and three american heroes all awarded the military s highest honor today. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening the country appears to be slipping into a covid vice tonight the aggressive delta variant squeezing us from one side. the more contagious omicron strain multiplying on the other. covid cases projected to steeply climb as we approach christmas, followed by a sharp rise in deaths tonight theater doors temporarily closed again on new york s broadway as a precaution some school kids back to learning at home. while the cdc advisory panel has stunned with its recommendation that the johnson & johnson vaccine should be our last choice for protection over concerns about potential blood clots. in a moment, dr. fauci s positive message on holiday gatherings my interview with him coming up. but first the latest from miguel almaguer. reporter: the new projections mean the current devastating surge may be just the beginning. already facing a crushing wa
twelve christian missionaries who were held by a haitian gang are free tonight. bombshell allegations two women accuse sex and the city star chris noth of sexual assault. dangerous drinking water, a cbs exclusive with the head of the e.p.a., the plan to get rid of the millions of lead pipes carrying water to america s children. the boss cashes in, wait till you hear how much bruce springsteen sold his music catalog for. baby, we were born to run and american heroes three soldiers receive the medal of honor, two who paid the ultimate sacrifice. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin tonight with a spike in covid cases that has health officials sounding the alarm. a rise in cases has states and businesses changing their plans, bringing back indoor mask mandates, canceling holiday parti
well, thank you so much, general spider marks, oren lieberman. it looks like the ceremony is about to start. we re going to hand the reins over to alisyn camerota and victor blackwell to take it from here. hello, everyone. thanks for joining me on newsroom. cdc advisers are set to decide this hour possible changes in guidance for the j&j covid vaccine, after rates of a rare blood clotting condition were higher than previously thought. the biggest news is the omicron variant, this appears to be on its way to the dominant variant in the u.s. new covid cases and hospitalizations are rising sharply. research are saying omicron is markedly recessant to the four major vaccines. now some colleges are going virtual for the rest of the semester. sports teams are postponing games. broadway shows are getting cancelled. cnn s nick watt has all the details you re simply the best reporter: tina among the brought way shows cancelling, just two months after reopening. princeton
president biden leaving the future of his spending plan uncertain. some democrats are looking to change the subject for the president s failing economic agenda. i am sandra smith. it s thursday. i am in new york. welcome back to you, john. john: thank you. i am john roberts in washington. a brand new fox business poll show half of americans feel biden s move on the inflation crisis are hurting rather than helping and 2 out of 3 americans say the inflation crisis caused them financial hard ship over the last 6 months. sandra: as the chances of passing president biden s spending plans are dwindling. democrats can t get their own colleagues on. the deadline for december 25th would need a christmas miracle. democrats are going back to the plan for a sweep overhaul of our election. john: tennessee senator marsha blackburn will join us. first to the white house and peter doocy with the latest from there. president biden even with his decades of d.c. experience keeps deferri
you are vaccinated, especially if you re boosted, you are still incredibly protected from being hospitalized or dying from covid. there is no need for lockdowns, he says, yet cornell university in upstate new york has shut down its campus amid a spike in cases even though 97% of students there are vaccinated. and we re at a point that many parents are just as concerned if not more concerned about what this ongoing saga is doing to their kids mental health. my colleague stephanie ruhle spoke with a group of kids in new jersey. so now that you are back in school, what happens when someone in your class gets covid. most of my classmates have gone on quarantine cause like lots of my classmates go to dance, soccer. so like, as soon as one person in their class out of school has covid, they quarantine. so in school we do like random testing. so they ll pick someone ran come randomly and you ll go get tested and get your results back. so if it comes back positive, the whole c