reported less than a month ago is the dominant strain of new cases in this country. and made up 73% of new infections last week. 73%. a senior health official warned this weekend that these intexts are likely to increase and we ve just confirmed the first death in the united states due to the omicron variant in texas should not come as is surprise. this is on top of a surge that seen cases rise across the country. here in new york we had four consecutive days of record numbers statewide causing confusion and exhaustion among over worked front line workers, one of whom you ll hear from in a moment. i m john berman in for anderson. let s be clear. negative as these headlines might sound, this is not like the darkest days of the pandemic, not at all. for one, hospitalizations don t appear to be tracking the rising case counts in new york city according to top health officials and in new jersey according to the governor ther e moderna today announced a third shot of its vaccine s
rates in the u.s. are the highest they have been in three months, though experts say that doesn t necessarily mean hospitalizations and deaths are will be as high as in previous surges. still, the president will lay out a sweeping plan to beat back this tide. priority one. flood the zone with free covid tests. we have had in the past not as many tests as everyone would have wanted or needed, but part of the president s program, which he will be speaking about this afternoon, is to dramatically increase the availability of testing and putting up about 20,000 testing sites, with getting half a billion tests very quickly, literally within the next few days, and then have a situation where you can get anywhere from 200 million to half a billion tests per month. but a key question. with the travel rush in full gear already, is this push too late? the tsa has screened more than 10 million people at u.s. airports in the last five days, and the agency estimates 30 million holiday
that s 10% higher than a week ago and up from 70,000 at the beginning of november. the biggest concern remains the unvaccinated. the u.s. surgeon general, dr. murthy, warning them this morning about the threat that they face right now. but there will be a stark difference between experience of those who are vaccinated and boosted versus those who run vaccinated, but if you re unvaccinated i m worried about you. i m worried that your risk of being hospitalized or god forbid losing your life to this virus is quite significant. the surgeon general s warning coming as moderna today releases new data showing that its booster shot does increase antibodies, does seem effective against the omicron variant. cnn s elizabeth cohen is joining me now live with more details on this. elizabeth, what more are you learning? kate, what we re learning is that moderna has done some tests in the lab and what they are found is their booster does increase antibodies. it s better than getting
upon or face charges. they brought an indictment against one of the people whoey r fused to comply. taking credit for a law that no republicans voted for and my interview with the artist j.r. over his documentary, paper & glue. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes, republican congressman devin nunes of california is leaving his job. the reason he s leaving, though, tells you a lot about the trajectory of the modern republican party. see, the old model of governance was you stuck it out so you could wield the power of the state. you could wield that power for all kinds of purpose, good, evil and everything in between. the it was yielding the service of some governing agenda and why people got into politics and that was less and less the case. congressman nunes who joined as a 29-year-old and is currently serving his tenth term is retiring to run donald trump s new grift. even as far as start-ups go is particularly questionable. it s su
affair. the problem, she was married and so was he. i grabbed his face. i was like, you know what, i love you, i am not going anywhere. just tell me what happened? scheming husbands, unfaithful wives, suburbs are full of secrets but being unfaithful to your spouse isn t criminal. is it? that would come next. oh my god! it was like everything rush possible in one second. i went, oh my god. murder in the dark. who was behind it and who would pay? when you see him on the video, he s armed and ready. two couples, two families and this single moment that shattered it all. i knew one day that this was all going to come out. hello and welcome to dateline. it s a cautionary tale that started with two seemingly happy couples in suburban idaho. then their lives collided in a twisted love triangle that ended in gunfire in a parking lot. the showdown that one have left one husband dead and the other injured. for investigators, figuring out who fired the fatal shot