armadillos would be endangered but i guess it depends on which species. you saw plenty of them. cbs evening news o donnell: tonight, omicron spreads rapidly across america. new covid cases up nearly 50% since last month as we re just 10 days away from the christmas holiday when tens of millions are expected to travel. the crisis on college campuses: cornell and princeton cancelling in-person classes as other schools across the country say they ll now require booster shots and reinstate mask mandates. plus, the city health commissioner urging people to cancel holiday gatherings. another dangerous december storm. nearly 100 million americans are under weather alerts, including high winds, the tornado threat tonight. touring the disaster zone: president biden visits the damage in kentucky. i promise you, you re going
there are more tornado w ther in monthdown i r of december in minnesota. here s why we have had record warms. records set in places like des moines, way into the 70s. omaha, nebraska, way in the 70s as well. all of this will continue to move rapidly to the northeast. behind it, we re talking a big drop in temperature. norah, it will feel very much like winter and this nurm warmth will head into the day on thursday. o donnell: we re also guessing breaking news about the tornado that devastated the state of kentucky. the national weather service said today, yup, it was an e-4, with winds up to 190 miles per hour. that is the only tornado of that magnitude ever recorded in the month of december in that state. president biden surveyed the damage today, meeting with survivors, and cbs lilia luciano is there. good evening, lilia. reporter: good evening,
in the high planes of the oklahoma panhandle. it s all part of this week s massive storm that pounded drought-stricken california with torrential rain and flooding, sweeping cars down the l.a. river, and dumping several feet of snow on the sierra nevada. carter evans, cbs news. o donnell: well, now for what lies ahead, cbs boston s chief meteorologist eric fisher is here with the forecast. good evening, eric. good evening, norah. today is a day for the record books. when it comes to the weather in the middle of the country, we ve had this widespread wind storm, the whole thing rocketing across the middle of the country tonight. let s take a look at some of those advisories, huge areas, high-wind warnings from new mexico to new york. and in the area we have had wind 2k3wu679s up to 100 miles per hour, places like russell, kansas, lamar, colorado. and tonight we re tracking more tornadoes. this is moving so fast, it s not just the wind in the storms. the storms themselves in this lin
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to heal. you re going to recover. you re going to rebuild. you re going to be stronger. o donnell: the fed s big decision: what it means for your pocketbook amid rising inflation. guilty plea: former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin admits to violating george floyd s civil rights. j.f.k. revelations from 1,500 classified files. breaking barriers: a woman set to run the n.y.p.d., the nation s largest police department, for the first time. a covid miracle. how one woman beat the odds and lived to tell her story. and the santa claus girls bringing cheer to children in need. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital.