prices and soaring air fare, what to know before the busy summer travel season kicks off. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening with a nationwide shortage of baby formula testing parents who are desperate to safely feed their infants, there may be better news to report tonight. a day after the white house announced major new steps to speed supplies of formula, a clearly impatient congressional panel pressed the head of the fda as to when the formula shortage will ease dr. robert calif facing a bipartisan grilling telling lawmakers within days it will be better, but a few weeks until we re back to normal. we ve just learned the first flights carrying formula from overseas could start as soon as this weekend kristen welker has more. reporter: lester, good evening with millions of american families still desperately scrambling to find food for their babies, there was bipartisan outrage on capitol hill today, directed at the biden administrati
Operations to Small Business loans. This is a problem with maga extremism. Its not serious about governing chaos is the only word in their playbook. Conflict seems to be the natural state of being and some of them seem to exalt in shutting down the government. And if maga republicans get their way, the danger for this country will be great. Extremism will be dominant. The ultra rich will be empowered. Working families here on cspan2 we are going to break away now for live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Deg to shut down the federal government. The fringe element of extremist House Republicans has pushed congress to the brink of another costly, wasteful shutdown. The Government Shutdown of any duration would harm hardworking americans and our economy. Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week. They cause businesses money. They could even cause a downgrade to the nations credit rating. And they force an unnecessary disruption of many vital services. Federal workers in all 50 st
Burlington county at this moment. As we go through the rest of this afternoon and even into this evening, we could have the potential for maybe a few more snow showers, but a majority of it will be coming to an end. Again, it could be creating icy spots on the roadways. Take a closer look at the temperatures for that, heres chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Glenn . The temperatures are marginal, right on the edge of the Freezing Point in allentown, pollstown, reading, mt. Holly, even Atlantic City. The temperatures will drop a little bit. We have nightfall. We have moisture on some of the roads from the snow. So we may very well have some icy spots. Some of them could even be in delaware where the temperatures are marginal and even south jersey where it is 32 in milville and Atlantic City. The temperature is not going to drop rapidly, but just a little bit is enough. Side roads, bridges, overpasses, your sidewalks, for example. Temperature holding fairly steady in philadelp
Avenue. It is the position he will take until the republicans do the right thing, right . Why not just open the government at funding levels that they were very content with and that demands ofesents the the president. That is our position. What about the decision of the Security Council will that anyway affect the push by the administration to raise americas profile in asia . The cancellation is another consequence of the house force aansdecisions to shutdown of the government, and it is completely avoidable of a completely avoidable shutdown. To advance u. S. Leadership and interests in the largest in theg region world, the president is committed to the pivot of u. S. Policy toward a jeff asia, towards this important region of the world come and he looks forward to work with allies and partners in asiapacific region and returning to the region at a later date. Secretary kerry will lead delegations to indonesia and brunei in place of the president. Your opening comments today, that th
Painful recession. Were not interested in negotiating on those terms because its not in the best interest of the American People. Im pleased that weve been joined by the distinguished representative from the great state of california, let me now yield time to representative barbara lee. Mr. Lee thank you very much. First let me thank you, both congressman jeffries and congress mrman horsford, for your tremendous leadership, your vigilance and your diligence. And we appreciate your conducting these special orders to make sure that the American People know the truth about whats taking place here in washington, d. C. Ms. Lee also i have to salute our chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, the gentlelady from ohio, congresswoman marcia fudge, for her leadership and he suring that the entire member the entire Congressional Black Caucus continues to be the conscience of the congress. Here we are 14 days into the Tea Party Republican shutdown and three days away from the Party Republican go