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families sue florida to stop the governor s mask mandate ban. many classes there start tomorrow. the battle against california s biggest single wildfire ever. 30,000 people out of their homes. our exclusive interview with the governor. taliban forces take over multiple cities in afghanistan just weeks after most u.s. troops left. the american embassy warning all citizens to get out now. we re on the ground. and a hero welcome. the epic homecoming as america s athletes return home. i just feel so honored and blessed to be able to represent this amazing country. the emotional reunions weeks in the making. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. i m hallie jackson in for kate. as we come on the air, the covid cries sis deepening in parts of america. hospitals in some places overwhelmed again. we will get to all of it tonight, but we very least a reason to exhale with the olympics coming to a close today. athletes from around the w ....
don lemon tonight. i owe you 40 seconds but the 40 seconds the audience got with that kid is a griift, brother. it s so rare somebody can reinforce the blessing and curse of this life and fragility of h hu human. i didn t know her story. it s agt, right? america s got talent, i m not a watcher but you introduced her to them and you also introduced what s happening in this country right now and the fragility of life, how fragile life is and how we have to live our lives but we must do what is right in order to continue to live our lives in the right way, which is relatable as it comes to this pandemic and the delta variant and getting a vaccine. i think it s all related. live your best life and the best way to do that is follow the science. i mean, the idea of watching that kid and her i know she s not a kid. i know she s a full grown adult. i know that. i m just saying i m old. anybody who is under 30 is a kid to us. but, you know, to hear her talking abou ....
them to safety. i think it s what we owe them after the work they have done for us. we do. it s an important interview, ali. it is the kind of commitment that no one would have doubted one america first invaded afghanistan, and to think we could, 20 years later, be wondering what s the obligation is or trying to calculate what the obligation is it such a strange situation. yeah. it is a little weird, it takes your breath away. lawrence, you have a great show tonight. thank you, my friend. thank you, ali. appreciate it. we will be joined later in the hour by the chair of the new york state democratic party, jay jacobs. he is now saying that the democratic governor of new york should resign. this is an unprecedented situation in new york and we will get to it later. we will begin tonight with the delta variant of covid-19 which is bad enough and now there is a new variant called delta plus and there will be new variants after that until, and unless the vaccine gets ....
scared to return home and fears for her family s safety. and jamaica s elaine thompson herah becomes the first woman in history to win gold medals for the 100 metre and 200 metre races at back to back olympics. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 6pm in washington, where president biden has said that andrew cuomo should stand down as governor of new york after an investigation found that he had sexually harassed women while in office. mr cuomo has denied allegations that he harassed 11 women, many of them young, by engaging in what the investigation described as unwanted groping, kisses, hugging and inappropriate comments. mr biden said he had not read the details of the investigation, but he said he stood by his comments from earlier this year that if the investigation found against mr cuomo, then the governor should go. back in march, you said if the investigation confirmed the allegations against ....
ladies, welcome to you both. let s go first to you, kathy, close to me in new york, what more are we learning from the cdc data on the breakthrough cases? reporter: good afternoon to you. we are learning the extent of how dangerous the delta variant really is and how contagious it is, even among the fully vaccinated. cdc officials are saying the war has essentially changed. you mentioned earlier that there was an outbreak just a couple weeks ago in provincetown, massachusetts, and among the infected three-quarters were actually fully vaccinated, and based on further testing most of them had the delta variant. also at this current rate, according to the cdc documents, at this current rate we re seeing 35,000 breakthrough cases, but we do want to let folks know health officials are saying that vaccines are still effective, despite these new alarming numbers, and this is more reason for folks to get vaccinated, because we know now how contagious the delta variant is. it ....