in tonight's "eye on america,"s" cbs' nancy chen takes us to the cbs' nancy chen takes us to the citycine, wisconsin, where for some officers, policing begins at home. >> reporter: growing up in one of racine, wisconsin's toughest neighborhoods, 17-year-old kamari andrews says his reaction to seeing police was instinctive. >> my impression of law enforcement was to run from them all the time. >> push back from here to hold it on. >> reporter: but that started to change five years ago, when he met officer tim cisler just a few houses down.e hangout spo was it like the hangout spot to go to after school? >> it was. >> reporter: this is a c.o.p. house, short for community- oriented policing. it's one of six homes manned by a lone officer whose job is to know everything happening in that neighborhood. >> anything that occurs in that neighborhood, they should know about it-- trends in crimes, if there's a spike in thefts of vehicles, or if there is a spike in shootings. >> reporter: the houses are spread across the city, leased by racine police. officers working out of these homes are assi

as nancy chen reports, survivors are speaking out. >>> we hear something that sounds like someone being punched against a locker. and we heard at least six more gunshots followed by screaming. >> drop your backpacks -- >> reporter: as the attack unfolded, this senior credits her math teacher for springing into action. >> the shooter was right outside our classroom. he was able to shut the door immediately and get us all in the lockdown mode. he saved all of us. >> reporter: after police evacuated her class, what she saw stunned her. >> there were silver bullet shells all over the floor in the hall. >> reporter: prosecutors say 15-year-old ethan crumbley used a semiautomatic handgun purchased by his father days earlier in tuesday's rampage. four students were killed, and seven other people were injured. >> sir, do you understand all the charges against you? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: crumbley is in a county jail charged with 24 felony counts including terrorism and first-degree murder. >> it's a clear intent to execute a school shooting and kill students. >> reporter: oakland county pros

nancy chen has the latest. >>> anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. do you understand that right, sir? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: wearing a face mask and handcuffs, 15-year-old ethan crumbley sat motionless as he was arraigned on 24 felony counts including terrorism and first-degree murder. >> you are the parents -- >> reporter: his parents also attended virtually. >> yes -- >> that is correct. >> there are facts leading up to the shooting that suggest this was not just an impulsive act. >> school shooting at oxford high school. >> reporter: tuesday the sophomore came out of a restroom at oxford high school and fired 30 rounds from a semiautomatic handgun. hours earlier, he and his parents met with school officials over behavioral concerns. according to the sheriff's office, the teen made a video the night before the shooting talking about killing students at the school. >> sheriff's office -- >> reporter: cell phone video shows terrified students barricaded behind a locked door before running to safety. >> go -- >> reporter: four students aged 14 to

cbs's nancy chen starts us off tonight from new york city. good evening, nancy. >> reporter: major, good evening you. another record breaking day in new york with nearly 75,000 new cases reported statewide. hospitalizations are rising fast here, with more than 1,000 hospitals reporting across the country a critical staffing shortage. with final preps underway for the new year's eve ball drop in times square, covid cases keep rising to record highs. to fight the surge, incoming new york city mayor eric adams said it will keep in place a first in country vaccine mandate for private sector workers. >> our focus is vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing. >> reporter: city services are feeling the strain. several subway lines suspended operations because of staffing shortages. the fire department says 30% of its e.m.s. personnel is out sick and 21% of nypd officers are out, too. the cincinnati, the mayor declared a state of emergency after more than two dozen firefighters came down with covid with those remaining foced to wor

cbs' nancy chen raced to the scene today and leads off our coverage in oxford, michigan. od evening, nancy. >> reporter: norah, good evening to you. we're being kept about a half mile back from the scene right now as police get ready to search the suspected shooter's home. the f.b.i. is also here sifting through surveillance video and social media, as investigators look into a motive behind today's tragedy. the first of more than 100 911 calls came in just before 1:00 p.m., an active shooter at oxford high school. >> we need medical assistance, multiple ambulances if possible. >> reporter: swat team members rushed to the school where authorities found 11 people shot. >> two are in surgery, six are in stable condition. there are a total of 11-- three dead, eight shot. >> reporter: within five minutes of the first call, deputies confronted the 15-year-old suspect, who surrendered. >> we recovered multiple shell casings in the school. we're thinking, you know, 15 to 20 shots that were fired. >> reporter: police say the shooter had several magazines and appears to have acted a

and cbs' nancy chen starts us off at a pop-up testing site in new york city. nancy, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening to you. just days before christmas, it's a scramble against fast-moving omicron with the c.d.c. predicting record-high new infections nationwide as soon as january. here in new york, more than one in 10 tests is coming back positive for covid. in times square, the crossroads of the world, long lines to get tested as the rapidly spreading omicron variant grips new york city. 92% of cases in the area are connected to omicron, and the city is testing more than 130,000 people each day, double the number from just three weeks ago. today, mayor bill de blasio announcing a reward for booster shots. >> get your booster shot. get $100 incentive. >> reporter: and there's rampant covid testing in chicago where mayor lori lightfoot said proof of vaccine requirements for restaurants, gyms, and entertainment venues. >> this is what we have to do to keep our health system from becoming overwhelmed. >> reporter: and tonight, the c.d.c. reporteds mo

there's a lot to get to, and cbs' nancy chen is in pontiac to lead off our coverage. vening, nancy. >> reporter: margaret, good evening to you. an attorney for jennifer and james crumbley says they are not missing, but simply left town after tuesday's shooting and plan to turn themselves in-- but that hasn't happened yet, and now u.s. marshals have joined the manhunt. an unexpected scramble late this afternoon as law enforcement searched for the parents of ethan crumbley. james and jennifer crumbley eacn face four felony counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection to the deadly rampage at oxford high school, an attack in which their son is accused of killing four students and injuring seven others on tuesday. >> there were a lot of things that would have been so simple to prevent. >> reporter: today oakland county prosecutor karen macdonald revealed new details leading up to the shooting. on friday, november 26, james crumbley brought his son with him to buy the gun. in a post online his mother called it a christmas present for her son. just a day before the shoot

nancy chen, thank you.a. >> yuccas: a powerful winter storm could bring five to eight feet of snow to the sierra nevada, while other parts of the country could be in store for a record warm christmas day. cbs's lonnie quinn joins us now with the latest forecast. talk about extreme, lonnie. >> yeah, it depends on where you live, right? i mean the stormiest weather right now, jamie, as you were saying out west. take a peek, arizona is picking up heavy rain. heavy snow colorado and utah. look at the computer models, showing some of that snow continuing all the way through tuesday. by the time it's said and done, the numbers for snow totals could be enormous. looks like the sierra will pick up an additional 5 to 8 feet so they could finish with another two snow by tuesday. rockex picks up an additional one to two feet but the other extreme you were talking about, the armest christmas ever for memphis at 77, warmest christmas ever for nashville 73. dallas hits 836789 the east coast actually had a little bit of s

here's cbs' nancy chen. >> anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. do you understand that right, sir? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: wearing a face mask and handcuffs, 15-year-old ethan crumbley sat motionless as he was arraigned on 24 felony counts, including terrorism and first degree murder his parents also attended virtually. >> there are facts leading up to the shooting that suggest this was not just an impulsive act. >> school shooting at oxford high school. >> reporter: on tuesday, investigators say the sophomore came out of a rest room atd oxford high school, and fired at least 30 round from a semiautomatic handgun. just hours earlier, authorities say crumbly and his parents met with school officials over c behavior concerns. >> according to the sheriff's office. it's safe to come out. >> reporter: cell phone video shows terrified students barricaded behind a locked door before running to safety. >> go! >> reporter: four students, aged 14 to 17, were killed, including justin shilling, who died in the hospital this morning. seven others were injur

norah. >> nancy chen with that breaking news. thank you, nancy. >>> we want to turn now to the covid pandemic. the head of the federal reserve said today that the new variant, omicron, could throw a wrench into america's economic recovery. slowing hiring and hampering the fight against inflation. well, that sent shock waves through wall street. the dow fell more than 600 points. that's a loss of nearly 2%. nearly 200 cases of the new variant have turned up in 20 countries. we get more now from cbs's errol barnett. >> reporter: even before omicron cases are confirmed in the u.s., tonight researchers are preparing for its arrival. racing to analyze the strength of the arsenal to fight it. today, moderna's ceo told "the financial times" there is no world where his company's vaccine has the same level of effectiveness against omicron as it does with the delta variant. and regeneron -- makers of an antibody treatment that can reduce risk of hospitalization and death by 70% in high-risk patients -- says early evidence shows it is less e

cbs's nancy chen starts us off tonight from new york city. y. >> reporter: major, good evening to you. it was another record-breaking day here in new york with nearly 75,000 new cases reported statewide. hospitalizations are also rising fast here. with more than a thousand hospitals reporting across the country, a critical staffing shortage. >>> with final preps underway for the new year's eve ball drop in times square, covid cases keep rising to record highs. to fight the surge, incoming new york city mayor eric adams said he'll keep first in the country vaccine mandate for private sector workers. >> our focus is vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing, vaccine and testing. >> reporter: city services are feeling the strain. several subway lines have suspended operations because of staffing shortages. the fire department says 40% of its ems personnel is out sick, and 21% of n.y.p.d. officers are out, too. cled ante two dozen firefighters came down with covid. with those remaining forced to work overtime. > nobody can recall a time in recent h

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and cbs's nancy chen starts us off at a pop-up testing site in new york city. ing. >> reporter: major, good evening to you. just days before christmas, it's a scramble against fast-moving omicron with the cdc predicting record-high new infections nationwide as soon as january. here in new york, more than one in ten tests is coming back positive for covid. in times square, the crossroads of the world, long lines to get tested as the rapidly-spreading omicron variant grips new york city. 92% of cases in the area are cnnected to omicron and the city is testing more than 130,000 people each day. double the number from just three weeks ago. today, mayor bill de blasio announcing a reward for booster shots. >> get your booster shot. get $100 incentive. >> reporter: and there is rampant covid testing in chicago where mayor lori lightfoot set proof of vaccine requirements for restaurant, gyms, and entertain-let venues. >> this is what we have to do to keep our health system from becoming overwhelmed. >> reporter: and tonight, the cdc reports more than 1,000 children hav

we have lots to get to tonight, and cbs' nancy chen starts us off in new york city. vening, nancy. >> reporter: jamie, good evening to you. here in new york, average new daily covid cases are up nearly 500% in just three weeks. the demand for testing is so great, that city m.d., a major health provider, has temporarily closed nearly 20 locations because of staffing issues. pfizer's covid pill is the first at-home treatment for coronavirus and it's a promising one. it's aimed for those who are at risk and shown to be nearly 90% effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths if taken within five days of experiencing symptoms. >> as quickly as pfizer gets the pills manufactured and delivered, we will immediately provide them to states and jurisdictions for distribution. >> reporter: but there are also snags as two of the most common monoclonal antibodies treatments that doctors have depended on are unlikely to be effective against omicron. israel is now trying to get ahead of the omicron surge by approving a fourth vaccine dose for those over 60. but even as the bid

cbs' nancy chen has new details tonight. >> we hear something that sounds like someone being punchedocker. and we heard at least six more gunshots followed by screaming. >> drop your backpack! >> reporter: as the attack unfolded, oxford high schoolr bk senior catalina ifkovits credits her math teacher for springing into action. catalina ifkovits cre >> the shooter was right outside or classroom. he was able to shut the door immediately and got us in lockdown mode. he saved all of us. >> reporter: after police evacuated the class, what she saw stunned her. >> there were silver bullet shells all over the floor in the hall. >> prosecutors say 15-year-old ethan crumbley used add semi- automatic handgun purchased by his father just days earlier, in tuesday's rampage, four killed and seven others injured. >> sir, do you understand all the charges against you. >> yes, i do.ured. >> reporter: crumbly is charged with 24 felony counts including terrorism and first-degree murder. >> it's a clear intent to execute a school shooting and-- and kill students. >> oakland county prosecutor karen mcdo

here in the u.s., new york city continues to be the epicenter of cases, and that is where we find nancy chentesting site. good evening, nancy. >> reporter: margaret, good evening to you. not only does the c.d.c. now say omicron is the dominant variant, but it also accounts for more than 90% of the new cases in the new york area, as well as other parts of the country. all this as new york state breaks the record in new covid cases for four straight days. in new york in new york city, where 71% of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, a race against the omicron variant. >> it's very transmissible. it moves fast, we have to move faster. >> reporter: there's a surge in demand for covid tests, and the wait could take hours. and here's what happened in one line. >> if you are here for the covid test, i don't have it. >> reporter: in washington, d.c., the mayor declared a state of emergency today, and new restrictions. >> we will be instituting a d.c. government vaccine mandate to include boosters. >> reporter: but there's positive news today from moderna, the company revealing a new study showi

cbs' nancy chen has the latest from new york city. y. >> reporter: jamie, good evening to you. omicron is spreading so quickly here in new york right now, daily infections are up 34% in just one day. the nearly 40,000 new cases is the highest one-day total since the pandemic started. in the last-minute scramble to get home safely for the holidays, the most popular gift may be the toughest to find. hundreds of people waited today at this site in new york city for test kits to take home. how hard is it to get a test these days? >> really hard. i've tried a couple of times, and i came on wednesday, and after putting my name down, it was a 6.5-hour wait. >> reporter: it's not just getting the test. labs are overwhelmed and frustration is growing. > took a p.c.r. test with guaranteed results supposedly in 24 hours. it took five days to get those results which at this point are meaningless. >> reporter: this as new covid caes keep exploding, more than doubling in six states, and more quadrupling in florida, hawaii, and washington, d.c., just

cbs' nancy chen is in new york's times square where the big new year's celebration is it just a bit smaller. nancy, good evening. >> reporter: major, good evening to you. average daily new cases in new york have increased nearly five-fold in just two weeks. but the show guilty on here tonight in times square, though, with a much smaller crowd than usual. >> happy new year! >> reporter: with the hope of a new year and the crossroads of the world, a scaled back celebration in times square, with everyone vaccinated and masked. as new hospitalizations from covid have more than doubled in one week in new york city, 15,000 revelers are gathering to watch the iconic ball crop. about 25% of the crowd in year's past. >> you just think a little bit more risk, and go out and try to celebrate it. >> reporter: and as omicron surges across the country, many cities are readjusting their celebrations at the advice of public health officials, like dr. dave chokshi. where is new york right now in this surge? >> it's been a difficult few weeks,s and, unfortunately, we have a tough few weeks ahead of us as wel

and cbs's nancy chen starts us off in new york city. evening, nancy. >> reporter: jamie, good evening to you. here in new york average daily new covid cases are up nearly 500% in just three weeks. the demand for testing is so great that city m.d., a major health care provider here, has temporarily closed nearly 20 locations because of staffing issues. pfizer's covid pill is the first at-home treatment for coronavirus, and it's a promising one. it's aimed for those who are at risk and shown to be nearly 90% effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths if taken within five days of experiencing symptoms. >> as quickly as pfizer gets the pills manufactured and delivered, we will immediately provide them to states and jurisdictions for distribution. >> reporter: but there are also snags as two of the most common monoclonal antibody treatments that doctors have depended on are unlikely to be effective against omicron. israel is now trying to get ahead of the omicron surge by approving a fourth vaccine dose for those over 60. but even a

cbs' nancy chen has the latest from new york city. vening, nancy. >> jamie, good evening to you. omicron is spreading so quickly in new york right now, daily infections are up 34% in just one day. the nearly 40,000 new cases is the highest one-day total since the pandemic started. in the last-minute scramble to get home safely for the holidays, the most popular gift may be the toughest to find. hundreds of people waited today at this site in new york city for test kits to take home. how hard is it to get a test these days? >> really hard. i've tried a couple of times, and i came on wednesday. after putting my name down, it was a 6 1/2 hour wait. >> reporter: it's not just getting the test. labs are overwhelmed and frustration is growing. >> i took a pcr test with guaranteed results supposedly in 24 hours. it took five days to get the results which at this point are meaningless. >> reporter: this as new covid cases keep exploding, more than doubling in six states and more than quadrupling in florida, hawaii, and washington, d.c., just i

new york city continues to be the epicenter of cases, and that is where we find nancy chen, outside ating site. good evening to you, nancy. >> reporter: margaret, good evening to you. not only does the cdc now say that omicron is the dominant variant, but it also accounts for more than 90% of new cases in the new york area as well as other parts of the country. all this as new york state breaks the record in new covid cases for a fourth straight day. in new york city where 71% of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, a race against the omicron variant. >> it's very transmissible. it moves fast. we have to move faster. >> reporter: there's a surge in demand for covid tests, and the wait can take hours. and here's what happened in one line. >> you guys are here for covid tests. i don't have it. >> reporter: in washington, d.c. the mayor declared a state of emergency today and new restrictions. >> we will be instituting d.c. -- a d.c. government vaccine mandate to include boosters. >> reporter: but there's positive news today from moderna. the company revealing a new study showing its

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