The ground. It is the top of the hour and its always good to be with you. The Delta Variant is surging in all 50 states. St. Louis and st. Louis county are both set to bring back mask mandates. Well dive into the latest with our Saturday Night panel. Br its day two of the olympics in tokyo. Team usas three on three Womens Basketball, gymnastics and volleyball teams all compete in a few hours. Well talk about how far the olympics have come for women anl how far they still have to go. And Jeff Bezos Rocket launch has a lot of people excited about space tourism. Others are cynical about the Billionaire Space Race, but i a see a problem with both sides of this debate. Ill explain in tonights essay. From nbc News World Headquarters in new york, im Joshua Johnson. Welcome to the week. You know, after more than a year indoors and with vaccinations on the rise this Io Summer was sUpposed to be much more fun. Scratch that record. The Delta Variant is threatening to pull everybody back indoors p
This week the uae released video of cars driving through rain that was created by scientists. They launched drones into the sky that zapped clouds with electricity. This caused droplets to clump together. And instead of evaporating in midair from the heat, The Rain Drops were large enough to reach the ground. It is the top of the hour and its always good to be with you. The Delta Variant is surging in all 50 states. St. Louis and st. Louis county are all set to bring back mask mandates. Well dive into the latest with our Saturday Night panel. Its day two of the olympics in tokyo. Team usas gymnastics and volleyball teams all compete in a few hours. Well talk about how far the olympics have come for women and how far they still have to go. And Jeff Bezos Rocket launch has a lot of people excited about space tourism. Others are cynical about the billionaire space race, but i see a problem with both sides of this debate. Ill explain in tonights essay. From nbc News World Headquarters in n
we all survived a tough 12 months packed with conflicts, difficulties and yet also victories, hope, and happiness. that s saying something considering we were up against a raging pandemic and the deepest social divides the united states has seen in decades. so how did we make it through? let s sort it out by starting with the biggest news. worst story of the year. the violent invasion of the u.s. capitol by people angry over joe biden winning the election. the idea that 2021 was going to be better i think probably lasted for about exactly six days. the january 6th insurrection was straight up crazy. the losing candidate, then president trump, stoked the fury with the big lie that he had won. they rigged an election. they rigged it like they ve never rigged an election before. it was really traumatizing and tragic to see the people s house overtaken by american citizens. police were beaten, congress ran, people died. hundreds would be arrested. the best response, l
area in georgia to make that move. a vast majority of the country, in fact, seen in dark red here, is struggling with covid surges in some place. 50% or more. we re following the rapidly changing plans of school districts all across the country but particularly here in the atlanta area. what are you learning? yeah, this is exactly what school districts and students and teachers, a lot of them were hoping would not happen. but when you see the spike in cases all across the country and here in georgia, this is the reaction. so we know that at least five metro atlanta school districts, including three atlanta school districts are all going to be going back to remote learning when they go back to school this week. not back to the classroom, but back to their kitchen tables and their bedrooms and their basements to do remote learning again. just like many schools had to do at the beginning of the school year because of the spike in cases that we saw during the month of august. n
has killed more than 700 police officers nationwide, so why are so many officers rejecting the vaccine? tough negotiations: president biden hits the road in michigan, as he pleads with his own party to strike a deal. what programs may get cut. plus, the warning about a potential economic catastrophe now just days away. cbs news investigation: are some a.t.f. employees gaming the system and possibly costing the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars? powerball winner what a lucky person in california could buy with all that money. and muhammad ali, the greatest boxer in the world, who painted art with meaning that s now for sale. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we want to begin tonight with the scathing testimony from a former facebook employee that had senators describing the social media giant as morally bankrupt. frances haug