miracle baby who beat the odds and is inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone it was a goal too far. tonight, the biden administration s acknowledgment it will miss its latest vaccination objective, as much a setback for the country as it is for the white house. pace of vaccinations stubbornly lagging president biden s july 4th target of having 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated appears it will come up short over 177 million americans have received at least one dose that leaves millions of unvaccinated americans at risk of the more contagious delta covid variant. dr. fauci today declaring the delta variant is the greatest threat to eliminating covid. that threat coinciding with an emerging generation gap over the vaccinations tom llamas now with late details. reporter: tonight the white hous sounding the alarm about the highly contagious delta variant, admitting a setback when it comes to vaccines. the
what i want to do is start by telling you that we have been offering charty day activities for a long time and our speaker this evening, eve leplank is a veteran. in 2005 she spoke on the lawn of the state house in the 375th anniversary of boston s naming and she spoke about her ancestor ann hutchinson and that was also the year that first church in boston finally released her from the excommunication given so many centuries before. so let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. e eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. two of them are especially relevant to our period. one is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. and it tells the true story of eve s ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, ann hutchinson. the one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. a critic noted rece
the excommunication given so many centuries before. so let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. e eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. two of them are especially relevant to our period. one is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. and it tells the true story of eve s ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, ann hutchinson. the one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. a critic noted recently or i don t know when it was that laplank sees ann hutchinson and samuel sual not as the dark puretens many believe them to be but living presences, even models of rectitude into the 21st century. so please, welcome eve for her remarks. [ applause ] thank you, rose. and thank you to the partnership and thank you all for coming tonight. before i start i wanted to think for a mo
the excommunication given so many centuries before. so let me tell you a little bit about our speaker. e eve leplank has published five nonfiction books. two of them are especially relevant to our period. one is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk. and it tells the true story of eve s ancestor, the colonial heretic and founding mother, ann hutchinson. the one who was finally brought back into it church and the second ancestor who will be mentioned this evening is the salem witch judge, samuel sul and that book won the 2008mous ps book award for nonfiction. a critic noted recently or i don t know when it was that laplank sees ann hutchinson and samuel sual not as the dark puretens many believe them to be but living presences, even models of rectitude into the 21st century. so please, welcome eve for her remarks. [ applause ] thank you, rose. and thank you to the partnership and thank you all for coming tonight. before i start i wanted to think for a mo
to provide very clear language on voter eligibility. when we do it on paper now we have to check those boxes under penalty of perjury, yes i m a citizen and eligible and i m filling out this form that s true and correct and so that language is going to be glaring for people going through new motor voter just as an extra caution. we are also through automatic voter registration providing serials in the nine languages other than english required in california under the federal voting rights act and we are able to do that because as i describe in a minute were sort of doing it as a counter, a point-of-sale at dmv. look at this in oregon for those of you taking detailed notes. in oregon the way it works is after people come to the dmv to do their business, they are sent a letter after the fact saying we captured your information, you re going to be registered unless you tell us otherwise and by the way, since government can t pick a political party for you, check box if you like