Holiday Reporting News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> 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. >> it's crazy. i can't even go to my neighborhood drugstore. and then coming here, well, we just got shut down, saying they're 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 winter surge won't be known until after new years. still, hospitals under strain are warning it will...

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 wasn't 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. france is adding the united states to its covid travel red list. under those new rules, unvaccinated...