Miracle baby who beat the odds and is inspiring america. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone it was a goal too far. Tonight, the biden administrations acknowledgment it will miss its latest vaccination objective, as much a setback for the country as it is for the white house. Pace of vaccinations stubbornly lagging President Bidens July 4th Target of having 70 of adults at least partially vaccinated appears it will come up short over 177 million americans have received at least one dose that leaves millions of Unvaccinated Americans at risk of the more contagious delta covid variant. Dr. Fauci today declaring the Delta Variant is the greatest threat to eliminating covid. That threat coinciding with an emerging Generation Gap over the vaccinations tom llamas now with late details. Reporter Tonight The White Hous sounding the alarm about the highly contagious Delta Variant, admitting a setback when it comes to vaccines. The country will fall short
Of the United States. Its kind of our way, or the highway. Mississippi senator roger wicker on all of that very shortly, In The Meantime, to Mark Meredith on how this is all going down, fueled by not only the president stating that this is the only way to do it, republicans, at a jobs report which might have helped his argument. Mark . Reporter neil, good morning to you right that jobs report is having an impact on the discussions. President biden counting on house and Senate Democrats to pass his 1. 9 trillion Stimulus Package. Republicans want the president to reign in spending but the president made it clear yesterday that hes willing to do this on a Party Line Vote if necessary to fund a few priorit ies like the 1,400 round of stimulus checks that he wants to see go out, more money for Food Assistance programs, as well as extending those enhanced federal Unemployment Benefits. The president making it directly in a speech on friday. Others think that things are Getting Better and we
Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning
You can see clear skies. We are 30s and 40s. Santa rosa is down to freezing. 38 in concorde. 38, livermore. 45 in oakland and 44 four san jose with clear skies. 36 in napa. 38, vallejo. 39 in Mountain View. As we head through the date a little more sunshine. Cool and below average. 61 in San Francisco pick 63 in oakland. And 65 for concorde this afternoon. We will talk about the storm system bringing rain. I will see you future cast in just a bit. Lets check in with gianna and the babe bridge commute is stacking up. I am on my second cup of coffee and you are all good. Hopefully you have your copy lets go coffee. We are seeing brake lights from 880 as you head into San Francisco. Sluggish conditions are forming at the bay bridge toll plaza commute. We are getting first reports near mid span involving one vehicle that hit the center divide. Chp and emergency crews are heading out. A slow and go right into altamont pass. I 39 minute drive time for the westbound commute along 580. The cor
Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, a nation divided, struggling to stand. Today marks one month since an angry insurrectionist mob stormed the u. S. Capitol. The broken glass and busted doors is been repaired. The political fractures remain. A few republicans voted to revogs the Committee Assignments of georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, a freshman lawmaker who has traffics in the same Conspiracy Theories and racist tropes that drove the january 6th rioters. Greene has shown support for executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and has behaved so towards her coworkers that one asked to have her office moved away from greene. When given the chance to deal with greene privately ended up giving her a standing ovation. Neck Week Senate Republicans will get their own chance to show they learned something from the events of january 6th when they begin the second Impeachment Trial for former president donald trump. Ill keep my expectations low. President joe biden to h