The flood disaster in europe, dozens killed and the warning on renewing your passport why you may have to wait months. Announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone tonight as covid cases climb and vaccination numbers fall, the nation s largest county, los angeles, is turning back the pandemic clock, issuing a new indoor mask mandate for public spaces. Worries intensifying this evening over many states over a new covid wave breaking against a wall of vaccine hesitancy. The delta variant spreading far more quickly than anything we ve seen here as we also learn tonight it will likely be early next year before the fda expects to approve vaccines for children younger than 12. My conversation with the head of the cdc in just a moment. But first, here is miguel almaguer with late developments. Reporter: tonight los angeles, the nation s largest county, taking a step back, requiring masks indoors, even for the vaccinated effective sunday, impacting 10 million peo
Will be competing in tokyo. lester tom llamas, thank you. if you re traveling internationally any time soon, there is something you need to know about a major backlog on passport renewals it s more fallout from the pandemic here is tom cost reporter: amid the post pandemic travel boom, a major hang-up could keep many travellers grounded. the state department now says it s taking three to four months to process americans applications for new passports. i put it in for renewal and still pending. so nothing back yet. haven t seen anything in over 45 days. reporter: the problem, many americans let their passports expire during the pandemic. now passport offices are swamped with two million renewal applications and slowly processing more as government offices reopen from covid restrictions we certainly expect to be able to do more of that as conditions here in this country continue to improve. reporter: expedited application processing can still take 12 weeks by mail.
On-stage graduation night at Wiscasset Speedway Thursday, June 10, Wiscasset Middle High School Class of 2021 member Gabrielle Leavitt recalled expecting the school to close a couple weeks for the pandemic their junior year, but they did not return.
Very, very difficult it is no longer friendly skies, right? people are reluctant to fly because of the way they re traelted. i wonder if we might see legislation about overbooking, overselling flights, and how you treat passengers. tom cost tell e low, thank you costello, thank you for your reporting on this story. when we come back, we will go deeply into north korea and syria. after becoming one of the largest broadband companies in the country. after expanding our fiber network coast to coast. these are the places we call home. we are centurylink. we believe in the power of the digital world. the power to connect.
A shooting, involving a man who we now have identified as esteban assistant ya go, 26-year-old man. witnesses say he walked into the area where people were pulling their bags off the carousel, and just indiscriminantly started shooting. they say he shot many shots and then reloaded his weapon. and then started shooting again. one witness describing him running out of ammunition eventually and laying down on the ground as he called it spread eagle and waiting for law enforcement to arrive. and he was taken without any kind of fight. the local sheriff, broward county sheriff telling us that he was not shot, he was not there was no interaction between him and law enforcement. law enforcement was able to just take him into custody. and he is now being interviewed by the fbi. but the sad news is that he did manage to kill at least five people and injure a number of others. tom cost tell low has been following this all afternoon for us as well. and tom, the airport remains