this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. i m kate bolduan. we begin with breaking news out of virginia where hundreds of drivers have been stranded in their vehicles since yesterday afternoon. it s all happening on i-95 near the town of fredericksburg. it s about 60 miles outside of d.c. more than a foot of snow fell in the region on monday morning, but that seemed to have led to this. multiple accidents and it also turned this major highway, this interstate, into a parking lot for miles and miles. we re told crews are working at this hour to get things moving once again. but this has been a dangerous situation and a real night mare for hundreds of people. traffic frozen in place for
happening now, breaking news. the u.s. just set another alarming pandemic record with hospital admissions for children soaring to a new high, as the cases explode nationwide. the fda is expected to green light covid boosters for 12 to 15-year-olds soon. also breaking, we re now getting the first word from the white house about president biden s high stakes call with vladimir putin. did it ease or escalate tensions over ukraine? as the u.s. nears one year since the capitol attack, the january 6th committee is asking the supreme court to not thwart the investigation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m jim acosta and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. and we do begin with breaking
let s focus in on the pandemic now. the u.s. has set a new record with more than 158,000 americans hospitalized with covid. the omicron variant is pushing kentucky to the brink as well once again. the commonwealth now seeing the highest positivity rate since the start of the pandemic, nearly one in three people there are testing positive for covid. cnn s miguel marquez is live in kentucky. miguel, you went back to one of the hospitals that you visited in september. what did you see this time? reporter: this was st. clair health care in moorehead, kentucky, a regional hospital that serves 11 rural counties in northeastern kentucky. it s bad. it s as bad as it was in september. some days are worse than others, and they are not sure where they are on this current wave and even if they get through it, they re not sure if there is another wave coming. health care workers are flat-out
country, more than 30 colleges and universities are changing the start of their spring semesters and more children are getting sick and hospitalized at any other point in the pandemic just as school will be navigating reopening after the holidays. quantitatively, you re having so many more people, including children, who are getting infected. and even though hospitalization among children is much, much lower on a percentage basis than hospitalizations for adults, particularly elderly individuals. however, when you have such a large volume of infections among children, even with a low level of rate of infection, you re going to still see a lot more children who get hospitalized. reporter: on a positive note, studies and reports on the omicron variant continue to suggest it may not be as lethal as delta, even as it spreads quickly. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. thank you.
time alone making a tiktok video of her experience been viewed more than 4 million times. when she landed in iceland, quarantined 10 days as the flight attendant who helped her on the flight sent us christmas gifts to pass the time. released from quarantine thursday and says she hopes to spend the remaining few days of holiday with her family. lynda kinkade, cnn. i love that the flight attendant sent her christmas gifts, what a story that is. nearly one year after the capitol insurrection, lawmakers saying they have firsthand testimony about what then-president trump was doing, as a supporter then smashed into the heart of america s dec democracy, more details ahead.