all right. good morning, everybody. welcome to the cross connection. i m tiffany cross. you heard some of the black voters who put joe biden in office weighing in on his myers i first year with mixed reviews. biden gave himself high remarks in what turned out to be the longest press conference in presidential history. it was a quite informative one. now, there have been many successes that you don t often hear about in the biden administration. over three-quarters of americans have finally received one jab. that s something and free home tests are now on their way to your mail books, not to mention the pass annual of the american rescue plan. we put more change in your pockets. we appreciate that and a massive infrastructure bill. but we do have to be honest. there have been many challenges, excuse me, ballooning inflation. the social spending bill nope as build back better, it s pretty much stalled indefinitely now and, of course, the big unanswered question, that is, of
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. tonight, the new covid variant omicron is spreading to a growing number of states. late this evening the governor of new york announced five new confirmed cases. it has also been detected in california, minnesota and colorado. since omicron was first discovered by scientists in south africa, it has spread to at least two dozen countries. it is now the dominant strain in south africa where infections are spiking. the biden administration today launched a new campaign to get more americans a booster shot, part of a strategy to manage a surge of delta infections already underway. cbs weijia jiang leads off our coverage from the white house. good evening, weijia. good evening, margaret. tonight, we are learning that four of those new omicron cases are in new york ci
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it will close its borders to all foreign nationals for the next two weeks. the cdc says the variant has not been detected in the u.s. medical experts said it could already be here. the u.s. will restrict travel from south africa and seven other african nations starting monday. officials are advising americans not to travel to those countries amid news of the strain present biden surging americans to get vaccinated if they haven t yet emphasized those eligible should get a booster shot. we have boxing team coverage white house correspondent jackie heimlich is present crackling with the present in massachusetts but we begin with jonathan live in atlanta, home for the centers for disease control. good evening. kathy hopeful sign an executive order postponing electric surgeries at hospitals in new york state with limited bed capacity. she did this in anticipation of a potential surge of covid-19 patients. executive order takes effect december 3 and january 15, state officials w
on high alert amid growing concern of the new strain of the coronavirus. the world health organization has named it omicron and classified it as a variant of concern. omicron was first reported to the world health organization by south africa where the new variant, quote, appears to be increasing in almost all provinces. fears of another deadly wave of the coronavirus has forced some countries to act swiftly on friday. several nations including japan, canada and the united kingdom announced travel restrictions for people coming from the southern region of africa. the biden administration decided to do the same. beginning monday november 29th the united states will restrict travel from botswana, eswatini, former swaziland and mozambique, namibia and zimbabwe. belgium, israel and hong kong have had one case of the omicron variant within their borders and you know there is never just one. no cases have been identified in the u.s. to date. we expect omicron to be identified quick