After a stunning series of Attacks Today against targets in New York and in Washington D. C. The World Trade Center and The Pentagon. The terrorist used hijacks A Billion airliners and theiR Passengers as guided missiles in their attacks. The most serious attack on this country since Pearl Harbor. Tonight, the dead still are being counted, an unknown number still of missing. At this hour, in this war, another development, there are reports out of kabul, the capital of afghanistan, of explosions, with The Pentagon and the cia are flatly denying that the United States had anything to do with those explosions. This has been one of the darkest days in america, and it is not yet over. Here at home now a quick look at the locations where the airliners hit, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, 20 minutes apart. Then, within an hour this morning, The Pentagon. And then, the final crash just minutes later about 80 Miles Southeast oF Pittsburgh, 266 people on the four airplanes alone all p
How you can save announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with Lester Holt good evening there is News Tonight that officials hope will get many cautious and reluctant americans off the fence and to covid vaccination centers. Pfizer today granted full Fda Approval for its vaccine. The hope now is that americans who have been waiting for a full Fda Signoff will have the reason they need to roll up their sleeves. But the news is also strengthening the hands of companies and institutions that are moving to require workers and students in some cases to be fully vaccinated americans still playing catchup with a virus that infected 180,000 people just this past weekend and took almost 1,200 lives. Miguel almaguer has details. Reporter expected but still historic todays full approval of Pfizers Vaccine for people 16 and older marks another major milestone in the pandemic, coming 97 days after the fda began its official review the first Covid Vaccine to move beyond emergency use authorization. The ne
Home workers, elderly care advocates, and Public Health experts testified. They said it got worse during the pandemic. This morning, the finance committee is holding the second of three hearings that well be holding this week. This is a particularly important hearing because our country is now a full year into the covid19 pandemic. In the pandemic. Let me just give a brief kind of process statement with respect to how well do this. We have two votes at 11 30 a. M. , and well do everything we can to keep this moving. And we have been working with the Ranking Member on this. And if we dont do that, well probably be here until 3 00 p. M. So well do our best to keep this moving. As i indicated, were a year in, and vaccinations are up, americans are beginning to feel encouraged. And yet so many families, hundreds of thousands spread across the country, are unable to share in this sense of uplift because they are mourning loved ones that they have lost. Over the last year, more than 175,000
Is now dark after it was suspended from Amazon Web Services. Well break down the fallout coming up. Some relief on the way for restaurants at least in california. Well talk to chef andrew gruel about his push to provide restaurants a lifeline amid the pandemic. First calls for impeachment once again. Nancy pelosi says the president must be held accountable after last weeks Extraordinary Events on capitol hill but republicans are divided on the matter. We go to fox news correspondent mike emanuel in washington desee. Reporter gerry, good afternoon. Republicans rejected a push by democrats to push for the 25th amendment. They are accusing President Trump of incitement of insurrection. Some people are looking in 10 days, lets over look it. We took and oath to defend and protect the constitution and our democracy. That responsibility falls to us. We have no other choice. Reporter that that Impeachment Vote could come a week after joe bidens inauguration a Key Senate Republican says, thats
880 . Now 811. So those are some numbers were looking at. Im Connell Mcshane on after the bell a lot going on. Lets get straight to the news happening at this hour. Our top story, you know, shares of twitter dropping today by as much as 10 ending the day down by more than 6 after its move to permanently block President Trumps account following the violent protests that took place last week on capitol hill. Now parler, which is a social media app favored by many conservatives is suing amazon. It was pulled from amazons platform. Here to talk about some of the developments, susan li, covers number of technology companies. And were joined by dion rabouin from axios. Good to see you. Susan, we start with you. What is the latest . Reporter as you mentioned parler is suing amazon for antitrust and breach of contract violations after being booted off amazons cloud platform. They were forced to go offline. Parler might be down longer than expected. Other vendors wont work with them. Amazon, go