when msnbc but 1996. not will be his last night, when they are followed brian his whole career or where they ve just become a fan of the 11th hour. his absolute witty insightful emotionally compelling, snarky is all get out incredible show that he does it right now. when they won become a fandom 11th hour or even a fan from the beginning. you should just know that for all of us, in the building as we say, in the proverbial building now. but, for all of us, his colleagues, ryan leaving. brian stopping the show, is a really big deal. having the opportunity to share a desk with him, for major news events, has been not just an honor for me. it has been an honor. beyond that, to tell you the truth, it s how i ve learned half the things i know about how to handle the responsibilities of the big desk. brian williams, and all candor, is a great guy. he is a great colleague. he is incredibly generous. he is abs hilarious as a person as i ve ever met in any context. on the 11th hour, h
no longer be, among her other titles, the queen of barbados. as of tonight, midnight, there will no longer be a queen of barbados. we will have a new head of state in that country. she will be the first ever president of barbados. she is here on the right side of your queen. her name is sandra mason. sandra mason is currently the governor general of barbados, that technically means she s been the top representative of the queen. but tonight, that job goes away, barbados will cease to have a queen, or a king for that matter, it will become as of tonight, a republican independent with the president and a prime minister, it will no longer be a monarchy. and, i should message, this is a friendly transition. prince charles, who is next in line for the british throne, when his mother s rain is, over he will be in there in barbados. for the ceremony that will mark the transition. barbados will keep its name, its flag and its dollar and its national anthem. there will be some changes
that could actually save my life from a deadly virus. it did not occurred to me, one year ago, that we would be having discussions like the one you just had. that people are actively working against getting a vaccine for a virus that is still active, and still killing people. to the point where a state s governor is putting on the line, the individual careers of all the guardsmen and women, to who he is giving advice about what is going to happen to them if they don t get the vaccine. which is in split stately discouraging them from doing it. it is just an astonishing thing. it is when you think about all the heroism that we ve seen from national guard members, from oklahoma, a national have stepped up to distribute vaccines, who have done so much on covid. for them to be road kill for this governor. they are the front line. thank you for bringing that story to our attention rachel. have a good moment will see you tomorrow. thanks. and of course tonight we begin with
so there were four of them all together. four of them thus far. the first one was put up in 2008. it was in glendora mississippi. a tiny little town in mississippi. less than 200 people. so it was right on the bank of the river. and this spot, from the 1840s until the 18 90s, there had been a big steamboat landing there on the bank of the river. kind of a bustling, spot coming going in the spot of commerce that they were roads in buildings of course of course because of the steamboat landing. but in the 1890s, a tornado came and right out the steam boat landing on the riverbank. they never rebuilt. so all that is left at the spot to this day it s kind of just a clearing. a break in the vegetation through which you can knock it down to the river. as where they put the sign up in 2008. but as soon as they put it up, somebody came in torn down. this was the post it was standing on. you can see that it s been cut off. the top, down cut it off. through the sign in the river. the
so much going on in the news right now. so much going on in the news, just today. i do feel like it s one of those times, one of those news days, when it seems like the world is trying to make us feel like we are not alone. in the nation of panama, for example, they have a rich conservative businessman who was a former president. since leaving the presidency recently, he has faced multiple criminal charges, he beat some of those charges, but not all of them. when he was convicted on money laundering charges recently, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. now, the country s supreme court recently denied his appeal of that conviction. but then in a dramatic move another country nicaragua, stepped in and offered him amnesty. and this other country, nicaragua, is apparently trying to protect him from going to jail. this former president of panama, who again has been convicted, who is due in prison, he has not gone to prison. instead he has moved into the nicaraguan embassy of