RFK Jr. tore up vaccine policy. Now for a Senate showdown.

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  Good morning. It's Thursday, September 4th.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, Epstein assault survivors call for action from Congress,

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  why DC courts are even more overwhelmed than they were before the federal takeover,

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  and what President Xi and Putin talk about when they think no one is listening.

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  But first, to vaccines,

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  where an announcement out of Florida yesterday appears to have fractured a long-held U.S. consensus over public health care.

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  Here's Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Lattapo speaking to a crowd of supporters.

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  The Florida Department of Health, in partnership with the governor,

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  is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida life.

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  All of them.

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  All of them.

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  This would make Florida the first state in the country to remove requirements for vaccines,

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  including those for children.

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  It would include those that help prevent serious diseases like polio, rubella, mumps, and tetanus.

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  Right now, these vaccines are mandated for school kids under Florida law,

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  so any changes will require action from the state legislature.

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  Florida's decision highlights the increasing influence of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' name dropped Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again initiative during the state's announcement.

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  In a sign that suggests public health policy could become a state-by-state issue,

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