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after making her name as a pop star, lily allen is becoming someone else entirely as she makes her acting debut in a west end play. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in afghanistan, in a major escalation of the taliban s offensive, the militants have captured a provincial capital, zaranj, close to the border with iran, and assassinated a close aide of the president s. they ve made sweeping gains since foreign forces started withdrawing from the country. the united nations special envoy has warned the country is facing a possible catastrophe, and called on the taliban to halt the violence and take part in meaningful peace talks. our world affairs correspondent richard galpin has more. in the heart of the afghan capital, another assassination taliban gunmen opening fire on this car, killing the head of the government s media information centre, dawa khan menapal. they d warned officials would be targeted in response to air strikes by afghan and u ....
passing restrictive voting measures there. i ll talk to an activist that will be at the capital in an hour rallying around these measures. meanwhile, president biden meeting with civil rights groups about voting rights. the supreme course just delivered a major move to the white house and they re running out of options. ly talk to someone who will have the president s ear in just a few hours. we re also going to have an important conversation about gun cull dmur this country. new york state is taking a new approach to tackling it. coming up i will talk to fred gutenberg. and the tragic shift in surfside, florida, from rescue to recovery. we just learned in the last hour that the death toll has now risen to 60. this morning nbc news posted new reporting that this collapsed tower, that tower, could have fallen faster if the law that was repealed still existing. and a vote for voting rights. monica alba is there ahead of the meeting. also with me is damon hewitt. he is t ....
in new york, the one-time epicenter, the ticker tape parade honoring frontline workers. the shocking assassination. haiti s president killed, the first lady injured. video of gunmen outside their home reportedly posing as the dea. who s in charge of the country now. a youth baseball coach killed in highway shooting, his son inside the car. the manhunt for a suspect. police department. our richard engel inside bagram air base in convalescent. what u.s. troops left behind. my exclusive conversation with eight of bill cosby s accusers. how they felt when they learned he was going free. and the price you pay for groceries surging. why stores are stockpiling these household staples. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. i m kate snow in for lester tonight. for days, for day, floridians been bracing for hurricane elsa. the storm interfering with search efforts at the collapsed tower in miami-dade. tonight reports of a likely torna ....
we ve not properly grieved, but we need to hold these people accountable. someone needs to pay. someone needs to go to jail for this. this is murder what happened to my son. it s horrific hearing my son. it s horrible that everyone has to see this. joining us now, don lemon, host of don lemon tonight, the author of this is the fire, what i say to my friends about racism. brianna spoke to ronald s mother. you spoke to her last night. obviously, she was told something different. she was told something different about this than what now has emerged in the video. and this really does raise questions about people s faith, i think, in what they are told in general about these incidents. if you look at what s happened in a number of police incidents we ve reported on throughout the country, the initial report is often not what it is once we see the video. she has a right to be concerned. if you look at what happened with the derek chauvin trial that just happened. same ....
authorities sounded the alarm on november 24. it was already in europe as early as november 19th, and it s now been found in at least 20 countries. that much we do know. as for what we don t know, namely whether vaccines will still protect us from this variant, there are head-snapping predictions from the ceos behind the pfizer and moderna vaccines. the head of biontech, a partner in the pfizer vaccine, tells reuters that current vaccines will still likely protect us from severe cases, even though there may be some diminished protection against mild or moderate cases. meantime, the head of moderna says that existing vaccines will be much less effective at battling omicron than earlier strains of covid, telling the financial times, quote, i think it s going to be a material drop. i just don t know how much because we need to wait for the data. but all the scientists i talked to said, this is not going to be good. dr. anthony fauci, meantime, seemed to lean toward the o ....