Greene defending herself on the Floor House Impeachment Managers asking donald trump to testify under oath at his trial. How his lawyers are responding tonight President Biden is declaring america is back in his first Foreign Policy speech. His new warning to russia and china my oneonone with his chief of staff i asked is there a plan to send masks to every americans. The former officer caught on body cam fatally shooting an Unarmed Black Man charged with murder. New reaction from andre hills family. Vaccine hunthunters, how storing doses would otherwise go under waste. Good evening, i am lester holt. Johnson and johnsons approval soon could mean more dose ages by the start of summer. New infections and hospitalizations fallen nearly 34 million vaccine doses administered while 91,000 people currently hospitalized experts warning those more contagious Virus Mutations could spell plenty more dark days ahead. I spoke to the chief of staff, ron klain, to get an update and an effort to spee
and vice president vow to act on gun control. russia s major advancement in ukraine. what vladimir putin said in calls with key western leaders. allegations of widespread price gouging, as the baby formula shortage gets even worse what parents can do to fight back new rental car warning, as the summer travel season kicks off, you may have a confirmed reservation, but they may notave your car just had no cs.s. and they just clearly overbooked and on this memorial day weekend, the man turning veterans houses into homes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. i m kristen welker in for jose as the memorial day weekend get underway, the anger is growing as we learn new details about what happened inside robb elementary school. while law enforcement waited nearly an hour to move in on the shooter who claimed 21 lives. we now know the name of the police chief who gave the order to wait and we learned that he and his department partici
do you have my reser reservation? yes, we do. unfortunately, we ran out of cars. that s really the most important part of the reservation. the holding. reporter: in a statement, thrifty says we apologize for mr. lipshire s experience and have offered a full refund. but it s not just thrifty, there s a nationwide rental car shortage what s driving it? with pandemic restrictions lifting, more americans are now traveling again for business and leisure and then there are the supply chain problems. everyone was hoping by now that we would be able to get all the parts needed to strengthen the automotive market, but unfortunately, the supply chain issues are ongoing. reporter: the american car rental association adds, companies are still trying to restock the inventory they sold off during the height of the pandemic, when almost no one was traveling. if somebody doesn t return the car on time or perhaps it s damaged and has to be taken out of the service fleet, there is not the
products, from toys to clothing, electronics to furniture, to car parts. a typical ship like this carries as many as 14,000 containers and in each container about $100,000 worth of merchandise but right now these ships are sitting, going nowhere, stuck for ten days it s not just california new york s ports are also backed up shipping costs are soaring, and there aren t enough truck drivers to move products off the docks. the problem, asian manufacturing slowed to a trickle during covid. now it s struggling to keep up with america s exploding consumer demand gene seroka runs the port of los angeles. we re buying more products than ever before, whether they be online, pickup at stores or at our big box retailers, and the american importer is struggling to keep up with that demand reporter: 95% of the national tree company s artificial christmas trees come from china now they re scrambling to stock up. buy your christmas trees now before thanksgiving because otherwise the shelves