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i m more than willing to work with him. a senator, a vice president, and finally president-elect on his third try. i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. tonight, do you see yourself as the polar opposite of donald trump? i hope so. a cnn special report. fight for the white house: joe biden s long journey. it s a good night! it s a good night! and it seems to be getting even better. more than 30 years after his first run for the presidency joe biden with a lead tonight and a lead overall in the del inaugurate race. on his third try for the white house. we are very much alive! it was the sweet super tuesday that joe biden had always dreamed of, setting a clear path to the nomination finally at age 77. it was like, okay, let s buckle up. we re going to go. it was a really good feeling. it was glorious. glorious and unusual to say the least. fact no one has ever come in fourth in iowa and fifth in new hampshire ....
arms a day. this is the nationwide average but there are exceptions, of course. you can see in five states case rates are climbing by at least 10%. more that you from cnn s paulo sandoval. reporter: christine, laura, good morning to you. big picture, covid rates are on the decline across most of the country. 45 states according to johns hopkins university which tracks these numbers saw cases decline or remain relatively steady over the weekend. nationally the u.s. seeing 95,000 new cases throughout the day. it s more than 2 months since it s dipped below that number. that number of infections is still too high and the number of vaccinated americans is still not high enough. he s warning against declaring a premature victory. take a listen. we still have around 68 million people who are eligible to be vaccinated that have not yet gotten vaccinated and even those who have been vaccinated, you want to look forward to holiday season, spending time with your family and d ....
katty kay is with us this morning. joe, you got the end of this block to talk about the red sox. oh. you got up way too late last night so we are starting on time this morning. there were a number of developments since we left you on friday with the investigation into the january 6th attack of the capitol. the biden white house rejected a request by former president trump to use executive privilege to withhold documents under federal law the current president has the power to wave executive privilege claims by past presidents. in a letter to the national archives obtained by nbc news, white house council writes, president biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the united states. and therefore it s not justified to as to any of the documents, the white house now is authorizing the national archives to turnover an initial batch of documents covering trump s actions on january 6th including his rally at the ellipse. ....
own home and the moments the s.w.a.t. team finally took him down outrage over body camera footage showing ohio police pulling a paralyzed man from a car by his hair. we re on the water in the port of l.a. the massive effort to get those ships with all those goods from the port on to trucks and into your home plus, miracle in the woods. the toddler found alive after being lost four days he s alive, laughing, cutting up, crying his mom is crying. reporter: the image of the mother and son reunited announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz balart good evening. we begin tonight with the latest crisi to hit your wallet surely you ve noticed the rising price of goods such as food and clothes but take a look at this chart. you can see just how much mor the price of energy has spiked that means much higher prices at the pump the average cost of gas is now over $3.25 a gallon. this time a year ago, it was a full dollar cheaper and the last time gas cost t ....
we re sure to hear about this tonight when he takes the stage at a rally in iowa. as he argues that the documents are subject to executive privilege. trump can claim it all he wants, but he s not the executive anymore as we know. it s this guy. president biden. he is rejecting trump s attempt to assert executive privilege. this seems to be a legal showdown as the house select committee investigating january 6th wants these records. they re focusing in on four close trump associates, including steve bannon, who is outright defying a subpoena from the committee. let s go to joe johns who s in des moines ahead of trump s rally. joe, the former president just reached his highest favorability rating ever in iowa. i suppose that explains the reaction he s receiving there in des moines this evening. what can you tell us? first of all, looking at this crowd and comparing it to some of the other state where is the president has been are very similar. this is by far so far the ....