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response if russia invades ukraine. zoo tiger attack, police shoot and kill an endangered tiger after a man reaches into its cage. what s happening? i m being attacked by a tiger. garrett: truck driver s 110 year sentence reduced. colorado governor shortened sentence to ten years following nationwide outrage. violence against women act, why lawmakers haven t fully reauthorized a landmark law since it expired in 2013. american ingenuity, how a group of young people came up with the idea of saving the planet by feeding the hungry. and a return trip to atlanta to visit the airport s piano man. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capitol. garrett: good evening, to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with covid cases soaring. it was exactly two years to the day that the world learned of an unknown virus causing flu-like symptoms in china. now the omicron ....
dangerous movements in america. it happened so quickly, being a totally apolitical person to a person dying for donald trump. a person dying for donald trump. i hate to have to do this, but we have sad breaking news from hollywood. the associated press is reporting that legendary actress betty white has died at the age of 99. she was the longest running woman on television. but there was so much more than television. she began her career on the radio in the 1940s, then tv in the 1950s, starring in more shows than i have fingers on high hands. her most famous, rows nylund on the golden girls, which ran on nbsz from 1982 to 1992. then there were the move east. so many. just the other day, her proposal co-star ryan reynolds joked that he was still holding out for her, ready for betty white to give upmer crush on robert redford, for him. she was beloved, and only weeks away from her 100th birthday, which was on january 17th. so let us take a moment to celebrate the ....
the former-first lady getting into the world of nfts. we ll explain. let s go out. good evening, i m poppy harlow. out front tonight, breaking news, a new record high average number of covid cases for the second day in the row. this as cdc predicts more than 44,000 covid deaths in the infect four weeks and as the white house deploys federal teams across country to he try to help overwhelmed hospitals, dr. fauci is warning of troubling signing ahead as the omicron variant continues to spread fast. we know now incontrovertibly that this is a highly, highly transmissible virus. we know that from the numbers we are seeing and clearly, there is a degree of immune evasion, particularly against infection and to some degree against hospitalization. now, across the country, hospitalizations are up in 37 states over last month. up at least 50% in 13 of those states. pediatric hospitalizations are close to topping the previous record, set in september. and there are warning si ....
related staff shortages cause turbulence for travelers. i was supposed to have a flight out of here. they canceled it. i m here for 12 hours. garrett: diplomatic talks: president biden to speak with russia s vladimir putin amid tension over ukraine. remembering harry reid, tributes and remembrances following the death of the former democratic leader. thank you for the friendship and support over the years. garrett: unifying america, how a new jersey school is building trust between students and polie. an epic career: the n.f.l. world salutes former coach and broadcaster john madden. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we ll have the latest news on the continued spread of covid and the threat of tornadoes across the south, but we begin with breaking news. the guilty verdicts against ghislaine maxwell, ....
so far, hospitalizations and deaths, as i said, are not increasing at the same pace. four states maine, michigan, new hampshire, and vermont are now showing record-high numbers for hospitalizations this month. and at least three other states ohio, indiana, and delaware and also washington, d.c. are approaching their previous highs. and right now, pediatric hospitalizations for covid are up nearly 50% across the country over the last two weeks. close to the record high in september. and with americans across the country still waiting in line for hours to get tested, president biden just told reporters moments ago while walking on the beach in delaware that his administration is, quote, making a bit of progress at distributing those at-home test kits to americans. but those remarks, coming within minutes of the fda announcing those rapid at-home antigen tests may be less sensitive to actually picking up the omicron variant. so, one out of every 50 residents right ....