frontier announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone back to school jitters were never quite like this this morning the yellow buses lined up and school bells rang for a million children in the nation s largest school system, many walking inside a physical classroom for the first time in a very long time their first lesson, as it has been for kids across the country, science. understanding how to safely resume learning against the persistent backdrop of covid. tonight with over 243,000 child covid-19 cases reported last week, the second highest number since the pandemic began, there is growing impatience for vaccine approval for younger children tonight we ask when. and the answer is encouraging. also, a new study questions the need for booster shots. the covid battle being waged on new fronts this evening we begin with stephanie gosk in new york reporter: with excitement and some fanfare, new york city kicked off a new school year. des
neo-nazi pickup truck. with capitol police on alert for this saturday s rally supporting the january 6 rioters. california recall, democrats call in the party s stars to campaign for governor newsom, including president biden. how the state s election is driving national politics. america s oldest world war ii veteran, the celebration for the 112-year-old lawrence brooks, and the secret to his long life. he says his motto is be good to people. o donnell: breaking barriers, how an n.f.l. official made history on the field. and call him big man on campus. we ll introduce you to the 13-year-old now attending one of america s elite engineering schools. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and us, and we re going to begin with breaking news because the arrival of tropical storm nicholas along the gulf coast of texas is here. the storm, near hurricane strength, has milli
makes landfall along the texas coast. the storm could bring more than a foots of rain to some areas. the question is how many more storms will we see before hurricane season is over? plus, an urgent warning from apple. the company is vieszing all users to update device after they found a security problem that could affect all iphones, ipads and others. it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that is quickly updating its ios. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, september 14th. president biden was in the golden state campaigning alongside newsom where he urging voters to vote no in the wake of the threat of republicans. you either keep gavin newsom as your governor or you ll get donald trump. [ booing ] it s not a joke. republican governor blocking covid-19, anti-woman, anti-denier. the choice should be absolutely clear. gavin newsom. you have a governor who has the courage to lead. in gavin, you have a governor who shares
all the tourists have returned doing what they do walking slowly down the sidewalk right in front of you even though some of the seats are wet the subway is still packed and i know new york city s coming back good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, september 14th. and i think jimmy fallon has really captured new york city. oh, yeah. no doubt, willie. so first of all, i like bill de blasio. come on p. i love bill de blasio. sorry. and the jets, the punch line is always, willie, and, of course, a line lifted there from marty scorsese. it s a great special on netflix. pretend it s a city. just walk around and pretend it s a city like people actually go to work here. love that! it is. listen, there is moisture on the seats in the subway. i can report. there s strange smells emanating from those platforms. it s really happening. it s really coming back. late summer humidity brings up some of those scents and reminds you of the greatne
finals fails. we begin in north korea and what appears to be a show of strength. state media reporting that north korea has now successfully test fired new and strategic long range cruise missiles. according to the report, the missiles tested over the week flew 1,500 kilometers before hitting their targets and falling into water. both south korea and the u.s. say they are looking into these claims. south korea s top nuclear envoy is set to discuss north korea during a meeting monday with u.s. and japanese officials. let s go straight to the region. paula is standing by for us. what more can you tell us? hi. reporter: this was another wake-up in the region. it is not as significant as it would have been if it were a ballistic missile. this is the type of missile that is not violating u.n. security council resolutions so technically, north korea didn t break any rules. clearly it is something that everyone in the region and washington watches very closely. we know in the