mike hannon joins us now from washington. d. c. so what are officials saying there about this surge? well, it's a massive surge. indeed. sammy or infection rates are rising sharply throughout the entire united states in the district of columbia, where i am, for example, there are 2 and a half 1000 infections were recorded in the past 24 hours. now that doesn't seem like a high figure, but this represents an increase of some 900 percent since the same rate of infection 2 weeks ago. so this is a massive search and a few extrapolate that across the country. you can see exactly how massive the search is. also a big point of concern as well, is the rising infection rates among children, particularly those add to the age of 5 who cannot be inoculated or cannot receive the vaccine. those figures are showing an increase of some 58 percent in terms of childhood admission to hospitals. so all of these factors combining together to create an extremely grim picture in terms of the situation throughout the united states. and mike testing is bec

that is, mike hannon with the latest live in new york. thank still ahead. on the, for the turn, a lockdown school closures and loss of one or more parents. we look at the emotional toll. the corona virus is having on children and per room and surrounded by thousands of people in northern brazil, trapped after 2 dams 1st. ah hello there. it's a tale of 2 extremes. weatherwise across north america, we've got some exceptional warmth with spring conditions. down in the south, but the west continues to see that wintery weather with some heavy snow stretching all the way from western canada down to california. if i move out the way, you can have a look at that wintery weather pulling in once again, stretching across the cascades and into the rockies. we've also got more snow blizzards as well, expected across central parts of canada. moving across to the great lakes that we've seen some exceptional cold up here. done. central air is it is looking more mild and we have got that warms coming up from the south. the temperature in houston city about 10 degrees above