hello, everyone. i'm bianna golodryga. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> i'm victor blackwell.

moments from now the white house will issue a stern warning about a potential winter surge of covid-19. the administration's coronavirus response coordinator says the stakes are even higher this season because the country is facing a trio of viral threats. covid, rsv, and the flu. they continue to dominate hospital occupancy. >> the health care association of new york says 100% of hospitals are reporting nursing shortages that they have not been able to fill so far. officials fear the busy holiday season could only exacerbate the problem. cnn's senior white house correspondent jeremy diamond is at the white house with the latest. so jeremy, what are you expecting o'officials to lay out? >> reporter: well, listen, every winter of this covid pandemic we have seen surngz of cases across the country. last winter of course because of vaccinations the resulting hospitalizations and deaths were far lower, but we still saw a surge in cases. and so as we are beginning to see cases tick up once again this white house is doing two things. they are preparing for that, for

the federal response to that potential surge, and also of course trying to prepare the public for what this all means as well. in terms of what the white house is doing themselves, they are today relaunching this program to send free covid test kits to americans who request them, up to four free covid test kits per household. that program had been paused in september because of funding shortages but the administration found some creative ways to get more funding to restart that program. what they're also doing, sending more federal resources to local health departments across the country including prepositioning some of those resources at hospitals that hit capacity or near capacity, may need to deal with these surges. and finally, they're ramping up their efforts to convince americans to get vaccinated and focusing on the most at risk. setting up mobile vaccination centers. working with some of those community health centers to serve underserved populations to try and ramp up those vaccination efforts. but they're also focusing on try to raise awareness for americans. and that's why we're going to see dr. jha, the white house's

covid coordinator, come here to the white house briefing room to that podium to talk about what we're seeing, which is not just this covid situation but also rsv cases high, the worst flu season in a decade, and really the concern here is what happens when all of those things collide. but dr. jha, expect him to say that what does happen in the coming weeks depends on what americans do with number one on that list being vaccinated, getting that updated booster if you haven't yet. bianna, victor? >> and that vaccination rate is still far too low right now. jeremy diamond, thank you you. >> joining us now is dr. paul offit, director of the vaccine education center at the children's hospital of philadelphia. doctor, welcome back. so jeremy just detailed what the administration is doing. what should we be doing? i know getting the vaccine, getting the booster is at the top of the list, but tick through the list of what we should do as we see this trio hitting us this season. >> right. so rsv has been bad. we've seen an increase in rsv

cases in our hospital like i've never seen before. but that seems to be coming down. the flu -- this is going to be a very bad flu year. we know that because countries that have winters that precede ours like australia, for example, or south america have had dramatically increased cases of flu. this will be a bad flu year. the good news is that the strains that are containing the flu vaccine this year match exactly the strains that are circulating. so please get a flu vaccine. regarding covid, i think that what happens this winter will be instructive. as distinct from, say, last winter or certainly the winter before that, we have probably 95-plus percent people in this country who have been either naturally infected or vaccinated or both, which is to say that they have immunity. now, there's definitely going to be an increase in cases. but what will be interesting to see is whether you see a concomitant increase in severe cases, meaning hospitalizations, icu admissions and deaths. because with that level of population immunity you're not going to do a very good job of preventing mild illness or

asymptomatic infection or transmission because that's the nature of this virus. but we still should be doing much better in terms of protection against severe disease. we'll see. but certainly those who are in high-risk groups, the elderly, people over 75, people in nursing homes, people who are immune compromised, people who have high-risk medical conditions should definitely get a booster dose heading into this winter. >> we do have the bivalent vaccine which has been available since september and that has proven to be pretty effective against the most recent variants and still only about 14% of americans who qualify or are eligible for vaccines have been vaccinated thus far. how worrisome is that to you and what more if anything can the administration do to boost that number? >> i think the most important thing is that people who are in high-risk groups get that vaccine. i'd be curious to know who those 14% are. you could argue that people less than 75 who are otherwise healthy are not going to benefit from this vaccine nearly as much

as those high-risk groups. the focus i think of the administration should be on getting those groups. i would say that the data that we have on the bivalent vaccine suggests that it's going to be no worse than the monday heovalent vaccine but at least the data we have so far suggests it might not be any better against the circulating strains. but again, it will protect you against severe disease and that's the goal of this vaccine, keep people out of the hospital, keep them out of the icu and keep them from dying. so this booster dose will do that. >> let's turn to the flu vaccine. we've talked about a lot of shortages over the last year. baby formula, acetaminophen, other medications especially for children. the fda has now received some anecdotal reports of availability issues of the generic form of tamiflu. the administration says there is not a shortage at this moment but are you concerned that these reports could be the precursors of a shortage as this season

ramps up? >> so tamiflu's not a wonder drug. if you give it early in illness, it can decrease the length of illness by one or two days. it really should be reserved for those people who are at high risk of serious disease, meaning high risk of developing pneumonia or going to the hospital and -- again, people who have chronic lung disease, chronic heart disease, people who are elderly, obviously people in nursing homes, people who have a number of health problems that make them particularly at risk where even a mild disease could land them in the hospital. i think that's true. but tamiflu really should be reserved for those who are at highest risk, not everybody. >> all right, dr. paul offit. thank you. >> thanks, doctor. a massive cleanup is now under way across parts of the south after deadly tornadoes ripped through the region. >> at least three people were killed and dozens injured in louisiana. now, the powerful twitters ripped roofs off homes, they ripped off power lines, tens of thousands of people lost electricity and the governor has

declared a state of emergency. nick valencia is on the ground in marero, louisiana. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: this is in jefferson parish. and this is a hard-hit area from the tornado that ripped through here killing one person. and looking at the damage you really scratch your head and think this could have been a lot worse. and last hour we introduced you to trent terio. he's this man on the porch with his dog. he rode out the storm ibs inside of a closet, barely escaping the storm with his life. this hour we want to ent deuce you to someone he's calling his savior. come on in here, man. do you feel like a savior today? >> well, i didn't do it alone. my friend ricky the neighbor, he came, he we kind of met up here together. and i was howling trent, trent, trent. and he was howling. i thought he was hurt bad. >> reporter: you said there's gas lines going off here. the tornado had just ripped through. >> that's why i was concerned. the gas is going off and like man, i've got to get him out of there. so ricky, we tried to kick the

door down and couldn't kick the door down. i put my hand through the glass, busted the glass and opened the door and we got him out. he's pretty big but we got him to the door and once i got him to the door, which was a little bit, i put him on my shoulders, back and brought him here. then i got him to my place and got him calmed down. he was in shock. >> reporter: i'm sure you were running on adrenaline. when you got in there and you heard his screams what did you think you were going to find when you opened that closet door? >> i thought he was hurt pretty bad. the way he was screaming. but i think he was just in shock. he was just in shock. yeah. >> reporter: what about you? you survived this too. >> yeah. i was right here looking out the door and kind of watched it all go down. it was 35, 45 seconds. it happened quick. bam. and common sense. i just -- like i said, i was just worried about him. >> reporter: brent, when you look around your neighborhood here, you've got roofs ripped off, these power lines down here, debris everywhere in the street. i mean, it's got to be

unrecognizable at this point. >> yeah, it's surreal. yeah. >> reporter: we're so grateful that you're abe live, man, grateful you've got a great story to tell. and your friend's still alive here. thanks so much for taking the time with cnn. we really appreciate it, brother. a lot of cleanup left to do here in this area. we understand that the governor may be making a tour here through jefferson parish. we'll update you as we get more information. bianna, victor? >> we've been covering this storm for days now. looks like louisiana was moongt hardest-hit states. if there's a silver lining, it's you have neighbors like brent there that come in and rescue their neighbors and friends down the street. nick valencia, thank you. >> thank you, nick. now to the border where communities are facing an overwhelming number of migrants crossing into the u.s. thousands are already streaming into cities like el paso there in texas and straining resources. just last hour el paso's mayor called for more help from the federal government and beyond. >> funding and sheltering is not the answer. it's the band-aid to really a bigger problem, and it's really important for us that we

continue to work with our federal government to see how they can come up with a permanent solution. it's something we're going to have to work with the u.n. and other countries to work through a situation that, again, is bigger than el paso and now it's become bigger than the united states. >> and the situation is expected to get even worse. in just a matter of days. and that's when the trump-era border police title policy kite 42 comes to an end. cnn's rosa flores joins us now. so rosa, the administration just released their plan for what to do once title 42 expires. what are you learning about it? >> reporter: well, bianna, if what i'm about to say sounds familiar it's because it is. what dhs did in essence, they updated the plan that they released back in april when title 42 was expected to expire back in may. but as you remember, a federal judge blocked the lifting of title 42 then. that's why we are here now awaiting again for that scheduled lifting of title 42.

so in essence, dhs what they've released is this six-pillar plan which starts off with the surge of resources. dhs saying more than 1,000 border patrol processing coordinators have been deployed to the border. there's also 2500 contractors. and the reason why those numbers are important is because of the following. and we hear this from politicians and other law enforcement agencies. that when law enforcement agents, i.e. border patrol agents, are taken to process migrants because of a surge then there's a problem with national security because there are gaps on the southern border. well, what this plan says, that when these thousands of resources sent to the border then border patrol agents can actually do their jobs and keep the border safe. according to this plan, in the past year dhs has also put up ten soft-sided facilities that has increased the number of holding capacity by cbp by a third and they've also doubled

the number of transportation resources. now, this is important because of the following, especially what we're seeing in el paso right now, when there's a surge of migrants in one area the federal government says that they do something they call decompression, and that's a fancy word in essence for saying that they move migrants from that area, for example, el paso, to other parts of the southern border where they have capacity available where not as many migrants are crossing. so that is happening according to the federal government, and this plan, they have hundreds of flights and buses, bianna, that are going to be doing exactly that, especially leading up to the lifting of title 42 and when title 42 lifts, which the federal government is expecting an increase in migrant crossings. >> rosa, the mayor of el paso just talked about the limits of financial support. and to that end he has not -- the city there has not declared a state of emergency. >> reporter: you know, you're absolutely right. and this has been a contentious

point. and what the deputy city manager said is they're getting actually around that by asking the state of texas directly for resources because in essence that's what a state of emergency does, is it opens the floodgates of state resources to help an area like el paso when there is a migrant surge. and so with the help of a senator, with the help of the state of texas, the texas department of emergency management, they are actually getting around that to make sure that they get resources because as you've seen these dramatic images out of el paso and you really wonder why they wouldn't declare a state of emergency. the question that wasn't asked during that press conference, bianna and victor, was why the mayor continues to say that a state of emergency will not be declared because here in the state of texas it would have to be the mayor or the county judge to do that. the city manager is kind of like the operations guy. he's running everything. but he doesn't have the power to

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the breakdown of their relationship with the royal family triggering their exit from the uk in may of 2020. harry dropped this bombshell about what he faced from his brother and father in front of his grandmother the queen. >> it was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that just simply weren't true and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in. but you have to understand that from a family's perspective, especially from hers, there are ways of doing things and her ultimate sort of mission goal slash responsibility is the institution. >> netflix says that the first half of the series had the biggest debut of any of its documentaries. more than 28 million households watched the first three episodes. joining us now, royal historian ed owens and british talk show host trisha goddard of "this week with trisha goddard." welcome to you both. trish trisha, let me start with you and how this is being received. we know that the audience is

huge but how is this being received in the uk? >> well, victor, you might recall before any of this series dropped you and i had a chat and you said to me, you asked me did i think the royal family would be nervous. and i said to you i think there will be more tabloid press that is nervous. and i stand by that. i think this entire series really has been looking at, you know, the dehumanizing and the sort of low tactics where anything goes and, you know, and harry challenging that. obviously very traumatized from what happened to his mother, princess diana. and sees it played out again. and is actually challenging it. now, a lot of the press in britain are saying yes, but -- the tabloid press i have to say. are saying yes, but they haven't admitted, the sussexes haven't admitted to mig they've done wrong, it's all about blame. wouldn't it be lovely if the tabloid press came clean and admitted what they have done wrong without them having to be

successfully sued? >> well, i see it as two buckets here. one, them taking out their feelings and anger towards the press, but also their relationship with the royal family, with the establishment there, right? with the firm, as they call it. and ed, there are some serious accusations that are lobbed here. bullying, jealousy, no one there to protect them. let's play this clip and then we'll talk on the other side. >> it was already clear to the media that the palace wasn't going it protect her. once that happens, the floodgates open. >> and i realized that i wasn't just being thrown to the wolves, i was being fed to the wolves. >> insinuating that it is the royal family that was feeding her to the wolves. these are serious allegations, as we noted. is there anything there to substantiate them in your view?

>> the problem with this discussion and the insinuation that the institution didn't stand up for them, that the institution didn't seek to protect them against the media is that they talk about the monarchy as this monolithic thing. they very rarely, if you like, direct their criticism at specific members of the royal family. as trisha was just saying, most of their animosity was directed very much at the british press. instead they talk about the institution not protecting them, the institution not defending meghan from defamatory reporting. i think what's really frustrating for a historian like me who's looked at the monarchy's relationship with the media and the nature of sort of palace relationships over the course of the last 100 years is that they talk in these generalities. we don't know who it is within the monarchy that wasn't standing up for them. we don't know who it is that they approached to ask for help.

so that was slightly frustrating, i found, watching the series this morning. >> we've got some new video in. this is of prince william and princess kate here going to holiday celebration, a christmas celebration near westminster abbey there. appearances as usual, trisha. the palace has said there will be no response to this. is that a tenable position? and if the accusation is that they plant stories, will there be a third party through which they leak some response potentially? >> there is a potential for that. katherine's got her choir, you know, her christmas thing going on at westminster abbey which has been long planned. yeah, i think it could leak out somewhere along the line. i'm not surprised that the palace isn't saying anything. i mean, that's their usual stance. also i think this would have

been quite shocked -- you often hear of family members going through a hard time. but if you've actually got some video and saw -- you know, whatever you think about them, family is family. and when you hear the visceral pain that your brother and sister-in-law went through, it would be quite shocking. so i'm not sure they would know what to say anyway. but let's just say that the monarchy -- and give kudos to charles, he's already seen that the monarchy has to modernize, move with the times. and i think we've seen that in his very outgoing greeting people outside the palace. that wasn't typical charles when the queen was still alive. however, i think harry and meghan are moving much, much faster. they speak to a new generation who want it and want change now. they're not prepared to put up with the old deal of this is how it works between the royals and the media and that's the way it's going to stay. they're challenging that. and i actually say good for them because there are a lot of

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recession. and today's retail sales report really is what kicked off this sell-off in a big way. retail sales were up year over year but that's not adjusted for inflation and if you adjust for inflation it implies retail sales were actually down. month over month they were down by .6%. that was a much bigger decline than was expected. actually there was supposed to be a slight increase. so there was no decline expected. this was the worst retail sales report since the end of last year as you can see on that chart. that is raising concerns that the consumer might be tapped out here because of high inflation, they're dipping into savings, turning to credit cards, and this would be of concern because consumer spending is the engine that drives this economy. and these numbers suggest that that engine is not firing on all cylinders right now. >> 90 minutes more of trading today. how about be jobs numbers? we got some of those today. >> there were some good numbers there. new jobless claims, initial jobless claims, they fell to the lowest level in three months. that is a proxy.

and that suggests a lot of employers are reluctant to let go of employees because there's a worker shortage right now. continuing claims, though, they stayed at the highest level in about ten months. that's a sign that people are staying unemployed for longer behiring has slowed down. and the fed thinks that is a trend that will continue because the fed yesterday they went out and projected the unemployment rate will go from this historically low level today of 3.7% to 4.6% next year. that's not high overall, but it does suggest significant job loss. that would mean that roughly 1.6 million more people would be unemployed than there are right now. >> so as we're going and dissecting once again what we heard from jay powell yesterday, what's the likelihood in his view right now that we can actually have a soft landing or softish? >> well, i don't think powell is willing to say that specifically. he's saying there can be a soft

landing. he hasn't said what probability -- sxwle he was going to say americans are going to feel pain and that was pretty ominous. >> it was ominous and that did raise concerns. listen, powell, he really did talk tough yesterday. he's signaling they're not willing to give up this fight against inflation. that means higher rates to come and that means more pressure on the economy. i think when you combine that tough talk in the fed with today's numbers that is raising concerns about a recession, but i think at the end of the day it's not a foregone conclusion there's going to be a recession. there is a soft landing could still happen. i just think the concerns about a recession have gone up significantly in the last day or so. >> matt egan, thank you, matt. >> thanks, guys. allies of kevin mccarthy are trying to win over republicans who vow to never back him. our exclusive cnn reporting about the hardball tactics they're now considering.

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whether to offer a resolution that would kick these members their committee's assignments if the speaker's race goes to multiple ballots. they ultimately decided to hold off on the idea for now worried it would backfire but they are discussing a number of other hardball tactics that includes voting against a rules package if it includes some of the most hard-line demands from mccarthy's critics and they've also publicly threatened to work with democrats to try to elect a speaker if they can't agree as a gop party on who their next leader should be. so it'srail shaping up to be a showdown here. and xhoongs don bacon, a moderate, told us teams win, fractured teams lose, "we can't let a handful hold the conference hostage." really what you're seeing here is moderates feel like they have some leverage in this debate, they want to flex their mutt lz, t muscles, they don't want to be pushed around and they're very concerned about the types of deals mccarthy might have to cut in order to become spaccer. in fact yesterday they huddled with mccarthy to try to get a sense of where his head is at but they also reassured him they

have his back they're willing to vote for him they're out there fighting for him. they even passed around buttons with the word ok on it which stands for only kevin, which is a joking nod to the never kevin movement. but collarly tensions are running high inside the gop. >> we'll see if floating these threats will be enough. they may have to implement and execute one of them. we'll see, melanie zanona, thank you. the parents of a uva football player who was murdered last month along with two other teammates are speaking out for the very first time. >> d'sean perry was killed on a bus by a fellow uva student while returning from a field trip. cnn's leyla santiago spoke with his family. layla, her mother says she had spoke nguyen her son just before that shooting. what else did you here? >> reporter: as you might imagine, victor and bianna, they are just heartbroken. in fact, when i asked them where they found themselves in the grieving process, in the healing

process, the mom was quick to say i am still in disbelief and the father said he was all over the place. sometimes he's trying to seek understanding and at times he's sad. all of what you might expect from a family who lost their son about a month ago to gun violence. they said this is a group of parents they never wanted to join, parents losing their kids to gun violence. so they have a call to action they're putting out there. they want stricter gun laws. they want stricter policies on college campuses as they try to make sense of what happened that night. here's how mom describes that night. >> that sunday night i called him and he was telling me that they were on their way back from the emmett till play and they had a wonderful time and it was pretty cool and they had gone to dinner and they were on the bus, they were singing gospel songs.

but he told me his phone, it was going dead. but i did get a chance to pray with him. and he said mom, i love you. >> he was getting ready to graduate. then all of a sudden you're there viewing his body and then the next day you're packing up his apartment. and that saturday you're flying him back home. and then after thanksgiving you're having the funeral for him. it's like a movie that's written. that's what it feel like. it was already written. it just happened so fast. everything moves fast. >> you know, they talked about how d'sean was the tall one in the family, so at this time during the holidays he's the one who would put the star over the christmas tree. and that is going to be a tough moment for them. also, you know, when he she talked about that prayer she said part of that prayer she had with him was for kindness, understanding and safety. and so that understanding part,

they want to have more answers as to the why. why this happened. at this point in the investigation a motive has not been released. virginia state police investigating what happened as well as the state's attorney general assigning a special counsel for independent review as to what led up to this and how the university handled it. in the meantime, the parents hoping that the power of college football, the power of the community here can come together to end gun violence. victor, bianna? >> just unimaginable what these parents had to go through. his father describing it like a movie. i mean, a horror movie. such a beautiful smile, too, in that photo. leyla santiago, thank you. interpol is now involved in the case of a missing american college student studying abroad. cnn speaks with the woman who hosted him in france. hear what she thinks happened. ahead. on the fluffiest french toast with red currants on top we wish you a happppy holiday, only at ihop.

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interpol, the international police organization has issued a yellow notice for missing u.s. college student kenny deland jr. he's 21 years old and was studying abroad and he was reported missing from france on november 29th. one french official from the prosecutor's office says the young man reportedly told

several people that he arrived in france underprepared and was having difficulty making friends, and seems to have left voluntarily. >> deland's parents dispute that assessment. cnn's melissa bell brings us the latest. >> reporter: social media posts give little away. just images of a young american enjoying his exchange program in france, but kenny deland jr. vanished 15 days ago without a trace. after leaving the home of the host mother he was staying with -- [ speaking non-english ] she explains she has only spoken once to kenny's mother, never to his father, but agrees to speak to the cameras. she told us that of all the exchange students she had had at her home, kenny deland jr. seemed to be having the most trouble fitting in and settling down to life.

she also says she inundated him with messages to which he hasn't responded, and he was seen an hour south of here, and it confirmed the possibility and her hope that, in fact, he'd gone and cut off communications voluntarily. it was taken on december 3rd. kenny deland spent just over $8 before vanishing altogether according to his family, leaving behind only facebook pictures of his life in france from paris to the university of the alps. the last time kenny deland turned up for lessons here at the university he was studying at was november 28th. by the 29th when he failed to turn up, a missing persons report was filed and it emerged he left his host family taking a change of clothes, his wallet, and his phone, a packed lunch, and hasn't been heard from since. we're hoping someone may recognize him. when we find his friends, they

prefer not to speak on camera, but they say he had friends who were exchange students and some who were local. we care about him, and we want him to come back safely. statements that contradict what french authorities have said, that kenny struggled to make friends. >> what i'm telling you is he makes friends and he's easy to talk to like me. if you don't know my son, then it's tough for you to make some statement, some bold statement. >> one of the things kenny's friends told us is he may have been stressed about the upcoming exams. is that something that you recognize? >> he's in a foreign country. he's a pretty upbeat kid. you know what i mean? so it's possible, sure. he was anxious. he was -- he wanted to do good. he wanted to prove that he could get good grades, even on the trip of a lifetime. >> reporter: he planned his journey to france in august, and his father hopes to be able to pick him up as planned on saturday.

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