Up to deliver vaccines to remote areas. We start on wall street where the Stock Market Rally continues with the s p 500 and nasdaq closing at new record highs. Americas Top Companies are reporting better than expected results. The senate is inching towards passing President Biden s 1. 9 trillion stimulus package. And theres been another fall in the number of americans filing forjobless benefits a sign the Labour Market is stabilising. There are still huge problems facing the worlds biggest economy but investors believe the flow of cheap money from the Federal Reserve will keep on coming. The biggest problem isjust that we have 20 million americans who are still in some state of receiving Unemployment Insurance benefit so we still have a really long way to go on the labour front and that take quite a bit of time to resolve. But gdp and output may recover faster but it will take more time to employ that many americans. I think it means that for market, we now believe that for market, we
can be done with this violence. one doctor said they deal with it on an every day basis, but what happened over the weekend was unusual in terms of the type of weapon that was used, the number of people killed and the wounds reverberating through the community. we hear from the nurse who was a part of the emergency team that worked with the victims. listen to what she said about how even health professionals who deal with trauma on a daily basis, they too are affected. take a listen. it s just really hard to comfort them, and it really takes a toll on my colleagues and to go through this, like dr. caspin said, very frequently, just doesn t get any easier. doesn t get easy for anyone, and in fact, they talked about how these families now not only dealing with their grief, but trying to figure out how do they buried their loved ones when this is something they were not expecting at all. lindsey. rehema ellis, thank you. let s go to the white house, where nbc s mike memo
up a dramatic night and early morning on capitol hill. reporter: out took 14 failed votes, intense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in a final tally that took place well after mid might. it ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing to ovation. from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought we d get up here. ing. reporter: speaker mccarthy squeezed by with 216 votes, 212 democrats backed congressman hakeem jeffries. six republicans in total voted present. since they weren t nos, the threshold for majority was lowered to 215. one moment showed just how impassioned things had become. congressman-elect at the time mike rogers of alabama was physically restrained by other members after attempting to confront congressman matt gaetz. the victory came after that,s just one more round later. i may not know al
or call off the mob. the committee really driving home the point that he not only failed to act but chose not to. did you ever hear the president ask for the national guard? no. did you ask him ask for law enforcement response? no. so as somebody who works in the national security space, if there were going to be troops present or called up for a rally in washington, d.c. for example, is that something that you would have been aware of? yeah, i would. we also learned during the committee s eighth hearing that there will be a season two so to speak. ryan nobles has more on last night s revelations from the capitol. reporter: there is no doubt that the january 6 select committee had been building toward that hearing on thursday night. they viewed it as their most important hearing to indicate. en en date. and one of the reasons that they moved it to primetime and completely focused on that 187 minutes where donald trump in their mind did not do enough to stop
returns to primetime, promising to present its most compelling evidence to date, detailing the three plus hours that trump failed to about while the capitol was under attack. republican committee member congressman adam kinzinger released clips of trump aides describing what the president was doing as the violence unfolded. was the president in that dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on, or did he ever go, to your knowledge, to the oval office, the white house situation room, anywhere else? to the best of my rec recol recollection, he was always in the dining room. what do you recall? i think everybody was watching the tv. do you know whether he was watching tv in the dining room when you talked to him on january 6th? umm, it s my understanding he was watching television. when you were in the dining room during these discussions [ inaudible ] yes. one woman you saw is molly michaels. she was trump s executive assistant. we