contagious u.k. variant, new evidence may be more deadly. the race to vaccinate the outrage in texas one county is planning to prioritize high-risk community of color until the state threatened to slash its doses. cvs and walgreens gearing up to offer in-store vaccinations. what you need to know about that celebrating hank aaron, will the tokyo games go on and what olympic officials are saying now? tonight s mega million jackpot soaring $1 billion, do you have your ticket? this is nbc nightly news with lestor holt. good evening everyone, as president biden forges a new direction, the shadow of all too recent history and the deed of his predecessor looms tonight as a potential distraction. the article of impeachment of former president trump is scheduled for monday a trial where trump is accused of inciting insurrection and threatening to steal oxygen from the biden s agenda making the most of his first day in office, the new president laying out his covid relief plan to p
jumped from 1% positivity rate to 13%. just astronomical numbers in a short period of time. and he sent a letter to congressional offices this week, basically saying you ve got to do more up here, pleading with members to take extra precautions, working from home and avoiding in person meetings if possible, boosting up the mask wearing, saying ditch the cloth masks, so many senate republicans blatantly in defiance of those recommendations. and proudly, i think, in many cases defying the recommendations. sunlen serfaty, thank you very much. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, january 5th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. and he s live, thank you for being here. so are you? yes, i am. together! here in washington for a special coverage. so it was one year ago today. republican lawmakers, a coup hungry president and right wing media were busy selling lies to the american public. lie
closed nationwide. we need our children to be in school. i think the term distance learning is like a contradiction in terms. philadelphia, you know, when children aren t in schools, they re many aren t getting the one decent meal they get during the day. the instance of child abuse basically disappears because you re not picking that up in school. most importantly the socialization and social development. the kids surely missed last year. i think we need to do everything we can to get children back to school. it s a precious thing. because it s a precious thing we need to treat it preciously. 77 of philadelphia s 215 schools are shifting to 100% online today. schools in detroit, l.a., atlanta, milwaukee, seating, cleveland, washington, all also going remote or they re delaying their start for at least a few days after the holiday break. in many cases, they re waiting for covid tests, rapid tests which are scarce, or pcr tests which take days to return results. in louis
has killed more than 700 police officers nationwide, so why are so many officers rejecting the vaccine? tough negotiations: president biden hits the road in michigan, as he pleads with his own party to strike a deal. what programs may get cut. plus, the warning about a potential economic catastrophe now just days away. cbs news investigation: are some a.t.f. employees gaming the system and possibly costing the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars? powerball winner what a lucky person in california could buy with all that money. and muhammad ali, the greatest boxer in the world, who painted art with meaning that s now for sale. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we want to begin tonight with the scathing testimony from a former facebook employee that had senators describing the social media giant as morally bankrupt. frances haug
she said the president indicated we would be working with a lower top line number and decisions must be made regarding the size and scope of the reconciliation bill. the white house is not putting a hard deadline on when these negotiations should wrap up. they insist it will go on as long as it takes. going to continue to press forward with both the infrastructure package and the reconciliation package and that s what the discussions with members of congress are focused on. some progressives are tired of waiting and following arizona senator kyrsten sinema everywhere she goes. whether on the airplane or landed at reagan national on monday. she hasn t been a fan of the price tag of some spending plans. people are shouting at her. the president was asked about this and he says this is really just part of the territory. president biden: i don t think they are appropriate tactics but it happens to everybody. the only people it doesn t happen to are people who have secret