Lester Holt on coronavirus: "This is potentially the biggest story I’ll ever cover"

Deadline

Tonight at 10 p.m., the NBC Nightly News anchor hosts NBC News Special Report: Coronavirus Pandemic, featuring real-time information and updates about the rapidly evolving story and a Q&A with viewers via Facebook. Asked about precedent to the coronavirus story, Holt tells Deadline that 9/11 is an "easy answer," adding: "But this is a story, as I said in that same 9/11 metaphor, where the planes have been coming slowly, but they’re coming. And we’re beginning to see it play out right now. When I was still at MSNBC in Secaucus, New Jersey, the Nightly News was targeted by the anthrax attacks, so that was obviously very personal for those who worked in this building. But in terms of magnitude of story, as I told my staff the other day, I think I’m seeing the story of my lifetime. This is potentially the biggest story I’ll ever cover."