her fight to be believed and the holiday mystery. the heartfelt thank you card inspiring america. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening it was just a month ago a covid variant of concern was reported out of south africa. days later, it got a name, omicron. and tonight it s now spreading in all 50 u.s. states, driving a wave of new infections the cdc reports the seven-day average has climbed by 25% over the prior week while authorities are urging americans who may be on the move this holiday to get tested, lines remain and supplies are short. one chain of walk-up urgent care clinics in new york temporarily closing some of its locations over staff shortages. tonight doctors do have a new weapon to heal the sick, a covid treatment. a pill has now been authorized for emergency use by the fda. at the same time another treatment is running in short supply miguel almaguer leads our coverage tonight reporter: the fda s emergency use authorization officiall
entire four years. now what they re going to continue to say is this is the presidency that s trying to work for you and do things. politico s eugene daniel, we appreciate. thank you all of you for waking up way too early for us. merry christmas everybody, see you at morning joe in just a minute. starts now. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s the day before the day before christmas. thursday, december 23rd, it s great to have you all with us this morning, along with joe and me, we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire and sam stein is with us. good to see you, sam. let s get started. there are promising signs in this current wave of covid-19. new researches adding to the body of evidence that omicron strain results in milder illness. the research from scotland and south africa is still preliminary. the studies also found omicron is sending fewer people to hospitals. for example, the study in scotland found if omicron behaves like the delta
follows. . . chris coghlan, independent, 1234. ido hereby i do hereby declare that marsha de cordova. .. so, jane allison, the financial secretary to the treasury, a former public health minister, is defeated in battersea. labour takes battersea. and the swing in battersea, let s just see what that is, 46%. a swing of io% battersea, let s just see what that is, 46%. a swing of 10% from conservative to labour in an area thatis conservative to labour in an area that is almost 80% in favour of remain. just under 80% in favour of remain. i want to get back to nigel farage, whom we interrupted for that result. mr farage, thank you for waiting. the last thing you said was very tantalising. you said you would have to come back into active politics. it is not what i plan on 04 taiwan. i was thrilled to leave ukip to pressure cameron into offering the referendum and to winning. we triggered article 50. i thought it was all done. mrs may went for the big majority. she was found out, i