from a tobacco farm in connecticut. >>> novak djokovic deported from australia, back in serbia. now another major tournament could be on the line >>> and america averaging more than 776,000 covid cases per day. that's up more than 500% over the past month according to johns hopkins. but based on the chart, it looks like infections are beginning to plateau. that's being seen in some parts of the country, especially in the northeast, both new york and massachusetts reported a drop in koichd case covid cases the past week. but the omicron surge has not yet peaked warps the nation's surgeon general. >> the challenge is that the entire country is not moving at the same pace. the omicron wave started later in other parts of the country. so we sthe next few week also b tough. >> the biden administration will deliver free tests to every household. americans can begin ordering them online wednesday, but the white house is facing obstacles. dr. ja, thank you. some areas haven't peaked, others have. when does omicron get better >> great question, shepard and thanks for having me back. the

and we are often in these situations and connecticut, lots of democrats in all offices and continue to have an i've been in office before that before i was secretary of state now for 11 years and i was in the 11th for 17 years and i first started introducing legislation on elections in 1994, back with a friend of mine was then secretary of state, it was now the kennedy school writing books about all of this even now but i ended up as majority leader of my party and the second woman who never risen to any leadership position in connecticut and it wasn't easy to get there but and i know how to do that and i think it exists and i've been secretary of state since that time and other than that, i was the one who kind of provider democratic association of secretaries of state organizations after the 2016, election with horrified all of us and says since that time, we knew that we had seen that organization grown i'm so grateful jenna is now leading the charge on that one and so that is where we are today. >> thank you so much sec. and great for the associations, very important group and a

speaker, i yield to the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney, the sponsor of the house version of the bill, such time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut is recognized. mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of the bipartisan impact aid flexibility act, senate bill 2959, which is a companion bill to house bill 6126 which i introduced on december 2, 2021. i want to begin by thanking chairman scott and ranking member foxx and her representative this evening, mrd labor committee and the committee staff for accelerating consideration of this important measure which provides federal support to 11 million k-12 schoolchildren across america and whose passage is very time-sensitive. which i'll explain in a minute. mr. speaker, federal impact aid is our nation's oldest k-12 federal education program. impact aid has its origins in 1821 when congress first authorized support for schools to educate military-dependent children. in 1934, congress passed the johnson-o'malley

. >>> america's opioid crisis has hit a middle school in conne connecticut. a 7th grader in hartford has died after overdosing. it happened thursday at the sports and medical sciences academy. the boy was 13 he was hospitalized that day and died two days later on saturday. police say two other students also got sick, but were treated at a hospital and released officials searched the school and say they found, get this, nearly 40 bags of fentanyl an investigation now launched into how the lethal drugs got there. cnbc's perry russham is in hartford tonight with a community in shock >> these are young kids. what's going through their head? i don't know >> reporter: police in connecticut say the bags of fentanyl were found in three parts of the school, two classrooms and the gym >> in powder form. packaged in what you would see in street level sales. >> reporter: the 7th grader two overdosed and died is not being named. two more boys were sent to the hospital and released. police say they believe one of the three brought the drugs to school >> we did execute a se

in connecticut, the big concern is going to be wind.s of a snowy boston. with me right now is connecticut governor ned lamont. governor, thanks for being with me. i know you all have been at the ready since at least yesterday with 600 snowplows. you have 100,000 tons of salt, 600 crews at the ready. steve hall is in connecticut and he says it looks like siberia, and he's been to siberia before. what's it look like out there, governor? >> hey, fredricka. it's not like atlanta, i can tell you that, but the gateway to new england, we are getting hit hard, especially the eastern part of the state where they have probably a foot of snow accumulating. as you point out, you have to be ready. that's 100,000 tons of salt, hundreds of snowplows out there. these guys are going around the clock. we have reserves and backups ready to go. we have another 600 utility vehicles standing by in case of wind, in case of power outages. but this is new england. we're prepared for this, and it's going to go on for the rest of the day, and the only thing i hav

then the article goes on to say, quote, connecticut has no early voting at all. my state has early voting we've had it for years. in new york's rules it forced them to change the registration months in advance if they want to participate in a party primary and by the way, new york rejected what alaska has, jim crow 2.0, who knows, maybe according to the president's logic. 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.

quote, connecticut has no early voting at all. holy cow. my state has early voting. we had it for years. in new york's -- and new york's onerous rules force voters to change their registration months in advance if they want to participate in a party pry playery. alaska -- primary. alaska just changed that. the article goes on. 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

. >> brennan: some cases, like connecticut, are sending out n-95s. the f.d.a.expected to greenlight these booster shots for 12 to 15-year-olds. should schools mandate them? do you recommend them? >> doctor: i certainly don't think schools should be mandating boosters. it should be left up to the discretion of parents and their physicians. it will depend on the individual circumstances. what is the individual circumstances? do they have some underlying health conditions that put them at increased risk of bad outcome comes? we've seen the durability in children, between 12 to 16, they are more durable. it is likely because kids are getting a more robust response for the vaccine. and they're at left risk overall from the infection. >> brennan: right. so talk to your doctor. dr. gottlieb, thank you very much. "face the nation" will be back in a minute. stay with (vo) the more we do with our phones, the more network quality and reliability matter. and only verizon has been the most awarded for network quality 27 times in a row. that means the best experience with ca

sacred heart academy, a catholic girls school in connecticut, also apologized for its lopsided win against lyman hall. the school's president saying the game does not align with our values or philosophy. and they're deeply remorseful for the way the outcome of the game was achieved. the team was undefeated and ranked third in the state. now coach jason kirk must sit out one game. it's the latest example of a coach criticized for a blowout. a football coach in inglewood, california led his team to a 106-0 win. the principal later apologized for the coach's lack of integrity. inglewood went on to the playoffs where the opponent's coach spoke about good sportsmanship. >> maybe the most important thing is teachable moments. i talk about how football is great, it emulates life and teaches you lessons. >> reporter: they also understood why a team would run up a score. >> you get it in, you try to run the clock, get the kids on the bus and get them home. on either side of the score it's a teachable moment. >> reporter: but some argue the more points scored the higher the team's ranking at the end

so they're basically following the connecticut river valley moving up into new hampshire and then across into what will be vermont. so he describes the various towns and peoples of this trek. they move out in three divisions, essentially. what would have been three battalions within the regiment itself as they saw it moving up first through to springfield, massachusetts at springfield hawkins records at daybreak on 14 april all three divisions, march out followed by a baggage tree. he records eight wagons 21 teams. 21 teams to be pulling these wagons. those have got to be really heavy wagons and they definitely are because what's on them loaded with spades shovels axes picks carbines horseman's swords pistols and other military stores carpenters tools armorers tools provisions. they are out to really cut this road and they're taking all the tools with them. so think for a minute what that would look like. to the communities through which this baggage train is going with these soldiers in these three divisions. who may not have seen a lot of soldiers up to this point? but they are moving

0ur meteorologist for wt nh joining us from connecticut.one of the states that was very badly hit. borisjohnson is to speak to the russian president vladimir putin — and visit eastern europe in the coming days — in an effort to resolve tensions over ukraine. russia has gathered 100,000 troops, tanks and missiles at the border with ukraine, but denies plans to invade. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet has more from kyiv. ukrainians have long lived with war. dozens of british soldiers here since 2015, not long after russia first invaded. but with more of moscow's troops and weapons now massed along the border, diplomacy builds, too. next week, borisjohnson�*s visit to this region takes it up a notch. here in kyiv, there is concern that too much talk of war can be risky, too, but they need their friends. it's a good signal for us, not only for us, not only for ukraine, but also to russian federations, that we have strong partners, we will not be alone with this if the invasion comes to be, so it is a good signal. moscow sends c

massachusetts connecticut rely difficult to see so many heavy snow bands coming in producing two inches of snow per hour on top of that put a monster wind gusting 40 or 50 miles an hour, that just travel nearly impossible very treacherous the only essential travel places under state of emergency, a lot of travel restriction as well, a 35 minor an hour boston airport right now 45 miles per hour norwood 33 miles per hour, radar on top areas in blue light to moderate but other spots heavy snowfall coming in going to continue for a couple hours here, the -- bombed out what that means gotten to intense points where we have more than a 30 millibar, pressure drop 24 hours well above what is necessary to bomb out it just seems intensity power gradient the winds squeezed pressure on atmosphere starts to release that in form of wind that is exactly what is happening, center of low pressure has to come up towards nantucket we will see 6 o 0 to 70 mile-per-hour wind maybe higher we have been able to produce, ahead of that that low-pressure system off nantucket, passes to north that is when things c

days and i asked him why connecticut has zero.e was a little bit stymied by getting asked a question by his witness. early voting does not equal access. even expert witnesses call it convenience voting. it is for convenience. i think there would be a lot of agreement to make election day a federal holiday. i think that is something the left and the right might agree on to make election day as accessible as possible. i'm not suggesting that we would ever get rid of all early voting, but the less there is of it, to offer people what they need to accommodate their schedules is the most appropriate balance between accessibility early and securing elections. and this is all without even touching mail-in voting. host: grand junction, colorado. republican. caller: the main part of my question is about the people that have passed away. how do you determine that they have passed away and they are no longer eligible to vote? there was a gentleman, an attorney-at-law from nevada, i believe. back in 2020. and he brought this up and i wrote do

that was journalist amy lundy, reporting from westport in connecticut. thank you so very much for your update. giblin is like a football now and saturdays top of the table clash each or the spicy pairing of 7 plays to win berlin against the surprise team of the season so far. hoffen haim who came into this match 3rd and the standings, bonds away it and yawn hoffen himes, unbidden run of 7 matches, came to an end with the berliners winning tito on. have a look guest from hoffman, heim had some more enterprising start and they got on the score sheet after 22 minutes. no big celebrations here. it was an ongoing by noon steam or bomb god to who headed glasby booth cross into his own. net a deserved leads at last. it only a handful of minutes as andrea's hold is emma equalized with this header. a lucky one was a boy bouncing off hoffen on people. oliver bowman in twos in it. nearly another own goal after the ones it gave oftentimes elite $11.00, cisco at half time and after a hartford sickened, have anyone got lucky? once again, was lots of happy, bounces bef

that was journalist amy lundy reporting from westport in connecticut. thank you so very much for your update to belinda sneakers, soccer now and saturdays top of the table clash feature, the spicy pairing of 7 placed on you in berlin against the surprised team of the season so far. hoffen haim who came into this match 3rd in the standings. but away it when yawn hoffen himes unbeaten run of 7 matches, came to an end with a berliners winning to one. have a look gift from the hoffman. i'm had some more enterprising stock and they got on the school sheet of to 22 minutes. no big celebration, feel. it was an ongoing by leon timor. bon garter, who had a t lusby boost cross into his own net a deserved leads at last. it only a handful of minutes as under this ford is i'm a equalized with this header. a lucky one was a boy bouncing off hoffman on people oliver bowman and into the net. nearly another own goal of those ones. it gave oftentimes elite. one one's a sco at half time and after a hartford 2nd, have anyone got lucky? once again, was lots of happy, bounce

amy: were gonna move to waterford connecticut where temperatures are in the low 20s but the winds gusting to 45 miles per hour the wind chills down to single digits, this shot waterford connecticut 0 visibility off the water, it's about two hours from new york city, blizzard warning in effect until 7:00 p.m. eastern time with a white out conditions are likely at times, forecasting 15 inches of snow winds could gust as high as 60 miles per hour in the most intense part of the storm but the freezing cold during and after the storm looking at the winds. we see sustained winds, 15 - 35 miles an hour, we suggest happening 40 miles an hour in taking new bedford, gust of 33 miles per hour and martha's vineyard up to 50 mile-per-hour winds and there have been reports of 60 mile-per-hour wind for nantucket. really intense win, what happens with the low pressure system is being pushed up against another weather maker, high pressure system, and puts the squeeze on the storm and that intensifies the winds. that is what is happening at the shoreline it is taken of the power, massachusetts up to 80000,

-- like new york and connecticut and the president's home state of delaware. they also forget that many -- they also forgot that many republican states have already implemented no-excuse absentee voting. so i was an election official for 20 years. i am absolutely confident that nobody takes the security of the elections and the confidence in the elections and the ability to register and vote in an easy way more seriously than people who are directly answerable to their neighbors if they're the local official or to the people that vote for them if they're the state official. president obama said in 2016 that the diversity of this statewide system was one of the strengths of our system, the state-run system, and one of the reasons it would make it really hard for any outside entity, any foreign entity, any outside group to truly try to rig a national election. so i've got more to say. i'm going to submit the rest of my remarks for the record. i'm sure there will be more time to talk about this next week. ballot harvesting, 62% of people in one poll are opposed t

that was journalist amy lundy reporting from westport in connecticut. thank you so very much for your update. thank you. well, in germany is tightening it's corona virus restrictions in response to a record number of new coven, 19 cases starting to dame in most states, only fully vaccinated people who also have received a booster shot will be allowed into bars and restaurants vaccinated people without a booster. will have to show a negative test result, the unvaccinated have been barred from indoor dining for some time already. and meanwhile, the quarantine period for vaccinated people who test positive has been reduced. well on the chron now, accounts for over 70 percent of all new cases in germany and lamps and testing centers are struggling to meet the demand for p. c r t. s. d. as in theater, if you will love chief ians hydrate looks urgent. pc altis awaiting one are almost all the samples you know, people who might have covered 19 on the upper floor technicians extract the r nathan test swabs and concentrated below. come eval mountains of samples.

that was journalist any lundy reporting from westport in connecticut. thank you so very much for your update. all right, let's get a check now, some of the other stories making news around the world. toonami waves have reached the pacific islands of tomba and fiji. after a massive underwater volcano erupted frightened residents flood to higher ground. the hunger tonga ha. hi. volcano has triggered several tsunami warnings, including in hawaii and the u. s. west coast. north korean state media says the country has conducted a ballistic missile test. the launch from a railway car was its 3rd this year. south korea's government detected to short range missiles. john gang's latest missile test prompted the united states to call for more sanctions on north korea. will summon dutch restaurants and bars have opened, defying a government ban. they said current corona virus measures were discriminatory. the protest comes, the netherlands eased restrictions for shops, jim's hairdressers and a sex workers. they were recently required to close due to a sharp rise a

i live in connecticut actually. per student and what they are getting out of their education is minimal. i had a son that was artistic and i had -- autistic and i had to fight tooth and nail for this kid through high school, grammar school, through high school, just to get him the help that he needed. what got to me was that this kid ended up being a highest honors student. at the end of all this in his junior year, i had gone ahead with what they call ppt meeting. you have the principals, his counselors, all these people sitting there. we've got his testing coming for his sat's and so forth and he really needs extra help. i said, you guys have done a great job up until now. the head of the department says, you know what? he's not the only child in this school. that's just one snippet of what i've had to go through. you know, we are ranked in mathematics 24th, 24th in mathematics. you have kids that are graduating high school that cannot even get to a junior college because they are not up to snub. we talk about bei

i also remember a year and a half ago when i was serving as commissioner of education in connecticut. sitting in my basement in my makeshift office. at that time we were deciding how to reopen schools, knowing excessive school closures would worsen opportunity's for marginalized students but also knowing the haphazard and sloppy reopening would increase to those i serve. during those moments there were concerns the challenge was too great. my first day of school, it also seemed impossible. an overwhelming fear made people nervous about reopening. today, just one year into president biden's term we know what to do. while i recognize the daily challenges our students, parents and educators still face, we have better tools to keep school safe and thriving amidst the pandemic. we must stay cognizant and supportive of the challenges our heroic educators face daily to keep schools opened today we must also simultaneously meet this moment in our country's history. a moment to reimagine education through our shared ideals, one where all children, all children can succeed. like my first day of

school teacher, district administrator and most recently, education for the state of education in connecticut. he has great passion over the past ten months. understanding the challenges students, teachers and parents are going through. in addition to being secretary of education, secretary is the proud father of high schoolers and the husband of another educator. join me in giving a round of applause. mark. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you, adam. and rebecca, adam's mother, thank you for being here. i remember being five years old walking into my first day of kindergarten at john barry elementary school. i was so nervous. at that time i was just learning english. i felt like i didn't belong. turned out to be a horrible day because my mom had to pick me up early from the nurses office that day, i'm not sure if it was the feeling of being overwhelmed, being around bigger kids spoke english a lot better than me or maybe a feeling that the challenge it had was just too great but i recall being overcome with an overwhelming fear, my young mother walked from home a few blocks away to

the numbers are impressive, the deep purples, two feet of fresh snow to connecticut. still to come 5 to 8 inches in new york, 12 to 18 inches. future track for a good portion of the day, we are just getting started and we will give you updates through the morning. amy: visibility expected, midday, pounding waves on the jersey beaches. the second time the jersey beach expected for more of snow. in long branch, how are the conditions? coming down sideways. >> reporter: i heard you say star wars. i took the millennium falcon to my first trip. it runs until 4:00 pm. we see big wind gusts. snow totals piling up. you can see this wind driven snow, those wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour possible the coming up on the high tide cycle occurring at 5 am. coastal flooding is a conservative coastal flood advisory runs until 9 am. to the north, sandy hook beach a highside end. at 5:00 pm we expect a water rise one to two feet above normally dry ground at high tide. that is something to watch closely on the jersey shore. the blizzard warning running for several hours. i wish you c

that was in bristol, connecticut, thankfully everybody okay there.arn you you'd see a busy map and windchills possible to 60 below. a lot seeing more snow. by tomorrow three to six inches throughout the northeast through boston. >> all right, ginger zee, it's that time of year. thank you. >>> so, everyone, check your lotto tickets because there are powerball jackpot winners this morning. two winning tickets were sold that matched all six numbers in wisconsin and at this sacramento, california, 7-eleven. the $632 million prize is the seventh largest in powerball history. it wasn't us. >> it wasn't us. >> sacramento or wisconsin. >>> a lot more coming up including novak djokovic kept out of australia over his vaccination status before one of the sports' biggest tournaments. we'll tell you the fallout this morning. >>> why ghislaine maxwell's conviction is now in jeopardy. we hear from within of jurors. >>> first let's go back to ginger. hey, ginger. >> reporter: hey, amy. nashville in a winter storm warning too but snowy cities sponsored by wayfair. da

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. perlmutter of colorado. mr. perlmutter will record his presence. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. mccaul of texas, i inform the house that mr. mccaul will vote yes on the quorum call. >> as the member designated by mr. boyle of telephone, i inform the house that mr. boyle will record his presence. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. cartwright, pursuant to house resolution eight, i inform the house that mr. cartwright will vote yes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from hfl massachusetts seek recognition? >> pursuant to house resolution 8, mr. langevin will vote yes on the quorum call. the speaker pro tempore: flop the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. alexandria ocasio-cortez and a

here in connecticut, here's the snow. here's a pro tip for you.eld wipers off the window. i stole this from my daughter's book bag. she didn't have school by the way. it's still coming down. roads are not good. it's a fast-moving system, and the governor has shut down all government offices. most schools are delayed, if not, canceled. enjoy the snow day and be careful. stick around. ceci ceci cecilia? >> be patient out there. rob, let's go to matt reeve. >> reporter: we had snowfall this winter, and after the storm, we'll exceed that. schools canceled here in the city of boston, and the mayor citing conditions as well as the lack of school bus drivers. here in boston, they have tons of salt to clean up these roa roads, but there's excitement in the city because you can do skiing, ice skating, and the patriots are once again headed to the playoffs. >> why you got to rub that in? thank you for that, matt, in boston. now let's go to trevor ault in atlanta city, new jersey. good morning, trevor. >> reporter: good morning, michael. we watched the snow

early voting days, and i asked why connecticut has zero. needless to say, he was a little bit stymied by getting asked a quietness by a witness. you know, early voting doesn't equal access. even expert witnesses call it convenience voting. it is for convenience. there's a lot of agreement on election day for federal holidays, and i think that is something the left and right might agree on to make election day accessible. i am not suggesting that we would ever get rid of all or early voting, because we could offer people what they need to accommodate the schedule. it is the most appropriate ballot -- balance, i think to provide convenience, as experts call it, and securing elections. of course, this is all without even touching on mail-in voting. >> let's get to everett. grand junction. republican. >> good morning. the main part of my question here is about people who passed away and the -- are they able to vote. how do you determine they have passed away and they are no longer eligible to vote. there was a gentleman, an attorney-at-law, fro

up to ten inches in parts of new jersey, new york and connecticut. a shortage of plow drivers could complicate the cleanup. some companies in massachusetts have been paying plow drivers $300 an hour. >> you need to pay guys a lot more money which means you need to make a lot more money and on the back side fuel is up, equipment is up. so i think it's a combination of money and it's a combination between where did the workforce go. >> reporter: it's not just the coast dealing with brutal winter conditions. heavy snow is blamed for this 15-vehicle pileup in colorado. and in florida, the so-called sea smoke was seen coming off the water as temperatures dipped into the 40s in west palm beach. and it will get even colder in florida this weekend with windchills in the 20s in orlando. we'll take a closer look at your forecast in just a few moments. >>> now, the other big story this morning, the dramatic shootout between police officers and a suspect in houston. in the middle of the street, three officers shot and now new details about the gunman. this morni

then we get into portions of connecticut, you have flurries too. but rhode island and massachusetts, especially eastern massachusetts, we are dealing with some heavy snowfall at the moment. in portland, maine, we'll start seeing that heavy snowfall pick up in intensity here in the coming hours. looking at the storm surge, because it's not just the wind and the snowfall, we're also looking at the storm surge with this northeast wind. nantucket is looking at 3-foot storm surge right now, boston 2 1/2, atlantic city, fredricka, a little over 2. and when you take all that together and you combine it together, we are still looking at more than 100,000 customers without power in massachusetts at this time. and that part of massachusetts is really the area that we expect the extreme impacts as we go through the day. notice that going on into the northeast, we're going to continue to see some major to extreme impacts there as well. this is something we'll be dealing with for the rest of today. it's not until daybreak tomorrow the northeast sees a break. >>

. >>> a father from connecticut is now explaining his hate-filled tirade at a smoothie shop, but hisy may not be enough. he's now facing charges, and he's lost his job. >> i'm calling the police. i'm calling the police. >> this morning, this man caught on camera throwing a smoothie and threatening teenagers working at this smoothie shop in connecticut. he's now apologizing. video of the hate-filled tirade posted on tiktok has already been viewed millions of times. 48-year-old james iannazzo now saying in a statement, my actions were wrong, and i deeply regret them. they do not reflect my values or my character. police arrested iannazzo soon after saturday's confrontation. he says he threw the tantrum after his son suffered a severe allergic reaction to nuts, drinking a smoothie he had bought there. >> he threatened to kill us multiple times. he tried to come behind the doors. so then i started recording. >> i really felt like he was going to throw something again or try to hit me or do something. >> now merrill lynch has fired iannazzo from his financial adviser job, saying, our comp

this is -- high school girls basketball in connecticut. you're in high school and you're choosing to play basketball you know -- you know you're step on to court for, you know, 40 minutes and you've got to play hard and what are you supposed to do other team wasn't pressing or trapping so the team that losts complaining that they were sell, you know, running fast breaks and scoring layups at the end of the game that's called basketball i'm sure they were playing their bench which means their bench was way better than other team. like if you're losing why are you not complaining instead just turn to your kids say they're way better than you and team won next game by only three points with coach so, obviously, not that much better but that other team was really, really, really bad and that's life. dan: listen, i'm telling you man played on teams they were terrible we lost a baseball game once 22-6 you come in and play better. pete this is my favorite story of the week cover a lot of heavy top egg this is one is loaded, though, we have exclus

crews racing to clear nearly a foot of snow in connecticut. >> a lot of folks trying to get to work. we're trying to keep things moving. >> reporter: in new haven, sanitation workers filling in for plow drivers because of covid staffing issues. more than 2,600 flights canceled nationwide, largely due to we thinker and covid related issues. the storm also bringing record-breaking snow to parts of the south on thursday. nashville getting their biggest snowfall in nearly six years. and multiple pileups on kentucky roads. david, bitter cold wind is bringing in arctic air. temperatures are expected to plummet below freezing overnight. drivers will need to be on alert for black ice tonight. david? >> in many cases the temperatures already here. let's get to rob marciano with what's behind all this. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. it's pretty, but the cold air is no joke coming in behind the thing. the center of the storm is over nova scotia. it's bottoming out, intensifying. whipping winds through boston and maine. boston, nearly a foot of snow today. could see that east of cleveland, bu

trump did not immediately respond to our request for comment monday >>> a man in connecticut is chargedmade an anti-immigrant comment to employees. police say he went on a tirade after blaming employees for a serious allergic reaction that sent his son to the hospital here's part of that exchange >> i'm calling the police. i'm calling the police >> [ bleep ] >> he's now facing a hate crime charge he was also fired from his job at merrill lynch his attorney says he regrets the incident wholeheartedly and his actions krd during an extreme moment of distress >>> a retired sergeant is now a mill an air after he won the lutry using fortune cookie numbers. he won $4 million in tuesday's mega millions drawing. he picked up a fortune cookie while having dinner with his wife and tried the numbers on a whim after buying a $3 mega millions ticket online he took home over $2.8 million after taxes. he plans on investing most of that money >> incredible. i think we all open that from time to time but not the same luck, though >>> the nba is just past the halfway point of the season and the league is

in connecticut we have seen a significant increase in the number of kids that are infected. some of them have ended up in the hospital. we saw last week we had 17 kids here at connecticut childrens in hartford. things have changed. now, i want to make sure we tell this to parents. you know, again, we don't want them to panic. this is a flu-like illness. some kids end up in the hospital. but fortunately, kids for the most part are doing okay. now, parents can help by getting their kids vaccinated. 25% of 5 to 11-year-olds are vaccinated. that means 75% are not in that age group, and about 75% of the 12 to 16-year-olds, that means 25% are not. we want to really change the dynamic for this pandemic. be not afraid. be responsible. get your kids vaccinated. and i think we'll begin to turn this around. >> doctor, omicron also appears to be causing a harsh barking cough known as croup among the children younger than five. experts say it's most likely because it appears omicron tends to settle higher up in the respiratory tract rather than deeper in the lungs. are you seeing that in

luke's, a private school in connecticut.in the junior varsity hockey game at brunswick school in nearby greenwich thursday evening when the tenth grader pell to the ice. while he was down, authorities say a nearby player couldn't stop in time and ran into his neck with the blade of his state. the game stopped almost immediately to get the young man medical attention before he was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead. it's not clear if the sophomore was wearing a neck guard at the time of the incident. while usa hockey recommends players wear one, they're only required for goalies. even then some say there's no guarantee a neck guard would have prevented this unusual incident. >> one of the problems with the member guards besides them being so cumbersome is they didn't eliminate the risk of laceration, and sometimes the skate would move to another part of neck and still penetrate if that was what was going to happen. so these aren't flawless. >> reporter: again, communities both in are mourning t

eastern connecticut. that's where they have the heavy band of snow that could pick up two feet of snow teetering on historic nature. the peak of the intensity will be from saturday morning at 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. from the northern new england region. the snow will get to the middle of the day from philadelphia to new york city as the storm runs parallel with the coastline. check out this very informative map from the national weather service. it puts a threat index for the entire eastern seaboard and we focus in on massachusetts and rhode island. look at the shading of purple including the boston metropolitan and focus your attention on the legend on the top portion of the screen. they expect extreme winter impacts from this particular nor'easter and don't use that word lightly. they talk about snowfall totals per hour from three to four inches per hour. you can imagine how quickly that will stack up. factor in hurricane force wind gusts and got yourself a concerning situation. a recipe for disaster. th

damage will be done by then. 6 to 12 inches east of philly, up through new york city, hartford, connecticutk then east of there and through eastern massachusetts, 12 to 24 inches and i think outside of boston and some of the more favored spots south and west, we could very well see 30 plus inches of snow. and the travel dynamics are going to be difficult. hopefully it's a saturday, people stay inside because the roads are going to be difficult to keep clear. we'll see drifts, three, four, five feet of snow up against doorways to get out of your house, hunker down, wait till tomorrow and take it slow today. back to you. >> all right, rob, more than 2 feet of snow, that is something to be aware of. thank you so much. >>> all eyes on the weather obviously as we noted, the whipping winds combining with high tides making for a recipe for flooding as well. abc's ike ejiochi is in port washington, new york, with the latest on that part of the story. ike, good morning. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, whit. i'm definitely going to take a lesson from rob and remember to get my eyewear next time beca

now to connecticut, good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to tell you that we had mixed experience. we had a very good experience. unfortunately, a family member that wasn't covid related was very, very sick with cancer. his cancer returned, and he ended up going to the v.a. in west haven for hospice, and there's a place called the fisher house where family members, when it's too far to drive and you want to be with your family member, you can stay there. and it was just at the lull of covid, because they had been closed for a while, so we were able to stay there. they took such good care of our friend. and it was a little hard staying in, because we were supposed to mask the whole time you were living in the covid house and the fisher house unless you were in your room, and there were some people that wouldn't mask when the staff was not there. and they weren't vaccinated. but luckily it was a really lull, june, july, it was a real lull. then the sadder thing, my daughter, only in her 20's, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. she's