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this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone over 60 million of us woke up this morning to windchills at or below zero this evening, two-thirds of the country suffering beneath an arctic air mass and heading into a brutal night, including rare ice storm warnings this evening in parts of the eastern carolinas. places that rarely see such a threat. the weather service pulling no punches widespread power outages likely further south, cities including baton rouge, new orleans and boloxie under freeze warnings our emilie ikeda has details. reporter: tonight another winter wall line up pummelling the northeast. a january freeze in half the country sends temperatures plummeting 20 degrees below this time of year s average. i need all of my layers up, even the mouth and nose. reporter: 12 million are under winter alerts. a rare ice storm taking aim at weather weary residents in the carolinas, with dozens of utility crews preparing for the wors ....
will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, it s newcast. hello, it is adam in the studio. and laura in the same studio. and chris in the same studio for now. until i vacate the spot for a guest in a bit. so, actually, we have got less covid rules, but we have still got some covid rules, which is actually quite a good summary of whether a plan b still exists or not, because some bits of plan b in england still exist, but some bits of plan b disappear next week. but, it has been quite a dramatic week, where the prime minister s fortunes have ebbed and flowed and then they have relatively flowed, compared to where they were ebbing before. it has all been quite up and down. it has been really up and down. you know, downing street is still in a pretty precarious position, no doubt about that. if i choose my normal metaphor of choice, thejenga tower is very wobbly, some big pieces have been taken out, a few more may be crammed back in, maybe a little bit of sc ....
resilience in those towers that get blown over, the wires snap. we have so much we can do with this legislation now. last week we rolled out a historic investment in our nation s bridges. like the one i visited in new hampshire. where restrictions could force school buses and fire trucks to go ten miles out of the way just to get across the small river. or the i-10 bridge i visited in louisiana. it was 20 years past the planned life. it doesn t have modern safety features. and it was last inspected, the bridge is deemed to be in poor condition and now it has two lanes on the bridge, okay. that four lane interstate feeds into. creating and causing major back-ups. we re going to upgrade thousands of bridges, creating good-paying jobs, cutting commute times and ensuring that as we build back, no community gets left behind. folks, that mayor s view of the problem solving is exactly what we brought to the american rescue plan. it is designed so that you would be able to have ....
house as the capitol was under siege. it cites one of those moments saying, quote, as january 6th approached president trump attempted on multiple occasions to persuade vice president pence to participate in his plan. one of the president s discussions with the vice president occurred by phone on the morning of january 6th. you were present in the oval office and observed at least one side of that telephone conversation. end quote. ivanka trump s efforts to get the former president to call off the attack on the capitol are also under scrutiny. testimony from mike pence s then national security adviser keith kellogg is also included in the letter. here is one exchange. the committee asked him, quote, do you think that ivanka trump could help get president trump to a place where he would make a statement to try and stop this? kellogg answered, yes. the committee also asked so you thought ivanka could get her taeth to do something about it. kellogg replied take a course of ....
but the clock is ticking, so we gotta hurry. there s new rotisserie-style chicken, new peppercorn ranch, new hickory-smoked bacon, new. (whistle blowing) did you just spike the footlong? sorry, i didn t want the delay of game. save big. order through the app. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. happy friday. the sprawling investigation into the capitol insurrection now has in its possession hundreds of records, the twice impeached expresident tried really really hard to hide from them. he took that case of course all the way to the united states supreme court. these are documents that promise to reveal the inner workings of the trump administration in the run-up to the insurrection. we are now getting our first glimpse at some of those records thanks to some extraordinary reporting from our friend bets ewoodruff swan at politico. she obtained an executive order that was never issued but would amount to a dangerous power graph. it directs the defense diplomat to ....