The olympics announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. I m peter alexander in for lester tonight what could be major news in the fight against covid. Pfizer now says a booster shot of its current vaccine strongly extends protection against the virus. They re also developing a booster intended to target the rapidly spreading delta variant, now the dominant strain here in the u. S pfizer reports a third dose would likely be needed between six months and a year after you re fully vaccinated, the fda still to weigh in. Miguel almaguer has the breaking details reporter: tonight pfizer says a booster shot, a third dose of its current vaccine, could offer americans five to ten times more protection against covid, given six months after the second dose pfizer believes those inoculated would be highly protected against the delta variant, which is now exploding across the u. S. The company expects to deliver new data to the fda within weeks and is also working to develop
Operation near gaza after days of air strikes and rocket attacks. Mobs clashing. People beaten in the streets. The toll rising. Dozens killed including 17 children. The massive ransom nearly $5 million paid to hackers who shut down the largest pipeline in the u. S. The fuel flowing once again. President biden urging americans to be patient. A hummer bursting into flames after the driver reportedly filled several gas containers. The judge s new ruling why the trial of three former officers is delayed for months. Our nbc news investigation, parents accusing the family court system of ignoring allegations of domestic abuse in custody battles. She s headed off to college and she is only 12 years old. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Are you ready to lose the mask in a turning point of the country s pandemic response the head of the cdc announced late today new guidelines that allow the fully vaccinated to leave their masks off in most settings. Outdoors and indoors
quarter of college students say they would not be friends with someone who voted for the presidential candidate than the one they voted for. 71% of democrats in college would not date someone who voted for former president trump. 41% of democrats would not shop at or support a business of someone who voted for the other candidate. 37% of democrats say they would not be friends with someone at the opposite party compares to 5% of republicans. 30% of democrats also said in this poll they would not work for someone who voted differently from them. this is disheartening joe. i hate to see this. do you have an experience in your life in college and we went to school and lived in places where people saw the world different than we did and we worked in a place in congress, we had a lot of friends who saw the world differently than you did. this does seem to be antidotally and donald trump is an exception here and we are talking about him individually and republicans at large of a tr
will start with paula reid. let me air the bite from kamala harris really quickly. the comments made by the prosecutor, gratuitous, inaccurate, and inappropriate. the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts and clearly politically motivated. we will start with paula reid , how is the white house responding to the report today beyond what we heard from vice president harris? what do we know about the interview between president biden and special counsel hur s team. reporter: damage control, spokesperson answered question for the white house press corps. the one shepherding the press through the investigation and knows that well. he fielded questions including a lot of questions about the timing of this interview with the president. was he distracted ? the way the white house is spinning this, no, we did not want to delay it or put up roadblocks, we wanted to give special counsel everything they needed. there
a tragic irony unfolding in mississippi where just days ago record rains inundated the jackson area yet tonight that city finds itself in desperate need of usable water after failure of the main treatment plant. governor tate reeves declaring a state of emergency, saying the city cannot produce enough water to meet other critical needs and imploring residents to not drink this water tonight officials are struggling to distribute bottled water to the estimated 180,000 people affected as we reported last night, the jackson area has suffered water infrastructure issues for years most recently, boil-water notices have been in effect. the crisis now worsened by the recent floodwaters, and it is raining there again tonight. nbc is in jackson. reporter: tonight, a race to distribute water in jackson, mississippi. cars lined up for miles outside distribution centers full of locals hoping for water who left empty-handed after the supply quickly ran out. the water that they are giv