you're laooking at a sneak peek of this weekend's events.ne of those events is the inaugural ball. bow ties and ball gowns, there will be plenty of outfits to watch out for in the coming days. if you have money in washington, you don't really don't want to show it. what you want to show is actually power. that quote coming from robin givhan, fashion editor, and "washington post" contributor, and she's here with us in our studio here on the national mall. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so let's talk about fashion, specifically michelle obama's fashion. i know that you have said the first lady is stylish, but you have written in the past, i want to quote here, be ready, more often, her clothes are simply lovely frocks worth admiring in slide shows and picture books, but not worth discussing. now, you go on to say, fashion is fun, was the nonstop attention to mrs. obama's wardrobe isn't fun, it's exhausting, it's too much, and it's pointless. so do we have michelle obama fashion fatigue? >> well, clearly i did when i wrote that. you k

lipkin, laooking at the map you see this as an epidemic around the country. then there was ted rowlands reporting on tents they're using in allentown, pennsylvania. hospitals in chicago not ready. that is pretty frightening. most people don't expect in the united states, even in a flu epidemic, our hospitals are just not going to be ready, and going to have to put people in tents. it's something you expect in other parts of the world. how does this happen? >> it is frightening. this is the worst flu season we've had in ten years. and we don't really know how bad it's going to be. in new york alone, for example, we are already well ahead of where we were last year. and we're projected to go much higher. as you say, the flu season started earlier and it may run longer. now, we are ill-prepared for this. we don't have the negative pressure rooms, which are required to isolate people. we frankly don't have enough vane. we have 135 million doses of vaccine, and we have almost twice as many people in the united states. so -- but the short answer is, we really don't

if you laook over to my right, this is the plant where they make tractor-trailers and parts.n this plant this morning. they took cover in the bathroom and all of them survived, amazingly, because it is flattened. if you come around this way, you can see that there are trucks and cars on the road here that are -- they were tossed around like toys. there were even -- there were even tractor-trailers that fell on over these trucks, and it's amazing that nobody was killed in those either. across the way, there were two buildings that were completely destroyed, and in the center of them, another building that is damaged. but up, and actually, and seems to be in good structural shape. right now, what's happening is georgia power is moving into this area. you can just see all of these lines in here. all of these power lines. they are all down throughout the area. electricity is out throughout the area, which is a big problem for people now tonight, because the temperature has dropped about 20 degrees. it's going to get much colder tonight and the rain has not let up all day. wolf? k

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