this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we have been under an avalanche of confusing information about covid vaccines and booster shots led by the white house s premature push for those extra shots for everyone to start today. that s not happening today, johnson & johnson did become the latest vaccine maker to claim an extra dose increases effectiveness. in j&j s case, 94% compared to 70% for a single shot. but they still have to submit more data to regulators even friday s endorsement by an fda advisory panel of pfizer booster shots for older americans has still not been formalized, leaving most of the 182 million fully vaccinated americans still waiting for what s hoped to be extra protection from covid. stephanie gosk sorts it out for us. reporter: good news today for people who received the single dose johnson & johnson vaccine. the company says new data shows it is holding up against covid-19 variants and j&j says a booster could do even more if giv
son in the pfizer trial. and major developments in the gabby petito case. the coroner officially declaring her death a homicide, and her fiancee still missing. no one has seen him since last week. plus, the new york times revealing that the trump campaign was well aware that their claims about dominion voting machines were categorically false, but they kept making those claims for weeks. we ll be asking georgia s secretary of state about that when he joins us later this hour. and did we mention donald trump is now suing his niece? great way to get himself in the headlines. we re going to get to all of that shortly, but i want to start this morning in d.c. where president biden is set to meet with democratic leaders to try and keep his massive multitrillion dollars agenda from completely falling apart. i want to bring in nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill and shannon pettypiece at the white house. unless i m mistaken here, this is the same fight democrats have been ha
cases and 10,000 deaths in the last week alone. with time running out to break the stalemate on his reconciliation bill, president biden is meeting with speaker pelosi and majority leader schumer on compromise options. then a lot of arm twisting in separate sessions with progressive and moderate members of congress. at stake, the entire biden domestic agenda. let s begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and chief white house correspondent weekend today co-host, peter alexander, gabe gutierrez, dr. john torres, and dr. celine gounder. a lot of foreign and domestic issues the white house is struggling with but not stopping the administration from trying to keep covid front and center. that s the issue that really helped the president win the presidency and key to his dip in poll ratings. reporter: andrea, that s right. i was with the president alongside his u.s. ambassador speaking to world leaders, speaking to pharmaceutical executives and civil society organiza
under weather alerts, including high winds, the tornado threat tonight. touring the disaster zone: president biden visits the damage in kentucky. i promise you, you re going to heal. you re going to recover. you re going to rebuild. you re going to be stronger. o donnell: the fed s big decision: what it means for your pocketbook amid rising inflation. guilty plea: former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin admits to violating george floyd s civil rights. j.f.k. assassination documents released. new revelations from 1,500 classified files. breaking barriers: a woman set to run the n.y.p.d., the nation s largest police department, for the first time. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. to our viewers in the west and this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. tonight, o donnell:
to heal. you re going to recover. you re going to rebuild. you re going to be stronger. o donnell: the fed s big decision: what it means for your pocketbook amid rising inflation. guilty plea: former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin admits to violating george floyd s civil rights. j.f.k. revelations from 1,500 classified files. breaking barriers: a woman set to run the n.y.p.d., the nation s largest police department, for the first time. a covid miracle. how one woman beat the odds and lived to tell her story. and the santa claus girls bringing cheer to children in need. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. tonight, we re following a concerning surge in coronavirus cases across the country, leaving colleges and businesses to close or reinstate covid measures. several large schools are and returning to remote introduction. others have shutting down campus and