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arkansas governor sarah huckabee , sanders declared a state of emergency as the storms ripped through several towns. she spoke about the destruction a short time ago. i've had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we're going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. ...

Arkansas governor sarah huckabee , sanders declared a state of emergency as the storms ripped through several towns. she spoke about the destruction a short time ago. i've had the opportunity over the last couple of hours to speak with both the homeland security secretary as well as president biden, who have offered a tremendous amount of support anything that arkansas need from a city county state and federal perspective, i would say that everyone is working in total lockstep and we're going to do everything we can to make sure that people of our state are back on their feet again. but the st...

Remarkable that she survived. we spoke to one guy who helped her out, larry wilkins, 71 years old. at his house. he's the man that helped her to safety. he's calling her the bravest person he's ever met. >> reporter: at home in rural kentucky larry wilkins finished watching the local evening news when his dog started barking. i went to the door there was a little girl about 7 years old. crying and not bad. lips quivering pretty good. she's pretty bloody. had a bloody nose. and her arms and legs were scratched up real bad. and she told me that her mom and dad was dead. >> reporter: the 7-year-o...

This plastic pollution is getting into the food chain and they ultimately affect our health. >> reporter: and it's affecting the animals? >> absolutely. roughly 660 species today and that's a conservative estimate. what's insidious about it the plastic in the ocean doesn't disappear. it acts as a sponge for contaminants. >> reporter: in the pacific alone, noaa said massive patches of plastic swirl about. there are laws that prohibit dumping blass ticks in the ocean. the problem is enforcement. governments need to do more on cracking down on pollution. and the vast waters are difficult to polic...

More about this dr. seem ma yasmen for the centers for disease control. good to see you. is it an issue of the flu shot or the flu shot not being effective or mutations of the flu? >> it's all of those things working in combination, fredricka, sadly what's happening, all the flu shots not such a great match this year. there's no point in getting it. now we have a situation where less than half of americans who should have received the flu shot haven't received. it's important to remember yes, this year's flu shot isn't a perfect match for one of the strains circulating but the flu vaccines cov...