the record setting pace of covid positive patients. we speak with one hospital leader who is getting help from military medical workers being dispatched by the white house. welcome to meet the press daily . i m chuck todd. we re awaiting remarks from the president. touting pieces of the bipartisan infrastructure bill that he signed into law 60 days ago while given an update on the how the billion is being put to use. these remarks will cap off a decidedly bad week for the administration. also bad time to have a bad week. his voting rights agenda appears to be on capitol hill after. the spite a presidential visit to the capitol and a meeting with sinema last night at the white house. the plan to hold the vote on the senate on the issue likely to fail anyway before monday s self-imposed mlk deadline has been delayed because of democratic a senator s positive test for covid. he says to isolate and democrats without a majority, they would meet on the senate floor in order to p
the queen s gambit, her imagine industry strips prince andrew md duties as he faces a sexual assault lawsuit as a private citizen. dangerous winter storm, heavy snow and arctic cold from the midwest to the east coast heading our way. voting rights defeat, just days after the president vowed to pass landmark legislation, tonight the serious hors hurdle he faces. eye on america, the two unlikely heroes hoping to bring vital services to one of the nation s poorest communities. and writing to freedom, one afghan woman s journey from taliban rule to the american dream. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we start tonight with some very significant decisions by the u.s. supreme court. a mixed pair of rights that will directly impact nearly 100 million americans. the cort s conservative majority says the biden administration does not have the authority to impose a vaccine o
725 people arrested in relation to the attack on the capitol. let s go to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. talk about this arrest of stewart rhodes. yeah, victor and alisyn, this is a major, major step in this investigation. and the arrest today of stewart rhodes and another prominent member of the oath keepers, his name is edward vallejo, his arrest happened in arizona and in rhodes s case, he was in texas. they re now charged with seditious conspiracy and this is a case that the justice department has been hinting at in court filings against some of the other members of the oath keepers who are already facing conspiracy charges that they were building this case. and what you hear what you see in the documents that were unsealed today is this allegation that they say that after the november 3, 2020, election that rhodes and these other members of the oath keepers conspired to oppose, by force, the execution of the laws
country. doctors warned we would get here, and we did. 1 million new cases reported in the last 24 hours, a single day record. omicron now accounts for 95% of all new cases of covid in the united states. that s according to the cdc. all of them. from schools and workplaces, hotels and restaurants, to flights and even the new york city subway system, so many people are testing positive there aren t enough workers to keep things running. hospitalizations are climbing as fast as cases, and that is the good news, but omicron is still hitting hospitals hard not only because of an influx of patients but also a shortage of staff. thousands of health care workers staying home to isolate. we now have well over 100 staff out due to covid in my hospital and the issue is if you re in a hospital bed, you need nurses. you need environmental services folks. you need food service workers. you need physicians. you need an entire team caring for you. that s a hospital in new jersey, we re
covid spread and test requirements and staff shortages as well. and some parents just opting to keep their kids home. thousands of travelers still trying to get back home after a week of staff shortages from new covid cases leaves airlines, tsa, and support personnel shorthanded. planes grounded complicated by a new winter storm already hitting the mid-atlantic and moving up the coast towards the northeast. one flight not grounded today, air force one, president biden arriving at joint base andrews. it is hard to see him. mid-morning that was about an hour and a half ago amid swirling winds, accumulating snow from a holiday break that he had in delaware. the president s holiday was interrupted by a call to reassure ukraine s president zelensky after an hour-long call with vladimir putin who still has 100,000 troops along ukraine s border. washington is preparing for the first anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. the commemoration at the capitol will include a speech f