Despite urgent warnings, people are traveling this holiday week at the highest levels since march, more than 1 million flying in just 1 day tonight the parts of the country most at risk as hospitals see more Record Numbers. The search for solutions. How to keep schools open safely. Why some are succeeding even as the pandemic grows. The Big New Recall by gm, almost 6 million vehicles could be on the road with dangerous airbags. Which models are affected and holiday displays for our times, my report honoring the heroes on the front lines. This is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone there is Breaking News as we come on the air tonight. The governments General Services administration is for the first time acknowledging joe bidens win for president. Notifying the President Elect that the formal and official transfer of power can begin. The decision comes more than two weeks after biden was projected as the winner and after a series of legal an procedural defeats in Pr
eulogy that tried to explain, put into context the law. been very clear with me. they have political differences with the bill. they say it s the wrong time to solve the problem. let the presidential election solve this problem there are other folks that read the facebook posts and twitter posts and saw different facts that they thought might be true. but i have personally told them over and over again they re false. and it s been hard to overcome. laura: such a loss. sad that he is still using the same lines that didn t work when he was trying to tell the stinker of a bill. but he wasn t the only one impugning the intelligence of his fellow colleagues who helped bury this bill. while others had decided that border security is just a talking point for the election, i can promise you this: as someone who was born and raised near the border in arizona, this is not a talking point for me. this is our daily lives. and i hear from our ranchers. i hear from our police officer
what is the latest? well, certainly a significant, significant development here, something that the families have been wanting. and this is the most important thing really in this story. this community, the parents here, they have suspended, the school district now, moments ago in a press release, announcing they are sus ppending their schl police department. several officers at this police department. of course they have faced an enormous amount of scrutiny in their response for taking no action at all. they were there, had knowledge of the school, stood around and did nothing. so now comes word that this is something the families have wanted. also significant because of our reporting, we discovered they are announcing they are placing the lieutenant, miguel hernandez, the lieutenant he was the commander of this police department after they fired the former chief pete arredondo. what s important about miguel hernandez, he was responsible for vetting officer alejandro. he
i think it will address some of those other questions. these outrageous allegations are simply false. i took the photos given to the media 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere close to what is being described. i have been truthful about these claims, but i will not further engage publicly with a smear cam page. my commitment to public service speaks for itself. i put duty to country first and treated others with respect. i am deeply grateful to have serve d in. the trump administration and will seek to ensure a smooth transition when i leave the white house. he is going to be leaving the white house. it won t be immediate. he is resigning from the white house, but is is going to stay on to ensure there s a smooth transition move iing forward. less than 18 hours ago the white house released several statements praising rob porter s service. he s very close with the
year, if the folks are willing to wait in line and these might not necessarily be the folks getting the daily calls by the pollsters, they re willing to cast their vote for mr. trump. hilary, the feeling of inevitably, i mean, we heard robby mook say this morning to jake tapper on state of the union, saying we re taking nothing for granted. we re getting hard across the swing states. they do not want any even sense of complacency to be anywhere near this campaign. they don t want one voter to think they don t have to go to the polls. at the same time, she s focusing on down ballot. there is a staffer looking at vp transition move. do you think at all that the focus down ballot, et cetera, is an acknowledgment, that perhaps they re looking at it as if it is in the bag? no. what clinton and tim kaine are