provide critical support to help relieve some of the drain and the strain on the health care system. and more relief. early indications suggest the omicron surge is starting to slow in a handful of northeastern cities such as new york and washington, d.c., that bianna got hit first with this. yeah. that is a promising sign. in moments, president biden will speak from the white house laying out his latest efforts to tackle the pandemic. then he ll be heading to capitol hill later this afternoon where he will make a direct appeal to senate democrats to take action on voting rights. this as house minority leader kevin mccarthy changes his tune, saying he will not cooperate with the committee investigating the capitol riot despite previously saying he d do so. we begin this morning at the white house with president biden set to address the nation as covid hospitalizations hit record highs. cnn white house correspondent john harwood is following. john, the president expect
about her life in the spotlight and her advice to democrats dealing with some tough elections outcome. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. who all right, so we begin tonight with a question does the republican party trust elections, it s pure and simple in new jersey, what was expected to be a easy reelection for democratic governor phil murphy, turned out to be a tight race. republican candidate jack ciattarelli, is also digging in his heels refusing to concede, despite the fact that murphy has a clear majority of more than 60,000 votes as of this hour. in the run up to the election in virginia the republican candidate, glenn youngkin, repeatedly called for audits of election machines. and former president trump, said he was ready to yell fraud if the race was even close. then on tuesday youngkin secured a slim victory in the virginia governor s race. and miraculously, lo and behold, those results were immediately accepted remember those calls for audit? suddenly not suc
the lives that are broken. people on the margins whose homes, whose jobs, even their own bodies and their health are now precarious. people who don t have the insurance or the resources to rebuild. my team down here and i went for a drive here not far from where we discovered dozens of people at a shrimping dock for whom that is the situation tonight. no one has reached them and it is not clear if anyone has tried but i saw them. and you can see them too. take a look. [inaudible] it went into the rafters, we were away up in it. it started pushing on us and, long story short, it [inaudible] took over serious water. the bone next to me, they got me going [inaudible] i didn t know if the building was gonna hold up or not. i went in hard, just seven [inaudible] my seventh hurricane. this is mature seventh? hurricane yes. [inaudible] now ian. and this is by far the worst. why? what was the worst of it? the wind, the tide. the tide surge! harvey, we had a tight surge, but