mostly haitian illegal immigrants crammed under a bridge in south texas last week. and they are still there right now. things are so bad it s not just republicans sounding the alarm as obama s dhs secretary jeh johnson, well, he is also crying uncle. we have to get control of our borders. 200,000 a month is a lot of people. dhs just released the numbers for august, it s 200,000. august is typically a month where it s very low. and those kinds of numbers and the images you just showed your audience saps the ability. it overwhelms the ability of ths, the border patrol, ice,. pete: overwhelmed. unable to ignore the crisis any longer the white house sent current homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas down to texas with a shall we say weak message for these illegal immigrants. we are very concerned the haitians who are taking this irregular migration path are receiving false information that the border is open or the temporary protected status is available. i want to
researchers confirmed patients weren t as sick with omicron. just under 3% of patients hospitalize there had between november a 15th and decemberpth died. that s compared to 29% who died while delta was the dominant vanchlt i want to bring in cnn international correspondent miguel marquez. miguel, what have doctors been telling you amid the surge in pediatric hospitalizations? reporter: yeah. they are saying that it s the worst is yet to come sadly. we re lucky enough to visit texas children s hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in the country. they are not overwhelmed yet but they are preparing for whatever the omicron variants can throw at them. one number i want to give you, phil, that puts it in perspective. in the last week, the last seven days, the number of hospitalizations at texas children s has risen fourfold. that s a very worrying number to them. here s how the chief pathologist put it in the way omicron is spreading. this omicron variant has now reache
aerial tour of the damage right now. these are live pictures. we are expecting an update from him and local officials in a briefing in the next hour. cnn s natasha chen is standing by in boulder with the breaking details. when we say this came out of nowhere, people really didn t have notice to evacuate, did they? the scenes that we have observed from people taking cell phone video and those really frightening moments show that they were running from debris and ash raining down on them. once they got in their cars it was difficult to see anything at all. we re talking about hazy, orange skies. really making it difficult for them to see where they were going a frightening situation. right now we re in the town of superior. it s just outside of boulder. we also visited the town of louisville where neighborhoods were burned out. across the city, hot spots are still gone on. here are a couple residents talking about the very frightening experience of leavingi itheir homes. kn
with covid. as for adults, hospitalizations are nearing the peaks we saw in september. the spike is in undating medical staff overwhelmed for months. now health officials fear that it will show up at new year s celebrations. tom foreman has the latest on how omicron is derailing holiday plans and travel and much more. reporter: the crowd in times square will be held to about a quarter of the usual. masks and proof of vaccination required. latest surge has new york city once again an epicenter of the pandemic. with statewide cases up more than 80% since monday. and the man who becomes mayor tomorrow is vowing to shut the surge down and keep the town open. we must learn to live with covid, adjust and pivot at the right times and we re doing that in new york and i m extremely optimistic on how the city is going to respond. clearly new york and washington, d.c. are ahead of the curve. but not by much. and so expect that in the next three to four weeks we ll see everyone rea
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