Another exactly case count record, nearly everyone seems to know at least one person with this virus. Right now more kids are in hospitals being treated for covid than ever before at a time when they should be enjoying the holidays. Schools once again are grappling with how to balance education with health and safety. Massachusetts denied a Teachers Union request to close schools monday for covid testing. But in washington, d. C. , students must produce a negative test result to return to school. Meanwhile, holiday travel, headaches persist. The faa warns it may be forced to delay flights as crew members call in sick. Thats on top of more than 11,000 Flight Cancellations since christmas eve. Adding to travel implications, the cdc has increased its risk for Cruise Ship Travel to the highest level. The Federal Agency says you should avoid cruises regardless of your vaccination status. Cnns Polo Sandoval joins me now from new york city. Polo, times square looked pretty full with people ce
Take a listen to the witnesss account of the chaos. This is sad, everyone this shouldnt have happened. An estimated 50,000 people were at this sold out twoday Music Festival in houston last night when the stampede happened. Rapper travis scott was on stage and im told in a matter of minutes people started surging toward the stage and thats when the awful stampede happened leave eight people dead. The crowd began to compress towards the front of the stage, okay, and that caused some panic and it started causing some injuries. People began to fall out, become unconscious, and it created additional panic. Theres not a confirmed number yet on just how many people were injured. I just got off the phone with a spokesperson for houstons office of emergency management. She tells me more than 300 people were transported to local hospitals from the festival throughout the day yesterday for different medical issues and some were unrelated to the stampede for things like heat exhaustion, however,
jumping and with common should raise the temperature even hire. suggesting a national ban on abortion is likely in the cards, this as senate majority leader chuck schumer prepares for a vote to protect abortion rights in this country. if we are unable to get republicans on this, we marched straight to the ballot box, and i tell people this that old slogan, don t get mad, vote, i said get mad and vote. at the end of the day there is no right to an abortion in the united states constitution that the issue with abortions it makes a very different is that there is a life. it s very important to get every senator on the record about where they re stand on this issue, you see republicans trying to dodge and not talk about this issue because they know how incredibly popular it is. all right, in a moment i ll talk to the nevada attorney general abram florida, the national bank could have in states like where abortion rights are in fact protected, and growing flair that aborti
when you re working at diplomacy there there is no results. all of this is very bureaucratic that s why the way i am talking to them is absolutely justifiable. i don t have any more lives to give, i don t have emotions, i m no longer interested in their diplomacy that leads to the destruction of my country. greg: whether you go, when cobe first broke out, donald trump use the war metaphor, were fighting a disease is no different than your. this was to get america to show the wear in this thing together as if it were possible to share with nancy sue pelosi. just like in more truth wins first casualty. so now it seems we can use covid as an analogy for war. we want the illness spread? a question he should ve asked cnn plus. [laughs] but also do we want to war to turn into a world war? do the work and spread faster than that rash to keep getting when i don t wipe down my old thigh master. that was graphic. as we saw in covid, texas change the incoming data changes future tac
40 in washington and this is cnn cnn breaking news good morning, everyone. i m casey khan, live in washington, dc and we do begin this hour with major breaking news overnight. a bridge in baltimore collapsing after it was hit by a large ship. you can see that happening there video from that live stream shows the moment of impact with the francis scott key bridge, which then crumbles into the water. this happened around 01:30 a.m. eastern time overnight. official say that multiple cars fell into the tab sco river below right now rescue cuz crews are searching for at least seven people. one official called the collapse, a quote, developing mass casualty event. cnn s gabe cohen has been dispatched to baltimore. he joins us on the phone and route to the scene good morning to you. what do we know at this hour yeah. so casey is you mentioned at this hour we have confirmed that this shipping container, a couple of hours ago around 01:30 a.m. eastern time collided with it appears