Breaking news and good evening. I m erin burnett outfront tonight. The breaking news unsurvivable. That is the exact word officials are using right now, as hurricane helene has now grown to an extremely dangerous category four hurricane, bringing with it potentially really historic storm surge levels right now expected at 20 feet. Let s just look at the scene right now is a live camera that we have in met lots of florida trees right there right now, you ve got up to 130 an hour gusts coming through that area on that bridge. We have seen cars coming and going really even in these past few moments, which is pretty stunning. Many bridges have already been closed. This is the skyway bridge, as you re looking here, which is now completely submerged. Imagine being in one of those cars. And right now, darkness is descending on the area more than 200,000 people in the dark without power right now, there is a sheriff asking people who do not evacuate to write their name and date of birth on the
Christmas with fears that travelers will deepen the crisis. Plus, reaction t a Supreme Court decision involving how many can worship together. To the rescue, the militarys new mission stepping up to help hospitals out of rooms and resources in the heartland. The effort to feed families this thanksgiving long lines across the country and a shocking new report, 1 in 6 without enough to eat. Black fridays best deals and a shopping season like no other, the one simple thing you can do to get the best buys online. And thanking health care heroes, the outpouring of love and kindness bringing smiles this holiday. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening and happy thanksgiving im kate snow in for lester tonight and we begin with late breaking news, President Trump continuing to insist he won the election taking questions for the First Time Since the election and saying hes not ready to concede but the president also pledging to leave the white house if as expected the Electoral
in georgia and lucas tomlinson outside the white house. but we start first with rich edson in harrisburg, pennsylvania, where all eyes are on the nail-biter race between fetterman and oz. rich, good afternoon. reporter: good afternoon, mike. this is a government union headquarters here in harrisburg, the capital city of pennsylvania, john fetterman just finished rallying supporters here, he s been highlighting union workers here, the union vote. of he was rallying with union officials and workers yesterday in the philadelphia area. he said at this rally here that he plans on continuing to recover from his stroke, and he wants to win this election. c. oz has never forgotten every day that i had a stroke. in january i ll be much better, but he will still be a fraud. reporter: oz ripped fetterman for refusing to debate, and when he agreed, did so only once, two weeks before election day, and after hundreds of thousands of early votes had been cast. oz and republicans natio
in the show. 1992 was the year of the woman, 2022 might go down as the year of the woman, across the cultural landscape it suddenly became impossible to say just what is or who is a woman that battle over what once was a commonly accepted definition rages on into the new year as i will show you in a moment. the issue that hit the culture heart in march when even as e-mail soon to be a supreme court justice say for sure what a woman is. can you provide a definition for the word woman? i can t. you can t? not in this context. you don t need a biologist t figure this out, even children know what a woman is, take a ki to toy story, the little girl was that i want the girl dulled the little boy will say i want the boy doll, and a few will be drawn to this, but this is another story, don t distract meet the definition of women or women continues to evolve in very odd ways, there was a time when the dictionary could settl this for us and give it a definitive answer this
sports, but happy to fill in again, and since i don t get the chance to do this too often, i want to do something different, you see, sometimes we hear on fox news can be a little bit hard on president biden. every second it s he called republicans out threat to democracy that s, or seemed clueless while afghanistan claps that, or middle-class people can afford food, can we stop complaining for just one second? how want to take this opportunity to highlight some of the most impressive things we have seen from joe during his presidency. for one thing, he does not get enough credit for his devotion to the united states having its first female president. yeah! a lot of people in the past may have said the future is female, but joe biden is the only guy who thinks that future is now. now president harrison i took a tour of a vaccination center in arizona. [laughter] happy birthday, great president. all kidding aside, of course president harris is a proud howard alum. last