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UPS and Postal Service Workers Struggle With COVID and High Volume Letter carrier Steve Guerra sorts mail at his station inside the Roxbury Post Office in Nubian Square before heading out to deliver mail and packages in Boston on December 1, 2020. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers (APWU). “Employees really do rally together.” But this year has been like no other. Worker...

Investigating this. >> alex field, thank you for staying on top of that. we'll be right back.

Welcome back. hurricane dorian made landfall this morning in north carolina. let's get back to north carolina. we've reconnected with alex field who is in kill devil hills getting whipped around. alex, what are you feeling there at this point? >> reporter: hey there, kate. we are absolutely feeling the peak of dorian here at kill devil hills. sustained winds really picking up now. that sand is blasting us right off the beach. as you look at the surf, you'll see that tide starting to come up. we won't hit high tide here until about 2:00. expecting some 8 to 10 inches of rain. but even as this t...

Community like this where everyone is tied to the military. >> the pentagon is pushing back on the notion that they have been defunded. they have just been deferred. but this $3.6 billion had been specifically appropriated by congress for these projects. democrats say this is exactly why you have congressional approval, and now to get those projects refunded, the money needs to be reapproved by congress, which is far from certain. and then when it comes to electoral politics, if you look at just the 23 states that have been affected here, they include three competitive senate races for 2020 wh...

Gut wrenching stories coming out from what we can see in your shot. that is in the bahamas. we'll follow that. i do want to get back to where hurricane dorian is right now and headed. let's get back to north carolina. we think we've been able to reconnect with alex field who is in kill devil hills. alex, what are you seeing? do we have alex? i think we've lost the shot again. they have been hit. they've been getting hit with one of those bands that allison chinchar was talking about. some really tough wind and rain coming through. we're going to try to reconnect to get a shot so she can give...