work with its allies again after four years of donald trump s america first policies. this happening as the u.s. officially rejoins the paris climate agreement and just one day after the state department said that the u.s. is ready to restart nuclear talks with iran. we ll bring back of these events to you live when they happen. but we start this hour with a crisis in texas. we re nearly 200,000 people are still without power after this week s epic winter storm. and while that number is a major improvement, millions of texans are still dealing with food and water shortages in the aftermath. 13 million residents are under boil water advisories. that is nearly half of the state s population. the conditions catastrophic for families who have been suffering for days. it s like one of your worst nightmares. like you never, ever imagine that this is going to happen to you. so for me to walk in there and just see everything that we have just being destroyed when it could have been
treatment and care. people less likely to survive will not get those resources. they will be moved down the line. instead, in an effort to save as many human lives as possible, these hospitals now have permission and guidance to prioritize giving treatment to people who are more likely to live. and that is as bad as it sounds. it means that some people will not be admitted to the hospital, even though they need to be hospitalized. other people who might previously have been given curative treatment, treatment to cure them and save them instead will just be given comfort care to try to make things easier for them. and it s a sort of anti-dine phrase, crisis standards of care. but it is a terrible thing, and it is a thing that we really haven t confronted before as a country. now we ve got it in place, though, in one of montana s major medical centers. they moved to crisis standards of care this week. we ve also got it in every hospital in the state in idaho as of last week, an
previously have been given curative treatment, treatment to cure them and save them instead will just be given comfort care to try to make things easier for them. and it s a sort of anodyne phrase, crisis standards of care. but it is a terrible thing, and it is a thing that we really haven t confronted before as a country. now we ve got it in place, though, in one of montana s major medical centers. they moved to crisis standards of care this week. we ve also got it in every hospital in the state in idaho as of last week and in every hospital in the state in alaska as of tonight. and all of this, of course, is because of the huge influx of very sick covid patients, swamping and effectively breaking the hospital systems in these states so that they can no longer provide care along the ethical and sort of technical guidelines that they ve always followed. and it s not just covid patients who are going to suffer from this rationing in these hospitals. it means everybody who need
news. pfizer now testing an omicron-specific vaccine, this as schools are struggling with how to handle high amounts of positive cases among students. we ll be speaking to one superintendent whose district has gone remote indefinitely. is this doing more harm than good? and we ve got other breaking news this morning. after decades of status quo, the s.a.t. exam making a huge change that could impact millions of high school students across the country. it might be time to toss your number 2 pen similars. we start with the tense standoff between russia and ukraine, tensions growing more urgent by the hour, the pentagon putting 8,500 troops on heightened alert as the u.s. weighs military action. none have been deployed as yet. but they could be moving from other parts of europe to neighboring countries like poland and romania. this comes after president biden joined a 90-minute video conference about the crisis with european leaders. the white house posting this photo of the p
Memorial Hospital is excited to announce two kids summer cooking workshops led by the Health & Wellness Team’s registered dietitians and Chef Amber Clark.