president trump in georgia tonight. what he asked the governor to do to overturn the election results. new holiday shopping warning the cities saying avoid in-store shopping the blowup over masks. i disagree. you re wearing you re required to wear a mask. it s science and now this americans are predicted to ship hundreds of millions more packages this month than carriers can deliver. and the grinch who failed to steal christmas. how this attempt to take trees turned into the holiday gift that keeps giving and giving. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening. we ve been running out of ways to say grim new milestone, talking about covid. it s now so far beyond that this week it surpassed heart disease as our country s top killer today more drastic measures to try to slow the spread. southern california is now set to go into full lockdown, issuing a stay-at-home order to begin tomorrow at midnight and more states and regions may n
killed in a grocery store parking lot. plus, yet another proud boy tells the court he s a changed man who regrets his actions on january 6th. he sees them now as unimaginable. how did the judge respond? the prison time he s now facing on seven felony charges for storming the capitol. but we begin with the rapidly intensifying political division surrounding former president donald trump s legal issues in georgia. one of the former president s supporters is now suggesting that if the fulton county case goes to trial, it s inviting civil war. we need to be taking action right now because if we don t, our constituencies are going to be fighting in the streets. do you want a civil war? i don t want a civil war. i don t want to have to draw my rifle. well, the state s republican governor, brian kemp is trying to tamp down any and all threatening rhetoric, rejecting calls by trump and some of his supporters to start impeachment proceedings against d.a. fani willis. in geor
and happening right now at a d.c. court, a member of the proud boys facing sentencing for his role on january 6th, how long he could face behind bars. good day to you, it s 10:00 this friday morning eastern time. i m peter alexander reporting from washington, we are going to begin with that breaking economic news, the u.s. economy adding 187,000 jobs in the last month, in the month of august, nearly 20,000 more than what the analysts have been predicting. the unemployment rate, as you note, it went up about, well, 0.3% to 3.8%. the highest place it s been since february of last year. we want to get to nbc news business and data reporter brian cheung. he is at the big board with the very latest on all of this. brian, walk us through these numbers and what you find significant. yeah, good morning, peter. there s a lot of numbers in here. let s add a little bit of context to help us understand exactly what it is we re looking at. as you mentioned, 187,000 jobs. that s how
also breaking, massive wildfires in washington state. thousands fleeing their homes, the view from the sky, terrifying, and new fear of powerful winds fueling the flames deadly missile strike in ukraine, russia hitting this theater, at least seven killed, more than 100 injured. major derailment in oklahoma, what sent these train cars flying off the rails. new video of a driverless taxi and a fire engine colliding. the major decision about this new technology protests over the death of a beloved orca held in captivity it was set to go free. why animal rights groups are outraged. we need to do better than this and the united airlines pilot who said he hit a breaking point. what drove him to attack this parking gate with an ax. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening, we begin tonight with a hurricane barrelling toward the united states that in itself is a major headline, but what makes this storm so historic and so dangerous is wh
defend nato countries if they didn t pull their weight, but that he would encourage putin to invade the countries if they didn t pull their weight. he sided with a dictator who kills his political opponents. he sided with a tyrant who s made no bones about wanting to destroy america, and you re going to side with something like that over the allies who stood with us at 9/11? that s nikki haley continuing to call out donald trump for his comments and his relationship with vladimir putin. it comes as the former president is making the death of russia s main opposition leader all about himself. meanwhile, president biden is considering new action against russia in response to alex nee navalny s death, but biden s promise to provide aid to ukraine in its fight against putin s army is still stalled in the republican controlled house. we ll go through all of that straight ahead. plus, israel is giving hamas an ultimatum on the remaining hostages. free them by romra apdan or fac