it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early. let s hope your interest rates aren t too high. chuck schumer will likely delay his self-imposed deadline to pass president biden s build back better plan before the end of the year. without manchin, democrats lack the 50 votes needed to pass the measure with a simple majority. as my colleagues and i reported last night, they ve grown frustrated with the slow pace of talks and those in the white house are dismayed that manchin s demands seem to be changing and they can t pin him down on an agreement. in the meantime sources are also saying schumer is hoping to take action on voting rights now before the end of the year. a group of four mode rat democrats including manchin have been discussing ways to change the senate rules to allow voting rights to pass with a simple majority. while touring the storm damage in kentucky, president biden was asked about the pivot from bbb to voting rights. mr.
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 1,500 confidential documents now
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. 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. a covid miracle. how one woman beat the odds and lived to tell her story. and the santa claus girls bringing cheer to children in need. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. tonight, we re following a concerning surge in coronavirus cases across the country, leaving colleges and businesses to close or reinstate covid measures. several large schools are and returning to remote introduction. others have shutting down campus and
against a political leader involving anonymous packages, threatening letters and raw meat, and it s all over vaccine mandates. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. any moment we expect president biden to address the nation from one of the towns hardest hit by the string of deadly tornadoes that ravaged several states and the u.s. last weekend. the president started his visit in mayfield, part of graves county, kentucky, where 21 kentuckians are confirmed dead so far. biden promised local leaders that not only is the biden administration on the ground to help now. they are committed to helping rebuild as long as it takes, he said. mr. biden also saying he s in awe of how these communities have come together in the wake of such destruction. just came out of nowhere to help as a community. and that s what we re supposed to be doing. that s what america is supposed to be. there s no red tornadoes or blue tornadoes. there s no red states or blue states when this stuff start
we re able to identify folks that haven t communicated or weren t able to that they re okay. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. before we go to kentucky, i want to alert you to another development today at the corner of wall and broad where stocks were racing on the notion that interest rates are going up and maybe not a little bit either. the federal reserve indicating that they ll see inflation for what it is, a problem and addressing it but aggressively moving to tighten money. we ll get you to the implications of that. might surprise you that stocks were up on the notion that we might have closure on the way to addressing inflation. we shall see. now back to kentucky and robert ray on what is happening as we speak. robert? neil, good afternoon. it s breezy and cloudy here in mayfield. president biden left here about 45 minutes ago and headed to dawson springs, about 60, 70 miles away from here. he toured mayfield, walked the ground and toured it from the ai