games. people are tired and sick of hearing this. but if you are unvaccinated, you are open to a lot of negative consequences from covid. not only long covid but severe illness, death, and being in the icu for weeks. we are feeling the omicron wave, especially hard right now, but we know it is going to be all over the country. new york state breaking the highest single day covid-19 case count for the third-con sec tichb day. we expect a spaniel number of cases and a quickly growing number of case. de blasio asking president biden s white house to invoke the defense production act because of a shortage of at-home tests and antibody treatments. we re in touch. covid-19 cases more than doubled just from the beginning to the end of last week in new york city leading to long lines for covid tests. don t want to be standing in line when it s 30 degrees outside wait for a test. reporter: health officials warn it is too soon to say with certainty whether or not omicron
require proof of vaccination to enter most indoor public spaces. and new york city new york city mayor bill de blasio is weighing whether to cancel the new year s eve celebration in times square, as the state reports a record number of covid cases for a fourth day in a row. all of this, coming amid warning signs from europe, the netherlands entering day two of its strict lockdown to step the spread. officials in the uk are considering new restrictions as well before christmas with hospital numbers rising. and while we hear president biden has all but ruled out new lockdowns in the united states, the surgeon general today telling the 71 million eligible americans who are not vaccinated right now, quote, i m worried about you. i ll speak to the surgeon sernl in just a moment. but first, i want to go to cnn s he s amara walker. omicron making up 73% of covid cases right now, that is a big jump.
from. one, it was cordial and two, that was a sense inside the white house that negotiations, in some way, shape, or form, would probably restart in the new year. the biggest question, though, and i think this is always been the case is how do you thread the needle from what senator manchin wants, versus what president biden and pretty much every other democrat in the caucus not just wants but has outlined? the house has passed this version and that is been the rub throughout the entirety of these new yorks. you mentioned senator manchin brought it to president biden, $1.8 trillion proposal but what it did was address many of the issues that manchin is laid out. he doesn t want short-term programs that would have to be essentially passed back into place or reauthorized. that proposal had ten years of preschool, which is essential component of president biden s plan. but it did not contain either one year or he any years of the expanded child tax credit. that is a nonstarter for both pr
of the jury. let s go out front. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. out front tonight breaking news. the country s fears confirmed. the omicron variant is now, by far, the dominant variant in the united states amid a surge of cases across the country. it makes up 73% of new cases right now, which the cdc previously estimated was just 3%. right now, the u.s. is averaging more than 130,000 cases every day. and president biden preparing for a major speech tomorrow to address this wave and announce new steps to fight the threat from omicron. this is not a speech about locking the country down. this is a speech outlining and being direct and clear with the american people about the benefits of being vaccinated. tonight, cities in the northeast are taking action. the mayor of washington, d.c. declaring a state of emergency, and reinstating the city s indoor mask mandate. boston announcing it will
tonight, the white house still believes there is hope for president biden s build back better bill. that is despite democratic senator joe manchin the key vote and the person biden has been negotiating with most announcing he opposes that bill. still, from the white house podium, hope. i think senator manchin had a strong statement yesterday, and we had a strong statement, as well. and we re ready to move forward and get this done and work like hell to do that. with senator manchin, with members of the democratic caucus across the democratic party and that s our focus moving forward. this as cnn learns manchin s submitted a counterproposal to the white house days before he called off negotiations, and manchin saying in a new interview today democrats should not be surprised. i was at 1.5 from the beginning. i gave schumer exactly the philosophical beliefs and the