Get the vaccine . Lets make a deal president us plan, but theyre billions apart. Plus a week before his senate trial, former President Trumps lawyers quit. Officers suspended, after they handcuff and pepper spray a 9 yearold girl. Tony bennetts battle, the family of the legendary singer opens up about his alzheimers diagnosis. On this first day of black history month, Unifying America. How a Theater Company is inspiring americans to start frank conversations about race and bias. Snow day the pandas show us all how to properly enjoy the snow. Theations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. Well begin with Breaking News on that Monster Winter Storm thats pounding much of the east coast with blizzard like conditions, shutting down schools, businesses and even Vaccination Sites across moreanl outagee tef right now, nearly one out of every four americans is in the path of the noreaster and for millions of them, the worst is still ahead with
harry smith on the entrepreneur bringing a long lost tradition back to his city announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. i m kate snow in for lester tonight for four hours today, former president trump was deposed inside the offices of the new york attorney general, called to answer questions in a civil probe looking at trump organization s business practices and whether it exaggerated their finances but mr. trump answered only one question his name his lawyer saying he invoked his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination over and over again. the deposition separate and apart from the fbi search of trump s mar-a-lagoeek of scru home is the latest chapter of intense week of scrutiny for the former president as he contemplates another run for president, stirring outrage among his supporters and complicating matters for investigators. kelly o donnel starts us off from washington reporter: deposition day in new york for former president
looking at everything to make sure we discover and determine what the motive of our homicides were. again, it s just very important to let you know that we are not done. in most cases of homicides we don t have a quick apprehension, there s usually a lengthy investigation especially when it involves multiple vehiclictims, we are working diligently to ascertain all the facts so we can have a successful prosecution, and that s what is most important now. i was hoping we would be able to release the names of the victims, but we are not able to do that at this time, and the reason is we need to make sure that we have a true verification of their identities and that we make the proper next of kin notification. again, i thought we were going to be able to do that, and out of respect of the lives of the families, we want to make sure that we do that privately before we release the names of our victim publicly. again, you know, we can have a couple questions, again, it s very importa
over 100 million vaccines delivered so far. we are at a critical time. stunning images of crowds flocking for spring break. the other surge raising major concerns this morning is the growing crisis at the u.s. mexico border. right now, more than 4,000 unaccompanied migrant children, that s children without their parents are in border patrol custody. we are following all these headlines, first, cnn jeremy dimons is at the white house with more on the cross-country tour touting his relief package, it s interesting during trump presidency, we talk about campaign-style presidents. i wonder if you see this at a campaign event? reporter: from is no question president biden and vice president harris are talking about the american rescue plan. that coronavirus relief package you signed in law last week. a part is political. it s about preparing for the mid-terms. every democrat up and down the ticket will be running on this plan. particularly throws members of congress and senators
warning about scenes like this one. huge crowds, huge of spring breakers gathered on florida beaches prompting major concerns at another avoidable surge could be on the way. we ll have more on that in a moment. and the biden administration kicking off its nationwide tour to sell its $1.9 trillion economic relief plan. that is just moments away. let s begin though with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on the state s opening up morning eligibility for vaccines today. right, poppy. it is getting easier to get a covid-19 vaccine. many states are changing the eligibility requirements, widening them. take a look at a smaterring of states and see what they re doing. for example, in alaska, they re saying you just have to be over the age of 16 in order to get a vaccine. in california, they say anyone 16 plus that has certain health conditions and so on and so forth. just getting easier. so because there is more vaccine out there, the federal government and the nex