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UPS and Postal Service Workers Struggle With COVID and High Volume Letter carrier Steve Guerra sorts mail at his station inside the Roxbury Post Office in Nubian Square before heading out to deliver mail and packages in Boston on December 1, 2020. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Wo...

Investigating this. >> alex field, thank you for staying on top of that. well be right back.

Welcome back. hurricane dorian made landfall this morning in north carolina. lets get back to north carolina. weve reconnected with alex field who is in kill devil hills getting whipped around. alex, what are you feeling there at this point? >> reporter: hey there, kate. we are absolutely feeling the peak of dorian here at kill devil hills. sustained winds really picking up now. that sand is blasting us right off the beach. as you look at the surf, youll see that tide starting to come up. we won...

Community like this where everyone is tied to the military. >> the pentagon is pushing back on the notion that they have been defunded. they have just been deferred. but this $3.6 billion had been specifically appropriated by congress for these projects. democrats say this is exactly why you have congressional approval, and now to get those projects refunded, the money needs to be reapproved by congress, which is far from certain. and then when it comes to electoral politics, if you look at just...

Gut wrenching stories coming out from what we can see in your shot. that is in the bahamas. well follow that. i do want to get back to where hurricane dorian is right now and headed. lets get back to north carolina. we think weve been able to reconnect with alex field who is in kill devil hills. alex, what are you seeing? do we have alex? i think weve lost the shot again. they have been hit. theyve been getting hit with one of those bands that allison chinchar was talking about. some really to...

>> gary tuchman on a coast guard cutter right now which is bringing in aid to the bahamas. were going to have much more on those efforts. thank you, gary, for jumping on the phone. well also try to reconnect with alex field in kill devil hills in north carolina feeling the effects of hurricane dorian that will not quit. much more on that coming up. but also coming up for us, it was the president after all after claiming he did not know who doctored the hurricane map he presented in the oval of...

But, again, it does feel like dorian is starting to move out to sea, something a lot of people have been waiting many days for, brooke. >> good. get her out there. alex field, thank you very much in the outer banks for us this afternoon. meantime, new details in the dive boat tragedy that killed 34 people off the coast of california, we are learning more about safety on board the conception. but still no official cause. and a six-day-old baby was found hidden inside a bag and now this americ...

Terms of storm surge. also flash flooding. theyre predicting storm surge could get as high as 4 to 7 feet. so once this storm finally clears out of here, people still having problems to deal with. hearing reports south of here about flooding and power outages. obviously at this point, i can attest to the fact people are asked to stay home, stay inside. and i agree, they certainly should. >> i think just looking at you, alex, message received. thank you so much, alex. i really appreciate it. you ...

Gas lines. that was the priority for emergencies. they worked on two reported structure fires. we understand that those have been put out. that the gas leaks when those were reported, and there were numerous phone calms, that those gas lines were shut off. the authorities said theyre still answers emergency calls. but as those begin to die down as they have already, then during the night, emergency services will start looking for structural damage across ridgecrest and surrounding areas. so that...

This. youve got more aftershocks coming your way, im afraid. the usgs was asked. im sure youre taking all the safety precautions. alex, thank you. youre doing a fantastic job. so is paul. well speak to both you have again and take a short break for now. new for summer, its bud light lemon tea. brewed with real lemon peels and aged on real tea leaves. yes, its real. no, youre not dreaming. hey, dont do that. ♪