has become. and going home with gold. the olympic flame extinguished in tokyo. how american athletes, especially american women, stole the show. i m phil mattingly in washington in for fredricka whitfield. right now, the covid pandemic is surging in the u.s. and shows no signs of slowing down. to know how bad it is, all you have to do is look at the numbers. the average number of daily cases has increased nine fold since july, the delta variant fuelling this rise in cases and overwhelming hospitals in many states. hospital even more troubling is how this variant is affecting children. childhood and teen cases have jumped 84% in the past week. despite those numbers, only half of the country is vaccinated. health officials say the drive is because of the unvaccinated which make up most of the hospitalizations and deaths we re seeing now. we would not be in the place we are in right now with this delta surge if we had been more effective in getting everybody to take advantag
and a new breed of elected representatives have proven they ll do their best to hold firm to the america first principle that should come to define her future. and that s where we start tonight. a time for action, that s the focus of tonight s first angle. in case you didn t notice, democrats love shutdowns and covid mandates as much as they love, i don t know, high taxes. i think it s safe to say that many were never happier than when americans were forced by their government out of the workforce come out of school, away from church, and even away from friends and family. not only was there all that interrupted time to finally catch all six seasons of downton abbey, all that time for youtube yoga and planting herb gardens. it it presented a golden opportunity. the viral emergency could offer a stealth way to change america forever. a fearful public, they wagered, would also be a complacent public. interestingly, anti-lockdown demonstrations have drawn massive numbers abroa
zone. also tonight, the first 2 of donald trump s 18 co-defendants in the georgia election case surrendering at an atlanta jail. among them, attorney john eastman accused of plotting what s been called a fake elector scheme. it comes as mr. trump confirms when he will turn himself in. the miracle rescue, seven students and a teacher dangling nearly a thousand feet in the air after a cable car s line snaps in pakistan. the incredible video, a helicopter hoisting one passenger to safety. the home explosion that killed the father of an nfl star. what we re learning. the fatal school bus crash in ohio on the first day of the new school year. the gunman identified in the fatal shooting of a california shop owner over her pride flag. was it a hate crime? and american sha carri richardson racing into history, the thrilling moment she became the world s fastest woman. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. tonight,
the first day of the new school year. the gunman identified in the fatal shooting of a california shop owner over her pride flag was it as hate crime and american sha carri richardson racing into history. the thrilling moment she became the world s fastest woman. good evening, and welcome, everyone. tonight, as the tropical storm season heats up with a new storm battering texas, southern california still feeling the effects of its rare encounter with a tropical storm over the weekend. since then, rescuers have been focused on reaching people in mountain communities who have been cut off by washed out roads. rescuing many trapped in homes and cars by mud, debris, and rising flood waters. crews resorting to using the bucket of a bulldozer to lift residents of a care home to safety tropical storm hilary barrelled through the region, dumping record amounts of rain. idaho and montana, along with oregon and nevada all broke rainfall records nevada measuring over nine inches.
southern california tonight. the storm officially made landfall four hours to go over mexico baja peninsula. it s expected to move up through southern california and into the data over the next 24 hours spread fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is looking how much rate and where it is awkward default. lots of rain we are really kind of in the heart of it as we speak right on the big bands of showers continuing to push their way into southern california. everevery one of these little gn boxes is a plush flood warning that s currently in place. they have been in place here for a little while. this one in los angeles county really running into the northern part of the county pretty get a little bit more of elevation in the hills very heavy rain will be racing doubt into the city but you ll see some of these warnings pop up in portions of san diego county as well. very heavy rain it s going to go on for hours and hours and hours. this the first initial heavy round of showers