way in virginia completely shut down right now and it goes to talk also about how i-95 is always congested. you throw in a blizzard like this and it becomes paralyzed. this is an emergency situation they re dealing with realtime right now on i-95, 16, 19 hours and counting, that s a long time. back to you. once we re through all of this it may be time for an infrastructure reinvestment, the one piece of good news josh letterman and his dog who couldn t chew that gum are now home safely. that is good news. dasha, tom, dr. hotez, thank you all so much. when we come back you know we re going to talk about this story today, she was once compared to steve jobs, those black turtlenecks, she won t be wearing them where she s potentially going, elizabeth holmes a convicted felon. what theranos founder s verdict means for future cases and what she s really facing at sentencing. plus from the steps of the capitol to school board meetings, a look inside where some of the january 6th rioter
and these are all contributing factors as this variant continues to spread rapidly, steph. dr. hotez, let s talk kids because we often forget infants, toddlers, they are not even eligible for the vaccine. i know your hospital has seen child hospitalizations go up four fold but from where to where? are we talking 10 to 40 or 100 to 400? obviously every single child matters, but the total number matters when we think about new protocols and shutting down schools. well, remember, stephanie, this is just the beginning of this omicron wave and schools are only opening now, so anything that we re seeing now we should expect it s going to be multiplied significantly. we re seeing two flavors of pediatric hospitalizations, one are kids who are admitted for other reasons and we do routine testing and they re found to be positive and so that counts as a covid case, but they re not being admitted because of covid, and then the others who are actually being admitted for their covid-19 infectio
this is i-95 in the state of virginia where a crash closed the road leaving some drivers stuck for over 15 hours. traffic there is still backed up this morning with a lot of drivers out of gas and in the cold. nbc s tom costello covering all the travel issues from d.c., dasha burns outside university hospital in newark, new jersey and dr. peter hotez co-director for vaccine development at texas children s hospital, one of the biggest pediatric facilities in the country. dasha, you know i always start with jersey. it is one of the best states when it comes to vaccinations, but it still has hospitalizations breaking records. what s going on? reporter: yeah, stephanie, new jersey s governor, phil murphy, has called this wave of covid the omicron tsunami. there are now more people hospitalized in this state at this point than at any point in the last year. in fact, the most since may of 2020. over here at university hospital the ceo tells us that their