for the entire team at anderson cooper 360 and cnn worldwide, i'm tom foreman wishing you all the best and none of the worst in 2022. >>> and a warm welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. >>> ahead here on "cnn newsroom," new year, same pandemic. as countries prepare to ring in 2022, coronavirus cases surge, putting a damper on festivities. we are live in beijing and paris. >>> new details about president biden's phone call with vladimir putin. the warning biden gave the russian president. >>> plus thousands of colorado residents forced out of their homes because of wildfires. when the state can expect a reprieve. >>> cities right around the globe are getting ready to ring in the new year. but for many, the crowds and confetti have been pushed aside as an explosion of new covid infections takes hold on several continents. preparations are, though, under way at this hour for the balloon drop in new york's times square just as the state announced a new record 74,000 cases. celebrations have already been scaled back with masks and vacc

cnn's tom foreman joins me now with all the details. m, it is hard for people to keep up with all the new guidance and protocols, so take us through the latest. >> so many people are just exhausted by this, alisyn. we've been through two years of this now and much of the goal right now seems to be to meet this new wave sweeping through the country and yet somehow keep the country working. the new cdc recommendation is simple enough. if you test positive for covid but show no symptoms, you can isolate for five days instead of the previous ten. then go about your business wearing a mask for five more. but the reason for the change is complicated, and health experts say, not purely medical. >> we want to get people back to the jobs, particularly those with essential jobs, to keep our society running smoothly. >> if you are an hourly wage worker and you feel reasonably fine, maybe you have mild symptoms, you're much less likely to get tested if you know that a positive result will mean ten days of not being able to work, of being isolated. >

>> tom foreman, thanks so much. one other late note tonight's holiday bowl between ucla and north carolina state has been cancelled, this after the bruins announced internal covid protocols would keep the team from playing. and joining us now is andy slavitt, president biden's former senior white house adviser for covid response and author of "preventable, the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." andy, what's your reaction to the record number of new cases in the u.s.? and -- and do you think we're currently in the peak of this wave? or do you think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better? >> well, jim, i think we are probably a couple weeks -- maybe three weeks -- out from peak. but i suspect, by the end of january, things will peak. and there is no question that january will be filled with a lot of short-term challenges. hospital beds, staffing shortages of tests, almost everything. it's tough for the system to handle this many

>> tom foreman, thanks. perspective now from a doctor and one of the hardest-hit big cities, which happens to be right here, washington, d.c., where officials today reported a record number of new cases and the mayor announced vaccination requirements for restaurants, gyms, and other gathering places. dr. james phillips is chief of disaster medicine at george washington university hospital. also with us, kathleen sebelius, former governor of kansas and secretary of health and human services in the obama administration. dr. phillips, let me start with you. what are you seeing inside your hospital in washington right now where cases are spiking, people are very worried here in the nation's capital, how is this wave different? >> well, thanks for having me, jim. i will be honest with you. it is unlike anything we've ever seen even at the peak of the prior surges. of covid. what we are experiencing right now is an absolute overwhelming of the emergency departments throughout washington, d.c. our hospitals themse

tom foreman has our lead story, reporting in from washington. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up, on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city is seeing pediatric admissions jump to five-times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children's national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that's not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because -- >> we see children that are hospitalized because of covid, or icu because of covid, they're unvaccinated. they're unvaccinated, the parents are unvaccinated, the siblings are unvaccinated. >> reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. >> i think what we're going to see is once children go back to school, within a week or two of schools opening, is when we see the highest numbers. >> reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country, with 250,000 new cases diagnosed daily, that's a record. >> this variant is a game-changer in te

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> the omicron variant of coronavirus is now found in at least a dozensstates just days after the first case was identified in california. it's already been detected in nearly 40 countries but experts insist there's no reason to panic. the world health organization says no deaths have been reported from it. and so far, most cases have been mild. but it is taking a toll. have a look in south africa, where omicron was first found, covid cases have quadrupled since tuesday and a surprising number are small children. >>> countries in europe are enforcing additional restrictions as cases climb and the omicron variant is discovered across the continent, i'm joined by cnn contributor barbie nadeau in rome. barbie, w.h.o. officials are speculating how omicron might become the dominant variant but most of the cases there have been relatively mild. what's the latest? >> europe is in the midst of the variant, but it's not omicron, it's delta. and in germany, they're predistincting 6,000 people in intensive care wards by christmas. no matter what they do. here in rom

>> tom foreman, thank you very much.te attorney for palm beach county, florida. dave, thank you for joining us this evening. i wish we were talking about something better but my gosh, what an awful story. you know, parents are rarely charged in school shootings. do you believe four counts of involuntarily manslaughter can be proven given allegations the prosecutor laid out? >> good evening, don. this case presents a set of egregious facts that don't kexit elsewhere. that's why you haven't seen this charge proefeviously. you have parents that bought their child, 15-year-old a gun and then they were told by the school administrators that he not only had searched for ammunition on his cell phone during class. the mother seemed to support that and thought it was a joke but also was drawing these disturbing drawings showing bloodshed and the use of a gun and these terrible words like the thoughts won't stop, help me. and even after that, they did not bother to tell the school that their son had a gun. they didn't check the so

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> dr. jonathan reiner is a cnn medical analyst and a professor of medicine an surgery at george washington university. he joins us this hour from washington. thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me, john. >> one of the biggest factors in prolonging this pandemic is global vaccine and equity. the head of the w.h.o. outlined some of the reasons why 90 countries have not reached a year-end goal of a 40% vaccination rate. here he is. >> this is due to a combination of limited supply, going to low-income countries for most of the year, and then subsequent vaccines arriving close to expiring and without key parts, like the syringe. >> last week, nigeria, which has seen a 500% increase of covid infections, destroyed a million doses of vaccine because they were about to expire. this pandemic has highlighted that the global health system is many ways. can it be fixed before the next pandemic is here? and is there a will out there to try to fix it? >> well, the problem is en enormous. wa

i'm tom foreman. welcome, and congratulations. we all survived a tough 12 months packed with upheavals, conflicts, difficulties, and yet also victories, hope, and happiness. that's saying something considering we were up against a raging pandemic and the deepest social divides the united states has seen in decades. so how did we make it through? let's sort that out by starting with the biggest news. >> that sounded like gunshots. >> run, run! >> worst story of the year, the violent invasion of the u.s. capitol by people angry over joe biden winning the last presidential election. >> the idea that 2021 was going to be better, i think, probably lasted for about exactly six days. >> the january 6th insurrection was straight up crazy. >> the losing candidate, then president donald trump stoked the fury with the big lie that he had won. >> they rigged an election. they rigged it like they had never rigged an election before. >> it was really traumatizing and tragic to see the people's house overtaken by american citizens. >> police wer

we begin with cnn's tom foreman in washington. >> reporter: the cdc announcementen isolation time came hours after president biden admitted to the nation governors, covid testing has not kept pace with the omicron threat. >> it's not enough. if i had known, we would have gone harder, quicker. >> reporter: with covid cases soaring, more than 2,000 flights were grounded worldwide, nearly 3,000 delayed in the u.s. just today. at sea, several cruise ships have been affected, turned away from ports, in all, dampening the festivities. >> they weren't enforcing masks until a lot of people were getting covid and they were enforcing masks more. i don't think i'll go on a cruise again honestly, at this point. >> reporter: as the omicron variant rages, testing lines are stretching out and tests running short in some places. new york city is enforcing a covid vaccine mandate for private businesses. >> no one thinks this is the holiday season we were hoping for. but contrast it to last year. it's so much better. >> reporter: also better, hospitalizations are not rising as quickly as feared. in many

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> dr. rodriguez is a board certified viral researcher. good to see you. >> thank you, john. >> let's start with covid and kids. in the united states, the secretary for health and human services said a record number of children are being infected and being treated in hospital. here he is. >> we thought our kids were safe because they didn't seem to be catching the infection the same way. today, i think you're hearing the news, more and more of our children are not only contracting covid, but they're being hospitalized. this stuff is real. >> so is it real enough now to authorize booster shots for kids 5 and older, as well as those 12 to 15? >> absolutely it is. i think we need to stop differentiating between older humans and younger humans. the virus dozen differentiate. it goes after humans. so anybody that has the right dna for the virus to attack will be attacked. therefore, everybody in the world, as far as i'm concerned, should eventually be vaccinated. we're just waiting to make sure that the vaccines are safe. but in essence, my ans

tom foreman has the day's other headlines from washington. >> reporter: schools in d.c.quire all students and staff to have negative covid tests to come back to class. new york city will require rigorous testing, too. all that as the white house says it expects to sign a contract for 500 billion at-home covid tests next week. >> it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. >> reporter: the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive with no symptoms, then five days of masking is aimed at keeping people working. >> there is no data that i'm aware of with the omicron variant that supports people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. >> reporter: nothing in the guidelines mandates testing for these people, and the administration has been harshly criticized for the current shortage of tests. so the lack of testing and the new recommendations is drawing fire, even as top health officials push back. >> we don't know how our rapid tests perform and whether they pr

tom foreman, thank you. >>> here to discuss those headlines laid out by tom is dr.er hotez, dean of school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. he has on a lovely bow tie today. dr. hotez, i want to start with you on today, what it means for so many people because we're just a few hours from ringing in the nuyew year. for people watching at home and are hesitant about their plans tonight, what do you recommend they do? >> well, a couple of things. first of all, this omicron variant is so transmissible, it's like nothing we've seen before. among covid variants. almost as transmissible as measles which is probably the most common highly transmissible infectious agent that we know. so the message is, if you don't want to get covid, keep your gather,s really small. surround yourself with vaccinated people. this is not the year for big new year's parties. i know it's disappointing, but that's the reality. and the hope, as dr. fauci said, this won't last too long. it's a matter of keeping it all together for the next month. and this is going to be the very

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> joining me now is dr. scott miscovich. he is the u.s. consultant for covid-19 and the president and ceo of premier medical group usa. thanks so much for joining us. i want to get right to those new cdc guidelines. do you think it's the right call, and do you think there should be this distinction not being made in these regulations, by the way, between those who are vaccinated and those who are not? >> wow, paula, i think this surprised all of us when this came out. look at when it's coming out, when we have a surge of the most infectious variant of covid that the world has seen. and it's confusing to everyone. we're getting called all over by employers and by different patients and different even departments of health are trying to interpret this. it's very confusing. now, here's the biggest thing that concerns me. what do all of them state? wear a mask at the end of that five days. well, what about something we've been complaining about, which is what is the proper guidance for what mask is effective, and how do you wear it? everyone h

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> and let's discuss with former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe. also cnn's senior law enforcement analyst. andrew, so many red flags that were just missed and it's heartbreaking. ethan's parents pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges this morning, but missed their initial arraignment yesterday. police say they were found hiding in a warehouse overnight after an hours long man hunt. they turned off their phones and withdrew thousands of dollars from an atm, and yet the defense was claiming there was a miscommunication and that's why they didn't appear at their arraignment. what's going on here, andrew? what do you think? >> i don't know, jim, i think it's hard to communicate effectively when you're hiding in a warehouse and you turn your phone off. so i think, looking from the law enforcement perspective, and i say this as someone who's been involved in and overseen many, many man hunts for different people. as soon as there's a warrant for your arrest, that warrant, you have any reason to know that warrant is out there and you are

>> tom foreman, thanks so much.'s discuss this with an emergency room doctor and associate dean of public health at brown university. good to see you as always. how much difference could this fda decision and following cdc decision make expanding pfizer boosters to kids 12 to 15? >> expanding boosters is going to make i think the biggest difference for parents and kids to breathe a sigh of relief. we know those 12 to 15-year-olds have physiology, bodies that work very similarly to adults. we've suspected for a while that both immunity wanes in them the same way it does in the rest of us and that those two shots of the pfizer vaccine likely are not protecting them as well against omicron because two shots of pfizer don't protect the rest of us as well as a third dose would. so this is a big step forward especially with kids going back to school. we all know how important it is to keep those kids in person. boosters will help us do that. >> we know that after the fda makes its decision the cdc still has to sign off. s

o okay, tom, foreman, thank you very much. let's bring in dr. william shaffer. doctor, great to have you. the fda, we just learned, is expected to approve boosters for kids aged 12 to 15 very soon. when will those kids actually be able to get a shot? >> well, they'll likely be able to get a shot, alisyn, six months after their second dose that's currently the booster recommendation when you got an mrna vaccine if you were an adult and i would anticipate it would be entirely similar for children. >> but meaning, like, the boost, they will be able to get it next week? can it move that quickly? >> well, i would hope that the company is ready to start delivering the vaccine to the locations and get the word out to pediatricians and family doctors that they can do this if the children in their practice are eligible. but let's get back to ground one. there are so many children yet who are five years of age and older who haven't received their first dose yet. that's where the really big push has got to be. >> we have those numbers. let me just pull up a graphic to prov

>> tom foreman, thanks. >>> let's bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. the cdc says the decision is based purely on the science. what does the science say? >> so the science says that people are most transmissible, most contagious, jake, in the time before they have symptoms or in the two to three days after. so the cdc's reasoning is, if you have covid-19, but you're asymptomatic or maybe you're mildly symptomatic and now on the mend, why are we keeping you out of work for ten days when you're probably just transmissible for just two or three days after you have symptoms. why stay out for ten days? i've talked to experts who support this. i've talked to experts who don't support this. what they all agree is that the way the cdc wrote these guidelines, you need probably a degree in law, medicine, public health and maybe even discourse to understand what they are saying. it's difficult. we've tried to boil it down. so if you have covid-19, if you actually are infected, if you are asymptomatic or you have had symptoms but they're resolving, you have isolat

brian. >> tom foreman, hard to believe we're stig still talking about this. let's discuss it further with dr. jonathan reiner, a professor of surgery at the george washington school of medicine and health sciences and also a cnn medical analysts and given us so much good information over the past years. you don't think that new york should still hold the times square celebration, you've been clear about that. but what the fact that all of the attendees must be masked and they will be vaccinated and a quarter of number that would orig originally be at an event like this. does this he's any of your concerns that this could become a superspedder event. >> happy new year, brian. look, i think it is better for a celebration to be outside. that is pretty clear. and it is better for the number to be small. but it is not a small number of people that are getting together. i think they're going to have about 15,000 people there which sounds like a reduced number but that is a good sized crowd for madison square garden in a tight footprint. and this virus is extraordin

. >> cnn's tom foreman is with us with a look at the state of the pandemic with the holidays just around the corner, tom. >> yeah, just around the corner. all of those gatherings indoors, and the numbers are terrible. we have passed the milestone of 800,000 coronavirus deaths. this is the tuesday number, the deaths on tuesday, this is slightly more than one person every minute dieing from this terrible virus out there, and hospitalizations of course, elizabeth just mentioned there. it's no wonder the transmission map looks awful as well. high level of transition, there's virtually no place that is good in terms of transmission out there. we only have a tiny measure of what omicron has done because we're trying to figure out where it is, but for the week ending december 4th, it was less than 1% of the cases out there. here we are at 3%. this could very well become the dominant strain in this country, and it transmits easily. we don't know how terrible it is when you get . we're sorting that out. we know it transmits easily. look at the hospitalizations out here. it's not as high as it has

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tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> so many disturbing allegations in that report. how rare it is for charges like this to be filed against parents, especially when it comes to school shootings. take a listen. >> we have not seen parents charged frequently in cases involving active shooters on school campuses. in fact, according to some research, there have only been four parents charged in similar-type cases. so it really is groundbreaking for this prosecutor to come forward with involuntary manslaughter charges against these parents. but when you look at the evidence in this case, it's really overwhelming. you mentioned at the top of the show about parenting. these parents are examples of everything you don't want to do with respect to a kid, and primarily it's ignore the warning signs. apparently, there were really significant red flags and warning signs that these parents quite simply ignored. >> you know, that text message chilling where she allegedly, prosecutors say, that the mother texted him and said "don't do it." does that perhaps intend to say that she k

hospitalizations, as of right now, are not rising as much as cases, but as cnn's tom foreman reports, dr. fauci says that could be next. particularly for the unvaccinated. >> you're highly protected. >> reporter: omicron is a cause for concern but not for panic. that was president biden's message to the nation's governors on the front lines of the health care battle. >> this is not like march of 2020. the beginning of the pandemic. we're prepared, and we know what it takes to save lives, protect people and keep schools and businesses open. >> reporter: with covid cases soaring, more than 2,000 flights were grounded worldwide and nearly 3,000 delayed in the u.s. just today. that's on top of thousands over the weekend. and flight crews keep calling in sick, even as holiday travelers keep coming. >> we actually changed our flight to a nonstop flight just to, in hopes of hopefully not having any cancellations. >> reporter: at sea, several cruise ships have been affected in some cases turned away from ports. in all dampening festivities. >> they weren't really enforcing masks until a lot o

but we're going to start with tom foreman who takes a closer look at how hospitals are preparing for a possible surge of patients as omicron cases explode. >> the white house expects to sign a contract for a half billion at-home covid texts next week to help americans through the pandemic blizzard sweeping the land. but another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control facing sharp questioning over new guidelines for covid-weary americans. >> it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. >> reporter: recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms, then five days of masking, is aimed at keeping people working, but it's raising alarms, too. >> there is absolutely no data that i am aware of with the omicron. people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. >> nothing in the guidelines mandates testing for these people and the administration has been harshly criticized for the current shortage of tests. so the lack of testing in the new recommendati

tom foreman, thanks very much. more now on the dilemma facing schools and parents. mainly how to avoid the drawbacks of returning to in-person learning. here to talk about it is miguel car dones. we appreciate it. there are a lot of concerned families out there tonight. i'm sure you're aware of that. you say parents and teachers have to make sure to get students into class safely and stay in the classroom, but given what we currently know about the omicron variant and its high transmissibility rate, specifically how can parents and teachers best do that right now? >> thank you, jim, for having me, first of all. yes, we recognize the numbers are climbing across the country. we also know that we have tools now that we didn't have before. we know what works to keep our schools safely reopened. and we have more resources aimed at keeping our schools open than ever before. it's critical we do what we can to make sure that our schools stay open full time, five days a week. i recognize there are going to be some bumps along the way, but the goal for all of us, i know educa

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> dr. peter droe vac is an infectious disease and global health expert at the university of oxford in england, and i want to thank you for joining us. doesn't it feel like we've been here before? oh, yes, right. we have. so here we are with omicron. it is proving formidable and stressing many for good reason. and i want to point out especially health care workers, who will be responsible for that surge of patients coming in. i want to ask you something. is it possible that omicron could displace other more serious variants now? some new research out of south africa suggests that possibility, and that basically having omicron take over, that it could mitigate the more severe consequences of this virus. >> well, thanks for having me, paula. i think there's very clear evidence that omicron is becoming the dominant strain, has already done so in many parts of the world. so in that sense, yes, it is displacing other variants like the delta that we've been struggling with in the past. but i would

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tom foreman, thanks so much.ore on the guidelines and whether the shortage of tests was a consideration. jeremy diamond is with the president in delaware. what are you learning about the debate inside the white house over testing. that is interesting. >> reporter: no doubt about it, jim. listen, we heard today dr. fauci and dr. walensky adamantly saying the shortage did not factor into the change. but a senior administration official say it did factor into a decision around the guidance around the quarantine. quarantine is what the cdc -- is the term they use to refer to people who are close contact, particularly those unvaccinated. they short under that time to five days. they did not explicitly -- only saying it is the best practice to do so, and one senior official told me that they said, quote, if we require a test, people are going to say what if we can't get a test? so this official said very clearly the testing shortage did factors into that piece of the new guidance. we know this administration is concern

tom foreman, thanks. >>> the demand for covid tests is growing by the okay. leyla santiago is in miami. what kind of lines are you seeing? i suppose, are you hearing frustrations as well? >> reporter: we are hearing frustrations. these are lines that could take three to five hours to get through, according to the workers. they actually had to open two new sites in miami/dade county to meet the demand. where we are right now, one of the busiest sites in south florida. just yesterday alone, they administered about 9,000 tests here. the workers telling me that they expect this level of demand to continue into the new year. >> it's almost like covid started all over again. with the influx of patients that are coming through. a lot of people aren't feeling well, that's why they are coming to us. we understand we have a lot of patients that are concerned. i was exposed or i was next to somebody who was exposed. i want to make sure i'm okay. >> reporter: that's whfor the o site testing. there's the search for the at-home rapid test kits. miami/dade distributed 152,0

for the entire team at "anderson cooper 360" and cnn worldwide, i'm tom foreman wishing you all of the best and none of the worst in 2022. >>> this is "don lemon tonight." i'm laura coates in for don. president biden warning putin. a kremlin official says that putin told biden new sanctions against russia would be what he called a colossal mistake. they didn't come away with any idea on whether putin has decided to invade ukraine. more on that in a moment. it comes as this country is facing what one doctor called the biggest health crisis we've seen, the new cases soaring past 300,000. pediatric hospital admissions are the highest they've ever been over the course of this pandemic. >> we're going to be in for a very rough three or four weeks. i think it's good news that we'll have the boosters for the 12 to 15-year-olds so that will help a little bit but this is going to be a very rough time, not only for the kids but for the adults as well. as we head into this new year's weekend, be conservative, be thoughtful, keep your gatherings small and surround yourself with those who are vacci

let's go to cnn's tom foreman. the covid cases are skyrocketing, but the fda is scrambling to get 12 to 15-year-olds greater protection. that's a very important development. >> they're trying to pull out all of the stops and they're saying that something has to slow this onslaught and even though hospitalizations as a percentage have not shot up as much as they might have, they're saying that's because people have been vaccinated and if we can get more in the same state and boosted, the better off we'll be. >> reporter: with the pandemic clocking unprecedented numbers of infections, the fda is expected to approve the booster shots for 12 to 15-year-olds. and health officials are advising caution on shore too. >> i would not eat in a restaurant now without a mask. i would absolutely not go into a bar. if you go into the bar now, you are very likely to get covid whether you're vaccinated or not. if you're unvaccinated you go into the bar, you will come out of it infected. >> reporter: the surge is not hitting everyon

. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. >>> now let's go to texas. and a children's hospital that is overwhelmed as admissions keep rising. our migez marquez is there. fwl . >> reporter: we visited texas children's hospital, they are in full alert mode. they are preparing for whatever the omicron variant throws at them. they think they are fully prepared. this is the fourth wave. so they've had sadly a lot of practice at this. one number, i want to give you that puts everything in perspective here, in the last week the number of hospitalizations at texas children has risen four fold. that is a very worrying number for the staff there because they expect the worst is still ahead. here is how the chief pathologist said the omicron variant is spreading. >> this omicron variant has now reached a new level in terms of infection, in terms of contagiousness. it is now in the category of measles. the most highly transmissible virus or one of the most highly transmissible viruses known to mankind. we've been vaccinating against measles for a long time. we nee

but first, the breaking news on how all the other pieces fit together from cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: the cdc announcement shortening isolation time came just hours after president biden admitted to the nation's governors, covid testing has not kept pace with the omicron threat. >> it's not enough. it's clearly not enough. if i had -- we had known, we would have gone harder quicker if we could've. >> reporter: with covid cases soaring, more than 2,000 flights were grounded worldwide. nearly 3,000 delayed in the u.s. just today. at sea, several cruise ships have been affected. in some cases, being turned away from ports. in all, dampening the festivities. >> and they weren't really enforcing masks until a lot of people started getting covid, and then they were kind of, you know, enforcing masks more. i don't think i will ever go on a cruise again, honestly, at this point. >> reporter: as the omicron variant rages, testing lines are stretching out and tests running short in some places. new york city is enforcing a covid vaccine mandate for private businesses. >> no one thinks this is

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cnn's tom foreman is tracking the developments. >> reporter: with covid cases soaring more than 2,000 flights were grounded nearly 3,000 delayed in the u.s. just today. that is on top of thousands over the weekend. and flight crews keep calling in sick even as holiday travelers keep coming. >> we changed our flight to a nonstop flight to hope not have any cancellations. >> reporter: at sea several cruise ships have been infected and some cases turned away from ports in all dampening the festivities. >> and they weren't really enforcing masks until a lot of people started getting covid and then they were kind of enforcing masks more. >> i don't think i'll ever go on a cruise again honestly at this point. >> reporter: as the omicron variant rages, testing lines are stretching out and tests running short in some places. new york city is enforcing a covid vaccine mandate for private businesses. >> no one thinks of this as the holiday season that we were hoping for but contrast it to last year. it is so much better. >> reporter: also better, hospitalizations are not rising as quickly as fe

cnn's tom foreman starts us off. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid aret one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> that is the background of this story. live again, shimon prokupecz is in detroit where we are awaiting a press conference from detroit police to tell us the details now that the parents of the school shooting suspect have now been arrested. you see the press conference is just about to get under way there. shimon, if you can hear me, at this point in time, i mean, again, authorities apparently a lot of authorities on the scene there, but it was still the tip-off just from a business owner, right? from a woman who recognized the vehicle, and that's how police knew where they were. >> reporter: yeah, that is our understanding. that is how the police were able to locate the vehicle because there was a tip, and then i think the press conference is about to start. so let me just -- >> we will listen in here with shimon prokupecz. there is detroit police. they're beginning to give us an update. let's listen in. >> is cnn ready? >> yep, we're ready. >> okay. we're live on cnn. >> all right. good evening, everybody. thank you for

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tom. he told us that andrew was competent, short foreman. this is way too dangerous for him to be doing. clearly they put him in harm's way. a rural college student doesn't interest get shot in the head and found in the river like that something else had to be happening. ah welcome back. now, as we mentioned earlier this week, a group of democratic lawmakers here in the u. s. have proposed the new stopping grinch boss act. it takes aim at people who use automation to purchase, hard to find items beating every day, consumers to the punch. now the general thought on this is that these nefarious actors use these bots to get into retailers websites quickly before you can to buy up items like video game consoles, hot toys, and even limit addition sneakers only to sell them on the secondary market. at inflated prices, but as the wall street journal is pointed out a few weeks ago, it's not just re sellers, parents of actually turned abbas to get their hands on items like sony playstation 5 for their loved ones this holiday season. so we want to go