many hits. and she s in a league of her own and making baseball history again. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone prices are up. grocery inventories are low, and all roads lead to the bumpy covid landscape. we got news today confirming what many of us have already seen for ourselves officially consumer prices rose by 7% in december compared to the year before. for perspective, inflation hasn t climbed this quickly since the early 80s lately we have been paying more for almost everything from a gallon of gas to a pound of chicken supply chain issues reaching their choke point at the check-out aisle. and at the same time, store shelves are once again thinning out grocery stores are running low on every day items. we re covering it all this evening, starting with the inflation impact and peter alexander. reporter: tonight, the alarming spike in inflation soaring to its highest level in nearly 40 years, casting a shadow over america s ent
there is still a lot to learn about omicron, and we will be transparent and share the updated science with you as soon as it becomes available. with all the attention on omicron, the more immediate covid health emergency now continues to be the delta variant, as cases and delta-related deaths rise across the country, with winter just weeks off. the november jobs report released this morning fell for a short of expectations, with just 210,000 jobs added. that s well below the estimated nearly 500,000 that economists had expected. and congress cleared one major hurdle with a vote last night to avoid a partial government shutdown today, punting that possibility to at least mid-february. but they still face big hurdles. and for little time before christmas to get it all done in the 50/50 senate. starting with raising the debt ceiling, passing the defense spending bill, despite opposition there from marco rubio, and reshaping the president s massive social spending bill to try t
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