Miracle baby who beat the odds and is inspiring america. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone it was a goal too far. Tonight, the biden administrations acknowledgment it will miss its latest vaccination objective, as much a setback for the country as it is for the white house. Pace of vaccinations stubbornly lagging President Bidens July 4th Target of having 70 of adults at least partially vaccinated appears it will come up short over 177 million americans have received at least one dose that leaves millions of Unvaccinated Americans at risk of the more contagious delta covid variant. Dr. Fauci today declaring the Delta Variant is the greatest threat to eliminating covid. That threat coinciding with an emerging Generation Gap over the vaccinations tom llamas now with late details. Reporter Tonight The White Hous sounding the alarm about the highly contagious Delta Variant, admitting a setback when it comes to vaccines. The country will fall short
Favor of even allowing debate on the legislation. Put another way, all 50 republican senators voted no. While states are back home working hard to suppress the vote or certain votes, should we say, theres not a republican in the senate who wants to even allow a debate on this topic. An angry Majority Leader spoke moments after the vote was announced. Senate republicans have signed their names in the ledger of history alongside donald trump, the big lie, and Voter Suppression. Today, every single democratic senator stood together in the fight to protect the right to vote in america. The republican leader uses the language and the logic of the southern senators in the 60s who defended states rights. This vote, im ashamed to say, is evidence that Voter Suppression has become part of the official platform of the republican party. In an unusual move, Vice President harris presided over the senate during tonights vote. Afterwards, she vowed democrats will continue pushing for federal Voting
Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha
A sense of how this works. This very accelerated timeline that weve seen for pfizer and madeira is in part because of the request for emergency authorization under the Public Health service act. And the reason that these Drug Companies are able to do this is because there was declared a Public Health emergency with regard to covert, 19 back in january of 2020 sort of this year. So what does this mean . This means that there can be a rapid approval pending that determination of the Public Health hearings. U. S. President elect joe biden will officially nominates the former chair of the Federal Reserve, janet yellen, to be his treasury secretary, the 1st woman to lead the Treasury Department if shes confirmed was announced his Economic Team on monday to me. If the o. P. s Prime Minister has told parliaments that federal forces have not killed a single civilian during the 3 week home, conflicts in the great region to raise forces disputes the claim. A Funeral Service for Top Iranian Nucle
Military operation in northern t. Grey region is over, the army says its taking a troll of the capital mccully, but the leader of the 2 great Peoples Liberation front to keep fighting government forces. There are violent scenes during protests in france against a planned law that makes it illegal to film and publish Police Officers faces anger against the proposed law has been fueled by a Video Showing Police beating and racially abusing a black music producer grant. A virus infections in the u. S. Have doubled in november compared to last month. More than 205000, new infections were confirmed on friday, pushing the total number past 13000000. And there are concerns. Infections could continue to rise. Following the thanksgiving holiday weekend, mike hanna has more from washington d. C. A number of Testing Centers have closed for the holiday period. So the amount of testing being done is down. So the figures may well be even higher than they appear at present. So of great concern to Hea