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Under 18 are fully vaccinated at this point, and while we know, you know, covid is less severe in our kids, we also know that it's had a real impact in our kids across severe illness and death. >> reporter: 170,000 children testing positive for covid last week alone, an increase of nearly 28% in just two weeks. and it's the unvaccinated, health experts say, are still most at risk. in ohio, 18-year-old sarah golembiewski lost both of her parents and her aunt to covid just days apart and a few weeks before christmas. all of them had turned down the shot. >> if my parents got it, it would have sa...

Surrounding the people. and, kaitlan, talk to us a little bit more just about, i guess, what this moment means given where the president is in his presidency and how the american people feel about the job he's doing. >> reporter: yeah. of course, this comes as we're in a moment where he's coming up on one year in office, and often presidents are judged by the events that happen and how they handle them. sometimes storms like this one and natural disasters can really define a presidency. we have certainly seen that with some of his predecessors. this, of course, is a moment where when you talk ...

Will expect to hear more extended remarks. but katy, some of the dribs and grabs and offhand comments from the president so far, he says the thing that's struck him the most is the way these communities are coming together. as he put it, there is no blue tornado, red tornado. these natural disasters are indiscriminate, affecting everyone equally. that's why it's important to have that partnership you're seeing from the local level all the way up to the president of the united states who is traveling here with his homeland security secretary, the fema director as well. this is also, katy, as yo...

One. you can see the president there on the tarmac. the president there to focus on the tornado devastation in kentucky. again, just touching down ahead of his tour of storm damage in mayfield. and dawson springs. that is where we'll start this hour on the ground with our reporters in kentucky. ahead of president biden's visit, nbc's mike memoli is in dawson springs. nbc's gabe gutierrez is in mayfield. president biden touring storm damage in kentucky, taking on this role as consoler and chief. what can we expect to see and hear from the president today? >> reporter: yeah. that role of console...

This moment. as the white house said, to demonstrate we'll be here for as long as it takes until everyone here gets the response that they need from the government. now as we expect to see the president here shortly, he'll be with the governor of kentucky andy bashear, also with steven bashear, the governor of kentucky a decade ago. this town, dawson springs was the home town of steven bashear so that will give him an extra layer of the personal impact of what the town is dealing with. and we'll hear remarks from the president later. and he is traveling to a community devastated by a natural d...