Hardship its a crisis that is causing real Mental Stress for millions of people millions of people and its within our power to solve it. And to grow the economy at the same time and his vision for the countrys place in the world. Americas back. Were at the head of the table once again plus, new covid records and new restrictions here at home as millions ignore the Travel Warnings and food banks have trouble keeping up announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from wilmington, delaware good evening from wilmington, where a short time ago President Elect joe biden sat down with me for his first postelection interview where he discussed among other things the official president ial transition now finally under way tonight, whether he would support investigations of donald trump after he leaves office, and how his administration plans to distribute covid vaccines to millions of americans. We met at wilmingtons queen theater, where just an hour or so earlier the
drive, but one of the other developers further down in this piece is the rules on self isolation. if you are in contact with this new variant.- isolation. if you are in contact with this new variant. yeah, so as o- osed with this new variant. yeah, so as opposed before. with this new variant. yeah, so as opposed before, you with this new variant. yeah, so as opposed before, you did - with this new variant. yeah, so as opposed before, you did not - with this new variant. yeah, so as opposed before, you did not do i with this new variant. yeah, so as| opposed before, you did not do so icily if you are in contact with a case, if you are in contact with someone who has got the new variant, you will be needing to isolate for ten days, and these could be in place for until march, as the telegraph reports, although this will be reviewed after three weeks. the rationale for this, essentially, is we are not quite sure how this new variant works. there is a chance it is much more transmissib
don t see the vaccine being as safe as the cdc puts it out to be. how are you working towards convincing those in these communities? in african-american communities there s less of an up take. number one, there s a reason for that. you know, you go back to even world war ii, african-americans were used as experimental. almost like guinea pigs. they were anyway, and your mom and dad remember that and your grandparents remember that. and so there s a reason for people to think that, i don t know, i m he not sure i trust. i m not sure i trust this. plus a lot of disinformation on top of it. one of the things though we re doing is what i ve done we ve done, excuse me, my team has done is we provided the ability to put in african-american communities the vaccine and those that are in fact able to administer the vaccine and people who are respected in the community in
nothing political about this. there s no blue or red. let s bring in christian oliver who is a democrat. he works for the insurance industry. christian, what s your question? my wife stephanie and i are newlyweds as of this past saturday. i d brag if i were you too. as they say when they look at me and my wife, you married up, kid. thank you. we required all of our guests and vendors to be vaccinated to ensure safety. we are african-american and in many of our communities many are against the vaccine. a reason that stood out the most in regards to our guests is they don t see the vaccine being as safe as the cdc puts it out to be. how are you working towards convincing those in these communities? in african-american communities there s less of an
unvaccinated players or staff forces a game to be postponed, and it can t be rescheduled, that team forfeits and players for both teams won t be paid. you heard that right. joining us now is a former nfl player. dr. roll, the nfl s getting tough on this. what do you make of these new penalties the nfl plans to impose? thank you for having me, jim, coming to you from zambia, doing tee pediatric brain surgery. i ve been fortunate to talk to a few teams, talking to the colts, rams, the chargers, about the vaccine being, and i ve operated on covid positive patients. i remember when a patient was positive and all of us weren t vaccinated in that operating room, how much angst was involved in that case. fast forward a few months later