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rhode island governor dan mckee joins me now. and governor, look, we originally had you booked to talk about the storm, and we are certainly going to be talking about the storm, but really quickly because while i know most of new england is inside right now, they are also probably very cognizant of what their former quarterback is doing right now. can i just ask you at the top before we dig in on the storm, what did tom brady mean to new england to your state to the people up there? >> well, everything, and we won't be calling this the rhode island storm of 2022, we're going to call this the day that tom brady retired, right? that's how this day is going to go down and be remembered here in the local area of rhode island, and for good reason. he was a great -- he was a great life example, you know, a tremendous athlete. you know, his four agreements alone, taking nothing personal, doing your best every day, which i've always said, his hard work and he was the epitome of a family man. he just has a great reputation, and i think i

island. >> we will take it up to new england taking a look at providence rhode island, very gusty out there, printed light conditions and that remains until midnight tonight. rhode island and massachusetts, total accumulation are expected between 18 - 24 inches in these areas. even in some parts 30 inches are possible. those winds will continue to gust up high toward 60 mile-per-hour. we do have the snowfall between 2 - 4 inches per hour possible at times, let's take a look at boston throughout the rest of today still see the heavier bands of snow even into the 11:00 o'clock hour, making travel near impossible in this area and throughout most of new england area. that continues through the afternoon by early evening we are seeing heavier bands of snow around boston south of brockton and then we see things wind down as we headed to the 11:00 o'clock hour. this is an all-day prolonged event before we see things wrap up and dry out in boston in the boston area. by the overnight areas snoqualmie downing coming to an end, that does not mean the storm is ending we are dealing with high wind

this is a tough job with blowing snow rhode island limited visibility the case with blizzard warnings we had 10 states under alerts, this morning, and this problem, visibility made travel almost impossible. >> warnings blizzard warnings have not had blizzard warns since 2018 retalking about blizzard warnings extend into maine, visibility a quarter mile or less three hours winds 35 miles per hour, as well. so, outside of there you see winter storm warning a lot of spots reported foot to 16 inches fresh snow as you reported as well another couple inches winter weather advisories in blue, this is moving up the coast, has done day number it came together very, very strong conditions continue, and this could happen through 5:00 look at bright shades highlighting a lot bright shade heavy snow coming down the wind is also blowing, so, here is what we're looking at monitoring this weather throughout the day today look at providence, boston, boston could see two to three feet fresh snow bangor, maine almost to portland we could see three to four inches snowfall per hour in the entire area high

island and rhode island is banning all nonemergency travel. your travel not much better, airlines have canceled thousands of flights and once the storm moves through, intense cold will follow meaning many will be shivering with power outages. welcome to "america's weather weekend". amy: we will be here with extended coverage through 10:00 pm eastern time, looking at what has come in so far, a foot of snow at the jersey shore just incredible, wents gusting about 50 miles an hour in massachusetts with top wind speeds coming in. this storm has bombed out with an intense pressure drop into could drop even more. craig: when we talk about a bomb cycle it has to drop 24 millibars in 24 hours. it is on that. that means a strong intense storm. we begin this hour with a live view of ocean city, new jersey, the blizzard warning in effect until 4:00 eastern. look at the flag on the left side of your screen just blowing and snow accumulations of 5 to 10 inches, some spots could get a foot of fresh snow, winds gusting is high as 50 miles per hour. let's get

island 6.3 again numbers go up as storm moves north, providence rhode island good saturday morning to you boy you can look out your window you know, when is it going to let up as far as snow? not till tonight wind will be mr. places as sun goes down for the next several hours through about dinnertime, if you are having dinner 7:00 we have snow gusty wind up to 60 miles per hour through 4:00, 5:00, 7:00 start to wind down we gave you impressive snowfall totals not done the shades of you were purple deep purple into maine bright pink up to a foot fresh snow in blues another one to five inches fresh snow by the end of the day into tomorrow. you can see just still more to come system into carriedian maritime prepare to today and tomorrow dealing with nor'easter first button of the year dealing with blizzard like conditions has not had blizzard warns 120i7bs 18 blowing snow around take it easy going to tame time thankfully if you have to do it a big concern, look at that right now. >> taking it further south live landlords philadelphia international airport, still seeing fluuri, pennsylvan

now the university of rhode island. which continued with the emergent of the olmsted brothers in the 20th century. the olmsted and elliott plan organize the rhode island campus. i found this particularly interesting especially in the light of lori's remarks. in the 1890s remember there was a plan for washington university and stanford which emphasize the use of the quadrangle and laurie had a wonderful quote some angles can be good. what you see here is a shift in the orientation of the olmsted senior curbing road approach. to the quadrangle. it's before-and-after what was called college hall burned down and replaced by davis hall in this represents a change where we see more of an emphasis of quadra angles. the covariates remain but it also reflects john olmsted's contribution. like the other work the olmsted's provided very detailed design to realize their plan with the rhode island campus for example this concluded plaintiff designs and scientific and popular name plants and for the land-grant institution, they also

the article goes on in rhode island democrats and acted a decade ago the kind of photo id law that the democratic party has labeled racist when drafted by republicans. a little bit of hypocrisy there. the article goes on. the state, rhode island also requires them to get the signatures of not one but two witnesses when casting an absentee ballot. only alabama and north carolina are similarly strict. the article goes on according to a new analysis released this week on the nonpartisan center for election, innovation and research, delaware, connecticut and new york rank in the bottom thirds of states and their access to early and mail in ballots and as i just said new york just rejected it again. i really wonder if the majority leader is going to come down and call his citizens jim crow 2.0. this is a very important issue and here is the bottom line. before any of my democratic colleagues come to the floor this week with their insults, with other smog offensive, inaccurate arguments about jim crow 2.0, racist traitors mimicking the president of the united states last week in georgia, i w

the blizzard warning extends from delmarva to portions of long island into rhode island to maine. blizzard warning, low visibility, quarter of a mile or less, 3 hours, winds at 35 miles an hour, some of these spots haven't seen blizzard warnings since 2018, a good four years. the winter storm warnings in the purple extend from delmarva into maine. the winter weather advisory not as much snow, we could see another area of warnings. here is the storm itself as we are looking at the miller bars -- the millibars drops 24 millibars in 24 hours, we call it bombohgenesis, that would indicate strong winds when packed that tightly together. those winds sustained 2230, farmingthey are 30 miles an hour winds in boston at 25 from the north. we send it on to katie byrne who has been out in the land. the snow is coming down to the blizzard, how does it look where you are? >> reporter: it is progressing anything about the winds we've got. we adjusted at 43 miles an hour. it definitely feels it. we are narragansett bay. our senior weather producer talking about how we are experiencing blizzard co

in rhode island democrats enacted a decade ago the kind of photo i.d. law that the democratic party has labeled, quote, racist, when drafted by republicans. a little bit of hypocrisy there. the article goes on. the state, rhode island, also requires voters to get the signatures of not one but two witnesses when casting an absentee ballot. only alabama and north carolina are similarly strict. the article goes on. according to a new analysis released this week by the nonpartisan center for election, innovation and research, delaware, connecticut, and new york rank in the bottom thirds of states in their access to early and mail-in balloting. and, as i just said, new york just rejected it again. you really wonder if the majority leader is going to come down and call his citizens jim crow 2.0. mr. president, this is a very important issue. and here's the bottom line. before any of my democratic colleagues come to the floor this week with their insults, with their smug, offensive, inaccurate arguments about jim crow 2.0, racist, traitors, mimicking the presi

kennedy: covid panic rhode island, tiny state but they are scared of a lot of stuff. the state is allowing healthcare workers who have covid for nursing homes if there's a staffing shortage, one state run hospital sent out a memo saying workers who have no or mild symptoms can work as long as a where in 95 masks, it sounds peachy but what about the unvaccinated workers were fired because of strict mandates? let's get into it with tonight's party panel, ceo and former george w. bush presidential writer, ned ryun is here along with fox news political analyst, juan williams and foundation for economic education writer and liberty activist, olivia rondeau rounds up the panel. welcome, everyone. ned, the people who happen fired, hundreds of healthcare workers in rhode island relieved of duty, fired from their jobs for exercising their right to choose whether or not they get the vaccine, they can't work but somebody who has covid can. again, it was back to no counting form natural immunity here. >> of all the stupid decisions made over the last couple of years, firing healt

the state, rhode island, also requires voters to get the signatures of not one but two witnesses when casting an absentee ballot. only alabama, north carolina are similarly strict. article goes on. according to an analysis released this week by the nonpartisan center for election innovation and research, delaware, connecticut, and new york rank in the bottom thirds of states in the access to early and mail-in balloting. and as i just said, new york just rejected it again. you really want at the majority leader will come down and call his citizens jim crow 2.0. mr. president, this is a very important issue, and here's the bottom line. before any of my democratic colleagues come to the floor this week with their insults, with their smug offensive, inaccurate arguments about jim crow 2.0, racist traders, mimicking the president of the united states last week in georgia, i want my colleagues to come and answer this simple question, a verye simple question. why should we listen to you? why should any american take you seriously? when so many of you come from states with the most restrictiv

island roads you are not supposed to be driving until 8:00 o'clock tonight. craig: katie byrne, we appreciate it we will check with you again, will send it back onto you. amy: watching katie byrne, those winds a blizzard warning and affect in suffolk county the eastern portion of the island could see winds gusting as high as 70 miles per hour, "fox weather" steve bender joins us right now from bellport and shirley, 10 inches from the official storm report a lot of snowdrifts, that snow is blowing around. >> this is kind of painful i'm not going to lie when the wind picks up it picks up the sand and whips you in the face that's what it feels like with the snow so dry and all the different reports with everyone in the field, similar case it is dry snow starts to fall apart and dissipate and once the wind hits it it's whipping around in the wind and surely new york is gusting to 50 miles per hour that's a blizzard warning until 7:00 p.m. county executive also polk county had a press conference about an hour ago and he said we are in the thick of it right now. th

rhode island and massachusetts are seeing the most of it. massachusetts already recorded more than 110,000 customers without power. cnn has teams covering this nor'easter. our tyler mall den is keeping an eye on the forecast from the cnn weather center. tyler, what are the latest storm advisories? >> this winter storm has rapidly intensified. it was officially a bomb cyclone as it pushes up the eastern seaboard spreading all this snowfall. it has dropped a lot of snowfall, too, more than a foot across the delmarva and going on into the northeast. you can see parts of new jersey encroaching on a foot and a hatch of snow. we had the northeast wind, nantucket a-3-foot storm surge, boston 2 1/2 foot, atlantic city a little more than 2 feet of storm surge there. that is leading to coastal flooding. the snow continues and we have this wind. the wind is fierce in areas. in montauk, 31-mile-per-hour wind with gusts up to 48, nantucket 45 with gusts up to 62, and in nan tuck elt, we have soon wind gusts up to 70 miles per hour. and that is possible i

as we bring you a live look at providence, rhode island, a blizzard warning in effect. all non-emergency road travel is banned there. by the way, if you're flying today, know this, most of the flights in and out of the airport around boston, are cancelled. other service has been cancelled or very limited. meantime, right now, ntsb investigators are on the scene of the pittsburgh bridge collapse. a team of more than a dozen officials arrived there last night. they are now combing through debris in the snowy ravine. ten people were injured friday morning just hours before president biden visited the city to tout infrastructure investments. our nbc affiliate, wpxi slates the bridge was slated for replacement but not for another decade. that was according to the latest inspection report. let's go to josh lederman braving things at the white house with the president today. it doesn't look so bad there weather-wise. that's good to know. there's hope on the horizon. but let's talk about the coincidence of this accident and the president heading there. i think everyone thought

as of two weeks ago, you had over 500 individuals hospitalized in the state of rhode island. that number has now come down a bit, to just under 500. but you compare that to numbers in november, when you just had over 100 people hospitalized. those numbers are still fairly high. the bad news, jose, is the burnout, and what you alluded to. there is a massive amount of burnout when it comes to staffing shortages. nurses and doctors are exhausted, both physically and psychologically. you have nurses, hand over hand, beginning to retire, that are at retirement age, saying, we just can't do it anymore. having to make critical decisions as to who's going to be able to get into the icu. so based off of the announcement made by the president just two weeks or so ago, military personnel deployed across the country, to hospitals like this one, rhode island hospital. they received 20 personnel, 14 nurses, 2 ventilating respiratory specialists and four doctors on top of that help with those staffing shortages to leave some pressure. here's dr. mitchell levy, here's what he had to say. >>

fox weather's katie byrne in newport, rhode island. katie, thanks. >>> the white house press secretary, jen psaki, defending the administration's immigration policies, this after a fox obtained video of migrants arriving at an airport north of new york city last august. and this week fox cameras caught an apparent mass if relocation of migrants in texas. one immigration and customs enforcement source accusing the d. of becoming a, quote -- department of becoming a, quote, unofficial travel agency for if illegal immigrants and criminals. let's bring in fox news contributor and columnist for "the hill," joe concha. joe, as you know, i'm a private pilot. it's been kind of an open secret in the pilot community for a while that the department of homeland security is flying these charter jets, always at night, they always land in the middle of the night, to not really wig airports -- big airports. allentown, bethlehem, pennsylvania, is one, westchester county north of new york city, has seen some as well. migrants going all over the country

, toward connecticut and rhode island and of course maine. this is a situation where the roads are difficult to travel on. it is very difficult to travel by air. there are certainly airline delays. it is a quick mover, relatively speaking. by this afternoon, the worst will be offshore and could see blizzard conditions for parts of maine. temperatures are cold enough the snow will hang around for next couple days and get a shot of cold air going through the weekend. there are winter weather advisories. for d.c., it is over with, philadelphia still getting snow and winter storm warnings for jersey up to long island and toward coastal new england. this morning, it will continue to snow. i'll be live on "fox and friends" enjoying it and near the end of the show, stay tuned for the world's greatest snow angel, that would be a tease. >> todd: the best tease you get all day. jd, not just a snow day for her kids, but for her, as well. enjoy it out there. republicans mocking democrats for turning january 6 into actual political theater. ♪ ♪ i thou

wind doesn't quit until late tonight from the jersey shore, long island, rhode island towards the cape. snowing is latest:00 tonight. the blizzard warning will go to 5:00 am. nothing to do with snow or the big cold. blowing snow will be a big problem early tomorrow morning. for those of you trying to get out. the runways and highways will be slick and dangerous. here's more at studio w in fox headquarters. >> reporter: it is saturday morning. you want to stay in on the couch or sleep in a little. philadelphia, looking at philadelphia national airport. snow is steady over the past several hours. delays, cancellations stacking up. expecting that accumulation on the runways. if you do have those plans. you might want to pack your patience. one of the travel troubles in partnership with flight aware. a lot of these airports are in the south. atlanta, georgia, chicago is in the midwest, charlotte, north carolina. delays backing up to 20 or 30 and 150 cancellations. you might be thinking a lot of this weather is in the northeast. the reason we are seeing those top reports is most of our nort

kim, i want to read this from the department of health from rhode island. facility administrators should use clinical judgment in making staffing decisions. for example, a facility may opt for covid-19 positive worker to only care for covid-19 positive patients. what happened to the days, whether you're positive for covid in the hospital or not, what happened to days of you having what todd just read, having to sit out for x amount of days and make sure you are not contagious. this is confusing to me as i am to you as an unvaccinated worker and for patients at the hospitals. >> this is confusing. it is a very infectious disease, we can spread to patients and co-workers. you are putting people at risk by bringing workers that are covid positive when you have healthy unvaccinated workers sitting on the sideline and won't let them work. >> ashley: do you think this is discriminatory to you and others who lost their jobs october 1? >> i continuing is. we have always had a right to choose what we put in our body, whether the flu vaccine or if we want to vaccinat

look at the snow band starting to over spread new york city, long island, connecticut and rhode island. you can see the i-95 corridor already starting to get into some of the heaviest snow bands. flakes flying in boston. this is just the beginning. the snow will pick up in intensity overnight and start to maximize that strong part of the storm through the middle part of the day tomorrow and again, we're talking about the potential of some historic numbers here, don. >> oh, boy, derrick. thank you. [ laughter ] i guess. thanks, derrick. 75 million people, that's a lot of folks. we'll check back in with derrick, as needed. >> i want to turn to the other top headlines tonight with kirsten powers and mark mckinnon, the former advisor to george w. bush and john mccain and director of "the circus." see if you can top that, 75 million people in the path of a bomb cyclone. you guys are the bomb but that's a big storm. good evening. let's talk about republicans signed up to serve as fake electors hit with subpoenas that today knowingly or not, they were all part of the trump team plot to overtu

and you get up toward a rhode island. you get the boston area and that's where we're likely going to see some that heaviest snowfall to go along with it is going to be incredibly cold. check out the temperatures for highs tomorrow. boston, 17 degrees in boston. 19 in new york and that cold weather all the way to chicago. a 21 degrees. thank you us. take a look at this right now. so cold in chicago that some railway tracks of frozen and stop the movements of trains. >> try to fix the problem. crews are actually setting small fires to warm up the tracks. transportation operators say not only does the fire melt the ice and also helps expand the metal to make repairs easier and believe it or not, setting tracks on fire happens regularly around this time every year. and those kinds of conditions. still ahead tonight is cheese. bad for you. more on the new study suggesting eating more will not raise your risk of >> high cholesterol and heart disease. plus, more young people being diagnosed with colon cancer. when we come back,

mayor maria rivera of central falls, rhode island, got fully decked out in ppe last week so she could personally hand out some 2,500 at-home covid tests that the state sent to her city. i'm joined now by mayor maria rivera. thank you so much. there are mayors that govern from city halls and mayors that governor from the streets, exactly what you have been doing out there wearing your ppe and handing out the at-home tests. you have a population of about 20,000. 2,500 tests doesn't seem to be cutting it. are you opening more facilities? >> thank you so much for this opportunity, bianna. we have two testing sites in central falls. one testing site is a site that's run by the state, the other testing site is a pediatrician who took it upon herself to make sure that she takes care of the residents of the city of central falls. she had her practice for only one month before the pandemic and after the pandemic she has taken it upon herself to vaccinate and test people so that testing site that she has was a testing site that i was at ppe gear because she needed the support. these testing kit

attorney in rhode island, and u.s. attorney general, it was my privilege to work with skilled rhode island investigators, both in law enforcement and from the private sector, and mr. dugan continues our tradition of investigative excellence in rhode island. >> we're going to follow the customary hearing process after they're sworn in, witnesses will have five minutes for opening statements, then senators five minutes of questions, so would the witnesses please stand to be sworn in? please raise your right hand, do you affirm the testimony you're about to give before the committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. let the record indicate all answered in the affirmative. mr. muderick, your turn. >> good morning, my name is aaron muderick, i'm the founder and president of crazy aaron, a toy manufacturer, thank you for the opportunity to testify today, i applaud your commitment to protecting consumers from unsafe, unreliable and unregulated products sold through channels. curbing

fox weather multimedia journalist katie kern is live in rhode island. katie, good morning. >> good morning. as you can see it is snowing around me another big story this morning is that wind. you can see it blowing all over the place. somebody described this wind this morning and the snow as looking like sand flowing around. so we know, we checked in with the fox forecast center we are already looking at 5 inches accumulated on the coast of rhode island. i have got this ruler with me. we can look at it, some of the wind is blowing around snow. right here i'm looking at 6 and a half inches. i want to show you what the bay looks like. standing next to it you can see the waters are quite rocky. the boats are swaying. it is definitely a powerful storm and just getting started here really. just started picking up in the last couple hours. we are also by a bridge. i can tell you confidently the last hour and a half or so we haven't seen any drivers out at all. that's probably for the best. because the governor actually declared a travel ban for all of rhode i

we will also be deploying an additional hhs team to rhode island. i didn't several weeks we are prepared to do more. -- in the next several weeks we are prepared to do more. these teams are in addition to the more than thousand staff deployed to 26 states, two territories, the district of columbia and 24 tribal nations. since march of 2020, since the beginning of the pandemic, thousands of federal personnel have deployed all over the country. as critical as our doctors and nurses are, countless other professionals keep our hospitals running. patient transporters, food workers, and cleaning staff are all at the heart of these health care facilities. so, for that reason, with the president support i now am directing an expansion of fema policy to fund it states that elect to use national guard troops to fill these critical roles in hospitals. during every disaster fema's strength is our ability to coordinate with other stakeholders, federal, state, local, tribal, private and nonprofit partners to identify gaps in -- and meet needs. this covid mission

wow, this store's bigger than rhode island, huh? >> sal: it says "no celebrities in here." >> jimmy: we did put a sign there, you're not paying attention. all right? you're getting -- i don't know if you're getting -- i have no idea where they are. you mac getting warmer. we just don't know. >> okay. >> jimmy: okay? >> sal: wow. >> is this one of them? >> jimmy: ike barinholtz, that's right! [ cheers and applause ] >> for "the mindy project." for "neighbors 2." >> jimmy: i'm sorry -- >> find a person who might know who i am. >> i didn't recognize you. >> i'm going to help you anyway. >> sal: scared the [ bleep ] out of me and i knew he was there. all right, hold on. >> jimmy: you're recognizing ike now, julia? >> yeah. it's all coming back to me now. >> jimmy: it's coming back, great. >> cool, i've been in there for nine hours. no food, no water. there's a small cup with urine in it. >> jimy: take a look over there. let's see. don't miss anything. oh! [ cheers and applause ] >> what are you drinking? >> guillermo: drinking my margar

it will go to new york, new jersey, ohio, rhode island, michigan, and new mexico. chris: california reported 100,000 new cases for the third straight day, but the seven-day test positivity average has decreased only slightly to 23%. it was at 23.1%. dion: it's not just a positivity rate dropping that shows signs of improvement. chris: dustin dorsey shares potentially positive data suggesting the omicron wave may be on the way down. some are calling this the prophecy. dustin: covid testing has been at an all-time high as of late thanks to the omicron variant. but it's not the only indicator of community covid trends. and to find it, you have to dig deep. >> we are monitoring the levels of sars-cov-2 virus at wastewater treatment plants, all for wastewater treatment plants in santa clara county. dustin: since may of 2020, the county collected data through wastewater. since asymptomatic people don't often test and at home tests don't always reflect in the overall numbers.

rhode island and massachusetts are seeing the most of it. massachusetts already recorded more than 110,000 customers without power. cnn has teams covering this nor'easter. our tyler mall den is keeping an eye on the forecast from the cnn weather center. tyler, what are the latest storm advisories? >> this winter storm has rapidly intensified. it was officially a bomb cyclone as it pushes up the eastern seaboard spreading all this snowfall. it has dropped a lot of snowfall, too, more than a foot across the delmarva and going on into the northeast. you can se

island. now let me close with this -- it's been a long road, but what's clear is that we get through this when everybody does their part. no matter where you live, no matter your political party, we've got to fight this together. unfortunately, while our military is stepping up, as they always do, there are others sitting on the sidelines, and worse, standing in the way. if you've haven't gotten vaccinated, do it. personal choice impacts us all -- our hospitals, our country. i make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets, please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that's on your shows. it has to stop. covid-19 is one of the most formidable enemies america has ever faced. we've got to work together, not against each other. we're america. we can do this. to the military medical teams on the ground, thank you for all and everything you're doing. and i'll stop here, so we can get the briefing started. but thank you for taking the time. >> mr. president, do you hav

the pare of providence, rhode island, among leaders pleading with drivers to stay off roadways. >> i lived here my entire life. i've never seen the conditions as bad in terms of the amount of snow and the wind put together. we're telling folks -- in fact, there's a travel ban in effect. unless you absolutely need to leave the house in an emergency, just please stay home. that's the best folks can do. >> and here are some new satellite images of the storm at this hour. it's ginormous, absolutely huge, spanning from the southern tip of florida all the way up to new england. blizzard conditions are slamming massachusetts with temperatures around 17 degrees at this hour, and the real feel temperature, that's around minus 12. thousands of flights have been canceled today. laguardia airport in new york city is announcing 98% of cancellations but raising questions about the remaining 2%, certainly, my goodness. our team is covering it all for you. nbc news meteorologist michelle grossman is monitoring the maps. nbc's kathy park, emily and ellison barber, they are our rock star reporters rep

michigan, new york, new jersey, ohio, rhode island. let me close with this. it's been a long road but what's clear, as we get through this, when everybody does their part, no matter where you live. no matter your political party. we've got to fight this together. unfortunately while the military who is stepping up as they always do there are others sitting on sidelines, and, worse, standing in the way. if you haven't gotten vaccinated do it. personal choice impacts us all. our hospitals, our country. i make a special appeal to social media companies and outlets, please deal with the disinformation and misinformation on your shows. it has to stop. covid-19 is one of the most formidable enemies america has ever faced. we have to work together, not against each other. we're america. we can do this. to the military medical teams on the ground, thank you for everything you're doing. i'll stop here so we can get to the briefing started. thank you for taking the time. reporter: [indiscernible] -- vaccinated americans who -- [indiscernible] -- most americans will get

we will also be deploying an additional hhs team to rhode island. in the next several weeks, we are prepared to do more. these teams are in addition to more then thousands of staff that are already deployed to 26 states, two territories, the district of columbia, and 24 tribal nations. since march of 2020, the beginning of the pandemic, thousands of federal personnel have deployed all over our country. as critical as our doctors and nurses are, countless other professionals keep our hospitals running. patient transporters, food workers, cleaning staff are all at the heart of these health care facilities. for that reason, with the president's support, i'm directing an expansion of our fema policy to permit funding to states who elect to use their national guard troops to fill these critical supports roles in hospitals. during every disaster, fema strength is our ability to cordate with other state stakeholders. we identify gaps and meet needs. this covid mission has been no different. we meet with our dod, hhs, and other federal partners daily to ant

those teams will be headed to hospitals in new york, ohio, rhode island and michigan. the first of a thousand people overall including military doctors, nurses and more. the u.s. averaging more than 761,000 new cases a day. the president under growing pressure to do more to fight the pandemic and as the white house finalizes contract to distribute 500 million at-home test kits the president is also expected to announce he's including more tests. encouraging news from the cdc about this omicron variant the cdc now reporting that when looking at tens of thousands of patients here in the u.s. there's a 74% lower risk of being admitted to the icu, the risk of death is 91% lower compared to the delta variant in this country. so as we await word from the president at any moment, i want to bring in our chief white house correspondent cecilia vega. cecilia, when i sat down with the president in december we pressed on these at-home test kits, the white house has said they would be coming at some point in january, we're approaching mid-january already and so questions remain on

we will also be deploying an additional hhs team rhode island. and in the next several weeks we are prepared to domore . these teams are in addition to more than 1000 staff that are already deployed to 26 states, two territories, the district ofcolumbia and 24 violations . and since march 2025 at the beginning of this pandemic thousands of federal personnel deployed all over our country . as critical as our doctors and nurses are, countless other professionals our hospitals running. patient transporters, workers and cleaning staff are all at the heart of thesehealthcare facilities . so for that reason, with the president's support i am now directing an expansion of our fema policy to permit funding to states to use their national guard troops to fill these criticalsupport roles in hospitals . during every disaster fema strength is our ability to coordinate with other stakeholders. federal, state, local, tribal, private and nonprofit partners to identify gaps and meet needs. and this mission has been no different. we meet with our dod, hhs and oth

attorney and rhode island attorney general it was my privilege to work with many skilled rhode island investigators both in law enforcement and from the private sector. and mr. dougan continues our tradition of investigative excellence in rhode island. >> thank you senator whitehouse. with the witnesses please stand to be sworn in. please raise your right hand. do you affirm the testimony you are about give before the committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? all answer in the affirmative. mr. muteric. >> aaron muteric. founder and president of crazy aarons a toy manufacturer in norristown, pennsylvania. thank you for the opportunity to testify today. chairman durbin, ranking member grassley. i applaud your commitment to protecting consumers. curbing the flow of counterfeit and unsafe goods is e-commerce is critically important to me as a toy manufacturer and a small business owner. i founded crazy aarons in 1998 with a mission to create toys that inspired a sense of wonder and creativity. i quickly realized i was going to have to build my

there are efforts by the american states to enlist black units rhode island has a black regiment. basically, it's more like a company than a full regiment. there are proposals that south carolina when in 1780 they're about to be overrun and are overrunner charleston that hey why don't you arm your slaves to fight the british or encircling charleston? south carolinians say i would rather die than do that. so this is very complicated. but the notion that the the animating principle behind the revolution is to keep slavery going first of all, who's the largest slave trading nation on earth great britain great britain, right? the slave trade has run out of liverpool. the slavery is still legal in britain at this point so and but they're farther along. no doubt about it. they're farther along than the american's are in recognizing that it's a moral abomination and that it's that it needs to go but it is not why we fight the revolution. to your left again towards the front. thanks very much. rick is a somebody who's born raised and lives in the boston area. i found the first half year b

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was spared the worst of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight manhattan blanketed by half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall along so happy that it is harry unless you hit her and soon. ha, okay, there snowball fights. this storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then. it's stay home or get there as soon as possible. and cape cod in massachusetts is one of the worst hit places with 100 percent of customers in the town of province town losing power on saturday. and from there i'm joined by meteorologist matthew capuchin matthew. at least 10 states apparently been affected by the storm. it, that's the 5th of the entire united states. what's the situation like now? yes, if lea a pretty impressive storm, you know, we had about 10000000 people who saw foot or more of snow fall behind right now you can see about 50 to 60 cent heaters on the ground. the snow just ended about 2 or 3 hours ago. we'll look at this, we're going t

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was that the worst of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight. manhattan, blanketed by half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall lunch. so happy about it. it's very, i love now, but you know that i get to do snowball flight. the storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then it stay home or get there as soon as possible. well i know we spoke to janice hubbard, bow a nibble in new york city, and he has more on the severity of this type of snow storm. the bible, phenomenal to storm is not unusual. it happens so frequently, especially in winter time. it's cold in north east, it's a coastal storm. this one is especially strong. what happens is a low pressure system forms off the coast and rapidly intensifies metrology is called is a bomb cycle. and, and then all these marshes are being thrown against the coast against the land. and of course, right, it's so cold in the form of snow are talking about the cold. that is a real issu

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was sped, that was of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight. manhattan blanketed by half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall on so happy that it is a snowball fight. this storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then it stay home or get there as soon as possible. well i know we spoke to janice her badge bow enable in new york city. he has more on the severity of this type of snow storm. the bible, phenomenal to storm is not unusual. it happens so frequently, especially in winter time. it's cold in nor'easter, it's a coastal storm. this one is especially strong up. what happens is a low pressure system forms off the coast and rapidly intensifies metrology is called as a bomb cycle. and, and then all these marshes are being thrown against the coast against the land. and of course, right, it's so cold in the form of snow are talking about the cold. that is a real issue still on temperature. air temperature here in new york

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was spared the worst of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight manhattan blanketed by half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall. i'm so happy that it's harry, i love you here for that. so i can hear snowball fight. the storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then it stay home or get there as soon as possible. early we spoke to just have it bow a nibble in new york city, and he has more on the severity of this type of snowstorm. the bible, phenomenal to storm is not unusual. it happens so frequently, especially in winter time. it's cold in north east. it's a coastal storm. this one is especially strong. what happens is a low pressure system forms off the coast and rapidly intensifies metrology is called is a bomb cycle. and then all these marshes are being thrown against the coast against the land. and of course, right, it's so cold in the form of snow are talking about the coal. that is a real issue. still, temperature, a

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was spared the worst of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight manhattan blanketed by a half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall along so happy that it is harry unless you hear her. ha. okay, there snowball fights. the storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then it stay home or get home as soon as possible. and earlier i spoke with meteorologist matthew compute, she who's currently in cape coding, massachusetts. i asked him what the situation looks like in the us overall. 70000000 people under different winter storm warnings, blizzard warrens at one point with 10000000 people seeing a foot or more snowfall. now the good news, it's pulling us your now the store is moving into the canadian americans and then she kind of out of our neck of the woods, but behind me it lifting plastering of snowfall. boston 2nd. biggest storm on record and biggest calendar days. know total on record and as you can see where i am on, we think

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was spared the worst of the blizzard. some were out enjoying a rare sight manhattan blanketed by a half a meter of snow. this is just a nice sweet winter snowfall. i'm so happy that it is harry, unless you his heart, that silly. ha, getting your snowball fights. the storm is expected to continue until sunday morning, until then it stay home or get home as soon as possible. massachusetts is one of the worst hit states in the us, and that is where meteorologist matthew caputo is standing by for us, matthews, tens of thousands of households throughout the state are still experiencing power out. it is why can you tell us about the overall toll of this weekend storm in the u. s. yeah, guys, that's exactly right. you know, at one point we had the entirety of provincetown on the tip of cape car without power, but 25 percent of the cape still remains thou power. and the rhodes, i gotta say, are in horrible shape. behind me, you can see only one problem come through it the pass 8

in rhode island, driving is only allowed in emergencies. new york city was spared the worst of the blizzard. somewhere out enjoying a rare sight manhattan, blanketed by a half a meter of snow. this is just an ice sweet winter snowfall. i'm so happy that it is harry unless you have her so i can hear snowball fights. the storm is expected to continue until sunday morning until then it stay home or get home as soon as possible and get caught in massachusetts is one of the worst hit regions and smack bang in the middle of it all is made urologist. matthew could 30 matthew hi there, at least 10 states have been affected by the storm. a 5th of the entire us. how is it where you walk? hey, good morning. you're exactly right. 70000000 people under winter, storm warning, or bliss work with people you know, for more snowfall. now where i was, we always start somewhere mount behind the fan is plastered the bomb and you for what you think bomb if a low pressure person with a mixed up, you hurt me over and double the rate you lose that obama. ok, maybe