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♪ ♪ good evening. im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. tonight, winter storms blanket the nation. all 50 states under weather alerts today. the midwest is getting clobbered as a blizzard, heavy snow, and freezing temperatures cause havoc at the nations airports, with more than 2,000 flights canceled. what the wild weather means for the nfl playoffs. also, there is bitter cold and whiteout conditions in iowa just as the 2024 election is heating up. its the final count...

good evening. im norah odonnell and thank you for being with us. tonight, winter storms blanket the nation. all 50 states under weather alerts today. the midwest is getting clobbered as a blizzard, heavy snow, and freezing temperatures cause havoc at the nations airports, with more than 2,000 flights canceled. what the wild weather means for the nfl playoffs. also, there is bitter cold and whiteout conditions in iowa just as the 2024 election is heating up. at the final countdown for t...

i dont drink coffee at all. tastes like a puddle. i cant do it. >> thats because youre not drinking it correctly. you have to prepare it a certain way and with creamers. >> thats not coffee anymore. >> no. >> all right. at least 23 people are dead after russia unleashed a deadly attack on ukrainian civilians. our cnn team is live at the scene where rescue efforts are continue this morning. >> more than 50,000 people have left sudan after fighting broke out there just a couple weeks a...

well go live to the capital of ukraine and get the latest from inside moscow in just a minute. plus, does the future of the war in ukraine hinge on the midterms in the u.s.? the republican victories in the house and senate mean less money or less military support? well dig into that, plus get a gut check on a couple of big races you havent heard a whole lot about. finally, jury selection just getting under way in the second sex crimes trial of harvey weinstein. the stakes have been...

calls are growing to prevent future mass shootings. the president has a plan hes pushing, but not all republicans, even some democrats, are buying. a bipart a san group of lawmakers searching for common ground. welcome, everybody, im neil ca view eau. very good to have you in the weekend -- cavuto. a very busy weekend because across the pond and all the way to london we have the jubilee going on. well give you the latest there. first to florida right now where i guess drenched is the w...

Deadly illnesses are hitting even those young and healthy like quentin thomas, a 27-year-old father of three who died last week after his family says he contracted flu a and b at the same time. >> your son was otherwise a very healthy young man, right? >> he was a healthy, hard-working young man. i mean, its just hard to believe. too fast, too sudden. >> reporter: his distraught father robert telling us quentin was unvaccinated. >> are you going to go get vaccinated now? >> yeah, i probably am. ...

If it seems like everyone you know has been sick lately, it may have a lot to do with the rise in both flu and covid cases this season. stephanie gosk now on the major concerns among doctors. >> reporter: flu season is raging, fever, aches and runny noses, especially in the south. >> we had a very early start to our flu season. >> reporter: dr. andy shane is the head of infectious diseases at childrens health care of atlanta where cases of covid and both flu a and flu b are up. she says the flu ...

First for the biden administration. there is alarming news tonight about the flu in america. the cd says the number of children who died from the flu nearly doubled last week. 40 kids have been killed so far this season. in tonights "health watch," cbss omar villafranca reports on the surge of cases in dallas. >> this is the first time i have known the flu to be horrible. >> reporter: mary stein enter 3-year-old son james have spent the last few nights in a dallas hospital. >> his cough got so s...

Dallas county, where almost 20% of tests are positive. >> one thing that is a little unusual this flu season is that we are seeing both flu a and flu b, more or less at the same time. >> lower vaccination rates could be to blame. less than half of adults and children have gotten the latest flu vaccine, the lowest in five years. >> i think they definitely are some vexing fatigue out there from the last couple of years. >> he sounds pretty good. >> reporter: stein says she missed getting her sons ...

Accuracy of 90%. the dogs missed 18 infections. the researchers say that the dogs do not necessarily replace nasal swab testing. instead, they can help indicate which person might need a test and which person doesnt. that could help save on time and resources. the researchers think the dogs could be trained to detect other types of diseases too. heres carol edwards, executive director of the nonprofit early alert canines. she works with the dogs. >> we talked about tb. we talked about flu a and ...