short staffed and overwhelmed with covid patients they're suspending elective surgery. but also some potential good news. cases and hospitalizations starting to drop in the states hit first by the omicron wave. game over for novak djokovic the tennis star deported after his final loss in an australian courtroom and it would have been her 100th birthday how so many are honoring betty white this weekend by helping animals and adopting pets. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with kate snow >> good evening. if you're sitting in the eastern half of the country tonight you probably already have been hit by this winter storm or you're bracing for it all total, 100 million americans are under some kind of winter weather, wind, or coastal flood alert. snow, freezing rain, and sleet fell today in parts of the south not used to any of that check out this dash cam video from tennessee. heavy snow in