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Hurried preparations, theres also a new worry. Limited resources. Gas stations literally running on empty, and grocery store shelves picked clean. Nbcs marisa is joining us from tampa. Jay gray is standing by in ft. Myers. And meteorologist michelle grossman is tracking the storm for us. The track of this storm has shifted slightly since yesterday. Where do we expect landfall now? yeah, this has kind of wobbled back and forth, ten miles north or south. As we go throughout time, we are anticipati...

hello, welcome to "cnn newsroom." we begin with this monster winter storm. its core is hovering over the great lakes, and its trailing arctic air is causing power outages and dangerous travel conditions two days before christmas. life-threatening windchills have permeated all the way to the gulf coast, over 70 million americans are experiencing below freezing temperatures, that includes the entire state of texas. this videos from kentucky where the governor has just confirmed three peo...

My coworkers grief. i think the fact that i didnt find out until the day before that i was working the morning show -- i knew i was going to do weather on thursday, but a guy called in the afternoon and i found out it was the morning show and i normally do the 10:00 show, get off work about 11:00 and go to bed. i didnt work on bwednesday, bu i didnt have that time to adjust my sleep schedule. i dont think i fell asleep until about 11:00 and i was running on about three hours of sleep at that tim...

In the state. teams are using trucks and boats to navigate flooded neighborhoods. some armed with chab chain saws to clear debris trapping people in their homes. 1 million people are without power right now as a result of incidents like this, where an electrical tower was left just utterly crumpled by the storm. now, it could take days or weeks even for power to be fully restored which is, obviously, ominous and terrible for a number of reasons. setting aside the massive inconvenience and the po...

This is very, very true. one interesting thing that was mentioned yesterday in the -- the governor mentioned this was that the state, because of this terrible shortage and they -- they have just had their worst covid wave to date. the fourth wave was the worst. the numbers are still very high. and so, they had contracted additional medical staff to arrive but they couldnt arrive because they were supposed to come, you know, the day before the storm and -- and the governor said there werent hotel...

Theyre starting to smoke. and then, what happens is they are not going to be able to have any ability to leave this city because there is not gas, theres not electricity. so they are in these hot houses, theyre dehydrated from drinking. and then, they dont get enough water and then they end up in the hospital. and cant even go to the hospital. so -- >> well, it seems to me, a key issue here, sherry, is -- is the timeline for power restoration. i mean, the one time that i have been in -- in a ser...

Area, which is about sort of southwest of new orleans. they have had to evacuate a number of them. one of them, a rather large hospital. and as you pointed out, covid is making this much more difficult. the governor stated ahead of the storm that hospitals would not be evacuating patients. often, they do ahead of a storm. for the most part this time, they did not because there were not hospitals that had the capacity to take them. today, i spoke with one hospital official in baton rouge who is p...

Ground transportation. mostly. and they are in safe areas right now. those patients were not critically-ill patients. but once again, its still -- you know, it -- its very disheartening when you have to do that. when you have to move a patient. >> yeah. >> that is on iv fluid. that is requiring dialysis. these -- this makes this all the -- all the much worse when it comes to looking at this in -- in a -- in a microcosm of why is this happening all the time? infrastructure must be built so that i...

Computer models take this as a likely hurricane around texas or new orleans, its too early to pinpoint exactly what were going to deal with but for yin along the gulf coast theres a potential sunday or monday next week, dealing with a serious storm. well watch that days ahead. >> cant wait to get through the storm season and the warm weather. thank you very much. the vice presidents trip to vietnam was delayed after two diplomats reported health incidents. the latest incidents of haryana syndr...