this is cnn breaking news. hello again, everyone. thanks so much for joining me. i m frederricka whitfield. right now the u.s. is on the verge of another major milestone in the fight against coronavirus. a panel of cdc advisers is set to vote any moment now on whether to recommend the onjohnn & johnson vaccine for people over the age of 18. the group will also make recommendations on who should get priority access. jacqueline howard joining me now. jacqueline, what are we anticipating and how quickly would a recommendation go into play? right now the cdc advisory panel, fred, is meeting to vote on whether to recommend the vaccine, and then what happens next, like you said, the director will sign off on the recommendations, and then in the next few days, we could see the official rollout of the third authorized covid-19 vaccine here in the united states. and here s what the rollout plan will look like. we ve looked at these numbers before, but they re really important. joh
abbott. they failed. that s what she said. and she gets so frustrated when she hears from conservatives saying, well, it s the wind turbines and green energy. and it s not that at all. we know what it is. coal, natural gas. that stuff froze. and it froze because they didn t take care of it. they didn t winterize it. it was up to the states. and so him trying to cast the blame on the green new deal and the squad and all that stuff, it s just absolutely ridiculous and embarrassing. even in a crisis. can you believe it? today yesterday was fat tuesday. today s ash wednesday. you know, hence this. the reason it s so good, i did it. the priest wanted to put it on our head because they don t want to touch anybody right now or you could get your own little packet and do it yourself. i m not catholic but i went to catholic school. my fiance s catholic. but i usually get it and i come away with the big smudge. i was at the church right around from your house. you know what
figure out how to help, help the red cross, watch, wait. but, no, it s about politics. oh, this is what s going to happen with the green new deal. where d that come from? he knows it s not accurate. but why even make the point in this context? it s all related. we are addicted to the animus. and it s not going to be easy to stop. cnn tonight, the big show with the big star d. lemon now. you are absolutely right. i was speaking to a friend in texas just moments ago before i came on, and she said that she and her kids, her dog, her husband, they re hunkered down by the fireplace. they haven t had any water. they don t have no running water, no electricity. they re charging their cell phones, they have to go out in their car, start the car, warm up a little bit, charge the cell phones, and then go back in the house. and the first thing i said, well, what s going on? isn t it the wind turbines? she goes, it s not the wind turbines. she said, and again, texas resident in hou
without power since monday has been rationing oxygen tanks for their 5-month-old baby boy born premature just home from the hospital. they built a make shift heater from a pot on bricks. the family is boiling bottled water because there s no water pressure. this is no longer just an emergency. it s clear that it is a disaster. we ve seen a cascade of effects that have turned what is already a dire situation into something much worse. residents are frustrated. they re angry. they are cold. what they re enduring and continue to endure is heartbreaking. in the town of del rio, the wastewater plant is offline. officials are begging residents, do not flush your toilets. panic buying across the state leaving supermarket shelves bare. the state agriculture commissioner says they re, quote, looking at a food supply chain problem like we have never seen before. nearly 12 million texans facing water service disruptions this morning. look at that. nearly 1/4 of the state is under or
truck. we re also getting details of a second plane over the netherlands. two were injured by debris after an engine caught fire on a boeing 747 cargo plane. that plane went slamming into cars and houses. meanwhile, back stateside in texas, more than half of the state, more than 14 million are still without clean water after that brutal massive winter storm knocked out power and burst pipes across the state. and as the u.s. nears a devastating marker in the coronavirus battle, nearly 500,000 deaths, dr. fauci warning today americans are not out of the woods. it s something that is historic. it s nothing like we ve ever been through in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic. it really is a terrible situation that we ve been through and that we re still going through. that s the reason why we keep insisting to continue with the public health measures, because we don t want this to get much worse than it already is. we ll get back to coronavirus. i want to be