a massive fire inside of an apartment building in the bronx. 19 dead, dozens hurt. >> i was scared, that's what really hit me. >> liright now, australia court considers whether to let tennis champion novak jdjokavich to defend his title. >> right now, wasn't clear about the responsibilities, what the expectations were. tonight, omicron surging rapidly across the country, hospitals struggling to deep up. >> large portion of the population unvaccinated, that sets up a large pool of people who as they get infected will end up straining the resources we have in the hospitals today. >> i'm joe mattingly in washington in for pamela brown tonight, you are in the cnn newsroom and we begin this hour with breaking news out of new york city where at least 19 people were killed in what's called the city's worst fire in three decades, among the dead, nine children, started late this morning in a bronx apartment building and quickly spread throughout two apartments, firefighters on the scene within minutes, three minutes, and make dozens of significant rescues, pulled several small children from the building as you can see in this dramatic photo. right now, more than a dozen people in the hospital with life threatening conditions, one woman who lived several floors above the fire described what she experienced. >> i panicked. i was scared. i was really scared. i was scared. i mean that's what really hit me. by the time i got to the exit and i had the mask on, i couldn't even see, i thought i went blind, i couldn't even see, so i was banging on my door to get back in. >> governor of new york saying new york city is a city in shock right now, joined now in the bronx, says a space heater is to blame for the initial fire, what more are you learning about the details? >> reporter: fill, fire commissioner adding it was that space heater supplementing the heat in the building initially caused this fire this morning that led to that fire resulting in dozens of injuries and as we know, 19 deaths, last updated, nine of them children, that is why it is a cold and rainy night in bronx but also full of heartbreak with so many families caught in the middle of this and wondering what will happen next, under in the mean time, investigators saying it was that space heater that initially caused it so now certainly looking into the possibility that that door in that apartment where that fire started was left open, allowing that smoke to basically fill the entire 19-story building. i saw some of the images shared with us through some images and you can basically see smoke billowing out of the apartment, so investigators saying it wasn't the fire itself that led to so much damage and death but in fact, the smoke that billowed throughout the interior of the building and according today commissioner, preventing the escape of dozens of people. >> we are indeed a city in shock. it's impossible to go into that room, where scores of family who are in such grief, who are in pain, to see it in a mother's eyes as i held her, who lost her entire family. it's hard to fathom what they're going through. and i went table to table, helped children make their ramen noodle and see heat their pizza and let them know one thing. the mayor is with me on this, we will not forget you, your elected leaders from senator schumer on down to counsel members are united here to support this community, to say tonight is a night of tragedy and pain and tomorrow we begin to rebuild, rebuild their lives and give them hope, especially those who came all the way from africa, in search of a better life right here in this great burrow, the burrow of the bronx, they're part of our family. >> that was your governor kathy hochul, describing basically what she experienced when she walked into a neighboring school being used as a temporary shelter for dozens of families right now as you heard, many of them immigrants, searching for a better life and instead caught in this situation right now. we do understand the red cross is here, we've seen them, members of the faith community also here, to make sure these families have as much peace as they can right now as they try to pick up the pieces because it's still unclear whether some of these families will be allowed to go back into their apartment so certainly going to have to turn to some of the resources made available by the city of new york in terms of temp raerp temporary housing and potentially long term, phil. >> yeah, a real tragedy, thank you so much and joining me now, the first deputy commissioner, chri chri chri christina ferell, i guess you heard the press conference report, what happens right now, this is 120 unit building. to those who survived this fire, survived the smoke, what's happening to those who lived in this building right now? >> sure, thank you, so right now, there's a middleschool right next to the building that we were able to open up working with the principles today and so we have all the residents here. we've been able to give them food, you know, a warm space, water, any other short term needs they had, people brought their pets, you know, left the building with their pets, pets been here with you should. so we're in the process of finding people shelter for the evening, we work with red cross, have hotel rooms and other resources available so we will a be providing, making sure everybody, every family has a safe, warm space to sleep in tonight. >> can you describe, you know, the scale of the aftermath here? obviously, we've talked about the individuals who die, the individuals in the hospital, but for those who, you're talking about right now, seeking housing assistance, warmth to some degree on a cold night, what's the scale of response necessary for a tragedy like this? >> yeah, i mean, you know, we have fires, we have emergencies in new york city everyday and so we have, you know, all of our professionals that are ready. nothing is like this, cleearly, you know, everyone is in shock but we can scale up very quickly, bring in additional people that can help. we'll be setting up a service center tomorrow, because people haven't even started to think about some of the needs, you know, we are hopeful that many of the residents will be able to go, you know, not on the floor the fire was on but other floors, many of them will be able to go back into their apartments in the coming days but for the people that are out long-term, you know, we will work with them, work with the state to get them appropriate housing. >> and one of the questions, you know, we cover a lot, the staffing issues that hospitals are facing that emergency responders are facing because of an omicron variant that has surged in new york city, this fire comes as the city struggling with this outbreak of the new variant. is that a challenge to your response efforts at all, hindered what you've been able to do so far? >> not at all, new york city is resource rich with the fire department, police department, you know, the hospitals, we have, you know, the hospital system we can move people, you know, to different places if we need to so, you know, every resource that has been needed has been here, has been possible and, you know, while we're still in the middle of the pandemic, did not affect any response today. >> and before i leltt you go i s struck when the mayor and several officials talking about this community, the folks who lived in this complex, immigrant complex, a lot of folks came particularly from africa, immigrant families, the mayor says immigrants who asked for assistance, know their information would be turned over to ice. is that something you can confirm? is that kind of the position right now as you continue this response? >> yeah, it's 100%, we have laws in place, this is not about anyone's status or where anyone came from, you know, this is about new yorkers that are in need, that need services, and we're able to provide those services. you know, while everyone deals with their grief. >> and just real quick before you let you go, for those seeking assistance right now, i know you guys have been out with the numbers they need to call, information they need to get out, can you repeat those if anybody is watching that needs help? >> of course, i'm happy to, if anyone needs assistance, needs a place to stay tonight, they should call 1,800 r800 red cros. if they're not local, trying to get in touch with a loved one and have not been able to, locally, you can call 311 or outside of the city you can call 212 new york which is 212, 639, 9675 and we have a system set up where we can get information to people on what hospital or what the situation with their loved one may be and in the mean time, setting up a website for testing services, local for the residents as different issues come up we can get them the services they need. >> kristina farrell thank you so much for your time. new york emergency services. bringing in former fire chief downey, crews were down i think in three minutes first response, still, 19 people dead, 13 others with life-threatening injuries. what does it tell you about the nature of this fire and the smoke that it caused? >> well, i mean clearly it was a well-i well-involved apartment, a lot of fire when the crews arrived, you know, based on the time of year, the building is sealed up, trying to keep the heat in and keep the residents warm and so the smoke, there's nowhere for the smoke to travel out of the building so it travelled through those windowless hall ways and those areas where it could extend up higher into the building. these highrise fires are personnel intensive, requiring a lot of people to affect rescue and fire suppression. >> yeah, i mean the scale of the response and the after from the fdny i think the mayor said some were operating without oxygen at some point in a very dangerous situation to save lives. i think one of the questions people aren't familiar with this kind of thing may have is, you know, we heard repeatedly at the press conference about an open door that kind of let the smoke to be able to rise the way it did, the smoke spread throughout many floors getting up to, i think, the highest levels of the building. what does that tell you and why is that such a challenge in terms of the response? >> well, doors are probably the single best protective measure to contain a fire and contain smoke. and we preach in fire prevention, close the door before you go, keep the apartment doors closed, that door opening to the common hallway allowed all that heat, that fire, that smoke, to extend rapidly through the hall way, from what i could see, looked like a windowless hall way, all the apartments on the outside and upwards and smoke and heat is going to rise, so that open door was critical to allowing for the fire to spread. >> in terms of the response we saw from the fdny, the speed in which they did things i think the courageous nature by which they did things, explain what a firefighter is dealing with when they enter a fire like this, particularly with the scale of smoke inhalation happening throughout the building. >> well the common strategy is obviously to try to locate and confine the fire, that was done relatively quickly, and then get firefighters not only on the fire floor where there's going to be the highest amount of heat and smoke, but on the floor above the fire, the top floor of the building, and then working their way down. most of the hazard is always above the fire. so you're going to need firefighters moving into every one of those floors. they were getting reports of smoke in apartments on virtually every floor. as firefighters encounter victims, they can't pass them up, especially if they're unconscious, so it will take 2 to 3, maybe 4 firefighters to carry one victim down and you just keep pushing in with more firefighters, the fdny is a resource-rich organization, but i'm sure those initial arriving crews were still spent with the amount of effort they had to exert to remove those victims within those stairwells. >> yeah, a slow moving process as heroic as the efforts were. thank you for sharing expertise, i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll continue to follow the latest developments on the fire but still to come tonight, tennis super star djokovich trades the tennis court for senate court. will he be able to participate in the tournament despite being unvaccinated? 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ji yeah, phil, the testing site here, just closed about 20 minutes ago but all day we saw a steady flow of people coming through. this site is one of many and just at this site alone, they could test about 2,500 people per day, and from talking to the students and parents here, you know, they're used to this. la unified, second largest school districts in the country, did require a baseline negative test in order for students and employees to return to class in august. they're requiring that again now before class resumes in person on tuesday, and there's required weekly testing for students and employees as well. so the highschooler i talked to said no big deal, we do this every week, and in fact, the la unified board president spoke to us about how just this baseline testing in the past week has cost the positive cases and prevented those people from coming into the building in just a couple days. here's what she said. >> we're so grateful to all of our employees who have come back and gotten tested as of this morning, 85% of our employees had done their baseline test and more than 70% of students had done their baseline tests and that's allowed us as you said to protect staff and students on tuesday because we caught 50,000 positive cases of covid using those baseline tests which means that our schools and classrooms will be significantly safer come tuesday. >> reporter: and that's 50,000 cases out of more than half a million. students, more than 70,000 employees. in addition, they anticipate there could be a lot of staff, you know, not able to come into the buildings because of positive cases so they have four thousand certified professionals ready to come in and fill those rolls in case people are in quarantine. this system of protections, including universal masking, 100% employee vaccination and now about 90% of their students 12 and older vaccinated, has really helped this district keep every campus open throughout this academic year, they haven't had a single school go virtual so they're confident in this system. now, as you mentioned, the surge is very serious right now. children's hospital l.a. did tell me they're seeing more than double the positivity rate among the children coming into the hospital for whatever reason, compared to december. so that is a really quick wave, a really quick increase, and they are really telling people, please get vaccinated, especially to protect those under five who are not eligible to be, phil. >> so fascinating to compare and contrast how different districts have been handling this moment. natasha, doing an amazing job covering t thaks so much. we learned another member of congress tested positive for covid-19, democrat cortez says she is recovering at home, did receive a booster shot in the fall, over the weekend, cooper and sean casten also announced they tested positive. still ahead, live on the scene in new york city's deadliest fire in more than 30 years, the mayor hailing firefighters who went into that building despite oxygen tanks running on empty. news coverage continues coming up next. to a job that feels li. with home instead, you too can become a caregiver to older adults. apply today. 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>> reporter: it was the city fire commissioner to say it didn't take long for them to get hands on physical evidence that shows it was a physical space heater in the apartment that led to that fire that quickly spread inside that apartment, but it basically was the smoke coming from that fire that quickly started to flow through this entire building, 19 stories, about 120 separate living units and now, as you can imagine, dozens of families that we heard earlier today from mayor eric adams whose administration was only about a week in, he took over at the start of the year and now dealing with his first mass casualty incident, and a massive tragedy, basically adding some context about what happened here today. >> thank you to the men and women who went in this building, some of these firefighters, their oxygen, their oxygen tanks were empty, and they still pushed through the smoke. you can't do this if you don't feel attached to the city and this community, and i really want to thank them for putting their lives on the line to save lives. >> reporter: and now we are seeing the community basically coming together for the dozens of families now displaced and many of them with absolutely nowhere to go, still, obviously a question as to whether some of them will be allowed to make it back into their apartments possibly tonight, authorities haven't answered that, at least at this point, so what you're seeing is the effort to make sure these families have the housing at least short term or long term because tonight it is cold, rainy, so many of these families have been through so much, and what you're seeing are even members of the community showing up at a neighboring school with warm males to make sure they know they're not alone. >> community coming together in the most tragic of all moments, polo sandoval great reporting thanks so much. covid puts pressure on hospital and takes a toll on responders across the country, dr. matthew joins me now, now this is an interesting moment, the fire chief, emergency department says it's been a challenge but they've been able to fully staff response, haven't seen dropoffs there but this is a moment that underscores why it's dangerous if hospitals are hitting capacity to some degree, new york and the city hit hard by omicron. how can an incident like this impact a hospital even further? >> yeah, it's like a worst nightmare, right, a crisis upon a crisis, and listen, phil, a lot of these patients or people, victims of a fire-related illness, it's the smoke inhalation injury that's really dangerous, they need immediate and swift care, a lot of them need 100% oxygen as we heard polo talk about in the opening, and need to be intubated, there could be edema of the upper air way soez now taking these patients quickly to an emergency room. the other day when i was on call, was a 12 hour wait in my city just for a 70-year-old lady with symptoms of covid so this is a crisis upon a crisis, and we have shortages of nurses and firefighters. a tough, tough situation. >> yeah, and it's interesting, you talk about omicron variant not being as deadly or as dangerous as the delta variant, but there's a real impact given the transmisability to some degree, it's not just hospitals in new york, how are hospitals across the country coping with this covid surge and the need to treat people for other very real medical issues they typically go to the hospital for? >> that's exactly right, i got a family member who is e.r. resident in chicago, tells me just how difficult it is when someone comes in with pain, appendicitis, and now a good number of hospitals delaying or postponing elective surgeries, whether it's women needing mammograms or cancer therapy that may not be able to be given swiftly and quickly, so this is really setting up a situation where if you're not vaccinated, i mean you have to really get it at this point in the pandemic that the only way to take care of not having to be a victim, if you will, in an emergency room waiting long hours is to get vaccinated, is to get boosted and also, phil, i think the cdc had it right on the isolation guidelines even though a lot of medical analysts are upset, because if you're asymptomatic then you actually feel fine, you have to be at home for 10 days. when i go into work every day, phil, the big question is who is out sick today with covid? we lost quite a few nurses and doctors because of this, so it's crucial for us to realize that this pandemic is unmasking a lot of issues, which is, we need to do the right thing, to get out of this crisis, and we need to do it as an entire nation. >> yeah, there's a potential for systemic breakdowns which i think played a role in the cdc's decision making, look the new york fire commissioner said covid-19 didn't impact response time, units fully staffed, but many ambulances and paramedics under staffed in other parts of the country and from an emergency response perspective, what happens if those parts of the country are hit by some type of crisis like this? 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what's kind of the feedback from parents and staff as you get set to go back to brick and mortar environment? >> yeah, so, you know, as i've shared, we returned back to school from the holiday break just this past week, so the last four days, or the first four days of student return were virtual. although it allowed for us to secure additional data around positivity rates as well as community spread data, we're very much aware that it's always a challenge when we are virtual, because it's tied to the at-home learning experience. i think there's been a balance of two things. there's anxiety and appreciation from families who do have some angst around returning because of the spread of covid, while at the same time we are sensitive to the inconveniences that come in that reality, thus the four day span. so, here again to your earlier question, we have put in place several mitigation strategies that we are clear can help us keep children and staff in place when we're able to identify positivity data, to help address those issues that are tied to some of the frustrations with pivoting. but to be clear, we also recognize that in order to ensure health and wellness, there will be times which within schools or classrooms that pivoting to virtual may be necessary. >> yeah, it's, you mention the balance. it's extraordinarily complicated right now. i don't understand how any superintendant is pulling this off at the moment but appreciate your time and you sharing what you guys are doing down in atlanta public school superintendant, lisa herring. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead, we're on the scene of a deadly fire in the bronx. plus, thousands of russian paratroopers deploy to neighboring kazakhstan, trying to provide some stability after protests there turned deadly, details next. and heads up for later tonight, join fareed zakaria with "the fight to save american democracy" special begins tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern. and cue has made that easier. with cue, you get lab-quality covid-19 test results in just 20 minutes. speed and accuracy. it's just for the nba; it's for you too. cue health. the official covid-19 home test of the nba. go cue. go you. ray loves vacations. but his diabetes never seemed to take one. everything felt like a 'no'. everything. but then ray went from no to know. with freestyle libre 2, now he knows his glucose levels when he needs to. and... when he wants to. so ray... can be ray. take the mystery out of your glucose levels, and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free. visit freestylelibre.us see blood when you brush or floss can be a sign of early gum damage. parodontax active gum repair kills plaque bacteria at the gum line to help keep the gum sealed tight. parodontax active gum repair toothpaste ♪ three times the electorlytes and half the sugar. ♪ pedialyte powder packs. feel better fast. 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