i ll have the weather on both sides of the pond. cnn newsroom starts right now. and good morning to you. happy friday. thank you for joining us. i m carol costello. we begin with new details on a man who is accused of being a serial infector of hepatitis c. david kwiatkowsky is accused of infecting many people. one hospital fired him for drug abuse two years ago. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is in boston with more. good morning, elizabeth. reporter: carol, let me tell you when what happened in arizona. cnn has learned that david kwiatkowsky was working at a hospital in arizona when his fellow employees found him passed out in the men s locker room. they found syringes on his person. he was in possession of syringes. they took him to the emergency room to treat him. when they tested him, he tested positi for cocaine and marijuana, and that hospital did report him to arizona authorities. legal authorities, law enforcement i should say. now, of course,
would you agree that would be a criminal act? i think so. now aside from those specific allegations, the bloomberg administration is facing criticism they did not plan adequately for the storm. the mayor says he accepts accountability for everything that went wrong and he ll make sure that when the next storm happens, they are better prepared to deal with it. milissa? thank you. and stay warm. 3,000 miles away from the big apple, an unusual soggy southern california is battling its own weather crisis. they are experiencing one of the wettest decembers in history thanks to another round of heavy rainfall. downed trees and mudslides closed major freeways in the area. some residents are still recovering from a storm that dropped a year oes worth of rain
we ll start over. might not be easy, but we ll make it. reporter: like other homeowners, the gaddiss don t know if they have to rebuild or start over somewhere else. all of this has been so overwhelming, they re just taking it one day at a time. tuscaloosa, alabama. to find out how you can make a difference to help tornado victims in the south, visit our impact your world page at cnn.com/impact. a different kind of weather crisis along the missouri/illinois border. rain swollen rivers there are threatening to flood at least one illinois town. the u.s. army corps of engineers may take dramatic action to prevent that from happening. it s considering blowing up a levee to relieve pressure on the river and spare the town of cairo. the move would flood farmland as a result in missouri. texas governor rick perry says the federal government is not doing enough to help his state fight wildfires that have