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Arriving. new zealand has sent two royal navy ships, but they wont arrive for about three days. for now, aid organizations on the ground say the biggest issue is food and water security as a result of ash contamination. this morning, damning, new allegations from the former top aide to britains prime minister boris johnson. dominic cummings said johnson knew about the parties at 10 downing street during the covid lockdown and has lied about it. joining us is a member of parliament and the lead...

Will set us up better for the future. right now we are in the middle of a crisis. 132,000 people in the hospital. we are almost at january 2021 peaks. these plans are for the future. right now we got to deal with the acute crisis. >> we are averaging 615,000 new cases a day, more than 1,400 deaths a day. 125,000 people hospitalized. explain the strain its putting on the health care systems and hospitals right now. >> well, its very difficult to put this really in human terms in the sense of unde...

>> bob, two hospitals in your state have issued disaster declarations. can you explain to us what that actually means on the ground? and how bad its gotten to -- to make that necessary? >> well, thanks for highlighting the -- the issues. um, and actually, we had a third hospital in maryland this afternoon went to whats called crisis standards of care. there are really three levels. there is conventional, contingency, and then crisis level. many of our hospitals have already been operating on c c...

In texas using new technology to treat patients. also dr. andrew pavilla. youre at the operations center of a virtual icu at houston methodist. walk us through what a virtual icu is and how its helping the hospital treat patients there. >> reporter: from the simple biggest goal, it is to put more doctors and nurses inside patient rooms without them having to physically be there and therefore get them in those rooms a little bit faster. so doctors and nurses can sit on this side of a screen, moni...

The pandemic began and it became an even more vital, more valuable tool than they ever anticipated. they say the data is still sort of in the early stages here, katy, but just in a years time, they tell us they have seen their codes, the number of patients going into cardiac arrest, drop by about 37%. and they say thats because theyre able to see stuff early from this side and alert those bedside teams a little bit quicker, and they see it as adding an extra team worker for those taxed icu worke...

Be sacked and they are to commence in a couple of weeks with the compensation. we know the secretary of state is being advised by his own officials due to the lack of protection against transmission that this needs to be rethought. can i urge the prime minister to rethink this policy, we should not reward our nhs staff for their dedication with the sack, we should allow them to continue any valuable work they deliver to the country. i to continue any valuable work they deliver to the country.—...

Rural communities. it brings the expertise of doctors much closer to the bedside and it can bring some nursing expertise. what were experience right now is this terrible shortage particularly of nurses and nurses with a lot of acute care experience. as important as telemedicine is, its not a substitute for having a lot of well trained nurses. >> nearly 92% of all of utahs icu beds are full, according to state data. you told our nbc affiliate there in salt lake city that your hospital is, quote, ...

And you get back to normal. and we havent got back to normal, and its ridiculous at this point. this is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic world crime. >> my god, she so board. you know what isnt done with covid, first off covid itself. the u.s. is now averaging more than 2000 covid deaths a day. there is also those who have no choice but you have to deal with covid, educators, parents, unvaccinated children, those with disabilities or medical -- the elderly, the ...

Coming. were angry because we said it was going to happen and it lapped happened again. a horrible tragedy here. this is the gunman on the screen identified as 47-year-old lashaun mcneil. he was shot and critically wounded by a third n.y.p.d. officer last night as he tried to run out of the apartment after he opened fire himself. and that mcneil was on probation for a felony drug charge and arrested nearly a half dozen times over the past several years for a variety of offenses. moore has been w...

And all the support for her was in the hospital and online. they called, or posted on the facebook page. someone who you would expect to be there at her bedside. her boyfriend. did he know anything that happened on the night that kristen fell, was bleeding and loan, on all the in road? >> who was the man in kristens life? and what had happened between them? coming up,. >> he would lock her out. she was crying and wouldnt want us to tell our parents. >> when dateline continues. r parents. r paren...