His first classified briefing and his historic picks as he staffs up his administration the injury over the weekend hes recovering from and the two battlegrounds delivering a new blow today to President Trumps legal fight. Severe storms barrel through several states, tornadoes, strong winds, heavy rain al roker is here. Cyber monday expected to be the biggest ever how to score deals all week long. Plus, the shipping alert you need to know about. The man clinging to a capsized boat 86 miles off the coast. Tonight how he survived messages to santa in the pandemic. What kids are really asking for this year this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone the specter of a covid surge on top of a surge is almost too much to imagine. But its exactly what Public Health officials believe we may be in for as millions of americans return to their lives today, some likely bringing home from thanksgiving gatherings more than just family memories officials urging travelers to take
And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten
A live look there. We will take you there live just as soon as it starts. Right now though, the word of the moment is vaccine. Im at a Football Stadium thats part of the Charleston County School District. Its the second largest in this state. They are ready to give their teachers the vaccine just as soon as the state gives the green light. Already some people in the state getting their vaccines at drivethru sites which presents its own set of challenges. We will talk about that and learn about an ingenious solution from Mount Pleasants mayor. It includes an unlikely ally, chickfila. More on that in a moment. We will start in Charleston County. The School District is ready to roll out vaccines to its teachers. First, they need the green light from the state. I want to bring in jeff buroey. He is the Chief Operating Officer in the School District. 50,000 students. Jeff, first of all, i will put my mask on. We might be within the six feet here. Lets just start with the teachers. Again, So
Stop the steal movement the times also details gop congresswoman laura bobert of colorados, close connections to Militia Group, colleague the 3 ers that had at least one member who entered the capitol, and matt gaetz connections is described this way republican tiff gaetz of florida appeared at an event attended by members of the proud boys, another Extremist Organization whose role in the assault like those of the oath keepers and Three Percenters is being investigated. The times said in signaling either overt or tacit support, a small vocal band of republicans now serving in the house provided legitimacy and publicity to Extremist Groups and movements as they built toward their role in supporting mr. Trumps efforts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election and the attack on congress. This caucus of extremists, which including the qanonsupporting Conspiracy Theory peddling Marjorie Taylor greene, appear to be creating incorrect tension on capitol hill right now, to the point that on
democrats. kate mitchell donated $50,000 to hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign and staglin owns an estate near nancy pelosi s home and made several donations to democrats totaling $150,000. mary miller did not donate but served for obama at the treasury department. only member of the silicon valley bank with prior investment banking experience is tom king who previously served as ceo of barclays. donations to social causes, sbv donated to groups tied to black lives matter. it is not the only bank that went under to make similar donations, signature bank donated to the democratic party. only $750,000 was given to the gop. they were shut down in the aftermath of svb s collapse and hosted seminar on pronouns less than six months before it went under, watch. we talk about folks that are nonbinary, do not identify male or female, they use they/them as pronoun ze and hir are other pronouns. brooke: top executives starred in a broadway style sketch in 2014. watch this.