Journey in our exclusive conversation. This is nbc Nightly News with Lester Holt good evening, everyone todays big news from pfizer, that its vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5 to 11 comes as beleaguered parents, schools and hospitals confront an increasing number of Pediatric Covid cases. Nearly 226,000 Child Covid infections reported last week alone. The Pfizer Vaccine for kids tested a smaller dose than what adults are receiving must now pass a rigorous review by the fda before it is approved for emergency use. Once okayed, it opens another avenue of defense against the virus for children and the general population but for some parents, it also forces hard questions, similar to the ones that divided adults to trust the vaccine or not Stephanie Gosk has details. Reporter Elementary Schools could soon be better protected from covid. Pfizer announcing today that its vaccine is safe and effective for children between the ages of 5 and 11 the trial of 2,000 kids showed the
Well have numbers and analysis. We begin with major immigration news. President biden is abSorbing another major Policy Hit Tonight with a ruling that democrats cannot include Immigration Reform, a path to citizenship and the massive tax and spend plan they call Human Infrastructure this as they desperately try to ease the mass of illegal immigrants many of them haitians along the Southern Border in one texas town. We have Fox Team Coverage Tonight Aishah Hasnie on Capitol Hill with all the goings on there Bill Melugin in Del Rio, texas again tonight. Good evening, bill. We have redialed. Bill bret, good evening to you. Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Biden asking him to declare a federal emergency here in texas over whats going on here in Del Rio. You can see over my shoulder there are still thousands of migrants living in this makeshift camp. The conditions are brutal. Its incredibly hot out here and this Border Crisis is only getting worse. [speaking are spanis
And what a legacy. And splashdown the four tourists aboard the Spacex Inspiration 4 capsule successfully return to earth. Hello. After the french president ordered the recall of ambassadors To Australia and the us, washington says it plans to hold talks with senior french officials in the coming days to calm the diplomatic storm. The french ambassador To Australia has now left the country, describing as a huge mistake its decision to unilaterally cancel a Submarine Contract worth tens of billions of dollars. From paris, heres hugh schofield. For the americans, the australians and the british, its a new alliance to ensure stability in the pacific and thwart the strategic ambitions of china. But Australias Decision to buy nuclear submarines from the us has left the french feeling stunned and humiliated. Their contract with australia has been simply binned. Ordered back home by President Macron, the french ambassador to canberra was as polite as he could be about the reasons for frances a
Back on earth. The Crew Members of Inspiration 4 are home after their historic threeday mission. Live from cnn center, this is Cnn Newsroom with Robyn Curnow. A chilling warning from the cia came too late to stop a u. S. Air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. According to three sources, the Intelligence Agency warned there were likely civilians in the area, possibly children, just seconds before this missile found its target. This is what they were looking at. The military hit the toyota following a Suicide Bombing that killed 13 u. S. Troops and scores of afghans racing to evacuate at the Kabul Airport. But the pentagon now admits that No One in this car was linked to isisk. The taliban are condemning the u. S. Strike despite their own history of killing civilians. Heres what a spokesperson for the militants told cnn. It is great to see that they got the courage to confess the truth. But they didnt do so for the last 20 years. They targeted thousands of women, childre
Crew members of Inspiration 4 Return Home after their historic threeday mission. A warning from the cia came too late to stop a u. S. Air strike that killed ten afghan civilians last month. According to three sources, the Intelligence Agency warned there were likely civilians in the area and possibly children just seconds before the missile hit. The strike followed a Suicide Bombing that killed 13 u. S. Troops and scores of afghans at the kabul airport, but the pentagon now admit is No One in the car was linked to isisk, calling the Air Strike a mistake. Cnns Nic Robertson has been speaking to the relatives of those killed and he filed this report from kabul. This is a lot of children this is part of the children up here . Reporter yeah. Ahmaudi shows me his shattered house. Reporter its heartbreaking now to see this now and know that they say it was just a mistake. No one has had the heart to clean it up since the Drone Strike three weeks ago. My cute daughter that died, she was so li