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short staffed and overwhelmed with covid patients they re suspending elective surgery. but also some potential good news. cases and hospitalizations starting to drop in the states hit first by the omicron wave. game over for novak djokovic the tennis star deported after his final loss in an australian courtroom and it would have been her 100th birthday how so many are honoring betty white this weekend by helping animals and adopting pets. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow good evening. if you re sitting in the eastern half of the country tonight you probably already have been hit by this winter storm or you re bracing for it all total, 100 million americans are under some kind of winter weather, wind, or coastal flood alert. snow, freezing rain, and sleet fell today in parts of the south not used to any of that check out this dash cam video from tennessee. heavy snow in virginia a wintry mix stranding drivers and taking down power lines in the ....
department, and that change is being made because now they are able to say with this grand jury indictment that they believe there was a plot to overthroat presidency, not just to stop congress. elliott, caitlin calls it a lot more oomph from the justice department. let s put that into legal terms. you ve been arguing for some time be parish, that to build the tougher cases that many people are demanding it takes time and it takes evidence because the legal threshold to prove seditious conspiracy is a lot higher. explains. right. look, number one, this pours a lot of water on the idea that the justice department isn t going after planners or organizers and is merely getting people fortress passing. this is very, very serious. now, in order to convict someone of seditious conspiracy you have to prove or multiple people conspired by force to prevent, hinder or delay the execution of a lie. that s quite hard. number one, you have to have the communications between thos ....
super bowl of gadgets. how the pandemic is ushering in a new era of personalized tech. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from washington, d.c. good evening, everyone we re here ahead of tomorrow s solemn observances of the one-year anniversary of the attack on the capital. tonight we ll take you inside a still very active investigation but we want to start with that other calamity that just won t leave us, covid. breaking tonight, the cdc panel recommending booster shots for kids 12 to 15 that s welcome news. at the same time, the cdc finds itself facing backlash over some of its other recommendations. concerning how long those who have tested positive for covid should isolate and whether a negative test should be required to end that isolation. some wondering whether some of the decisions at the agency are being driven by science or by the shortage of rapid test kits tom costello is covering it all. reporter: breaking tonight, a cdc p ....
biden promised to shutdown the virus virus. then once he was president he bashed g.o.p. governors for not doing enough. the administration s failure on testing is colossal. but the failure of planning, leadership, and execution. we will deal honestly with the american people. and we will never, ever, ever quit. that is how we will shed on this virus. i am going to shut down the virus. i m not going to shut down the economy. i m going to shut down the virus. we need to scale up testing. so anyone who needs one can get a test. after ten months of the pandemic, we still don t have enough testing. it s a travesty. some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. if you re not going to help them, at least get out of the way. now the president is singing a much different tune, saying there s not really much you can do. low, there is no federal solution. this gets solved at the state level. he talks about that a lot. ....
how manyjobs survived coming off furlough? good morning. today we get the best indicator yet of how the closing of the scheme affected unemployment. i look at why when so many people are looking for work, the vacancy rate continues to climb. scotland edged closer to world cup qualification as england seal their spot in qatar with a 10 0 win harry kane with four to pull level with gary lineker s england tally. and fancy driving from john o groats to lands end in this the smallest car in the world? limited sunshine but it would be mild and it will continue to be saved for much of the rest of this week. all the details later in the programme. it s tuesday, the 16th of november. the man who died when an explosive device went off in a taxi outside liverpool women s hospital has been named as emad al swealmeen. he was 32 years old and had come to the uk from the middle east as an asylum seeker. the blast is being treated as a terrorist act, and the uk s threat level has been ra ....