Soaring today. Meg tirrell with details. The bar was very high for moderna after pfizers efficacy last week. Mad earn moderna met the 94 percent efficacy and will seek the fda emergency authorization in the coming weeks. We just talked to the doctor who has been leading the vaccine and Drug Development as part of operation warp speed about the significance of this moment, really seeing two vaccines in a row at this high level of efficacy heres what he said. Its an extraordinary outcome, frankly, to have two different vaccines tested in different conditions by two Different Companies developed independently yield very similar outcomes this gives a huge confidence into the data obtained and really suggests that the 90 percent and more efficacy is true and real. But of course, melissa, as were getting this extremely good news it comes at a time in the pandemic when weve never been seeing more daily cases, were seeing 140,000 a day on average right now. And were seeing more and more people
Good evening, and welcome. Less than 24 hours from now and for the third time in under four months, former President Donald Trump will appear in court as a criminal defendant. This for his arraignment in washington on federal charges related to his alleged actions to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. The grand jury indictment handed up late yesterday alleging the expresident s actions amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the United States to obstruct and impede the january 6th congressional proceedings where the votes were tallied and certified and a conspiracy against the right to vote. All of it according to special counsel jack smith built on destabilizing lies about Election Fraud tonight, we are learning more about six unindicted and unnamed coconspirators in the case,. Trump denying any wrongdoi his legal team tipping their hand as to how they may defend against the charges. Garrett haake leads us off tonight with the very latest. Reporter former President T
Attack in u. S. History. The disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home the fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. Tonight, the plea to the public for help. Are there more victims . And visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. Is that a bear or a human in disguise . Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. Less than 24 hours from now and for the third time in under four months, former President Donald Trump will appear in court as a criminal defendant. This for his arraignment in washington on federal charges related to his alleged actions to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. The grand jury indictment handed up late yesterday alleging the expresident s actions amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the United States to obstruct and impede the January 6th Congressional Proceedings where the votes were tallied and certified and a conspiracy agains
A key piece of smiths case, the Pressure Trump put on his Vice President , mike pence, including a call on Christmas Day asking mr. Pence not to certify the results. Mr. Trump allegedly telling pence, quote, youre too honest. How pence reacted today. Our team in washington and our legal analysts standing by. Also tonight, the scare on capitol hill. Staffers running out of the Senate Office building after reports of an active shooter. Police later giving the allclear. What happened . The gunman who killed 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue sentenced to death for the worst antisemitic attack in u. S. History. The disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home. The fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. Tonight the plea to the public for help. Are there more victims . And visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. Is that a bear or a human in disguise . Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good
Bit on wednesdays. We know its tuesday. Yeah well were wearing pink on tuesday okay. There you go. Yes a little blustery yesterday and same overnight. We do have a bit more fog here this morning especially down around san jose. But were all set for a nice day. Temps are creeping up 40s on the temps a little bit more in the way of a low cloud deck, but temperature there still planned to higher clouds zipped by yesterday. Most of that has cleared out. Fog is going down the coast. So all in all were looking for a lot of sunshine today and 60s and 70s on those temps. All right sal is here. Back to icon. I did see that. Yeah theres more construction out there. Its not causing a big traffic jam in most areas. There is a new crash that just came in a few minutes ago. Steve. Northbound 880 at maury. Other person has it southbound 880 at maori. The medics are on the way. Were going to figure out where it is. No ones gotten to the scene yet, but it does look like one vehicle may be flipped over