Up, while much of the city and neighboring communities were in the dark. The power grid strained across 14 states tonight, forcing rolling blackouts. And this next storm coming. D. C. , fill ya, new york city, boston all preparing for this one, too. Our team across the country and ginger zee timing out this new storm. All of this as deadly tornadoes strike, too. An ef3 Touching Down in North Carolina. Winds up to 160 miles per hour. And ef2 Touching Down in georgia. Also news on the coronavirus tonight. New fema mass vaccination sites opening. Still questions about vaccine supply. And tonight, the shifting timeline. Dr. Anthony fauci on how long before most americans will have access to a vaccine. And why did this appear to shift by another month . And the warning about covid variants in this country and what could still be coming. Dr. Jha is here tonight. President biden making his First Official trip outside washington tonight, traveling to wisconsin, hoping the country will turn the
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Farreaching impacts on american lives. Shortstaffed airlines along with Winter Weather forcing the cancellation of thousands of flights again today. A Travel Nightmare for people returning from the holidays, and parents now worrying as classes are set to resume for their children after the winter break. Several School Districts, in fact, announcing they are switching to Online Learning to start this semester. The white house feverishly working on plans to address and mitigate covids daily disruptions while acknowledging those disruptions will only get worse as the virus advances. Its kind of like a very interesting, somewhat complicated issue where you have a virus that might actually be less severe in its pathogenicity, but so many people getting infected that the net amount, the total amount of people that will require hospitalization might be up. So we cant be complacent in these reports which are likely accurate that it is ultimately in The Big Picture less severe, were still going
Spreading covid misinformation. Days before the anniversary of january 6 new polling shows just so divided we are as a nation. That is coming up. And then happening right now a crucial call for President Biden today with the ukrainian president offering help. But we want to begin with that Breaking News on covid. The nbc news tally shows the u. S. Surpassed 55 million cases over covid. An illustration of how quickly this Omicron Variant is spreading. This is just two days after hitting 54 million cases. And four days after hitting 53. A noted acceleration of cases. And at the nations airports, more than 3,700 Flights Canceled as millions of americans head home. This is coming after at least 2,700 canceled yesterday leaving thousands sleeping on benches and unsure how to get home. We have two reporters standing by for us. Steve, on this one, passengers not only dealing with an unbelievable number of cancelations from the weather and Omicron Variant impacting travel. Talk us through this
Meeting, the First Time Since july, all of this as inflation roils the country. The president says hes on top of it, but growing concerns that its overwhelming his administration. Jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. Hi, jacqui. Good afternoon, neil. The president is saying that hes on top of it. Were hearing though no new announcements in terms of whats being done to address it. Just the same touting of the bill that passed and the bills that they want to pass as coming solutions. The president said he will appoint someone to implement the 1. 2 trillion hard Infrastructure Plan that congress passed, which will be signed next week after it is signed at some point next week. He touted his own experience for special attention to making sure the money is implemented efficiently. We finished implementing the recovery act. He had less than. 2 of waste or fraud. Thats how i became known, the president started calling me sheriff joe. Thats what i want to talk to my cabinet about toda