national mall in washington, d.c. to memorialize all who lost their lives to covid-19 in the u.s. so far. former chairman of the joints chief of staff mike mullens says there s nothing unusual art the reported conversations between general mark milley and his counterparts in china during the waning days of trump administration. take a listen. having communications with counterparts around the world is routine. and even having them now with china. i think it was also overseeing certainly listened to by many other in the interagency process out there. so he wasn t by himself. what is alarming is that the chinese would read the situation as they did, as really chaotic and as if we were going to possibly strike. it s very clear and i don t know this because i haven t talked to chairman milley. it s very clear he had good intel that this was the case. but the misread by china is also worrisome and speaks to the need to have these open
coaches due to covid protocol sunday. while in alabama overall deaths outnumbered births for the first time in 2020. a gap never before recorded state officials say, many included in the more than 670,000 white flags dotting the national mall in washington, d.c. to memorialize all who have lost their lives to covid-19 in the u.s. so far. monica joins us from the white house. what about boosters for the other two vaccine options? reporter: the fda is still waiting on data from moderna and johnson & johnson to make recommendations on additional doses for americans who got those shots initially, which dr. fauci expects could come in the next few weeks. kate? all right. monica alba at the white house, thank you. now to our other breaking news story, late today authorities announcing a possible break in the high profile case of missing woman gabby petito. a body was found in wyoming near the young woman s last known whereabouts. earlier today human
through tomorrow night. we re watching two new tropical storms tonight as well. peter and tropical storm rose. peter is currently 350 miles east off the leeward islands moving west-northwest and could impact the island of bermuda next weekend but not expected to threaten the u.s. tonight we are kicking off a series of nbc news reports about climate change and the environment. we begin with seafood. why it is shrinking and you re paying more for less. reporter: beauty on the banks. and plates of washington s puget sound. yet in the kitchen, a disturbing sign of the times. shrinking salmon. this is a beautiful portion right here but today when i go look into the box i get one like this. reporter: the executive chef will send the smaller piece back. ten years ago how often would you get a piece of fish like this and how often do
you get it today? ten years ago, we wouldn t see anything like this. reporter: what he sees is backed up by a recent scientific study. the salmon sandwich. reporter: the salmon he gets from alaska are shrinking as much as 8%. why? scientists point to salmon returning to fresh water at a younger age from a hotter ocean. on the east coast it is clams. climate change has devastated the shell fish industry in maine. reporter: he leads the maine clammers association. in 1976 when it was still cold we harvested between 35,000,040 million pounds of soft shell clams a year and last year we were under 7 million. reporter: whether in maine or here in washington state the problem is the same. warming waters. that is impacting the foods you love to eat. seattle is synonymous with salmon but here in this area this biologist says fewer salmon come back to spawn. we attribute that to climate change.
how are you today? great. good to see you. governor, great to see you. you went to afghanistan recently. start there. i know these things. i follow him every day on twitter. you do? yes. so i m just curious. what do you think about washington, d.c., failing to come together? and i m pointing the finger at congress and at the president, failing to come together at a time of crisis? we were downgraded yesterday. and they can t come together and work like governors in all 50 states have to. this is why i d rather be in dover than washington. i think pretty much all of my colleagues around the country say the same thing. we have to come together. we don t care whether a good idea comes from a democrat or republican. we got to get stuff done. we re not measured based on whether we give a good speech or on rhetoric. we re measured on real simple things like do we put people back to work and improve schools? that is the environment i d rather be in and i think all governors woul