Children in the school district. They simply showed up they say to make their voices heard. That was nbc s dasha burns th reporting from williamson county, tennessee. Well, it is the top of the hour and good to be with you tonight. We re watching two evacuations this evening. Hurricane ida is approaching land from the gulf and many coastal residents are leaving the coast. Meanwhile the dangerous evacuation effort continues overseas in kabul. Th it s a race against time to evacuate all american personnel before the deadline to leave afghanistan. Plus the pfizer vaccine now has full fda approval, so why are some americans choosing to selfmedicate with a drug used on horses?at and despite living through so turmoil and uncertainty, a new poll shows today s youth are still optimistic about the future. We ll discuss this and more with our saturday night panel. From nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. This has been an emotional somewhat unrelentin
A case blown apart when a secret relationship revealed. I don t get a chance to explain it? you are not controlling this anymore. Exposing hidden bombshell evidence. He s on the property where a woman is murdered and we don t know who he is. Everyone on social media was like, that s the guy that did it. Who was in prison, the real killer or the wrong man? we still have a murderer out there. You never know how something s gonna go. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Michelle mockbee met the love of her life, dan at the warehouse where they both worked worked. They married, had two kaurs and were busy juggling jobs and family. Then a day that began like any other suddenly turned deadly. A security camera quickly led police to a suspect. Just when michelle s loved ones thought justice had been served a scandal turned this story on its head. Here s josh mankiewicz with the early shift. They call it the early shift for a reason. It was still an hour before dawn in this small town in northern k
While celebrities sometimes use their stardom to go into politics, she reached fame as a politician. The 31yearold is outspoken, uncompromising, and not just navigating the political world but trying to change it. All while love her or hate her, everyone is watching. You re now in your second term in the house. You have 12 million twitter followers, 9 million instagram followers and they all know you by three letters. Aoc. So what s it like to be aoc? you know, it s an interesting question because i just feel like i m me. What i really try to be is to be like my neighbors and to be like the folks at the bow dega i get coffee from but there s surreal parts of the experience but i don t feel like that s part of me. I feel like it s part of this really weird world that i ve walked into. How are you feeling? can you put it into words? nope, i cannot put this into words. This was election night in june of 2018. When she stunned everyone including herself. Beating congressman joe crawley in
Practically overnight. It s all part of bebeing aoc. Good morning. I m dana bash. Tonight is the first in a series of special hours where i spend time with people in the news and try to find out what it s like to be them. We begin with congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. While celebrities sometimes use their stardom to go into politics, she reached fame as a politician. The 31yearold is outspoken, uncompromising and not just navigating the political world, but trying to change it. All while love her or hate her, everyone is watching. You re now in your second term in the house. You have 12 million twitter followers. 9 million instagram followers. And they all know you by three letters, aoc. So what s it like to be aoc? you know, it s an interesting question because i just feel like i m me. What i really try to be is to be like my neighbors and to be like the folks at the place i get coffee from. But there s also the surreal parts of the experience. But i don t feel like that s part
Good morning to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. I m john berman with rhianna keeler. This morning for the first time since february the u. S. Is averaging more than 100,000 new covid cases per day. That is the highest it has been an almost 6 months. Hospitalizations also continue to rise. More than 66,000 now. The number of deaths is headed in the wrong direction. One out of every five people hospitalized in this country is in florida right now. In jacksonville, six members of one church died within two weeks. And the pastor says 18 to 20 other church members are hospitalized with a virus. On sunday the church held its first vaccination clinic. One florida doctor says children s hospitals in the state are overwhelmed while republican governor ron desantis resists calls to require massive schools. Here s how dr. Jonathan reiner describe the search. It is so high in florida that i think if florida or another country we would have to consider banning travel from