Times square a year ago and what it looks like today. There is hope relaxing the rules will help jump start the economy and revitalize the city. We re the capitalist center of america and this town needs to get going. Dana: everybody loves to come here and we want people to come back eventually. It is not all perfect. We have a ways to go. Things we need to do. I was telling bill before the show, when we first had to go work from home, i thought it would be 2 to 4 weeks and i would tell people see you on the other side. Here we are may 19th, a day we should celebrate, mark the occasion and recognize there was a lot of loss along the way. Bill: officially 432 days. The day you re talking about was march 13, 2020. I was at a restaurant around the corner and the woman said we re closing tonight. They told us not to come back until april 1st. Dana: of 2020. Bill: of 2020. Here we are today. Positivity rate is 1. 2%. We have worked hard to get down there. We can debate whether or not the ma
It s good to be with you. I am jeff bennett. As we come on the air, it s touchdown geneva. President biden has a meeting with vladimir putin less than 24 hours away. This afternoon nbc news is learning new details about the intense preparation behind the scenes and what president biden plans to raise. Here s how it all set to go down. The two leaders will meet over several hours at a swiss video overlooking lake geneva, and there will be two sessions, including one meeting with four people, biden, putin, russian foreign minister and the secretary. Biden intends to confront putin on human rights abuses and election interference, and nothing is being left to chance, we re told. After all, president biden is walk into a meeting with a former colonel of the kgb, and when asked if ready for the meeting with putin, biden was succinct. Days before departing for europe the president was briefed at the white house by a who s who of russia experts. The group also included former ambassador to ru
people to get vaccinated against covid. we speak to some with reservations about getting the job. and meat loaf, who recorded one of the biggest selling albums of all time, dies at the age of 7a. and coming up in half an hour s time, and outsiders looking in at that week s news. the cost of living, cost of being prime minister, and cost of being prime minister, and cost of being prime minister, and cost of living war in europe. that s on dateline at 7:30pm here on bbc news. good evening. a warm welcome to bbc news, good to have your company this friday afternoon. we have no plans to invade that was the message from russia s foreign minister after talks with the us about russian intentions in ukraine. his american counterpart said their discussions in geneva had been frank and substantive but also warned of massive consequences if moscow were to attack ukraine. russia has amassed 100,000 troops near its borders with ukraine, leading to grave international concern and t
a £1 billion pound shortfall in state pension payments to tens of thousands of women because of government errors has been branded a shameful shambles by a committee of mps. # like a bat out of hell, i ll be - gone when the morning comes.# and the singer meat loaf, who recorded one of the biggest selling albums of all time, has died at the age of 7a. good evening. we have no plans to invade that was the message from russia s foreign minister after talks with the us about russian intentions in ukraine. his american counterpart said their discussions in geneva had been frank and substantive , but also warned of massive consequences if moscow were to attack ukraine. russia has amassed 100,000 troops near its borders with ukraine, leading to grave international concern and to several european countries bolstering nato s military deployment in eastern europe. president putin has demanded that ukraine be stopped from everjoining nato. russia used to control much of the re
of congress for failing to comply with the committee s investigation. the committee presented evidence that included a batch of text messages from various conservative figures including white house officials unnamed lawmakers and other associates of donald trump. a number of these last night at our hearing. i won t read them all today, but i will read a few of them. mark, one member said, he needs to stop this now in all caps, tell them to go home. potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going get killed. these text messages offer just a small preview of the 30,000 documents that the january 6th committee has gathered so far. other members of the trump administration are taking a different track. for example, last night nbc news confirmed that former homeland security official ken cuccinelli recently sat down with the committee for a four and a half hour interview. he joins a growing list of more than 300 witnesses that the committee