Holiday Reporting News Today

>> right in there. you are all set. >> reporter: from virginia to new jersey, miami to philadelphia, americans spending this holiday week waiting hours for covid tests. >> its crazy. i cant even go to my neighborhood drugstore. and then coming here, well, we just got shut down, saying theyre not taking anymore people. >> reporter: tonight, soaring demand for tests and a backlog of holiday reporting have driven covid cases to 440,000, the highest one-day total ever. but a true snapshot of the win...

Parents feel better and it will feel like they can perhaps take more control of the situation, in a situation that has been so out of control for so long now. >> it has been. >> dr. jill, happy new year to you. thank you so much. >> happy new year, paula. thank you so much for having me. >> and this probably wasnt the start to a new year that europe was looking for, either. as you can see from the map, much of the continent looks like a covid hot zone, with case numbers going only one way, up. f...