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Positive in early august reached highest levels since last winter. >> hospitals are saturated everywhere. >> reporter: with mnew covid cases battering, overwhelmed hospitals reaching a breaking point. mississippi, the hardest hit state has just nine intensive care unit beds available and in five southern state, less than 10% of icu beds are free. kentucky hospitals are seeing a record number of covid patients and critical staffing shortages. >> were living in reality where some covid patients th...

Justice department, you drive this car, crashed through the windows of the bank window, and evolved, and ill take it from here. so much damage wouldve happened had the justice department carried this out. i shudder to think of whats more couldve happened on january 6th, a day that i lived through as well as my colleagues, and the whole nation live through, and a lot of people remain traumatized as a concrete consequence. >> congressman good to see you tonight, there will be some interesting read...

Welcome sight for those desperate for gas.lines tketre raleigh, filling up with fresh fuel from the colonial pipeline, after the company restarted operations wednesday. >> we expect the situation to begin to improve by the weekend and into early next week and gasoline supply is coming back online. >> reporter: but there are still lines at the gas pump, and hundreds of empty stations. people worried they might miss a doctors appointment or not be able to get to work. >> i knew i should have fille...

Ventilators. meanwhile, in the hardest hit state here, new york governor andrew cuomo said last night that he has enough ventilators to last about six more days. here he is on msnbc last night proposing a solution. >> the one silver lining here is not every place in this country gets hit at the same time. theres going the be a different curve for the disease in different areas. depending on when it started. and those curves will have a lag. why dont we device a national strategy that moves with ...

East of cleveland, cars and trucks collided on an interstate during a snowstorm. at least five people have died on icy roads. nearly 150 cold weather records were set today, including lows of five degrees in springfield, illinois; and 25 degrees in waco, texas. dozens more records will be shattered overnight, and david begnaud has made his way to the hardest hit state, and he leads off our coverage tonight. >> reporter: sleet-slicked roads caused a 50-car pileup near youngstown, ohio. two people...

Scientists say more than 80,000 fires have destroyed a huge part of the forest, an 85% spike over last year. cnn nick paton walsh was up in a helicopter. he filed this report from brazil. >> reporter: theres little below but ghosts, and even they seem to be giving up. these are the newest fires in the worst hit state in the amazon. we didnt see below us any of the 43,000 troops brazils president has pledged to the fight. in fact, in some places its so bad you cant even see how bad it is. that wi...

Americans hospitalized. doctors are urging people to get a flu shot even though the vaccine is not working as effectively as hoped this year. missouri is the hardest hit state with 40,000 cases. this time last year missouri had just about 6,000 cases. new details in the horrific case of 13 siblings who prosecutors say were held captive and tortured by their parents in their california home. the children enduring intense physical abuse, including being beaten, choked, tied up for long periods. ...

More than 5,000 firefighters today are battling raging fires across six states. 107,000 acres have burned with hundreds hospitalized for smoke-related conditions. kerry sanders joins me from the hardest hit state of north carolina. kerry, i know there was a news conference a short time ago. what did the governor have to say? >> reporter: first of all, he believes this could be an arson, so theyve upped the reward to $10,000 for the person who may have started the fire. you can see clear skies up...

About 22%. that will bring the premiums up to about $3552. >> that doesnt include subsidies. >> thats correct. this level is where the congressional budget office, which is nonpartisan said that the rates would likely be around 2017. if the issue is the first two years, they felt the premiums had been set too low. so were not actually -- its a big jump, but its where were supposed to be. these are the forecasts. the issue is thats an average for a silver plan. it doesnt represent the whole story...

All branches including those in new jersey and new york city and nearly 1 million homes and businesses lost power in the northeast this afternoon following severe snow and ice storms overnight. the hardest hit state, pennsylvania, with over 720,000 customers out. and all of this is taking a big toll on jobs. this is countrywide. according to the latest adp report, the private sector added just 1 75,000 jobs in january, the weakest month for hiring since august. this comes just two days before th...