by president biden, saying if americans remain vigilant and get their vaccinations when it s their turn, we could be gathering with loved ones and neighbors for the fourth of july. and directing every state to make all u.s. adults eligible for a vaccine in just seven weeks, may 1st the latest. how will this work? and news tonight on the pfizer vaccine coming in. whit johnson and mary bruce standing by. we re also tracking a major winter storm across more than a dozen states tonight. bracing for up to two feet of snow. in fact, the national weather service now warning of, quote, impossible travel conditions. rob marciano in denver timing this out for us. in new york city tonight, the newly released body cam. the shooting at a famous cathedral. the images revealing just how close this was to being much worse. and the woman appearing to play dead to survive. the unruly passenger fined more than $14,000 after forcing a flight from new york to turn around. among other things
basketball. three powerhouse teams withdraw from their conference tournaments. what does it mean for march madness? anti-asian hate crimes surge, and the president calls out the vicious violence. it s wrong. it s un-american. and it must stop. o donnell: major winter storm: the central u.s. prepares for heavy snow and thunderstorms on the final weekend of winter. netflix warning: why the days of sharing your netflix password could be coming to an end. honoring ruth bader ginsburg just days before her birthday, and during women s history month, a seven-foot statue unveiled for the trailblazer. and cbs steve hartman goes on the road to introduce us to this year s most-unlikely grammy nominee. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on a busy friday night. and we are going to begin tonight with some breaking news. this is a political bombshe
good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout with a thing we really haven t seen in a long, long, long time. a forthright, open, democratic, dare i say progressive defense of government. now, i am old enough to remember bill clinton responding to the reagan and reaganomics by saying us too. the era of big government is over but courtesy of the democrats. that was a political calculation that i guess made sense at the time. reagan was still popular and sainted by republicans and so-called reagan democrats. and when president obama came along and was faced with this massive economic hole that george w. bush left the country in, he too felt constrained to couch the response in terms of, not spending too much money, keeping the economy, rescuing stimulus package under $1 trillion and kind of downplaying anything that looked like big government. and not too much braggadocio, especially from the black president. oh, god, no, no, no. well, enter joe biden. fresh off his prime-time
we had already signed up 70,000 vaccine sites. let me remind you on january 20th, 1.5 million shots were in arms on that day. that had nothing to do with the biden administration. i think the biden administration are doing some good things in underserved communities and carrying the bat onwell. i think the roll-out was really about as well as it could be. miraculous given the short time. i think we ll look back on that and history will prove that to be correct. bill: thank you for your time and the job you ve done. dana: when you hear that fourth of july messaging small gathers maybe outside. even people as careful as you can be have been following their own monitor, i think, on what makes sense. you could be in the backyard, you can have a lot of space around you. i just keep feeling like the message that comes out is giving us the hold, hold, hold. brave heart, hold on. don t get excited or freak out yet. i understand you want to be cautious but it feels li
door fast. nbc s exclusive sit-down with the treasury secretary on when the money will hit accounts and criticisms the package is just too big. are you spending too much? i don t believe we ve overshot the mark. plus, what we know about that new accelerated vaccine timeline. can the white house keep promises made in the president s prime time address? and can cities and states keep up? i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday morning, nbc s monica alba and kristen welker are at the white house, we re joined by dr. joshua sharpstein. ellison barber is with us as well. kristen, look ahead to what we can expect at the rose garden and next week across the country as it appears important to the white house, the president, his aides and advisers they get out and sell this package that just passed. reporter: that s the keyword, hallie, sell. that is what we are going to see from president biden and vice president harris. he s going to hold a signing ceremony for that