pediatric medicine shortage. over-the-counter cold medicine for children is selling out, forcing major pharmacies to limit just how much families can buy. cbs carter evans speaks with worried parents. and a match made in heaven with campus housing in short supply, a group of pennsylvania college students trade the dorm room for a con. bs kki battisteas sist saight out of the movies. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. duncan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m jericka duncan in for norah. national drug chains are limiting the sale of over-the-counter children s medicine amid a widespread shortage. plus, the white house accuses texas governor greg abbott of endangering lives when he dropped off bus loads of migrants outside the vice president s home on a very cold christmas eve. more on those stories in just a moment. but first, a state of emergency is in effect tonight in new york state following the dea
so the first and most important thing people can do is go out and get vaccinated. that will keep people, kids, adults, everybody out of the hospital at very high rates. that is probably the most important thing. and then we know how to manage rsv. most children, most adults, relatively mild. small somebody of kids that get sick from it, we can take care of it. we need to make sure the beds are open for children which is why it is important to protect yourself from influenza and covid as well. are we going to be seeing makeshift hospitals or wards for children this winter? i hope not. we re seeing a lot of rsv right now. my hope is that turns around. what worries me is if we then add in influenza and covid on top of that, that s where we can get into trouble, but we don t have to. we can t control everything, but there are things we can control. the two most important things now are going out and getting the influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid sh
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sound of ripping throughout the nation. there s going to be a lot of ripping. carley: that sounds like a problem for you. todd: i got home yesterday, instead of saying welcome home, honey, we missed you. my wife says you were too loud during the 8:00 hour. i m going to ratchet it down a little this hour. merry christmas to you and yours. griff: merry christmas. thank you for having us into your living room now. i have confirmation in my living room, which is in washington now, i was questionable if santa was going to come, he apparently came to the jenkins household. you can see here with lots carley: lots of gifts. griff: i got so many gifts. carley: are those all for you? griff: i assume so. who else would they be for? carley: you have two daughters. griff: i do. madeleine and mckenzie, merry christmas to you guys. todd: i called santa a dirty name yesterday, he didn t deliver to my tree as nicely as yours. griff: there s one thing about the tree. if we can show it qui