and what about the dozens who received the expired shot outbreaks at supermarkets nearly 150 employees testing positive at a single costco. how safe are essential-store workers and customers? the major winter storm on the move. drivers stranded in snow overnight 50 million americans in its path. for the first time, congress overrides a veto from president trump. and how vice president pence is responding to new republican efforts to get him to overturn the election s results. plus, elmo s important, new mission, as sesame street goes where it s never gone before. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and happy new year i am peter alexander, in for lester. we start off tonight with the increasingly urgent challenges in the fight against coronavirus. growing fears that last night s holiday gatherings will compound an already overwhelming surge in cases in much of the country. and new frustration that distribution of those vaccines, that offer
i also convened my entire cabinet as part of a whole of government response, and that response is to the increased number and intensity of extreme weather events, and be aware we will use all the resources of government to do it. in north florida, tens of thousands of people continue to be without power. to israel now, where police have opened an investigation into the use of live fire by officers during clashes in tel aviv between rival groups of eritrean asylum seekers which left nearly 150 people injured. violence broke out as eriteans protesting against their government clashed with supporters of the regime. both groups then fought police attempting to impose order. some suffered gunshot wounds and are in serious condition. israeli media report it was the first use of live fire on protesters inside israel since the second intifada in 2002. investigators are now gathering evidence from the scene to determine whether officers behaved according to the law. 0ur middle east co
it s been known for a while. what we ve also known for a while is that there s been a real squeeze on school funding. my committee, again, has highlighted that repeatedly. and when you don t invest in maintenance and improvements in schools, you get these problems arising. but with raac, it s a systemic failure of the actual material used to build them. court buildings and hospitals too among those impacted. and internal nhs documents obtained by the sunday times suggest hospitals could be at risk of catastrophic collapse. the concerns about this have been swirling around for so long. truss had been trying to cope with the safety risks associated with raac for a long time. and, really, to remedy the situation, action can t come too soon. the department for education said it was vital that schools are given time to inform parents and consider their next steps, and that it was grateful to school and college leaders for their work to make sure that disruption is kept to a minimu
of the president. translation: achieving democracy will no doubt be difficult. freedom is one of the greatest values in europe. at without a doubt, we will no longer tolerate what would have been business decades of business as usual for those who plundered ukraine and put themselves above our laws and i thank the lord determine offices who have brought cases who have stalled the decade to adjust conclusion. the law must work. it is so, it must be so. glory to ukraine. glory to ukraine. president zelensky glory to ukraine. president zelensky there. peter zalmayev is director of the eurasia democracy initiative an international non profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights. thank you forjoining us, peter. what do you make of this event, as it were, of kind of going after this individual, a man that clearly has some intriguing business dealings? i actually was speaking him, i have my own show on ukrainian tv, and yesterday i was inte
it s been a while now since australia officially reopened its borders to tourists and it s been so good to see so many people heading there. and today, we ll be looking back at some of my favourite travel show moments from the country i still call home. of course, australia is a vast country and we can t possibly attempt to cover the whole nation in just this one program but hopefully, we ll give you a flavour. one of my favourite stories saw me back in my home state of victoria way back in 2016, when i headed to phillip island to see the efforts that were being made to look after what were undoubtedly some of the cutest penguins i ve ever seen. it s a place that attracts millions of tourists every year and this year marks the 185th anniversary of a sea voyage that changed the world. it was december 1831 when charles darwin set off on the hms beagle to see sights that would lead to his radical theory of evolution. and a key moment came when he visited australia, when he was s