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A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti over the weekend, just weeks after the country’s president Jovenel Moïse was assassinated.

Orange County Public Schools and the Department of Health will offer daily COVID-19 testing after hours at rotating K-12 campuses throughout the week. Testing will be available at Catalina Elementary School on Mondays from 4 to 8 pm.

Last week at least 93 students had the virus and 46 employees. That compares to 17 kids and seven workers in the first week last year.

Hospitals in the South are burdened by the new surge. In Mississippi, only 35% of people are vaccinated, ICUs are full, elective surgeries are being postponed and more kids are being hospitalized.

Just as Haiti was beginning to emerge from the shock of the brutal presidential assassination, the nation has been thrust into another crisis: an earthquake that has killed nearly 1,300 people.

The Afghan government has fallen and the Taliban are in control. The U.S. races to process special visas for Afghan contractors. The death toll from the earthquake in Haiti continues to rise.

The simple question of whether the U.S. should stay or go was not simple at all. Now Biden's determination to leave Afghanistan has resulted in a bigger mess than he bargained for.

The University of Florida will open its upcoming semester with in-person classes, reversing itself within hours of telling students the term might begin online because of the state’s renewed COVID-19 outbreak.

With coronavirus cases in Florida continuing to surge, medical staff say hospitals are being pushed to the limit. WMFE’s Matthew Peddie spoke with Dr. Sam Atallah. He says the region needs a field hospital for COVID patients.

President Biden met with national security officials by video conference this morning to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.