in a moment, the ceo of pfizer joins us to talk boosters, possible new versions of the vaccines, and a pill the company has been testing to treat covid. first, cnn s athena jones on why this variant has become so troubling so quickly. reporter: tonight, the president calling for calm. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. reporter: as omicron, a new coronavirus variant, first detected in south africa, spreads around the world. this is a new wrench that s been thrown into the fight against covid. it s certainly not good news. reporter: raising new, urgent questions. we don t know everything we need to know about this new variant, yet. we don t know, yet, what the level of severity will be. reporter: omicron has at least 50 mutations, including some shared with the highly contagious delta variant. that drove a deadly-summer surge in the united states. the new variant has become the most dominant strain in south africa less than two weeks
knows how to perform it. i have to say i had a lot of amazing reporting experiences but to be privileged to stand in their home and watch him do an hour long set at the piano with his wife watching was among the most incredible moments really of reporting i ve had. his wife is great and a big reason for his longevity. the kid can cook by the way. tony. he can cook. and he is a nice little artist. he is a nice little artist. i interviewed him once with my pop. he got nervous and started drawing me. it wasn t bad. he couldn t draw you. you can t capture all that beauty. me he did all right. he is something special. a great story to bring people, anderson. really cool. i m chris cuomo. welcome to primetime. happy hanukah to my jewish brothers and sisters. enjoy night two of the festival of lights. i hope thanksgiving was a reminder for everybody of the good people and the good things in your life. lord knows we could use the help, right? now, i will take a little bit of a diff
potential threat. there is a lot we don t know. the cdc amped up its advice on vaccine boosters. the old world is that anyone 18 and older may get a booster. joins us to talk boosters, possible new versions of the vaccines, and a pill the company has been testing to treat covid. first, cnn s athena jones on why this variant has become so troubling so quickly. reporter: tonight, the president calling for calm. this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. reporter: as omicron, a new coronavirus variant, first detected in south africa, spreads around the world. this is a new wrench that s been thrown into the fight against covid. it s certainly not good news. reporter: raising new, urgent questions. we don t know everything we need to know about this new variant, yet. we don t know, yet, what the level of severity will be. reporter: omicron has at least 50 mutations, including some shared with the highly contagious delta variant. that drove a dea
he has an incredible background. just the music is incredible. it is there in his brain and he knows how to perform it. i have to say i had a lot of amazing reporting experiences but to be privileged to stand in their home and watch him do an hour long set at the piano with his wife watching was among the most incredible moments really of reporting i ve had. his wife is great and a big reason for his longevity. the kid can cook by the way. tony. he can cook. and he is a nice little artist. he is a nice little artist. i interviewed him once with my pop. he got nervous and started drawing me. it wasn t bad. he couldn t draw you. you can t capture all that beauty. me he did all right. he is something special. a great story to bring people, anderson. really cool. i m chris cuomo. welcome to primetime. happy hanukah to my jewish brothers and sisters. enjoy night two of the festival of lights. i hope thanksgiving was a reminder for everybody of the good people and the good things
tony bennett, remarkable. the news continues. let s hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. he is a remarkable guy. i was very lucky to have tony in my life for a long time. he was a good friend of my parents and it is not unusual for somebody to have something that is really encoded in their mind last even when they start to deal with dementia or whatever the variety of malady is. but he is one of the few who has transcended more decades, more generations, and there is so much people don t know about him. i just hope they find out, he lets them find things out before he s gone. even the high school that he put together in queens he named it after frank sinatra instead of himself because he said i don t deserve a school. he fought at battle of the bulge, in selma with dr. martin luther king. he has an incredible background. just the music is incredible. it is there in his brain and he