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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping finally met for a face-to-face summit Monday evening. New England is not out of the Covid-19 woods yet as the delta variant hits the unvaccinated. And Kenosha, Wisconsin, is bracing itself as jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial are set to begin deliberations.
Here's what we're watching this Tuesday morning. 
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met for the first time this year via video conference Monday night for a three-and-a-half-hour conversation.
The White House said the meeting did not result in any breakthroughs but took a step towards managing a U.S.-China relationship that has been increasingly defined by hostility.
The two leaders discussed Taiwan at length, Beijing's crackdown on Hong Kong's democracy movement, as well as human rights more broadly, according to a White House statement after the meeting.
"The meeting itself was really about the two leaders discussing ways to manage the competition between the United States and China responsibly and ways to establish guardrails for that competition," said a senior administration official. Tuesday's Top Stories
Vermont and New Hampshire have seen two of the largest increases in the U.S. in the past two weeks — a stark reminder that unvaccinated people continue to face a serious risk for infection even in areas with high vaccination rates. 
With jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial set to begin deliberations Tuesday morning, Kenosha's residents and business owners are preparing for the worst, fearing protesters, crime and vandalism may return regardless of the outcome. 
Swollen rivers, excessive rainfall, flooding and mudslides forced hundreds of rescues and cut off power to over 100,00 utility customers in the region on Monday. 
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