tonight, this stark warning from idaho's governor: >> we are in the middle of an unprecedented and dangerous time in our state's history. >> reporter: colorado again shattering records for new cases and hospitalizations. >> these are our darkest days as a nation. they are our darkest days as a state. >> reporter: in new york, the positivity rate on the brink of the 3% threshold that would trigger the closing of all public schools to in-person learning. the city's mayor with this message for parents: >> have an alternative plan for beginning as early as monday. >> reporter: california now passing an unsettling threshold: more than one million covid cases, the second state to do so after texas. in hard-hit el paso, a city with more hospitalizations per capita than any single state in the country, the health care system is overwhelmed. nurse lawanna rivers posted this after finishing a shift. >> there is not a single patient that made it.