cutting covid quarantine from 10 to 5 days may be premature, we begin this hour with the winter storm plowing across the eastern united states. right now more than 80 million people on winter weather alerts across the east, the storl will exit the south tonight and march across new england across the southeast some 180,000 homes and businesses without power, trees brought down, heavy winds and the rate of freezing rain and snow as well, and across the country, traffic snarled on this day before the martin luther king jr. holiday, flights ka canceled today and many delays. not used to snow, let alone this much, right? reporter: that s right, and underneath all this snow is a lot of ice, the word of the day has been travel. air travel, with more than 90% of the flights out of the charlotte s airport cancelled but if you look at the live drone footage showing the interstates around charlotte, it s the roads, all across the state at this point, more than 200 accidents throughou
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Miraculous change in the people who are right now unwilling to get vaccinated, which keeps people, most people, out of the hospital, period, for covid, then what will change? the truth is, pamela, it s about covid the straw breaking the camel s back but it s about everything else. the fact that we ve been putting off preventative surgeries for more than a month now in my hospital system, that means people with heart problems, cancer, or other things that really need to get operated on aren t having the chance to have surgery and see more likely to end up in the e.r. not from covid but from other problems. it s the fact that we don t have enough mental health workers or social workers, and so folks are ending up, again, in the emergency department with mental health crises that could be prevented. what we really need when omicron
Across the country to make sure we increase vaccines, but look covid is one aspect of why this administration has seen such low approval ratings. the economy has been abysmal over the last several months and is not a temporary issue. they ve been saying the economy or inflation is a transitory, or temporary issue, this is long-term. that s why we see many polling numbers, 33%, and another problem we have with the biden administration as someone who campaigned on unity and has done nothing to unify this country and certainly within his own party. poll numbers show almost half of americans say he has done more to not unify this country and that is a big factor with joe biden, not being able to get a lot of what he has said he wants to get done done. what poll is that, alice, i hadn t seen that one? the quinipe act poll, numbers