it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, a story first reported by nbc news. the biden family, privately discussing what a possible campaign exit would look like stressing it needs to be on his terms. his timing. plus, new reporting that the mood on capitol hill has shifted to when, not if biden drops out. as another eight lawmakers say the president can t win. and donald trump said his big theme was unity, but did the final version of his rnc speech deepen political divides instead of bridging them? and the global outage triggers havoc and blue screens of death around the world. from grounded flights to hospital outages, even billboards going blank in times square. we ve got the latest on what s being called history s largest i.t. outage. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin at the white house with nbc s monica alba. what more do we know about the conversations that are hap
hello and welcome. passengers who arre fully vaccinated against covid 19 will be able to fly into the us from anywhere in the world from november, bringing an end the series of travel bans first imposed by donald trump 18 months ago. the white house said today travelers will have to show proof of having been fully vaccinated and will need to take a test three days prior to travel. they will also have to wear a mask for the journey and share details for contact tracing, but will not need to quarantine. it is good news for families, great news for business, an absolute boon for the ariline industry the transatlantic routes are some of the most lucrative. in recent months, passengers number were 85% down on where they were pre pandemic. i m joined now by gary o donoghue in washingotn. iam very i am very much looking forward to my invite. i am i am very much looking forward to my invite. iam not i am very much looking forward to my invite. i am not the only one, because i have
to help estimate a number. many times throughout american history the question of how many jellybeans are in a jar has been a racist tool of oppression. in 1890 mississippi lawmakers gathered in jackson to find a way around the 15th amendment which gave african-americans the right to vote. the white judge who presided put the matter bluntly. we came here to exclude the negro. nothing short will answer. the mississippi lawmakers adopted two measures to make voting all but impossible for black people in mississippi. one was a poll tax. you had to bring the equivalent of $58 in today s money to vote. the other was a literacy test. registrars could ask arbitrary questions to decide if prospective voters were smart enough to vote. white people always seemed to get the simple questions. black voters, well, black voters were asked such things as how many bubbles are in a bar of soap? and they were also asked things like how many jellybeans are in this jar? these practices became com
out, we need to sort this out fast. absolutely. do me a favor, i want to talk to you about a lot of stuff, i know you re being asked to pull triple duty, i appreciate your sticking around, my friend. welcome to ayman. tonight, will they or won t they? with constant roadblocks clogging up the senate, is time running out? plus the supreme court this month effectively ended roe v. wade. justice amy coney barrett wants you to know that the supreme court is not a bunch of partisan hacks. okay. and it looked like a big win for equal pay when the u.s. soccer federation announced it s offering the women s and men s national teams identical contracts. so why is the u.s. women s national team players association calling this move a pr stunt? let s get started. all right. our top story tonight, voting rights. with republicans doubling down on their attempt to restrict the right to vote, senate democrats introduce new federal voting rights legislation this week. but its ch
dies at the age of 8a. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the us military says it mistakenly killed 10 afghan civilians in a drone strike in kabul last month, missing the intended target. seven of the dead were children. this is a major reversal of the pentagon s position at the time, us officials said the strike was justified and righteous, because it prevented militants from using a car bomb to attack the airport.(read on our afghanistan correspondent, secunder kermani, had this to say about the strike. we were at the scene the morning after the strike, and it was a really terrible thing to see. family members combing through the wreckage, trying to find body parts of their loved ones that they could bury. they were, of course, utterly distraught, and also furious at the accusation they had anything to do with isis. in fact, a number of the family members who were killed had worked with american aid organisations, american troops, even, in afgh