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with as many as 175,000 troops. ukraine s defense minister warning that would lead to a bloody massacre. it has been a crucial 24 hours as the president also infuriated china by announcing a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics. matthew chance live for us on the ground in ukraine with our top story. this is a hugely consequential day in u.s. foreign policy. matthew, can you hear us? all right. i think we re having, obviously, some technical difficulties. we re going to try to get matthew back up there from ukraine on what is a huge day for president biden. this phone call, this video con consequence call that he is going to be having with vladimir putin. january 6th was practice. donald trump s next coup has already begun. that is a warning in a terrifying report in the atlantic. quote, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. it will rely on subversion more than violence. if the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by ame ....
could forever change the battlefield. and honoring bob dole, long time senator and former presidential nominee what he told me in one of his last interviews about surviving the wounds of world war ii. thank you for your service. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening reminding we can never take our eyes off the ball when it comes to covid, the delta variant, the one we have been living with for months is the one fuelling a disturbing new rise in cases tonight, climbing now in at least 22 states. delta still accounting for more than 99% of infections but it is the newer omicron variant and its worrisome potential driving big changes and mandates tonight. the new u.s. global travel requirements taking effect today as new york city officials announce the most sweeping vaccination mandates in the country impacting virtually all private companies. tonight we go into the heart of a community under siege with the team coming to the rescue of a health ....
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annie live . this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the drum beat for booster shots for over 100 million eligible americans grows louder tonight as more omicron cases emerge here in the u.s. and around the world the latest u.s. cases include colorado, minnesota and new york but health officials reminding us it is still the dominant delta variant driving a rise in new covid infections with signs more americans are rolling up their sleeves, president biden rolling out a series of new strategies today to combat the covid spread and meet the still unspecified omicron threat including an expanded booster campaign family vaccination clinics, free at home testing and new testing rules for travelers arriving from abroad. kelly o donnell leads us off tonight from the white house. reporter: tonight, expected but still unnerving. more cases of the omicron variant detected inside the u.s. new york officials calling a news conference this evening to announ ....
detailed today to fight this highly mutated variant. scientists are racing to determine if the current vaccines protect against this variant and if it spreads more easily. experts hope to have answers in about a week. in the meantime, markets continue to be rattled and the travel bans continue to multiply. more than 70 countries now including the u.s. have issued travel bans against southern african nations. omicron was first detected in south africa, and now has been confirmed in 20 countries. still not the u.s. though. and the cdc director says the u.s. now has far more tools today to fight variants than this time last year. compared to earlier this year when we were sequencing about 8,000 samples per week, we have increased our genomic sequencing capability, and we are now sequencing approximately 80,000 samples per week, about one in every seven pcr positive cases and that s more than any other country. our correspondents are following omicron s impact around ....