man, he took me by the hands i ll neverforget this, what he said to me. god will protect you. so then i kissed my brother and they were already there with their bayonets trying to push us apart, and i saw them leaving. and you never saw your brother again? that was it. yeah. holocaust memorial day remembers the dead, but it s also a warning for all times about the price of extremism, the bloody cost of promises built on hatred. after auschwitz, when we came back, people said, we ve learned our lesson. never again, auschwitz. that was the motto. but look around. i think there is more discrimination, more hatred than ever before. this is a day of great absences. it took me 50 years, 5 0. i kept on and on, i want to see a photograph of my mother. i don t know what emotions i have, really. sad. especially on days like holocaust memorial day, when families are together, and i sit there alone. genocide begins with the plans of powerful men. but always ends in the ruin of in
at least seven people, leaving tens of thousands without power and hundreds of accidents. the alarming new warning about that massive cyber attack tied to russ now being called a grave risk to the government and beyond tough questions in congress for the family behind the maker of oxycontin and what they had to say about the opioid painkiller tied to so many deaths. millions of packages stranded or delivered late. tonight, warnings of new delays and what a teacher of the year tells me about educating our kids, some valuable lessons for us all this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. there are several breaking covid-19 developments as we start here tonight just a short time ago, an independent panel of experts recommended the fda approve a second vaccine, this is the one made by a company called moderna. a decision that within days could start injecting 6 million more vaccine doses into distribution networks and this evening the need couldn t be m
department are issuing and discussing whether a special counsel should be appointed in a hunter biden investigation. it comes as we learn a lot more about overseas business dealings by the president-elect s son that may be in the present rather than past tense i m leland vittert. i m julie banderas. the special counsel discussions are coming after former attorney general bill barr said he would not appoint one in his final days as attorney general. business records show hunter biden still holding a 10% stake in a chinese private equity firm less than one month before his father is set to be sworn in as president. fox team coverage for you this thursday morning. byron york joins us with more in a moment but we begin with jackie heinrich. good morning, to you. how likely is this to happen? good morning to you, julie. it is yet to be seen. acting attorney general rosen refused to say last week whether he would name a special counsel. this was on the heels of his predecessor
meets right now today and tomorrow about booster shots and that is not all. president biden is trying to get members of his own party on the same page. also a hercules task. this series of meetings the white house today with congressional democrats to try to push his bill back better agenda. plus the search for petito s missing fiance. on tuesday three ice agents were assaulted after a number of recently deported haitian men deported a plane that just landed there. ahead, what we re learning about that situation. we want to start with this virtual global covid summit. the president is hosting from the white house. you got shannon pettypiece for us. stephanie gosk following the cdc s meeting on booster shots happening right now. and infectious disease physician, the principal investigator on the pfizer trials at yale school of medicine, working on trials with children on boosters and immunocompromised, plus he has trained physicians and experts in rwanda and liberia as well.
i strongly disagree with fitch s decision, and i believe it is entirely unwarranted. its flawed assessment is based on outdated data, and fails to reflect improvements across a range of indicators, including those related to governance that we ve seen over the past 2.5 years. other democrats used the downgrade as an opportunity to point the finger at republicans for their role in the recent debt limit fight. while republicans blame joe biden and democrats for trillions of dollars in new spending. many economists dismiss the downgrade, including jp morgan chase ceo jamie diamond, who called it ridiculous and said that the decision ultimately didn t really matter. and he may not be wrong. us treasuries, that is government ious, remain the bedrock of the global financial system, despite this latest knock to the reputation. expectations are high that it will raise rates again. if so, it could take the cost of borrowing up to a 15 year high. consumer inflation has come down more t