more than 200 million americans are now fully vaccinated. and still, the country is breaking records for new infections, averaging more than 265,000 cases a day over the past week alone. that's according to johns hopkins university. the centers for disease control and prevention report close to 450,000 cases on monday alone. and that tops the previous one-day high of almost 300,000 back in january. now, we should point out these latest figures could be the result of a lag in reporting over the holidays. nonetheless, the number of children now admitted to hospitals with covid is nearing a new record. the cdc reports nearly a 50% jump in just the past week. now, access to testing remains a problem, as you can see there, right around the country. home test kits, meantime, are hard to find online, and in stores and people are lining up for hours at drive-through testing sites right around the country. cnn's alexander field has more now on covid's record setting rampage through the united states. >> reporter: a new surge in covid cases is bringing wit another spike in pediatric hospitalizations, up nearly 50% in a week nationwide. children still make up a small percentage of people hospitalized for covid and are still far less likely to become severely ill than adults, but hospitals have seen it before. just last summer during the delta surge. >> we have very high rates of hospitalization. very high rates of severe illness. children going on to bypass machines, a lot of teenagers especially. most of these children had underlying conditions, but it also affected healthy children. >> reporter: in new york city, pediatric hospitalizations have gone up fivefold in three weeks, a hospital in chicago reports a f fourfold rise. it doesn't appear the omicron variant is more dangerous for children, but it's highly transmissible. and holiday gatherings could fuel the surge in cases including among children, the age groups with the lowest vaccination rates in the country. >> we have not seen the worst of it yet. >> reporter: with cases climbing, staffing shortages are crippling industries. airlines canceling thousands of flights this holiday season. maryland's federal court scaling back operations. team usa hockey forced to forfeit the world juniors tournament. the cdc's latest guidance aims to put people back to work more quickly. but the recommendation to isolate for five days instead of ten if infected but not symptomatic comes also with criticism. >> the trouble is for the unvaccinated, the data doesn't really back up that they become noninfectious at five days. >> reporter: testing lines across the country are still intolerably long, and frustration is mounting over failures to make more at-home tests available more quickly. >> i hope we fix it in january and february, but we need a real effort to make sure there's cheap, ubiquitous testing everywhere in the country. >> reporter: alexandria fields, cnn, new york. >> hospitalizations may not be rising as quickly with the omicron variant as they did with delta, thankfully. but staff shortages and the unvaccinated are still straining health care systems in several u.s. states. now, here's the perspective of one critical care physician from boston, who writes in "the new york times," i worry about the insidious effect of the frustration that we feel and how we balance that real and understandable anger with empathy. and if our universities fill with coronavirus patients once again, further stretching a health care system that is on the emg dge with severe staffin shortages, it will become even harder to navigate that tension. dr. lamas is a critical tcare physician in boston and joins me now. we thank you for your time. i have pictures of you, when we talk about this war footing, this frontline analogy, i picture you peering over that frontline and what is it? it's that bed in the icu, it's been two years now that you've been at this. and yet your message, your editorial, what you want people to hang on to is optimism. why? >> i think as you said, it's been two years, and there are many ways that we can possibly frame where we are now. of course we all wish we were in a different place. we were wish this were done. at the same time, we're in a place where people are, yes, getting coronavirus, but people who are vaccinated, two shots and boosted, so fully vaccinated, the majority are not getting very sick. yes, they are uncomfortable and have cold-like symptoms, but those patients are unlikely to end up in an intensive care unit, even in a hospital. compared to where we were a year ago, that's hopeful. our vaccines work. we have medications now, in addition to medications that work. so yes, we're still not free of this, but we can live and have tools to live with it. >> yeah, and i think it puts it into perspective, the miracle that those vaccines were and continue to be. that is what caught my attention from your editorial. you know, you describe this moment where one of your colleagues in the icu told one of his unvaccinated patients who had come through such a horrible illness and said look, it's okay, let go of your guilt or any shame that you have from not being vaccinated and you write that she had made a mistake. but what is a hospital if not a place where we care without judgment for the many consequences of human fallibility. i just thought it was put so well. when it comes to those unvaccinated, i will note that patient did get a shot. what is your advice to all of us? because you're very, very une g -- >> i think anger is appropriate. we're in a place where a lot of people have a lot of right to be angry. and i think also that in addition to anger, there is the humility sort of, to acknowledge that people come from many, many different worlds and different perceptions of medical system. i think not getting vaccinated is definitely a mistake. sit a fatal mistake potentially, and it does not just cost the person making the mistake but it costs those around him. i feel that outside the hospital, i feel when somebody is walking down the street and if i know them, encounter them and i'm unvaccinated, i should do everything in my power to get that person the vaccine. i shouldn't find ways to apologize for those actions. but once someone is sick and in the hospital and we are taking care of them and they are vulnerable, we have to find some way, even if not to fully put that anger aside, but to accompany it with empathy, with kindness, with the knowledge that we are going to do everything we can for this person and not just to make them better, but to give them the tools to make better chances moving forward. that's a hard dynamic. really threading that needle is what doctors and nurses even more so are going to have to be doing the next weeks and months and doing that well is a way to prevent against burnout and compassion fatigue, but that's not easy to do. there is a lot of anger, and that anger is justifiable. but it can't only be anger. >> absolutely. with the people unvaccinated ending up in hospital, the frontline health care workers, yourself, the nurses, everybody who is there trying to bring these people back to a healthy life, they're suffering through their own life. i can only imagine the sacrifices that all of you speak of right now. >> uh-huh. yeah, entirely. there are areas of the country where people are being pulled in for extra shifts, that are being made to leave their holidays, leave their families, and worry about bringing things back to their families, even if they know their families, now that their lives are not in danger, there's a cascade of anxiety and inconvenience, and everybody in their overall world has somebody immune o compromised. but all of that dynamic is different than it used to be, and we're reaching toward the light at the end of the tum. but we're still going to go through the needless deaths of the unvaccinated. and while we do that while remaining compassionate is a challenge for us as a health care system. >> a challenge that we can meet and hopefully we will meet. doctor, thank you for your words of empathy. i hope they are a comfort to many, and i hope for better things in the weeks to come for you and everyone in your hospital. >> i do, too. thank you. >> okay. now, the omicron variant is also fueling a staggering wave of infections in parts of europe. take a look at this map. the countries in dark red have seen cases rise by 50% or more in the past week, compared to the week before. at least five countries reported record high new infections on tuesday. now, spain was among them. nearly 100,000 new cases. not only is that their highest one-day total since the pandemic began, but double the previous record set just last week. for more, we're joined by cnn's reporter in paris. what a glimpse into what europe is dealing with right now. you are in france where, again, they are in uncharted territory when it comes to the numbers. what are officials doing to try to cope there? >> reporter: we are in a vaccination center where they're expecting an uptick in demand. one of the things announced here in france monday they would shorten the amount of time between the second dose and the booster. there is this extraordinary wave that is now sweeping across europe, and 179,000 new cases in a 24-hour period. it is abastonishing figure when you put it into context of the previous waves we have had sere. we have seen a record shattering 100,000 on christmas day. we're nearly double that. it's extraordinary how fast this is rising and all attempts limiting gatherings throughout europe to try and prevent those health care systems from being swamped, paula. >> we just went through kind of the issues in your, as well. what are they also coping with? >> reporter: well, what we're seeing is, and i think this is something that europe wide, record daily rises, but fewer people entering icu, fewer people entering hospital, and yet the world health organization warning that we musn't be complacent about that. they are warning that this latest rise in new cases will lead to some health care systems here in europe being overwhelmed. just because the omicron virus is looking like it is leading to less mild forms because more people have been vaccinated, we are still talking about health care systems under the weight of that sheer rise in the number of new cases being overrun. take germany, where they have had a rise over the last few weeks. only 1/6th of the country's icu beds are now available. that gives you an idea how close europe is getting to the bring and to the point they're trying to avoid. and this is something we're seeing in many european countries, health care systems once again being brought to breaking point, paula. >> just chilling to think through the implications when we go back to the record setting numbers in the last 24 hours. melissa bell, thank you. now, we look back on the lives of two renowned americans ahead. the legacy of democratic senator can harry reid and his impact on u.s. presidents. and the sports world is mourning the loss of a much beloved and iconic nfl coach and broadcaster. tributes to the late john madden. that's next. ss. i had a lot of pain. as far as my physical health, my body was telling me you got to do something. and so i came to cleararchoic. your mouth is the gateway to your body. joe's trtreatment plan was replacing the teeth with dental implants from clearchchoice. 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shared a recent letter he sent to reid -- >> cnn's dana bash has more on the leggy of harry reid. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: he led democrats in the senate for a decade, but harry reid called one of his proudest accomplishments the impact he had on presidential history, encouraging barack obama to run. >> i called him into my office and told him to take a look at it. i was the first one to suggest that to him. when he was re-elected, he said, you know, you're the reason i'm here. >> reporter: he spearheaded epic legislative battles, like obamacare, with a scrappy style he learned during his impoverished childhood. reid was born, shaped, and scarred in searchlight, nevada, essentially a truck stop outside las vegas. he grew up in a shack with no running water where this trailer now sits. he took us there in 2006. his mother did laundry for the local brothels. his dad, always looking for work as a miner. both drank heavily. during that 2006 visit to searchlight, he pointed out where his father took his own life at 58 years old. >> this house right here, that last room is a bedroom is where he killed himself. >> reporter: he fought his way out of poverty as a boxer. as a politician, he was never afraid to punch below the belt. he even took on the mob as a young politician in las vegas. a wide variety of adjectives have been written about you. >> some good, some bad. >> let me just read a few. scrappy, tough, blunt, canny behind the scenes mastermind, ruthless. all those fair? >> well, that's what people are thinking, they're entitled to their opinion. >> reporter: as senate democratic leader, reid was a polarizing figure. republicans argued a lot of congressional gridlock stemmed from his hardball tactics. >> seeing the turning of the tide. >> reporter: but he reveled on playing the bad guy, calling then president george bush a loser and a liar, well before politicians used those "l" words. >> i don't care. i don't want to be somebody i'm not. >> reporter: during the president trump presidency, reid changed his tune about bush. >> in hindsight, i wish every day for a george bush again. i think that he and i had our differences, but no one ever questioned his patriotism. there's no question in my mind that george bush would be babe ruth in this league that he's in with donald trump. donald trump wouldn't make the team. >> reporter: in 2012, he used the senate floor to accuse mitt romney of not paying taxes, even though he had no evidence. >> he's refused to release his tax returns. let him prove he has paid taxes, because he hasn't. >> i don't regret that all. >> some people called it mccarthyite. >> they can call it whatever they want. he didn't win, did he? >> reporter: years later, he asked to meet with romney to make amends. >> shook hands and put it behind us. >> reporter: why was it important to tie up that loose end? >> i try to do that with everybody. >> reporter: he inspired fierce loyalty. from many of his long-time aides, as well as fellow senators. not all out of fear, but affection. he often told colleagues he loved them, even in public. >> i love you, john carrie. >> reporter: he had a story book romance with his wife. the two converted to mormonism together when they married. >> she had a pair of levis that looked so good. it's true. >> reporter: in january 2015, reid, a workout addict who ran numerous marathons, had a brutal exercise accident that left him severely bruised and blind in one eye. it cemented his decision to retire. a few years later, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. the effects of chemo made it hard for him to walk. we went to see him in las vegas. >> that's one of my keepsakes from donald trump. >> never any complaints. >> i'm doing fine. i'm busy. i work quite hard. >> reporter: reid was an unlikely political leader in today's media age. soft spoken and gaffe prone. but he played the inside game like no one could. >> i didn't make it in life because my athletic prowess. i didn't make it because of my good looks. i didn't make it because i'm a genius. i made it because i worked hard. one of the things that i hope people look back at me and say, if harry reid can make it, i can. >> and our thanks there to dana bash for that look back at the life of harry reid. and now to the world of american football. the sad news that legendary coach and iconic broadcaster john madden has died. madden was beloved for his gregarious style. for many, his voice and personality redefined sports commentator. and he became the namesake of a hugely successful madden series. the national football league announced his death on tuesday at the age of 85. the league's commissioner, roger goodell, paid tribute saying "nobody loved football more than coach. he was football. he was an incredible sounding board to me and so many others. there will never be another john madden, and we will forever be indebted to him for all he did to make football and the nfl what it is today." cnn has more now on the life of john madden. >> i've never worked a day in my life. i went from player to coach to a broadcaster, and i am the luckiest guy in the world. >> reporter: super bowl winning coach. pioneering broad caster. video game icon. a larger than life personality, john madden was by any definition a true original. during his 30-year broadcasting career, he was widely considered the voice of the national football league. >> you have to attack them with the pass and attack them deep with the pass. >> reporter: his passionate way of calling games with unique catch phrases -- >> the packers came out, went boom and got ten points. >> reporter: and a love for using a telestrator helped explain the game to hard core and casual fans across america. he called games for all four major networks, announcing 11 super bowls and earning 16 sports emmys during his time in the broadcast booth. his playing career was short lived. he was drafted in 1958 by the philadelphia eagles. but a knee injury cut it short that's when he denied to try his hand at coaching, becoming the youngest head coach in professional football history at the age of 33. in 1977, he led the oakland raiders to a super bowl victory, and is still the franchise's all-time wins leader. madden was inducted into the pro football hall of fame for his coaching career in 2006. >> boom. >> reporter: he was a television advertiser's dream, becoming the pitch man for numerous brands. >> ace is the place for me. >> reporter: in 1988, madden entered the video game world, lending his voice and name to what's now called madden nfl. >> anything that goes that far that fast ought to have dinner with an in flight movie. >> reporter: his video game is still the most popular football game ever, selling more than 100 million copies worldwide. whether it was his video game, broadcasting career or hall of fame coach, his passion for the game is what will always be remembered. >> some of us think we'll live forever, but when you think about it, we're not going to be. but i say this, through this bust, with these guys, in that hall, we will be forever. >> christine brennan is a cnn sports analyst and sports columnist at "usa today" and she joins me now. christine, we could fill books and many people have, about describe thing man and what he means to football, the nfl said as much in a statement and was quite definitive about what he means. i think for people who perhaps aren't football fans, can you explain the fact that as far as football and sport is concerned, that he's also a cultural icon. >> oh, absolutely, paula. john madden is larger than life and was larger than life, literally and figuratively. he was every man. he was a great coach, and retired at age 42 with a super bowl win. and one 067 the greatest winning percentages ever. so just as a coach he was amazing. but then, then he became an american icon. he went into the television booth and he was the personification of the sport of nfl football, the game. and it was exploding in american consciousness. there was a time when the nfl was not the biggest league in the country. that major league baseball was our national pastime, and other sports were all kind of vying for that title. we had a lot of interest in a lot of different sports. and the nfl just exploded and became our number one sport and the super bowl is a national holiday. you know, all of those things that the nfl is now, john madden helped to make that possible by bringing to the game to the masses by being so human, so relatable, so fun, so bombastic, and just such a real person in that booth, and that voice that really brought americans to the game of football in a way that had not been done before. >> in terms of how you describe him, and he is beloved, we are not exaggerating this by any stretch. you said bombastic, though. and i think do you feel that the game has moved on in a way, or do you think it will always be typified by what someone like john madden brought to that play by play, what his voice and commentary brought to what was going on, on the field? >> the nfl wouldn't be what it is today were it not for john madden. but yes, he does in some ways seem like a figure from another time. i think just being so real, he didn't have to work at it. that was his personality. i knew him just a little bit, and he was a delight and a joy, and he wasn't putting on airs. he wasn't anything more than what he was. there are announcers out there who are terrific, but no one quite captured the game like john madden. he worked for every network, literally went from one to the next. and then you throw in the commercials, which he was so well known for. and you throw in the video game, you know, the madden football game. you know, there are people who are probably in their 30s who didn't even know he was an nfl coach, because he had the second act and this third act and what have you. so maybe he's from a different time, but the nfl is so fortunate to have had him. he really loved this game, and he brought the game into the 20th -- end of the 20th century and into the 21st century and will be remembered for that, as the nfl was starting these glory days for the game and its popularity, there was john madden leading americans by the hand, you know, and having so much fun, the telestrator, drawing on it and all these pictures and all these circles. he would even sometimes circle the gatorade, because there was going to be a gatorade bath for the coach. you know, he had fun doing it. there was always a game, it was sport. it wasn't so serious, and i think maybe that's something that is missing now. >> no doubt, more tributes coming in the hours and days to come. christine, thank you. appreciate it. >> my pleasure, paula. thank you. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," the u.s. president faces mounting challenges as he wraps up his first year in office. a look backrd with our cnn political analyst. and the u.s. and russia will meet 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a number of domestic challenges, from a fast-growing covid surge, to a stalled economic and social spending package. and with midterms less than a year away, democrats hope he can turn things around in 2022. sabrina sadiki is a white house reporter at "the wall street journal" and joins me now from washington. really good to see you. and i've been reading kind of what you think is on the map here for democrats. you know, you point out that, look, the picture for biden is mixed. he's brought back stability, the battle against covid had shown progress, vaccinations were higher. they were supporting schools. the economy is decent. infrastructure bill, check, check. sabrina, it doesn't feel like that. it doesn't even feel like a mixed picture for this administration. why? >> well, i think in some ways it's because the honeymoon period for the biden administration is over. and it sort of split the year into the first and the second half, where there was this sense of stability that joe biden brought back to washington after the four years of the trump administration, and, you know, with the drive to increase vaccinations against covid-19, the covid relief package that he signed into law, the democrats passed earlier this year. there was a sense that people were starting to get their lives back. things took a turn when you had the chaotic exit from afghanistan, the delta surge happened, his ratings began to fall and now he's closing out the year with this second wave with the omicron variant and covid, which was the issue dominating when he took office, is also center stage at the end of his first year in office. and so although he has gotten some big items done like his infrastructure bill, there's still a sense that not enough has been done, especially with democrats having control of both majorities in congress and facing the reality that they may not have those majorities for very long. >> yeah. when you take it to the build back better bill that now just seems completely stalled, and they may try to do some of it piecemeal, do you think that's it? that we've seen the best days of basically the biden administration in this congress? >> well, it's hard to say, because the way that the negotiations on build back better is really the central economic priority for biden, you know, really stalling once again and show nothing signs of any breakthrough. hard to say that they're going to be able to get it done, right? and this ask really his top domestic priority. can they do it piecemeal is a question. they were trying to do it through this process where they could pass it on a simple majority vote. they don't even have buy-in from all 50 democrats in the senate. so can they do some of the big ticket items like child care, expanding health care as separate stand alone bills? it's not even clear the senate rules would allow for that. so if he isn't able to get a fill lpillar of his economic agenda passed, that would be a big blow, because it would signal the infrastructure compromise was going to be his biggest accomplishment, and there may not be much he can do, especially in an election year, because lawmakers start focusing on their re-election campaign and less on the business of capitol hill. >> i want to get to harry reid, the tributes continue to pour in on someone who was a pivotal figure for the democrats at another very important time. certainly aligned with obamacare and getting the affordable care act passed. harry reid has been warning the biden administration, though, that when it comes to the legacy going forward, whether it has to do with voting rights or having a supreme court with some kind of a balance, that perhaps they weren't going about it the right way. do you think his words will continue to ring in the ears of democrats in the months to come? >> i think absolutely. harry reid is someone known for his own progressive politics, but he was very successful at getting a lot of president obama's agenda through when he was leader of the senate during that period. and so one of the criticisms that democrats are facing is that, yes, they have this very narrow majority in the senate. a narrow majority in both chambers but not willing to change the rules of the senate that would allow them to pass more of wibiden's agenda. biden needs support from all 50 democrats, but if they don't do that, you're doing away with the possibility of getting police reform through, immigration form, voting rights reform. and there's still this open ended question of the future of bi biden's economic ae jgenda. so progressives feel like the time is now. if you're looking at the prospect of the republicans taking back the house and the senate in the midterms, then you can essentially say that biden is going to be a lame duck president. >> yeah, already. we are not even a year into his presidency, and there you go. sabrina, thank you so much. appreciate your insight. >> thank you. u.s. and russian officials will hold security talks on january 10 and come to the table with relations strained over russian troops still amassing on ukraine's border. earlier with moscow now insisting on certain security guarantees. cnn's nic robertson has the details. >> reporter: so these january 10 talks could be the first opportunity for a diplomatic off ramp for the growing tensions of russia's troop buildup along the board we are ukraine. vladamir putin want binding guarantees to stop nato's expansion, that he sees as a security threat to russia. he says snato should not take in ukraine as a full member. those are some of the guarantees he wants. u.s. officials are saying russia can put their concerns on the table. we'll put our concerns on the table, as well, about this troop buildup and other issues. the u.s. saying we'll be talking on the basis, on the principled basis that nothing about our allies and partners without our allies and partners being there, meaning at the table, that would be nato and ukraine, too. so the u.s. has got its very clear positions on this. they're also saying, u.s. officials are also saying look, we may be able to agree on some thing, but there will be things quite potentially that we'll disagree on. it's very unclear if president putin is willing to accept those kinds of continuing disagreements. he's looking for absolute clarity on nato's position on ukraine and may not be willing to accept ambiguities in these talks. what's also unclear that the 10,000 troops that russia's military said they withdrew over the weekend, they said they withdrew them because they finished military training. and it's not clear if they took their military hardware away with them, it's not clear if they're coming back again, not clear what's happening to tens of thousands of other russian troops, and it's not clear if there will be other russian troops coming to do military exercises and military training that russia says they are very much entitled to do on their own 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