troubling poll numbers as his agenda is stalling right now. there is little hope of his sweeping spending plan passing the senate before the end of the year as well as voting rights legislation. so what is his party s plan? we re going to ask the number one two democrat in the u.s. senate, dick durbin. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get state to the breaking pandemic news. president biden underscoring in very stark terms the threat posed by the coronavirus variant to millions of unvaccinated americans. omicron has not yet spread as fast as it would have otherwise done and that has happened in europe, but it is here now and it is spreading and it is going to increase. for the unvaccinated, we re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated. for themselves and their families an the hospitals they ll soon
let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a covid death every minute. this is where we are tonight. about every 60 seconds, another american is dying of covid. that is the grim reality we are in the united states. covid again tightening its grip on the country. today president biden meeting with his top health officials and he had this warning about the highly contagious omicron variant. it s here now and it s spreading and it s going to increase. for unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death if you re unvaccinated. for themselves, their families and the hospitals they ll soon overwhelm. it is a sobering warning and cases are increasing incredibly fast in vaccinated and unvaccinated. take new york city. the number of those testing positive doubled from december 9th to the 12th. doubled in three days. the mayor s health advisor tweeting we ve never seen this before in new york city. and the rush of new cases is having
this new round of deadly storms. 23 reported tornadoes in four states this time. at least five people killed. and now this system headed to kentucky again. rob marciano standing by to time this out. the sexual assault allegations tonight against sex and the city star chris noth. the hollywood reporter saying two women have now come forward with separate claims of sexual assault. noth responding tonight. peloton pulling its ad with the actor. the major development involving those american and canadian hostages in haiti. the remaining 12 hostages released. in new york city, the apartment building on fire. the teenager seen climbing out from the fourth floor. the breaking headline as we come on the air tonight involving actor alec baldwin and the search warrant now issued for his cell phone. christmas eve, one week from tomorrow. and your money tonight. where are the deals? our reporter on what to look for right now. christmas apparently coming early for bruce sp
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
end of christmas week. the government says this new strain is spreading fastest in new york and new jersey. some city restaurants and even some broadway shows are having to close back down, and the city plans to offer residents half a million rapid tests and a million masks. we ll get an update from the front lines of covid later in the hour, and there s also news tonight in the investigation into the january 6 insurrection. the house committee has now issued a subpoena to phil waldren. who is that? he s a retired army colonel who has submitted a powerpoint plan, yep, a powerpoint plan, on how to overturn the 2020 election. the city obtained that document from former chief of staff mark meadows who insisted he had nothing to do with it. adam kinzinger says the panel is now focused on what happened in the days before the capitol riot. about a year ago now, and i can t believe it s been a year, it also seems like it s been ten years ago and yesterday at the same time, but the