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major developments with the pandemic. new covid infections are rising sharply driven in part by the omicron variant. dr. anthony fauci clearly raising the level of concern this morning. certainly what it is showing us in other countries and i believe soon in our own country, george, is it has an extraordinary ability to transmit efficiently and spread. it has what we call a doubling time of about three days, and if you do the math on that, if you have just a couple of percentages of the isolates being omicron, very soon it s going to be the dominant variant. but what that dominant variant is going to do is still unclear. here is where we are right now. new cases in the u.s. are up nearly 40% over the last month. the more important metric that we always watch is hospitalizations. they re up more than 40% in the last month as well. and part of the concern now is a one-two punch of covid and flu season at the same time. this wave is leading to a slew of cancellations. ....
under weather alerts, including high winds, the tornado threat tonight. touring the disaster zone: president biden visits the damage in kentucky. i promise you, you re going to heal. you re going to recover. you re going to rebuild. you re going to be stronger. o donnell: the fed s big decision: what it means for your pocketbook amid rising inflation. guilty plea: former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin admits to violating george floyd s civil rights. j.f.k. assassination documents released. new revelations from 1,500 classified files. breaking barriers: a woman set to run the n.y.p.d., the nation s largest police department, for the first time. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. to our viewers in the west and 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. tonight, o do ....
biden has just promised. we also have major new developments tonight on covid here in the u.s. how quickly this new variant is now spreading. and are the boosters working? what dr. fauci said today. and several universities reporting outbreaks. cornell now suspecting 900 cases of covid. it s believed the vast majority of these cases are among vaccinated college students. and the concern with students now going home for the holidays. former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin in federal court today, now pleading guilty to civil rights charges for the death of george floyd. overseas tonight, the humanitarian crisis now unfolding in afghanistan. our team is on the ground tonight. the children on the edge of starvation. a 2-year-old weighing just 11 pounds. and with the taliban now in control, now isis taking aim at them. our ian pannell back in afghanistan tonight. the major news back here at home tonight involving jfk. 58 years after his assassination, nearly ....
extremism. i ll also ask her about spaceman elon musk picking a twitter fight with her over the notion of taxing billionaires. we begin tonight with the big lie but more specifically how big the big lie is. and okay, let s say that you had to guess how many instances of voter fraud occurred during the 2020 election. just go ahead and take a guess. maybe a million? you d be off, way off. okay. hundreds of thousands? still cold. okay, what about 1,000? nope. because the number of proven instances of deliberate fraud committed by voters in the last presidential election is actually fewer than 475. a number that would have made no difference, zilch, zero, nada until the outcome of a race in which nearly 160 million people voted. that s according to this associated press that did a month s long review in six battle ground states defeated by trump. again, fewer than 475 cases of potential voter fraud in a country where nearly 160 million people voted. you don t have to be goo ....
senior in the former president s orbit and there are even lawmakers among them who i believe have good reason to be quivering in their boots. tonight, justin stockton and jennifer lawrence will join me for their first interview together to talk about what they know about january 6th. then guess which congressman just out himself as one of the lawmakers texting mark meadows? this is as wrong as it gets. and i think deep down everyone knows it. plus, joe biden is pausing the push for build back better. there is nothing domestically more important than voting rights. single biggist issue. and dr. anthony fauci on whether america is ready for a massive wave of omicron cases. when all in starts right now. jim jordan of ohio, one of donald trump s top allies in the house, send a text message to mark meadows how the white house can attempt a coup. vice president mike pence as president of the senate should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are uncon ....