Tonight on PBS news weekend. What's behind the current surge of COVID infections and

what it tells us about how we deal with the disease moving forward.

The odds of us completely eliminating and eradicating it is unlikely and so in the same way that we see flu kind of continue to re-emerge in our community every year.

COVID-19 is here and it's here to stay.

Then the latest on massive protest in Serbia, accusing the president who's a strong Putin ally of rigging

elections and how Minnesota launched a redesign of its state flag to update its

complicated composition and culturally insensitive imagery. Good evening. I'm John Yang. Late today the FAA ordered the temporary

worldwide grounding of about 171 Boeing 737 Max Nine

until the planes can be inspected. It comes after a window blew out of a months old

739 Max Nine last night at about 16,000 feet six minutes

after the Alaska Airlines flight took off from Portland, Oregon.

The rapid depressurization sucked a t-shirt off a child.

No one was seriously hurt and the plane made an emergency landing safely back in Portland.

The first weekend of the New Year is seeing the first major winter storm of the season.

It's for millions of people along the East Coast.

This afternoon it's been mostly rain over the mid-Atlantic, but highway crews from the

Carolinas to Maine have been treating roads in anticipation of as much as a foot of snow by Monday in Boston and upstate New York.

A separate weather system dropped snow in the Midwest. In Kansas,

snow plows cleared roads and runways.

In Arkansas, an icy I-94 became an obstacle course.

Farther south, it was heavy rain.

Hezbollah launched more than 60 rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel today.

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