>> i'd rather wear it because i don't want to get killed by covid. >> our vocabularies expanded to include new terms, barack threw cases, boosters, and by year's end, omicron. ♪♪ as the pandemic raged, so did nature's fury. >> we're huddled under all the blankets that we have. >> in february, a deadly ice storm paralyzed texas. wildfires continued to rashage the west while hurricane ida carved a path of destruction from louisiana to new york. and this month more than 100 were killed by a sears of rare december tornadoes in kentucky and surrounding states, one twister cutting a path more than 200 miles long. ♪♪ it was a year of fatal