Frontier announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone back to school jitters were never quite like this this morning the yellow buses lined up and school bells rang for a million children in the nation s largest school system, many walking inside a physical classroom for the first time in a very long time their first lesson, as it has been for kids across the country, science. Understanding how to safely resume learning against the persistent backdrop of covid. Tonight with over 243,000 child covid19 cases reported last week, the second highest number since the pandemic began, there is growing impatience for vaccine approval for younger children tonight we ask when. And the answer is encouraging. Also, a new study questions the need for booster shots. The covid battle being waged on new fronts this evening we begin with stephanie gosk in new york reporter: with excitement and some fanfare, new york city kicked off a new school year. Despite the masks, it
Jillian: it is monday, august 9th. Tragedy in the windy city, a chicago police officer is dead and another fighting for his life after a suspect opened fire during a traffic stop. The attack part of a disturbing trend as attacks on the badge continue to skyrocket. Todd: plus, parents nice wade protesting the return of student mask mandates, the backtoschool battle brewing this fall. Jillian: dr. Fauci sounding the alarm about an outdoor motorcycle rally because of covid but no mention of obama s birthday bash. The latest double standard for democrats. Fox friends first starts and continues right now. It does continue. You re going to hear me roar. Todd: roar by katy perry. Jillian: i feel like you roar every day. Todd: i realize everybody in my state is loud. It s not just me. You can blame an entire state for me. Don t blame just me. Where do you live? jillian: pennsylvania, new jersey, all over the place. Todd: who is louder? as i yell at you. Jillian: you are. Todd: there you go. I
Speaker. We begin in what was an overall difficult weekend for the united states in the ongoing coronavirus, the new wave is taxing hospital emergency rooms again. With health officials warning things can get a lot worse. Nbc political correspondent vaughn hillyard has more. Reporter: the united states topping 100,000 new coronavirus cases just friday. A stunning fourth wave with the number of infections and seriousness of the moment rising each day. Things are going to get worse. If you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven day afternoon has gone up substantially. The virus surging in states from the west to the east. Cases doubling in more than 40 of them over the last two weeks. This is a class five hurricane. Reporter: more florida residents tested positive for covid over the weekend than any other point in the pandemic. Hospitals in jacksonville and orlando are already breaking previous hospitalization records. In neighboring alabama more than 1,200 people are
The delta variant and nursing homes. More than 40% of the workers at them aren t vaccinated. Gold rush in tokyo. U. S. Swimmers shattering records and raking in medals, including bobby finke s second thrilling underdog win and the american gymnast triumphing after being thrust back no competition after simone biles pulled out. Fighting eviction. Millions now at risk of losing their homes after a ban on evictions lapsed. Democrats fighting to reinstate it. Going too far. Customers lashing out at servers as restaurants struggle to staff up. What s behind the anger? and the true spirit of the games. Two athletes sharing the gold. Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from tokyo. Hello from japan. The olympics moving into a second week even as covid cases in the tokyo region set new records just a day ago topping 4,000 cases for the first time of the while tonight more than 5,000 miles away the united states facing its own covid reckoning. A new wave, a ne
election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country s economic stability and national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. the high stakes political scramble in britain to find yet another prime minister. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. liz truss stepping down after 45 days in office, her tenure the shortest at any prime minister in history. sending shock waves across britain and driving the tabloids into a dizzy. who will be the next prime minister? they expect to name a new prime minister by the end of next week. even the name of former prime ministers are being floated, remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone