airports on friday seeing double the number of travelers from 2020, but storms could up end the itinerary. your "new day" starts right now. thanks so much for waking up, up with us sunday december 19th. i have to acknowledge a wave of panic when i say december 19th. i have not done enough christmas shopping yet. >> i'm in pretty good shape but you have plenty of time. >> hope so. >> the start of christmas week brings additional anxiety for millions of americans, not just because of shopping delays but covid-19 cases continue to rise across the u.s. >> and now the white house says that president biden will address the nation about the threat posed by the new omicron variant, as one medical expert put it, a tsunami is coming for unvaccinated americans. the omicron strain has been detected in all but seven states in the country. experts, though, say the delta variant is still fueling the latest wave of infections. from new york to miami and across the united states, lines for covid-19 testing are long and results often slow to come in. also, at home tests are flying off the shelves. cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner blames the biden administration. >> we need to, you know, mobilize manufacture produce, hundreds of millions of these tests and make them ubiquitous. that's how you keep businesses open, broadway open, how you keep your kids in school. >> facing these grim realities, colleges, venues and businesses are re-implementing restrictions not seen in months. polo sandoval reports. >> reporter: america is on alert leading into this holiday week facing an alarming surge of new coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths nationwide. with this new upswell, delta celebrations and everyday life are becoming more disruptive with each passing day. "saturday night live" canceled its live studio autdsence last night. >> we do not have an audience. >> reporter: charlie xxx canceling the performance citing a limited crew. radio city rockettes christmas spectacular show canceled because of breakthrough infections went into production. broadway has pulled down the curtain on some shows. new york state broke the record for the highest single day covid-19 case counts since the beginning of the pandemic for the second consecutive day reporting more than 21,000 positive covid-19 cases according to the governor's office. nfl and nhl are postponing games as more players are asked to quarantine as part of protocols and colleges and universities shifted classes and exams online to finish out the semester. as of now experts say the delta variant is driving the latest surge, but omicron is expected to become the dominant variant in the u.s. in the coming weeks. >> there's a tsunami coming. this omicron variant is extroerdsly contagious. it's as contagious as measles and that's about the most contagious of a virus we've seen. this may be the most contagious virus that civilization has faced in our lifetime. >> reporter: both cases and hospitalizations are at levels not seen since september at the end of the summer spike. in michigan, covid hospitalizations are hovering around all-time highs. the majority of them are people who are unvaccinated. dr. anthony fauci comparing it to a war. >> we will win this war with this virus. we know what public health mytygations work. we have just got to hang in there. we can't give up. >> reporter: with christmas and new year's eve approaching the tsa expects more than 20 million americans to fly between december 23rd and january 3rd and there are concerns that holiday travel will super charge a spread. if you're wondering about holiday get-together this doctor has advice on what family and friends should do so they can celebrate without worries. >> get tests for your house and use testing before you meet with others this holiday season. >> thanks, polo. in response to rising case rates president biden is freepg address the crisis looming over the country in a speech on tuesday. >> cnn white house reporter jasmine wright joins us now from wilmington, delaware. a lot of anxious americans right now, what do we expect to hear from the president? >> well, we expect the president to announce additional steps his white house will take responding to community struggles as these cases continue to rise. we expect him to make a very direct warning to the unvaccinated, laying bear for them what their winter could look like should they continue to refuse those shots. now this is the second type of really direct forceful warning the president has offered to the unvaccinated as they deal with an influx of cases around the country, really as they try to protect that this administration is capable of taking care of the american people in face of these ceases. but one sort of messaging hiccup that came in the way this weekend came from the vice president kamala harris who was quoted in an interview in the "l.a. times" and says the administration did not see the delta variant or the new omicron variant coming. that is a stunning admission. i talked to a harris aide afterwards and they said the vice president was not talking about the variants in general. of course they said that white house knew variants were a possibility. she was talking about the variant specifically. still, we got a tweet from white house press secretary jen psaki and i want to read it for you, said, we are prepared for rising case levels and the president will detail how we will respond to this challenge. that was a tweet issued saturday. still, the president really is going to talk on tuesday after he received a briefing last week that he was warned about this looming surge of cases that could rapidly increase around the country, something that you are really starting to see americans really become anxious about as these cases continue to rise. paula, boris? >> anxious indeed. thank you so much. let's bring in dr. bob davidson a west michigan emergency room physician and executive director of the committee to protect health care. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. now, the white house has ruled out the return of full shutdown. nobody wants to go back to that. are you concerned we are returning to what looks like the worst days of the pandemic? >> well, listen, i think we know more than we did when this all started. we know more than we did at the beginning of the last wave and we have more tools to fight this. we have vaccines. everything that is coming out is telling us if you're vaccinated and boosted your likelihood of getting severely sick or ending up in the hospital or dying from this strain or any strain is extremely low. i think every single bit of public health messaging continues to need to be around that. the president should address the country but should address congress and talk to folks, tell them to quit screwing around, matt gaetz, jim jordan, ron johnson, all of this messaging undermining vaccines, promoting fake treatments, is going to delay us getting back to normal. it feels like broken record but it has to be said over and over. we should be concerned and while gathering data on omicron, we should institute as many measures as possible to limit the spread and keep people apart. once we know more we have to go back to following the science. if we find vaccines and boosters are the answer push for mandates and keeping unvaccinated people out of the rest of our way so we can live our lives. >> give us a little report from the ground. what are you seeing in west michigan? >> we were still stuck in a massive surge of delta variant and our hospitals are still extremely full. we have seen a decrease in the case -- the test positive rate, but a decrease means we're just below 20% because we were hovering around 30% which is a high number. when i see numbers out of d.c. saying 250% increase, well, they're still only at about a 2% test positive rate. we're sitting in the 20% range. covid patients end up in the hospital for a very long time, so even if cases start coming down just a bit and we feel like we're getting to that point, the crisis still looms because folks are still in the hospital and all those other illnesses, including influenza starting to tick up, those folks need hospital beds too and struggling the most to get the bed because of the covid folks who aren't vaccinated. >> experts are encouraging people to get tested before traveling home, but easier said than done. getting a test and results continues to be an issue across the country. so what is your recommendation to anyone who is looking to travel over the next couple weeks? >> yeah. i think you should do your best to get a test. in our family we're all vaccinated, we're all boosted. as long as we're all symptom free and haven't been in contact with people who are known to be covid positive, we're very comfortable getting together because we know in our small family unit that we are taking the precautions so we're not getting each other sick. if you're venturing into places around people you don't know their status, infected or not, or vaccinated or not, need to be testing and taking as many precautions as possible so, you know, you don't end up spreading it to other folks. >> long lines for testing we saw there. there were people who don't want to get vaccinated but also believe they can avoid getting the virus through mitigation methods, working from home, wearing a mask in public. what is your message to those people, especially given how highly transmissible this variant is? >> well, hey f you're going to live in the woods and not be around the rest of us ever on planes, busses and stores, absolutely. you cannot catch this virus by not fwbeing in contact with oth people. where i live and work, some do live that way and have for a while, that's a reality. social distancing is part of life. for everyone else, it's inevitable that you will come in contact with the virus and the more times you do the more likely you are to get sick. in our experience, 98% of the people in intensive care are unvaccinated covid patients. over 90% of people in the hospital who have covid are unvaccinated. i think we need mandates. we're done asking nicely. we need to make it a part of everyone's reality. >> dr. rob davidson, thank you for joining us. appreciate your insight. >> thanks, paula. for the very latest on the omicron variant and the covid surge, catch dr. anthony fauci on "state of the union" with jake tapper and dana bash, at 9:00 a.m. on cnn. something else unfortunately likely hear about on "state of the union" senator joe manchin and his potential power to derail president biden's agenda. are other democrats okay with that? 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>> they may sit on the waitlist for the better part of 2022. >> reporter: roughly 10% of child care programs have closed. others are downsizing and many parents are seeing prices rise and waitlist gross. >> parents predominantly women can't go back to work. >> reporter: 84% of parents feel overwhelmed by child care and 20% have quit a job because of it. the average annual cost nationwide is more than $10,000 per child. for the average couple, 10% of their income. for single parents it's 35%. she came a stay-at-home mom when her son was born last year. she was making less than $40,000 in seattle. >> the child care costs was more than we were paying for rent. that's how much the child care costs were. i decided i have to quit my job. >> reporter: she and her husband are trying to find day care so she can get back to work but the waitlists up to two years long. >> we can't find child care. >> reporter: nearly 3 million women, including hundreds of thousands of mothers, are still out of work from the pandemic. >> it's important in terms of the jobs recovery going forward. >> reporter: adp's chief economist. >> the u.s. is losing trillions of dollars when women are not fully participant in the labor market. >> reporter: the build back better plan would invest $400 billion in child care, boosting wages, offering universal free preschool for 3 and 4-year-olds and guaranteeing middle-class families paying no more than 7% of their income on child care. >> parents can't pay more, early childhood educators can't earn any less so it's going to take significant public funding to fix the problem. >> reporter: look at rashon na and the career she left. >> what was the job you quit? >> i was a preschool teacher and had the job for 15 years. i loved it. it was great. i could not afford the cost of child care. >> reporter: a teacher stuck at home needed now more than ever. >> if you want us to pour into your children you have to give us what we need. >> thanks to gabe cohen for the report. later this morning we're going to talk to the ceo of a nonprofit that serves low-income families. she says she can't find enough teachers to serve the children in her community. stay tuned for that. she joins us live next hour. meantime president biden conceded this week that congress would not pass his build back better spending bill before the end of the year, despite democrats' efforts to pass it before christmas. not only does the white house not have any republican support it's a democrat impeding their goals. senator joe manchin of west virginia. joining us now to break down where things stand in washington, political congressional reporter nicolas woo. thank you for joining us this morning. always appreciate you getting up early for us. let's start with something house speaker nancy pelosi said when asked whether manchin was holding up the party's ability to pat pending bill. >> let me just say, i wouldn't put too much credence on any gotcha statement out of the beltway. make no mistake, joe biden is in charge. >> president biden has been trying to sway senator manchin and senator krysten sinema of arizona. to no apparent avail. what's it going to take from the white house to get this passed going into next year? >> it's going to have to take a big push from democrats to get this passed. we've seen this story play out over and over over the past year. in the 50/50 senate, any one senator has veto power over what happens, and that is what manchin has here. maximum leverage over what happens. like it or not, democrats have to work with him on that. this is why we see such defensive arguments from the speaker, such a fiery response from the vice president the other day when asked if, you know, if biden or manchin is president. >> right. and you wrote about the frustrations that some members of congress are feeling as the bill remains in limbo. congressman david sis sa linney telling you that there are a lot of bills the democrats haven't been able to pass and, quote, that's a very hard thing to explain to people. all they know we have controlling majorities in those places and we ought to be able to deliver and they are right. he points out that this logjam isn't exactly a selling point going into an election year, nicolas. >> exactly. democrats came into this year with this pig laundry list of priorities passing immigration reform, gun control, even more expensive build back better plan and all has fall bin the wayside not in what democrats used to call in mcconnell's graveyard in the senate, but the democrats graveyard in the senate. they don't have the bills -- votes to move the bills forward. it runs into the reality of the 50/50 senate. >> you bring up the filibuster. obviously a barrier to democrats getting a lot of things on the agenda done, things like national voting rights reform. democrats, of course, need the support of ten republicans to pass any bills. the white house pivoting now to a push for national voting rights legislation after build back better hit a wall. there's reporting that even white house aides are bearish on voting rights passing. any inclination from the hill this might gain some traction? >> from what i've heard on the hill, boris, is that, you know, this looks like it's faded for the same ending as other big democratic policy proposals. still have the philly bust intact. there was talk over the past few weeks of a filibuster carve out for voting rights legislation. it takes all democrats in the senate to change the rules for you to do so. senator kirsten sinema stood strong against doing that. you can't do that. there was some talk among senior democrats of using the so-called reconciliation process, the fasttrack process that only takes a simple majority to pass voting legislation, but it's unclear if the strict rules of the senate to do so would allow you to put voting rights through. you know, this is, you know, really where democrats dreams might be a bit crushed. >> and the counter argument from people like manchin in west virginia and sinema in arizona their senate seats could be occupied by republicans and that would make, you know, this agenda, these hopes an even bigger pipe dream than already. thank you for the perspective in time. always appreciate it. >> thank you. europeans vent their anger as surging covid infections prompt officials to enforce unpopular restrictions hoping to slow the spread. we're live from rome and london next. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ woman: i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪ yeah i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin, yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪ nothing and me go hand in hand ♪ ♪ nothing on my skin that's my new plan. ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ woman: keep your skin clearer with skyrizi. most who achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months had lasting clearance through 1 year. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin at 3 years. and skyrizi is 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. ♪ it's my moment so i just gotta say ♪ ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches, or coughs or if you plan to or recently received a vaccine. ♪ nothing is everything. ♪ woman: talk to your dermatologist about skyrizi. learn how abbvie could help you save. this is your home. this is your family room slash gym. the guest bedroom slash music studio. the daybed slash dog bed. the living room slash yoga shanti slash regional office slash classroom. and this is the basement slash panic room. maybe what your family needs is a vacation home slash vacation home. find yours on the vrbo app. ♪ small businesses like yours make gift-giving possible. now, comcast business has an exclusive gift for you. introducing the gift of savings sale. for a limited time, ask how to get a great deal for your business. and get up to a $500 prepaid card with select bundles when you switch to the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses. or get started with internet and voice for $64.99 per month with a 2-year price guarantee. give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. the latest covid surge is prompting measures across globe as the omicron variant looms and the delta variant remains dominant. >> let's get an update on what's happening in other parts of the world. barbie nado is in rome and scott mcclain in london. barbie, i want to start with you. new protocols are being put in place all across europe. what's the latest? >> reporter: we've got some very strict restrictions in places like the netherlands going into lockdown limiting how many can go to each other's homes for christmas. in rome they've canceled the new year's eve concert jenly held in paris and fireworks for new year's eve. travel restrictions in germany and france, banning people from the uk because of the rapid spread of the omicron variant. mostly in continental europe they're still dealing with delta. the rise in cases all across the continental europe is because of delta. slowly omicron is climbing up in cases but we're still dealing with the last wave right now before they're getting ready for the next one. >> and scott, the mayor in london declared a major incident as omicron cases continued to rise yesterday. what exactly does that mean for people in the uk? >> it means the situation here is not good at the moment, boris. six days away from families getting together at christmas and we have this surge of the omicron variant that is now the dominant strain here in england and we might be in the calm before the storm. the storm being an expected surge in hospitalizations. yesterday, the british prime minister met with his top scientific and health advisors and his cabinet to try to figure out what to do next. last year you might remember, restrictions effectively canceled christmas across england and surely the government wants to avoid a repeat of that. this morning, the health secretary seemed to dismiss suggestions there might be a two-week circuit breaker lockdown but he did point to the advice of government scientific advisors who say that look, in order to prevent near peak levels of hospitalizations, something will need to be done in excess of the measures in place right now to try to tamp that down and try to reduce social contacts and even to shut down the places where those take place. restaurants, bars, soccer stadiums, et cetera. the prime minister, though, it seems is more content to take a bit of a wait-and-see approach in part because it's not entirely clear just how severe an illness omicron causes and at least on paper right now, there has not been a national surge in hospitalizations, people on ventilators, thing like that. but there is starting to be an uptick in places omicron is present including in london where there's been a 30% increase in hospitalizations over the past week according to the mayor and that is why he has declared this a major incident allowing emergency services to better, you know, take drastic measures to make sure they're fully staffed because so many health care workers are calling in sick with the virus. the major incident designation by the way is normally reserved for things like terror attacks, like major disasters. under normal circumstances you wouldn't see this for sort of a health care emergency like this. >> yeah. hard to say we've had normal circumstances for almost two years now in this pandemic. barbie newdo and scott mcclain, thank you both. another example of how the covid surge is affecting entertainment. "saturday night live" was only partially live last night. >> there was no live audience for the show. former host tom hank was there along with tina fey and keenan thompson and welcomed actor paul rudd into the five-timers club having hosted the show five times. here's what they said about the absence of an audience. >> covid came early this year, so in the interest of safety we do not have an audience and we sent home our cast, most of our crew, but i came here from california and you think i was going to fly 3,000 miles and not be on tv you have another thing coming. >> we thought we would read the dumb jokes anyway and see if we can make these guys laugh. >> do you mind if i call you hank? >> i would hope you didn't. >> >> let's bring in cnn's chief media correspondent brian stel zer anchor of "reliable sources" author of other books. i will admit i did not stay up late enough to watch this last night. what have you learned ability what went into this decision and how different was the show last night? >> yeah. the show had to go on but in an unusual way. mostly on tape. they were airing a version they taped at 8:00 p.m. and ran some sketch that were produced basically as practice as rehearsal earlier in the week. you know, paul rudd alluded in his comments in the open, a crazy week and crazier day. he meant during the day on saturday, plans for this program changed on the fly. as more and more crew members and others tested positive, the show had to scramble to come up with a new way to stay on the air. we're seeing versions throughout the entertainment industry, whether because of the delta surge or this highly contagious omicron variant we are seeing covid cases rip through new york city and other major cities and "snl" had to scramble as a result. they had so many people out due to illness that they had to figure out a different way to put on the show. then they pulled it off well. it's impressive to see when plans change and they find a way to go forward. but it's really a symbol of what's going on more broadly i think in the country right now and in the industry in media we are seeing examples all around as well. >> it's not just "snl" pap lot of places are reinstituting covid measures including here at cnn. we're doing things differently because of the surge in cases. >> right. overnight cnn announcing we're basically moving back to 2020 protocols for the time being, what that means, only staffers who need to be at work in the office are in the office. everybody else back at home. it's disappointing, no matter what industry we're talking about because many have moved back toward a sense of normalcy. here at our office it's been busier in recent weeks and we've had to pull back because of this incredible increase in cases that's happened in the past few days. another example, broadway, ten broadway shows were canceled on saturday. that number has been creeping up all week long. it's largely due to the same factors. when you have so many people who are testing positive you can't put on a broadway show. this is going to continue to raise a challenging question, what is different about cases now if these cases are in vaccinated americans? 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as we've been talking this weekend, it doesn't look so good over the next week. >> the problem spots are going to be along the coastlines, not only the west coast but the east coast of the u.s. a couple different systems going to be impacting. the first wave for the east coast is one impacting yesterday, still lingering across the carolinas, virginia, florida, down through georgia today. that should push out overnight tonight. then this second wave begins to form really later today, pushing rain into texas, but then that's going to surge foot southeast over the coming days. really, any travel plans in and around the southeast, it's going to be a messy couple days. the heaviest rain towards florida and georgia and the carolinas, 2 to 4 inches is possible. heavier rain is what impact is going to be on the west coast storm. this is going to be a series of waves here. the first one came in yesterday. now we're talking about the second one that's going to surge moisture into oregon, washington and northern california. once we get into monday, tuesday, and especially wednesday of the upcoming week we start to see that moisture spread into other areas of california. overall we're looking at significant rainfall totals and snowfall totals once you get into the higher elevations. the cascades, sierras and rockies, some areas to be measured in feet of snow. in terms rainfall it's going to be heaviest along the coast, widespread, about 2 to 4 inches, but there could be spots that pick up 6, 8, 10 inches of rain. let's break down the trouble spots. for today, again, going to be out to the west and along the east coast for today. by monday the eastern half of the country not too bad. it's the northwest that's really going to be the focus. then once we transition into tuesday we start to see that next system push into the southeast, create something travel spots there. we also have a storm system in the midwest and our next system pushing into the west. wednesday, again, the focus out to the west and into the portions of the northeast and by thursday we're looking at some pretty significant problems in the western portion of the country. >> all right. allison chinchar, thank you so much. >> thanks. so on saturday, volunteers gathered at arlington national cemetery for the annual wreath laying to honor fallen service members. more than 250,000 wreaths were laid at headstones in arlington. >> ceremonies took place at over 3,000 cemeteries in all 50 states and abroad. some lawmakers even joined volunteers including wyoming congresswoman liz cheney and virginia's governor elect glenn youngkin. this year marked 30 years since the tradition first began. with new covid cases surging across the united states, president biden will announce new measures this week aiming to slow the spread of the virus, but are plaerpamericans ready t listen? 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