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the lead starts right now. tensions continue to escalate in the middle east, new details and images just coming in as cnn learns of a new terrorist attack and tell aviv as israel strikes after a barrage of rockets hit along its borders, plus supreme court justice clarence thomas tries to explain after a bombshell report revealed his many family trips on a god in a private jet, all paid for by a billionaire republican mega donor. and thomas never disclosed almost any of it, plus vice president kamala harris dispatched to tennessee one day after state house republicans expelled two dem...

is "cnn newsroom." ♪ u.s. president joe biden will soon be on his way here to atlanta, georgia, just days after eight people were killed in a shooting rampage at a local spas, six of them were asian women. biden was supposed to promote his huge coronavirus relief package, but will now instead offer his support to the community. he will be meeting with the mayor as well as state officials and asian-american leaders. vice president kamala harris who is a black asian-american is also on the trip. police say it's too soon to tell if the shootings were racially motivated about you that ...

Vaccines. federal health officials are bracing for the first official omicron cases in the u.s. so they say there are likely far more infections across the globe than currently reported. dr. anthony fauci is going to join us to answer all of our questions on this new variant. first as amara walker reports, the rush to get ahead of this new variant is happening in the united states before experts know for sure if it's here or how widespread or how severe. >> reporter: omicron is a stark reminder this pandemic is not yet over. >> it's just got more of things that we don't like the look of. but...

Been in the hospital for 76 days. i highly recommend everybody to get the vaccines and really protect themselves because this is no joke. >> that message part of a new ad campaign from the department of health and human services takes a fear-based approach to try to change the minds of the unvaccinated in the united states. this shift comes as the new quinnipiac poll shows half of all americans disapprove of how president biden is handling the pandemic. but as cnn's amara walker reports, the cdc is forecasting some better news on the horizon. >> i died three times. they gave me a 5% chance of ...

Those words may have been their last. amara walker reports. >> reporter: well, some parents and relatives say one of the ways they found out was through text messages from their loved ones. and some of the last communication is just starting to emerge. and as you'd emerge, it's just so heartbreaking to read these text messages. in one text a student on the ship wrote his older brother, "i'm on my way to jeju island but the ship hit something and is not moving." the older brother asked is it bad? to which the younger brother replied, "i'm inside. so i don't know." the older brother responded, "...