approval within weeks. meantime pandemic fatigue led to some extraordinary scenes in miami beach over the weekend where tourists and spring breakers blew off any semblance of precautions, passing the streets with no mask and no social distancing. the city had to call in s.w.a.t. teams and ultimately put a curfew in place to the middle of next month. we ll get more on that from mayor dan gelber when he joins us later this hour. frustration with covid is also hitting a boiling point overseas where we saw protests and clashes with police in countries like germany and the uk, with covid surges triggered new lockdowns. in this country, cases aren t going up but they aren t going down either. officials are now seeing the next few months as a race between new cases and new vaccines averaging nearly 2.5 million a day. we ve got a lot to get to but i want to start with nbc s kerry sanders in miami beach and maura barrett in michigan, where the new case rate has nearly doubled in t
variant driving new infections and hospitalizations nationwide while omicron spreads. reporter: i m michael george in new york where too fight a winter surge masks will be required indoors. o keefe: joy ride a blue origin rocket, paying customers blast off to the edge of space. later as army-navy battle it out on the gridiron, veterans in tennessee meet again to share war stories. it was my honor to have served. this is the cbs weekend news. o keefe: good evening, i m ed o keefe. adriana diaz is off. mother nature has brutalized part of the country yet again as deadly storms scraped across at least six states overnight, causing what s likely to be the deadliest american weather disaster in more than four years. meteorologists haven t made final determinations, but by all accounts the dam is historic. look at this: the path of destruction stretches across parts of arkansas, mississippi, missouri, tennessee, illinois and kentucky. dozens are feared dead and debris in
charged in the murder of george floyd. the questions prospective jurors are being asked and the moment that caused floyd s sister to leave the courtroom. queen elizabeth breaking her silence on harry and meghan s explosive interview. what left her saddened and what she said about their allegations of racism against the family new surveillance of the person who placed pipe bombs before the capitol riot walking with a backpack the moment the suspect may have left a bomb in a park near democratic headquarters tonight the manhunt and the plea from the fbi. and a potentially life-saving change for cancer screenings. we ll tell you what you need to know announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, and welcome. reckless or realistic? across the country states are edging closer to reopening, emboldened by declining infection and hospitalization rates and the increasing number of fully vaccinated americans, now 10% of the population but the
A temporary provision to help businesses survive during the COVID-19 pandemic will be written into county code if the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors gives final approval to the