this is cnn breaking news. i m pamela brown in washington. it s shaping up to be a busy saturday night. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are here live in the cnn cnn newsroom. breaking tonight, a third covid-19 vaccine is one step closer to reality tonight as the u.s. food and drug administration issues emergency use authorization for the johnson & johnson covid vaccine. i want to get straight to cnn health reporter jacqueline howard who is going to break down the next steps for us. reporter: pamela, you re right. there are next steps. now that the fda has issued an emergency use authorization for this vaccine we re next going to hear from the cdc. here s the timeline of what s going to happen. tomorrow, an advisory committee to the cdc is going to meet and discuss how the vaccine can be used. are there certain groups that should be prioritized for access? what should the distribution or storage look like? that will all be discussed.
hopes will tell the story of our universe. the war on cancer, the power of science and music. ( singing ) one impressive young woman who s making it her mission to help others going through treatment. smaller christmas eve crowds as the pope s mass and in the biblical town of bethlehem but what s not missing is hope. and on the road, with a reminder that all it takes is one person to make a difference. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. yuccas: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thanks for joining us this christmas eve. i m jamie yuccas in for norah. we begin with the rise in omicron cases causing nightmares for holiday travelers. airlines have canceled more than 1,000 flights here in the u.s. and over 3,000 worldwide because employees are getting infected by the virus. in the last week, the number of average daily cases is up 45%. that surge is attributed to the fast-spreading omicron variant. there is one bi
unfortunate sequence of events. yuccas: the $10 billion telescope n.a.s.a. hopes will tell the story of your universe. the war on cancer, the power of science and music. ( singing ) one impressive young woman who s making it her mission to help others going through treatment. smaller christmas eve crowds as the pope s mass and in the biblical town of bethlehem but what s not missing is hope. and on the road, with a reminder that all it takes is one person to make a difference. yuccas: thanks for joining us. i m jamie uccas in for norah. we begin with the rise in omicron cases causing nighted mares for holiday travelers. airlines have canceled more than a thousand flights here in the u.s. and over 3,000 worldwide because employees are getting infect by the virus. in the last week the number of average daily cases is up 45%. that surge is attributed to the fast spreading omicron variant. there is one bit of good news. hospitalizations remain flat, hovering around 60,000 pat
good morning. breathe it in deep. the weekend is here. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. is and i m paula reid. boris, it s great to be with you. we appreciate you getting up bright and early. amara is skiing somewhere in europe. here s a look at what we re watching this morning. overall we created more jobs in two years than any administration created in the first four years. president biden taking a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus a stunning free falls that led to the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history. and testing the waters. presidential hopefuls sworm iowa this week as the gop race heats up. we have new reporting about when ron desantis might announce that he s running. i looked on the ground and it was flooded. he seems to be in a smiling mood for a natural disaster. california soaked by the another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers washing out roads, collapsing bridges and
deadly shooting at a jehovah s witness hall in hamburg, germany. authorities are still searching for a motive in the attack that left six people dead before the gunman apparently took his own life. james: republicans barnstorm iowa as the fight for the party s future heats up. we ve got a country to save. we will never ever surrender. and a man in north carolina is facing multiple charges after he allegedly drove a car into wilmington international airport. it s time for the oscars. this is your captain speaking. james: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. i m james brown in for norah. tonight, we take a look at an innovative program taking flight at one major u.s. airline, hoping to tackle the industry s pilot shortage. plus, it s friday, so we go on the road with an army widow who is keeping a long-held promise to her late husband. but first an extremely rare and dangerous flash flood of emergency has bee