and what about the dozens who received the expired shot outbreaks at supermarkets nearly 150 employees testing positive at a single costco. how safe are essential-store workers and customers? the major winter storm on the move. drivers stranded in snow overnight 50 million americans in its path. for the first time, congress overrides a veto from president trump. and how vice president pence is responding to new republican efforts to get him to overturn the election s results. plus, elmo s important, new mission, as sesame street goes where it s never gone before. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and happy new year i am peter alexander, in for lester. we start off tonight with the increasingly urgent challenges in the fight against coronavirus. growing fears that last night s holiday gatherings will compound an already overwhelming surge in cases in much of the country. and new frustration that distribution of those vaccines, that offer
they don t understand, or are not focused on inflation. malarkey. malarkey? promises about inflation didn t age well. promises rocketing to the highest level in 48 years increasing to a whopping 7%. but joe claims it s a process and a food and gas prices and the cost of living is a global problem. it s not just that it s costing a lot more, it s whether or not you can find what you re looking for. they are self s problem is not going way a shoppers compare with going onto the soviet union. spike that, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is doing supply chain crisis victory lap. one of the reasons why christmas was not in fact cancel is that ports like l.a. and long beach moved record levels of goods allowing an all-time record high in terms of retail sales at this holiday season. considering the pressures that this country in this community, these community to have been under complacent extremity achievement. greg: he saved christmas. congratulations to judge jeanin
boosted you are highly protected. you know, be concerned about omicron, but don t be alarmed. and if you are unvaccinated, you have some reason to be alarmed. lawrence: you have heard this before. biden continues to blame the unvaccinated americans for the surge in covid across the country. but do you buy that? how many vaccinated people do you know who have received right now? he doesn t care though, is he asleep at the wheel. here he is reading another crooked lie his handlers wrote in the teleprompter, watch. there is no excuse, no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. lawrence: it s the unvaccinated people. they are the enemy. joe, just let it go. you got to wonder why is he so obsessed with pushing this vaccine? why is he telling people with valid medical excuses they don t have an excuse and why did he interfere in the fda approval process in order to jam through booster shots for children? it s easier than ev
with a campaign that promised to, first, fire donald trump, and then launch a massive public health campaign, including vaccination to fight covid-19 and pull the american economy out of the pandemic recession. so how is the biden-harris team doing? we passed two pieces of legislation, the american rescue plan delivered immediately to millions of people and rescued the economy from the brink. we re going faster than any other nation in the world in terms of our growth rate. since its passage, we had a record number of jobs, 6 million jobs since january 20th. [ applause ] no new president ever created that many jobs as quickly. and we ve seen the extraordinary drop in unemployment. we passed the most important piece of legislation ever passed since the eisenhower administration, the interstate highway system. this is going to create good-paying jobs you can raise a family on. as of now, we have, had, as in past tense, lifted 40% of america s children out of poverty. [ appl
joe biden and kamala harris. pulling the american economy out of the recession. how is the biden/harris team doing? american rescue plan delivered relief to millions of people. we are growing faster than any other nation in the world. we have a record number of jobs. we created over 6 million jobs since january 20th. no new president ever created that many jobsas quickly. we have seen the extraordinary drop in unemployment and passed the most important piece of legislation ever passed since the eisenhower administration. this law will create millions of good paying jobs that you can raise a family on. we have, past tense, lifted 40% of america s children out of poverty. let s reflect on what that means. talk about trancetransformative. elections matter. it is not about a victory celebration or a pat on the back but what can we achieve with the time that we have that directly impacts so many people? and in the most ignored huge accomplishment of the joe biden/chuck schum