it got votes a five-decade friendship, president biden praised reid for his tenacity. he led the democratic caucus just not by speaking, but by listening it was all search light, no spotlight. he disliked praise and small talk i was thanking you for the great job you did in the legislation and the rest i don t want to hear it click. good-bye was an unnecessary word. harry reid will lie in state in the u.s. capitol on wednesday leann caldwell, nbc news, las vegas. still ahead, signs of hope in the battle against omicron. we ll take you to south africa and london the worst may already be over there. will it happen just as quickly here will it happen just as quickly here? and we need more time. so, we want kisqali. women are living longer than ever before with kisqali when taken with an aromatase inhibitor or fulvestrant in postmenopausal women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. kisqali is a pill that s significantly more effective at delaying disease progression
three different options ranging in severity with boris johnson likely to face strong opposition to further restrictions from within his own party. new rules have been announced in other parts of europe more on that in a moment but first, the latest on the pressure on borisjohnson. here s jonathan blake. boosterjabs are still the main hope in the battle against omicron. but as cases of the new variant continue to rise, ministers won t rule out taking further measures. we re accelerating the booster roll out in various different ways, from halving the time between second and third doses, increasing the throughput through the vaccination centres, they re going to be open longer hours. and of course, if we need to change the approach, we can t rule it out definitively, but that would be reliant on the data that comes through. with just a few days to go until christmas, there is anxiety that plans may have to change. labour are calling for clarity.
few people have done more for this state, this country, this driven, brilliant sometimes irascible deeply good man. harry from search light to capitol police officer to senate majority leader, always a fighter he never gave up. he served in a slightly less volatile time i never heard harry speak of politics as if it was some unbending battle between good neighbor. as we confront the challenges of the coming weeks and months ahead i take comfort in knowing that harry is with us. reid encouraged obama to run for president, a partnership that led to the passage of their signature legislative achievement, the affordable care act. the deals harry made to get that law done didn t always look pretty.
ever meet. and the fbi reveals new information about the suspected hostage taker. in the meantime, tough weeks ahead in the battle against omicron as post holiday cases spike. this is a very difficult time during this surge. we re seeing high case numbers and hospitalization rates. the good news is there are parts of the country where we re starting to see a plateau and in some cases, an early decline in cases. good evening. i m poppy harlow. we begin with severe weather, snow, freezing rain, tornados in the southwest and in florida particularly a massive storm has more than 80 million people under winter alerts. the storm will march to new england after battering the south across the southeast. 180,000 homes and businesses without power after the weight of freezing rain and high winds
brink. icu capacity nationwide for both covid and non-covid patients is now at its highest level in a year. abc s zohreen shah is in los angeles tonight. reporter: tonight, a mixed picture in the urgent battle against omicron. cases now falling or plateauing in more than half the country, including the northeast, but the situation still critical in several states. wisconsin leading the nation in new cases per capita. one e.r. nurse saying patients are waiting hours for broken bones because no beds are available. she s sitting there with her arm angulated, and that has to wait because this person can t breathe. reporter: this week, hospitalizations near a pandemic record. 157,000 patients receiving care along with the crush of patients, more than 1,800 americans reportedly losing their lives to covid every day, up 10% since tuesday. it s hard to see family members knowing that their patients are not going to make