ready tomorrow?y toto take back this country? ba? are you ready to take the state back ? who s ready to send markkell kelly back to space? tomorrow? now, we re going to hear from reporters and candidates acrossh the nation tonight, including our own mark meridith in ohio, where donald trump is stilio wd stilll delivering what was billed as ah highly anticipated speech. s ts but first, the great realignment. that s the focus of tonight s angle, with republicans about to take control of botf h the house and the senate, mostis democrats aren t interested in serious soul searching aboutr au how it all unraveled fornc a bunch so worried about election denial, they seem to be preemptively questioning the legitimacy of the impending republican takeover. rean how concerned are you that the upheaval at twitter ll result in a flood of misinformation, disinformation right before i the election? and it actually goes beyonde ar twitter today. there arree reports s that, in fact, russian
life-threatening cold. we re tracking it all. also tonight, the january 6th committee s final report recommending donald trump be barred from holding office ever again. how the former president is responding. the new numbers from the cdc. will the holidays lead to another spike? the crash caught on camera. a plane slamming into the beach in santa monica. the warning from fedex and u.p.s. for last-minute shoppers. will your holiday packages arrive on time? and celebrating christmas in wartime. st. nick bringing holiday cheer to children in ukraine. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and a good friday evening to you. i m craig melvin in for lester. for many tonight, mother nature has decided to be quite the grinch. this is going to be the coldest, wettest, snowiest holiday in recent memory thanks to a once in a generation massive winter storm that s disrupting plans for millions. for some it s the really strong wind gusts already knocking out
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. artificial intelligence, or a.i., is an incredibly powerful technology which may change many aspects of our lives. the ceo of google s parent company, alphabet, which has invested heavily in it, recently said ai s impact could be more profound than electricity or even fire. but many worry about what that impact might turn out to be. could ai one day replace humans? and if so how might that happen? we ve already seen some service-based and manufacturing jobs turn to ai in a big way. but what about other industries? can ai replace journalists or news anchors? perhaps it already has. because what you just saw and heard a moment ago was not actually me. this is me, anderson cooper. and i am an ai-generated anderson cooper. that wasn t my real voice, and i never spoke the words you just heard. we asked a young student in california to create a fully end to end ai version of me. looks like me, sounds like me, and it didn t
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