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this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone we re following several major stories tonight including for the first time charges of seditious in the u.s. capitol the leader of a far right group facing serious charges. we ll get to that in a moment but first a big blow to the white house covid strategy the u.s. supreme court today blocking enforcement of the president s vaccine and testing mandates for large employers ruling the requirements go too far. it is a decision impacting more than 80 million workers. but the court also leaving intact a separate vaccine mandate for most of the nation s health care workers the ruling is announced as the number of fully vaccinated americans reaches more than 208 million, close to 63% of the population. let s get late details now from gabe gutierrez. reporter: three days after the biden administration s covid vaccine or test mandate for private companies with more than 100 workers started to take effect, to ....
that party is heading. and, of course, we re following new concerning developments with this pandemic. we ve already blown past last winter s hospitalization peak. the federal government is deploying military personnel to help strained hospitals. how much worse can it get? we ll break it down. i ll ask one michigan s doctor whose hospital is getting help from the military why he says right now is the worst point in the pandemic he has seen. we re going to start this morning there. antonia hilton and gabe gutierrez and jake ward and dr. ungerlighter. an internal medicine physician in california pacific medical center. doctor, we ll come to you in a moment. antonia, let me start with you. you re at a coney island hospital in brooklyn. it s a hospital getting help from the military. we re talking doctors, nurses, more. how are they going to use those things to help the patients? well, craig, they are all part of a surge team from the military. and like you said they are ....
underway to gather debris of the balloon. and that debris is estimated to roughly the size of two school buses. here s what president biden told reporters about the operation last hour. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down. on wednesday, as soon as possible. they decided it might do damage on the ground. they decided that the best time was when it was over water. so that has been our limit. they successfully took it down. and i want to compliment our aviators who did it. and we will have more to report on this a little later. thank you. what is your message to china? i told him to shoot it down. on wednesday. yes, they said to me, let s wait for it to be now beijing is claiming that it is a weather research balloon. that we have seen floating over the united states. and beijing expressed regret that it accidentally drifted into u.s. airspace. but the pentagon and the secretary of state anthony blinken say ....
thank you all so much for being here. president biden and the first lady are in puff low right now paying respects to the step people killed in the racist mass shooting at the tops supermarket. this hour they are meeting in private with the families of the victims. first responders as well as meeting with community leaders. the president will also be speaking publicly this afternoon where he s expected to call out the racism that he vowed to fight when he candidate, the racism we ve seen that is pervasive, that is motivating this shooting in buffalo. there are also new details coming out about the investigation and how long the suspected shooter was planning this attack. we re talking months. cnn has learned the suspect was considering attacking a church and an elementary school before deciding to target the market, and there s new vines video that is capturing the moment that the suspected shooter, can you see him right there in the camo, camo pants, the moment he was ....
senate nomination is one of the most extensive of this election cycle. it is at the moment of three-wa tossup. and endorsement from former president trump seemed to put doctor oz in the driver seat. each candidate making their closing argument in the race they could be decided by the smallest of margins. on the old boys, president trump called out that we need t have the washington, d.c. to represent our pennsylvania values for it to get the media is smearing my name. there is this information in order to suppress my vote and yield a selection from me. i ve worked very hard to be who i am and to be where i am. it matters who you pick for president and it matters who yo pick for senate seat. this is the most important election. just outside of philadelphia this campaign has been going on for several months and i m sure people are ready to get the primary day underway. no doubt about it. good morning, the republican senate primary race is a type tight three-wa ....