Angry reaction the battle inside the gop, the second most powerful republican in the house joining calls to oust liz cheney if her leadership position. How she s responding peloton announcing a major recall of one of its popular products after a child was killed and dozens injured. We ll tell you what families need to know. Two american tourists found guilty of murdering a police officer in italy the sentence handed down late today. New images from the border migrants attempting to cross on rafts we re with a s. W. A. T. Team on patrol and the growing trend. Are you in a position to retire early? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, pefrn p for the better part of 14 months we ve wondered what the other side of covid might look like. Well, it s coming into sharper focus tonight. The reopenings are real new york s yankee stadium joining the list of venues preparing to welcome back big crowds. And broadway is detailing its plans to light up its stages again i
martin luther king and if you look it up, a 54-day fill buster in the united states senate. it s the kind of sweeping bill that seems almost impossible to imagine a modern congress passing, but the news tonight is the new congress trying to build on that very landmark bill, holding a vote to amend the law to include lgbtq people to ban any discrimination against them. the step is legally significant. it s also very clearly a 180-degree turn from the recent trump era when that president pushed, remember this, a total been on people who identify as trance from serving in our united states military. a piece of discrimination that also has echos in a new scandal from trump ally marginally taylor green who is clashing with another member of congress over these very issues. in fact, that member on congress, congresswoman newman joins us shortly for an important conversation. meanwhile, the speaker is explaining why it s significant to try to end all this discrimination. the next
these are over-the-counter self-performed test kits that can detect covid with roughly 95% accuracy within 15 minutes. it can be used, if you feel symptoms of covid-19, and also for screening for people without symptoms. there is more positive news in the u.s. pandemic. the weekly average for new cases, they re actually down. the weekly averaging are down 12% and hospitalizations are down 11%, but still the nation reported more than 110,000 new cases, and nearly 1,800 deaths on sunday. january is now in the record books. the most deaths reported in any month of the pandemic. 95,000 people dieing from covid just last month. let s turn now to dr. paul spearman a professor and director of the infectious disease division at cincinnati children s hospital medical center and also a member of the fda s vaccine advisory board, but recused himself from coronavirus approvals for now because he s working as an investigator in these cornevid vaccine trials. thank you very much for co
this is cnn breaking news. it s a brand new hour, thanks for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. if you re wondering why your facebook or instagram page is not loading, you re not alone. the social media giant is facing major outages across multiple platforms today, and they still are not disclosing what s going on. here s what we know, though, is this is happening on a day that is really bad for facebook. we heard from a whistleblower last night, and she s accusing facebook of intentionally allowing hateful content and misinformation to spread on the platform in order to make more money. more on that in a moment. first let s bring in donie o sullivan, and focus on the outages. this is highly unusual, we are now going into hour four of this outage across facebook, instagram, and whatsapp, all of course owned by facebook. here is what facebook is saying in a statement. this is from a few hours ago. we are aware that some people are having troubl