Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extra caution tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today, a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest we are joined tonight by telephone by Charles Berke yet, the mayor of surfside, florida. Hes joining us by telephone because the weather has turned so severe we can get a tv signal out of there. Which means, think of the underground rescue effort, it will be slow down and hampered by rainfall. Mister mayor, ive been watching you on television all day, i think we are pretty close to the same age. When i woke up this morning, saw the pictures in your town, i thought of the Marine Barracks bombing them. I thought of oklahoma city, and then i seen your comment all day long, buildings dont fall down like this in america. Obviously, there is that investigation. But update us tonight on the search for living souls. Youre right about the rain, its heartbreaking now that it is slowing u
The numbers getting worse, a Public Safety issue and political one. Plus another decision day from the Supreme Court. 12 cases left, gang, including several on Voting Rights and Freedom Of Speech, as always, we have our team ready to go for any breaking developments as we get them sometime in the next couple of minutes here. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel iodonnell at the white house. This is a new day in d. C. , right . The path forward on Voting Rights seems very difficult. It seems like there might be some movement on infrastructure although even that is facing some hurdles. And the biden agenda, the democratic agenda really on the line. Thats absolutely right, hallie. It will be very difficult for democrats to clear the issues theyre trying to get through congress and the congress of course is the road block. The Voting Rights vote failed last night. Democrats are continuing to say the fight is no
The numbers getting worse, a Public Safety issue and political one. Plus another decision day from the Supreme Court. 12 cases left, gang, including several on Voting Rights and Freedom Of Speech, as always, we have our team ready to go for any breaking developments as we get them sometime in the next couple of minutes here. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson in washington along with our nbc news team, leigh ann caldwell, capitol hill and kel iodonnell at the white house. This is a new day in d. C. , right . The path forward on Voting Rights seems very difficult. It seems like there might be some movement on infrastructure although even that is facing some hurdles. And the biden agenda, the democratic agenda really on the line. Thats absolutely right, hallie. It will be very difficult for democrats to clear the issues theyre trying to get through congress and the congress of course is the road block. The Voting Rights vote failed last night. Democrats are continuing to say the fight is no
Christiane and ben next have a lot to get to so lets get started. Heres a headline that will surprise no one in 2020 the u. S. Economy had its worst performance in 74 years since the end of world war 2 it contracted 3. 5 percent now this was of course because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the impact of the worldwide pandemic so whats in store for 2021 especially in an economy that remains so uncertain joining me now to discuss this and more. On it chrystia i ben lets start with you can you give us a rundown of how the economy did or didnt perform in 2020. Yeah i mean as you said in the beginning here its really no surprise to anybody the economy did not do well contract at 3. 5 percent as you said the worst its done since 1946 so its been a long time since the economys contracted that much in a single year and that came off of the 2. 2 percent growth that we saw the year before in 1900 the bottom line here is this is basically every sector was down because of the coronavirus with th
Has just introduced a control mechanism for companies producing vaccines tell us a little bit more about that if you want its a bit of a warning shot for other companies and pfizer of biotech is also a company that has suddenly confronted the u. S. Supply a problem so what the use is has introduced is a mechanism whereby companies a you can track now to what extent companies are exporting vaccines that are being produced inside the e. U. The u. S. Made clear today this is only an insurance policy they do not want to get involved into any sort of vaccine protectionism or to export bounce but it is clear that they are flexing their muscles to show those tech or from a suitable dions that they do mean business here. Georg not as in brussels for us thank you so much. The astra zeneca vaccine is one of 3 being used as part of britains vaccination drive the country has one of the highest death tolls in the world but as we have heard it is also making more progress than many other countries e