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the restart of Abbott's plant in michigan offered a glimmer of hope in the ongoing baby formula shortage. But now that plant is shut down once again, the plant halting production after thunderstorms flooded parts of the building less than two weeks after reopening, the company now needs to clean and re sanitize the plant before getting back to work producing specialty formula Abbott's four month long shutdown factored heavily into the nationwide formula crisis, which has left millions of parents and caregivers scrambling to find products. New COVID-19 American strains are picking up in the US now making up more than 21% of cases. The cell variants B A four and be a five are growing. And while Macron's new lines are not linked to more severe disease, they have proven to be capable of causing breakthrough infections. Covid cases are rising in every region in the US except the Northeast. However, the numbers could be much higher since many positive at home tests are never reported. Let's stick with Covid states are preparing to roll out vaccines for kids under five. We've been telling you about that except for florida. Apparently the state is reportedly the only one that has not submitted a request to the federal government for vaccine doses designed for babies and toddlers. FDA advisers voted yesterday to recommend fighter and Moderna's vaccines for that specific age group. The florida. Republican governor Ron de santos says the state is not ordering doses because it does not recommend vaccinating young kids. This comes despite data showing hundreds of young Children have been hospitalized with this virus nationwide. Now Elon musk's first appearance in front of twitter employees reportedly left many of them worried about layoffs at his $44 billion acquisition does become reality sources, telling various outlets that while musk touched on business topics like his goal to reach one billion daily active users, he also briefly veered off to talk about aliens. Musk emphasized his focus on users being able to say what they want on the platform and said he does not care about being Ceo when asked about layoffs must reportedly said quote, it depends the company does need to get healthy. Not a good sign. Also, major tampon makers are ramping up production to fight that growing shortage. We've been telling you about Procter and Gamble, which covers 60% of the U. S. Tampon market is running its plants 24 7 as of sunday, an average of 7% of tampons were out of stock in U. S. Stores. That number varies depending on which state you're in and which stores you're going to like many products and industries supply chain issues are weighing on tampon manufacturers especially involving cotton and plastic materials. And the environmental protection agency is ramping up its warning surrounding so called forever chemicals in drinking water. The E. P. A lowering its threshold for safe consumption levels indicating the chemicals are more dangerous than we thought. While the E. P. A. S. Update is not an enforceable law, it could still impact future drinking water regulations and lawsuits. The biden administration said earlier this week, it would spend one billion bucks to address contamination, archaeologists are racing against the clock to learn as much as they can about a 1300 year old shipwreck. Thanks to the current heat wave, researchers in France have to water the wreck every 30 minutes given how old the remains of the boat are and how long they sat underwater. Too much dry air and too much sunlight could destroy them. Researchers are carefully taking pieces apart to learn more about shipbuilding techniques in the middle Ages. The reason why the boat sank still remains a mystery. All right. The fake german heiress who scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars out of friends and businesses is taking on a new venture, N. F. T. S. Okay, Anna Sorokin who went by Anna Dalva before she got caught minting 10 tokens that will come with extras like one on one phone calls with her. Three ultra platinum N. F. T. S will offer the opportunity to meet her in person as well as a package of personal items. Sarokin says she's trying to move away from her scammer persona which went mainstream after the netflix hit series. Inventing Anna fitting enough. The name of her N. F. T. Collection is reinventing Anna. She's currently being held on ice custody trying to fight deportation. She's clever. She's smart. If you ever go out, make sure you know you're going to pay the bill. She's not gonna, you're paying the bill. I don't know if you guys have seen this next video but it is crazy, clumsy. Dogs make mistakes all the time. Sometimes it's kind of cute but this one ended up costing its owners big time. Take a look at this. A dog in Missouri standing on its back legs and pawing the stovetop touch control in the family kitchen accidentally turned on a burner. The pan had some leftovers in it, creating the perfect situation for a huge disaster. The pan eventually caught on fire after the dog left creating a scorching hot grease fire thankfully no one was injured including the pup. A local fire chief is now warning residents to use safety features available with those touch sensitive stoves to avoid this kind of danger. I'm so glad no one was hurt here. That's why we don't have pets in my house. Now. Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville has received a sizable donation for research courtesy of Dolly Parton, the country music icon donning another $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research. It follows Parton's $1 million contribution back in april of 2020 for Covid vaccine research. Her latest donation will go towards studies preventing and treating infections. Diagnosing and treating Children with cancer as well as how viruses form and cause disease. Parton says she contributed to the research because she loves Children and we love her. We really do really do.