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Americans missed work due to child care challenges. many families being pushed to the brink with kids out sick with the flu, rsv, or covid. the outbreaks are happening as day care centers and public schools nationwide struggle to stay fully staffed. when infections soared earlier this month, some school districts in tennessee and kentucky shut down. >> we have sending a lot of children homesick and we got to the point where we couldn't sustain being in school. >> experts say to avoid the child care crunch, expand your search area to include more towns and zip codes. and consider getting on a w...

Elizabeth cohen joins us now. what is happening with these women and what are the hurdles that they're facing because of this? >> right. kaitlan, so one in four pregnancies will end in miscarriage and the same surgical procedure that's used to treat a woman who is having a miscarriage is also used for a woman who is seeking an abortion. and that's left some doctors scared to help women who are miscarrying for fear they will end up in court. we spoke to one woman who had such trouble finding care, she ended up for two weeks carrying around a dead fetus inside her. >> reporter: marlene and ab ha...

Poland is taking the brunt of the refugee crisis. nearly two out of the 3 million ukrainian refugees have chosen to flee to this country and now the polish president is pleadin with other european nations to open their borders. >> please be safe. thank you. >> finally tonight we would lik to spotlight one of our superstar medical contributors. she's not a medical mission and is overseas on the ground in speed up and finding care for ukrainians in need. she's been working alongside th humanitarian organizations samaritans first serving as a disaster assist relief team member helping with medica...

They had to come early in gestational age. they were 29 weeks old, born with some complications which required them to have special services, and they needed a little extra care. i had to find child care that allowed for this and it was an extremely hard hurdle to overcome. >> when you say that finding child care was hard, i think those of us who have actively looked for child care understand that implicitly. what did that mean for you? >> there are places where child care just doesn't exist, quality care. there are limited number of spaces and workers that are available to work in the centers...

That implicitly. what did that mean for you? >> there are places where child care just doesn't exist, quality care. there are limited number of spaces and workers that are available to work in the centers. so finding a space available for two babies, finding care that was full time that allowed me to go back to work, those were extreme hurdles. during the pandemic i actually lost my children's father, so i became a single-income earner trying to cover the cost of this and it is extremely costly right now to care for children. >> thank you so much for sharing that with us, celeste. jess, the re...