season it was that paghetti. as you re at the gate? yeah. it s like on top of spaghetti no, get out, get out! then again, it seems to be working. tonight s primetime coverage of the olympics begins at 8:00 eastern time here on nbc. that s nbc nightly news. thank you for watching, everyone. i m lester holt. please take care o f started the fight? an arrest for the attack on a 49ers fan at sofi stadium, what the mayor of inglewood says the
there, that didn t stop them from cheering like they were. with no one in the stands, it s you kind of have to create your own emotion, energy. that s kind of what i tried to do. we had my teammates in the stands going crazy. they did such an awesome job. we re making the best of what we can here. after a few days, chase will be back in the pool to have another shot at gold thursday night. let s take a look at the medal count so far. china leads, followed by team usa. in third place is russia. stay with us for primetime coverage of the olympics starting immediately after this broadcast at 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 pacific time. back in the u.s. and the fourth wave of covid. there could be a major shift in the cdc s mask recommendations amid an alarming number of new cases nationwide. meagan fitzgerald has the latest. reporter: tonight, the worst-case scenario among the unvaccinated. we feel like we re going back
it in training. when the olympics were delayed for a year. i think we re seeing also a lot of the olympians being very careful in their interactions in the olympic village compared to other olympics. what are we looking at tonight? we re going to see swimming. a lot of atmosphere in there with teammates creating the atmosphere. a lot of the other usa swimmers will be rooting the u.s. on in the pool. probably early chances for a medal. and skateboarding makes its olympic debut. it will be fun to see a new generation come to the olympic stage. you have got a with night action thanks for stopping by. my pleasure, lester. primetime coverage of the tokyo olympics begins at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on nbc. back in the u.s., there is increasing concern over how to end the surge in covid cases fueling new conversations inside the white house about whether some will need a vaccine booster shot. here s kathy park. reporter: tonight, a sharp shift on booster shots from the whit the n
exactly. do it at the super bowl halftime. dana: i understand not doing the state of the union during the shutdown. i understand that. what nancy pelosi said, we want you to come at another time when we can work on that date. but do you think she means that? i do think she means that. without a government shutdown, absolutely. this is part of the functioning of the government, which is what is sad about all of this. right? a state of the union should be delivered in congress. obviously that wasn t true for a long time starting with woodrow wilson. for over 100 years the president delivered the state of the union in congress. it is one of the things that makes it clear that we are a nation of laws and of government. i think if he did it somewhere else, it would look too political. dana: part of the state of the union is you get primetime coverage. everybody stops. everybody looks. i m just gonna hazard a guess here and predict if the president gives a speech somewhere else tha
but this is a political process that is messy. if it were impeachment, that s a political process, too, which is incredibly messy. there is an independent counsel of high caliber and reputation who will get to the bottom of it, whatever that is. we know and it s not a new play book that the administration and they re doing it harder than most will seek to invalidate whatever they find by how they did it and what the findings are. but we re being forced into a corner as if this has to be one thing or another. this may be much more complicated and layered than that. the outcome of this investigation. thank you for all the insight. nice to see you in d.c. great to be here. i don t know why there s a tease for cnn thought it was my show. i don t have a show tonight. cnn s primetime coverage of the state of the union. going to see this here. dana bash there for sure, 5:00 p.m. tonight. that promo will allow. the russian investigation putting bipartisanship to the