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to. phil? a legend in every sense of the word. thanks so much. the omicron wave is rising. testing shortages with hospitals and schools struggling to stay open. plus an unvaccinated tennis star now held inside a detention hotel. novack djokovic, his freedom depends on an australian courtroom, and we re learning new details about the weeks leading up to his trip down under. and a dangerous and deadly flooding in the pacific northwest. some frightened people near seattle forced to wait on top of their cars for help. i m phil mattingly in washington in for pamela brown tonight. you re in the cnn newsroom. now, across the country this weekend hospitals are scrambling to deal with waves of people newly infected with the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus. an alarming spike in patients being admitted. hospitalizations now inching closer to the record set almost a year ago. and now adding to the alarm, the soaring number of american children hospitalized wi
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
eve. what is it going to take to end our travel nightmare? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start in our health lead. the cdc battling an apparent credibility problem. today the agency s director, dr. rochelle walensky took questions from reporters in her first solo news conference since july after facing a barrage of criticism, including from within the white house and the cdc over isolation guidance that even allies call confusing. walensky admitting the past few weeks have been particularly challenging. she noted that as a as the science changes, the guidance has to change as well. and she went on to say this is hard. and i am committed to continue to improve, unquote. now former biden administration health advisers are urging the white house to shift its covid strategy. as cnn s alexandra field reports, these advisers, former advisers want the president to prioritize ways for our society to learn to live and function with the virus. instead of chasing what n
home depot so big it was seen for miles the moment employees rushed customers to safety get out of the building and the worker who rescued a dozen dogs from the veterinarian next zmoor the price of eggs rolling higher just days before easter and passover as bird flu des mates poultry farms, why prices may crack a new high. tiger woods with a different kind of win in masters sunday. where he says he is playing next. plus, imagine. john lenin s son swore he would never perform the song imagine all the people the powerful reason he sang it last night. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow good evening in ukraine tonight it is about what is about to happen and who is in charge that has the nation and the world fearing the worst. russia s vladimir putin has put a new general in charge of ukraine operations who is best known by his nickname the butcher of syria for the vicious way he conducted that war russian troops poised for a deadly new offense