Afterwards is, well, just what the Christmas Season is all about. Early today starts right now good morning im valerie castro. Glad youre starting your week with us im Frances Rivera the start of this week brings new hope the u. S. May soon see the approval of a coronavirus vaccine, but as the country anxiously waits, cases and deaths continue to climb as of today, there have been over 14. 8 million infections, and over 283,000 deaths, according to an nbc news tally. The pandemic isnt stopping pope francis from spreading an uplifting message this Holiday Season at his sunday blessing, the pontiff said the Christmas Season provides a sign of hope in this difficult time his words come as most of california enters a new virus lockdown nbcs Meagan Fitzgerald has the latest. Valerie, good morning millions of californians are waking up to some of the most restrictive measures weve seen since the beginning of the pandemic all while state officials do what they can to try to stop hospitals fro
Some of the stories that well be looking at today. Here about a simple environment cards example teams having a big effect in ghana. We will meet a scientist in germany looking to replant land devastated by the oil mining. And will soon be doing so in egypt are returning from war Sustainable Way of life. But we begin in rhonda where the prolonged use of illegal on regulated fishing gear has day to the collapse of fish stocks a number of lakes have been left severely understocked and that has they to an increase in money tradition among the local population prices on the local market are also raised and over the last 2. 00 decades and that trend is expected to continue if fish production is not stimulated so rhonda has embarked on a vast operation to restock its 24 lex we went to see how things are coming along. To wonder on the Eastern Shore of lake hugo it may look idyllic but the fishes of finding more and more difficult to scrape by lake is severely overfished his are some of the ne
Measures. The new Field Hospital just opened as one city warns it will run out of beds within weeks. Rudy guiliani tests positive for the coronavirus as President Trump gives his first major speech since the election. Local republicans spent today refuting it. The government report first obtained by nbc news, was a foreign adversary hitting american diplomats with Microwave Radiation to make them sick . Plus, the show must go on. The nutcracker in the age of covid. The Sugar Plum Fairy Dancing under the stars. This is Nbc Nightly News with kate snow. Good evening. There is some hope on the horizon at the start of a new week. The first doses of the Pfizer Vaccine landing in british hospitals today. Here in the u. S. The fda set to meet this thursday to consider Emergency Authorization for the same vaccine. But that hope is over shadowed at the moment by far too many cases of coronavirus and deaths. California Just Announced they recorded 30,000 cases yesterday, a new record in that stat
Century on to the point we asked trump all by how divided is the United States. Thanks very much for joining us my guests today here in the studio are Soraya Sarhaddi nelson from k c w radio maine who says the results show how disconnected American Voters are for be jhumpa and from politicians pollsters and journalists. Also with us is mostly secret freelance journalist and currently a fellow at the American Academy here in burlington he argues that a deadly pandemic months of racial upheaval and scandal after scandal have done little to diminish trumps popularity polls and a warm welcome to to Matthew Carney chief europe correspondent for. Politico who believes whoever wins in the end says the result shows that neither candidate its all policy has a clear convincing monday. Thank you all 3 for being here great stuff id like to begin with you sariah america has voted to walk one leading financial broadsheet cold a bitch us election that resolves little but seems like an option fed desc
A much different view of issues like abortion potentially and other things that are really core to the to the christian base i mean ill give you this a Supreme Court but i dont think its objective analysis to say that afghanistan is falling apart or that the deal with iran the situation with iran is somehow better you know its better im saying this is exactly what he promised to do he said that he wanted to get out of the iran dealers signaled that he was going to get out of the iran deal which he did and im not saying whether that was good or bad but he also said that he wanted to end the socalled endless wars he hasnt managed to do that but he has kind of voided an escalation in both iraq afghanistan and iraq and he hasnt started any new wars so i think its worth remembering you know if people are wondering well especially in europe well how could anybody vote for this guy well look at his record look at what he promised to do and you might disagree with his policies and you might th