And behind the scenes, as america s biggest fourth of july celebration makes its spectacular comeback announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone former president donald trump s real estate company is facing criminal charges tonight, as is its cfo. New york prosecutors unsealing a grand jury indictment against the trump organization and allen weisselberg. 15 counts in all related to tax fraud prosecutors calling it a scheme that allowed weisselberg and other trump execs to be paid under the table in the form of sometimes pricey perks, including a manhattan apartment, a luxury car, and private school tuition for family members expenses disguised on the company s books and unreported in tax filings. Both defendants pleading not guilty. Not mentioned by name or title, mr. Trump himself. Tonight he is calling it all a witch hunt. Hallie jackson leads us off tonight reporter: the trump organization s longtime cfo appearing in handcuffs, indicted tonight along
sure that the lockdowns work. and after a night like no other at the oscars, anthony hopkins is the oldest best actor winner at the age of 83. we start with the pandemic in india. the us has promised emergency assistance and vowed to release millions of doses of the astrazeneca vaccine. india has reported a fifth consecutive record high of daily covid cases. there were 350,000 confirmed new infections in the past 2a hours. there s an oxygen crisis with some patients dying outside hospitals because they ve run out of oyxgen and beds. here s our delhi correspondent rajini vaidyanathan she came to hospital to be saved. instead, this is where she died. they don t have oxygen, they don t have doctors, people are dying out here, her brother said. we were standing here in the car park for an hour. now, my sister is no more. a horror story on repeat, as oxygen and bed shortages claim lives that could have been saved. patients left to fend for themselves, struggling for help, as t
so, yes, you could say to be protected of omicron you really need a three-dose series. that s the way we should look at it, three doses is what you need. even with all the attention on the omicron variant it is still the delta variant that is leading to a new surge in america right now. right now the united states is averaging 118,000 new cases per day. that s up 61% in the last month. here are the important metrics. more than 62,000 americans are hospitalized with covid, an increase of 36% in the last month, and 1,500 americans are dying each day from the virus still. the u.s. death toll now approaching 800,000. joining me right now for more on this news coming from pfizer is cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. thank you for being here. the two-dose regimen of pfizer may not hold up against omicron. but adding a booster improves efficacy dramatically according to the company, the antibody level rising 25-fold. what s your reaction to this? cautiously very optimist
emily: new reaction to the house s overwhelming decision to pass a potential ban on tiktok. over 170 million americans are on the popular social media platform. this new bill would force beijing-based owner to divest or face a complete ban. calls from upset users have flooded offices in recent days and president biden says he would sign the bill if it reaches his desk. its future in the senate remains unclear. this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno here with kayleigh mcenany and harris faulkner and joining us today, fox news contributor and president of american spirit enterprises, tammy bruce and fox news contributor and former utah congressman, jason chaffetz. the house s tiktok bill received overwhelming support from both sides of the aisle. vote 352-65. tiktok responding, this process was secret and the bill was jammed through for one reason, it is a ban. we are hopeful the senate will consider the facts and realize impact on the economy, 7 million small businesses
fabulous, who was expelled from congress after a series of lies and federal indictments that george santos, he was actually in the house chamber last night for the state of the union because he s still has floor privileges. go figure. he announced he is running for congress in new york s first congressional district. lauren fox in washington, with the details, i guess my question, lauren is really yeah, it seems that george santos has not gotten the hint from his republican colleagues that they are not interested in him coming back more than 100 republicans voted to expel him from the house. just a few months ago, but he announced last night he is running a primary challenge against one of the new york republicans who lead the charge to get him out of the house that person nick lalota of new york s first district in a tweet. lynda made clear he s not afraid of challenging george santos. george santos responding, pathetic little man, since you refused to move to the district