friday is starting earlier than ever this year . this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone further acknowledging covid vaccines while incredibly effective lose some of their punch over time, an fda safety panel has just given its endorsement to booster shots for many americans who were fully vaccinated with a two-dose moderna vaccine. it is not the final word but the panel s recommendation for a third moderna shot mirrors what the cdc recently decided for pfizer boosters, recommending them for older people and those at higher risk of covid infection nearly 188 million americans are now considered fully vaccinated with close to 9 million having already received boosters yet, there remain questions on whether the extra shots are really necessary for most people miguel almaguer has late details. reporter: moving a major step toward authorization, tonight an fda advisory panel says some americans fully vaccinated with moderna should get its booster
continuously monitored and is responding well to antibiotics. the california-based medical team has been in constant communication of course with the new york team including his cardiologist. president clinton a long-time heart patient of course is 75 years old. we ll have more later on what s known about the former president s condition. in the meantime some of the news of this day includes the bipartisan house committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol, escalating their effort to enforce a subpoena issued to trump lieutenant steve bannon. trump has urged his allies not to cooperate with lawmakers. bannon has fallen in line, refusing to submit requested documents. and today he was a no-show for a scheduled deposition before the house select committee. today the panel app nounsed it will move to hold bannon in criminal contempt for not cooperating. more on that later. the committee chairman, democratic congressman bennie thompson of mississippi, today warne
continuously monitored, and is responding well to antibiotics the, california-based medical team has been in content constant communication with the new york team. including his cardiologist. president clinton a long time harsh patient of course, is 75 years old, will have more later on what s known about the former presidents condition. in the meantime, some of the news of this day includes the bipartisan house committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. escalating their effort to enforce a subpoena issued to trump, lieutenant steve bannon. trump has urged his allies not to cooperate with lawmakers, bannon has fallen in line, for refusing to to submit requested documents. and today he was a no-show for a scheduled deposition before the house select committee. today the panel announced in a move to hold bannon in criminal come to a tenth. more on that later. the church committee chairman bennie thompson of mississippi today, warned that witnesses who try
l.a. with operations 24/7. why it took so long i can t tell you. the president suggesting this is out of his hands. we need the rest of the private sector chain to step up as well. this is not called a supply chain for nothing. our goal is not only to get through the immediate bottle neck but address the longstanding weaknesses in the transportation supply change its pandemic exposed. dana: a ceo is here with a look at the holiday season. first at the white house peter doocy is standing by. officials say they have been talking about the supply chain for months. it s not why this deal had to wait until yesterday for union workers to pick up extra shifts in los angeles. president biden is warning nothing will get better unless he gets his infrastructure deal. we are proposing to make the biggest investment in ports in our history and in our supply chains and manufacturing and strengthen our ability to make more good from beginning to end. the president will call out p
his massive spending plan with the price tag remaining the huge sticking point at this point. john: progressives calling for $3.5 trillion in spending but moderate say they want to package that costs less than half of that and a key biden ally said it could fall somewhere in between. around $2 trillion. sandra: jacqui heinrich is here with the latest from the white house to kick things off, hey. good afternoon to both of you guys. chris coons said publicly what we have known through our own stories same for a little over two weeks now at the white house to broker roughly $2 trillion reconciliation package reaching an agreement between house progressives and the moderate senators joe manchin and kyrsten sinema. but since the last deadline came and went two weeks ago, there has really been no progress. progressives are think that is their fault. one of them is very much fined with that tax pieces. so one of them does not really support that. one supports prescription dr