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no more masks! shannon: a crowd of students and parents chanting no more masks outside of school board meeting in tennessee. it got heated. we have breaking details. tensions flare across the country over back-to-school covid restrictions and mandates. why proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic is really no longer required for high school students in the blue state of oregon. supporters of the moon say it s meant to benefit disadvantaged and minority students but there s plenty of backlash. we start with him battle governor andrew cuomo resigning. laura ingle has the latest from new york. hi, shannon. admitted sexual harassment scandal and under fire for both local parties, and battle governor andrew cuomo gave the people of new york his two week notice. given the circumstances, the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. the stunning about-face came during a live news conference tuesday in which the governo ....
2021 and good reason. bill: this theory is coming back into mainstream. three of these researchers working at the wuhan lab are now reported to have been treated at the hospital. what happened at that point? who were they exposed to? either at the hospital, en route or perhaps at home. all these questions are out there to try to be solved. dana: even dr. anthony fauci says he is not convinced covid developed naturally and called for an investigation on the matter. john ratcliffe slammed the biden administration for not doing enough to confront china. they put a 200 page plan on covid-19 not one word on the origins of covid-19 even though there is increasingly intelligence and evidence that indicates that the origins was a lab leak from the wuhan institute of virology. they aren t helping themselves by putting people in with ties with the chinese communist party or doing work for china and the chinese communist party into this administration. bill: we ll talk to ....
guatemala, a small country having an enormous impact on the united states, a starting point in a long and dangerous journey to the u.s. border by so many who have hit the brick walls of poverty, violence, malnutrition and disease that plague this region of central america. families in many cases sending their children ahead without them tonight vice president kamala harris on her first foreign trip as vp on the ground here meeting officials and searching for ways to attack the roots of the crisis that is overwhelming the united states border and facing questions as to why she is here and not there. this is one of our highest priorities, and i came here to be here on the ground to speak with the leader of this nation around what we can do in a way that is significant, and i will continue to be focused on that kind of work as opposed to grand gestures the vice president, who i ll speak with later this evening, declaring once again america s borders are closed a warnin ....
attacked, losing two teeth. promising news from moderna its covid vaccine safe and effective for 12 to 17-year-olds. but when could younger kids finally get a shot the report breaking as we come on the air. the grand jury convened and expected to decide whether to criminally indict former president trump. what we re learning. the first summit announced between president biden and vladimir putin amid rising tensions. nearly a year after the remains of her children were found, a couple now charged with murder. and a health alert. the surge in ticks this summer. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. in this digital age, we ve become used to cell phone video exposing the soft underbelly of policing but no image has been more jarring than the slow and excruciating death of george floyd captured on a minneapolis street corner one year ago today. his life squeezed out of him by a police officer. today his murder and all that it came ....
surge in violent crime in america s biggest cities. dana: we ll talk to former minneapolis cop steve dykstra about his decision to leave the force. first we go to garrett tenney in minneapolis today. good morning to you. a lot of city leaders across the country who last year got behind the defund the police movement are struggling to respond to a wave of violent crime and minneapolis has become ground zero for this debate. the city s police department is down more than 200 officers from a year ago and that s largely due to a wave of early retirements and extended medical leaves following the protests last summer. so far murders are up 130% compared to this point last year. violent crime up 15%. other major cities are seeing the same trends as well. murders up by double digits and more than 800% in portland. in minneapolis police are so overwhelmed that this weekend the mayor asked state and federal agencies to send help. the spike in violent crime is why efforts to ....