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relatively new to the force, 29 year s old on the force since 2018 has given her life in the effort to keep the streets of chicago safe. male counterpart with whom she was working has been shot as well. a police source he was shot through the eye and he s fighting for his life as we speak. he was taken to the university of chicago hospital where officers converged last night. they could be seen hugging and shedding tear for fallen comrade. despite the loss police officers put the uniform and went to harm s way this morning. they go out here and do their jobs, thanklessly they do it without asking for anything, they do it because they love it, they do it because it s something is a calling for them and they do it because it s the right thing to do. mike: and you just heard from the deputy chief there and not superintendent brown. all started with traffic stop 9:00 p.m. local time last night. the officers were part of the community safety team that has been formed recen ....
thanks to you at home for joining us. rachel is enjoying a well deserved vacation. we have a lot to get to in this hour.ng t i in just a sfu few moments, i will be speaking with wree tired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. in 2019 he was taking notes on a call between president trump and the president of ukraine. it was those notes that ultimately led to donald trump s first impeachment for trying tow se pressure the ukrainian president into announcing a politically damaging investigation into joe biden. colonel vindman is sharing his full story for the first time. l at s in a few moments. t we start with a dire story out of florida. albeit a devastatingly familiar story. we had our numbers down. we were all excited. we were very busy because a lot of non-covid patients who had been waiting for care were starting to come in. but then the delta variant came, and in just a very short time, just a few weeks, it has shot up from three to 30 something patients. it fe ....
that we will be guided by the science, following the science. we know we can dramatically lower the cases in this country. we just need to finish the job with science. we are not changing the science, the virus changed, and the science involved with the changing virus. laura: the science has not changed. like all pandemics, in the wind down phase there are viral variants and mutations but the science, the immunology has not changed. the variants become more transmissible but usually not more deadly. often less so in that is immunology 101. for many months, very smart and a political scientist have been saying that vaccines would never mean zero covid infections, but instead that they would help curb hospitalizations and deaths. for 15 months we have known that those who died from covid had at least one if not two, three or more comorbidities. we know that the elderly and those with metabolic syndrome, high bmi, diabetes, hypertension would suffer the most. the mor ....
across the country. do i trust the taliban? no, but i trust the capacity of the afghan military who is better trained, better equipped and more competent in terms of conducting war. let s begin with afghanistan and nbc national security correspondent courtney kubiak at the pentagon. good to see you. taliban leaders are selling themselves to the afghan people as basically an inevitably that they will inevitably take over. how strong they are and how fast they re advancing. most afghans don t want that inevitability. they don t want the taliban to take over, but they may not necessarily have that choice. the reality is the taliban have been taking over large parts of the country and they ve been doing it very quickly. it s been a contested country for 20 years now. so it s not a surprise that whomever is controlling one area moves back and forth in various hand, but what s been surprising to the defense officials and military officials who have been speaking about t ....
about a christmas surge. millions traveling despite warnings hospitals so overwhelmed they may ration care. the christmas storm threat al roker tracking it. it s being called the worst cheating scandal at west poin in 45 years. dozens of cadets accused. attorney general william barr in the final days breakin from president trump on calls for special counsels to investigate the election and hunter biden. plus, the new charges barr announced in the 1988 pan am bombing. my conversations with victims families. and the spectacular sight in the sky tonight that hasn t happened in 800 years. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we re all trying to understand what the discovery of a mutated and more contagious strain of coronavirus in the united kingdom means for al of us here in the u.s., especially as the race to vaccinate americans spins into high gear. as we certainly know by now this virus doesn t respect borders. still tonight parts of ....