The Biden administration is working with GOP Senators to negotiate a new Covid relief proposal. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) talks about the meeting and says people should be optimistic about a deal. Meanwhile, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, told Shep Smith that she anticipates another surge of Covid infections as the new variants of the virus appear across the U.S. NBC correspondent Ron Allen reports details on the news of police handcuffing and pepper spraying a 9-year-old in Rochester, N.Y. The Rochester police chief says what happened is inappropriate. NBC’s Tom Costello reports on SpaceX’s announcement today that it would be sending civilians into space for the first time. Plus, NBC’s Al Roker reports on the snowstorm that buried much of the Northeast today.