kristen dahlgren has what you need to know. >> reporter: tonight a new tool in the fight against rsv just approved by the fda. the pfizer vaccine, the first given to pregnant women, to protect their babies from the dangerous respiratory virus for their first six months >> a lot of kids get sick with rsv like every winter, and it's kind of scary. >> reporter: gwen marazuko was one of 7,000 pregnant women in the study she still doesn't know if she was given the vaccine or placebo but says her now 20-month-old is doing well >> i will say that this past winter when a lot of families in our community were affected by rsv our family was not >> reporter: a new monoclonal antibody for rsv also recently approved for use in babies and children as well as a new vaccine for the elderly. >> together we think this is going to have a major impact on the number of hospitalizations >> reporter: doctors are also hopeful about new covid boosters, expected to be authorized soon as the country sees an uptick in cases eg.5, also known as eris, is now the dominant strain, but is closely related to previous

kristen dahlgren, nbc news >>> and that's "nightly news. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night . is >>> i'm raj mathai. next on "nbc bay area news tonight," the mug shot is in as president trump surrenders in georgia. so what's next in this case of election fraud? >> i did nothing wrong. >>> also, could the a's end up playing at oracle park? the idea being floated by the team's president just one day after our interview with

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kristen dahlgren explains >> clear to land >> clear to land >> reporter: nick kharufeh always dreamed of being a pilot. >> i figured that would be a perfect career path for me. >> reporter: and he was well on his way until a freak accident on july 4th, 2020 near his home in california >> we were watching the fireworks, but instead of shooting up in the air, it exploded on the floor. i, unfortunately, took a direct hit to my left eye dead center. >> reporter: the eye blinded. >> thought my life was done i didn't really know if it was going to ever get better. >> reporter: until he heard about a completely new procedure being done at mass eye and ear. >> it looks very good. >> reporter: dr. ula jurkunas and her team pioneered a procedure they call calec using stem cells to restore the cornea in the damaged eye of patients with severe injuries >> it is possible to take a small biopsy of these stem cells, grow them in the laboratory, and then transplant them onto the patient's eye, taking it from the healthy eye to the diseased eye. >> reporter: in a phase 1 study of the first four patien

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tonight in haiti almost two weeks after they were kidnapped at the clinic where the mother works kristen dahlgren more for us tonight. >> reporter: for two weeks there had been no sign of 31-year-old nurse alix dorsainvil or her young daughter named haven, but today el roi haiti, the christian charity run by her husband, confirmed their safe release writing today, we are praising god for answered prayers. >> we express our deepest appreciation to our haitian and u.s. interagency partners for their assistance in facilitating for their safe release. >> reporter: tonight el roi asking for privacy for the young family it is unclear whether they will stay in haiti, a country alix considered her adopted home >> my name is alix i'm a nurse from new hampshire, but now i live in haiti. >> reporter: in a video posted on the organization's website before the kidnapping, alix speaks glowingly of the people and her work caring for children at el roi's school with her haitian-born husband. >> i'm so blessed to be able to know so many amazing haitians. >> reporter: but on july 30th, the organization reported sh

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a seven-year-old boy playing in his backyard was attacked by a bear kristen dahlgren tells us how theve the child before the first responders arrived the bear population is actually small in westchester county, north of manhattan but a lot of residents there, as you can imagine, on high alert this morning a terrifying encounter in a new york city suburb where a bear attacked a seven-year-old boy playing in his backyard. >> we live in the woods here, and that is a scary thing. >> police say when they arrived at the home in bedford, the bear was still there and didn't run off, despite attempts to scare it away, eventually forcing officers to take the wild animal down. >> our point was he didn't retreat. at one point he did advance. when you have that many human beings, i would think a normal of that kind would normally retreat, and it did not. >> the child was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries bear attacks are extremely rare. according to experts an increase in bear activity in the spring and summer is common with the animals are in search of food sometimes they l

last night a single winning ticket sold in florida worth more than $1.5 billion kristen dahlgren is here. good morning to you. >> i am here because clearly i did not win, sheinelle. the jackpot rolling over for months to be the largest prize in the game's history, and this morning somebody who bought their ticket in the sunshine state is very, very rich this morning, one lucky winner waking up in florida as a billionaire after nearly four months of lottery fever sweeping the country. >> okay. let this number sink in for just a minute here. $1.58 billion. >> okay. we'll take it. >> overnight, the history-making winning ticket finally drawn the lucky ticket sold at this publix store in neptune beach, florida. the winner taking home the biggest jackpot in mega's history, and the third largest u.s. lottery jackpot ever. a lump sum payment of $783.3 million cash a single wng ticket was so a in cornia for the power ball jackpot of more $1 billion. whatld mosericans do with that money? some say it would not change know wouldn't quit my job, you i still want to work. >> while others would have a