But we begin with other breaking news. We begin with the demolished infrastructure talks. Negotiations on president biden s massive infrastructure spending and tax legislation with a group of republican senators have now broken off. Lawmakers described a, quote: significant speed bump today and hitting a bring wall. Now those talks are dead. But senior white house officials say they have already begun new talks with a bipartisan group of lawmakers. We will talk live with west virginia republican senator shelley moore capito in just a moment. Senator capito has been leading the republican effort. Has been meeting with president biden. We will talk with her live. White house correspondent peter doocy is live on the north lawn with the very latest. Good evening, peter. Peter: good evening, bret. President biden s trillion dollars plus plan create good paying union jobs has fallen apart because talks with the top republican negotiator for infrastructure senator shelley moore capito are don
vaccine locations are closed. state leaders now say severe weather is slowing down their expected deliveries of vaccine. it s having an impact on distribution and deliveries. announcer: this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it is thursday, february 18th, 6:00 here in new york. john berman is off. jim sciutto joins me. great to have you. always nice to be next to you. it s a really busy news day, because the catastrophic humanitarian crisis is still unfolding in texas. overnight, power crews have made major progress in restoring electricity, but nearly a million customers there are still without power. officials warp n that rolling outages are likely again today as texans struggle to stay warm in these frigid temperatures. so many people are deali i ing burst pipes. look at the inside of what so many homes look like, jim, as you know. many are sleeping
un substatianted claims the election was rigged. and a miraculous escape at the bahrain grand prix romain grosjean s car hits a crash barrier and bursts into flames. the us s top infectious disease expert is warning there could be a surge upon a surge in covid 19 cases, as millions travel home after thanksgiving. anthony fauci says the outbreak is likely to get even worse and has urged people to wear masks. the us has recorded more than 13 million coronavirus cases since january this year. as of sunday, the number of covid 19 cases recorded in the us this month has passed four million that s double the figure recorded in october. health experts had called for people to spend thanksgiving this past thursday at home, but, anywhere from 800,000 to more than one million travellers passed through us airport checkpoints on any day during the past week, marking the busiest period since march. nomia iqbal reports from washington. you know what s coming. he is america s most trust
hold two classified briefings for congressional staff later today. we ll have more on that in just a moment. you ll hear the latest intelligence. also ahead here at home, extremism on the ballot. a new report released just moments ago shows that dozens of far-right candidates are endorsing qanon conspiracy theories ahead of this year s midterms. what we re learning about the connections those candidates have with white supremacists, anti-government exsttremists an the proud boys group on january 6th. an important conversation to be having now but we begin our top story. international diplomatic correspondent nic robertson and international correspondent sam kiley on the scene in ukraine. nic, we ll start with you. how is the kremlin responding to the news that u.s. troops are put on high alert and ready to go at a moment s notice? reporter: the kremlin claiming this is part of the informational hysteria over recent days but also saying this move raises the tensions, a
that party is heading. and, of course, we re following new concerning developments with this pandemic. we ve already blown past last winter s hospitalization peak. the federal government is deploying military personnel to help strained hospitals. how much worse can it get? we ll break it down. i ll ask one michigan s doctor whose hospital is getting help from the military why he says right now is the worst point in the pandemic he has seen. we re going to start this morning there. antonia hilton and gabe gutierrez and jake ward and dr. ungerlighter. an internal medicine physician in california pacific medical center. doctor, we ll come to you in a moment. antonia, let me start with you. you re at a coney island hospital in brooklyn. it s a hospital getting help from the military. we re talking doctors, nurses, more. how are they going to use those things to help the patients? well, craig, they are all part of a surge team from the military. and like you said they are essent