at mar-a-lago. and cutting it close. the freeze on student loan payments is set to end this month and borrows aren t the only ones in the dark about what s going to happen next. it s the weekend, saturday, august 20th. we re so grateful to be a part of yours. thanks for joining us. sounds like you were well rested last night or something. almost never. almost never. well you do a good job of faking it. good to be with you, boris. a lot of news to get to this morning. first, the white house defending its response to the spread of monkeypox across the u.s. and implementing its new aggressive plan to control the outbreak. yeah. more than 14,000 monkeypox cases in the united states. more than a third of all cases in the world. and listen to this, in the last three weeks the number of monkeypox cases in the u.s. has nearly tripled, according to the cdc. the biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency earlier this month after facing criticism tha
aback by the ferocity of this latest israeli offensive. meanwhile, new threats by iran backed militias. a u.s. warship forced to shoot down several drones on the red sea, including one heading in its direction. back at home, arguments now happening before the supreme court in one of the highest profile bankruptcy cases in recent history. and it all stems from the nation s opioid epidemic. federal officials are closing an arizona crossing to help border patrol deal with the rising number of migrants coming into our country. and on capitol hill, a vote to launch an impeachment inquiry into president biden could take place as soon as this week. and we begin this hour with breaking news out of israel and the israeli-hamas war. israel is expanding its ground offensive in gaza four days after the collapse of the truce. israeli forces pushing deeper into southern gaza and ordering new evacuations. residents in gaza say they have no safe place to go. in northern gaza, we re
hope more hostages will be set free and those recently released reveal new details about their time in captivity. also breaking, a suspected serial killer caught in los angeles after four people were killed this week how they found him the press conference late today. making this suspect responsible for the murder of four individuals over the course of four days. expelled congressman george santos vows revenge. how he s now trying to take other members of congress down with him. a shocking new report on air traffic controllers, caught showing up to work drunk or high or asleep on their shift what it means for air travel safety and we take you to the polar bear capital of the world. why bears are invading the town at a record rate this police car chasing one away there s been six that have tried to walk in the town today. yes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening the prospect of another cease-fire between israel and hamas
Warning tonight and thats going to make for a very cold new years eve and tomorrow morning. Well have more on that. The countdown to 2015. How cities across the country will ring in the new year tonight. Its the annual donatea thon. Well tell you how you you can get the lastminute Tax Deduction for 2014 and help out a food cause. Mornings on 2 starts right now. Good morning. Happy new years eastern. You are looking live at the celebrations in seoul, South Carolina where the clock just struck midnight. Well have much more coverage on new years eves celebrations. Fireworks there. Look at all of the people. Lets talk about weather and traffic. Weather is a big deal again. There will be teens up in the north bay tomorrow. 20s for many. 30s. Especially in the wind protected areas. Where it has, weve had a couple of 20s. A lot of the 30s. 40s for some. Half moon bay 45. San jose is 39. Livermore is 39. But there is enough of a Breeze Holding these temps up for at least right now. As that dec
Really did the impossible by developing safe and effective coronavirus vaccines as quickly as they did. But then the government blew it. The government did not come up with any sort of National Plan at all to get the vaccines these scientists had made actually distributed at scale and administered to people with any sort of efficiency. And so even though those vaccines were developed and approved and produced with such alacrity all that got us is the situation were in tonight where millions of doses of the vaccine are sitting in freezers where every single passing day another 200,000 plus americans get infected. Just today state governments all over the country are reeling once again after Trump Health Secretary alex azar told states they were going to get a whole bunch of vaccine doses next week that they arent actually going to get. This is at least the second time the Trump Administration has told the states there were doses shipping out to them, doses that didnt actually exist. Whi