An incredible 98 . The common cold also way down will it last a dozen republican senators now joined in a lastditch effort to overturn the election results. As another effort gets thrown out by a trumpappointed judge. Double hit the Snowstorm Snarling Highways And The Second Storm Coming right behind it. Mystery at sea a boat carrying 20 people from the Bahamas Vanishes and the amazing moment this surfer sprinted across the beach into the water to save a swimmer from being swept away announcer this is nbc nightly news with jose diazbalart. Good evening, and happy new year the start of a year is often filled with hope, but for Many Public Health officials its filled with dread more than 77,000 people died in the United States in the month of december, more than october and november combined. And there is a new prediction tonight that january will be far worse. The Vaccine Rollout that should ultimately stop the surge is moving desperately slow these are the long lines in the few states
Holiday surge although the less severe omicron may mean fewer hospital visits. People looking to get tested are still finding long lines and delays getting results. This comes as thousands of travelers nationwide additional flight delays. And President Biden criticism for saying there is no federal solution for is popping the sto. Rehoboth beach traveling with the president who kept to himself. Mike tobin at airport where Flight Cancellation and delays travelers trying to return home from the holidays. We start with Steve Harrigan in atlanta home of the cdc. Good evening, steve. Bret, good evening. The cdc made it official saying omicron is the most dominant strain of covid right now in the u. S. 58. 6 cases in the u. S. Are now the omicron variant. More than double the percentage of just one week ago. Omicron has been more contagious but less lethal than delta. Some medical warn the worst is still ahead. Most of us are concerned there will be, over most of the country, a surge of case
Of control both physical control and the commitment to control those documents, then this is really just one more in a series of incidents in which donald trump believes that nothing applies to him. the lu doesn t apply to him. he s above the law. but in this case, he may be getting closer to realizing that in america, no one is above the law. turning to capitol hill, you have been such an advocate for doing something with the climate there. it s investment in this legislation that s going pass the house just today. just today we also learned that the global warming in the arctic is many times more serious than we thought it was so very short time here to do anything that s important enough. is this compromised bill good enough? is it a good start? i think it s monumental.
This time they re off because there was a very mild season down in australia. and then the third, that we don t we mixing it up with covid. like the symptoms are too similar. flu doesn t have the same nasal congestion as covid does but same body aches and weakness and fatigue and fever and seeing kids getting sick with the flu. two deaths have occurred already. flu hospitalizations are going on. all of this taken together, make it a lot harder on me as a clinician to decide what s the flu and what s covid? good news, i can do tests for both. the flu test is a lot more available than the covid test. bret: but in an average flu season or aggressive flu season we have 30 to 60,000 people die from the flu, right? exactly. and, you know, that s what we re worrying could occur this year 30 to 60,000. nowhere near the order of what we are seeing from covid. the other problem with covid is
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