president biden weighed in calling the law an atrocity. you have any indication that has nothing to do with fairness, nothing to do with decency, they passed a law saying you can t provide water for people standing in line while they are waiting to vote? you don t need anything else to know this is fis nothing but punitive design to keep peopling from voting. outside the signing ceremony, police arrested georgia state representative park cannon knocking on the door trying to get in. she s facing two felony charges that says something as does this photo that came out today. take a hard look. a black lawmaker outside the door is a governor in front of a painting of an old georgia slave pan plan plantation. the callaway plantation is a backdrop literally and symbolically to a law that georgia s governor a member of what used to be admired as the party of lincoln had nothing to do with restricting voter access. it wasn t a voting rights bill, it was an election security bil
toward asian americans throughout our history and fueled by the pandemic and the racist hate that has been spewed about it. there s a lot to learn about the motivation behind the attack that the alleged killer has blamed on some sort of sexual addiction. what we know according to the study of hate, there s a larger issue of race in in america and the white supremacist propaganda fueling it in an all time high. there s a fear in the communities of color of being vi victimized or falsely aaccused and so many have stories to tell about what they face daily. we will look at the stories and see what it will take to change the climate of feel, to stop this and stand together against hate. we begin tonight with my c co-anchors for the hour with stories of their own. you have covered the emotional moments on air in the occurs of reporting the story. what has it been like for you as an asian america, seeing it play out and reporting on it. anderson, it s been painful and it s been
justice department giving their first briefing, six days after the capitol attack 170 cases opened so far. among the potential charges, murder and seditious conspiracy and did the fbi warn of violence the day before the assault security ramping up for joe biden s inauguration in just eight days metal detectors installed at the house chamber. members of congress warned of chilling new threats against them all 50 state capitols and the secret chat rooms where intelligence sources say new attacks are being planned. plus the major change to u.s. vaccination guidelines designed to speed up the rollout. who officials say should get their shots now. and the new cdc order for anyone flying in to the united states. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we heard from the president today, who offered no regrets or contrition for his role in egging on the attack on the capitol. and so with eight days left in his term democrats are focused on ending
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rates in the u.s. are the highest they have been in three months, though experts say that doesn t necessarily mean hospitalizations and deaths are will be as high as in previous surges. still, the president will lay out a sweeping plan to beat back this tide. priority one. flood the zone with free covid tests. we have had in the past not as many tests as everyone would have wanted or needed, but part of the president s program, which he will be speaking about this afternoon, is to dramatically increase the availability of testing and putting up about 20,000 testing sites, with getting half a billion tests very quickly, literally within the next few days, and then have a situation where you can get anywhere from 200 million to half a billion tests per month. but a key question. with the travel rush in full gear already, is this push too late? the tsa has screened more than 10 million people at u.s. airports in the last five days, and the agency estimates 30 million holiday