to 475 witnesses and received over 60,000 pages of documents so they might want to go through that and get things in order before making a call to the vice president. >> jiang: another covid milestone for the united states. the virus has now claimed more than 900,000 lives. at the same time, new infections are waning, down 40% over the last week. cbs' lilia luciano is in pasadena with the latest. lilia, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, weijia. that 900,000 number is double the death toll we had a year ago at the beginning of the vaccine rollout. the good news, now omicron infections are slowing. the problem is the deaths continue spiking. covid is killing nearly 2400 americans every day, the highest in a year, the deathths rising n 35 states. but omicron is in retreat. new infections are plummeting by 50% nationwide, and hospitalizationsns are down n 1.