distribution plans but also distributing antivirals to community health centers across the country. this will help ensure these life saving antivirals are available to the most vulnerable communities and hard hit populations across the country. in closing, as we face omicron, the nation s medicine cabinet of treatments gives us more options to protect the american people. it s yet another reason this moment is much different than march 2020. we have tools to keep people safe. and we will continue using them to do so. with that, over to dr. walensky. thank you, jeff, good afternoon. as usual i d like to start by walking you through today s data. the current seven-day daily average of cases is 149,300 cases per day, an increase of about 25% over the previous week. the seven-day average of hospital admissions is about 7,800 per day, and the seven-day
and i m john berman. and the economy taking the back seat for a moment to foreign policy when it comes to the presidential campaign. we ll talk about mitt romney s trip overseas and president obama s brand-new ad. plus we re getting an idea of what the opening ceremony of the 2012 olympics will actually look like. but first, exclusive new details about the apartment of james holmes, the suspected colorado shooter. a law enforcement official has described to cnn video taken from inside the apartment. he said it was set up like something from iraq or afghanistan. 30 improvised grenades rigged to a control box in the kitchen and gas containers filled with ten gallons of gas, allegedly for the purpose of adding more fuel to the fire in an explosion. cnn s jim spelman is in aurora, colorado, right outside the theater where the shooting happened. the description of the apartment is extraordinary and terrifying. what else do you know about it? reporter: just trying to pict
jim spellman. he s standing outside the theater. we can see the neon sign behind you. let s talk first about this video. i know it s black and white. what more can you tell us? yeah, police describe this whole apartment as being designed to kill. all rigged up to a trip wire at the front door. it took them almost two days before they could figure out how to dismantle this safely, ult the matly using water to render inoperable this control box. fortunately there wasn t a timer to it because they needed that much time to sort out how to do it. when they were finally able to render it safe, they took them to the country and detonated them. the fire ball in the middle of the field was huge, devastating to ponder the impact should a first responder or police officer gone through that door. about the investigation, jim, what s the latest? i thought seeing the suspect in court yesterday and seeing all of his facial i guess i would call them ticks or just he looked weird and