sf reporter: america, bracing for a tough winter that is beginning to look a lot like last winter. in the midst of a delta surge, the new omicron variant accounting for 3% of cases but spreading fast. this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. it is going to take over. reporter: and with just over 60% of the country fully vaccinated, the white house warning of a season of severe illness for the unvaccinated. the u.s. now averaging 1200 deaths aday. and 130,000 new covid cases a day, up 10% from a week ago. hospitalizations nationwide up 35% over last month. intensive care unit beds 80% full. cases rising much faster in parts of the midwest, the south and the northeast. ohio s governor deploying over a thousand national guard members to over stretched hospitals there. in miami, a royal caribbean cruise ship docking over the weekend with 48 people testing positive for covid. new york setting a record for new cases for the third
group but you cannot actively participate in it. we will have to see in the coming months whether that makes a fundamental difference on any trend that develops on extremism in the ranks. victor. barbara starr, thank you. top of the hour, i m victor blackwell, good to be with you. five days now until christmas, and the pandemic is taking what experts are calling a grim path forward. today the u.s. is averaging more than 130,000 new infections a day. that s a 10% increase over a week ago. new york, an early epicenter of the pandemic has seen record positive case numbers for three days in a row. mayor bill de blasio says he will decide this week whether to go forward with new york s famed new year s eve celebration in times square. cnn s jason carroll is with me now. what more are we learning from the mayor, also the governor today as they move forward on this new surge? the mayor is saying a couple of things. first and foremost, he said earlier today that there are no pl
the final 12. prosecutors painted rittenhouse as an armed vigilante who provoked the violence, while the defense portrayed him as a frightened teenager who feared for his life when he shot the three men. take a listen. you cannot hide behind self-defense if you provoked the incident. if you created the danger, you forfeit the right to self-defense. every person who was shot was attacking kyle. one with a skateboard, one with his hands, one with his feet, one with a gun. hands and feet can cause great bodily harm. cnn crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is outside the courthouse in kenosha. there are some procedural steps this morning and then the jury dives into deliberations. explain how it plays out. reporter: right, the first order of business here, jim, this morning is getting the 12 jurors seated. the final 12 jurors that are going to decide kyle rittenhouse s face. that s the first thing the judge does this morning. as you said, there are 18, they n
my ukrainian friends, we know the burden that you all carry. and we know and you should know that all of us have your back. and that s why we re here today. to strengthen the arsenal of ukrainian democracy. next hour we ll speak live to the chairman of the joint chiefs, general mark milley. overnight, an adviser to president volodymyr zelenskyy say russian troops have intensified their assault and saying russian forces are in control, continue to be of the city of kherson, two guided missiles rocked zaporizhzhia. the threat from the skies continues in this country. you may remember that is the same city that was a destination for people trying to escape mariupol. no longer safe itself. and in luhansk, remarkable new drone video shows a village just leveled by recent fighting. the devastation seeming to go on for miles. something we have seen so often in this country since the start of the invasion. can t get used to the images two months in now. cnn pentagon corresponde
that the death of yevgeny prigozhin marks another crack in russia s pyramid of power. as ukraine celebrates 32 years of independence, we ve been travelling across the country, testing feelings about how the war against russia might be brought to an end. now it is much harder. it is not so fast. to occupy our territories, it is a lot of lives, a lot of death. and we talk to the country s deputy defence minister about the war and impact of prigozhin s death. it means a lot. first of all, they are losing confidence, they are losing morale and orientation. i am talking about the lower ranks, and they don t understand what to do next. also tonight. after the first republican debate, what did we learn about attitudes on the us right to their country s support for ukraine? you would not support an increase in funding to ukraine? i you would not support an increase in funding to ukraine? funding to ukraine? i would not and i think this is funding to ukraine? i would not and i thin