millions of floridians in this storm s path. those who have not evacuated are urged to shelter in place immediately. almost 800,000 people are already without power. that s according to florida utilities. the director of fema has warned that recovery from hurricane ian will be a very long road. that agency has already begun to pour resources into the state. in an event earlier today, president joe biden said he spoke with florida governor ron desantis and added he already requested aid saying, quote, the federal government is ready to help in every single way possible. ali velshi who has been doing the heroic job of bringing the story to all of us from naples, florida, is our first guest. ali, tell me what you re seeing. i ve been watching all day long. please tell me how you re staying safe. reporter: we always appreciate that. what did we just lose there, peter? something has come off the building that we re in. in fact, we re seeing a lot of that. moments ago we saw a fr
has been extended by the biden administration, this despite the president telling 60 minutes back in september that the pandemic was over. and now new images, satellite images show china show crowds gathering at crematorium s though china s government insists covid has only killed a few dozen people. we begin with another round of travel chaos that could delay flights for another full day. it comes as a nationwide outage of a key warning system because the fda to ground all departing aircraft and in a very strange twist, the same warning system in canada also broke down today. charles watson is live with the breaking details in atlanta tonight. good evening. good evening. travel troubles caused by the system outage will likely continue through thursday. there are a lot of folks out there not able to make it on flights on wednesday and will not have to wait until sometime later today to get to where they re going. meantime, in the latest update, federal aviation administ
we begin with an alarming outbreak that has some u.s. hospitals struggling. the common but potentially deadly respiratory virus called rsv is spreading rapidly among children. doctors telling cnn the spike is unprecedented for this time of year. cnn s brian todd has more on this troubling surge. the drive to the emergency room was really scary and really intense. reporter: this mother of a 5-year-old who was hospitalized with difficulty breathing told us of an anxious drive to the emergency room. things eventually had gotten worse since we were admitted. i have seen starting last night that he is progressively having a harder time breathing. rsv is one of the scariest infections in a child, especially when it s in your baby. so you will see your baby breathing really, really fast and you feel like there is nothing that you can do. reporter: around the country doctors are reporting a spike in cases of rsv, respiratory syncytial virus, a common respiratory illness tha
europe is descending into poverty. did you know that? someone told you that? so the most advanced continent on the planet, the birthplacerta of western civilization,ce our civilization is getting much poorer very quickly. it s moving backward at high speed just a year ago,st ay europe was a modern place.ea for example, the overwhelminge r majority of europeans heatedwhle their homes with natural gas as modern people do in germany,l the continent s richest country, only about six percent of households, most of them6% o rural, heated with cord wood and you would expect that givena that again, germany is a moderna industrialny country with centrl heating and indoor plumbing and all the other trappings of a society that has moved beyonda the medieval period. year, only about six percent of germans used% of wood to heat their homes. but that has changed dramatically. demand for firewood in germany has risen so fast that there is none left to buy. you can t get it so desperate. ger
fist and yelling coming you re done. and one of the men on the scene in a help the congressman and here to tell us what happened at. carley: we begin with ashley strohmier with the breaking details, ashley, good morning. the gubernatorial candidate and congressman lee zeldin getting attacked at a campaign stop last night. now, you can see a man jump on stage while lee zeldin was speaking. the police say he approaches and start swinging his sharp weapon towards his neck. that terrifying moment was caught on camera, watch. there is only one option. you re done. speak with the monroe county sheriff s offer say the suspect man was taken into custody and charged with attempted assault. zeldin was able to grab the man and hold him off until others can jump in and tackle him, the attendees who stepped up to quickly assist and the law enforcement officers who quickly responded. as resolute as ever to do my part to make new york safe again. the suspect will likely bit back