garrett: denver shooting rampage. still no motive in the shooting deaths of six people, including the gunman. this is the holiday season. to have this kind of spree take place is not normal for our community. garrett: california plane crash: four people killed when a small plane goes down on approach near san diego. american innovation: a new hydrogen passenger ferry that could carry america to a greener future. feeding america s military families. how your generosity leads to the one millionth meal served. and a lesson in giving from one generation to another. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with the latest wave of covid infections making it feel yes like december of 2020. as an example: new york city is once again the epicenter of this stage of the pandemic. but it s not alone. new je
would want. garrett: denver shooting rampage. still no motive in the shooting deaths of five people, including the gunman. this is the holiday season. to have this kind of spree take place is not normal for our community. garrett: california plane crash: four people killed when a small plane goes down on approach near san diego. american innovation: a new hydrogen passenger ferry that could carry america to a greener future. feeding america s military families. how your generosity leads to the one millionth meal served. and a lesson in giving from one generation to another. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening, everybody. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we begin tonight with the latest wave of covid infections making it feel yes like december of 2020. as an example: new york city is once again the epicenter of this stage of the pandemic. but it s not alone. new jers
week ago. but hospitalizations are increasing at a more gradual pace. four states hit their peak this month before starting to decline in just the past few days. maine, michigan, new hampshire and vermont saw more people hospitalized from covid than ever before. now new cdc guidance aims to shorten the isolation period for people who test positive but have no symptoms from 10 days to just 5 days. elizabeth cohen joins me now. give us the full details on these updated guidelines. these guidelines have their supporters and they also have their critics. sort of the bottom line, the base of these guidelines is that the cdc and other scientists learned that people are most contagious either right before they have symptoms or just for like two or three days afterwards. so the thinking is we have a shortage of essential workers, doctors, nurses, people to fly planes, flight attendants, why are we keeping people isolated if they re probably no longer contagious and they no longer h
sam, we have all seen those testing lines. they are extremely long whether people are hanging out on the sidewalk or in their car. tell us what you are seeing and hearing from folks, and also what you know about the airlines grounding lights? reporter: first, testing, you see this crush of cars over my shoulder. that s one little snippet of what is going on at the testing and vaccination site here in miami-dade. they are somewhere in the neighborhood of 8,000 to 9,000 people getting tested today, and that s triple the numbers in the last coming days. it did not look like this a week ago, but it is ramped up with so many wanting to go and see their loved ones, and florida almost broke its record yesterday, a strong likelihood we will see a bigger number than that that will be the single number of infections daily we have seen so far. that s on the testing site. miami-dade officially is at 15% and climbing. now, let s talk about the airlines. delta airlines announcing its exp
thousands of flights around the world are cancelled or delayed. many because of staffing shortages due to covid exposures. the biden administration announced this morning it will be lifting covid travel restrictions from eight african nations starting on new year s day. there s also new guidance from the cdc, cutting isolation time for ie symptomatic health care workers. a short time ago the president surprised health care workers and patients at children s national hospital in d.c. joining dr. jill biden and the annual tradition of first ladies visiting hospitalized children for the holidays. and these pictures coming in just moments ago of a another white house tradition. the president and first lady taking calls from children on norads santa tracker line. we begin with the can have surge colliding with the holidays. from los angeles international airport, we have gaudy schwartz and dr. ben gupta. thousands of flights have been cancelled worldwide today and tomorrow amid th