we begin with uber, as uk drivers today will have paid holidays, pensions, and a minimum wage a change that could be replicated in other countries around the world. and this comes one month after the us firm lost a legal long battle in the uk which began in 2016 over drivers status. in last month s supreme court hearing, uber had argued it was a third party booking agent, and its drivers were self employed. our transport correspondent caroline davis spoke with uber s european boss in an exclusive interview. today is an important day for all the drivers in the uk, and the reason for that is because, from today, any driver who earns on the uber platform, and that s over 70,000 drivers in total, will be able to be paid for holiday time, they ll be enrolled in a pension and they ll be able to earn at least the national living wage as a floor and not a ceiling. for years politicians and unions have said that you have been playing fast and loose with employment rights. does this
police open fire at a suspect trying to carjack a vehicle, striking a 1-year-old inside for the first time, the boy s mother speaking out the deadly explosion rocking a neighborhood a stockpile of fireworks igniting residents ordered to evacuate my exclusive with delta s ceo. what the airline is doing to try to win customers still anxious about flying and what flights might you need a vaccination passport for and the pickup dangling over a 100 foot gorge two people and two dogs trapped inside. the heroic rescue. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, and welcome. as americans have lined up for covid shots, missing from the picture have been children the vaccine so far only approved for older teens and adults but there are exciting developments to report tonight. one of the three big vaccine makers, moderna, says it s starting a trial to vaccinate nearly 7,000 under the age of 12. in a moment, we ll hear from a mom who has sign
overall is largely than any other gap. it larger than the gap between the old and the young, in whom we see unexpected gap. partisanship is more powerful than anything else. and you can t explain that without the responsibility of republican and conservative elites in broadcasting this message that endangers the people who trust them. yes, and one other theory we can raise and dispose of is the sincerely held view from rupert murdoch on down. we know that s not true. rupert murdoch was one of the first people on earth to get it. fox news has a regimental protocol around vaccination, they have a vaccination passport, essentially. they have been working in remote studios. and everyone there, it s like a 95% vax rate. this is a network where it clearly matters in how they act, they believe in vaccination. but that s not the message you get on tv. and the only thing the thing i think you can divine is that
to protect the nation s health and so on. in all their deliberations, they came to the conclusion that 99% of it was fine, but one clause was not fine, that was the clause which required a vaccination passport to attend political meetings ahead of the election. they decided that was excessive and did too much tip the balance away from the right to assembly and free speech. the rest of it is there, which means that, come monday, we will be in this slightly different world where the vaccination passport will be required to get access to bars, cafes, restaurants, cinemas, train travel and so on. it is not controversial because it is not actually that different from what we ve had before, which was what they called the health pass, but with the health pass, you had the option of giving a negative test before you went on your train or to your bar, so there was not an obligation to actually get vaccinated, and that is what is going to change.
i do not see mask a mask on that brett. kat, basically the police arresting people, going into museum without a vaccination passport, but you can get arrested going to applebee s without a vaccine passport. you can shoot airport heroin in or publicly on the subway or on the street, don t ask me how i know, so it s weird living in a upside down crazy place. right? yes. you should always do heroin at home. like a decent person. look, it s all about what s popular and covid with this whole thing, it s so easy, if you have the vaccine, without really having to do anything at all, people have legitimate and