questions. also tonight, the justice department is suing texas over its near total ban on abortion, calling it clearly unconstitutional. does visit a case? the americans on board the first passenger flight out of afghanistan since the u.s. military withdrawal. where they are tonight. our team in the region. our nbc news exclusive. americans still waiting on refunds for flights impacted by the pandemic. how to get your money back. nearly 20 years since 9/11. the first responders with lingering health issues. the company accused of breaking promises to them. and countdown to kickoff. the new nfl season just moments away right here on nbc. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. clearly frustrated by the covid vaccinations in this country, president biden tonight is trading out the velvet glove for a hammer, unveiling a broad and largely new covid strategy heavily grounded in vaccine mandates, meant to compel millions of a
shut down. the owner of soleil luna nail spa says she invested so they could reopen back in june and mid-july. now it s time tow come up with a new plan. we have to cancel our clients and let the rest of our team know. unfortunately the team members really do depend on us to open because they left their unemployment to come back to work for us. i don t have time to be frustrated. it s more like we re not closed yet, how do we respond, how s the next day going to happen. businesses can open if they shift their operations outside. they already wrote up a plan and they re waiting for the city s approval to do just that, to provide instead of outdoor dining, they said outdoor pampering and compliance rates appears pretty good here in san mateo county. called about 15 or so churches. only one spa was open for half a day. everybody else was closed down. you also found out individual cities are doing what they can to help these businesses reopen. what are they doing? rep
return of the wound. remember how it would get breezy in the afternoon? it seems to always do that and for the past couple of days it has taken a bit of a break. today the wind comes back along with the clouds and the cooler numbers that are felt tomorrow. not today. 93 today. inland, 78. 81 in redwood city. i will see what the rest of the forecast brings in a few minutes back to you. crews on the east bay at the scene of a fire in pittsburg. you can see smoke coming from all the garbage as fire crews hose it down. it happened about an hour ago. no word yet on the cause. more fire watch, the sykes fire has exploded to 1000 acres in lake and colusa county. video from the front lines shows being dropped on trees in the area as lames whip up in the hills. evacuations are on the way alongside. this time-lapse captured the moment spate sparks heaven. they have made no progress in containment and when when will be a factor. the wind expected to be strong today. and out-of
and darren peck. for the most part cooler than the weekend we experience. if you re inland, you re going to get a 10 degree temperature drop that that starts tomorrow. today, for monday, things are just as hot as the weekend was because there isn t much of a marine layer. and we are not quite getting the change yet. so let s get you ready to start this monday. 66 right now and in concord, 60 in livermore, san jose looking at 62. you can see the thin little band of clouds along the coast this morning. without much help from that, we got to go back to the sunshine and another warm, relatively calm day. let s get your headlines up. if it is going to stay, relatively sunny and warm today, tomorrow s cooldown sets in and we are also going to notice the breeze returned. that is something you will notice by the time we get into the afternoon. to leave you with a forecast today from the coast, the bay and inland, mid-90s inland today, low 70s for the coast. how was the drive lookin
called a disinformation governance board. which allows them to crackdown on whatever ideas they think are harmful in midterms. white house defending this even liberal activist who claims hunter biden lap stop story as fake news. extensive qualification what i will tell you about the board what board is doing, this is continue you addition of work that began in department of homeland security in 202 under former president trump. i didn t hear them being critical of work under former president. the white house trying to blame trump but all our reporting indicates that this brands new organization that they are creating and the only thing biden disinformation seems to cringe world these sing alongs . . and of course it is just near coincidence they are doing the week that elon must be bought twitter. senate democrat richest man to test testify on capitol hill. all right. harold i want to start with you because you know this in my mind smacks destruction of free speec