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
Monday. Before the meeting the former Vice President released the names of his picks for several key posts. Mr. Biden has chosen tony blink and for secretary of state. Jake sullivan as National Security advisor. And linda thomas greenfield to become the next u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. He is the first Latino American and immigrant nominated as secretary of the department of homeland security. While she has become the first woman nominated for director of national intelligence. After a standoff of more than two weeks the General Services administration has given the go ahead to begin the formal transition process. On twitter President Trump says his case strongly continues, but he is now telling the gsa administrator to do what needs to be done. Michigans board of canvassers voted monday to certify former Vice President joe biden won the state. It also passed a motion calling on the state legislature to update the election. There preparing for the holidays. Monday, first lad
In Santa Clara County tonight is the last late night at the random lounge the popular bar and restaurant in san jose has been serving cocktails recently outside until 2 in the morning. Owner tony griffis calls this new curfew counterproductive. If the real culprit here is private gatherings that maybe instead of targeting bars. We target costco safeways and liquor stores. And see if we can cut alcohol sales, there. For now the curfew will be in effect until at least december 21st in all of the counties in that most restrictive purple tier as of tonight. All of the bay area counties are in purple except for murray in san mateo and San Francisco and that could soon change in San Francisco has covid19 cases and hospitalizations. Continue to soar kron fours dan kerman explains what could change in the citys soon as this sunday. San francisco is losing its battle against covid19. Her current case place us on a trajectory to be in the purple tier, potentially as early as sunday. During an on
Warning that the county is very close to hitting this mark. Some businesses are especially concerned about that curfew bars like the sycamore in the mission say they depend on those late night customers for their bottom line. The workers there say if theyre forced to close at 10 oclock and set of their regular time at midnight. It will hurt even more. As jeremy. Our business is already down closing early or would it bring us even further down its terrible, however i get it its its a good thing i just wish people stan cider. Can be saved. It would have to go through this again. So under the curfew folks will still be able to do a central activities like walk your dog. Pick up takeout or do some Grocery Shopping as well. Now we have seen more than 3 million new cases in just the month of november alone about one quarter of all the u. S. Cases since the pandemic began more than 256,000 people have also died from this virus. The virus is spreading all across the country, including here in
California going under curfew. The new order comes exactly a week out from thanksgiving. There to hold all nonessential activities from 10 pm to five p. M. That is every county except San Francisco and marin. The order be in effect for at least a month maybe even longer. So, what exactly is the plan to enforce this . We are in livermore with that part of the story tonight. Restaurants will have to close up shop by 10 00 bm come saturday night. Health Officials Say covered cases are on the rise. In fact, they say covid can go from zero to 60 rapidly. They need these Health Measures in place. There is no single culprit. It is a combination of factors. It is certainly the colder weather, more mixing which comes with more opening. Reporter state and Public Health officials are issuing the curfew until 10 00 p. M. Until 5 00 a. M. In the looked here. It goes into effect saturday and expected to last one month. Essential workers are exempt. I dont approve of it, but if it is going to happen,