Home as covid19 cases increase across the nation. More than 13 million americans have been diagnosed at over 2,000 americans are dying every day from the virus. As states brace for an uptick in cases due to holiday gatherings the nations most populous county, los angeles county, is set to impose strict stay at home rules that will take effect tomorrow. Meanwhile, health way be on the way as the first doses of pfizers 1ir9 vaccines are headed to the u. S. From belgium, but keep in mind a vaccine isnt expected for wide distribution until later 2021. A cdc panel will meet on tuesday to decide how the initial supplies of the vaccine will be allocated. Joining me now Emergency Room Physician and california congressman and a good friend raul ruiz, cardiologist dr. Bernard ashby on the committee to protect medicare, dr. Mercedes carnethon from Northwestern University and dr. Corey hebert, former cochair of the louisiana governors covid19 Minority Task force. We should also note that dr. Heber
i will be a thriving and i want to make sure that i passed on to anyone and everybody i can t going along this journey. not just surviving, but thriving. a healthy lima hendricks takes us off the air tonight. and on that, no i wish you a very good and very healthy night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow thanks for joining us this evening. for the past several months we ve watched the far white wing of the american party hold congress hostage. meaning major concessions from the biden white house or else they will blow up the fragile u.s. economy. they would tank the stop market and push hundreds of thousands of people onto the unemployment line. so, a potential catastrophe of their own making. now there is a deal on the table to stop the catastrophe from coming to pass. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise
the u.s. striking three facilities in iraq used by iranian backed militants. carley: the act of retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were hurt in an attack on a base in northern iraq. griff: right now black smoke rising over gaza. the intense fighting comes after iran s president issuing a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed in syria. david spunt is live in washington with the latest tracking all of it for us. hey, david. hey, griff, hey everyone, one of our service members was injured critically. president biden ordered the strikes after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone. according to national security sources, the iranian-backed militia hezbollah and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iranian backed militants claimed credit for this christmas day attack. the president was briefed by national security team yesterday at camp david. defense secretary lloyd austin saying in part let me be clear, the president and
and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. for the past several months we have watched the far-right wing of the republican party holder u.s. economy hostage. far-right republicans in congress demanded major concessions for the biden white house or else it would blow up the fragile u.s. economy. they would take the stock market and push hundreds of thousands of people on to the unemployment line. so, the potential catastrophe, of their own making. now there is a deal on the table to stop the catastrophe from coming to pat. over the weekend president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy hammered out an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. and republicans, they got some of what they wanted in a steel. unspent covid relief funds clawed back, creating new hurdles for some people trying to access food assistance and other federal programs. and it cuts funding from the biden s administration s plan to go after rick s rich tax cheats and make them pay
officials about the war in israel. secretary lloyd austin is holding a press conference with the israeli defense minister galov. and so, today, we had great discussion about the goals of the campaign and how to reduce harm to civilians in the battle space. and the need to ensure a sustained flow of humanitarian assistance into gaza. you know, we can offer insight based upon our own experience fighting terrorist groups, and that enabled to us have great discussions. we also have some great thoughts about how to transition from the higher operations to lower intensity and surgical operations. we have great discussions on all of those issues. in lebanon, we want to make sure that we don t expa and this into a larger or regional war in lebanon, and so we are going to call upon hezbollah to make sure they don t do things to provoke a wider conflict. this is to the first question. let me be more precise. it took 70 days before we exposed this tunnel to the public. it was disc