experiences bring joy, but so do one-of-a-kind gifts, and you can find both of them here at the museum store. i m here with my friend sakamoto, and he s going to prove that science can be both merry and fun. what do you have here? so this is a shashibo puzzle cube. ooh, okay. you can make a bunch of different mathematical shapes out of it, so let s see if you can make a rhombic dodecahedron. first of all, what is a rhombic dodecahedron? it is let me show you. you re gonna do it so fast, and i m, like, struggling right now to even open up my cube. this is a rhombic dodecahedron. okay, so i opened up my cube. make it like we re getting there. we re getting there. okay, wait. let me see. yours is hollow on the inside. it is. okay. you can actually put a cube inside of here. wait, i feel like something s coming. oh, wait, i m doing something now. [ gasps ] ooh, i think you made the half. yeah. is that a dinosaur? yes. that s what we re
crisis. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we have been following a bizarre and unfolding drama in michigan today involving the parents of a 15-year-old suspected school shooter. tonight the oakland county sheriff says a fugitive man hunt is underway for those parents who, in an unprecedented move, were charged earlier in the day with involuntary manslaughter they re accused of providing the weapon their son allegedly used to kill four students at oxford high school on tuesday. the teen, ethan crumbley, remains in custody. facing murder and terrorism charges. his parents, however, no shows at their scheduled arraignment this afternoon the prosecutor meantime laying out in unusual detail what she says were chilling signs the teen was at risk of turning violent. megan fitzgerald has the breaking details reporter: tonight the parents of accused school shooter ethan crumbley are about to turn themselves in, according to their attorney, after being cha
annie live . this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the drum beat for booster shots for over 100 million eligible americans grows louder tonight as more omicron cases emerge here in the u.s. and around the world the latest u.s. cases include colorado, minnesota and new york but health officials reminding us it is still the dominant delta variant driving a rise in new covid infections with signs more americans are rolling up their sleeves, president biden rolling out a series of new strategies today to combat the covid spread and meet the still unspecified omicron threat including an expanded booster campaign family vaccination clinics, free at home testing and new testing rules for travelers arriving from abroad. kelly o donnell leads us off tonight from the white house. reporter: tonight, expected but still unnerving. more cases of the omicron variant detected inside the u.s. new york officials calling a news conference this evening to announce omi
operation warm, brings coats and more to kids in need. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. brennan: good evening. to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i m margaret brennan in for norah. we begin with the first confirmed infection from the new covid variant omicron here in the united states. and cbs news has just learned that the c.d.c. is reviewing more potential cases in several states. the first case was detected in san francisco. that patient was fully vaccinated, but not boosted, and had recently traveled to south africa. hundreds of cases of the new variant have now been confirmed in more than 20 countries, prompting the biden administration to prepare stricter testing requirements for all travelers entering the united states, including americans. today, president biden said this is why boosters are needed, and implored americans to get that additional dose. 135 million americans are eligible fo
sales, it is giving tuesday. how you can give back this holiday season. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. discouraging words tonight from the head of vaccine maker moderna, quoted as saying there could be a material drop in the effectiveness of current vaccines against the omicron variant. while late today pfizer filed for approval of booster shots for 16 and 17-year-olds, hoping to protect as many people as possible scientists are feverishly trying to understand the heavily mutated variant, now tracing its origins to a different and earlier path than first thought, as new worldwide recommendations are issued for certain travelers. some of the critical answers about the variant are still perhaps weeks away but there could soon be a new tool in the fight against covid, an antiviral pill from merck moving closer to approval tonight gabe gutierrez leads our coverage reporter: tonight, we re one step closer to a pill for treating covid. an fda advis