symptoms the president is experiencing are very mild. we ll get an update shortly on the president s condition. complete coverage now, dr. marc siegel standing by. john: jacqui heinrich is live on the north lawn. the white house has sent out the first picture of the president, from some time today? we are to assume it s from today. white house is making an effort to show the president is still carrying out his duties in isolation despite testing positive for covid-19. he tweets, folks, i m doing great. thanks for your concern. just called senator casey, congressman cartwright and a mayor and scranton cousins send my regret for missing our event today, keeping busy, exclamation point. his symptoms began last night with a runny nose, fatigue and dry cough. when he went to bed he felt fine but did not sleep well, woke up this morning and tested positive. the white house physician says he s talking the antiviral drug paxlovid, has f.d.a. emergency use authorization for high r
photograph of footballers and their girlfriends of the world cup. she was giving evidence in her high court libel trial against rooney. the first picture of the enormous black hole at the centre of our galaxy and the passenger with no flying experience match to land the plane after the pilot passed out. the metropolitan police have issued more than 50 new fines for breaches of covid rules in downing street and other government buildings. these fixed penalty notices are in addition to more than 50 handed out last month, including to borisjohnson and chancellor rishi sunak. neither mrjohnson nor his wife carriejohnson are among those to be fined this time. our political correspondent ben wright reports. are you shocked at the scale of lawbreaking in number ten, prime minister? how could you let that happen under your watch? the fallout from whitehall rule breaking has followed the prime minister to stoke. for a cabinet away day also attended by the uk s top civil servant, simon
urging americans not to let their guard down. also the justice department here in washington announcing today that two men have now been arrested and charged with assaulting officer brian sicknick with a toxic chemical spray. let s begin our coverage with our chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. the president is taking his covid relief package straight to the american public. give us the latest. reporter: yes, wolf. he s basically mentioning it every time he gets near a microphone. tomorrow he ll be going to pennsylvania. i ll be traveling with him. that s going to continue with several more stops this week not just for president biden, but for his top aides. he want to pitch this plan to the american people, make sure they know it s not just stimulus checks. all this means the bigger plan you have to have to implement that bill. that s the challenge facing the biden administration right now. today it is going to be complicated, but he says he wants to make sure
tearing these roads up and flipping cars. the torrential rain across the northeast grounding more than a thousand flights today. wildfires igniting in the west as that life-threatening heatwave reaches new highs with cities set to shatter records also breaking, in georgia, this search for this man, accused of killing four this weekend ends in a hail of bullets while in pennsylvania, the murder suspect who escaped jail is finally caught our interview with the hero couple who found him. oh, i m scared. i m scared for my wife and i. every flyer s worst nightmare. a passenger on a small plane forced to take the controls after the pilot falls ill. how she crash landed the plane and survived. she showed a lot of skill in challenging conditions plus, it s the summer of sniffles why the common cold is roaring back announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow
at the time. reporter: this video posted online unconfirmed by nbc news but matching descriptions of the scene by massachusetts state police, showing first responders on the ground after a 79-year-old pilot became unresponsive midair before his female passenger took the controls what can you tell us about how difficult it might have been to land something like this it is not a trainer. so it s going to require more skill it s going to approach the airport at higher speeds. reporter: the small plane, a 2006 piper meridian took off from west chester, new york saturday afternoon en route to martha s vineyard on final approach, the passenger had to jump into action. the plane s left wing breaking in half after a hard landing just last year, darrin harrison made a similar heroic landing in florida. i ve got a serious situation here my pilot has gone incoherent we had now gone into a dive. reporter: harrison spoke to our savannah guthrie about taking control and safely