newsroom, a sigh of relief. warmer temperatures are moving east, but the extreme winter weather threat is not yet over for millions of americans. i ll tell you about vladimir putin saying he s ready to negotiate over ukraine only if russia gets what it wants. the ukrainian s response to that ultimatum, and china once again down-playing its rapidly spreading covid outbreak. the end of brutal freezing temperatures might be in sight. relief possibly on the way for millions of americans after the historic winter storm left at least 37 people dead. conditions are beginning to improve. we saw that on sunday where emergency workers were able to get out to survey the extent of the damage. the governor of new york is requesting an emergency disaster declaration from the u.s. federal government to help the state cover the costs of the storm. at least 17 deaths have been reported in new york where officials say many of those who died were either homeless or stranded in their cars in
out a photo of himself earlier in the day in the white house residence. we re following all of it right now with jacqui heinrich on what the administration is saying. mark meredith retracing where the president has been telegraphing and brett giroir on the impact of these reininformations that are right now. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. we didn t anticipate this going into the day and a crazy market as a result. we ll get into that. meanwhile to jacqui heinrich with the latest from the white house. jacqui? hi, neil. good afternoon to you. the headline here is the president is doing all right. he s in good spirits. we saw him on the video and in a photo from the white house moving around, continuing to fulfill his duties while in isolation with covid-19. we learned a couple of interesting details from the briefing that ended awhile ago. his doctor, the white house physician sent a letter that the press received which described the president s symptoms a dr
arrested after the death of a police officer injured in the capitol riot the charges they face. we re on the southern border. why fema is now being deployed to help with the surge in migrant children one of the new york governor andrew cuomo s accusers meeting with investigators for over four hours what she gave to them. our series the future of travel and what you may no longer see at the airport when you fly again and our one on one with michelle obama on her new netflix show and what she said about the feud between meghan markle and the royals announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. in more and more parts of this country, even those hardest hit by covid, life is beginning to look familiar again doors now reopening to things considered high risk just months ago amid growing confidence and an ever-expanding vaccination program, states and local governments are lifting restrictions the celebrations of life resumed drownin
signature. the president has signaled he continues to promote the bill. indeed, he has plans to travel about the country to talk more about it while moving on to the rest of his to-do list. today, members of the house wasted no time trying to define the bill and what it represents. we promise to put vaccination shots in arms for every single american. mission accomplished. we promised to put money in the pockets of every day americans who have been struggling through the economic trauma of the pandemic. mission accomplished. that is the biden american rescues plan. it will be followed by the recovery plan. this is bipartisan legislation. may not satisfy to partisans. we could have had a bill that was you know, a fraction of the cost of this one. we would have gotten bipartisan approval and support. it s not focused on covid relief. it s focused on the agenda. and people recognize that the agenda is bad for america. a great man once said, so it goes. the bill hea
eric swalwell filed a different one, what i thought was going to happen, is benny thompson would go first, and other members of the congress would decide they would join in. it could become a larger class. i didn t realize, if anyone had slightly different approaches to the same problem, it could be a parade that lasts until the end of his life. i ve spent the day studying eric swalwell s lawsuit. we are going to be joined by the harvard constitutional law professor, laurence tribe. if he tells us this is a real lawsuit and it won t be dismissed, it will get to a jury. it will get to a washington, d.c., jury. then that indicates it s going to be many, many, many more. yeah, and well, i know he has been thinking about it and writing about it. i just read his piece. i can t wait for you to talk to him. we will do that. thank you. and one of the things to watch now is who will be the first criminally charged attacker of the capitol who turns on donald trump and fires a