and the big announcement. and our made in america your ideas pouring in. good evening and it s great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. and we begin tonight with the major news this evening on the effectiveness of these vaccine boosters with this new omicron variant. tonight, pfizer now reporting that early data suggests that the booster does bring your antibodies back up, restoring protection to its highest level. tonighten, in pfizer s new study, it did show that the new vasht did chip away at the effectiveness of those two doses of the vaccine, but that after the third shot, the booster, there was a high antibody response. health officials tonight say that s reason enough to get a booster shot now and dr. fauci, for one, saying today this news makes him breathe a little easier. tonight, our dr. jen ashton with rare access inside the cdc s
emergency operation center where they are tracking covid, of course, and this new variant in the u.s. right now. and all of this as delta continues at an alarming rate. this new surge with the colder weather here. people, of course, back indoors. more than 117,000 new cases every day now. that s up 46% in a week. new hospital admissions up more than 14% from last week and in children, this was alarming, hospital admissions up nearly 37%. so, tonight here, several questions answered. what has the cdc director most concerned about this new variant, dr. jen ashton with that. and what about these boosters and this news they re now working? dr. jha on that in a moment. but we re going to fin with whit johnson leading us off here. reporter: tonight, pfizer releasing early data suggesting two shots plus the booster appear to stand up against the new variant, and could be a key tool in the fight against omicron. dr. ant hadny fauci saying the news makes him, quote, breathe a little better.