♪ ♪ ♪ this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> brennan: good evening, to our viewers in the west thank you for joining us. i'm margaret brennan in for norah. tonight, the new covid variant omicron is spreading to a growing number of states. late this evening the governor of new york announced five new confirmed cases. it has also been detected in california, minnesota and colorado. since omicron was first discovered by scientists in south africa, it has spread to at least two dozen countries. it is now the dominant strain in south africa where infections are spiking. the biden administration today launched a new campaign to get more americans a booster shot, part of a strategy to manage a surge of delta infections already underway. cbs' weijia jiang leads off our coverage from the white house. good evening, weijia. >> good evening, margaret. tonight, we are learning that four of those new omicron cases are in new york city. still president biden is stressing that he does not believe shutdowns or lockdowns are necessary right now. he was frank, though, about the potentially dark winter ahead, which health officials warn will include a surge in cases and deaths. >> my plan i'm announcing today pulls no punches in the fight against covid 19. >> reporter: president biden revealed his latest strategy to caof ocronaria9 as the u.s. uding a minnesota man who attended an anime convention in manhattan before thanksgiving, an event that drew 50,000 people, and a woman from colorado who recently returned from africa, both patients were fully vaccinated. >> she is experiencing mild symptoms and isolating at home. >> reporter: tonight, preliminary data shows omicron is almost two and a half times more likely to re-infect people who previously had covid. >> experts say the covid 19 cases continue to rise in the weeks ahead and this winter, so we need to be ready. >> reporter: as a new strain spreads, the president announced that all international travelers including americans and those who are fully vaccinated will be required to get tested one day before coming to the u.s.. and in a new effort to track cases, private insurance companies will have to reimburse for at-home covid tests. so far, they have been expensive and in short supply. mask mandates will also be extended on planes, trains and public transportation through mid march, but vaccines are at the center of the president's plan. hundreds of new family vaccination sites will open up, focusing on giving shots to children, and there's a big push to get people boosted. >> go get it now. >> reporter: 71% of adults in the u.s. are fully vaccinated, but, of those, only 21% have gotten a booster shot. health experts say vaccinations and boosters are critical, especially now that omicron is here. >> it's probably already more widely spread than our early determinations have indicated, and it will spread further because it is highly contagious. >> reporter: as scientists scramble to learn more about the omicron variant, tonight the white house says that nothing is off the table as they think about potential new travel restrictions, that includes vaccine and testing mandates for domestic flights. margaret. >> brennan: weijia jiang, at the white house. the parents of the 15-year-old boy accused of shooting and killing four fellow students in oxford, at a high school in michigan, this week could soon be facing criminal charges. cbs' nancy chen has new details tonight. >> we hear something that sounds like someone being punched against a locker. and we heard at least six more gunshots followed by screaming. >> drop your backpack! >> reporter: as the attack unfolded, oxford high schoolr bk senior catalina ifkovits credits her math teacher for springing into action. catalina ifkovits cre >> the shooter was right outside or classroom. he was able to shut the door immediately and got us in lockdown mode. he saved all of us. >> reporter: after police evacuated the class, what she saw stunned her. >> there were silver bullet shells all over the floor in the hall. >> prosecutors say 15-year-old ethan crumbley used add semi- automatic handgun purchased by his father just days earlier, in tuesday's rampage, four killed and seven others injured. >> sir, do you understand all the charges against you. >> yes, i do.ured. >> reporter: crumbly is charged with 24 felony counts including terrorism and first-degree murder. >> it's a clear intent to execute a school shooting and-- and kill students. >> oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald, prosecutor, toll stud us she wants to hold anyone who could have prevented the wants to hold anyone who could have prevented the shooting accountable. you also mentioned the possibility of charging crumbley's parents. where does that stand now? >> we are actively considering and investigating. >> what could those potential charges look like? >> it went far beyond just negligent parents. n >> reporter: the day before the shooting crumbly made videos about killing the students and hours beforehand he and his beforehand he and his parents met with school officials and officials about behavioral problems. and as students process what happened, chaplains have been at the school where there's a growing memorial. students are also gathering at a nearby park for a candlelight vigil, m ch. police in los angeles made an arrest today in a killing that shocked the city. here's cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: this is one of the most protected and patrolled cities in the world. you will be caught and brought to justice. >> reporter: police say 29-year- old aariel maynor is responsible for shooting and killing jacquelin avant, the 81-year-old wife of music legend clarence avant.ic legend it happened in their home in beverly hills 2:30 wednesday morning. one hour later, police responded to another shooting at a home in nearby hollywood. >> he was in the house and collecting property and then after that, somehow discharged a weapon and apparently shot himself in the foot. >> reporter: this video appears to show maynor with an injured foot wheeled away from the hollywood home. >> somewhere in the night we had an astute watch commander in hollywood starting to put two and two together and reached out to beverly hills and there were some similarities. >> reporter: like surveillance video of the getaway vehicle seen heading toward hollywood and an ar-15 style rifle found at the second scene the detectives believe was used to kill jacquelin avant. today the family of the philanthropist and former runway model expressed gratitude to law enforcement and said,ex "now let justice be served." police say maynor had an extensive criminal record and he is out on parole. detectives haven't had a chance to speak with him since he is in the hospital. tonight investigators have a gun, a car and a suspect in custody. but what they don't have is a motive, margaret. >> brennan: carter evans in beverly hills. tonight, we are looking into one of the causes of america's housing crunch. the nationwide shortage of available homes is being driven in part by a labor shortage. industry experts say more than 2 million new workers will be need to over the next three years to meet the demand. here's cbs' mark strassmann. >> so right now they're running the wire through the house. >> reporter: developer joe atalla builds houses like this three-bedroom, two and a half bath near boise. >> the good news is these guys are showing up. >> yeah, these guys are on the job, exactly. >> reporter: because that's not true for everybody. >> it's not. >> reporter: america's builders face twin supply chain crises, a shortage of materials and labor, all trades. >> all the way through, you know, tile and sheetrock and roofing, all of those things. >> electrical. >> reporter: plumbing. exactly. >> reporter: the industry says it now has up to 430,000 open construction jobs and will need another 61,000 new hires every month for the foreseeable future. >> we need to replace -- or place 740,000 people into the industry a year for the next three years. that's at crisis levels. >> reporter: this labor shortage began in 2008 during the great recession. older trades people kept retiring. fewer young people want to work with their hands. then the pandemic nailed the door shut on training programs. >> it's not so much us telling the contractor when they need to show up, it's them saying this is when i can show up. >> reporter: is it going to get better soon? >> the narratives changing, skilled trade jobs provide a good living and college really isn't for everybody. >> reporter: that's the industry's hope, but for now, labor costs more so houses cost more, so houses cost more. the framer of this house, he charged attalla $6,000 more than six months ago.r mark strassmann, cbs news, boise. >> brennan: we turn now to a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people in the african nation of ethiopia. the devastation has escalated into what the u.n. calls the world's worst hunger crisis in a decade with millions facing starvation. here's cbs' debora patta. >> reporter: it started as an internal rebellion, morphed into an ethnic conflict and is now a famine. forced starvation has become a weapon of war with hundreds of thousands of children in dire need of food. these images were filmed in october. aide workers say it's even worse now. the world food program's claire neville, in addis ababa, told us they have been struggling to get food to 18 million people behind battle lines. food to 8 million people behind battle lines. we really need all authorities to allow us to access to reach the vulnerable populations wherever and whenever needed. >> reporter: some areas haven't had supplies for four months. trucks started going back into tigray last week but, only with enough to feed under half a million people. >> we must get food and assistance to people immediately to avert any further catastrophic levels of hunger. >> reporter: the conflict isn intensifying, while the country's leader nobel peace prize winner abiy ahmed swapped his business suit for battle fatigues. here you see him on a satellite phone leading his troops, andh behind the front lines while the men wage war, the children battle starvation. it's difficult to gauge the real extent of the food crisis. for the most part, international media has not been allowed into the conflict zones and, in some areas, communication has been cut off altogether, margaret. >> brennan: debora patta, thank you. still ahead, our interview with a man who is starting a new life after serving decades behind bars for a crime he did not commit. plus, the winter of baseball's discontent. ontent. that works di. it could mean a chance to live longer. opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive for pd-l1, and does not have an 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