and the soccer sisters making history on team usa. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening as we try to take back our lives and put covid in the rear-view mirror, health officials are looking over their shoulders tonight, watching the delta covid variant gain ground. the head of the cdc telling me today that vaccinated americans appear to be protected from the highly aggressive strain of the virus while warning the unvaccinated that they should no longer put off the shots, calling recent covid deaths in this country avoidable. over 177 million or at least partially vaccinated in this country but a cdc panel tonight is offering rare insight into a rare heart-related issue that has occurred among some vaccine recipients we ll have some of my conversation with the cdc director about the delta variant and whether booster shots are necessary, but first, here s morgan chesky reporter: tonight, a cdc panel saying there is a likely association between a rare h
i m lindsey reiser. y i m kendis gibson. we have our correspondents standing by with all the stories we re covering. we begin with the murder trial of derek chauvin with closing arguments set to begin tomorrow. this comes on theeg heels of growing protests over other police-involved incidents. nbc sci megan fitzgerald has mo on this. good morning. good morning.d hundreds of people gathering outside the brooklyn center police department last night in what wasst the seventh day of f protests. it was mainly peaceful. people gathering, chanting, wanting , peace, wanting justic. but it was different from what went saw friday night when near 100 people were taken into to custody. we also heard last night from maxine waters of california who addressed the crowd. take a listen to what her message was. this is a very difficult time in the v history of this countr. despite the fact that we know that people of color are having have been killed too often, bunarmed young men in p
that is being managed. i have been governor under three presidents, and this is by far, the worst situation we ve seen. new york state has identified its first case of the p 1 variant. it s really quite resistant to the kind of natural immunity that you get from having had the disease. the mayor announcing a curfew in the south beach entertainment district. too many people coming are coming with the desire to let loose and go off. and there is lady liberty, as we wake up on this sunday morning, and as always, so grateful to have you with us. it is sunday, march 21st, i m christi paul. and i m boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. always great to see you. hope you re having a great sunday morning. you too. so glad to have you with us. getting that wake up call again. and we want to begin with this growing frustration we re seeing among some in the asian american community days after that deadly rampage, at three atlanta area spas, investigators, even this morn
they argue extensively that women are doing very well in this era. and in response to that we hear forcefully from the solicitor general saying this is a fundamental right and we cannot take away fundamental rights without good reasons and she does an excellent job taking away the cases that justice kafr kavanaugh speaks about the issue. how do you see this and what are we going to see going forward? what will happen? how long will they take? the attorney general continued to make the case saying this is like the brown vs. board of education. and he concluded by saying this. this is not brown versus board of education. this is the opposite of brown. it over ruled one of the maybe worse supreme court cases that was so fundamentally intentioned with our nation s ideals. it said we don t leave that up to a majority vote. we get into the thicket and say this is off of the table. justice cavanagh was saying let s leave this up to the people. let s not dirty our hands on deci
ron desantis, he will join us in a few moments. but first, here with the verysto latest on the ground in charleston tonight, katy burn. katy, what s going on theree: ? hi, sean. well, here in charleston, we re just getting ove her r high tide, which was what a lot of people were worried about. what happened was streets turned into flooded roads likein this because the seawall, which is right in this direction, you can t see it right now because ofw becaus how it is. we watched for hours waves from the charleston harbor crash over that seawall and unfortunately, flood roads in charleston s battery thosalso across downtown those seawalls typically protect the charleston peninsula, wherellyprotec you ke got these gorgeous historic homes, businesses where people sandbags laid out to try to stop some of the water from gettino stopom gettig in. but it s not just flooding thato we ve been monitoring here in thering of south carolina. h we ve seen tornadoes touched down acrosav tou