life-threatening cold. we re tracking it all. also tonight, the january 6th committee s final report recommending donald trump be barred from holding office ever again. how the former president is responding. the new numbers from the cdc. will the holidays lead to another spike? the crash caught on camera. a plane slamming into the beach in santa monica. the warning from fedex and u.p.s. for last-minute shoppers. will your holiday packages arrive on time? and celebrating christmas in wartime. st. nick bringing holiday cheer to children in ukraine. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and a good friday evening to you. i m craig melvin in for lester. for many tonight, mother nature has decided to be quite the grinch. this is going to be the coldest, wettest, snowiest holiday in recent memory thanks to a once in a generation massive winter storm that s disrupting plans for millions. for some it s the really strong wind gusts already knocking out
Grow the economy. We talk about bidenomics and see the economy growing growing ande unemployment under 4 and more than 14 million jobs at this point. X thats what were going to focus on and coming to republicans, they want to slash taxes for the wealth jim jordan and cut Social Security and medicare and medicaid and whats needed for the American People to give them that breathing room. Thats what the president will focus on. Lets not forget yesterday. Is it still appropriate for the president to go to israel given the ground war and people trying to get out. The president has to do multiple things at once. The president is going to go to philly and continue to talk about bidenomics and what hes doing to bring back manufacturing, to create good paying jobs. Thats what youre going to hear from americans. Thats something that americans also want to hear from. The president has been engaged in this situation that were currently seeing, the horrific situation in israel and hell continue to
Sides. Its like we have one foot over the cliff already. Did you give thought to the fiscal cliff when doing your Christmas Shopping . Many americans did because cbs 5 reporter Mike Sugerman tells us retail numbers werent good. Reporter im at union square which is mobbed. Its swinging. I spent the day here and it didnt get active until a couple of hours ago and as i look around, i dont see a lot of people with bags. Im not sure theyre shopping. But the retailers really hope they will because because they are in a lot of hurt. Susan wanted to buy toys for her grandchildren but couldnt manage to go to a toy store. Visions of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre were in her head. I couldnt take the shopping and seeing all the little kids 5yearolds, 6yearolds, particularly saddens me. Reporter she bought gift cards instead and none of the extra stuff she might have been found being in stores. December retail is a bummer in the news and stores. This is not at all a good Holiday Season
To the extent he was pretty ingenious about it thats one for the books. Quite extraordinary. Joanna, you know james. You know the family here quite well. Does this hey, hes a smart guy. Thats all i got to say. Him and my son ran around together in high school, and my grandson and his oldest boy ran around together. Very smart guy. Very smart guy. Im not surprised at all. Im very, very proud of him. And so you should be. Paul, we understand the condition of everyone is good. Everyones health appears to be stable. No frost bite and exposure and a bit of trama for the kids. Are they, as you understand, expected to make a full and speedy recovery. I would expect they make a full recovery. Of course, im not a doctor but ive been through countless searches and im very surprised, very pleased with the outcome. Makes a great christmas story. In terms of your advice, paul, who may be exposed to similar conditions, the first bit of advice is if you can avoid going out and stay home, but if you a
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