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it. stand by for our exclusive reporting. also tonight, the defense rested in the trial of kim potter, who took the stand to tell her side of the story about the moment she shot and daunte wright. did she help the case or make the prosecution s case easier? i m wolf blitzer. you re in officee the situation room. we begin our coverage this evening with a growing alarm right now over the omicron variant s rise here in the united states. let s get straight to cnn s senior national correspondent kyung lah t it s beginning to feel like the early days of the pandemic. reporter: yeah, it certainly is, with omicron spreading so rapidly, there is a new and urgent message from the top of the medical experts, dr. fauci saying if you said real protection from this rapidly spreading variant omicron, you have to get a booster. america s covid time warp, long testing and vaccination lines in miami. familiar fears of exposure. i m so scared, so i decided to make an appointment ....
merry christmas to you and your family. you, too. merry christmas to you. this is don lemon tonight and i need everybody to pay close attention. okay? this is serious. don t you think we ve seen this movie before? i keep reporting the same thing i ve been reporting for almost two years now. we re devoting a lot of attention to the growing covid crisis because it s really, really important. we want to help save lives and to make sure people don t become infected if you don t have to. what is so sad is those are almost the same words we were saying two years ago when the pandemic first took hold in the country, growing covid crisis. i thought i finished saying that. growing covid crisis. here we are again. we should be over this pandemic by now or have it somewhat under control. aren t you tired and fatigued? i know you ve got to be. the numbers don t lie. the average daily number of new cases was just under 120,000. today, the tracking data shows from john s hopkin ....
please join me tomorrow morning and every saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern for smerconish right here on cnn. don lemon starts right now. hey, don. you certainly had a week, my friend. is this your oldest son? i forget his name but who was a baby when i you yeah, i know, man. they have all grown. like, none none are babies, anymore. i wish they were. nice full head of hair. good-looking, young man. obviously, he looks like your wife. that is the one i am talking about. i forget his name. that is true. the crew is laughing over here. michael, have a good show tomorrow, have a great weekend and i won t wont be here next week so have a merry christmas to you and your family. merry christmas to you. thank you. this is don lemon tonight and i need everybody to pay, um, close attention. okay? this is serious. because we don t you think that we have seen this movie before? right? i feel like i am i am just i keep reporting the same thing that ....
i m sorry it happened. i m so sorry. o donnell: schools on alert: how unspecified threats of violence on tiktok force some to cancel classes. america s education system is under attack right now. o donnell: paid family leave: tonight, meet the small-business owner giving paid family leave to all her employees. but she s the exception, not the rule. why that s pushing american mothers out of the workforce. tiger woods tees it high and lets it fly. plus the incredible putt from his 12-year-old son, charlie. and on the road, with the story of a mother s grief that you won t soon forget. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. well, what is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year has become a season of worry for many americans, with the u.s. facing what might be the most severe wave yet of covid infections. in fact, that ....
shot and killed daunte wright. i remember yelling taser, taser, taser, and nothing happened. and then he told me i shot him. plus as the january 6th committee prepares for more key depositions, one of the rioters gets one of the toughest sentences yet for flowing a fire extinguisher at police officers. and dark side of social media, unverified threats on tiktok, shutting down the country. good morning, everybody. it s saturday, december 18th, i m lindsey reiser. and we have a team of reporters and analystists following the latest from washington, d.c. tole kentucky. we begin, though, this weekend with americans across the country grappling with a really tough decision. keep their holiday plans to see loved ones or cancel as a massive twin variant surge of covid cases begins to hit. it s been 21 months and one week since the world health organization declared coronavirus a pandemic. this is a case rate over that time. over there on the far right there, you see how ....