day, his family marches in washington calling for change as the president faces an uphill battle getting voting rights legislations passed. covid s last wave, what dr. anthony fauci is saying tonight about whether omicron will be the pandemic s final surge as cases hit a new record. game, set, match, tonight the news that the world s top tennis player may be barred from playing in the upcoming french open and u.s. open because he s not vaccinated. and naomi osaka returns to the world stage after a four-month hiatus. and rebbing dr. king. tonight, we ll hear from him in his own words. the moral urine verse is long but it bends toward justice. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, great to have you with us
tornado? reporter: in florida, a tornado destroyed several homes. it sounded like a racing train. it was really loud, and it took me off a my feet. reporter: and get ready, because meteorologists tell us there is a chance of another winter storm across the east coast from the carolinas to new england new england. norah. o donnell: nikki battiste, thank you for being there with us. appreciate it. the runaway omicron variant is spreading fast with daily cases and hospitalizations near all-time records. experts twarn latest surge is far from over. cbs s mola lenghi reports. reporter: as omicron continues to sweep the nation, today dr. anthony fauci addressed whether it could end the pandemic. i would hope that that s the case, but that would only be the case if we don t get another variant that eludes the immune response. reporter: still, health officials say the next few weeks will be rough. as case numbers shatter records,
against omicron variant. dr. anthony fauci said we need not variant-specific vaccines but ones that protect against all strains of the virus, norah. o donnell: that would be a breakthrough, mo lenghi, thanks. today, tribute was paid to martin luther king, pushing for greater protection of voting rights. as nancy cordes reports, gettsle easy. ( singing ) reporter: in washington today the family of dr. martin luther king marched in favor of voting reform. we are tired of being patient. reporter: the president and vice president sounded the alarm as well. our freedom to vote is under assault. the attack on our democracy is real. reporter: and, yet, a major voting reform bill is poised to fail in the senate as soon as tomorrow, having advocates turning up the heat on two
The Department of Medical Sciences (DMS) is studying whether the BA.2 sub-variant of the Omicron variant is more virulent than its cousins, says director-general Dr Supakit Sirilak.
vaccinated. bret: but you have had omicron and you get through it, which most people are, does that provide immunity for delta or vice versa? yeah. really important. we re starting to look at the studies now in the lab. that will try and inform the question of the cross reactive protection of delta to omicron and the fact of omicron to delta and those studies are just emerging right now. we do know that there is less cross protection from prior variants to omicron and the studies of whether omicron will protect you from other variants, those studies are just emerging. and then, of course, the studies that are going to happen at the population level in the clinical situation are still emerging right now. bret: okay. last one. this is dave joyce. he has a question about masks in schools. you have consistently cited one study in arizona as justification for mask mandates