family s life. reporter: bowling green never expected to experience anything like this, but experts say as these storms become more frequent, more and more communities are going to have to make plans to keep themselves safe lester dasha burns, thank you. now to the pandemic, and good news from pfizer today about the effectiveness of its covid pill but it could still be weeks away from authorization, and it comes as infections and hospitalizations soar to alarming levels here s miguel almaguer reporter: as hospitals buckle under the strain of covid, pfizer s antiviral pill, if approved, could protect against delta and omicron, reducing the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% when taken within three days of the onset of symptoms but it won t come soon enough for the soaring number of medical centers facing record admissions. at u-mass memorial, they ran out of ic beds a week ago. i m shocked that