this happened, everyone just came together. home depot and several other local businesses donated all of the building project materials. thanks for joining me today. i m paula reid in washington. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we start with breaking news. dr. anthony fauci says a heavily mutated covid variant that s potentially more contagious and more vaccine resistant may already be here in the u.s. would not be surprised if it is. we have not detected it yet. when you have a virus like this, it almost invariably is ultimately going to go essentially all over. the omicron variant has been detected in belgium, israel, and