Passing restrictive Voting Measures there. Ill 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 theyre running out of options. Ly talk to someone who will have the president s ear in just a few hours. Were 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Nbc News posted new reporting that this collapsed tower, that tower, could have fallen faster if the law that was repealed still existing.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 the president and the
In new york, the onetime epicenter, the Ticker Tape Parade honoring frontline workers. The shocking assassination. Haitis president killed, the First Lady injured. Video of gunmen outside their home reportedly posing as the dea. Whos 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 Cosbys 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. Im 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 miamidade. Tonight reports of a likely tornado in jacksonville. Elsa Making Landfa
Weve 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. Its horrific hearing my son. Its 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 ronalds 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 peoples faith, i think, in what they are told in general about these incidents. If you look at whats happened in a number of Police Incidents weve 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 thing. We looked at the Police
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 optimis