the ground. it is the top of the hour and it s always good to be with you. the delta variant is surging in all 50 states. st. louis and st. louis county are both set to bring back mask mandates. we ll dive into the latest with our saturday night panel.br it s day two of the olympics in tokyo. team usa s three on three womens basketball, gymnastics and volleyball teams all compete in a few hours. we ll talk about how far the olympics have come for women anl how far they still have to go. and jeff bezos rocket launch has a lot of people excited about space tourism. others are cynical about the billionaire space race, but i a see a problem with both sides of this debate. i ll explain in tonight s essay. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. you know, after more than a year indoors and with vaccinations on the rise this io summer was supposed to be much more fun. scratch that record. the delta variant is threatening t
this week the uae released video of cars driving through rain that was created by scientists. they launched drones into the sky that zapped clouds with electricity. this caused droplets to clump together. and instead of evaporating in midair from the heat, the rain drops were large enough to reach the ground. it is the top of the hour and it s always good to be with you. the delta variant is surging in all 50 states. st. louis and st. louis county are all set to bring back mask mandates. we ll dive into the latest with our saturday night panel. it s day two of the olympics in tokyo. team usa s gymnastics and volleyball teams all compete in a few hours. we ll talk about how far the olympics have come for women and how far they still have to go. and jeff bezos rocket launch has a lot of people excited about space tourism. others are cynical about the billionaire space race, but i see a problem with both sides of this debate. i ll explain in tonight s essay. from nbc news
peppercorns. you could do a slice of orange, something like that. a side of kamala harris this sunday, build back better is one step closer to the finish line. lawmakers literally jumped for joy on the house floor friday morning, following the passage of the $1.7 trillion infrastructure build back better plan. the cornerstone of the president s agenda. this is legislation that creates millions of good paying jobs, gets tax cuts to the middle class, lowers costs, special healthcare costs and child care costs for the middle class and is paid for 100%. this bill is monumental. it is historic. it is transformative, it is bigger than anything we have ever done. the bill includes free universal pre-k, caps the cost of day care at 7% of income. it expands child tax credits for a year and allows four weeks of paid family leave. the legislation also extends obamacare subsidies, adds new caps on medicare prescription drug costs and provides $550 billion to combat climate chan
club soda and a roll of paper towels. [sfx: doorbell rings] lifesaver! [blegh] you re weird, man. to each his own. kyle rittenhouse is a free man. the jury acquitting him on all charges after he fatally shot two protesters and wounded another more than a year ago. plus republicans in wisconsin are pushing to take full control of the state s elections. is there anything that can be done to stop this assault on voting rights? and a tennis star in china vanished after accusing a top communist party official of sexual assault. now chinese state media releasing what it claims are new images of peng shuai, but is it really proof that she is okay? we re going to dig into all of this. the injury djury deliberate four days. here s more from when the verdict was read. as to the first count of the information, joseph rosenbaum, we the jury find the defendant kyle h. rittenhouse not guilty. as to the second count of the information, brigid mcginnis, we the jury, find the defenda
find the defendant not guilty. as to the third count, not guilty. as to the fourth count, not guilty, as to the fifth count, not guilty. now he s really crying. rittenhouse who faced live in prison broke down in court after the verdict was read. his attorney said rittenhouse would like to get on with his life but the judge heavily criticized for bias towards the defense was fair and then discussed the larger implications of the verdict. when you want to talk about implications and precedent and things like that, is it ever going to happen again? you know, is there ever going to be a total unrest in kenosha or some other city and that is going to happen? you know, i just don t see that. it was a case about self-defense. the right to protect one s self. president biden told reporters that we have to respect the jury s decision. and the parents of anthony huber, rittenhouse s second verdict released this statement. today s verdict means there is no accountability for the