week two, hen amin county medical examiner dr. andrew baker, who performed floyd s autopsy, is expected to testify in the next few days i want to bring in this morning nbc s shaquille brewster. he s in minneapolis. he s been covering this trial day in and day out. shaq, what are you watching for as the police chief takes the stand? i m really watching for, stephanie, what he says about derek chauvin s use of force. just to set it up a little bit, this is the police chief who fired the four officers involved in floyd s death within hours after that facebook video went viral. this is an officer who back in june told nbc news that he never wanted to mention derek chauvin by name and said he didn t even want to be in a room with ex-officer derek chauvin. this is also an officer who back in 2007 was one of four senior officers to sue the minneapolis police department alleged racial discrimination. so i m very curious how passionately he will speak against derek chauvin s use o
easter in the time of covid. we will take you to rome where the vaccine has reached new heights and more than four million doses are given per day. and a call out about the mlb and cancel culture and two former president s with very different opinions. this is cnn newsroom. easter sunday services began about an hour ago at the vatican. covid restrictions have again en intruded on the holiday. italians are now under a three-day lock down. the pope is delivering it s annual easter message that is about an hour from now. we are joined from rome. so a subdued easter as we see from a few people in what is normally a very crowded place. how is the pope grating, what s his message? well, right now i m standing in front of st. petersburg. the hope is inside holding mass. you see those pictures. what i want to show you, one of the effects of covid is normally when the pope is inside they will broadcast that on these screens, there is about five screens inside the square there.
mummies parade through the streets of cairo, making their way to their new home. coronavirus vaccinations in the u.s., reaching new heights. boosting hopes that an end to the pandemic could be within reach. the u.s., on saturday, reporting more than 4 million doses given. a new-daily record. that brings the seven-day vaccination average above the 3-million mark, for the first time, ever. more than 161-million doses have been administered, so far, in the u.s. but that progress does not mean the threat is over. several states are seeing some worrying numbers of new infections. michigan, among the worst. seeing its highest day of infections, in nearly-four months. and experts worry, that might be a sign of what is to come. top infectious-disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, spoke with cnn, earlier. he says, now isn t the time for people to let their guards down. what we re seeing, after that big peak that we had, around the christmas holidays and new year s. when it started to
who tried to resuscitate floyd. what he said about the cause of death the state of emergency in florida the toxic reservoir in danger of failing and unleashing a 20-foot wall of water. hundreds of homes evacuated. the race against time. the new image. the knife used by the attacker at the capitol on friday. the search for his motive and the new plea from the police union. the soaring price for homes. what to do if you re in the market. and our new series the american worker. how the pandemic has reshaped our workplaces, especially for women. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it is starting to look like 2019 again in a growing number of states that are rapidly shedding the restraints of the covid pandemic those states haven t beaten the coronavirus, but with more and more shots in arms there is a general sense that we re through the worst. at least that s one view the alternate view is that we re fooling ourselves as another wave
democratic leaders, plus progressives and moderate democrats. the two wings of the party tonight still at serious odds. so far, neither budging. ats issue is a vote in just five days on a bipartisan infrastructure bill. the moderates support that bill. they want to get it passed, stat. it s a bipartisan bill. the progressives, though, want action on a separate, triple the size, $3.5 trillion tax and spending plan that touches on everything from immigration to climate change to healthcare. and they say they will not support the much smaller bipartisan infrastructure bill without that spending bill, first. even as moderates say no way. that price tag is way too high. they re far apart and the stakes could not be higher for president biden. not only is his first term agenda on the line, his party which let s just be clear here, they got the white house. they got the senate. and they got the house. and they still aren t able to pass legislation. failed to make headway on key prom