Welcome back. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. We begin with rising tensions in the middle east. On sunday israel launched Preemptive Strikes against hezbollah and lebanon after detecting plans by hezbollah to launch a large scale attack. They responded if i Firing Hundreds of rockets and drones into israel, which it says was revenge for the assassination of a highranking leader last month. Rockets and drones caused no civilian casualies and minimal damage, but there are still fears of a wider con flikt. All of this comes as efforts are underway to reach a ceasefire agreement to stop the war in gaza that has killed more than 40,000 people, according to the hamas run gaza health ministry. With us now is matt bradley in tel aviv. And former israeli consul general. Benjamin netanyahu said yesterdays attacks are not the end of the story, so what could potentially be coing next . Yeah, the whole region is still kind of on a war footing, waiting to see what happen
Conference from Texas Governor Greg abbott, top of the hour. He is calling on the Biden Administration to declare a federal emergency at the border. He said tHis is a crisis of the president s own making. We have the latest from the Dhs Secretary testimony to the Senate Homeland Security committee tHis morning. Well go to the border in just a moment. John we kick off hour one of America Reports with former acting Ice Director tom holman. I wanted to play from yesterday, theres a little bit of sound from the Dhs Secretary and get you respond to it. Lets listen. Borders are not open and people should not make the dangerous journey. John he says there, tom, that the borders are not open. What do you say to that based on what we have seen in Del Rio texas in the last couple of weeks . Its a lie. Its a lie. The borders are wide open. I have never seen a border so vulnerable in my entire career. Thousands of being released every day into the United States, many with Covid. 350,000 got away.
The Attorney Shot in the head now accused of plotting the attack himself. And the countdown to tonights historic spacex launch. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with Lester Holt good evening. We know them from another arena, celebrated gymnasts, olympians. But today they sat tearfully in front of a different audience in a Senate Hearing Room Simone Biles surrounded by fellow gymnasts, telling senators we have been failed, the young women accusing the fbi of Turning A Blind Eye to their complaints of Sexual Abuse at the hands of Team Dr. Larry nassar in 2017 nassar pleaded guilty to abusing 10 of the more than 265 women and girls who have come forward to say they were molested he is serving up to 175 years in prison. Tonight the emotional call for accountability for those the women accuse of protecting a serial Child Molester rather than them. Anne thompson was in the Hearing Room and has our report to be clear, i blame Larry Nassar, and i also blame an entire system that enabled and
A new era in Space Travel. The question is, are we witnessing a new start of an era in Space Travel . Its Way Too Early for this. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early, the show that some days would like to buy a Oneway Ticket to mars. Im Jonathan Lemire on this thursday, september 16th. Well start with the news. The u. S. Has reached another grim milestone in its fight against coronavirus. New data shows that more than one in 500 americans has died from covid19 since the start of the pandemic, one in 500 americans. According to an Nbc News tally, there have been more than 41,689,000 cases. So far 55 are vaccinated. 63 have received one dose. The fda will meet to discuss whether Booster Shots will be necessary for the majority of adults who are vaccinated. Nbc News Correspondent Miguel almaguer explained. Reporter the battle over boosters as Vaccine Boosters make their case ahead of Fridays Fda Review of Pfizers Booster Shot for the general public. And there you go, perfect. Report
President has cast over the election. Both he and the leading republican candidate in the race have already without evidence begun talking about a rigged election in that state. Theres new excerpts in a forthcoming book coauthored by Bob Woodward and his colleague, robert costa. Jamie gangel has breaking new information on the book and has new details right now. Lets start about The Call between House Speaker Nancy pelosi and General Milley. Let me just say the book has new details about what trump was doing on January 6th during the insurrection, how Mike Pence kept asking if there was a way to help trump, and what trump says behind Kevin Mccarthys back. But lets start with milley and pelosi. What we know is that general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs, took secret action to limit president Donald Trumps ability to order a dangerous military strike or to use nuclear weapons, according to Woodward And Costa. Just to set the stage, its january 8th, two days after the assault o