o sullivan and r.k. russell and s.e. cupp and comedian helen hong. come on in. it is a grand reopening for all of the best, all of the worst 2021. i m tom foreman, welcome and congratulations. we all survived a tough 12 months packed with upheavaled and conflicts and difficulties and victories and hope and happiness. that is saying something given we are were up against a raging pandemic and the deepest social divide the united states has seen in decades. so how did we make it through. let s sort that out by starting with the biggest news. that sounds like gunshots. worse story of the year. the violent invasion of the u.s. capitol by people angry over joe biden winning the last presidential election. the idea that 2021 was going to be better, i think probably lasted for about exactly six days. the january 6 insurrection was straight up crazy. the losing candidate then president trump stoked the fury with the big lie that he had won. they rigged an election. th
and statewide cases are up more than 80% since monday. we must learn to live with covid, adjust and pivot at the right time and we re doing that in new york and i m extremely optimistic on how the city is going to respond. clearly new york and washington, d.c. are ahead of the curve but not by much. so expect in the next three to four weeks we ll see everybody hit with this. reporter: the risk of new year s eve celebrations becoming coast to coast superspreaders is for health experts terrifying. and i m really worried that we re going to be in a tidal wave the admissions particularly for kids in the coming weeks. reporter: hospitals in many places are already flooded with patients. even as nurses and doctors fall ill prompting desperate measures. in new hampshire, yet another federal medical team, the department of defense deploying around the country for months, will arrive next week to help with the over load. in oklahoma, the national guard is barring unvaccinate
Patty la pone and from earth wind and fire it is going to be an awesome night. i ll still trying to come up with any new year s resolution by i have a few and i ve never had a new york city hot dog before and i m thinking tonight is the night. oh, my gosh, goifld, get on that. have a great time on that. and thanks to everyone for joining me. note to our viewers stay to cnn for coverage live from times square at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. it is been a long time, a lot of waiting, uncertainty, anxiety, but we are back. it s time to look at the whole year of wild news unhinged politics and music and movie and sports and more, more, more with our guest, comedian flame mon role and john berman and doany
Partner. they were together for 52 years. patty la pone said he created he cared about because he cared about people. he was 93. when you have lived as long as i have, one of the things you learn is what opinions change enormously and what is important is what you and the few people you really respect, what they say. not people at large. and i had enormous pleasure from the doing, not from the saying about. his death is proof the good die young. coming up, lawrence wilkerson, the former chief of staff to colin powell joins me to analyze last night s interview with condoleezza rice