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Attend meetings virtually. case counts fueled biome cron are rising at an alarming rate. the variant now detected in all 50 states, leading to long lines for tests. >> nearly three hours now. >> in new york city, the pandemic is dimming the holiday spirit, shutting down the radio city, rockettes. its getting so bad in europe the mayor of london declared a major incident again. >> in the last 24 hours, we have had the largest number of new cases -- >> back in the u.s., doctors pleading with the p...

Back to you. >> thats pretty exciting. >> it is. >> it really is. rob, great forecast. >> thanks a lot. thanks for watching. "nightly news" is next. tonight the stunning rise in covid cases across the country. the omicron wave is taking off like a rocket incredibly long lines to get tested. home tests sold out. as case counts rising than ever before piling on already overwhelmed hospitals. the president set to address the nation cancellation nation. covid forcing schools and colleges to go r...

Epidemiologist and cnn medical analyst. good to see you, thank you so much for helping us out with this story. youre saying that omicron is the most transmissible virus ever? that is a scary thing to hear. its quite a statement, but what will it mean for us in real life terms? what does that mean? >> thank you for having me, don, its very nice to see you again. sorry its under these circumstances. >> yeah. >> first of all, lets start off with the fact that were already in the middle of a delta w...

Very worried about what omicron is going to mean for its health care system. we know if youre vaccinated, it causes less severe illness and its unlikely youd need to be hospitalized. but its still an unknown factor. so its about booster shots and about restrictions and ensuring people are not meeting in close proximity over the holiday season. >> i want to go to selma whos in london. we were warned of a tidal wave of cases with yet another record high. yet theres still to plans to cancel christm...

Million masks to community organizations to try to curb this spread. >> and meanwhile in california, covid hospitalizations are once again on the rise. >> thats right, jose. hospitalizations are on the rise, case counts also on the rise, and authorities are growing increasingly concerned about the spread of the omicron variant, especially when you look at whats happening to the south of the state at uc san diego. and its worth looking at uc san diego, because they have one of the few sequencing ...

Epidemiologist and cnn medical analyst. doctor, good to see you. thank you so much for helping us out with this story. youre saying that omicron is the most transmissible virus ever? that is a scary thing to hear. its quite a statement, but what will it mean for us in real-life terms? what does that mean? >> thank you for having me, don. its very nice to see you again. sorry its under these circumstances. >> yeah. >> first of all, lets start off with the fact that were already in the middle of a...

Merkel does next. now, europes health agencies are trying to battle rising covid cases ahead of the christmas holidays. the eu drug regulators says vaccines may be used and booster shots. it will produce good levels of antibodies against covid-19. meanwhile the euro chief is warning against vaccine mandates, saying they should be a last resort in dealing with the omicron variant. and france recorded one of its highest daily case counts, just over 59,000 new infections on tuesday. cnns melissa ...

Take us to the white house and decision to react here? is it purely on the science? because mandating vaccines on flights, theyre not going that far. what is happening behind the scenes? >> i think its a balancing act and the president actually gave a pretty decent window into his remarks. i was surprised how candid he was that plally he believed that plan was something should support because it didnt include the mandates drawn up that the president and his team didnt fully want to go and then g...

Variant and the other is to make a variant-specific boost. >> all right. while the concerns over this new variant dominate headlines its the delta variant that is dominating case counts. nearly every state we saw a steep rise in cases over the last week and the country is back over 1,000 cases a day first time in two months. are they attributing that to people getting together for the holidays? >> absolutely. a record number of pandemic travelers last weekend following thanksgiving and are still...

Pan-coronavirus medications, that is, they work against all variants because they dont work on the surface in spike protein, they work on the machinery of replication. todd: very quickly, do you think its here? >> i think its here. its probably in dozens of countries around the world right now. carley: so florida, heres another topic we wanted to get to, they reported, listen to this, the lowest number of covid-19 cases and deaths per capita in the nation. we have a chart of how many that is. lo...