city's history. >> o'donnell: did a christmas tree start the blaze? winter weather from coast to coast. more than 82 million americans under alerts. the unsolved mystery of january 6. the hunt for the pipe bomber, as officials say extremism is on the rise. plus, what president biden will say about donald trump's role in the riot. kim jong-un's missile launch: north korea claims it was a hypersonic missile. how far the weapon could go. the breaking news tonight: the world's number-one tennis player kicked out of australia. why officials say the visa for novak djokovic was canceled. and the unlikely duo bridging the gap between two cities in the north and south.rth and our story tonight about unifying america. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with breaking news. a key c.d.c. advisory panel is recommending covid-19 boosters for younger teens. that means that nearly five million kids could be eligible for a third dose of the pfizer shot as early as tomorrow. but for many parents, that booster couldn't come soon enough, as the omicron surge is shattering records in the u.s. cases are up in nearly every state. and the c.d.c. said the seven- day average of daily cases is up 98% from the previous week. 98%e cbs' manuel bojorquez is in miami, florida, where cases have almost doubled in the last week. good evening, manny. >> reporter: good evening, norah. across the country, demand for testing remains high, and here in miami-dade county, well, it now has the second-highest rate of new infections in the nation as the virus continues to disrupt lives. ♪ ♪ ♪ tonight, omicron's impact continues to be felt nationwide. the upcoming grammy awards are now postponed indefinitely after organizers said there were too many risks. the awards were scheduled to air on cbs at the end of this month. there's news out of the c.d.c. today. children ages 12-15 could be eligible as soon as tomorrow too receive a booster of the pfizer vaccine if it's been five months after their second dose. the agency's advisers cited rising infections in teens and young adults and a troubling increase in pediatric hospitalizations for the recommendation. >> c.d.c. surveillance data and other studies from around the world have demonstrated the benefit of a booster dose. including decreased risk of infection, severe disease, and death. >> reporter: as omicron continues its record-setting pace, a new c.d.c. forecast says cases and hospitalizations will likely increase in the coming weeks, with d.c., new jersey, florida, georgia, new york, and maryland seeing the highest rates. infectious disease doctor aileen marty: >> way too many people are not taking it seriously. >> reporter: new hospital admissions in miami-dade county are up 550% in just two weeks. >> so many of our people are sick, not just the clinically- facing staff, but even the support staff, the lab staff, et cetera. >> as the hospital gets strained, there is less opportunity to provide all these resources to the one, single patient. >> reporter: patients like 26- year-old jada turnbull, who says doctors at the cleveland clinic outside miami saved her life, after a 42-day-long battle with covid last year. you had a 10% to 15% chance of living? >> yes. >> reporter: and here you are. what words do you have for the medical staff? >> thank you. i cannot thank you guys enough. >> reporter: and we are also learning tonight the data on vaccinating children six months to four years old could be released as soon as the end of march. norah. >> o'donnell: a lot of new headlines. manuel bojorquez, thank you. we want to turn now to chicago, the nation's third-largest school district, where parents of more than 350,000 students are anxiously wondering if their children will be back in school tomorrow. at this hour, the teachers' union and the city are negotiating new covid-related health protocols after the teachers voted to return to remote learning due to the rise in cases last night. well, chicago's mayor called the teachers' action an illegal work stoppage. cbs' charlie de mar reports from chicago. >> reporter: it was a late-night jolt that ground the nation's third-largest school district to a halt and sent parents scrambling to make alternate arrangements for their children. >> i'm not prepared. i did hear about it in the news, but i just kind of assumed that they will find some way around this. >> reporter: chicago mayor lori lightfoot canceled all classes but threw parents a life line. she kept school doors open so children had a place to get their meals and stay if needed, but there would be no class work at least for the day. >> when our district was fully remote, our children suffered. there's no disputing that reality. we saw triple the amount of failures in elementary school testing and learning, triple. and that fell most disproportionately on black and brown and poor kids across our district. >> reporter: with only 33% of children ages 5 to 17 fully vaccinated nationwide, new pediatric cases continue to rise, and schools across the country continue to struggle with balancing student and staff safety with making sure the learning continues. of the five largest school districts, only los angeles requires a negative test before coming to class. the others are opting for social distancing and masking. this morning, new york city's new mayor, eric adams, insisted the only option for the nation's largest school district is keeping the classrooms open. >> the safest place for a child is the school. little johnny's not in school, he's not in his room. he's in the streets. you know, he doesn't have his mask on. >> reporter: today in philadelphia, nearly half of the public schools were forced to go virtual because of staff shortages due to the virus. maya mcgeathey's two sons are now back to remote learning for the rest of the week. >> this is beyond deja vu. we should already know what to do and how to do it so no one feels like they're scrambling. parents have arrangements. children have food. the satellite centers are opened up and properly done. >> reporter: both sides say they're committed to students as they are protecting everyone's health as new covid cases reach a pandemic high in the tea. norah? >> o'donnell: we want to turn to aple, >> o'donnell: all right, charlie de mar, thank you. and we want to turn now to a heartbreaking story out of philadelphia where an early- morning fire took the lives of at least 13 people, including seven children. well, tonight, first lady jill biden, who grew up outside philadelphia, said her heart is with the families and loved ones of the victims. cbs' nancy chen with more on what may have caused the fire. >> we're getting multiple calls, reports of people inside. >> reporter: the fire tore through this three-story row house, where it appears 26 people lived. philadelphia's deputy fire chief said crews arrived around 6:40 this morning, shortly after the first calls came in. >> i've been around for 35 years now, and this is probably one of the worst fires i've ever been to. >> reporter: dozens of firefighters battled the blaze for nearly an hour as the upstairs apartment was engulfed in flames. eight people in the ground-floor apartment were able to escape unharmed. >> i heard screams. and, again, i don't know if it came from the buildings or the streets.came from the bu >> reporter: tonight, we're getting the first look at some of the 13 victims who died in the fire. seven of them were children. the youngest just two years old. >> this is without a doubt one of the most tragic days in our city's history.tory. please keep all the please keep all these folks, and especially these children, in your prayers. >> reporter: the philadelphia housing authority, which owns the bilding, says smoke detectors in both apartments were inspected and operational as recently as last may, but none appeared to be working overnight. >> we are in the process of investigating this to the highest level that we can. >> reporter: there are reports a christmas tree may have fueled this fire. fire marshals and federal officials with the a.t.f. are still investigating the exact cause, norah. >> o'donnell: nancy chen, thank you. well tonight, forecasters are tracking dangerous winter weather from coast to coast. more than a dozen vehicles, including a tractor trailer, piled up today on an icy highway in western michigan. there were no serious injuries. that same system dumped heavy snow across the western mountains and northern plains. the next major threat, it's coming friday, with millions in the east bracing for several inches of snow from tennessee to washington, d.c. to boston. some areas could get half a foot. all right, here in washington, one year ago tonight, political tensions were on the verge of exploding as lawmakers preparedd for a fin for a final count of the electoral college votes, confirming that joe biden won the presidency. well, tomorrow, president biden will address the nation to mark one year since the deadly attack on the capitol. and we're learning more about what he's going to say. and cbs' nancy cordes is at the white house. good evening, nancy. >> reporter: good evening, norah. you know, that attack one year ago changed washington possibly forever, and tomorrow, in a speech at the capitol, president biden is going to lay the blame for that attack squarely at the feet of his predecessor. according to white house officials, president biden will lay out the "singular responsibility" president trump has for the chaos and carnage tha we saw one year ago. they tell us he will also call out mr. trump for misleading his supporters to this day about who won the election. white house officials say lies like that don't just rile people up, as we saw one year ago, but they also, they argue, pose an ongoing threat to the nation's democratic system.g norah. >> o'donnell: nancy cordes, thank you. and as we mark the anniversary of the attack, the investigation into who carried out the assault is ongoing. in the last year, more than 725 defendants have been arrested for taking part in the insurrection on the capitol, and authorities continue to hunt down the suspects. we get more now from cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: last january 5, this hooded and masked person roamed capitol hill, planting bombs near the democratic and republican national committee headquarters. a year later, still no arrest? >> correct. >> reporter: the bombs were disabled before they exploded, but steve d'antuono, the f.b.i.'s lead agent in washington, says that they were made to be lethal. were these devices viable? >> oh, absolutely. they were definitely viable. >> reporter: absolutely? >> absolutely, they could have exploded. >> reporter: so they could have killed people. >> they could have done serious physical injury or death. >> reporter: to identify the bomber, investigators have conducted over 900 interviews and scoured 39,000 video files. the've tracked much of the bomber's route just blocks from the u.s. capitol. >> we believe the individual could have been operating out of this park, or the vicinity of this park. >> reporter: the f.b.i. is still asking for the public's help. why has it been so difficult tracking this person down? >> the individual was coverednd from head to toe-- hoodie on, glasses, mask, gloves. >> reporter: do you know if this is a man or a woman? >> we do not know that. >> reporter: that attack on the capitol itself has resulted in more than 725 arrests, 225 people for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. and over 75 people fo and over 75 people for using a deadly or dangerous weapon. but the f.b.i. is still looking for 250 people believed to have committed acts of violence that day. today, attorney general merrick garland marked the anniversary of the attack. >> the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6 perpetrators at any level accountable under law. >> reporter: this is where it happened. >> it is.wh it's one of the locations where the entry was made into the building. >> reporter: tom o'connor, a former f.b.i. counter-terrorism agent, says antigovernment anger remains a major concern. january 6 was the wake-up call. do you think with all of these arrests, do you think the problem goes away? >> not at all. we have to say there's more potential for violence out there. i mean, anybody who says that there isn't and this is gone away is living in a dream world. >> reporter: a recent law enforcement bulletin says that there are no specific or credible threats to the capitol tomorrow. last year, there were numerous intelligence and law enforcement failures leading up to the attack. norah. >> o'donnell: jeff pegues, thank you very much. well, tonight, the u.s. state department is condemning north korea for test launching what the u.s. says was a ballistic missile. u.s. officials say the provocation violated multiple u.n. resolutions and threatened north korea's neighbors. we get more now from cbs' elizabeth palmer. >> reporter: north korea says it was a hypersonic missile, the second time they've launched one. it took off from an area near the country's border with china, flew over 300 miles, and landed in the sea. and it's the latest in a whole flurry of tests overseen by the country's leader, kim jong-un, including a missile hidden in and launched from a train. and last january, what appeared to be a submarine-launched model literally paraded through the streets of pyongyang. in video released by state media, kim jong-un said in his new year's speech that the country's defense capability had to be bolstered due to what he called the unstable international situation. it's not exactly clear what he meant, but north korea resents both the u.s.' joint exercises with south korea's military and punishing sanctions. in south korea, president moon jae-in reacted to the launch diplomatically. at the opening of a railway heat hopes will one day unite the north and the south, he said there was still hope for dialogue. but at the moment, north korea'r actions are speaking much louder than its words. elizabeth palmer, cbs news. >> o'donnell: and still ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news," why the world's top tennis player was told to leave australia. and strangers spreading kindness and breaking bread. that's ahead. on sunday night an. nyquil severe. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. people with moderate to severe psoriasis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the entrance they make, the surprises they initiate. otezla. it's a choice you can make. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines, and if you're pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. as a dj, i know all about customization. that's why i love liberty mutual. and if you're pregnant or planning to be. they customize my car insurance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? 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