colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. is it is a big day in terms of the response to the coronavirus epidemic in our country with the fda for the first time approving the use of one of the three u.s. approved covid vaccines. the pfizer vaccine, for using kids as young as 12 years old. now, this is not a done deal yet. the vaccine safety and efficacy advisory committee that advises the cdc on these matters are due to me in the next couple of days to give the recommendation to the cdc as well. but with the food and drug administration already going on the record league today, in advance of that cdc meeting saying the clinical data on

pfizer makes clear to them that kids 12 to 15 prime to take the pfizer vaccine. what it means, bottom line, is that american kids aged 12, 13, 14, 15, could end up being eligible to be vaccinated by the end of this week which is fantastic news. in terms of the country being able to just love more normally, vaccinated kids in schools, in sports,, in summertime activities. families being able to be together in multi generational ways without worrying that unvaccinated kid might unknowingly have an un-symptomatic case of covid might infect grandma or grandpa to devastating effect or relatives who can't be vaccinated for some reason. this should fix those worries for families with kids ages 12 and up. but again, the cdc advisory meeting is going to happen in the next couple of days but the fda saying today, from their perspective, they are ready to

go. that means as soon as that cdc decision is in, vaccinations of 12, 13, 14, 15 year olds could begin immediately when that happens within just the next few days and again this is just the pfizer vaccine. we expect that moderna's clinical trials results for testing their vaccine on younger kids should come in the next few weeks but this is just for pfizer for now. the dosing is the same as adults. you get the same size those that an adult does in the two doses are given three weeks apart, just as they are for adults. the clinical trial data is shown that the vaccine is just as effective if not more so and kids aged 12 and up compared to how it is and adults. the clinical trial data also shows that kids aged 12 to 15 have the same kind of side effects and the same prevalence of side effects basically as everybody else, which means some people feel nothing. some people feel lousy but even if you feel lousy it goes away quickly. the biden administration has

been moving in advance of this announcement to make sure that vaccines for kids aged 12 and up can roll out really quickly as soon as the approval is given. what exactly that's going to mean, how exactly that's going to look in the real world, we make out to see that put into action by the end of this week so this is a very big deal. today an associated press poll says that president biden has overall a 63% approval rating of the american people right now which is very very high. 63% approval. but look at his approval with the american people specifically on his handling of covid. 71% approval. 71% of the country approves of how he is handling the covid response. well, a fast woman edged rollout of the first vaccine approval for kids over age 12 is going to be the next big part of that so that's big

news. it's gonna be big news all week so it's gonna be that official greenlight from the cdc over the next few days. we're also expecting a really busy week in washington in terms of the biden administration and democrats in congress starting to move their next big pieces of priority legislation. we're going to talk with a key senator tonight, for example, who has sponsored the huge voting rights bill that democrats were trying to get to president biden's desk for signature. this is the bill that has already passed the house and already passes the senate. biden says he will sign it and it will finally put a for underneath voting rights in terms of preventing republican controlled states from rescinding voting rights the way they have been around the country. tomorrow is going to be a day of major fireworks on that bill before the people act. they are also heading into those fireworks tomorrow. signs of a new strategy among the democrats to try to get it over the finish line to get it passed so we're going to have more on that coming up. again we're gonna be

interviewing tonight a key senator who is a sponsor of that legislation. but we start tonight in dallas texas. that was texas april of 2017 on the night of april 8th 2017 we all learned all around the country that dallas texas has precisely 156 emergency warning sirens. that warning of approaching tornadoes. we all learned that that night of april 8th, 2017 because that night, 18 minutes before midnight, all 156 of those tornado sirens started going off in dallas all at the same time. the is a little scarier than usual was because there's not tornadoes. it was a cold night, clear let weather, nothing on the horizon but all 156 of those emergency sirens in dallas all went off together and they kept going off for more than an hour and a half. they went off for 95 straight minutes with no break. thousands and thousands and

thousands of people in dallas called 9-1-1. some of them panicked, trying to figure out what was going on. on a night when there was no bad weather and the tornado sirens wouldn't quit. did this mean there was some other kind of attack happening? the city of dallas initially reported that it was some kind of malfunction in the emergency warning system that turned out not to be true. not unless you use a really wide definition of the word malfunction. what had actually happened that night in april 2017 was the city's emergency siren system had been hacked. hacked to make them all go off indefinitely all at once. and they couldn't figure out how to undo it at least not that night. the only way they were able to get those tornado sirens to finally stop blaring the night of april 8th, 2017, was to basically unplug the entire system which did stop the sirens of going off that night but is a problem and the long run if they want to be able to use your tornado sirens to use,

you know, to give people a warning of impending tornadoes. and in fact, that arose as an issue two years later. march 2019, two suburbs just south of dallas metro, towns called the sadat texas and lancaster texas got hit with essentially the same kind of hacking attack. tornado sirens in those two towns going off all at once in the middle of the night. 20 of them in lancaster, ten of them and decide out. they blurred from 2:30 in the morning until four in the morning before those towns were able to pull the plug too to get the sirens to go off. unlike the attack in dallas proper two years earlier, though, when it happened two years later in 2019 in those two texas towns had actually they were at tornado risk within a day at the attack while the system was still unplugged and shut down. those two towns, lancaster and decided texas got hit with severe thunderstorms the following day and they were

worried that they were going to be in the path of tornadoes while their tornado warning siren system was shut down because it had been hacked the day before. luckily, nothing turned into a tornado but that was a close call. in between those two attacks, in march 2018 the city of atlanta georgia got hit by hackers to. with the new york times at the time called one of the most sustained inconsequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major american city. but in that atlanta attack in the spring of 2018, there was a twist. that hackers broke into the computer networks maintained by the city of atlanta, effectively shut down almost all of the municipal networks the city maintained. but the hackers in that attack were not just messing with people, like the hackers had been apparently in texas. in 2017 and again in 2019. on the hackers broke into atlanta's networks and

essentially took control of all of them and stopped atlantic from being able to use any system from the people paying their parking tickets to people applying to jobs to people filing their for arrests stuff. when they were shut down and that attack in atlanta in 2018, with those hackers wanted was not just to mess with people, they wanted money. last week, one of the sort of shocking stories in the news and u.s. politics real surprise, was the announcement by democratic party rising star keisha lance bottoms, the very charismatic and talented mayor of atlanta georgia. her announcement last week that she wouldn't seek reelection. she was vetted as a potential running mate for president biden. she was reportedly offered a cabinet position in the biden administration. she didn't end up in either of those gigs. she said she would stay on and atlanta to run for another term as mayor but then in a surprise, she announced that the end of last week that she's not going

to do that either. she's only going to serve to the end of this term and she will not stand for reelection. in the video that she released that day explaining her resignation included a prominent section on that cyberattack that the city of atlanta suffered early in her term. and what a huge problem that was and how she dealt with it. >> just three months into my term, we were hit with the largest cyberattack in the municipal government history taking our systems off line for months. in exchange for ransom that we would not pay. >> iran some that we would not pay. in fact, the city of atlanta did not pay that ransom. and their systems were down for months and-ing -- not computerized falls in reports and processes for months. but they did not pay. it was later confirmed by the u.s. justice department that atlanta would not pay the ransom that the hackers demanded.

they confirmed that. the justice department confirmed that when they later announced federal criminal charges against two men, two young iranian men who were charged with running that cyberattack for ransom scheme that shut down atlanta for all of that time. in fact, it was a pair of indictments. both in federal court and georgia and federal court in new jersey, two federal indictments charging that iranian hacking crew with holding up the city of atlanta and also newark, new jersey and the port of santa diego and the colorado transportation and calgary and canada and the hollywood presbyterian medical center and smaller hospitals and health care companies and nebraska, illinois, this huge long list of entities sort of large and small that were all hit by this group that was called the sam sam ransomware group. they were charged in those two federal indictments at the end of 2018. they're now want to non serious charges in this country but since iran does not have an

extradition treaty with the united states, those hackers are unlikely to ever see the inside of a u.s. federal courtroom. over the years, we have covered the massive ransomware attack by north korean hackers in 2017 and a more than 70 countries, crippling computer networks and entities as diverse as the preternatural health 30th. but next year the united states. in october november last you might remember this as the coronavirus pandemic was dragging the country through a very very dark time as we were getting new records at the time and october in november in terms of the number of new covid cases in this country and our hospitals are struggling, a whole bunch of hospitals got hit with a ransomware attack as well. hospitals from vermont to oregon to michigan, wisconsin, northern new york, i'll got hit with francois as well. and a particularly evil attack in a particularly vulnerable time, the computerized systems and networks in those hospitals

all locked up while their cyberattack are, cyberattackers demanded payment to unlock them all in the middle of some of the darkest days of the covid epidemic. well now, we've got another one. this time, it's the largest ever ransom or cyber attack on oil infrastructure in the united states. there have been other attacks on pipelines, on a natural gas compression facility and a few other pieces of energy infrastructure in the united states that the u.s. government has told the public about, but this is a big one and it is ongoing. we learn about it for the first time very late on friday. the operator of the colonial pipeline announced that it was shutting down that pipeline to try to secure it because an active cyber attack was underway. the colonial pipeline carries 45% of the fuel used on the east coast. it runs from the gulf coast up to new jersey. it's the largest fuel pipeline in the country. it runs gasoline and jet fuel

and diesel. this thing has not been shut down since friday. the company says it hopes to be back up and running by the end of this week, but this is the largest fuel pipeline in america and we're basically looking at a week long shut down because of a cyber attack. now, the fbi today put out an overt statement naming the ransomware group that is being blamed for the attack. they also put out a flash alert telling other entities how to figure out if they've been targeted with the same type of approach, how to protect themselves if they think they have been. but while the colonial pipeline is still shot tonight, there's a whole bunch of questions here that are sort of hanging open like tornado sirens left with their own button stuck. first of, all the ransomware appears to have targeted the corporate computer networks for the pipeline operator. the attackers are reported to have stolen about 100 gigabytes of data from the operator of the pipeline.

they reportedly threatened unless the ransom gets paid the company won't get the stolen data back. and or some of that stolen data might be posted publicly online. we don't know with that data is but apparently was chosen because it was perceived to be of particular value to the company, both for the companies to get back but also to not have it out there in the public domain but again we don't know what it is. we also don't know how much of a ransom was demanded of the pipeline operator by the people who attacked it. we also don't know if the pipeline operator has paid the ransom that was demanded of them. it kind of seems like they might have. the white house today asked repeatedly if the company had paid the ransom. the deputy security adviser for cybersecurity wouldn't say. wouldn't answer the question wouldn't answer the question

that speculation we don't know. whether or not they paid the ransom, it's also not cool of the hackers penetrated more than the corporate network. this is the part that, at least gives me, as a layman's or the cramps, they were able to get into the entity that was going in for this second. shut stuff, down make their demands for the company would be able to get the data back. couldn't be able to get that data private. one be able to get control of this system again. did they go beyond just infiltrating penetrating compromising the network of the entity that runs the pipeline? today also gain control of the pipeline? today also gain access to the control systems for the mile pipeline through the gulf coast all the way up to new jersey.

then to the hackers can't control so they can shut it down if they wanted to? or sabotage didn't some dangerous waves they want to do? also not clear at this point. and who are they anyway? why are they doing this? obviously they want money. when else do we need to know about? them they have been has attributed the attack to an entity called dark side. d dark s ide. a book was written about these attacks and more. this is how they tell me the world and this is the name of the book.

they want to screen out these letters. this is a hallmark of hacker groups operating within the approval of the russian government. they go through a whole screen of are they, you know, are these computers having their default language said to russian, or ukrainian, or to any of these other languages from the former soviet bloc? in other words, don't attack russian, or russian ally interests. otherwise, knock yourself out. right? if they are trying specifically to not hit any entities, any computers that have a default

language in the former soviet space, why would they want to make allowances to save computers like that from their attacks? there has been a lot of focus today on whether this attack is successful that has shut down the biggest fuel pipeline in the united states. there's been a lot of focus on whether this is an attack by another country. whether this is some other country in attacking critical infrastructure in the united states. nicole perlroth has basically been trying to do just four years now, that the distinction there is a little bit fuzzy. as she writes in her book, quote, putin laid down only two rules for russian hackers. first, no hacking inside the mother lined. second, when the kremlin calls in a favor, you do whatever it asks. otherwise, hackers have hopeful autonomy. oh, help loved it. this dark side group, again, they're talking about this attack saying they operate in

russia or eastern europe. the question as to whether or not they are an entity affiliated with our nation state. it's a little fuzzy. russia has pretty explicitly been a sort of sanctuary. a safe zone for criminal hacking groups to operate for a long time now. the russian state essentially allows them to operate on their own terms and do things without any fear of prosecution from the russian government unless until it serves the russian government's interests. we're off and what's the government of russia has done is allow groups to operate to get credit when they do that have been deemed favors for the russian state whenever the kremlin needs them. this dark side group is a little bit of a weird duck though. they literally announced themself. they announced their existence in the press release, but they posted that online in august, which is a little bit of a weird group for weird thing for

a criminal group to do. and they have been operating under a criminal code of conduct. ode of conduct. they said they won't target governments. they would've hoped to not target the u.s. government while they targeted this huge fuel pipeline in the united states. this is a large enough piece of u.s. infrastructure that has the u.s. attention now. emergency meetings all day long at the brief house. fbi alerts and statements of blame about the attack today. the u.s. president speaking out on this issue and talking about who will be blamed and how this will be handled. whether or not they were explicitly trying to target government entity here, they got government response to deal with. now this ongoing attack stretches into its fourth day. joining us now is new york

times harbor security reporter nicole perlroth who's been covering this and many of these before. this nicole, really nice to see you today. thank you for making time. >> thanks rachel. thank you for the great setup. you laid it out pretty clearly there. >> oh, well i wanted to ask if i missed anything either important in terms of context, or anything new. i know you've been covering this all the way through you and your colleagues at the time. >> we think this group is an offset of another russian group that's been around for a while. it was actually the group that was responsible for hacking a company called quantum ink, which is a main supplier of apple products. in addition, the threatened to release designs for apple products. making a ransom demand of $50

million. one of the highest of ever heard. we think dark side, the group responsible for this -- they're claiming they won't hospitals. they may not have even intended to hack a company that would've had such strong downstream effects like colonial pipeline. they put out a statement today saying, we don't like to get involved in geopolitics. we are trying to understand what to make of this. really what we are seeing is a group that is trying to separate itself as much as possible from russia. perhaps because they are scared of some sort of retaliation like the kind we saw the pentagon cyber command -- in 2020 when they were afraid a ransom or a group would cold critical election systems hostage. they wouldn't necessarily know whether it was russia doing it,

or whether it was a cybercriminal that can maintain some plausible deniability -- deniability from vladimir putin. they were taken off line. we saw the group coming out and trying to separate itself from russia and russian operations, and russia as the safety event for so many cyber criminals and run some groups these days. >> the deputy national security adviser today, and new burger describe this as -- which to me was that familiar idea because your book. it seems to me to potentially add another layer of possible deniability in terms of attribution for this attack. does this mean the fbi and u.s. government can identify the tolls being used here, and who may have develop these tools, or sold them, but the person yielding them to carry out this

attack might still be yet another bad actor, a different party? >> no, it's a critical observation. there are ransomware is a service operated. they will lease out their access to victims networks, to other ransomware groups that then use their access to hold the systems hot -- hostage. they will take a cut. t --they almost seem to say this was an us, this was someone who released our service. they will moderate who we release our statements to, they said in the future. what you saw just now with the biden administration coming out full force on this, it's a good thing. what we're seeing in person and ministration that wants to take russia on as a safety for cybercrime and ransomware and possibly more. we understand that russia is a

safe haven for criminals in the cyber world. they don't travel to countries where they can be extradited to the united states. russia will never expedite them. it's one of the world's biggest safety event for this activity. even if this is not nation-state backed, it is nation-state enabled. we have gotten to a point where sanctioning inundating -- indicting restricting travel visas for rushing citizens. or any -- the problem has become so crazy. just in the last two weeks, we saw the washington police department held up with ransomware. a few weeks ago, honeywell was held up with ransomware. we saw this at apple as well, and the spilling out stolen data online.

back up your data, so if you hit with ransomware, he will be okay. when criminals are saying we're gonna dump your data online, backups don't mitigate against that. we are facing an innovative and very clever adversary. there is so many of. them 30 ransom groups out there that threaten to lead their data out online. >> in this case, bring about the shutdown of the largest field pipeline in the country. for an attack that seems that minimum, like it will take it down for at least a week. nicole perlroth. author of the book this is how they tell me the world ends. nikole, thank you for your clarity and tolerance on walking us through this more complicated stuff. great to have you here. >> thanks to have you here. last time we talked was over the water treatment facility

hack. hopefully things will have improved next time we speak. i don't have much on that. >> yeah, exactly. things aren't trending in a good direction in terms of the content of these conversations. but thank you nikole. much more news ahead, stay with us. i appreciate it. i appreciate it. stay restless with the icon that does the same. the rx, crafted by lexus. lease the 2021 rx 350 for $439 a month for 36 months. experience amazing, at your lexus dealer. this is our block. $439 a month for 36 months. our place. our people. our block, it's just like yours. full of the people who shaped you. they all deserve care and access to the vaccine.

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the two parties in the united states senate, you have a lot on your plate, right? you have priorities, you talk to the public a lot, he settle disputes, controversies around your members and stand up for what your party is going to do and what they're going to move

underwood they're gonna object to the senate. whether you the purity leader because you're worried about the majority read the minority leader. if you're a leader in the senate you are very busy and it's a high-profile role. one thing you don't have to do them if you have one of those jobs as you don't have to be an any committees. the top democrat the top republican in the u.s. senate to a lot but they typically don't give themselves a committee assignment and don't sit on any of the committees that actually do the work of legislation in the senate so usually if you see chuck schumer mitch mcconnell talking in the senate you see them standing. standing in giving speeches because that's the only place in the senate that they have to show up to do their jobs. that's why this year, in march, it was visually and procedurally very unusual to see both chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell sitting down, both seated around the table at a proceeding of the rules committee. both schumer and mcconnell

showed up to that committee in person that day to argue with each other over the merits of the democrats voting rights bill. the for the people act. that usually doesn't happen and you don't see the leadership of the two parties in the committee. it happened in march on the voting rights bill and it's gonna happen again tomorrow on the voting rights bill. tomorrow, the rules committee is going to discuss that big voting rights bill before the people act. once again both public and leader mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer are going to sort of break the rules, not really, but they're not really on any committee including that one but nevertheless they are going to bigfoot that committee and show up there in person themselves to do some of the arguing. now, the reason this is so important is that -- all of the voter suppression bills that are being rammed through republican control states over the country. georgia, florida, texas, ohio, iowa, state after state after state. tomorrow is going to be a real food fight over that and what's in that bill. but is that bill going to pass?

it does, right now, seem like there's something interesting going on strategically with that bill. tomorrow, democrats say they plan to introduce several amendments to the bill. and again, remember it's their own bill. they're going to introduce several amendments that are aimed at creating broader support for the bill with an eye towards eventually getting a pass and getting into president biden's desk. now, mitch mcconnell said there won't be any republican votes for anything the biden administration supports. what's this democratic strategy look like in the face of that and what is the path of getting this voting rights bill done? joining us now is senator jeff merkley, democrat of oregon. he's a lead sponsor of the for the people act which is senate bill one. senator, it's really nice to see. thank you so much for making time. >> it's great to be with you, rachel. >> i think that our audience and the american people pretty broadly understand why this is

such a big priority for you and for the democrats right now, particularly when we look at what's happening in the states around the country. the big lie in the republican side that it was somehow election fraud that explained why president trump lost his reelection bid. the crackdown on voting rights is like nothing we've seen in a generation. the question though is whether or not you have a plan to get it to president biden's desk. do you? >> absolutely, rachel. and by the way when you're describing in arizona as there's nothing to get that madness. it's designed to keep the voter fraud argument going both to change the laws in the states and to stop this bill in the senate. the plan is pretty simple, it's based on the fact that republican voters and democratic voters across the country support these core principles so we've been reaching out to local election officials and to secretary of state's both parties to say how do we make this work in your state?

and they have given us a lot of on the ground advice and so we've been making adjustments on early voting and timelines for implementing provisions and making the ballot tracking software to be done locally and so we're working with those republicans across the country who say this makes sense, we want to stop gerrymandering which corrupts division of equal representation. we want to stop billionaires and we want to have the freedom of every citizen to be able to vote and so it's basically the let's strategy is based defend on these core principles on countries core principles of our family that resonate with democrats and republicans across this country. >> i think you are exactly right that the arizona shenanigans with this recount is designed to keep alive among republicans this idea that there is something wrong with

the security of the vote, and that the most important thing is that we should make it harder for people to vote. somehow too many people are voting we have to be suspicious of. it they're deliberate slowness in arizona, their effort to spread that type of approach towards michigan, even new hampshire, any place it could spread it to, i think it's designed to keep the narrative alive. i struggled covering this in the new -- with whether or not to talk about what they're talking about. if you look to a certain respect we're helping them promote that idea by covering what they were doing. i feel they have been affected by swing to republican voters that there was something wrong with the election, the security of the ballot must be cranked down in a way that it impede's voting rights. how do you balance those two considerations? >> they have been really effective. part of what's trump called trump media. that media globe that surrounds

his support. -- the republican version of the world. the same republican support the principles of this bill. for us to not talk about it, i think, it is to fail to do justice to how important it is to the future of our country. the race in the republican senate is opposing this, is because their power stems from a corrupted voting process. from the gerrymandering, from the dartmouth, from me -- they want to maintain an even know their citizens across america want to restore and protect the right to vote. so, we don't talk about it, when we would then talk about wooded tremendously powerless time this is. if we fail to defend the core division of funding for the

people, in means that the republican goals -- towards tax cuts by the richest americans, those get -- >> all the things we're fighting for former can families, good paying jobs, the quality act and environmental protection, those things we fail on because they will keep the people from being able to vote and fight for those fundamental goals. i want to veer completely away from this notion that our country was founded on, and it would just be a corrupt republic that works for the powerful. whether or not we cast a spell, it's a huge point for the direction of america. >> jeff, this is going to have

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disqualified. a big deal in the horse riding world. the court horse did test positive for substance is not allowed to have. that has consequences. we all know how that will go. you get caught do being, you get disqualified. a pretty black and white thing. but here, a gift from the news gods. this was that horses trainer on the fox news channel this morning. when he was asked if he plans to run the same horse in the next big important race that's coming up this weekend. watch. >> well, i haven't heard anything majorly. they haven't told me anything. i know churchill bounds came out that statement. it was pretty harsh. i think they had, you know, with all the noise, we live in a different world and this america is different. it was like a cancel culture kind of thing. they are reviewing it.

>> this americas different. it was a counsel culture kind of thing. your fox watching uncle might think that cancellation only happens to good people who say inappropriate things in front of social justice warriors up to get them anyway. what happened to this horse, it is kind of the whole idea of cancellation without any problematic cultural overtones we all know if that horse cheated but assuming the test results are the same as the first the trainer apparently cheated, he got caught in there may be consequences. do bad things, get canceled. for the more you look into it, the better the metaphor gets. for example, this trainer is a big deal, and already won six other kentucky derby's before this one. he had a different horse disqualified a different race last year for testing positive at the exact same --

they had this year. five of which tested positive in the last year. and this horse that just won the kentucky derby then tested positive afterwards may be able to run in the next big race this weekend which is kind of spot on for the whole idea of cancel culture and it making sense. someone powerful does something against the rules over and over again, gets caught, and then gets repercussions for it. minimum repercussions for it. that's the whole idea of what you should get canceled for. cancel culture and the kentucky derby. i feel like your uncle might end up more confused than when he started here, but fox news is gonna have to condemn with what they have wrought by spreading this phrase as an explanation for all things they don't like. (naj) because as a fiduciary, it's our responsibility to

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tonight, we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for the last word with florence or donald. good evening lawrence. >> good evening rachel, and we have katie hobbs with us tonight. arizona secretary of state and she has solved a problem for me and that is what to call the thing that is happening in arizona. which i simply cannot bring myself to call an audit. that's a word that has meaning. i don't think that's what's going on there. katie hobbs his cold