Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The first summit between president biden and president putin has ended in switzerland. The two leaders held about four hours of talks. Topics included, nuclear arms control, opposition figure, alexi navalny, and alleged cyber attacks by moscow. Our north america editor, jon sopel, has more. Best wishes and goodbye. He says best wishes and goodbye in russian. And with those words, the swiss president left them to it. There was little in the way of theatrics or fanfare, and the body language suggested a good deal of wariness on both sides as the us and russian presidents shook hands on the portico of this handsome 18th century villa, overlooking lake geneva. I m not sure how this is working. In the library, they sat somewhat awkwardly. A reporter asked the russian president whether he feared the opposition leader, alexei navalny. No comment. The american president was asked whether he trusted vladimir putin. He appeared to no
without food and water. how he s defending himself. growing fears of variants, and whether the new mutation may require a third shot and the biggest drop of life expectancy since world war ii dr. anthony fauci one-on-one of whether he says teachers need to be vaks ccinated before schools reopen. the new investigation of covid deaths in new york of nursing homes. the fellow democrat says governor cuomo threatens him for speaking out nasa s mission all coming down to a nail-biting seven minutes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, from deep freeze and days without power now crisis of no water. a million or more people are still in the dark with millions more without drinkable water, melting snow for basic needs. we ll take you there in a moment there is also news we ll get to about the vaccines and those dangerous covid strains and later talk about sticking a landing. the big deal that happens on mars and the first photo. let s start clos
leaving on vacation in cancun before thinking better of it, after one night at the ritz carlton. more on his story in just a bit. while the power is back on in all but about 350,000 homes, and that s a lot but it s not 5 million, the weather has left exploded pipes, major floods, people s homes have been destroyed. while taps are dry and millions are going without running water, food is also now in short supply. grocery shelves, refrigerator cases are largely empty. getting away is something most people can t do. many highway overpasses are just closed because they re frozen. fuel is in short supply. gas stations running out. no one seems to have any propane. tonight in a great state of 30 million people, people are focused on their survival and their loved ones. right now we re just we re really concerned about how fast the temperature is really dropping insides. it s, you know, either you stay in your house and, you know, you are cold and you freeze to death and you
their loved ones. right now we re just we re really concerned about how fast the temperature is really dropping inside. it s, you know, either you stay in your house and, you know, you are cold and you freeze to death and you have no food. i don t know how many gas stations we went to. five maybe. at least. at least. and we haven t been able to find fuel. we only have like two cases of water left, so we re trying to divide it between two families. there are still folks in danger. there are still people without power. and there are a lot of people who simply can t afford to go into the stores, so we re trying to do mass distribution sites. but things are real tenuous for a lot of people in the city. our friends at the texas tribune report things could have been worse if such a thing is possible. officials say the state was, quote, seconds and minutes away from a power grid failure that could have caused a months long blackout. this week s weather has been d
part of the massive empire. this is the third such mission for jeff bezos s. origins space group and this will be the most crowded yet all six seats filled. stranahan himself squeezed in with five others but he was commenting earlier, ground controlling vanhorn, texas, for the launch. t minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, four, main engine start, two, one. [engine roaring] [engine roaring] [silence] [silence] bill: for those just tuning in you are witnessing the third launch of the blue origin rocket, the new shepard rocket named after alan shepard, the first american to go into space on a suborbital flight. all the various new shepard rockets, the first mission they are all suborbital, about 10 minutes. we are already about halfway into this. technically getting into space, they are going to have a couple minutes to look around. you might be hearing crewmembers inside. let s go back. never seen anything like this. all right. there we go. make sure you know where your seat is.