as her, of course, every time he is on he is doing his best to warn the american people about the status of the pandemic. he has never been wrong, not about masks, not about social distancing, and certainly when he said we only needed two weeks to slow the spread. in the eyes of the left and the media, dr. fauci is untouchable. criticize fauci and you will be smeared as being antiscience. question the origin of the coronavirus, and say it may have come from a lab, you are a conspiracy thirst. theorist. i found it very interesting had this week we heard from a the washington post columnist josh rogan this: i often talk to scientists who say the same thing say listen we really want to speak out about this but we can t do it. why can t we do it? we get all of our funding in nih or niaid which is the national association of infectious diseases which is run by dr. fauci for years and years and years. so we can t say anything like oh, gain of function research might be dangerou
currently ranked number two at u.s. news and world report. 19 that strommer, a professor asked her student what is they thought the average american makes in annual wages. think about that, how would you have answered that question? well, she then tweeted their response, quote, i asked wharton student what is they thought the average american worker makes per year. and 25% of them thought it was over six figures. one of them thought it was 800,000. the professor said the real number is $45,000. and the washington post reported that according to the social security administration, the average u.s. annual wage was in fact $53,383 with the median wage at $34,612. we don t know how many students responded to professor s question, that 75% of the students, three quarters of the class got it right been placate the blogosphere. as one tweet put it, that s the average of who they know, which is why rich people usually don t feel rich. this was borne out by another who pointed out t
and fighting to keep covid out of the upcoming olympic games. take a nice deep breath, because it is the weekend. saturday, january 22nd. and we re always so grateful for you. and great to be with you, christi. this morning, new york is mourning the loss of one of its finest. one officer was killed, a second in critical condition, after a shooting last night. yeah. authorities say rookie officer jason rivera died last night while responding to a domestic violence call. the officer is the latest to be shot in the line of duty. officials say three others have been shot just this month. yesterday while speaking to the council of mayors, president biden addressed it. we shouldn t be cutting funding for police departments. i propose increasing funding. look, you know, we ask cops to do everything including to be psychologists and social workers. guess what, they need psychologists and social workers. let s go to cnn s polo sandoval. he s been following this story for us,
pandemic in all these other situations and now audited of like staying out late and work anymore but. you have to worry about your surroundings. shannon: does is the third time in four days that nypd officer has been shot on the job . we ve got a live report with breaking details. military equipment assistant from the us arrived in ukraine tonight. close to 200,000 pounds of lethal aid including for frontline soldiers. media neutral ground in switzerland and russia daniel huskins joins us live. , bitter cold in washington for the annual march for life it is the largest pro-life rally. many attendees hoping that roe v wade will soon be overturned by the us supreme court. we begin with america press the crime crisis exploding with deadly gunfire in new york city. kevin corke is tracking the incident. good evening, kevin. as you can imagine the white house wants america s largest of these do you all the resources that that disposal to help curb the crime epidemic. t
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone over 60 million of us woke up this morning to windchills at or below zero this evening, two-thirds of the country suffering beneath an arctic air mass and heading into a brutal night, including rare ice storm warnings this evening in parts of the eastern carolinas. places that rarely see such a threat. the weather service pulling no punches widespread power outages likely further south, cities including baton rouge, new orleans and boloxie under freeze warnings our emilie ikeda has details. reporter: tonight another winter wall line up pummelling the northeast. a january freeze in half the country sends temperatures plummeting 20 degrees below this time of year s average. i need all of my layers up, even the mouth and nose. reporter: 12 million are under winter alerts. a rare ice storm taking aim at weather weary residents in the carolinas, with dozens of utility crews preparing for the worst. w