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, well 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 families at odds ove
The critical decision today unsked by schools by a florida judge. and in just one district, 13 unvaccinated staffers dying from covid since the new school year began. plus, president biden set to announce a new strategy to the record surge just as as combat the virus also tonight, the fbi releasing new video of the suspect who placed pipe bombs near dnc and rnc headquarters hours before the capitol riot the manhunt, and what investigators have learned about the route the suspect took tropical storm mindy forming off florida. warnings up tonight in the gulf coast in new orleans, the toll from ida soaring. 11 more deaths reported and severe storms on the move in parts of the northeast, still reeling from ida the nation s largest confederate statue torn down after more than a century. opening statements on the highly anticipated trial of theranos founder and fallen tech star elizabeth holmes and nearly 20 years after 9/11, the mystery solved for two families, and the staggering