Norm macdonald, the former snl stars long, private Health Battle Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone as a hurricane, it was shortlived, but now tropical storm nicholas is still delivering a dangerous punch along the Gulf Coast tonight, water and lots of it 5 Million people living under Flash Flood alerts, Rain Amounts as high as 20 inches possible as the storm makes a brutally slow crawl across parts of texas and louisiana after its landfall not far from houston early today with 75mileanhour sustained winds. In this very active tropical season, nicholas the 14th named storm, the 8th to make a u. S. Landfall, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses Morgan Chesky is in the Storm Zone for us tonight with late details. Reporter tonight, nicholas on a Gulf Coast Course crash first slamming into texas as a Category1 Hurricane more than 90mileanhour winds knocked out power to 500,000 texans its Storm Surge ripping asphalts ri
The question is, did you hear what Mike Pence did . Some of broadways biggest shows reopen, hamilton, wicked resumed performances Last Night. 18 months after coronavirus forced broadway to close. Broadway is back. But the question is, is it back to normal . Its way too early for this. Good morning, welcome to way too early, the show that has always been a rumor in the house. Well start with the news, California Governor Gavin newsom survived an attempt to remove him office. The question was ask whether newsom, a democrat, should be removed. Yes or no. And against 46 others, led by Larry Elder a top conservative radio host. Newsom succeeded in rousing democratic voters with warning that a republican replacement would roll back covid protections and betray the states character. Last night, newsom thanks california voters for keeping him at arms. We said yes to science. We said yes to vaccines. We said yes to ending this pandemic. We said yes to peoples right to vote without fear of fake
Age and disability resource connection. The federal government created the administration for Community Living. I dont know. Maybe it was five or six years ago. What that did is it brought together the aging world with some of the disability federal offices and put them all into one place called administration for Community Living. Then they really encouraged area agencies on aging to put together age and disability resource connections at the local level. So San Francisco is one of the few cities that has that is theres something that were certified by the state or something thats not the word, but something to that effect where weve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. Here it is. Weve been certified by the state to do that. What that means is our office has a partnership with independent Living Resource Center to really Work Together to make sure people with disabilities and older people know about resources and that those are resources and inform
Together age and disability resource connections at the local level. So San Francisco is one of the few cities that has that is theres something that were certified by the state or something thats not the word, but something to that effect where weve said this is our plan for putting together some age and disability work. Here it is. Weve been certified by the state to do that. What that means is our office has a partnership with independent Living Resource Center to really Work Together to make sure people with disabilities and older people know about resources and that those are resources and information referral are available to them. Our way of doing that in San Francisco is to have age and disability im sorry age and Disability Resource Centers across the city, and we have 13 of them. One of them is through tour works its focused on younger people with disabilities. So thats what weve done there. Then i guess lastly, we fund advocacy. It allows you to fund advocacy even with Older
Fatalities. 2017 was our least fatal year in the history of our record keeping. With still far too many deaths at 20. And we had 23 deaths last year in 2018. Im saddened to report that currently to date we have 11 recorded fatalities and three probable that will be by the end of the month, so were certainly trending in the wrong direction, but were hopeful that the strategy, its not a panacea, but it is a blueprint for the place we want to get. Vision zero is guided internationally and nationally by Core Principles of number one, saving lives, that we want to get our fatalities to zero. That we as government can prevent deaths. That we need to think about how we do prevention in an equitable way so were making sure the outcomes are best for everyone, not just some. The speed is the predominating factor in whether someone litsches or dies when hit by a car. And the ways to improve the outcomes for people is reengineering our streets, and by doing communication, education, enforcement an