it is monday, january 25th today the biden administration will issue new travel bans and restrictions from many foreign countries as the u.s. faces new variant and a vaccine shortage. >> today the lone articles of impeachment against donald trump will be delivered to the senate. >> more chaos overnight as tacoma, washington, grapples with thefter ath including a police vehicle plowing into a crowd. >> and greatest of all time tom

brady taking the stage to host against paick mahomes for super bowl lv. >> and creative one man creating pizza in the pandemic for a deliciously good cause "early today" starts right now. >> glad to have you start your week with us, i'm frances rivera. >> i'm gibson, president biden is expected to start his first full week in office tackling covid-19, to sign tough new restrictions on international travellers coming to america, including a new ban on non-sit zpens coming -- on non-citizens come from south africa where a dangerous strain of covid-19 is spreading quickly. >> reporter: we expect the biden administration to officially announce these restrictions later today. these moves are all about controlling and limiting the spread of the coronavirus in its

new and dangerous form. >> in a dramatic effort to contain the spread of the variant president biden is set to impose a travel ban on non-u.s. citizens who have recently been in south africa where a new, more contagious strain of covid is spreading widely and will reinstate an entry ban on nearly all u.s. traveller who's have been in brazil, uk, ireland and 26 other european countries, that ban since march was rescinded by president trump just days before his term ended. >> we're in a race against this variant and it's up to us to adapt and stay ahead. >> reporter: health officials are extremely concerned about the south african variant which is 50% more infectious and has been detected in at least 20 countries but not yet in the zb united states. >> it's not come up often any of the surveillance but we need to

expand greatly our genomic surveillance. >> the strain may be more infectious and potentially more deadly. >> we need to assume what has been circulating dominantly in the uk does have a certain degree of increase of what we call virulens, the power of the virus, including death. >> experts say now is not the time to let down our guard. >> certainly a travel ban on other restrictions such as testing and mask mandate give us the most protection as possible. >> and the cdc is announcing new restrictions for international travellers saying they will no longer consider some covid requirement that's many airlines had requested in the past. >> quite a reversal from the trump administration thank you. the biden administration is grappling with the vaccine supply crunch this morning

the president promised 100 million shots in 100 days but distribution is forcing cancellation appointments as demand is far exceeding supply nbc kelly o'donnell with more. >> reporter: vaccine anxiety confusion and concern voiced by several governors and top health official. >> the current supply crunch i'm most worried about. >> reporter: the scale of that supply crunch is a big unknown for the new director of the cdc. >> i can't tell you how much vaccine we have, and i can't tell it to the governors and i can't tell it to the state health officials. >> reporter: white house chief of staff ron klain pledged a new level of responsibility. >> we're going to own this problem and work closely with the states, they're our key partners in getting this done. >> reporter: the covid crisis is now on president biden's watch he paused for prayer, attending catholic mass in washington.

while in new york, senate leader chuck schumer pressed the white house to take urgent action. >> the state needs to know, the cityo know what to expect in terms of supply so they can set up the distribution system and they need to get more vaccines. >> reporter: president biden released a nearly 200-page national strategy for covid that includes setting up centers. >> fema to set up 100 centers to vaccine. >> reporter: and expanding vaccine manufacturing using the defense production act and increasing health care workers permitted to give shots and prioritizing fairness in distribution on sunday top white house officials met with eight republicans, and eight democrats, talking about covid the relief package which will most certainly be concenttentios

but also focused on vaccines and i'm told, faster and more efficient vaccine distribution is something they're all saying must be a top priority >> thank you. former president trump's second impeachment will move to the senate today house speaker nancy pelosi will submit it accusing former president of inciting the deadly riots on capitol hill. the senate trial won't actually start right away. >> reporter: right, it won't start right away, the date we've been given is february 8th house managers expected to deal with prosecuting the president in this trial and as you said that formal charge of impeachment is being transmitted later today. on the senate side where the trial is actually happening there is some back-and-forth between some democrats and

republicans over where it's actually constitutional to try a former president >> i believe that what is being alleged an what did we saw which is you incitement to insurrection is an impeachable offense. not, what is. >> i think the trial is stupid i think it's counter productive, like having a flaming fire in this country and taking gas and pouring it on top of the fire. >> reporter: the trial is set to begin february 8th house managers are ready to present their case and the president ha selecte president has selected an attorney from south carolina to represent him. >> interesting couple weeks ahead. thank you. new protests overnight in tacoma, dozens marching through downtown blocking streets and lighting fires and disturbing traffic, after a police officer drove through a crowd of people on the street on saturday night.

sarah harmon with that story for us. >> reporter: a shocking incident with dozens of witnesses a police vehicle appears to drive through a crowd surrounding the car. >> kind of figured he would stop but he kept going, saw his back tire goes over him. >> you could see the person under the car actually turn. >> reporter: the incident happened in downtown tacoma. >> no, no no, this isn't okay, he's hurt. >> reporter: it's unclear how many people were hit >> oh, my god! >> reporter: tacoma police say one person was taken to an area hospital their condition is unknown videos posted to social media show a group gathered for street racing police have not released the identity of the driver. >> we don't know what's going on with that officer. we have been told people were pounding on the cars, whatever his thought pattern is becomes part of the investigation. >> reporter: in a statement the tacoma police department said the officer feared for his

safety whiting while trying to extra indicate himself from an unsafe position the officerer drove forward, striking an individual, and may have impacted others. the tacoma police department is no longer involved in the investigation. use of deadly force triggering an outside investigation nbc news. >> thanks, sarah. super bowl lv is set after two championship games this weekend. >> oh, the ball's out! recovered by the bills right at the goal line >> ah, slow start for the chiefs at home against the bills. buffalo jumped out to an early 9-0 lead but it wasn't long before the defending champs reeled off three straight scores, patrick mahomes with 325 yard, 3 touchdowns, the bills couldn't

come back and chiefs win afc 38-24. in the nfc it was a battle of two all-time great quarterbacks. >> great match up with one of the best in the game here's one down the sideline it is caught touchdown, green bay >> didn't stay that way. tom brady and bucs had aaron rodgers and packers reeling early. green bay trying to mount a comeback but couldn't, bucs ice the game after a late pass interference and call and take the game 31-26 >> and the buccaneers will be the first team in nfl history to play its super bowl on their home field in the first since super bowl 37 the bucs will welcome kansas city chiefs to town and they plan to honor those battling on the front lines, with 7500

tickets given to health care workers. commissioner roger goodell telling them himself over zoom. a lot of excitement there. now to our meteorologist keeping an eye on brewing winter storms, bill. >> yeah good morning, very active weather this week, major snow storm in omaha and chicago and a lot of lightning in the middle of the country. the winter weather impact number is growing as we add more areas, especially western new york and 44 million people impacted the heavy snow from nebraska to omaha, des moines, the quad cities of chicago, at least five inches, and omaha eight to ten inches which is by their standards a big snow storm tuesday and wednesday a little lighter heading to washington, d.c. and new york,

minneapolis, very chilly air and oklahoma and texas shifting to little rock later. stays active through the middle of the week, that forecast coming up. >> bill, thank you. in today's quick hits, godiva will close all 122 north america stores due to coronavirus but chocolate will be online. former white house press secretary left the white house in 2019. and success launch of transporter spacex launch this

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a young man is working to brighten up his community during the pandemic one bite at a time. nbc's kate snow tells us how he's spreading kindness through cooking. >> reporter: in this small kitchen in downtown philadelphia ben burrman spends his sundays making pizza after pizza all from scratch in a regular electric oven. >> i guess the biggest question is, how on earth could this happen how did you get in idea?

>> i've always loved to cook i grew up cooking with my mom. >> reporter: he would taste test with family and friend and his grandmother died from the virus and ben worked through his grieve by helping others, turning his love of cooking into a cause for kindness he calls good pizza, just a few pizzas at first, pies from the sky down to friends in a box to keep things socially distanced. >> this is good pizza. >> but then a social media influencers gave him a great review. >> got very busy, very fast, for free. >> how many pizzas have you made now? >> about 500. >> now anyone who wants one signs up for a lottery on instagram and each week he chooses 20 at randomto get a pie. >> the pizza is always free. >> a full-time business student

ben encouraged people to donate to fight hunger and homelessness. >> for me it was a chance to make something out of trajectory he saidy to hav make something out of tragedy to have a purpose every morning to feel you're impacting the world. >> have good. >> with every pizza a note. >> share pizza love and kindness thanks for caring, ben >> thanks ben. >> thanks, guys. >> feeding spirits, one pie at a time. >> what he's doing is providing people a lot of hope and what better way through a nice slice of pie. >> thanks to kate snow for introducing us to ben. there's so many levels of amazing, this guy's going through business school full time and how cool is that delivery. >> it's a great way delivery, i love that it's free right no

he has a great business model and bar stool guys behind it pushing money into it. it's a great business. >> kudos more power to him. great to see great to start your week with that story as well i'm

♪ impeachment part two today, the formal impeachment processing leading to the second trial of donald trump begins but is it already d.o.a. the biden administration is set to halt all foreign travel from south afric and place additional restrictions on other nations as the news of the coronavirus spreads there. and new fallout screne of a police vehicle plowing through a crowd. and nearly 2,000