Good saturday morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. Im victor blackwell. Good to be with you. We start this morning with dangerous conditions brought on by now posttropical cyclone lee. The storm is still maintaining those hurricaneforce winds, and so far warnings remain in place as lee begins to whip the new england coast, bringing heavy rainfall through cape cod and all the way through maine. Though its not expected to reach the u. S. , the outer bands are expected to pack strong winds up to 80 miles an hour and could bring flooding throughout the new england coast. Maine has declared a state of emergency, and authorities are warning people to stay inside and prepare to hunker down for the storm. Many states are warning people to state out of the water this morning because of Dangerous Rip Currents that could drag people out to see. Lets go to Allison Chincar in the weather center. What are we talking about in terms of impacts . The intensity of the storm h
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they re dying and the cases that we re seeing now in hospitals, they re in there longer. they re younger and sicker and we re all concerned that we re stretching our systems to the bone right now. i want to talk about another major shift from the cdc on testing. new guidance saying that fully vaccinated people should be tested after, poesh you are even if they re not showing symptoms. should there be a major new ramp up in testing? i think there always should have been no decrease in testing. i think that i m one of those advocates because of what i see on the front lines to have surveillance testing. we need to have those ready for schools. we have k through 12 that are coming back in person and they should. i do think there needs to be an increased focus on testing and just simple talk for people. if you have a cold or what you think might be allergies, there are plenty of non-invasive ways. you don t have to stick something up to get a brain biopsy, plenty of ways to give
you a 15-minute read and not perfect. the reason we want this, andrea, is again, if we had 90% vaccination rates or what the uk is seeing with 70% to 80% of the first shot, we wouldn t be having this conversation, but you look at the covid.cdc.gov map, the entire country is almost lit in orange and red and that s why we re having this conversation. testing and masks. vaccines work. they save your life. we just from to make sure we can save others. we should say to people. i get pcr tested all of the time. it s harmless. we had to do it to cover the g7, on and off an airplane, we this to do it. i do it for self-protection for myself and colleagues. it s not like a brain surgery or brain biopsy at all, contrary to what former president trump said after he got his first test and complained about it at a news briefing.