adults if it s approved it would be the first pill shown to treat covid. this morning a welcome sight. the boston marathon back on after being cancelled in 2020 because of the pandemic and then delayed again. we re on the route in just a few moments. also ahead this hour, my exclusive conversation with the one and only michael jordan. we talked the new nba system, racism in the sports world, and bubba wallace. his reaction to the historic win last week. in the just last hour, new insight into january 6th. the scathing letter to congress from a u.s. capitol police whistleblower accusing the agency s two senior leaders of mishandling intelligence. we have the details on that and also the latest from our nation s capitol on the fight over the debt ceiling and the buzz saw that s chewing apart at the president s agenda. is the biden administration doing enough to sell his build back better plan? do you know what s part of it? do your friends? the polling that s raising some new q
bubba wallace talking to us about his history-making triumph at talladega announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening the day after that worldwide outage reminded us just how powerful facebook has become, a company whistle-blower described to a senate committee just how dangerous she believes the social network has become the company s former product manager warning that facebook s products harm children, stoke division, weaken our democracy, and much more frances haugen s testimony and the company s own studies form the backbone of the latest effort to rein in the social network. a moment some senators compared to big tobacco s reckoning over the dangers of smoking. facebook, however, pushing back against accusations it places profits above safety hallie jackson has details. reporter: facebook under fire tonight the company s leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won t make the necessary changes because they have put th
itself monday. the social media empire and its apps, what s app and instagram were down six hours providing plenty of fodder on twitter, people making jokes about vaccines. it was a good day for vaccinations because your uncle wasn t on facebook. the digital lives of billions in the u.s. disrupted with users refl re reflexively refreshing their apps. quote, a company with control over our deepest thoughts, feelings and behaviors needs real oversight. prepared remarks obtained by cnn, she is expected to tell senators the company s leadership knows ways to make facebook and instagram safer and won t make the necessary changes because they have put their immense profits before people. it doesn t have to be this way. the 37-year-old former facebook product manager revealed her identity during a 60 minutes segment that aired sunday night. her lawyer says his client is scared, but determined. we have one individual making a world of a difference because she had the courag
nascar history. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening facebook tonight caught in cascading crises the sprawling social network including instagram and whatsapp suffering a worldwide outage some six hours long. users met with frustration as they tried to refresh their feeds. the outage fuelling wild speculation coming just a day after a company whistleblower stepped from the shadows with explosive claims that facebook put profits over safety the company s stock tumbling today. its worst selloff in a year as engineers race to fix the unravel the mystery of today s outage here s hallie jackson. reporter: massive and mysterious a global outage taking down facebook around the world for hours, along with instagram and whatsapp, which facebook owns. one facebook employee telling nbc news, everyone is just sort of standing around with the outage affecting pretty much everything this is a misconfiguration, some sort of technical glitch that is basically unhe
hill? plus n the fight over infrastructure, president biden tells progressives the cost of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package needs to come down. the question is will democrats find a price tag that works for everyone? and facebook, whatsapp, and instagram back online after being down for hours. a whistle employer is set to appear on capitol hill after accusing a t company of valuing profits over safety. the question is will we see congress regulate facebook? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has baseball game to watch tonight and it s already very nervous. i m jonathan lemire on this tuesday, october 5th. eat less start with the news. senate majority leader chuck schumer has set up a vote tomorrow on a house bill that would raise the debt ceiling. it comes amid a standoff between democrats and republicans over spending. ten republicans would need to break ranks, something that s looking increasingly unlik