shots. mission to space: the first all- civilian crew to go to orbit. meet the billionaire paying the $200 million to take the historic group on a three-day trip. plus, what it means for the future of space tourism. biden backs america s top general. what the president is saying tonight after reports chairman mark milley secretly called china behind then-president trump s back. cbs news exclusive: she survived taliban bullets. now malala tells us what she fears most for women and girls in afghanistan. north korean threat: rising tensions after new missile tests. and all the right moves. an innovative program that s teaching life lessons with a chessboard. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. t hed shocking allegations that the f.b.i. and u.s.a. gymnastics enabled a serial sexual predator through botched investigations and inexcusable lies and cover- ups. star gymnast simone biles broke down as she and other top u.s. gymnast
president biden urged unity as america reflects on the attacks. everybody says, biden, why do you insist on bringing the country together? that s going to affect our well-being and how the world responds to us knowing that we can actually, in fact, lead by example. i think we can do it. meantime, former president george bush honored the lives lost on flight 93 in shanksville where president biden also paid his respects to the victims. contrast all this with the most recent former president, native new yorker donald trump didn t attend any ceremony paying tribute to the victims today. however, he visited a new york city fire station and released a video statement to mark the anniversary where he discussed the attacks for about 30 seconds. spent more than double that time slamming president biden over america s withdrawal from afghanistan. well, other presidents honored the victims today and trump plans to wrap up his day comment take thing on a pay per view boxing match in
answers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone some of the fears and anxieties of returning to classroom learning coming back into sharp focus tonight as children make up a larger and growing share of new covid cases in this country. also this evening, a stunning number of covid deaths among unvaccinated school workers, including teachers in one florida school district, sending a chill of its own and a sharp warning. while serious cases among kids continue to be rare, it becomes a different story if it is your child. and in a moment, we ll hear from family who has been there left to feel hopeless, their child too young to be eligible for vaccinations and amid the worry of transfer to children, the debate over school mask mandates still drawing oxygen tonight. kerry sanders is in miami with late details. reporter: tonight the return to the classroom potentially dangerous, with a quarter of all new covid cases now children, and with
spreading in children like never before. right now one in every four new cases is a child. and dr. anthony fauci says our kids are extremely vulnerable. if we want to protect the children particularly those who are not yet eligible for vaccination, you want to surround the children with people who are vaccinated, teachers, school personnel, everyone else. even though there are some government leaders locally who are trying to push back on that, we have to get the school system masked in addition to surrounding the children with vaccinated people. in florida, the miami-dade school system has been ravaged by the virus. 13 school employees have died since mid august. get more now from nick watt. reporter: christine and laura, outbreak mode, that is what dr. faanthony fauci says w are in right now, more than 4 million new covid-19 cases confirmed in just the past four weeks. he says we can turn it around, we have the tools, the main tool of course being the vaccine. now tom
right now in geneva we are about to get an update from the officials at the world health organization, you re looking at live, covid will mutate like the flu and is probably here to stay. president biden getting a briefing from his pandemic response team in a matter of hours before his big speech tomorrow on that topic. new details from our team there, and on the other end of pennsylvania avenue, house speaker nancy pelosi expected to take to that microphone any minute now the democratic to do list looking long. we ll bring you the head lines as they happen. good morning i m hallie jackson in washington along with our news team, cal perry in kentucky, shannon pettypiece at the white house to start us off. cal as we follow the court hearing in florida where the governor is fighting against school mask mandates the governor of kentucky is in a fight in his state where you are to keep them in place. the stories mirror each other and shows you where we are as a country when it