the lessons to be learned about getting products off ships and on to shelves. these containers are all loaded on rail cars that are going to head to big cities. garrett: sngs outrage a truck driver is given 110 years in pris pon for a pileup that killed four people. protests tonight saying the sentence is excessive. the war on cancer a closer look at the racial divide in diagnosis and treatment. and finally a story about a christmas tree that could become your new tradition and help the environment at the same time. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we begin with the omicron surge. the variant is spreading faster than all other covid strains. this we know on monday the c.d.c. reported nearly 290,000 new covid cases. that is the second-most new infections in one day since this