troubling poll numbers as his agenda is stalling right now. there is little hope of his sweeping spending plan passing the senate before the end of the year as well as voting rights legislation. so what is his party s plan? we re going to ask the number one two democrat in the u.s. senate, dick durbin. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get state to the breaking pandemic news. president biden underscoring in very stark terms the threat posed by the coronavirus variant to millions of unvaccinated americans. omicron has not yet spread as fast as it would have otherwise done and that has happened in europe, but it is here now and it is spreading and it is going to increase. for the unvaccinated, we re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated. for themselves and their families an the hospitals they ll soon
still, covid is once again dominating our daily lives. schools, sports, work, all face this uncertain future. colleges are sending students home. more and more companies are delaying the return to the office. the nba and nfl rolling out new safety measures and cancelling games. even secretary of state anthony blinken cut his trip to southeast asia short after a journalist on the trip tested positive for covid. five months ago president biden said the virus no longer controls our lives. now people everywhere are lining up to be tested before joining family for the holidays. and to be clear, that s a good thing. new projections show winter holiday travel is about to roar back, so people should get tested. aaa estimates that more than 109 million americans will travel during the week between christmas and new year s. a number approaching the pre-pandemic record. and after sacrificing so much for so long, people want to be together again. it s understandable, but the reality
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. indeed it is major breaking news. unpre unprec unprecedented. the house voting whether to refer mark meadows to the doj for criminal contempt of congress for defying the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that is our breaking news as well as this. there is a spike in the coronavirus cases hitting cornell university especially hard. the school shutting down its campus after reporting more than 900 coronavirus cases among student body in just the past week. we ll bring that to you a little later on. i what. i want to get to jason crow of colorado. i want to get colorado. so you just voted to hold one of your former colleagues in con contempt. how is this sitting with you tonight? do you think it will get to the bottom of january 6th? hi, don, 2k3good to be with . i didn t want to take to this vote. nobody should be happy we had to take these votes to recommend crime untinal contempt because shows people aren t keeping their
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one of the doctors who helped develop the new treatment joining me live. in indonesia, a volcanic eruption forcing people to outrun huge clouds of hot ash. a statewide man hunt, overnight arrests and finally a virtual arraignment of the parents of the accused michigan shooter. james and jennifer crumbley entered not guilty pleas to the charges files against them. the sheriff held a news conference a short while ago. what did he have to say about what s transpired the last 24 hours? reporter: we learned a few things. we learned james and jennifer and ethan crumbley are all being held in the same place not far from here. they are in isolation. the sheriff said it s likely ethan doesn t know his parents have been arrested because they re held in isolation. we heard about a thuird person who helped james and jennifer get into that warehouse where they were hiding. here s what michael bouchard had to say about that. we believe they were assisted in that location to get there,