KEILAR: A Cleveland fertility clinic's freezer failure is turning out to be much worse than the hospital originally believed it was. University Hospital says more than 4,000 eggs and embryos were affected after a freezer malfunctioned. That is double the number previously thought. All of them are likely no longer viable. CNN national correspondent, Brynn Gingras, here with us on this story. This is pretty bad.</s>BRYNN GINGRAS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's really bad, Brianna. Like you said, double the amount the clinic initially thought when the clinic announced this issue earlier. Now we're talking about roughly 950 families affected, up from 700. This is all due to a freezer malfunction where the embryos were stored in this Cleveland facility. Now, take a look at this. In a letter, University Hospital officials updated these families. This is what that letter said: "The technical manner in which the eggs and embryos are stored in these freezers complicated our initial determination of how many patients and specimens were affected. We are heartbroken to tell you that it's unlikely any are viable." Now, there was some hope that some would be viable, but not any longer. So how did this happen? According to the hospital, temperatures fluctuated inside the liquid nitrogen tanks where these eggs and embryos are stored. The tanks do have a remote alarm system to alert staff when this happens, but for some reason, the alarm had been switched off. That was complicated by the fact that temperatures rose over the weekend when the lab isn't staffed. And this particular tank, the hospital admits, was having technical issues for several weeks. They were in the process of actually fixing the problem and moving the embryos, but that had not happened yet when this malfunction occurred. University officials have offered free services to its patients. They've waived storage fees for several years. But, Brianna, you can imagine lawsuits were flooding in before this update came. Now there's going to be even more.</s>KEILAR: Of course. Brynn Gingras, thank you so much. And the next hour of news starts right now. I'm Brianna Keilar, in Washington. "INSIDE POLITICS" with John King --
Ohio Fertility Clinic Loses 4,000 Embryos, Eggs.