live in milwaukee at the site of the republican national convention. my good friend and co-anchor, brianna keeler is live for us in the nation s capital. and here are the convention. it is the final day tonight, former president donald trump will take the stage to formally accept the republican nomination. and deliver his first major speech since nearly being assassinated trump s original plans for what he described as a humdinger of a speech, getting scrapped instead, trump writing a new speech. he says to meet the moment. and in a new video, trump is talking about that terrifying incident last weekend. let s listen this, has been our best campaign and then i got was amazing, horrible thing, amazing thing. in many ways, it changes your, your attitude, your viewpoint are live and i think honestly, i think you appreciate god even more really do something something happened i was trump gets set to speak to what appears to be a unified republican party. it s almost the compl
675,000 estimated to have been lost in the 1918 flu pandemic. this is now the deadliest disease and mass death event in u.s. history. today there was hope of shielding young children from the virus, that is parents who are willing to give them the vaccine. pfizer says its vaccine is safe for children 5 to 11. and there has been heat on the travel ban over foreign visitors. the white house will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals to fly into our country in november. and as mentioned, biden will make his debut at the general assembly tomorrow. this is at a time after the afghanistan withdrawal and when france is angry at us. we are committed to those alliances, the threat of leveling the economic playing field. those are all issues we will continue to work with our partners on. the president s ambitious push to rebuild the infrastructure and safety net is running into the realities of the house and senate, back in session for the first time since july. looking to make
we must all band together for the sake of humanity itself. today many of the concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic we need a collective act of science and political will. ending this pandemic, addressing the climate crisis, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the roles of the world on vital issues like trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. where we apply and strengthen the core tenets of the international system, including the charter and declaration of human rights as we seek to shape the emergence of new technologies and deter new threats. or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? simply put, we stand in inflection point in history. an inflection point and also a threatening point in the u.s., with s
and moment of truth as a divide in the party throws the president s agenda into question. we ought not talk about these numbers. let s talk about what needs to be done. but can democratic governors get it done. i will speak with jim clyburn ahead. as president biden tries to refocus on his legislative agenda, pushing through a massive $3.5 trillion spending bill that could define his presidency . only furthering confusion, for so many americans, as the pandemic hits another horrifying milestone this week, one in 500 americans have died from the virus, more than 673,000 people represented here on the national mall with flags for each death. this debate over boosters comes as the biden administration is on its heels, with a number of of crises of its own doing, facing a devastating acknowledgment from the pentagon friday that a drone strike in afghanistan killed ten civilians, a surge of migrants at the southern border leaving thousands of people, mostly from haiti, huddl
unanimously rejected the president s announcement that boosters would be approved by today for the general population. it s a tough time for president biden on other fronts. his entire domestic agenda is in jeopardy as time is running out for a deeply divided congress to pass his mega infrastructure bill. while overseas france is furious over being blind sided by the u.s. on that $60 billion submarine contract. and all the nato allies are burning from the messy withdrawal from afghanistan. the pentagon having to admit instead of isis bombers its drone strike in kabul killed ten civilians including seven children and an aid worker for a u.s. charity. a new crisis at the border with 15,000 stranded haitians living under a bridge between texas and mexico. we begin with the pfizer trial and nbc s gabe gutierrez residence in spokane, washington. this is very promising news for families, but the current covid crisis inside hospitals out where you are is intensifying. reporter