or quarantine if they wear a mask. also, the new guidance to resume cruises. but with cases rising again the new warning this holiday weekend and the race to herd immunity inside the state leading the way. the first week of testimony in the derek chauvin trial. the chief homicide detective testifying that chauvin kneeling on george floyd s neck was totally unnecessary. how floyd s family is reacting and new fallout from georgia s new law restricting voting rights what major league baseball announced it s doing in protest. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and thank you for joining us there is profound shock and sadness at today s violent death of another capitol police officer, killed during a confrontation that left another officer injured and a suspect shot to death. a tragic and a staggering blow to an agency still traumatized by the loss of their own after the january 6th attack today s horror unfolded outside the senate entrance
letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right new. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thank you, as always. we begin breaking news. the house of representatives announcing it is changing the timing on a big vote for a policing bill, moving it to tonight instead of tomorrow, and the reason why this is breaking news. they are doing so in direct response to threats from domestic extremists. this comes amidst a warning of a potential maga-style attack that could or would come potentially on the capitol with reports that it would target democratic lawmakers. we have several pieces of news tonight, but i want to bring in our experts right now. michael steele, former rnc chair, libke casey, political reporter with the washington post. libby, your thoughts and what you and your colleagues are reporting is serious enough that the government is literally changing its business in voting in response as a precaution. the hou
bottom of the hour, we should be hearing from former president donald trump. we know in addition to taking on joe biden s policies that his administration has implemented so far, we do know he s going to target that. we also know he s going to target some republicans. i know you ve been reporting liz chain and others will be mentioned by claim by the former president. what else are you hearing? john: this is a bit of a moving target, i was told. when i was first briefed on the speech on friday in some detail, the person who briefed me said, look, the president is going to suggest that the only divisions within the republican party are between a handful of inside the beltway political hacks and then everybody else in america and that he was going to name names. and i said, well, what names will he name? and the person who was briefing me on it said, well, it s kind of changing a little bit, so we don t want to say right now because some names may be added, some names may be ta
trouble spot, a hotspot in fatal traffic collisions. i will say it is fortunate mister woods was able to come out of this alive. reporter: we are not sure what caused this accident but have not been given any solid information from investigators. there is a question of whether tiger woods was going above the 45 mile-per-hour speed limit. the sheriff said there was no sign of impairment through drugs or alcohol and he also said tiger woods was lucky to come out of this and have the quality of modern safety technology to thank for that. he is a conditioned athlete that is in his favor. he had his seatbelt on so major trauma from hitting the console, the steering wheel and all that, he missed getting an object like the telephone pole which would have had a dramatically different outcome. reporter: the outcome for tiger woods dramatic enough, very serious injury to his right leg in particular. the chief medical officer at harvard ucla hospital saying, quote, fractures affec
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 carol