also tonight here, the secret service. how do they explain the erased text messages from january 5th and 6th? rachel scott with late reporting from the hill tonight. the coronavirus here in the u.s., and tonight this number 85% of americans now live in a medium or high-risk area with this new variant sweeping the country. what dr. jha is now saying tonight about the current booster. and how much it could help if you get this strain of the virus. matt gutman tonight. this evening, authorities in ohio now say the black motorist shot and killed by akron police had 46 gunshot wounds. what his family is now saying tonight. the war in ukraine tonight. russian forces hitting new civilian targets, and it all comes just one day after that horrific attack that took nearly two dozen lives, including a 4-year-old girl. tonight here, we hear from that little girl s grandmother, her message for the russians. there is also late word coming in tonight on the cause of death of ivana
The Indonesian Health Ministry has confirmed the detection of the highly transmissible Covid-19 sublineage JN.1 in Indonesia, just as millions of people are set to embark on their year-end holiday travels.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for calm as the National Covid-19 Council is expected to meet on Monday and advise the state on how to handle the most recent variant of the deadly virus.
but david, the white house still won t say what those consequences would be. david? this is a really high stakes call. mary bruce, thank you. our coverage of the war in ukraine for tonight. there is a lot of other news to get to, and we move on now to the pandemic. u.s. authorities tonight are urging caution, not alarm, but caution amid these rising covid cases across europe and china, driven by the omicron sub variant. they re now predicting it could become the dominant strain here in the utz, believing it is at least 30% more transmissible than omicron was. they say it wasn t too early to take off thes maings, but to keep them nearby, and they re not ruling out needing them again. steve osunsami at the cdc tonight in atlanta. reporter: at the same time most of this country is now dropping covid restrictions because of declining cases, health officials tonight are closely watching a new subvariant of omicron that s spreading overseas. the cases we re seeing are just the tip of