Begin todays Cross Connection with a new order. Majority leader Chuck Schumer has announced the second impeachment trial of donald trump will begin the week of february 8th. The house managers and the defense will have a period of time to draft their legal breathes just as they did in previous trials. During that period the senate will continue to do other business for the American People such as cabinet nominations and the covid relief bill, which would provide relief for millions of americans who are suffering during this pandemic. Its our first show with trump out of office, but there is a developing story from overnight. Another trump scheme revealed. The New York Times and the Washington Post report while in office trump allegedly plotted to fire acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and replace him with an ally who would take up trumps baseless claims, emphasis on baseless, that the election was rigged against him and pressure georgia lawmakers into somehow overturning the States
And in california, covid death rates are reaching record highs. Just this week, the state recorded its highest number of deaths in a single day. And despite that, nbc news data shows just six states are seeing a percentage increase in cases over the last two weeks. 27 states are seeing a percentage decrease across that same time period. We are covering the pandemic from coasttocoast for you. Nbcs scott cohn is in california and cory coffin is in new york. With a welcome to you both, cory, ill reach out to you first. Youre at a vaccination site in queens. What are you hearing about the process for folks to get vaccinated . Reporter yeah, alex, good afternoon to you. Its a difficult one, to say the least. The people weve spoken with out here saythey tried for several weeks to get an appointment and finally the ones that were lucky enough to get one, one woman drove over an hour away to get here because this was the closest site to her. We are also learning from the governor that they hav
Protests turned violent marched against Vladimir Putin the protests leader arrested while doing a tv interview new shutdowns in china as cases rise and our reporters go back to wuhan, one year after the first lockdown, life bang to normal tribute to a king, larry king has died, more than 30,000 interviews from president s to muppets. Plus, who won last nights billion dollar jackpot this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz delart good evening, new york governor ran out doses of the vaccines with more trickling in. The new strain is not just more contagious but deadly. We are learning more of how former President Trumps impeachment trial will play out which could slow the progress in joe bidens new agenda we have it all covered for you beginning with sam brock in florida. Reporter calling the countrys fight against covid war. Andrew cuomo made a chilling revelation saturday. We exhausted all the vaccines that we have received to date. We are now starting to receive week six allocations wh
Catching many of them unawares, including today. Dow sank. Nasdaq advanced. 41 . Just think of these amazing arcs were having, arcs that are all unfolding as the news comes out. Many of them at crosscurrents with what was the conventional wisdom only a few weeks, days, or hours or maybe today minutes before. Case in point, apple. Weve had analyst after analyst judge this Company Based on the unknowable. How is china doing . Is it good . Is it bad . Is it liked or is it hated . Where she stops, nobody knows. It got to the point where how apple the company is really doing as a business meant nothing, versus the number of people in line at some chinese phone store. Then suddenly, we get a lightning bolt tweet from oldtime activist carl icahn. A huge apple shareholder, about how he is fed up with the company sell, sell, sell sell, sell, sell. But hes not really selling. Look at this. We feel apple board is doing great disservice to shareholders by not having markedly increased its buyback.
Nasdaq. 41 . Just think of these amazing arcs were having. Arcs that are all unfolding as the news comes out. Many of them at crosscurrents with what was the conventional wisdom a few weeks, days, or hours or maybe today minutes before. Case in point, apple. Weve had analyst after analyst judge this Company Based on the unknowable. How is china doing . Is it good . Is it bad . Is it ligked or hated . Where she stops, nobody knows. Got to the point where how apple the company is really doing as a business meant nothing. Versus the number of people in line at some chinese phone store. Then suddenly, we get a lightning bolt tweet from oldtime activist carl icahn. A huge apple shareholder about how he is fed up with the company sell, sell, sell sell, sell, sell. But hes not really selling. Look at this. We feel apple board is doing great disservice to shareholders by not having markedly increased its buy back. Of course, not this symbol, but thats okay. Thats okay. When you buy 3 billion,