as pfizer makes moves to approve a covid booster vaccine, u.s. health officials are pushing back. an epidemiologist will weigh in. and england doesn t come out on top. painfully. but tonight s soccer match is one for the books. i ll share my thoughts on why england making it to the 2020 final of the euros may help redefine what it means to be english, what patriotism means. good evening. there are two words to every american concerned about the future of our democracy should be aware of, election subversion. that is the biggest threat we face. yes, the assault on vote rights is a huge problem. as we documented on this show, week in and week out. and, yes, the myriad and grotesque ways in which local republicans are perfecting the art of voter suppression. it is a massive threat to our democracy and to racial equality. but the biggest threat of all, one perhaps shamefully underdiscussed in our politics and media so far is the threat of election subversion. to quote an electi
is a huge problem. we documented on the show. week in and week out. and, yes, the myriad and grotesque ways in which local republicans are perfecting the art of voter suppression. but the biggest threat of all, shamefully underdiscussed in our politics and needa so far is the threat of election subversion. to quote election expert, it s trained to manipulate the rules for who counts the votes in a way that could allow for a official to declare the loser as the winner. in a new essay for the atlantic which i urge you to read, political scientists authors of the acclaimed and rather envelope book how democracies die issued this stark blunt hair raising warning. the greatest threat to american democracy today is not a repeat of january 6th but the possibility of a stolen election. at the ballot box through measures no, ma am inally constitutional. the looming danger is not that the mob will return it s that mainstream republicans will illegally pick a election. the new york ti
hello and welcome to bbc news. the united nations and the international red cross are continuing their efforts in ukraine to rescue more civilians from the besieged city of mariupol. on friday, 50 more people, including children, were evacuated from a huge steel factory complex. these are the latest pictures of some of those who ve got out. the azovstal plant is under siege by russian forces. dozens are still trapped inside. the city, in the country s south, has been under constant shelling by the russian military. the steelworks has become the last holdout of ukrainian forces who are fighting to defend mariupol. our correspondent laura bicker has sent this report from dnipro. the russian attacks continue despite promises of a cease fire, according to this unverified footage released by the ukrainian azov unit. kremlin backed troops are still firing on this vast steel plant, according to uk intelligence, while ukrainian soldiers and hundreds of civilians shelter inside. they
announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening terrifying images coming out of cuba tonight. a five-star hotel in downtown havana ripped by a massive and deadly explosion the death toll rising as rescuers search for the missing. dozens of injured were rushed to hospitals. cellphone video capturing the moment of the explosion as the saratoga hotel was quickly engulfed in smoke and dust its facade crumbled by the blast. cuban authorities tonight blaming the blast on a gas leak. the hotel once frequented by well heeled tourists and celebrities including some americans was closed for renovation. kerry sanders now with late developments. reporter: moments after the explosion, a witness began recording as the cloud of dust from the blast enveloped the streets of old havana. a witness points and yells, there s people alive, there s people alive! in the rubble another says, there s one, there s one! bystanders, police, firefighters began climbing over con
another virus? dr. ashish jha, the white house response coordinator, on all of this stop sign night. also as we come on the air, the tornado watches across nine states. severe storms, damaging winds. alerts from florida to virginia. then the northeast will feel this, too. rob marciano on the severe storms tonight and then what to expect on mother s day. the new turn tonight in the hunt for the escaped murder suspect and the corrections officer. where they found a car and what they believe because of where it was abandoned. and why did it take days to connect the dots on the car? tonight, the deadly explosion in a hotel in havana, cuba. emergency crews searching for more possible victims at this hour. the war in ukraine. 50 civilians, including children, evacuated tonight from that massive steel plant. and new reporting here on the u.s. intelligence that helped ukraine sink that russian ship. ian pannell from ukraine tonight. back here at home, the plane crashing in