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seoul with what has become a makeshift memorial there, ivan. are you learning any more about what triggered the surge? >> reporter: just a sheer mass of humanity. many, many young people, thousands of them that gathered steps from where i'm standing right now to celebrate halloween, to drink, tricked out in costumes and it turned into a nightmare. i'll get out of the way so you can take look at this very somber, very sad scene here. people have been laying flowers and lighting candles, handwritten notes to some of the 154 mostly very young victims of this terrible catastrophe. i've s...

happening right now, carlos? >> reporter: two new developments since we last joined you in the prior hour. the first is we're finally getting reports of some of the damage here in broward we're told a family of five had to be taken from a home up in pompano beach, north of where we are, after a tree fell into their house. we're told the entire family is doing okay. we're getting our first look at the search and rescue teams down in miami. and they've provided us with some video of one of their teams going, essentially, neighborhood by neighborhood looking for folks that may be strand...

Many will get sniffles. we're seeing children, not just tiny babies, get more sick. >> why so severe? >> we don't 100% know. one of the leading theories is we gave our immune systems a rest over the height of the pandemic, we were under precautions, doing masking, social distancing. so we didn't have the viral exposure that we usually do, especially for children. children are usually mingling with other children. they're little germ harbingers. >> so i'm told. believe me, i know. >> i have some of my own. believe me. germ harbingers. >> how easy is it to distinguish between rsv and flu and cov...

More or less for most kids are going to be fine. truly is going to be a low key event but for enough kids it's not close for the deaths we're seeing. i think what happens is some of the people who want things to go back to normal sooner are afraid if they acknowledge that whole truth we won't do things like keep schools open. if you acknowledge the whole truth and take mitigation measures like testing, doing masking where it's necessary we can do the things those folks want to do. if you look at the reality that covid is worse than flu has ever been for kids, that's okay because we can do the ...