details about novak djokovic s appeal. and an eerie calm settling over kazakhstan, after the president gave a shoot to kill order to quell the protests. okay. we begin in the u.s., because that s where covid cases are soaring to record levels. driven by the super contagious omicron variant. infections are now averaging more than 660,000 per day. this map gives you a sense of the dramatic spread across the nation, with cases surging in nearly every state. child hospitalizations are at an all-time high as well. some of the largest increases are in children under 5 who are not authorized to be vaccinated yet. hospitalizations in that group are up 48% from a little more than a month ago. and with the public skexasperat by what seems like an endless pattern of covid surges americans want to know when will it end. in a news conference on friday, president joe biden was asked if this was going to be the new normal. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. but having covid in t
day. that s a 16% jump over last week. and with the highly contagious omicron variant now the most dominant strain, the president is telling americans who are fully vaccinated and who got the booster not to panic saying they re highly protected, but he s also giving the millions of eligible americans who are still not vaccinated a very blunt warning. if you re not fully vaccinated, you have good reason to be concerned. you re at a high risk of getting sick, and if you get sick, you re likely to spread it to others including friends and family. and the unvaccinated have a significantly higher risk of ending up in a hospital or even dying. almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated, unvaccinated. the president saying the nation is not going back to the days of march of 2020, you know, when the pandemic first took hold. precisely because more than 200 million americans are now fully vaccinated, and that we have the resources to k
a covid surge is imminent. israel is offering a vaccine boost to people. we are live in jerusalem. could it be a potential deadlock? jurors in the trial of former police officer kim potter prepare for the third day of deliberations. after suggesting they may be struggling to reach a verdict. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. welcome to the show, everyone. it is wednesday, december 22nd. we begin with new evidence of just how devastating the covid-19 pandemic has been. now, the cdc says life expectancy in the u.s. fell by almost two years in 2020. mostly due to the pandemic. last year americans lived to an average age of 77, down from 78.8. that is the biggest single-year drop in more than 75 years. and covid was the third leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer. the news comes as the pandemic is still raging right across the country, fueled by omicron. the variant has now been detected in all but one state, and that is
entering the united states. as it currently stands, vaccinated travelers have to have a test within three days of arriving in the united states. the president on thursday is likely to announce, according to sources, that timeline will be shifted down to one day, just 24 hours. i think what it is a window into more than anything else is we saw it with the travel restrictions to eight south african countries, now potentially shifting testing requirements for those entering the united states. it is not a sense that they can stop the variant from arriving in the united states if it is not already here, but what they hope to do is buy themselves time. with so much unknown and so much to learn over the course of the next 10 to 14 days, the focus is trying to limit the arrival to the extent that they can, to give themselves time to prepare for what may come next. right now with all of these unknowns, these administration officials believe are the best options they have to try to acc
mccarthy has been common dering the floor there for over eight hours. you are looking at live pictures. he s been doing this rambling marathon speech, breaking house speaker nancy pelosi s record for the longest speech in history, and he s still going. that s right. technically it s not a filibuster, but it did block action on the $2 trillion build back better bill. daniela diaz live on capitol hill. how do we expect it, daniela, to play out this morning? reminder, mccarthy is still talking. reporter: that is a really important thing to know right now, christine and laura, because it depends when he stops. the plan was to have the house democratic leaders reconvene the house at 8:00 a.m., but you know it s 5:00 a.m., mccarthy is still speaking and sources tell me it doesn t seem like he s going to let up any time soon. he got a new binder of material just an hour ago. he keeps eating mints to keep him going. and the reason he s able to do this, it s not a filibuster. we r