up to levels last seen three months ago, in the midst of the delta surge. new infections jumping more than 20% over last week. nearly 70,000 people hospitalized with the virus. new york state breaking the record for highest new daily cases. almost 29,000, up nearly 24% from the previous high set on monday. i m pretty worried that the surge that we re going to see in the coming weeks is going to be worse than the surge that we saw last winter. reporter: covid deaths rising 11% over last week as the cdc reports covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020. and life expectancy dropped by nearly two years. despite the spike in cases, holiday travelers do not seem deterred with the tsa screening around 2 million or more people aday for the past six days. the cdc director reminding travelers how safe your holiday is about how safe you are in the time leading up to the holiday.
covid-19 case numbers back up to levels last seen three months ago in the midst of the delta surge. new infections jumping more than 20% over last week. nearly 70,000 people hospitalized with the virus. i m pretty worried that the surge we re going to see in the coming weeks is going to be worse than the surge that we saw last winter. more than 200 military medical personnel deployed to help civilian hospitals in several states. covid deaths rising 11% over last week as the cdc reports covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020. when life expectancy dropped by nearly two years. despite the spike in cases, the tsa screening around 2 million or more people a day for the past six days. the cdc director reminding holiday travelers so much about the safety of your gathering has less to do with the plane ride or the train ride that you re going to do to get there and very much to do with the behaviors that you have in the week prior to your
reporter: one problem, the highly effective treatment has to be administered within the first five days of symptoms, making hard-to-come-by tests all the more important, even as walgreens and cvs limit the number of tests customers can buy at once in the face of sky high demand. meanwhile the now dominant, highly contagious omicron variant first detected in the u.s. just weeks ago, is helping drive new covid-19 case numbers back up to levels last seen three months ago in the midst of the delta surge. new infections jumping more than 20% over last week. nearly 70,000 people hospitalized with the virus. i m pretty worried that the surge we re going to see in the coming weeks is going to be worse than the surge we saw last winter. reporter: covid deaths rising 11% over last week as the cdc reports covid-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020 and life expectancy dropped by nearly two years. despite the spike in cases, holiday travelers do not seem
tony blinken warning a catastrophe on the ground in afghanistan when the u.s. withdraws. it is the situation we are seeing right now. the diplomat calls for a swift evacuation of afghanistan. the cdc reports covid-19 for children reaching the highest as ever. d.c. police arrested a man who he claims to have a bomb. let s bring in john harwood and author of joe biden, the life, the run and what matters now. john, the president is insisting the afghanistan withdrawal is going as well as it could have. but in the memo raises questions about his administration handling of it. what do you know? well, look, they re clearly