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
selected, and i think this shows that this has been a very calibrated response by the americans. they say that the locations hit included command and control centres, weapons facilities, bunkers used by iran s revolution regard and also by members of the militia supported by iran and iraq and syria. there has been strong reaction from iraq, a military spokesman said this was a violation of the country s sovereignty. in syria, a military statement said this was a blatant aggression by the us military. now president biden is walking a fine line here. he wants to give a strong response to what happened on sunday in jordan, response to what happened on sunday injordan, but at the same time he doesn t want to escalate the situation in the region even further, and four days, american officials have been indicating that this response was going to happen, perhaps trying to minimise casualties and reduce tensions with iran. president biden has repeated that he is not interested in a c
this is the third round of strikes led by the us and uk, and involved support from australia, bahrain, denmark, canada, the netherlands and new zealand. in addition to these latest joint strikes, us central command says it also launched what it calls defensive strikes against six anti ship cruise missiles in houthi held areas in yemen. in a statement, the us defence secretary lloyd austin says the action sends a clear message to the houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels. we have also heard from the uk defence secretary grant shapps. in a statement he says: the raids follow us strikes in iraq and syria on friday. 85 sites were hit in retaliation for the killing injordan of three american soldiers by iranian backed militants. these pictures, verified by the bbc, show the aftermath of friday s strikes in iraq. iraqi officials say that 16 people were killed and 25 injure
that a us strike destroyed a houthi anti ship cruise missile in the red sea. these pictures from the pentagon show american aircraft taking off for the earlier us and uk raids. according to centcom, 36 houthi targets were struck in these raids. it was the third round of strikes led by the us and uk and involved support from australia, bahrain, denmark, canada, the netherlands and new zealand. in addition to these latest joint strikes. us central command says it also launched what it calls defensive strikes against six anti ship cruise missiles in houthi held areas in yemen. in a statement, the us defense secretary, loyd austin, says: sends a clear message to the houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels. we have also heard from the uk defence secretary, grant shapps. in a statement, he says, this is not an escalation. it is our duty to protect innocent lives and preserv