Beloved member of the Nbc Family Al Rokers Tribute to the legendary Willard Scott. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with Lester Holt good evening. Im Tom Llamas in for Lester Tonight growing questions about how so many died from the powerful remnants of hurricane ida, and the new images coming in what police were up against when they tried to rescue a family trapped in a Basement Apartment Water everywhere childrens toys floating on the surface, and zero visibility underwater. The family, like so many in Basement Apartments here, did not make it out alive. And there are new fears right now in the south. A new Flash Flood Watch issued in and around New Orleans with some areas facing up to 4 inches of more rain half A Million residents there are still without power in the scorching heat all of this as the Death Toll continues to climb, especially in the northeast where President Biden is set to visit and its where we start tonight with Gabe Gutierrez in queens, new York Reporter as ida
Antony blinken visits qatar. The latest on the still growing Death Toll from last Weeks Hurricane Ida as President Biden will visit New York and new Jersey Today. And expanded Unemployment Benefits have expired for Millions Of Americans. What does it mean for the economic recovery . Well look into that, but we begin this morning with a consequential week for democrats as congress returns to washington this week. Democrats will begin the process of the most significant expansion of this countrys social Safety Net in over half a century. The New York times reports this morning that congressional committees are set to meet this week to devise legislation that would touch virtually every americans life from conception to age to imfirmty. The proposed legislation, a cradle to grave waving of a social Safety Net frayed by decades of expanding income inequality, stagnating wealth and depleted governmental resources capped by the worst public Health Crisis in a century. The pandemic loosened t
the morning comes. and tributes to one of the giants of american rock: the multimillion selling meat loaf has died at the age of 7a. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the first shipment of us military aid to ukraine approved in recent weeks by president biden has arrived in kyiv. the us embassy there says it includes 90 tonnes of what it called lethal aid , including ammunition. it comes after the us and russia held what they called frank talks in switzerland aimed at reducing the risk of a conflict in ukraine. president biden has travelled to the presidential retreat at camp david, where he will be joined by secretary of state antony blinken, who is on his way back from the meeting with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. the us wants russia to pull its forces back from the ukrainian border, which western countries fear are preparing to invade. the us has promised to provide a written response to russia s security demands, which include a
plus: the groundbreaking bionic eye operation and the 88 year old woman who s now able to see her grandchildren again. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us has delivered its first shipment of military aid to ukraine made up of what it says are 90 tonnes of lethal aid two words which seldom go together. the details of what is included haven t been made public but this is what it looks like. this plane load arrived in ukraine in the early hours of saturday morning. you can see crates being unloaded. they re clearly too small to contain anything like a tank or armoured vehicle but what the boxes contain remains unknown. it comes after high level talks between the us and russia on friday, over the tensions in ukraine with tens of thousands of russian troops currently camped near the ukrainian borders. with the latest here s mark lobel: the threat of conflict persists. as president putin continues his apparent drive for a new p
in the last two years, it s legally exported over 70,000 puppies within the eu. a huge network of puppy farms grew up here after the collapse of the soviet union. the system changed. the state farms and co operative farms were privatised. so, people stopped working with cows, stopped working with swine and the italian tradesmen came into hungary and saw a big business, and they started to build up a network of puppy producers here in hungary, and then the people, step by step, realised that they can make money on dogs instead of keeping swine and rabbits, and they put these animals in the place of the swine and poultry and rabbit. the industry is controlled by the government through licensing and farms are expected to conform to animal welfare standards but anyone can register online to be a breeder without any initial checks. this is puspokladany. this town ofjust 16,000 people has 154 registered breeders. the nebih is the government agency charged with carrying out random c