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The National Weather Service has set a Wind Advisory and Winter Storm Watch.   There is a Wind Advisory in effect from Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Expect West winds in...

Therefore, an increasing absolute number of people requiring hospitalization, especially among the unvaccinated. the capitol physician says, quote, the situation has led to a unprecedented strain on medical centers. in our local region, again, the dc region, where hospitalizations have more than doubled in the past ten days, at least six large hospitals have declared crisis standards of care and states of emergency and large health care providers are petitioning their governors for various emerg...

0 they are going to put down and lay down the law to. it >> not there yet. >> its coming, dont worry. im in communication with their kids on. this dont worry. planning the and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour, happy new year to you as well, good to have you back with us. in washington, d.c., they celebrated the first day after the holiday by getting a huge pile of snow dumped on the capitol cap capito capital city and shutting down most of the federal government because of it....

Today, Gov. Andy Beshear said the state is continuing to respond to a severe weather system that impacted much of Western, Eastern and South Central K...

Gov. Andy Beshear said the state is continuing to respond to a severe weather system that impacted much of Western, Eastern and South Central Kentucky Saturday and is preparing for winter weather to arrive Sunday night.

Coverage with the federal response. ashley, this is personal to you as well. reporter: i will not lie, being from that area, growing up, being there, you dont recognize any of it. now the president approving a emergency declaration saturday. it aims to provide federal funds to the hardest hit states of kentucky and do the same for others. take a listen. >> i made it clear if they request emergency declarations. i also request fema offer additional federal resources including help with temporary ...

Areas. this is 30 miles from paducah, about 20 miles from paducah, about 30 minutes where they have two medical certains and two hours from nashville. so its not close to a bunch of stuff. we talked to a state trooper who got -- im trying to get a confirmation on whether thats happened and i suspect with this multi-state incident the emergency declarations will be on the way and fema will be put into place through the course of today if they havent deployed already, but these images, these image...

Everything, everything it can possibly do to help. ive spoken several times today with the head of fema and the federal emergency management agency, as well as the director of fema, whos already been deployed -- already deployed emergency response personnel to these states, search and rescue teams, water and other supplies, and femas on the groundworking with each of the states to assess the damages and focus on federal support where it is needed most and how we can get it there most rapidly. i ...

Couple _ declaration that was requested a couple of— declaration that was requested a couple of hours ago, by the governor of kentucky — couple of hours ago, by the governor of kentucky. that will accelerate federal — of kentucky. that will accelerate federal emergency assistance for kentucky— federal emergency assistance for kentucky right now when it is urgently— kentucky right now when it is urgently needed. i stand ready to do the same _ urgently needed. i stand ready to do the sam...

Where the emergency response is coming from and the hospital rooms are being used because of what happened overnight. >> yeah. its bad in western kentucky. mayfield, kentucky is probably the worst, but there are plenty ever areas that were defer stated and we are getting reports of loss of life from at least three different counties thus far and it is just amazing to see the work that the first responders have been doing all night from the middle of the night until this present time as we speak....