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
Check out this video from a San Francisco restaurant. The woman in red there is grandma doris campos. She flips over a table to defend herself against a customer who threw a container of Hand Sanitizer at camposs daughter and grandson. Yep, grandma in action. The woman felt her order was taking too long. Thankfully, no one was hurt. A company is now selling the first blood test to diagnose alzheimers disease. The test is designed for people over 60 who are experiencing symptoms of dementia. Its considerably cheaper than the 5,000 brain scan normally used to detect alzheimers which is often not covered by insurance. The blood test is currently being sold without fda approval. Turning now to the race for a vaccine for covid19 and that cdc meeting today that will determine who gets the vaccine first. I spoke earlier with dr. Maldonado. Who will be participating in that meeting today. Dr. Maldonado, heres one dilemma surrounding distribution of the covid vaccines. California is getting 326
Clarity as Steve Kornacki gives us his perspective. Thanks for starting your week with us im frances rivera. New hope the u. S. May soon see the approval of a coronavirus vaccine. Cases and deaths continue to surge. As of today there have been over 14. 5 million infections and over 282,000 fatalities according to an nbc news tally. The latest data comes as most of california enters a new lockdown heres nbcs meg fwan fitzgerald reporter valerie, good morning. Millions of californians are waking up to some of the most restrictive measures weve seen during the pandemic while they do all they can to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. 33 million californians, hours away from a Lockdown People told to stay home, stop gathering, no more inperson dining and reduce retail as hospitals try to save people in crisis bottom line is if we dont act now, our Hospital System will be overwhelmed. Reporter fear turning to frustration for restaurant owners. Im losing Everything Everything i own is bei
We are back with the release of rockefeller, the tiny owl returning to nature last night. Rocky was found inside the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree after it was trucked into manhattan. The 7inch tall owl was treated for several days. She was expected to start migrating south overnight. Love it. Turning to Chrissy Teigen and john legend in their first interview since their heartbreaking pregnancy loss. The couple is opening up about how the experience has brought them closer together. They spoke with gmas michael strahan. I didnt know that we could experience this grief and also share it. But when we did, it really meant so much to so many people. I have thousands of letters written to me. You know, obviously its so painful to go through Something Like this as a woman, something that was inside your body that you were nurturing and taking care of. Obviously theres a father involved and the support for the both of us has just been so beautiful, so incredible. Chrissys recent pregnancy
Lives health system, and the death toll in uganda rises to 16 up to protest against the arrest of Opposition Leader bobby wind and palestinian leaders condemn the us. Secretary of state, unprecedented visit to an illegal israeli settlement on the occupied Golan Heights. And he just came in to go to a sports returns to spain and says hes tired of always going to blame for problems at barcelona. Good to have you company. Welcome to the news. We start with the corona virus pandemic and the race to find a vaccine for tisha pharmaceutical giant astra. Zeneca said its phase 2 trials show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those aged over 70. Now the vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university. And its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The good news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 have been reported in africa, but low testing rates mean the actual