Clarity as Steve Kornacki gives us his perspective. Thanks for starting your week with us im frances rivera. New hope the u. S. May soon see the approval of a coronavirus vaccine. Cases and deaths continue to surge. As of today there have been over 14. 5 million infections and over 282,000 fatalities according to an nbc news tally. The latest data comes as most of california enters a new lockdown heres nbcs meg fwan fitzgerald reporter valerie, good morning. Millions of californians are waking up to some of the most restrictive measures weve seen during the pandemic while they do all they can to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed. 33 million californians, hours away from a Lockdown People told to stay home, stop gathering, no more inperson dining and reduce retail as hospitals try to save people in crisis bottom line is if we dont act now, our Hospital System will be overwhelmed. Reporter fear turning to frustration for restaurant owners. Im losing Everything Everything i own is bei
Measures. The new Field Hospital just opened as one city warns it will run out of beds within weeks. Rudy guiliani tests positive for the coronavirus as President Trump gives his first major speech since the election. Local republicans spent today refuting it. The government report first obtained by nbc news, was a foreign adversary hitting american diplomats with Microwave Radiation to make them sick . Plus, the show must go on. The nutcracker in the age of covid. The Sugar Plum Fairy Dancing under the stars. This is Nbc Nightly News with kate snow. Good evening. There is some hope on the horizon at the start of a new week. The first doses of the Pfizer Vaccine landing in british hospitals today. Here in the u. S. The fda set to meet this thursday to consider Emergency Authorization for the same vaccine. But that hope is over shadowed at the moment by far too many cases of coronavirus and deaths. California Just Announced they recorded 30,000 cases yesterday, a new record in that stat
The weather. Announcer todays weather is brought to you by the makers of nondrowsy 24 hour claritin. Live claritin clear. All right. Lets look ahead to your weekend. We start off with saturday weve got a much nicer day in the southeast after so much rain record heat continues in the rockies. A fire risk out west wet in the Pacific Northwest sunday, sunday autumnal warmth in the northeast. Much cooler in the plains. And the fire risk unfortunately continues out west thats whats going on across good morning. Im meteorologist kari hall. Lets take a look at our high temperatures for today. The last, very nice and comfortable day before some high heat comes in. Well see our temperatures in oakland reaching 73. 78 in palo alto. And 85 today in antioch. But then as we go into the weekend, there will be high fire danger for a lot of our bay area hills, especially in the north bay. And there will be a high concern as were going to also have some hot temperatures extending into early next week.
Mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and were experiencing a moral reckoning with racism and systemic injustice that has brought a new coalition of conscience to the streets of our country demanding change america is crying out for leadership well mike hanna is in washington d. C. He says biden the selection of harris as his running mate sends a strong message to americans. Well there was a great deal of acrimony between them during the campaign for the president ial candidate from the Democratic Party come of the heroes was exceedingly critical of joe biden on a number of levels however when she dropped out of that race she immediately threw her support behind joe biden and its very clear that joe biden has chosen her for one very good reason and that is he is demonstrating to the public that he is not going to put a lucky in the deputy position he wants somebody who will criticize him he wants somebody who will be forc
Angry protests against lebanons government 2 ministers have now quit over tuesdays last number of confirmed covert 19 cases in the u. S. Reaches 5000000 but numbers are still rising in almost 20 states. And the afghan president agrees to release 400. 00 taliban prisoners paving the way for vital peace talks. We begin this hour in belarus west state approved exit polls show president Alexander Lukashenko winning the election with just 80 percent despite voting being extended in some places because many people were still trying to vote supporters of the main opposition candidates for the kind of skier were asked to vote as late as possible to minimize the opportunity for electoral fraud attempts to alter the vote. Had been widely suspected in previous elections but officials and supporters of the president whos held office now for a quarter of a century are accusing the opposition of sabotage aljazeera step vassar reports now in the capital minsk. Cheers for start lana the kind of guy wh