Imploring mask wearing in schools, which is against what the governor wants. Tents are being set up in case they need to handle the overflow. The school superintendent recently proposed a mask mandate to be taken up by the board this week in defiance of the governor s orders and schools in dallas announced a mandate today. In south carolina which also bars such action, henry mcmaster had this to say. Shutting our state down, closing schools and masking children who have no choice for the government to mask children who have no choice to protect adults who do have a choice is the wrong thing to do, and we re not going to do it. We re not going to shut our state down as other states did. Mandating masks is not the answer. As for what is the answer, he said personal responsibility and common sense are. He went on to say that we are, quote, dealing with a virus that we know this year. Which raises the question, is he really? and what makes him think he knows better than the doctors and nur
May. Labor day in september, we have martha luther king day in january. Columbus jay and october, presidents day in february. That is nine, i think. And of course there is the tenth one, 4th of july, that is the easiest one to remember because we call it the 4th of july, and every year it s in july on the fourth. Reliably. If you are a person who is bad with dates like i am even about family birthdays, that s a particular blessing about july 4th. I feel the same way about cinco de mayo. Anybody that tells me in the name of the holiday when the holiday is, i think you. But tonight the house of representatives voted to create the newest federal holiday and we do not do this that often as a country. It has been nearly 40 years since the last new federal holiday was formally recognize with the approval of the holiday honoring martin luther king jr. That was back in 1983. Tonight though we have just done it for the first time since then, almost 40 years. There was a unanimous vote in the se
Think. And of course there s the tenth one, the fourth of july. That is the easiest one to remember, because we call it the fourth of july, and every year, it s in july on the fourth ye reliably. If you re bad with dates like i am, even about family birthdays, it s a particular blessing about july 4th. Bo and i feel the same way about cinco de mayo. Anybody who tells me in the name of the holiday when the holiday is, i thank you. But tonight, the house of representatives voted to createe the newest federal holiday. We do not do this often as a country. It s been nearly 40 years since the last new federal holiday was formally recognized, with the approval of the holiday honoring dr. Martin luther king jr. That was back in 1983. Tonight we have done it for the first time since then. Almost 40 years later, there was a unanimous vote in the senate that happened late yesterday. Tonight, there s been a big but not unanimous vote in the house. But it passed easily. In the end, it was sheila j
of the democrats case. what do we expect today? do we expect new snefd what will be their closing argument? they have eight hours today to make this case. we don t expect them necessarily to use all of that time but essentially you can expect more of this compelling discussion about what transpired on january 6th. and how the former president was directly involved. i think that was really the thrust of their argument yesterday as they showed some of that compelling video evidence. many of those clips never seen before. two u.s. senators who i think maybe didn t recognize how close they came to being confronted by a mob. senator mitt romney was shown in one of those videos being redirected to turn around so that he would not confront that mob. when we talked to him yesterday, after seeing that footage, he said he had no idea just how close he had come. that gives you a sense of just how startling this new footage was for u.s. senators sitting in that chamber yesterday. jim
harbor, the fallen u.s. serviceman finally laid to rest casket. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening let s begin with the fallout and a look ahead at the political battle to come following word today of supreme court justice stephen breyer s planned requirement from the court. a formal announcement from the 83-year-old clinton-appointed justice expected as soon as tomorrow president biden tonight positioned to make his first supreme court pick, an opportunity to fulfill a campaign pledge to nominate a black woman. democrats preparing to move quickly to capitalize on their razor-thin senate majority and confirm a nominee before the fall midterm elections though even a left-leaning pick will not alter the court s ideological balance. a lot of moving parts here, and our team ready to break it all down starting with justice correspondent pete williams. reporter: people close to justice breyer say he made the decision to step down within the