Welcome to inside politics. It was hard to imagine when this pandemic started some ten months ago that we would be ending 2020 still so deep in crisis. But that is where we are. Thousands of americans are dying every single day of covid19. Two deaths every minute. Just yesterday 213,875 new cases. 101,190 in the hospital. 2,254 more confirmed deaths and yes, this is the Global Pandemic, but things in the u. S. Are a lot worse than elsewhere in the world. One example, there were more than 440,000 new confirmed covid19 cases in the past two days here in the u. S. Thats more cases than canada has had ever. The numbers on that graphic are not a typo. According to the cdc, at least 25,000 more americans are likely to die of covid19 by christmas. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult time in the Public Health history of this nation. Despite how grim things are now, there is good news on the horizon. Vaccines ar
Releasing the names of crime victims. So we are honoring the request and not giving the name. But i can tell you hes been with the department more than 20 years. He is a standout detective, im told a very tough guy. People are not surprised hes living to tell about it. Apparently none of the bullets hit any vital organs and were beginning our story in the neighborhood where the suspects made a very desperate attempt to get away. This neighbor didnt want to give his name but he5n i didnt hear nothing. The Police Standing at the door telling us to go in the house. Police searched his yard and others in the neighborhood look of course are a suspect and a gun used to shoot a d. C. Cop. Hampton buster was asleep when that happened. My grandson is in the basement. He come upstairs and waking everybody up. The police in the yard. Reporter one of the suspects arrested here in hunt place in j street . Northeast. The others scattered and got away. We come outside and find out they were searching
You call it, money week . This week is money week. Were giving away thousands and thousands of dollars to a lucky audience member. When the audience member gets into the booth, theres a purple and gold bill. If they win the gold bill they win a very special prize. If they get the purple bill, the whole audience gets a prize. And we have a sled that you can ride in the snow or in the grass. They made me get on it, of course. All kinds of things you might no manly way to sit on it. You look happy about it. No manly way to do it so you just sit on it. Youre going to answer some questions from folks on the plaza and over at the nbc experience store. Can we discuss your other segment, the pregnancy story . There was a guy who showed whats called an empathy garment. He put the suit on so he could get the feeling of what it is to be pregnant. He wore it for nine weeks. I think a lot of women are going to have a little problem with this. He doesnt get the rest of the stuff like, does his, you
a crowd of spectators in afghanistan. the pilot survived. their actions are under investigation this thursday, their actions are under investigation this thursday, march 22, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television announcer: from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and ann curry. live from studio 1 a. i m ann curry. i m matt lawyer. we are covering breaking news noo toulouse x france. the 24-year-old suspect bragged of killing people in a shooting after he told negotiators he wanted to die with weapons in his hands. we want to get to jim in toulouse this morning. jim, what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, matt. well, it seems like this 30-hour siege is over. we are hearing from a number of police sources that the police assaulted the house minutes ago, that the gunman, mohammed merah fired at them. they fired back. merah is dead. there have been a number of wounded police. no word on police fatalities at this time. we have been here now, o
bmw fly down the highway. when it hit the curb, it went airborne and flipped, flipped, flipped. this is a brutal scene. reporter: we re bringing you closer to the scene. police say the driver was most likely going more than 100 miles per hour. he hit the curb right over here, started tumbling, plowed through shrubs, hit a sign, smashed through a fence and then eventually hitting that suv and then falling right in front of the doorway. miraculously, the woman sitting in the suv survived with minor injuries. drugs or alcohol involved? too early to tell. there s going to be a blood toxology screening. reporter: the department s collapse team is expecting the building to make sure it s secure while investigators search for evidence at the scene. our accident reconstructionist have their work cut out for them. reporter: a flatbed truck is moving both vehicles. crews are cleaning up. police have not identified the person who died in this crash. it s unclear if she was