all the school closures are now bemoaning the results of their own policies. about one in two adults ins these one in two adults ins america is reporting levels of loneliness. and these numbers are even greater among kids. but what you also find is that loneliness has serious effects on our mental health and our physical health of raising our risk for depression, anxiety and suicide, but also increasing our risk of heartcien disease, stroke, dementia and premature death. e now. remature yeah, well, who would havedes predicted this? well, the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education ,sports , even socialand so ports , even socialand so they have been horrific. t wgoe couldn t go to our fi home come in.n eigh they couldn t have athn eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son had still been in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that waydos when our present condition is not meantti to be socially isolated? olated? gone into lockdown, he w
the school closures - these numbers are greater among kids. what you also find is loneliness affects on our mental health and our society and heart disease and dementia and premature deaths. who would predicted this? the lingering effects of shutting kids out of education, sports and social in interactions without other kids have been horrific. we could not go to our first homecoming. i could not have an eighth grade graduation. you felt if your son were still in school, he would still be alive. do you still feel that way? had he not gone into lockdown, he would still be here. he would have gone into lacrosse practice. he said, mom, i just don t know what to do, that s the last thing he said. it is heartbreaking. we human beings are social beings. we naturally want to be communicating and collaborating with each other. the place that used to bring people together whether churches and synagogue or whether it was volunteer organizations in your community or whet
investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss
An audit exit if this is put in charge of this years climate complement. And a look at whats happening in the front line town of soledar as russia and ukraine fight for control. Welcome to the programme. We start with the controversy in washington. The white house has confirmed that a second set of classified documents has been found in the garage of President Biden s home in delaware. Its thought the documents are linked to Barack Obamas time in the white house Whenjoe Biden was Vice President. And in the last half hour, us Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Special Counsel to investigate joe biden s handling of the documents. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to Making Decisions guided only by the facts and the law. Heres what the us president told reporters a little earlier. As i said earlier this week, and by the way my corvette in a locked garage
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from los angeles, where picket lines went up today in front of major film studios the people who write the plots that enthrall and entertain millions of american tv and film watchers sidelined tonight by a writers strike 11,000 writers off the job after talks with producers reached an impasse overnight. at the root of the dispute, some of the very things that have transformed how all of us watch our favorite shows. think streaming. the impact of emerging technology think virtual reality. tonight t the writerers and d productionon cocompanies, i including our parentnt company nbnbcuniversalal, appear toto be far apapart, virtually y guaranteeieing reruns wilill be comining to scrcreens as productitions grind d to a haltlt for some s shows, the e impact wilill be felt t immediately. miguel almaguer has the latest what do we want a fair contract reporter: off the job and on to the picket line from co