the question is, where does this leave the president s domestic agenda? plus, the covid-19 surge. health officials predict the omicron variant will bring a record number of cases, and it will put more people in the hospital than ever before. the question is are u.s. medical systems ready? and tiger woods back on the green, his first competition since his devastating car crash, and playing with his son. the question is how did he fair? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, a show that needed that little bit of good government news. i m jonathan lemire on this monday, december 20th. after months of negotiations, senator joe manchin, the linchpin in the 50/50 senate, said he will not support president biden s build back better plan, effectively killing the $2 trillion social spending proposal in its current form. in an interview on fox news sunday, the democrat cited debt, inflation, and covid for the reasons why he is opposed.
to buy at home tests ahead of the holiday. stores in many areas completely sold out. why are there so few available? a major setback for president biden. a key democratic senator announces he will not vote for the build back better plan. i can t get there. this is a no. reporter: the whitehouse firing back. will your packages make it there? the new report card on the big three carriers. who is delivering on time this holiday season? and the final shipping deadlines in the days ahead. plus, tiger is back in red and back in the game. the new record he and his son just set. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. in some ways it feels like an awful dejavu. march of 2020 all over again. businesses, entertainment, sports shutting down amid rising covid cases, long lines to get tested. but it s worth remembering how much has changed. we have vaccines and boosters now, treatments and other tools to mitigate risk and lessen the severity of illness. still,
we are waiting right now for a news conference with outgoing new york city mayor, bill de blasio, and actually, his incoming mayor, eric adams. we ll bring that to you as soon as it gets underway. meantime this morning, dr. anthony fauci telling nbc s chuck todd that omicron is raging through the world and could possibly replace the delta variant as the dominant strain. right now, omicron makes up about 3% or so of u.s. cases. and with hospitals already at their breaking point, the rise of omicron is fueling worries about another covid winter. the cdc predicts cases could spike by 55%. so we re going to get all the latest from reuters white house correspondent jeffrey mason, but first to my colleague kathy park who s here in the studio with me, with the very latest happening around the globe, including here in new york city. as you know, the second day in a row that the city has broken its record for positive cases, so what s the latest beyond even just that? a lot of chan
i am yasmin vossoughian coming to you live from msnbc world headquarters. wow, wow, wow, what a day. bombshell from senator joe manchin, announcing hours ago he s an n-o. a no on the build back better. we all knew senator manchin couldn t be trusted, you know, the excuses he just made i think are complete [ bleep ]. let me be clear, there are six of us who had been saying this all along, representative ocasio-cortez, and representative talib and representative bowman and omar and myself, we have been saying this for weeks that this would happen. i hope we will bring a strong bill to the floor of the senate as soon as we can, and let mr. manchin explain to the people of west virginia why he doesn t have the guts to stand up to powerful special interests. put the bill up and let him stand before the american people and tell them that he does not support childcare, and climate change and housing systems for those who need safe and secure housing. all i want for christm
everyone s. i know that sounds bad, except that when it comes to people seeking treatment for covid, it s all about the delta varian lean mean omicron might be everywhere, but it s mild. when asked how they could tell it was omicron and not delta variant, the spokesman replied that it tasted different. all that work for that joke. its true. thank you. speaking of covid in sand of th lb flying out tomorrow to do an event in scottsdale, arizona. i m looking forward to it, the event, but not the flying great i rather have a threesome with joy behar and weed wacker. i told you about the last time flew it was like a flashback of fifth-grade detention in this time i wasn t the bully, it was on an airline named after a covid variant that i was lectured by a flight attendant as mean as a centipede with gout . she threatened me with a warnin because my mask slipped below m nose so i said how else am i going to snort these lines. i was kidding. she wasn t commercially said sh would wri