the reason itu works _ is because we have one—to—one nursing and nurses look— after the patients andute the effect of intensive care. - absolutely. i'm taking care of two, three or four itu patients and that's way beyond what i would usually be doing. i wonder how much of a psychological toll we are storing up for icu staff. i think we will need to have a lot of support in place for health care staff once this ends. there will be a psychological reckoning here at some point. medics describe guilt for the things they cannot do and guilt for asking colleagues to do more and more and more. so, i'm asking my colleagues to step up again _ can you do some extra work? and you know that you've already asked them to do that and you'rej asking them again and asking. the nurses to do it again so that, you know, and you're also saying, yeah, but we want to look - after you and they're kind l of like contradictory things. morale is low and there'sjust a sense of hopelessness. as their cities wake, they prepare for home, to sleep, then face the same again tomorrow. death rates and hospital admissi

working in an itus across the country in - several doctors and nurses working in an itus across thee done, dr caroline - what can be done, dr caroline walker, to help them, where we are right now? walker, to help them, where we are riaht now? , ., , , right now? there is absolutely heled right now? there is absolutely helped out _ right now? there is absolutely helped out there. _ right now? there is absolutely helped out there. well-beingl right now? there is absolutely - helped out there. well-being hubs helped out there. well—being hubs are being — helped out there. well—being hubs are being set— helped out there. well—being hubs are being set up— helped out there. well—being hubs are being set up across— helped out there. well—being hubs are being set up across the - helped out there. well—being hubs. are being set up across the country, there _ are being set up across the country, there are _ are being set up across the country, there are support_ are being set up across the country, there are support lines— are being set up across the country, there are support lines that - ar

so i'm in itu.nd though it looks comfortable, there is a constant whirring noise from the pump at the back, but i have to appreciate our nurses are in this for probably hours on end, quite often missing breaks because there isn't enough of them, and it's really busy at times. but we try and find time that they do get breaks. i've had enough after two and a half hours and i can't wait to get this off. so i'm just about to go to ward 3 — and that's where our patients with covid are having cpap — to review a patient who the staff are worried about. it sounds like he is deteriorating, despite being on pretty high support with a cpap machine. personally, this is quite a difficult time because you have to make an assessment if the patient needs to come to intensive care. i know we are currently already struggling with the number of patients versus the number of staff, so i know it's going to put more pressure on my team if the patient has to come, and i know for that patient, if he does need to come, and

he's now in itu. am i going to come to the unit and find him on a ventilator?" and we've seen that.e to do, and that was quite a scary moment. because... you see... the trouble is, in the first wave and the second wave, i've seen what can happen. it's scary. we're all scared... ..that the grave—diggers will keep working due to covid. this cemetery in north—east london has had to expand because of the pandemic dead. across the uk, more than 100,000 have perished — that's around 30,000 more than the number of civilians who died in our country in world war ii. we're all scared that things will get worse before they get better. we're all scared of the cruel ripples of the pandemic — lockdowns, mental health problems, economic shock — so where's the light? consultant trauma surgeon martin griffiths is now helping out giving people vaccine jabs. i wanted to do something positive that would really help end the pandemic. what do you think of anti—vaxxers? they have my thoughts and prayers. they're wrong. they're so wrong. and either by a lack of knowledge, a lack of understanding, an unwill

soon, the new variant was out of control. 0ur hospital is filling up quite extensively, our itu is prettyfull. i don't know how long| we can go on like this. the nhs often struggles with winter crises. but doctors have never seen anything like this. i'vejust come home from a 13—hour shift and every time i finish work i wonder just how more patients we can take. there are now more than 30,000 people in hospitals across the uk with covid—i9. more than 3,000 are on ventilators. i think extreme conditions is the best way to describe this. but if it goes on much longer, it could become like a warzone. we've declared a critical incident in london in the last couple of days, precisely because this is now getting very serious and what we need to do is to, you know, try and wring out every single ounce of extra spare capacity that we've got, wherever it sits. the nhs is at the brink, it is at risk of being overwhelmed. how long can we actually manage in this situation? last monday the prime minister once again had to address the nation. it's been both frustrating and alarming to see the speed with

republicans today tried to declare the impeachment proceedings against former president trump unconscious itu sh inal because he is no longer in office. the senate was sworn in today as jurors in the upcoming impeachment trial the measure to declare the trial unconstitutional, failed in a vote of 55 to 45, all but five republicans say there's no point to it. victim of former president you don't got to impeachment about former president it's vindictive former president trump committed in the view of many, including myself, the gravest defense ever committed by a president of the united states. the trial is set to begin on february. 9th senate majority leader chuck schumer says he expects the trial to be quick because there will be few, if any witnesses and the senator who was expected to preside over the impeachment trial. was taken to the hospital today. paramedics took democratic vermont senator patrick leahy to the hospital for observation after he said he wasn't feeling well tonight, though we're told that he underwent some tests. was released and is now back home. senator leahy is 80 year

i'm taking care of two, three or four itu patients.l need to have a lot of support in place for health care staff once this ends. there will be a psychological reckoning here at some point. medics describe guilt for the things they cannot do and guilt for asking colleagues to do more and more and more. so, i'm asking my colleagues to step up again _ can you do some extra work? and you know that you've already asked them to do that and you'rej asking them again and asking. the nurses to do it again so that, you know, and you're also saying, yeah, but we want to look - after you and kind of like contradictory things. - sometimes it feels worse to be on a break because you just feel like you should be in the hospital, or you're getting texts from your trust saying, "urgent call to arms. we need extra, extra anybody." i completely agree with emily. all of this has come at a cost and there is anger. i'm angry. really angry. what a lot of us are really angry about is the covid deniers and the people that have been walking around videoing out

|j think the problem is, edgy report demonstrated it, it's different versions, different itus say differentcompared to where we were three weeks ago. first of all, we know the virus is a different virus. it has transmitted and become more difficult and challenging. we know what that is doing to young people come up ability for young people to transmit that appears to have increased. i don't know about the signs but i read that. critically, what happened on new year's eve as the sage specialist who advised the government, showing a meeting on the 22nd and 23rd of december, said if you want to bring the r rate below one, you would need to have schools close for two weeks at the beginning of january. i think that is close for two weeks at the beginning ofjanuary. i think that is a game changer because in a tier 4 area. we cannot go walking out with more than one or two other people outdoors yet from monday we are expecting primary teachers to go into classes with 30 young people who we know have higher transmission rates. that is why we say give us the transparency. if you asa say give us the

we are also seeing itu at 160-170% of its covid., but going on the right direction, which is excellent news.— going on the right direction, which is excellent news. months and months now, nhs is excellent news. months and months new. nhs staff — is excellent news. months and months now, nhs staff have _ is excellent news. months and months now, nhs staff have been _ is excellent news. months and months now, nhs staff have been under- now, nhs staff have been under enormous pressure. what sort of extra support are you offering them to help them through these next few weeks. figs to help them through these next few weeks. �* , , ., to help them through these next few weeks. a to help them through these next few weeks. , to help them through these next few weeks. as you say, this has gone on for over a year— weeks. as you say, this has gone on for over a year now, _ weeks. as you say, this has gone on for over a year now, with _ weeks. as you say, this has gone on for over a year now, with people - for over a year now, with people being

you have said that the itu staff are exhausted.k? are we going to need the nightingale hospital is? of the gossamer staff? notjust doctors, nurses, but support staff to? —— have we got enough staff? so, the nightingale hospitals don't bring in mostar. the nightingale isjust buildings. they were really useful in the first wave, right decision in the first wave, but i know what we need to staff and we don't know what we need to staff and we don't have the staff and i don't know what we need but i do know that moving stuff into the nightingale hospitals as pa rt into the nightingale hospitals as part of the plan and will not be useful to our patients. depending on the newspapers you read, depending on the news programmes that you watch, the social media that you follow, you will get a very different pictures of how worried we should be. some people saying look, there is scaremongering going on. it is not that bad. and yet you are here telling us that you were very worried about what is into context fathers. tell us what we should be l

but any building or any physical artifact, he said, we preserve because itue specifically embodies our human, social, and political past. discovered they replica of lincoln's hat, it is just not the same as the very hat that sat on his head. ring andve a wedding you lose that, it is sentimental, but it is a bind. it is representative of your marriage, and it has more meaning than just a gold circle. similarly, we value these properties because they are where the actual work took place by the men and women who were part of the manhattan project who actually created the world's first atomic bomb. so there is a significant beyond it being just a dilapidated building that makes it important. next slide. so, what we do? i thought that i would call an old friend of ours who was the aboutive director since 1970, of the advisory council for historic preservation. agency, aboutral that run on the staff an advisory council, half appointed by the president, asked by congress, that looks into disputes over what we, the united states, should preserve as important to air history. wanted,d john that

i'm taking care of two, three or four itu patients.yeah, but we want to look - after you and they're kind l of like contradictory things. sometimes it feels worse to be on a break because you just feel like you should be in the hospital, or you're getting texts from your trust saying, "urgent call to arms. we need extra, extra anybody." i completely agree with emily. all of this has come at a cost, and there is anger. i'm angry. really angry. what a lot of us are really angry about is the covid deniers and the people that have been walking around videoing outpatient clinics at midnight. and recently, two people were arrested in my hospital and fined just for trespassing. so that's the sort of people that generally our anger is against. it's just after nine o'clock and we've had the handover from the night team. - er, a huge increase in the number of patients with covid in the trust. we've got 550 patients now, - and that was from yesterday morning. so it's probably higher now. and another bit of bad news i is the two cubicles on our hd

when will they acknowledge china and itu aggression?, congressman lee zeldin is here on the casualties in governor cuomo's new york. all that and a lot more as we look ahead right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and first up this morning, one lawmaker's quest for accountability in a town marred by corruption and a two-tiered justice system. in february of 2018, congressman devin nuÑes first warned us on this program about a government coup to take out then-president donald trump, a story we continue to report on. three years later we know he was right aboutut everything. but we have yet to see any accountability for the criminalityla that took mace. the latest blow happened on friday when kevin clinesmith, the former fbi attorney who pled guilty to doctoring an e-mail used to spy on carter page, will serve one year of probation, to prison, no fines. on probation, that's it. joining meg right now with reaction is congressman devin nuÑes and kash patel who worked together to expose the russia collusion hoax. kash w

they had using steroids, it is kept a lot of people out of itu.ed the hospital off in the first wave and we had everyone coming to help us. i have my bare—bones stuff, no additional staff, a quarter of them are off sick or self isolating. we have physical bed spaces and ventilators, we do not have the staff. the hospital is pulling from all direction, they need help because there are so many patients inside. tell us about your concerns for the immediate period coming up because there's been much talk about the delay between a possible mixing that has happened directly over the christmas and new year period, either when the remark within or without the restrictions, what are your concerns? we know every time we see the figures every day, we know that will sting us in about ten to 12 days' time in the hospital, sometimes a little bit earlier. we are not at day ten post—christmas and it is exceedingly busy. my colleague said the hospitals are the busiest they have other ben and we're preparing ourselves for it is going to get busy and the people who

itu schimmel to impeach a president who already left office. makes no sense whatsoever that a president or any official could commit a heinous crime against our country and then be permitted to resign, so is to avoid accountability. the white house says president biden is monitoring the situation. but his main focus now is covid and the economy and he's leaving the impeachment details up to lawmakers. confusion on capitol hill photos and videos showing national guard troops sleeping in a cold parking garage, sparking controversy tonight word last night was that capitol police had ordered them to take their breaks outside of the halls of congress. skate abuse. excuse me, fox is, lord blanchard tells us. capitol police said. that wasn't the case. these images of national guard troops forced to take their rest breaks in a parking garage have members in congress enraged it was utterly unacceptable. i have told those who run the security of the capital that it can never happen again. i don't like a single federal feels that was acceptable. your cong

i mean, we can‘t give the care we would normally in itu.re. this time round, i‘m starting to worry about people of my own age, people in their 40s and 50s. people who would think themselves healthy, but maybe a little bit overweight orjust developing diabetes. and it feels much more worrying. the spread of covid is so fast the hospital is cancelling some cancer operations. prioritising which patients to treat is something they never want to do. nikki fox, bbc news. the australian city of brisbane will enter a snap three—day lockdown from today. it‘s after a single case of the new uk coronavirus variant was discovered. the city has been successful at containing the virus, with very few cases being detected beyond quarantined travellers since australia‘s first wave last year. all international travellers will have to test negative for the coronavirus before boarding flights to australia. let‘s get more now on the vaccine roll—out here in the uk. the government aims to vaccinate 13.9 million people — the over—70s, healthcare workers and those

and if we get to that point we can't offer anybody itu, not just if we get to that point we can't offerleasedi am still alive. gerald is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding but still caught coronavirus. the only thing i can think is from opening some packaging or some delivery i had. it put me back. it's quite frightening. you know, you just don't know how you're getting your next breath. all right, dad. love you lots. love you. he wa nts to dad. love you lots. love you. he wants to get home to his daughters. when you have got young ones behind, thatis when you have got young ones behind, that is your worry. you fight for your life for them and you want to give them a lie. the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the nhs has faced in its history. and it will be eight staff who will bear the brunt for all of us. it isa it is a sobering piece. we can speak with fergus now. good morning. unlike the rest of us, you have been on wards before. but this was a glimpse inside a critical ca re this was a glimpse inside a critical care unit. i don't know at the en

i mean, we can't give the care we would normally in itu.ose in their 70s and 80s in intensive care. this time round, i'm starting to worry about people of my own age, people in their 40s and 50s. people who would think themselves healthy, but maybe a little bit overweight orjust developing diabetes. and it feels much more worrying. the spread of covid is so fast the hospital is cancelling some cancer operations. prioritising which patients to treat is something they never want to do. nikki fox, bbc news. police in london are looking for a man who conned a 92—year—old woman into giving him £160 for a fake covid vaccination. the police have released these images of someone they are looking for. officers say the man turned up at her home in surbiton and claimed to be from the nhs, before injecting her with an unknown substance. 2020 has tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record. the eu's climate service says that, globally, temperatures were about 1.25 celsius higher than the long—term average. the met office is predicting a significant inc

we've seen so many harrowing accounts of what is happening in itu at the moment. i think that's one of the biggest causes of mental strain and exhaustion that we are having right now. do mental strain and exhaustion that we are having right now.— are having right now. do you feel, thouuh, are having right now. do you feel, though. that _ are having right now. do you feel, though, that the _ are having right now. do you feel, though, that the situation - are having right now. do you feel, though, that the situation is - though, that the situation is getting better? because as i said, these harrowing accounts, it seems like things perhaps are plateauing at quite a difficult level? i like things perhaps are plateauing at quite a difficult level?— at quite a difficult level? i think the situation _ at quite a difficult level? i think the situation stabilised. - at quite a difficult level? i think the situation stabilised. it - at quite a difficult level? i think the situation stabilised. it is - at quite a difficult level? i think| the situation stabilised. it is not

i have got to itus in one ear which is quite distracting when trying to communicate. —— tinnitus.tark reminder of the loss. the uk would normally expect to see around 600,000 deaths a year, but new figures show there are an extra 90,000 in 2020 — the largest increase in a single year in seven decades. tesco and asda have become the latest supermarket chains to deny entry to customers who are not wearing masks. morrisons were the first to announce that they're putting security guards on store entrances to offer every customer a face covering. if you decline they won't let you in unless you have a medical exemption. sainsbury‘s also say they'll challenge customers to wear masks, and to shop alone. you can expect security guards at their stores too. but unlike morrisons, sainsbury‘s say they cannot deny entry to those who decide to break the rules. so whose responsibility is it? well, the police can issue fines to people not following the law. £200 in england and £60 in the rest of the uk, with repeat offenders facing bigger penalties. but that doesn't actually happen very often. the

. —— itu staff.ilable for the _ mental illness. what support is available for the people - mental illness. what support is available for the people having | mental illness. what support is i available for the people having to deal with all of this trauma? thank ou for deal with all of this trauma? thank you for asking _ deal with all of this trauma? thank you for asking that. _ deal with all of this trauma? thank you for asking that. nhs _ deal with all of this trauma? thank you for asking that. nhs england, | deal with all of this trauma? t�*iafia; you for asking that. nhs england, to be fair, have put on a whole suite of services right through to bereavement counselling to sort of a fast track to psychological treatment. what we are trying to do through doctors in distress is provide groups, virtual at the moment, where people can come together to talk about the emotional impact of their work. to talk about, in confidential places, and support each other as well as get support from the group. we ha

he's now in itu. am i going to come to the unit and find him on a ventilator?" and we've seen that.ied in our country in world war ii. we're all scared that things will get worse before they get better. we're all scared of the cruel ripples of the pandemic — lockdowns, mental health problems, economic shock — so where's the light? consultant trauma surgeon martin griffiths is now helping out giving people vaccine jabs. i wanted to do something positive that would really help end the pandemic. what do you think of anti—vaxxers? they have my thoughts and prayers. they're wrong. they're so wrong. and either by a lack of knowledge, a lack of understanding, an unwillingness to accept reality of what we're seeing, they're actively contributing to the detriment of our society. i want to talk to them. i want to listen to what they have to say. i want to show them what i see, to see the lives that are lost, to see the devastation that this wreaks on our community, to see the wards and wards of people struggling to breathe, and to show them what vaccination looks like and show them what we ca