The National Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami advisory for Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific coast after an undersea volcano erupted near the Pacific nation of Tonga. nbcnews.to/3qwjrEj
LATEST: Following an undersea volcano eruption near Tonga, strong waves crash onto the nation's main island, King Tupou VI evacuates from his palace, and the National Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami advisory for Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific coast. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
LATEST: The National Weather Service lifts the tsunami advisory for Hawaii while the U.S. Pacific coast advisory remains following an undersea volcano eruption near Tonga. nbcnews.to/3Ia80I8
Small sea level changes and strong or unusual currents may persist for several more hours in some coastal areas of Hawaii, the NWS says.
The National Tsunami Warning Center advises residents near beaches, harbors, marinas and other coastal areas on the Pacific coast move away from the shore and make their way inland or uphill.
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Top Biden admin. officials are divided over how strongly to encourage Americans to wear high filtration masks such as N95 respirators, as they come under pressure from public health experts to urge people to switch to masks that offer better protection. nbcnews.to/3nqpCYm
President Biden said in remarks Thursday that he was planning to take some action to make "high quality masks" available for free, but administration officials didn’t give further details.
Those who have been involved in talks over what to do around the issue of N95 masks were caught off guard by the president’s statement, says one person involved in those conversations.
Black people are more likely than people of other races to die in accidental fires.
Recent tragedies in the Bronx and Philadelphia highlight a historical pattern of negligent policy-making and infrastructural decisions that put Black families at risk. nbcnews.to/3K4oPWJ
Though Black people make up about 13% of the U.S. population, they represent 25% of individuals killed in residential fires across the country, according to the New York State Department of Health.
“Racism influences almost every way to die by accident in America” expert Jessie Singer says. “Accidents are supposed to be unpredictable, unpreventable events. If that were true, accidental deaths would be randomly distributed across the U.S., but it’s not.”
The omicron variant of Covid is crushing health care workers already under strain from nearly 2 years of grappling with a pandemic — a situation that could result in "irreversible patient impacts," experts say. nbcnews.to/3HWTYcQ
“It has exploded. We’re in a crisis, red-tier situation again,” said Denise Duncan, a registered nurse and president of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.
Nearly 1-in-5 health care workers have quit their job since Feb. 2020, according to the data intelligence company Morning Consult, and another 12% have been laid off.
The biggest drivers of the exodus were the pandemic, burnout, and insufficient pay, the survey said.
BREAKING: Sidney Poitier, trailblazing Hollywood icon who broke barriers for Black actors, dies at 94, source close to the family says. nbcnews.to/34kPuy8
In a groundbreaking film career that spanned decades, Poitier established himself as one of the finest performers in America.
He made history as the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor.
Poitier, who rejected film roles based on offensive racial stereotypes, earned acclaim for portraying proud, keenly intelligent men in 1960s landmarks such as “Lilies of the Field,” “To Sir, With Love,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
Washington, D.C., and Florida have had the largest jump in new cases in the last two weeks.
Washington saw Covid cases increase by 902% in that time period, while cases in Florida went up 744%, according to an @NBCNews analysis of state and local health data.
The record-breaking single-day total could be a reflection of delayed reporting as a number of states did not announce data on New Year’s Eve and during the holiday weekend.
In interviews with more than a dozen local GOP officials in four key presidential battlegrounds, most indicated that they had moved on from the arguments about 2020, a notable shift from some of the most forceful Trump defenders through his first year out of office.
The desire to put last year’s election on the back burner indicates that among at least some Republicans, new issues have begun to take precedence.