Want to wish you a very good morning on this sunday, january 3rd. It is 2021. Im christi paul. And im john avalon in today for victor blackwell. Good to see you. Good to have you back with us, john. The u. S. Is under an awful lot of pressure both from partisan politics and the pandemic. We have more than 350,000 people that have died as of today in this country because of the coronavirus. For the 32nd day in a row, more than 100,000 people are battling covid19 in a hospital. Now vaccines are on the way. Getting people vaccinated, its taking much longer than had been anticipated. There are 13 million doses that have been distributed thus far, but only 4. 2 Million People have received their first shot. And president elect joe biden will inherit this crisis in just 17 days. Before the inauguration on january 20th, a series of consequential steps begins today. In just hours, nancy pelosi faces reelection as speaker of the house. With 117th u. S. Congress set to be sworn in. On tuesday, c
Coronavirus. The netherlands also announced their first case. Denmark announced their first case. Estonia announced their first case. Romania announced their first case. Northern ireland announced their first case. Nigeria announced its first case today, which makes that the first case reported in all of sub saharan africa. Sweden announced five new cases today. Italy, as of yesterday, had announced 12 deaths attributed to the virus. Today that number jumped to 17 deaths in italy in 650 cases overall. Its not clear why, but the total number of cases in france more than doubled today compared with yesterday. France is now reporting 38 cases including a dozen patients who have tested positive in run region north of paris where they dont know what the initial vector of transmission was for those dozen patients. France also reports that in its latest death from coronavirus that, patient is also somebody for whom they could not track how he got the virus in the first place, but he has now d
Largest known cluster of cases in the country. So theres more coming up on that story. In the meantime its super tuesday 2. 0 and at this hour they are voting in six states. Joe biden is looking to increase his lead. The former vp writing momentum from a week ago, 352 it delegates up for grabs today. The biggest prize is michigan with 125 and that is where Bernie Sanders pulled off an upset to beat Hillary Clinton four years ago. This, too will come as a battleground. President trump the first public and to win michigan since 1988 by less then 100,000 votes. Lets bring in the chairwoman, welcome to our coverage today. Good afternoon to you. What happens in your state tonight . He has the establishment completely behind him, many of the congressional leaders, but bernie did have this upset against Hillary Clinton in 2016 so we will see what happens. Right now the polling has joe biden pulling away and were winning michigan. Bill when i look at the 2016 results, this is stunning. The num
Right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. States of emergency are in effect in virginia and North Carolina right now. Among the places that took devastating blows from a violent and deadly storm that rampaged from the south up the eastern seaboard. Today were seeing the full extent of the damage from some 50 reported tornadoes over the last two days. Nine people were killed and millions were impacted from downed trees and Power Outages to floods and canceled flights. Tonight the region is still trying to recover. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer reports. Reporter tonight this is what the damage looked like in seven states. Homes have been shredded. Lives are in shambles after more than 50 reported tornadoes. When i went to see where the house was, there was nothing there. Reporter in waverly, virginia, theres as much heartbreak as destruction. An ef1 tornado with winds up to 110 miles an hour. Carving a path. In North Carolina, huntsboro road is obliterated. The
The original resolution at the World Health Organization (WHO) did not call for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, but the Israeli delegation succeeded in amending the resolution.