path across this entire country. data from the cdc shows that more than half of the u.s. population lives in a county with high community transmission as we speak, and they predict we will soon see hospitalizations begin to increase as well. in los angeles county, there s a concern they re so concerned that they re talking about even reviving an indoor mask mandate within the next two weeks. cnn s camila bernal is at the santa monica pier with more. camila, how much have transmission rates actually increased in l.a. county? well, look, the county says they re seeing about 9,000 cases every single day, and the problem is that hospitalizations are increasing. they say that compared to last month they ve seen an 88% increase. so for every 100,000 people that are here, 10.5 more or less, are having to be hospitalized and that s what s concerning for them. so they say that if those numbers stay or increase over the next couple of weeks, what s going to happen is that everyone
Moines. Minus 16 in Davenport And Minus 18 in cedar rapids. Lets get to Alice Chinchar at the weather center. Thats the temperatures. Thats not going to take into account what the wind will make it feel like. Youre talking 20 or 30 degrees below for the windchill. Some of the areas can look at windchills as low as 45 degrees below zero. The windchill alerts stretch from the canadian border All The Way to mexico. Its impacting a lot of different people with not only temperatures below normal, but windchills down to frigid conditions. Because that cold air is in place, all of the moisture that will make its way to the eastern half of the country is going to turn into snow or ice. Ice is the concern for areas of east texas, All The Way to alabama. But for areas of arkansas, tennessee, and into the midatlantic by the time we get to this evening, the main
ever. the national weather service there calling for emergency meetings to deal with the crisis. cnn s alice chinchar has more from the weather center. laura, for the first time ever the u.k. net office has actually issued a red warning for heat across the u.k. in the coming days. essentially what this means they have at least a 50% chance of their temperatures getting and about an 80% of chance of them reaching record high levels. the main concern here is it increases your risk for heat related illnesses. and also when we talk about that record, look at this the all-time u.k. record is 101 degrees fahrenheit. that is the exact forecast high where london is supposed to be on monday. and paris expected to have triple digit temperatures, madrid. so many places in between are