they re like a bomb. has the cost of borrowing peaked? we ll have a better idea today, when the bank of england reveals its latest decision on interest rates. but whatever the outcome, first time buyers are still feeling the pressure. manchester united are in a bad place , according to their manager they re out of the league cup, after being soundly beaten by newcastle. it s their worst start to a season for over 60 years. good morning. it s thursday, the 2nd of november. a major incident has been declared across parts of the south coast of england and the channel islands, as storm ciaran brings heavy rain and strong winds, with flood and red danger to life warnings issued for several areas. many schools and airports have been forced to close, with widespread travel disruption also expected across road and rail networks. aruna iyengar has the very latest. waves crashing over the sea wall in devon. a car is washed into the sea. this is penzance in cornwall. and there is hea
needed intensive care support. two-thirds are in our isolation unit needing oxygen. what s striking about this omicron related surge is that the amount of kids coming in every day has almost doubled. our peak number of admissions, coming into the hospital to stay every day, peaked out at around 20 when we were in the other waves. now we are getting almost 45, 50 kids in the hospital as what we call our census, the kids that are in the hospital. sometimes up to 18, 19 in a single day. that s the difference. it s not because the virus is more severe. it s because the overall infection and number of cases has really shot up. coronavirus cases in children are already skyrocketing. when we see the impact of the holidays, combined with the return to school, in january, how much do you fear this is going to get?
berland, the codirector of the p pediatric disease. i appreciate your time. i understand you re just finishing your rounds and joining us. you are living this firsthand, you have seven children in your icu, as we watch back to school, and deal with the mask debate and the delta variant, what that s like, seven children, how high is that compared to a month ago, six months ago? it s much higher than what we have been seeing in the past, and numbers, well, perhaps the total number of new cases is slowing down, the important thing is we re still having new cases, and as these children are coming in, many of them are requiring intensive care support. many are on ventilators, ecmo, the heart lung bypass machine. this is ravaging children across our region, and i fear ultimately it may spread further across the united states with the new delta variant. as we watch this play out, i want to bring up the vaccine, you re in alabama, 40%, west