the n new school year already getting under way, doctors urging the fda to authorize vacac vacacac v v v v. dr. jha standing by to answer your questions tonight. >>> the major fires in the u.s. in california, the dixie fires, now the second largest in california history. and it comes as the u.n. tonight issues a new and alarming climate report, calling it a, quote, code red for humanity. tonight, we have the numbers here. how quickly the earth is warming. much faster than they thought. our team also in greece tonight, the fires there and parts o europe heat in 30 years. some residents and tourists now boarding ferries to escape the flames. >>> the developing headline from washington at this hour. president biden tonight, a major step closer to passage of his $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan. the senate expected to pass the bill with bipartisan support as

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louisiana, florida and arkansas topping the list. those 94,000 new cases among children, those are cases 18 and under, just as the school year begins in parts of the south. in louisiana alone, governor john bel edwards now saying 20% of new infections there have been in children. florida requesting those 300 ventilators from the federal government. and those numbers just in tonight. the whole state of arkansas down to just eight icu beds now. austin, texas, reporting just six icu beds left. tonight, the pentagon now planning to require all military members be vaccinated as early as mid-september. with growing concern across the country, the u.s. is now seeing a steady increase in the vaccination rate again. more than 68% of americans over 12 now receiving at least one dose. dr. jha tonight standing by to answer your questions. and abc's victor oquendo leading us off now from florida. >> reporter: tonight, the covid crisis is exploding across the south. from florida to louisiana to texas, hospitals are putting up surge tents, bringing

arkansas children's hospital. so throughout the pandemic this is the worst you've seen. >> this is the worst we've seen for kids, absolutely. >> reporter: half of the hospital's young covid patients are in the pediatric intensive care unit. at least two are on ventilators. >> when a child comes into your unit do you question the parents and say have you been vaccinated? >> we do ask. >> and what do you find? >> we find often they're not vaccinated. >> and if they're child's here, does it change that parent's mind on the vaccine? >> absolutely. we've seen that multiple instances where now they wish they'd gotten their child vaccinated. >> reporter: sick children are a troubling trend. but in arkansas covid-19 is killing far more adults needlessly. >> i'm angry that she didn't get vaccinated. and i personally feel guilty that i didn't try harder. >> reporter: 63-year-old kim, her daughter says, loved her life and everyone in it especially her grandkids. >> she worked out five days a week with a personal trainer. she

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>> governor: not in arkansas. i don't support a vaccine mandate. we can do it through education.t expect that broader acceptance of the vaccine. i do expect that some employers and sensitive industries will require vaccines. but you have to have the f.d.a. approval before that is more broadly accepted. >> dickerson: when you've been going around the state and encountering your constituents, a lot of times in this pandemic people have said, "we're all in this together." but you made a statement this week where you said some politicians are playing to people's fears and not being compassionate. are we all in this together, based on your experience? >> governor: well, we're all in it in terms of trying to get through the pandemic. but we have to have leaders that will step up and say that's a myth, that's not supported, and y'all need to listen rationally to people. we can't just give in to the loudest voice, which is 15% of people who are not going to take the vaccine regardless, that believes in the conspiracy theories, that are totally irrational.

his name is asa hutchinson, governor of arkansas. he signed a law earlier this year that bans mask mandates across arkansas including in schools. well, here is what he has to say now about the law he signed. >> i signed it at the time because our cases were at a very low point. everything has changed now. and yes, in hindsight i wish that it had not become law. >> it's better to arrive late to a party than not at all. but in this case the governor can't overturn the law. it would take the state legislature to allow mask mandates once again in arkansas. now would be a good time for lawmakers in little rock to do it. one in five active cases involves kids under the age of 18. children 12 and under account for nearly 700 increase in cases since april. joining me now, veronica mclean and ashley simmons, both mothers of young children who are suing the state of arkansas over its mask mandate ban. thank you both for spending some of your saturday with me. ashley, governor hutchinson realized he was wrong and called an expedition session to

i did not say arkansas. [laughter] >> but i am saying arkansas did that. kentucky they just put another name on it. nay would love it. that is a good point. >> will look let me ask this. there is another label that has been given to congressional black caucus as the conscious of the congress. tell me a little bit about how you think about that phraseology, that label if you will. and maybe some of the particular values that come to mind when you are really being the conscience of the congress and promoting matters pertaining to civil rights, housing, healthcare or whatever. just that title i think is very, very important. >> if you think about the word conscious and what reflects that, i think one of the things at least what i think about the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god, indivisible with liberty, and justice for all. that is a conscious statement. it's what the countries all about. and the congressional black caucus has committed itself to the fulfillment of that conscious statement. so

charlie is in arkansas. caller: what bothers me about this whole thing is we were paying the pakistan military aid to give to the taliban so they dictate fighting. we would give them a raise. we one of the fight to continue. luke military contractors could make a fortune. we should do a cost-benefit study on the whole program from beginning to end and see what we spent over there. also in south korea and other places. i think there should be an emancipation proclamation for all the women. tell them they are free, just like a blinken did. host: billy in new mexico, you're up next. billy in new mexico? one more chance. is this minnesota? caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. i want to know what sleepy joe was thinking when we gave how many billions of dollars towards military equipment that we left behind for the taliban to use against us. thank you. host: two stories concerning the supreme court. the biden administration asked to overturn an order that revive the era allowing for silent speakers at the

what's the latest on where things stand in arkansas? >> yeah. he signed that legislation just a few months ago, and now he is asking the legislature to amend that law that essentially prohibited any sort of mask mandates. the general assembly is actually meeting right now if i'm not mistaken, the superintendent just finished or is still in the process of address lawmakers there. the governor has asked them though to reconsider, at least look at amending this legislation so that it allows schools in particular to enact their own rules as it relates to mask mandates? as you said, the governor has said this is a decision that he made previously. he has now come to regret. he says when he initially said that they could do this and signed this into law, that it was a very different situation in this state, but now the numbers, they tell a very different story. arkansas on monday this week, they saw the highest increase of covid hospitalizations that they have seen since the pandemic began. hospitals here, they are at or near capacity and ambulances a

cases are up. 68% and arkansas. 68% and arkansas you become a vehicle of death and destruction and that is not an exaggeration. just by how this current delta variant is exposing everybody very quickly. your previous guest talked about how children young as five months are being -- having tubes fed into them so they can breathe. it's a problem and i have to tell you when i step back and i look at the demographics of texas, where close to 54% of the kids in classrooms are latino, where the majority of kids in texas classrooms are kids of color, it begs the question why isn't the governor putting these children and their families at the forefront? it begs the question to dig deeper when you look at all the nefarious activities as governor abbott has been doing against communities of color some disenfranchising at the voting booth to trying to talk about latinos as invaders in their state and the list goes on. and you have to look at it through that lens to recognize that this in texas has a clear mandate that doesn't want to keep communities of color healthy and safe, so they can self det

and there are barely two dozen in arkansas pushing medical personnel to their

later today with covid cases and hospitalizations on the rise in arkansas, two moms are in arkansas launching a legal challenge to the state's mask mandate and state mask mandate ban. my colleague, alicia menendez, will speak to them next hour. >>> still ahead on "politicsnation," my interview with the winner of the ohio race for congress that's drawn national attention, democratic congressional nominee shontel brown joins us in a moment. ere'. not just unpredictable relapses. all these other things too. it can all add up. kesimpta is a once-monthly at-home injection... that may help you put these rms challenges in their place. kesimpta was proven superior at reducing the rate of relapses, active lesions, and slowing disability progression vs aubagio. don't take kesimpta if you have hepatitis b, and tell your doctor if you have had it, as it could come back. kesimpta can cause serious side effects, including infections. while no cases of pml were reported in rms clinical trials, it could happen. tell your doctor if you had or plan to have vaccines, or if you are or plan to become pregnant. ke

in arkansas, a health official tells cnn that only 25 icu beds are available in the state. in mississippi, that number is six. six icu beds for an entire state. the u.s. now on the brink of an unfortunate and avoidable milestone, returning to more than 100,000 cases a day. >> there's an alarming rise in cases of children in arkansas. cases among kids under 18 spiked 517%. hospitalizations 270%. in icu admissions up 275%. those are huge increases. the governor of arkansas, who banned mask mandates, has seen the data and since changed his mind. >> our cases were at a low point. everything has changed now. and, yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become law. >> we have reporters across the country covering every new angle of this pandemic. >> i'm nadia ramiro in baton rouge, louisiana. the governor says they used to have about two deaths a day a month ago. now they're recording 103 deaths in just two days. he's asking everyone to mask up. his mandate began on wednesday and also telling people to get vaccinated. here at this site, we met plenty of people getting their kids va

we hear from the head of moderna and the governor of arkansas joins us live. his regrets over signing a law banning mask mandates and what to expect as kids head back to the classroom. >>> also this morning, jennifer aniston reveals she's cut ties with people who aren't getting the shot. how to ask about the vaccine and tips for tackling tough conversations about covid. ♪ise & shine" and good morning from ohio, the buckeye state is ready to rock from the music -- ♪ -- to the signature cincinnati chili. we're live, counting down to kickoff at the pro football hall of fame, and we're saying -- [ crowd chanting "good morning, america" ] >>> that's a great greeting from ohio. >> it is. >> good morning, america. hope you're doing well this thursday morning. >>> we are in ohio. time to "rise & shine" this morning. ashan singh is there for us live and look at this. the pro football hall of fame are getting ready for a big preseason game tonight, and look forward to checking in. you both have deep roots in ohio. >> akron, yeah. >> i'm from arkansas, sorry. >> well

and we'll talk with arkansas republican governor asa hutchinson, who says he now regrets signing a law banning state mask mandates, and is confronting vaccine hesitation head on. and we'll check in with former f.d.a. commissioner dr. scott gottlieb. plus, we'll preview cbs this morning and the albany time's union interview with brittany camesso. she is speaking for the first time about why she filed a criminal sexual harassment complaint against new york governor andrew cuomo. >> what he did to me is a crime. >> dickerson: plus, we'll sit down with author amanda ripley, and her new book explores how we can find out w our way back to roductive conversations. it is all coming up on "face the nation." ♪ >> dickerson: good morning, and welcome to "face the nation." we thought we were done with that feeling in our fight against covid-19 that one step forward could be followed by two steps back. but we're not done. the u.s. is now reporting an average of 100,000 new cases a day, up from 15,000 a day just a bl health officials expect that number to go a lot higher before it begins to drop.

and we're seeing pediatric hospitals fill in places like alabama, louisiana, arkansas. and so throughout throughout the country we're seeing virus surge in children because that is the group of highest unvaccinated people in the country. no children under the age of 12 has been vaccinated. and so my kids are older, but if i had children under the age of 12 now going back to school, i would insist that they wear masks in schools -- in class all day long. and i would change our behavior as well. i think, you know, i would -- my wife and i would probably not eat in a restaurant, try to limit our exposure outside the hospital. i work at a hospital. outside the home so as to reduce the likelihood that we would bring the virus home to our kids. >> so i'm interested in whether you have changed your own behavior. i know your kids are grown now, but even for yourself and your wife, are you eating indoors? i think that you work in d.c. obviously, so it is considered a substantial risk of transmission area. do you feel safe indoors at a restaurant, do you feel safe getting on an a

however, i have an issue with these people in missouri, and arkansas, and florida who don't want to take the vaccine and basically try to live their life so they spread it to other people. shouldn't we at some point courting these people off -- cordon these people off? l.a. county has 10 million people in one county. there are people there that might want the vaccine and can't get it, and these people in missouri and arkansas have the opportunity to get it and they don't want it. they are just going to go to new york and get on a tour bus and spread through new york. -- spread it through new york. host: that is scott in south carolina. guest: i fear the frustration between >> c-span is live at the white house, where president biden is getting ready to talk about his build back that her agenda. the event is expected to get underway shortly. you are watching live coverage here on c-span. pres. biden: -- making the administration the first ever to add 4 million jobs in the first six months in office.

sannal bada from northwest arkansas. grate fofler your time. your state is double the national average for 100,000 residents and you're seeing this firsthand every day. what strikes you, what is the difference of what you're seeing in the hospital between this covid surge and in the past? >> this looks very different. this feels very different. the patients are sicker. they're younger. the previous strain it effected the older patients more. this one is more contagious and it is effecting the younger population compared to the previous. >> i know you told our staff that 90% of the hospitalized patients, i believe that is the right now. covid patients in your hospital are unvaccinated and have some videos from your rounds. i want to play for your viewers a ygentleman who is in tough shape. let's watch. >> this is a 40-year-old patient. he was -- -- and spending time with his family and friends. he is a sweetheart and his anniversary is today. he is in critically ill condition. >> put that moment in the fuller context of what you're seeing in ter

to the lower crossing of the arkansas, which at that time i might add the arkansas river was the international border of -- between mexico and the united states. during the four years mary was in santa fe, she learned all kinds of hotel management skills. she was organizing employees to cook and clean the exchange hotel kulsmers they had. and she was described as having energy and a commanding spirits. or this day and age leadership skills. two more children were born to them and during their years in santa fay their hotel business was quite profitable. but with three children underfoot and the hotel to run she was way too busy to leave any journal recording the joys and/or hardships of living on the santa fe trail. i will say that surely mary and her husband william learned to speak spanish since it was the predominant language here in santa fe at the time. then in 1837 two events occurred which led to the them departing santa fe. the first was that william learned that three american women were being ransomed. they had been taken the previous year and had spent a year and a half with them. a

look at arkansas, between april and july, cases involving children younger than 18 spiked 517%. hospitalizations up 270%. icu admissions up 275%. arkansas's republican governor who banned mask mandates has seen the data and now changed his mind. >> our cases were at a low point. everything has changed now. and yes, in hindsight i wish that had not become law. >> now, republican governors in florida and texas are stubbor ly sticking to their anti-mask rhetoric even though their states recorded the most in the country. louisiana reporting more new cases than at any other point in the pandemic and a record number of hospitalizations. then in arkansas, a health official tells cnn that only 25 icu beds are available in the state. in the state. in mississippi, that number is 6. nadia romero is joining us from baton rouge, louisiana. there are not many options for people who need that icu help, nadia. >> absolutely not. not here outside of our lady of our savior. 117 with covid-19 in the hospital right now. as covid-19 continues its stronghold over all of these southern states, here in

arkansas, up 68%. which is alarming given the state is not as densely populated as others. so parents just weeks before the fall semester have clear reason to worry. not only are school districts legally restricted to mandate masks in classrooms, but this delta variant is hitting young americans hard. nbc news reports doctors are seeing more and more sick kids hospitalized. one doctor telling us, quote, i've never seen anything like it. we're seeing children fall ill that we just simply didn't see in the first year of the pandemic. but florida's governor, not bundle. more kids being sickened hasn't changed his mind, nor has friday's news that florida reached another record for daily cases. nearly 24,000 in all. same story with the governor of texas not bundle on his executive order signed up earlier this year, banning government entities and school districts from requiring masks. but there is a republican out there who seems to havewoken up who signed a law earlier this year that bans mask mandates across arkansas, including in schools. well, here's what he has to say now a

the arkansas-based company is giving its entire u.s. workforce until the fall to get fully vaxed up. nbc's ellison barber is in rogers, arkansas and msnbc medical contributor dr. kavita patel. ellison, tyson is making a big announcement and drama playing out in arkansas over vaccines and masks. talk about what's happening there? >> reporter: so the governor has been very clear that there will not be any sort of vaccine mandate in this state, even though you have obviously a large employer in tyson, making that decision for their employees, but the governor here, governor asa hutchinson is calling a special session to try to reverse legislation he signed just a couple of months ago that largely banned mask mandates and asking the general assembly to amend that to make it possible for schools to enact masking rules if they want to. the governor has been holding these town halls, he calls them covid conversations, all across the state, trying to get people to get vaccinated. he had one in northwest arkansas not far from where we are, just

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has that frustrated your efforts in arkansas? >> well sure. there has been some inconsistency and that's been challenging because people point to the cdc and they look at that as big government now versus a ted messenger and that's a problem. now to cdc's credit, whenever you had that breakthrough -- those breakthrough cases in providence, massachusetts, they reported that and they did the study. they have been transparent on the data. whenever people have questions go to your department of health website and go to the cdc and get that information. but the other challenge just in terms of credibility, you know, goes to let's just go to your local doctor. they don't trust government. they are skeptical about government. go to somebody who is trusted. the conspiracy doesn't go that far. >> dana: tyson based in springdale, arkansas said yesterday it would require vaccines for its u.s. workers, half of whom remain unvaccinated and trying to work it out with the unions. what's your position on employers mandating vaccines. >> employers have the pre

but - you've left for arkansas. but can you talk us through the impacts of this hurricane, what people are going through in the worst affected areas goes yellow absolutely. in many areas, the worst is still to come. �* . , ., ., come. but we are starting to hear from — come. but we are starting to hear from the _ come. but we are starting to hear from the lower - come. but we are starting to hear from the lower lying - come. but we are starting to i hear from the lower lying areas along the coast reports of catastrophic flooding, rubes being lost, power going out, i think we're going to see some very significant impacts in the coastal parishes or counties in louisiana, and we've recently heard support to make a report of a hospital needing evacuating in the southwest of the greater new orleans area of which has yet to feel the brunt of the storm. the greater new orleans of the storm. the greater new 0rlea ns area, of the storm. the greater new orleans area, including 0rleans 0rleans area, including orleans paris

arkansas just reported its largest daily increase in covid cases since the start of the pandemic. a nearly increase of 70 cases -- percent encases. they have regrets that they hadn't -- last man needs a neighbor. >> i sided at the time because our cases right a very low point. i knew it would be written by the legislature if i didn't sign it. i find it because our cases were at a low point. in hindsight, and with that it had not become law. it is belong on the only chance we have is either to mended or for the court to say it has an unconstitutional foundation. >> governor hutchinson is now asking state lawmakers to reconsider the mask ban to their local school districts can require masks for kids when classes start up in a few weeks nearly 20% of the state of arkansas covid cases are among children under 18. you would think with numbers like, that governor hutchinson could convince the state legislature to overturn a band but, it's easier said than done when you look at the kind of response the governors getting when he goes to town halls across the state. >> i would love to have

she's in rosh rogers, arkansas >> reporter: the governor was not the only one mocked. so was 20-year-old ashley mcfadden >> i hear you. i see you. >> mcfadden went to that town hall to tell people about her brother trey he is still hospitalized today he is immunocompromised and has a number of health issues. last monday he got very sick not related to covid-19. ashley thought he was about to die. she called 911 immediate help came but a hospital bed that took 14 hours >> the paramedics got there and basically the first thing they said was, well, we're going to have to make some phone calls because all the hospitals in the area are diverting and there's really nowhere we can take him right now. >> how many times have you had to call an ambulance before and have you ever been told we can't go >> it's always been immediate. >> ashley shared her family's story with her brother's permission because she wants people to know this could happen to them as well. the decisions an individual makes to get vaccinated or to refuse one, it has ripple effects. her family, her brother,

arkansas now has more than 20,000 active cases of covid-19. meaning nurses and doctors are back in crisis mode with one arkansas physician telling time.com, "more than a year later people dying of covid-19 are back to saying goodbye to their loved ones through ipads while isolated in dark rooms." well done, gqp, fox news and friends. joining me now is that physician dr. rebecca martin, a pulmonologist in arkansas. dr. martin, i read this "time" piece. it was brief but chilling. let me read one of the little pieces of it. in april of 2020 you did a 96-hour stint at rykoff heights medical center in brooklyn. "time" writes this. you wondered at the time "how her own hospital baxter regional medical center in arkansas would handle covid-19. she got her answer this july when rising infections turned the state into one of the biggest virus hot spots in the nation." you write that there were not enough sedatives to go around at a certain point, patients would wake up prematurely and pull their breathing tubes out. talk about the scene that you saw in

but you see arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama. there is zero, zero, zero dispute here. where vaccinations are low, cases are higher and if you look at that florida number now, it jumps off the table at you. >> that's the correlation that we're seeing and it makes scientific sense that in places where there isn't a lot of immunity, that's why the delta variant is ripping through these communities. and again, i find it, i think a lot of us in public health are so frustrated that at this point, we now have the tools, but there are governors, leaders in these parts of the country saying we don't want to use the tools at our disposal. in fact, we're not even going to allow families to use these to protect their children and that's extremely upsetting especially because we know how dangerous this delta variant is. >> again, i just want to go through it. i get criticized all the time saying we're overstating this, we're hyping this. this is where vaccinations are low. this is where cases are high. this is where hospitalizations are now going back up. the same overlapping area

arkansas, 90% . these are huge numbers. especially when you put into the context of what is going on in those states. if you look at these states? these are not necessarily states that have a lot of folks, vaccinated. this is the eligible population. you see that most arkansas is at 58%. and go down to mississippi? 50%. people fully vaccinated? all in the 40s. you are looking at these sec programs. they are well above the people that are eligible in those states . would let me take it one step further. look at the young adults select states. we do not have arkansas . but look at this these are select, southern states. these are young people just like the people in the football program. look at that .28%, alabama. 38% in georgia. and 30% in mississippi. these college programs are far more vaccinated than the people . they are far are running it. they think they might have to forfeit some games with the football coaches are getting their layers vaccinated. it is a great sign of what we are seeing . i am hopeful that some of t