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season pandemic. plus, the life and legacy of desmond tutu, the nobel peace prize winning, anti-apartheid leader with a look at how he is being remembered. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. as we approach the new year, it s looking more like 2021 will end the same way it began, centered around covid. daily new cases fueled by the omicron variant are spiking. racing towards highs not seen since last january. hospitalizations are also rising, although nowhere near levels seen during recent surges. and covid-related deaths are also up. and this is the scene at testing sites around the country. look at this. long lines with people often having to wait hours to get tested. the white house is facing increased criticism over its handling of covid testing. here s what top health expert dr. anthony fauci had to say. we should be using testing much more extensively than we have, even in a situation where you have people who are vaccinated or ....
i wish i could have been there to protect her. a wife murdered. and later, a husband under suspicion. he was such a nice guy. you would have never guessed he did something like that. you think he faked that burglary and killed his wife? yes. he wanted the house. he wanted her money. if he divorced, he lost everything. in court. a stunning verdict. this cannot be happening. i did not kill my wife. more stunning still, was what came after. a mysterious witness. with a secret. this is a woman essentially says i saw the murder. and it wasn t tom. would her story be the ultimate twist? the murder of a well loved teacher. within hours police were on the scene. there would be an arrest. a trial. and a conviction. case closed? not on your life. because in this story, a bomb shell came in after the verdict. here s josh mankiewicz with mystery at heath bar farm. 911. i need an ambulance now. reporter: february 2009, coldwater, michigan. what s th ....
nice to be with you, my friend. president biden says if you are vaccinated, and boosted, go ahead, spend the holidays with family and friends. the president says the rapidly spreading omicron variant is cause for concern, but not panic. the country is much better prepared now to tackle a covid resurgence than in the early prevaccine days. for the millions who remain unvaccinated, there was this stark warning. almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated. i honest to god believe it is your patriotic duty, the choice can be the difference between life or death. please get vaccinated. the biden administration s response to skyrocketing omicron cases includes expanding test sites across the country, distributing at-home tests to those who request them, deploying a thousand service military members to help overburdened hospitals and adding new vaccination sites. elizabeth cohen joining us now. elizabeth, good morning. a lot ....
but this morning, we did get some good news from moderna. new data shows that their booster shots immunity against omicron nearly 40-fold. experts say we desperately need it. right now, the worst of the spread is in the northeast. states like new york, new jersey, and massachusetts. while in florida, cases have doubled in the last week alone. and for people who are trying to do the right thing and get tested, those tests are hard to come by. my question is why? this video of line on the upper west side of manhattan. people started waiting before the sun came up to get a test from a guy in a van. we heard similar stories all over town. some people waiting two, three hours just to get tested. tomorrow, president biden will address the nation to lay out new steps his administration will take to help americans cope with this latest wave. here s what we do know. it is expected to get worse before it gets better. the nation s top experts say omicron is essentially taking over ....
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the growing threat of omicron is forcing governments around the world to take quick action to stop the spread. and while scientists work nonstop to answer the many questions about the variant, omicron infections are rising rapidly. but the delta variant is the main cause of surging cases right now. u.s. health systems are at risk of being overwhelmed, especially across the midwest, northeast and southwest. we ll take a closer look at the u.s. in just a moment. europe is also seeing rampant spread. the uk reported more than 90,000 new covid infections for a second day in a row. and that s prompting germany to take tough action, adding the united kingdom to its list of areas with variants of concern. only german citizens or residents will be allowed to enter germany from the uk. for more on the sky-high infection rates across the uk and a major announcement from the mayor of london i m joined by cnn s sc ....