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Cents from just a week ago and up $1.41 from a year ago. it's a lot higher than that in places where we're watching. in the battleground state of georgia, one of just four states where the price of gas is under $4, gas prices and inflation are increasingly becoming a hot-button campaign issue. nbc's ellison barber is in gainesville, georgia about an hour north of atlanta. so ellison, what are you hearing from folks who are just fed up about the cost of filling up their tanks? >> reporter: fed up is a really good way to describe the mood here, garrett. worried works as well. we have been to thr...

Sought refuge in neighboring poland, but now the mayors of poland's largest cities are warning they cannot sustain the large wave of refugees coming into their cities and they're asking the eu and u.n. to step in. joining me now from krakow, poland, is nbc's ellison barber, so ellison, what are conditions like for these refugees in poland, especially as these cities are getting more and more crowded? >> reporter: as we have walked around krakow, as we have been in the train station here, speaking to refugees, what we are unfortunately seeing is a lot of people who have come here and then not b...

Hospitals are being stretched beyond capacity. there's a sharp divide on issues like masks and vaccinations which has escalated into an all-out animosity toward the state's medical workers. let's bring in nbc news correspondent ellison barber who is in anchorage, alaska. so ellison, you have been getting firsthand accounts of some of the harassment that anchorage health care workers have experienced. and they've been experiencing this for months, they say. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, we spoke to health care workers here in anchorage who say that they are being berated...

Respiratory virus, that is the great unknown. the combination of those viruses combined with the stress of covid. what we're seeing in portland is what we're seeing across the country in icus. rationing of care. dialysis machines, nurses and respiratory therapists and even advanced therapies like ecmo. >> so ellison, i honestly thought that this was a typo. you are at a rural mississippi hospital. it is 185% overcapacity? how do you even deal with that? >> reporter: it is really challenging. dr. gupta just mentioned rationing care. barely a week ago at this hospital they were having discussion...

[inaudible] >> so i hope he goes forward with care and deliberation but that we do it -- >> wasn't candidate who supports impeachment proceedings and has said that for a while is beto o'rourke, today he also said that he believes president trump should resign, that's the best thing the president can do for the country right now. arthel. arthel: so ellison, it's week 2 of the gm strike, have any candidates shown up on the picket lines? >> they have here in michigan 3 candidates showed up in the detroit area and joined workers on those picket lines, senator elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar and al...