to make accusations. charlotte bennett and lindsey boylan were the first ones to accuse him of inappropriate action. anna ruch also came forward about an allegation in 2018. what do you think of this now that the governor has said he refuses to step down? reporter: he has faced these accusations over the course of the last week and we re hearing from more women who said they faced inappropriate conduct from the governor. the governor has said in no uncertain terms that he has no plans to resign. the state s attorney general are looking into allegations of sexual harrassment. he said the investigation must be allowed to run its course. here s what he had to say about that. i was elected by the people of the state. i wasn t elected by politicians. i m not going to resign because of allegations. the premise of resigning because of allegations is actually anti-democratic. the system is based on due process and the credibility of the allegation. anybody has the ability to make
asian women. i want people to finally hear us for us, not only when we re trending. this awakening moment for asian-americans to stand up and raise our voice. law enforcement will go through the work we have to do, but we all know hate when we see it. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day, march 22nd, 6:00 here in new york. we begin with breaking vaccine news. astrazeneca with new information. data from a large u.s. trial shows that their vaccine is 79% effective with no serious side effects. the company will now apply for emergency use authorization from the fda. as of this morning nearly one in four americans has been at least partially vaccinated and 13% are fully vaccinated, but there are hot spots still developing around the country. overnight, the city of miami extending its kcurfew for severl weeks to control the rowdy crowds you re seeing on the screen, police called in once again to rein in. police
our team at the scene. the fbi chief telling congress the capitol riot was domestic terrorism and after police said they didn t see the fbi s warning the night before, how he s defending his agency the third woman accusing new york governor andrew cuomo of unwanted advances the growing calls for him to resign. new images from the crash involving an nfl coach. the 5-year-old victim now out of a coma, but what her family now fears. the firestorm over dr. seuss. why several of his books will no longer be published and the mystery. who s been leaving huge tips for restaurant workers announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. we ve got a lot to tell you about tonight, beginning with the accelerated covid vaccination timetable just announced by president biden. he s now saying there will be enough vaccine on hand for every adult american by the end of may that s two months sooner than originally expected thanks to an unusual arran
doubt that it happened. what we do know from marjorie taylor greene is she said it was a great call. she was grateful to have what she called the former president s support, and she also said that democrats are now attacking her in the same way that they used to attack donald trump. so, assuming that call happened, it is significant just because it shows how the former president remains in the background pulling strings, despite the fact that he does not is a twitter megaphone even as his own party up here on capitol hill continues the identity crisis, the blood letting, if you will. there s another example of that, as you mentioned, that is the back and forth between marjorie taylor greene and senator mitt romney of utah. romney tweeted out talking about the lies marjorie taylor greene has told and her claims that the election was stolen. she essentially shot back that romney cares nothing about what she called the people s number one concern, and then, there was this, pleas
charge of the recovery act and it was hard as hell to get the votes for it to begin with. and then it was hard as hell to get the number even we got. but one thing we learned, is we can t do too much here. we could do too little. we could do too little and sputter. real live people are hurting and we could fix it. and we could fix it. that is has been his message from the beginning. and president biden is focused on this today. he s expecting to speak live later this hour and on how ep plans to revised the economy in response to covid. and the latest jobs report came out this morning showing only 49,000 jobs were added last month across country. and still there is more. on capitol hill, republican freshman marjorie taylor greene, she s about to hold a news conference and at the moment i m going to use the term news conference loosely as we will see if she actually takes questions from actual real reporters which she has long avoided. greene now without any committee assignm