kevin, behind kevin spacey. and as you know, it s always preferable to be behind kevin spacey. of course, it took 15 ballots to confirm mccarthy which coincidentally is a sin that took biden to become president. [laughter] yes, stu mae. while the house was voting a re- voting was proving revenge much like the fruity pebbles bill hemmer feeds me in the morning,e is a dish best served cold. what s different this time?do republicans learn something froe trump. s they are keeping their promises and fighting like fiends.ov oner tuesday they took steps toa boost oversighndt of the chinese government and the biden administration. granted it s hard to tell the twd eo apart. first they approved a new subcommittee designed to probe the weaponization i hate thatex acword weaponization its overuse exactly what you are exactlypeop investigating. abuses against the america n people. does the government collect info on or otherwise investigate this citizens of the u.s.?us how deep wasio tha
as british prime minister. an increasing number of conservatives say they want to see mrjohnson secure a second period at number 10 downing st. the first wild bison for thousands of years has been born in the uk. three bison were released back injuly as part of a rewilding project in kent 0h, she s she s like a ray of sunshine on a dark, cloudy day. it s thousands of years since a bison was born in the wild in britain. so this is quite a moment in kent s blean woods. europe s largest mammal, once hunted almost to extinction, taking her first steps. she s a little ball of energy. and when she sees. when we get a little bit of rain, she starts sprinting around and it s, what s this stuff falling out of the sky? she s fantastic. she s doing so, so well. donovan oversaw the arrival of the first three bison in july. it s basically a little treat, but that is the menu, what you see out there. these bison are not free to roam. under uk law, they ve rather unfairly been classed a
cost of pens and papers and notebooks and all of that that went up. back to school sticker shock as inflation sent the price of school supplies soaring. the impact it is having not only on parents, but also on business owners and teachers. how some people in california are making money by having their front yards ripped out. it is sunday, august 21st, welcome to a new week. we re so grateful you re waking up with us. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. happy sunday. and we begin this morning with the extreme weather threat across the southwest and southern plains. more than 12 million people under flood watches. yeah yesterday s search and rescue crews were out looking for a missing person in utah s zion national park. rangers say hikers were being swept off their feet by flash flooding on the virgin river. rescue teams were out in the mojave county area of arizona after rushing water washed out roads and trapped vehicles across that region. cnn meteorologist
of so called quiet quitting ? thousands of people in areas at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one of the country s worst disasters as the heaviest monsoon rains in decades continue. nearly a thousand people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced. southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pa ktunkwa province. our correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving, and the water is still trapped between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. families left with what
during the capitol riot s 187 minutes. the brutal heat wave, almost 100 million americans under heat alert, records being broken again, the impact on farms and what could it mean for those already high food prices. plus, we re on the front lines of the wildfire battle in europe. pop icon ricky martin speaking out about his newly dismissed case and the lurid accusations from his own nephew. and while some summer flights are getting back on track, we ll tell you where the newest pain points are for flyers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, the 90 million covid cases recorded in this country through the pandemic tonight now include another american president. white house officials and president biden himself offering an upbeat assessment of his condition after a routine covid test this morning came up positive. within a few hours of the news breaking, the president tweeted, i m doing great. pictured at a desk in the white house r