The flood disaster in europe, dozens killed and the warning on renewing your passport why you may have to wait months. Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone tonight as covid cases climb and vaccination numbers fall, the nation s largest county, los angeles, is turning back the pandemic clock, issuing a new indoor mask mandate for public spaces. Worries intensifying this evening over many states over a new covid wave breaking against a wall of vaccine hesitancy. The delta variant spreading far more quickly than anything we ve seen here as we also learn tonight it will likely be early next year before the fda expects to approve vaccines for children younger than 12. My conversation with the head of the cdc in just a moment. But first, here is miguel almaguer with late developments. Reporter: tonight los angeles, the nation s largest county, taking a step back, requiring masks indoors, even for the vaccinated effective sunday, impacting 10 million peo
It s the school charity concert with a showbiz twist music legends send in video messages introducing their greatest hits hello and welcome to the programme. Dominic cummings was once the british prime minister s most trusted advisor. This morning, he is expected to accuse borisjohnson of being too slow to introduce a coronavirus lockdown last september. Mr cummings will appear before a parliamentary commitee. He has become an arch critic of his former boss since leaving number ten last november. Downing street says throughout the pandemic, the government s priority has been to save lives. Helen catt has the latest. It was a year ago that one of the prime minister s most senior behind the scenes advisers found himself in the spotlight. This was dominic cummings taking the highly unusual step of giving a press conference in the garden of downing street after he made a trip from london to durham while england was in its first lockdown. It included a drive to barnard castle, he said, to
And down the country. But this time it s different. We re not talking about dark alleys and late night pavement brawls. This is happening inside shops in broad daylight. The british retail consortium believes that there were 400 incidents of violence and abuse every day over the course of the pandemic. And the cost to business is rising. Joining me now is tom ironside, director of business and regulation, british retail consortiumdo we know why this behaviour is becoming more commonplace? shopkeepers are facing very unacceptable levels of both violence and abuse. If you look at the findings of our survey they show that there were 165,000 instances of violence and abuse thusly or to put it on the way 455 per day and 45 of those, on average, involved the use of a weapon so it really does have a deep seated and very worrying dimension for retail workers. [30 and very worrying dimension for retail workers. retail workers. Do we know why it is becoming retail workers. Do we know why it
backfire. it follows a vote in the us house of representatives which passed a bill that would require the tiktok owner bytedance to sell its stake in the social media platform. during the debate, lawmakers repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the chinese communist party something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. the chief executive of tiktok posted this on the social media platform a short time ago. us lawmakers were debating whether the pastor bill, they had repeatedly said that tiktok has links to the chinese communist party, something denied by both tiktok and bytedance. denied by both tiktok and bytedance- denied by both tiktok and bytedance. denied by both tiktok and b edance. ., , ., bytedance. our intention is for tiktok to continue bytedance. our intention is for tiktok to continue to bytedance. our intention is for tiktok to continue to operate l tiktok to continue to operate but not under the control of the chinese communist party. i the chinese commu
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