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A mold infection. officials said five other patients were infected with mold in 2018 and '19. the hospital blames an air quality problem in the operating rooms. it will not reopen them until it has fixed the issue and air tests prove the rooms are safe. a new york jury has awarded $60 million to a high school student who was badly burn friday a classroom chemistry experiment in 2014. alonzo yannis was a student at beechman high school when he was burned. the combustion resulted in an explosion and fire. several months later, the american chemical society put out a safety alert recommending t...

All 14 rooms, operating rooms, at the seattle children's hospital are closed this morning after a patient there died from a mold infection. the patient was one of six to develop an infection since 2018. the hospital is blaming an air quality problem. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us live from the cnn center in atlanta. so elizabeth, tell us how this happened and what the origin of a mold like this could be. >> you know, the mold is everywhere, jim. it's in the air we breathe. it's very common. it's not a problem unless you have an open incision. that's what happened ...

Houston tonight. >> reporter: tonight, this massive fire burning out of control, sending plumes of toxic chemicals into the air near houston. the flames erupting at the deer park chemical plant now for more than 24 hours. that black smoke visible for miles. >> it is a very dangerous and active event that's occurring. and is still going on. >> reporter: six large tanks filled with components used to make gasoline, nail polish remover and glue now burning, prompting nearby schools to close. residents for a time told to shelter in place, to keep their windows closed and air conditioning off. offi...

And so we didn't have heat. now i like heat and i don't like the cold anymore. i don't know how that happened. i guess you get old and you don't like the cold anymore. so take the heat when you can get it. we do also have air quality issues up and down the east coast, too. anywhere you see yellow, that's a moderate air quality problem. same for philadelphia, and that's into the possibly at a inside if you really have bad asthma issues here. and that would be just these small areas here around philadelphia, d.c., maybe into baltimore, as well. those are very small. other than that, we're not go...

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