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Information, is getting information from elsewhere, one of the things he said to us is that theres a new pre-print release every 15 minutes he cant keep track of all the data and actually all the experts said that, theres so much data coming out and the big question is it good data and how much do you take into account when you make these decisions. >> yeah. we will see in part today as this fda advisory panel meets. thank you so much, sarah, for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you for...

Around 6,500 new cases per day. thats almost six times the number of new cases from three months ago. hospitals have started running low on beds and doctors are grappling with shortages of medicine, oxygen, and other critical supplies. now some doctors are taking an unprecedented step, using social media to criticize the cuban governments handling of the pandemic. cnns patrick oppmann reports from havana. >> reporter: during the first months of the pandemic, cuban health care workers received ap...

All-time high. for the rebellious cuban health care workers who have spoken out against their governments handling of the pandemic, even if the vaccines succeed, it is already too late. patrick oppmann, cnn, havana. health officials are keeping an eye on a new covid strain. the world health organization has flagged the mu variant as a variant of interest. a global database that tracks variants says mu has been detected in all but two u.s. states but authorities dont believe its an immediate th...

America is leaving precipitously, leaving the region in chaos. >> ben farmer, thank you very much. live there in islamabad. a deadly earthquake has hit haiti, a nation already mired in crisis. at least 3 04 people were kille, thousands injured after the 7.2 quake struck saturday morning. there is fear the death toll could rise much, much higher, possibly into the thousands. haiti is under a state of emergency. according to the u.s. geological survey, the 7.2-magnitude quake hit about 78 miles ...

Rains. so while this earthquake rocked haiti on saturday, aftershocks continue to impact the area where the earthquake hit, and with this tropical storm on the horizon, the danger has not been passed. patrick oppmann, cnn, havana. >> thanks for that report. breaking news that we are following out of afghanistan, if you are just joining us, the taliban is closing in on the capital of kabul. the u.s. embassy in a frantic and urgent state of evacuation right now. we have got the very latest on th...

The president last month and storms in the region. patrick oppmann and allison chinchar. patrick, what are you hearing about the impact? >> reporter: any numbers we get at this moment are preliminary. officials havent been able to go into effected areas to remove injured and dead from the rubble. seeing images of people treated in the open area because theres concern of aftershocks. there are reports of aftershocks, buildings damaged by the initial quake could come tumbling down. this remains a ...

To put them back inside buildings. buildings that could collapse if aftershocks continue as they are expected to do so. and then of course, you have a tropical storm, tropical storm grace that is expected to impact haiti in the coming days and that will just make an even more complicated situation even more dangerous. so as always, seems to be the case, haiti just has too much to deal with, then its government and its people can handle, so the government has asked for help. they expect to receiv...

Dump lots of rain the beginning of this week. that will just complicate the search and rescue efforts, or the efforts to get people out of this rubble to come up with an accurate number of dead. in this area, jim, it was also devastated by hurricane matthew in 2016. so certainly no strangers to tragedy and the worst may be yet to come as they deal with these aftershocks and as this tropical storm approaches the same area today that was completely devastated by this very, very strong earthquake. ...

Higher. were getting video from the ground. look at this street filled with rubble and dust in the air. the man in the video youre seeing right now saying there are a lot of wounded people on the street. more images show destruction as a building was shaken off kilter. it must be all too familiar for so many haitians. theyre still feeling the impact of a major earthquake in 2010 that killed at least 220,000 people. remember, this country is in the midst of another crisis. haitis president was br...

Perhaps the only silver lining here, jim. as you said, tropical storm grace has formed and is heading towards haiti in the next several days. that could lead to mudslides and lead to more structures collapsing. so by no means is this over as of yet and certainly in the hours ahead we expect that death toll to continue to rise. >> just a desperate situation in haiti right now. patrick, thanks so much for that report. we appreciate it. we are headed to our darkest hours. that is the sobering war...