experiencing today, you seen it experienced in jerusalem for thousands of years. for the jews, jerusalem is where solomen built the temple. people who have said to conquer the world swept through the city. no other individuals changed the landscape in the way herod the great did. solodyn, the british badly wanted to control the holly land. for israelis if you don t know it in its complexity, it is hard to understand it today. the past is never dead. it is jerusalem. solody s 725 years have past. by 1914, the world have under gone a drastic transformation, fuelled by the rise of technology and industrialization. but, world war i threatens the entire globe and jerusalem lies directly in its path. the time of the first world war, jerusalem is occupied by the ottoman. the church that s been there for a hundred years. the mideast lost egypt. they have turkey, some parts of southern bulgaria and eastern greece and what is today palestine and lebanon and arabia.
[applause] greg: it is tuesday, everyone. so look at these happy people. these are texas democratic lawmakers, and they fled the state like on the mike hunter biden running from a pregnant stripper. they left yesterday to deny republicans the corn needed to vote on strengthening election safeguards. whereas the democrats like to call it, the worst thing since the civil war. to strip the right to vote as authoritarian and anti-american, and he will highlight the work of the administration against this, necessity of passing for the people act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act and how we need to work together with civil rights organizations to build as broad a turnout and voter education systems overcome the worst challenge to our democracy since the civil war. greg: the worst challenge to our democracy the civil war. hold on a second. i was told just days ago that the worst thing since the civil war was january 6th. you guys have to get your worst thing sin
tonight, cheney checking out to savannah guthrie her defiance message and sharp words for top republican in the house who supported her removal. an israeli air strike leveling a 14-story building in gaza hamas firing over a thousand rockets is this the brink of full-blown war the cdc green lighting covid s pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15 dwr-year-olds the price you pay rising on everything from food to furniture to airfare what s causing the surge? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we start with breaking news officials say fuel has resumed flowing through the colonial pipeline. the critical supply line coming back to life this evening after being held for ransom by computer hackers triggering panic buying of gasoline in the southeast. and leaving self-states under states of emergency. again today drivers met with out of gas and closed signs at the pumps in many cities in the south. the pipeline which stretches from texas to new jersey
to me. i am like, all right, good for them. i am here. joe biden, if you want to talk. that s exactly how i feel. a, i m happy for lawrence. i am b, like, lawrence? c, like, did everybody know this was happening except for? i heard whisperings of it. we are going to watch it. we are excited for our colleague sitting with joe biden. true. zero professional jealousy emanating to off your television screens right now. thank you. thank you very much. i appreciate the smokescreen, my friend. all right. and thanks to you at home for joining us. very happy to have you with us tonight. don t tell lawrence about that conversation. as we have been reporting tonight, tomorrow going to be a big day. the cdc s vaccine advisory committee meets to consider the recommendation to change the age eligible for the pfizer vaccine that protects against covid. that pfizer vaccine is authorized for use in people age 16 and older. tomorrow they will take up the question of whether that sh
big pfizer decision comes tonight as the white house has also just told states that they are not going to get any doses of the johnson & johnson vaccine next week. johnson & johnson has been cleared, in terms of safety concerns, after a brief hiatus. but because johnson and is one shot instead of two shots, because it is very well tolerated and effective, because it is easy to transport and to store at normal temperatures, a lot of states, a lot of entities, a lot of individual americans have a preference for the one shot johnson & johnson vaccine. but, that company has been plagued by production shortfalls and glitches from the very beginning, and apparently now for the first time next week, that is going to result in the federal government not shipping j&j vaccines to the states at all. at least in the short term. that is a very interesting development we will be watching that closely. today s also now day five, believe it or not, of the shutdown of the largest fuel pipelin