hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes and coming up here on "cnn newsroom," millions in quarantine, thousands trapped on cruise ships and words of the first american dying of the

coronavirus. president trump cleaning house. two impeachmecrucial witnesses impeachment inquiry forced out. welcome, everyone. both japan and the u.s. reporting their first fatalities from the wuhan, coronavirus. two victims said to be in their 60s were both in the city of wuhan. that of course the epicenter of the outbreak. that brings the virus' known death toll to at least 726. climbing so rapidly it could soon overtake the sars outbreak of 2003. and the infection rate soaring dally. nearly 35,000 people now have

the virus, the vast majority of them in china. steven jang joins us now from beijing, and tell us about what we know about these latest two victims. >> reporter: well, michael, we don't know too much about them. in the case of the japanese citizen we know he was male in his 60s and died in wuhan. his cause of death was still listed as highly suspicious of pneumonia from this virus. now in the case of the american citizen we know he -- we know this person was 60 and he died on thursday in one of the local hospitals designated to treat this coronavirus. now a u.s. embassy spokesman here in beijing told us out of respect for the family's privacy he is not going to disclose more information about this patient. these two deaths were not entirely surprising given the scale of the problem in wuhan where of course where this virus

originated. as of end of friday we had seen the city recording more than 13,000 cases. and the overwhelming majority of the global death toll so far occurred in wuhan. 545 of them. now, of course, the worry right now in hubei province where wuhan is the provincial capital is when we will see the next wuhan. because already we are seeing two cities outside of wuhan reporting more than 2,000 confirmed cases. it is worrisome because these are smaller cities. so they have even less infrastructure to cope with the outbreak of this kind of scale. so that's why officials are very concerned about these cities outside of wuhan. now in the whole province of hubei the authorities are reporting severe shortage of both medical supplies and medical personnel even after the rest of the country have already sent in more than 10,000 workers to reinforce overworked doctors and nurses.

but authorities still saying they need at least 2,000 more personnel. >> extremely worrying. steven, thank you so much. steven jiang there in beijing. well over 300 cases have been documented outside of mainland china. fears of it spreading have led to the quarantine of two cruise ships. a third ship stranded at sea after being turned away from several asian ports, and yet another ship under scrutiny. that one is docked in new jersey. but it is the ship anchored in yokohama harbor, the diamond princess, where the greatest concentration of the virus is being found outside of china. at least 64 people on the ship testing positive. cnn's matt rivers is in yokohama. you've got a lot of uninfected people jammed on a ship with a lot of infected people. it seems like a recipe for contagion. but what are the authorities

saying out their theory here in terms of handling this? >> yeah, michael, i mean logic -- just kind of laymans logic would think if you've got potentially infected people on a boat, get people off the boat and get them away from each other. but what authorities are saying in these kind of situations what the best protocol is to keep everyone onboard that ship who may have been exposed to someone who had that virus to shelter in place. they're saying it's not being spread through the ventilation system and the best thing to do is to keep those people quarantined on that ship for around the next two weeks or so, and that's the day to day life for people on that ship. but in terms of that other ship you talked about stranded at sea, the reason why it's stranded at sea is because the japanese and other countries here, they don't want a repeat of what's happening with the ship anchored here in yokohama, and that is making life onboard for the people on that stranded ship out in the middle of the

ocean very difficult. david turns 64 on sunday. where he'll be on that day, he has no idea. david and his wife judy left on the westerdam a holland america cruise from singapore january 16 on a dream 30-day trip. all went to plan until february 1st and a stop in hong kong. passengers spent a day onshore and new passengers joined and so off they sailed. but when they tried to go to next stop manila they were turned away and taiwan authorities banned cruise ships, too, as did authorities here in japan. everywhere the ship was supposed to go after february 1st turned it away with each place siting fears the virus might be onboard even though sole far no cases have been found.

he's frustrated with not only the decision to go to hong kong but what he called a lack of health checks and screenings done at the time. he believes the company didn't take the virus serious enough. >> people are angry. i think the tension is rising. and everyone on this boat has lived for the last seven days under the dark shadow of a bell ringing and being told we have the virus onboard. >> the u.s. centers for disease control warning levels didn't indicate the country was unsafe. since then anyone who's traveled through china over the last two weeks they're conducting pre and

onboard medical screenings and among other things oil also issue refunds. though that may not bring much relief for folks on the westerdam david got to send us this video from aboard. passengers just sitting and waiting no idea where they'll go next. that ship is about 300 kilometers off the east coast of taiwan. and there is no update where that ship will go. and look, michael, i think no one onboard that ship will think this is worst-case scenario. no one is sick. no one as died. it's not as bad a situation as the ship docked here in yokohama but this is reminder the coronavirus has victims beyond the people that have contracted the disease. >> it seems extraordinary. they've got to go somewhere at some point. what a tale. >> when it comes to the diamond princess there in yokohama, what is the mood onboard there as we

were discussing earlier? a lot of people do not have it. some do. what are people telling you? >> reporter: people are describing it as a floating prison. i mean imagine you went on this boat, you're going to go for a nice vacation with your family or your wife perhaps, your husband and you wanted to have a cheap room. you didn't want to splurge for a balcony so you got one of those smaller rooms inside without a window and you thought maybe we'll be up on deck the whole time. now those people are being regulated to those rooms for about 22 hours a day. they've used terms like get us the hell off of here. they don't have clean clothes. they feel tense, they feel frustrated, and unfortunately for those people that's going to be their reality it looks like for the next two weeks. >> extraordinary stories. unbelievable. matt, thank you.

matt rivers there bringing us those amazing tales. as we mentioned u.s. health officials scrutinizing another cruise ship, one that docked on friday near new york city. cnn's bab lpablo sandoval has o report on that. >> reporter: it was initially 20 passengers who got the attention of health officials who docked. all of them except for four were medically cleared, that family sent to a nearby hospital to be tested for coronavirus. we should point out according to royal caribbean cruises they did not exhibit any coronavirus symptoms and only one of them actually tested positive for influenza during the cruise itself. so it certainly looks promising here but they will have to wait until those test results are released they can definitively say they were not exposed to the virus itself. we can tell you royal caribbean implementing a series of stricter boarding protocols.

they include guests holding passperts from hong kong or china denied access to their ships for now. and anyone traveling from mainland china the last 15 days regardless of their country of origin denied access. and finally there would be mandatory health screenings for some of those passengers who feel sick and particularly if they report traveling to main lnld china in the last couple of weeks. in the meantime as for the ship itself it was initially scheduled to return back out to sea on friday afternoon. we're told that will now be heading out on saturday. post-impeachment rage turns to action against the u.s. president's perceived enemies. the key figures donald trump is dismissing in the wake of his acquittal. that's coming up next. - i've been pretty stable with my schizophrenia for a while, and then my kids asked me why my body was rocking back and forth. my doctor said i have tardive dyskinesia,

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fresh off his acquittal u.s. president donald trump is going on a post impeachment purge. he's fired two key witnesses who testified in the inquiry. alexander vindman and gordon sondland. vindman a top ukraine advisor in the national security council.

sondland the now former ambassador to the european union who connected the president to a quid pro quo. our jim acosta reports now from the white house. >> reporter: president trump is charging full speed ahead on his vindictive victory lap sounding like he's on a warpath against his perceived enemies. first on the president's list appears to be national security official alexander vindman who was fired and iscorted off the white house grounds. his brother was forced out as well. the president all but hinted at the move earlier in the day. >> well, i'm not happy with him. >> reporter: it was lieutenant colonel vindman a purple heart recipient who got under the president's skin testifying during the impeachment inquiry. >> this is the country i've served and defended, that all my brothers have served. and here right matters. >> reporter: vindman's lawyer released a statement saying it's obvious why his client was fired writing there's no question in

the minds of america why this man's job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it as the white house. the president was tearing into another target, house speaker nancy pelosi claiming she could somehow be prosecuted for ripping up his speech at the "state of the union." >> i thought it was a terrible thing ripping up the speech. first of all it's an official document. you're not allowed. she broke the law. >> reporter: mr. trump is still fixated on the impeachment fight. in an interview with cnn the democratic house managers who presented the case against the president in the senate are insisting mr. trump will never change his ways. >> of course he hasn't learned a lesson because as we repeatedly pointed out throughout the trial donald trump is a serial solicitor. >> reporter: the democrats have just lost another legal battle with the president after a unanimous court decision to dismiss claims mr. trump was violating the emoluments clause by accepting foreign payments at his washington hotel.

>> this is the d.c. circuit, and we just won the big emoluments case. i think it was a unanimous decision. this was brought by nancy pelosi and her group. >> reporter: the president also has a spring in his step after the latest unemployment numbers found 225,000 jobs were created last month. >> we just came out with fantastic job numbers. i think it was 230,000 or something thereabouts, which was much higher than projection. so jobs continue to be great. our country continues to do great. >> reporter: but the president is pushing back on reports he's about to unload his acting chief of staff mick mulvaney. a senior administration official told cnn earlier in the day that rumor of mulvaney's demise, quite, have been greatly exaggerated. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> and joining me now from washington, cnn political analyst michael shear, also white house correspondent for "the new york times."

so lieutenant colonel vindman literally escorted by security from the white house. he got the eu ambassador sondland recalled and of course the former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch recalled aurally and left the service. retribution under way? >> i don't think you can think of it as anything else. not only did president trump himself talk about retribution, talk about his anger in the sort of rambling sort of hour' long venting session at the white house the day after the senate trial ended, but you also had the white house press secretary publicly say that she thought that people who had done president trump wrong in the course of the impeachment inquiry were going to have to pay for it. and so i think it's hard to look at the actions of today in any other way than as retribution against people that the president perceives as his enemies. and i just don't know whether it's over. that's the question i think we

all don't quite know the answer to. is there more to come? >> exactly. when you think of not gordon sondland but certainly vindman yovanovitch, that speaks to what has been an across the board loss of expert experience in this administration. not just these cases but for a long time now. >> yeah, i mean, look, part of what has been a consistent story about the trump administration writ large and certainly played out in the course of the ukraine situation is a real rejection by this administration, by this president of the kind of expertise that has been for decades built-up in the government. presidents from the republican party or the democratic party alike, you know, have sort ofermento respected if fact there's a core career civil service whether in the diplomatic corp, whether expertise in other countries,

expertise about other policies, and most presidents recognize while they install political leadership on top of the bureaucracy to direct them in the direction that they're -- that the president wants to go in, that there's a respect for that expertise. this president obviously has no respect for that. in fact, he's got a paranoia about what he calls the deep state bureaucracy. and what's just remarkable is in the ukraine situation obviously it came to a head. you had people testifying to the president and now he seems to be taking his revenge. >> but that also sends a chilling message, doesn't it, when it comes to oversight of this president going forward, whether to speak up when you genuinely see something wrong. and also speaks to, you know, potential recruitment and retention of experts within the u.s. government. >> i mean, i think that's absolutely right. think about it this way. the whistle-blower that came forward, the person we still don't publicly know who that is,

why if you're in the government, if you're one of these cuveer civil servants, why would you come forward knowing that you've just seen a president of the united states wage a months long campaign of criticism against the unnamed whistle-blower and now carrying out essentially retribution within hours, less than 48 hours after being acquitted in the senate. he's firing people. and i think that does send a really chilling message. >> yeah, and you mentioned this, and it's worth revisiting that free wheeling and embittered in many ways address by the president. i don't know what it was, an address or what was it. he no doubt feels wronged, he feels betrayed and perhaps now dangerously vengeful. and as you say this probably is about that. >> i think it's worth reminding people who don't have necessarily the long view of history this is not a normal response. it is no surprise a president

would feel hurt and perhaps upset by being impeached and then tried in the senate. but if you look back for example 21 years ago to bill clinton's response after he too was acquitted in the senate, you know, he chose the sort of normal political path which was contrition, apology, you know, essentially let's move on, you know, time to do the business of the country. and that is what is the normal political sort of inclination regardless of what party you're in. what president trump did the other day from the white house using vulgarities and then lashing out at his enemies calling them evil, you know, that is very much pushing the envelope and on the edge of what normal politicians would do. >> a lot of people would say blowing right past the edge. another thing that struck me that was interesting was during that whole thing, whatever it was not just the extraordinary

of the president but how it was applauded by the republicans. are they enamored by him? >> i was in the capitol every single day, i was interacting with the republican lawmakers both in the house and in the senate. talking to them every day. look, i think there's a mix of fear and genuine admiration. there are members of the president's party who truly feel as aggrieved as he does and they're on his side, and they're always going to be on his side. and there are others who i think genuinely don't feel that same kind of admiration but are fearful of the political power the president has over what ultimately are their voters, their base, their people they're going to keep him in office. and they fear that if he were to unleash that power against them, that their time in office would be short. and i think the combination of those two things produces the

reaction that you described. >> it really -- they really are extraordinary times. never seen leadership quite like this. michael shear, appreciate it as always. good to see you. >> you, too. in a sometimes heated debate seven of the top democratic presidential candidates faced off friday night ahead of the new hampshire primary. pete buttigieg was targeted as he and senator bernie sanders remain fleck and neck in the iowa caucuses. while many focused on health care, foreign policy and electability, it was elizabeth warren who took a jab at michael bloomberg who wasn't even on the stage. accusing him of trying to buy his way into the presidential race. >> i don't think anyone ought to be able to buy their way into a nomination or to be president of the united states. i don't think any billionaire

ought to be able to do it, and i don't think people who suck up to billionaires in order to fund their campaigns ought to do it. everyone on this stage except amy and me is either a billionaire or is receiving help from pacs that can do unlimited spending. so if you really want to live what you say, put your money where your mouth is and say no to the pacs. >> the race to the white house of course only just getting started. naddia romero reports from manchester. >> reporter: seven familiar faces took familiar places at the new hampshire democratic debate. but after the disastrous iowa caucuses. >> i took a hit in iowa and i'll probably take it here. >> reporter: the stakes seemed higher than ever. >> we need to restab the rule of law in this country. >> reporter: pete buttigieg and bernie sanders claiming victory in iowa. leading the polls in new

hampshire and feeling the front-runner fired. >> buttigieg is a great guy. he's the mayor of a small city who has done some good things but has not demonstrated he has the ability -- >> reporter: others hoping for a memorable moment. >> bernie and i work together all the time but i think we are not going to be able to out divide the divider in chief. >> reporter: the democratic candidates touching on topics that matter most to people in new hampshire like health care. >> if we do what joe wants, we'll be spending some $50 trillion on health care over the next 10 years. that's the status quo, joe. >> reporter: climate change. >> maybe we pool our resources and fight our common enemy, which is climate change. >> reporter: and the economy. >> we're going to have to take mr. trump down on the economy, and he's going to beat us unless we can take him down on the economy, stupid. >> what we actually have to do is get the markets working to improve our family's way of

life. >> reporter: the time for candidates to stand out to voters is quickly running out. in manchester, new hampshire, i'm naddia romero, reporting. >> a new report says president trump's trips to his properties, his own properties are racking up some big bills for taxpayers. when we come back how much it is costing those taxpayers and where all that money is going. stay with us. we'll be right back. $9.95 at my age? $9.95? no way. $9.95? that's impossible. hi, i'm jonathan, a manager here at colonial penn life insurance company, to tell you it is possible. if you're age 50 to 85, you can get life insurance with options starting at just $9.95 a month.

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an american in wuhan, china, has died of the coronavirus. the first death of a u.s. citizen from the illness. japan also reporting one of its citizens has died in the same city of the same virus. seven u.s. democratic presidential candidates taking to the stage friday night just days ahead of the new hampshire primary. candidates clashing over health care, foreign policy, climate change and many targeting pete buttigieg as he and bernie sanders of course remain the front runners coming out of the iowa caucuses. but of course the main target remains president donald trump. and mr. trump cleaning house as it were after his impeachment acquittal. removing lieutenant colonel alexander vindman from his role at the national security council. also recalling gordon sondland from his post as ambassador to the european union. both providing key testimony in the inquiry that led to the articles of impeachment against

the president. pay back. and during his time there as the president mr. trump has spent more than 340 days at his own clubs and hotels and lodging secret service personnel during those trips doesn't come cheap and they don't get a discount, it seems. the trump organization disputes it but one report says taxpayers are footing a bill in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and those dollars are going to the trump organization. cnn's top foreman breaks it down for us. >> reporter: hotel rooms at $650 per night for dozens of stays. close to $400 a night for dozens more. and a whopping $17,000 a month to use a three bedroom cottage. those are bills for secret service agents lodging at trump properties during presidential travels. according to a new "the washington post" analysis of available public records. and "the post" says those

documents collectively show more than $471,000 in payments from taxpayers to trump's companies. the trump organization says that's total nonsense. we provide rooms at cost and for anyone to suggest authorize is not only inaccurate but an outright lie. eric trump once claimed the same thing when his presidential father travels to his properties. >> they'd be charged $500 a night where we charge them like $50. >> vacation, if you want vacations you're not really in the right business. >> reporter: of course there was a time on the campaign trail when donald trump said he'd hardly leave washington at all if elected. >> i promise you i will not be taking very long vacations if i take them at all. >> reporter: but that was then. now between golfing, visits to golf courses and simply time away from d.c. he has spent more

than 342 days, one third of his entire presidency at his own clubs and hotels and charges the government for it. >> i'm not looking for credit, but i'd give up my salary. i get zero. >> reporter: the president has often bragged how he does not accept a salary and about all he does during his frequent trips to his mar-a-lago resort in florida or as he calls it the winter white house. but getting the bottom line for taxpayers is tough. the secret service is woefully behind in its public reporting of its expenditures for tailing trump. so much so the half million dollar price tag we mentioned covers only a frication fraction of the cost for a fraction of the time trump has been in office and out of it, on the road. for all that the secret service sent cnn a statement saying they use resources judiciously, can't discuss details how they protect the president. and that seems to suit team

trump just fine. indeed resisting congressional demands for better reporting of these costs until at least after the next election. tom foreman, cnn, washington. up next more on the global battle against the coronavirus. medical face masks flying off the shelves. with a major shortage how china is trying to keep up with demand. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free.

welcome back. when the coronavirus first surfaced in wuhan, china, two months ago doctors immediately recognized it was similar to the sars virus from 17 years earlier. chinese officials were quick to tamp down fears of another sars-like outbreak, but that's not the way it's playing out. the first case in wuhan was documented in middecember. now there are nearly 33,000

confirmed cases. the first death was one month ago. now at least 726 people have died. now compare that to the slower moving sars outbreak. it infected about 8,000 people worldwide. that was over an 8-month period. 774 of them died. about half in china. the other virus often referenced is the mers outbreak of 2012 which is mainly around the middle east and was much deadler. it infected about 2,500 people and killed 858. now in the u.s. health experts say they're ready to go to china to help investigate the coronavirus outbreak but beijing doesn't appear to be taking them up on that offer. meanwhile as people trying to stay safe from the spreading virus, demand for medical face masks has skyrocketed. factories can't make them fast enough as we hear from cnn's robin curnow.

>> reporter: it's a global scramble for medical supplies as the coronavirus infects tens of thousands of people and continues to spread. >> the world is facing chronic shortage of personal protective equipment. i will be speaking to the pandemic supply chain network to find solutions and push with fairness distribution of equipment. >> reporter: chinese factories in hubei province have ramped up daily production of medical face masks. this factory of 120,000 to 250,000. workers are putting in three shifts a day to overcome the shortage. china and taiwan produce most of the face masks in the world, and the outbreak has forced this company to focus on domestic orders over exports. in the hardest hit areas masks are flying off shelves as customers wait in long lines for hours to get their hands on some.

medical professionals say the protective masks are for one time use which is also driving up the need for more. the demand is having a global impact. at a factory in france orders from pharmacies and hospitals are pouring in. they're hiring a third more staff and increasing production to same days a week, but they admit they may not be able to make enough right away. >> since the epidemic outbreak in china the demand has been multiplied by five, and we're trying to answer the demand as soon as we can. it will be scheduled over time. >> reporter: the chinese government has ordered citizens to wear face masks when they go outdoors but experts warn the masks aren't very effective at preventing transmission of the virus. the world health organization says hand washing is the best way to protect yourself. >> think to stop transmission of this virus it's very important that sick people wear masks.

then in terms of risk, again i have said that for people who have no symptoms the mask will not necessarily protect them 100% because if they don't apply other measures it's not sufficient. >> reporter: the assembly lines at these factories continue to run nonstop as the coronavirus continues to paralyze china and spreads around the world. robin curnow, cnn, atlanta. >> and joining me now an infectious disease specialist at the nyu school of medicine and the host of the american diagnosis podcast. doctor, appreciate your time. let's start with this. when it comes to china one thing that's been interesting is we've seen state media there advising the use of traditional chinese medicine. i think 125 practitioners sent to wuhan. what are your thoughts on that

in terms of tackling this? >> so a couple of things. one, many of the traditional chinese medicine practitioners have been dual trained at least in the very basics of western medical care. so, you know, when it comes to doing the very basic things like checking peoples temperatures and maybe checking their blood pressures and those kinds of things they probably can be quite helpful, you know, providing nursing care, that sort of thing. traditional chinese medicine is very much a part of their culture, and i do think there are some ways it can be helpful as well in terms of helping reduce panic if it gives people something to do. and, you know, when you feel powerless, i think that's what leads to panic. but having something that's in your own power to protect yourself and your family is a very strong treatment in and of itself. >> yeah, interesting as you say in combination with other

measures. it sort of caught me off-guard today, the global toll from coronavirus has reached at the moment it's about 724 i think in a couple of months. i think the first death was a month ago. sars killed 774 people only just marginally more over a period of eight months. what do you make of these spread rates? are they frightening, as are they as you would expect or could it be worse? >> well, it looks like the new coronavirus is behaving more like the flu than it is like sars. so that means in each person infected their risk of dying is lower, but it seems to be more transmissible, and so we're seeing many more people infected. and so you're seeing the case rate climb very quake lein a way it did not do so with sars. but it remains to be seen how many people will be casualties

of this. that will really demand how many are infected in the end. >> what are you hearing how long could it be before there's a vaccine and the question always then is who gets it first of course? >> i think we're looking at at least a year. it takes time. even if you have some candidates that look promising, which it does seem like we probably will be able to initiate a clinical trial even as early as april and at the latest by the summer, even then it takes time to demonstrate a vaccine as safe and effective. and showing effectiveness means you're going to have to at minister the vaccine to people who are being exposed in the middle of the epidemic to see if it protects them. so there's a whole host of logistical challenges to doing something like that. as to who's getting the vaccine first it's probably to going similar to situations like this. so people in the medal of the

epidemic so trying to contain it that way where you see the most spread especially targeting the elderly and front line responders, the health care workers who are exposed because they're caring for the sick. >> what is the most effective way to slow the spread? i guess the transmission is key in that, too. i think it's not yet gotten to where you pick it off a door handle or is it? >> so it seems most likely to be spread by droplets. so that's what you spray in little tiny droplets mists into the air when you cough, when you sneeze, even when you talk. you could breathe up against the window and see sort of fog on the window from that. that seems to be the mode of transmission, and that's important because those droplets don't travel that far. it's not like an airborne disease which can travel much further. so if that's the case, if you practice what we call social

distancing, if you maintain say a meter distance from you versus the next person next to you, you've already dramatically reduced your risk. if you wash your hand, that's probably the most important thing you can do because very often you're infecting yourself by touching some of those secretions, and then putting them in your mouth, into your eye or rubbing your nose. that's also essentially here. and some basic things you can do, open your windows. that provides much better ventilation than say a hepa filter you buy at the store and will help flush out whatever mists are in the area right around you. so i think there are some very actually low cost easy things to do. it's just you have to be very vigilant about practicing those all the time. >> good advice. thanks so much with the nyu school of medicine. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. we're going to take a short break. when we come back, a state of

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in the u.s. state of oregon ten people were rescued from flood waters on friday. two of those rescue personnel themselves. authorities say the flooding happened quickly washing out roads, making access difficult. flooding just part of a bigger problem. meteorologist derek van dam joining us now to tell us about it. >> one highway had a 200 mile stretch of highway that was completely shutdown. this is all on the heels of what started out as a snowstorm in the middle of the week and then warm air keim in and brought in rainfall. so it melted the snow that took place, and then on top of that the rainfall started to absorb into the ground water there. check out these visuals coming from the region because you can see overturned vehicles there. that's a motor home, incredible. and this is part of the interstate i was talking about just a moment ago that was shutdown. you can see the reason why

because frankly there's water that's completely eroded the entire roadway. and then you see from above you get a general perspective of just the flooding that has inundated the homes and also agriculture area as well. but i want you to see this image here. you see those individuals on top of their roof, this is part of the ten people that were rescued during swift water rescue attempts. but unfortunately the people doing the rescuing on the ground had the flood waters come up too quickly for them and they too had to be air rescued by a helicopter that came through by the air national guard. this is the pendleton region, that's north eastern secks tionf oregon. this is something where we don't normally see here. we do have a chance of snow, and

i can hear the directors in my ear saying snow, no not in atlanta. we don't want to see a repeat of what happened four or five years ago. they often refer to that a snow mugedden but that's not the case. you do have a winter storm warning north of us but there's inwinter storm mix but that won't stick around too long because temperatures are going to warm up quickly. lots of storm tuesday the southeast and an already saturated environment. if you're in the u.k. good morning to you, by the way. you've got a windy next couple of days ahead of you. double-check your flights this weekend because the potential exists for some delays or cancellations. strong winds on the u.k. met service, low to moderate impacts expected essentially for the southern sections of new england where gusts could reach hurricane strength force especially as we head into sunday morning. this is an incredible amount of wind and energy with this particular system. it's going to be extremely busy

and active weather for western portions of of europe but particularly in and around london. >> that is crazy. there were a few flecks of icy what do you call it a mix? >> well, i'm going to continue this term for tv only sname, a mixture of rain and snow. >> this place cannot handle an inch of snow. everything shuts down. >> meanwhile it came from a place with 2 feet of snow. >> that's crazy. snow mugedden i've been through a couple of those here. it does not take much. it's not happening, is it? >> no. you heard it here. >> derek van dam, thank you very much. appreciate that. i'm michael holmes. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." and the news continues in just a moment just not with me. ( ♪ ) hey there!

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