Convey concerns directly to the president. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Democratic calls for President Biden to drop out of the Race Stretch from Capitol Hill to hollywood tonight. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and Thank You for being with us. The Word Blockbuster is normally used to describe a box office hit, but today, one of the biggest movie stars, George Clooney, dropped a political blockbuster in the form of a New York Times editorial, writing that even though he is a lifelong democrat leaders need to stop telling us that 51 Million people didnt see what we just saw, referring to the debate. And those Party Leaders are now under pressure from their own members to deliver a message to the president. All of this is clouding the Nato Summit over World Leaders right here in washington, where the big news is that the first F16 Fighter jets are on their way to ukraine to fend off russian forces. We have team coverage tonight. Cbss Ed Okeefe is at the White House and we begin wit
To just go home. The Unvaccinated Serb is the number one seed in the Australian Open and is on the cusp of becoming the socalled g. O. A. T. , greatest of all time. Now, if a court once again rein states his visa, djokovic could become the first man to win 21 grand slam titles to give you a sense of whats on the line here. All signs indicate he wont leave the country without a fight. His visa battle is a big deal in australia as you can imagine, where people have been really suffering through some of the toughest Covid Restrictions anywhere in the world. Now, for an update on all of this, we want to go straight to melbourne now and our paula hancocks. And really good to have you there on the ground, paula. I mean, look, people were wondering will he or wont he. In the end, the Immigration Minister i guess must have felt to do anything but deport him would have been untenable. Reporter well, paula, what were hearing from the statement is we believe they had to do it on the basis, it was
Provide critical support to help relieve some of the drain and the strain on the health care system. And more relief. Early indications suggest the Omicron Surge is starting to slow in a handful of Northeastern Cities such as new york and washington, d. C. , That Bianna Got Hit first with this. Yeah. That is a promising sign. In moments, President Biden will speak from the white house laying out his latest efforts to tackle the pandemic. Then hell be heading to capitol hill later this afternoon where he will make a direct appeal to Senate Democrats to take action on Voting Rights. This as House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy changes his tune, saying he will not cooperate with the Committee Investigating the capitol riot despite previously saying hed do so. We begin this morning at the white house with President Biden set to address the nation as Covid Hospitalizations hit record highs. Cnn White House Correspondent john harwood is following. John, the president expected among other thi
Notified. I think what we assumed from the very beginning is that this virus is already in the United States. So now we know the vie are us is here. The big message for everyone is that if you have not been vaccinated, now is the time to get vaccinated. About 18 of adults in this country have not been vaccinated. Folks over age 5, currently available population for vaccine in this country, only about 75 of the population have received at least one dose of vaccine. So now is the time. This is the incentive for everyone to be vaccinated. The other flip side of this is the more robust response you have to your vaccine the better you are likely to be protected against this variant. And thats where boosters come in. So if youve been vaccinated, time to get boosted. We have only boosted 23 of the folks in this country who have been fully vaccinated. So theres a long way to go. So the message is, yeah, the variant is here. We dont know if its going to outcompete delta. We dont know how well p
Lighting ceremony only on cbs, following an all new episode of bull which is still on. Oh, thats a good thing there. Good morning, welcome to morning joe, its friday, this has felt a long week. Agree, right . With us here in washington, we have our contributor and best selling author, katty kay. Michael steel is with us. White houses senator for politico sam stein and correspondent Garrett Haake is with us here. Well get garretts reporting on the Government Shutdown after a small group of republicans looked to delay matters. Speaker nancy pelosi accused them to looking to shutdown the government and shutdown science, well explain that and talk about it with garrett. We have President Bidens new plan to keep the country safe against covid heading into the winter months as the new variant begins to spread across the u. S. First, willie, a remarkable interview last night with alec baldwins first sit down since the deadly shooting on the set of his movie, rust, tell us about it. We saw som