lester >> all right kristen welker, thank you. let me bring in now justice correspondent pete williams. orders, pete, for medical abortion pills have multiplied, but can a patient who lives in a state where abortion is banned still order them legally? >> well, the justice department says the states can't ban shipment of those pills by claiming they're unsafe because the fda has declared them to be safe and effective. but state laws are different. and lawyers who track this issue say there's no clear answer yet. they do say it's pretty clear that patients can travel to states where abortion is legal to have the procedure there, lester >> and separately, pete, what about today's other big supreme court ruling >> another example of the court easing the separation of church and state. it ruled for a high school football coach who prayed on the 50 yard line immediately after games. the school district told him to find someplace else to pray to avoid the appearance that it was endorsing his religion but by a vote of 6-3 the court said h

thank you for watching i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >>> the steepest price hikes we have seen in decades. we are diving into a record inflation. what is causing it, how much is hurting our personal finances and local businesses? how large corporations may be taking advantage of us. we will be joined by former secretary of labor robert reisch. our mail and delivery drivers -- crimes happening all across the bay area. later we will tell you what bill gates was doing in berkeley today. good evening this is an these the news tonight. we are covering all those topics and more but we want to start with breaking news, a brush fire burning near homes

>> reporter: that's right, lester. the president cited justice thomas' opinion that the contraception and same-sex marriage should be reconsidered president biden arguing the court is taking the country down an extreme and dangerous path lester >> thank you, peter alexander. >>> i want to turn to yamiche. we heard the president and house speaker saying this fall roe is essentially on the ballots in this midterms, but to what end? >> much like the impact of this decision, th political fallout was immediate. ahead of the midterm, democrats will be hammering home the point of voters that poll show the majority of americans want abortion to be legal in some form but the reality is this is not a one-issue election democrats will be trying to focus voters on abortion while americans are juggling multiple challenges including record high gas prices and historic inflation. meanwhile, this decision is th culmination of conservative activism and the strategy in the senate to create a conservative majority on the court the questi

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most notably liz cheney lester >> okay. vaughn hilliard, thank you. >>> in 60 seconds, new federal charges filed against the suspec that killed three people in a buffalo supermarket. and john hinckley jr., the man who shot president reagan >>> the u.s. is sending a billion more dollars in military aid to ukraine, including anti-ship missiles, launchers, rocket, artillery and howitzers. president biden made the announcement today after a call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. it comes as russia makes advances in the east against outgunned ukraine forces >>> major new development involvin t people in a racist attack at a buffalo supermarket last month. the justice department today charging him with 26 counts of federal hate crimes and weapons violations some of the new charges could carry the death penalty. >>> john hinckley jr., who shot and wounded former president ronald reagan, was freed from court oversight today ending decades of supervision by legal authorities and mental health professionals. acquitted by

>> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening from the mouths of babes, 11-year-old girl appearing by video before a congressional hearing today describing in spellbounding detail her desperate and agonizing efforts to save herself from a gunman inside her school smearing herself with the blood of a classmate, pretending to be dead to survive. young miah cerriillo telling lawmakers i don't want it to happen again as the house prepared to vote on a series of gun control measures, families and survivors of the uvalde school massacre appeared in washington to demand new gun laws insisting lawmakers know the depths of their sorrow and their loss their testimony incredibly moving but not necessarily moving republicans from their opposition to new restrictions on guns and those who wish to own them gabe gutierrez was inside the hearing room >> reporter: in one of the most chilling firsthand accounts so far of the uvalde massacre, 11-year-old miah cerrillo described the unthinkable horror, the moment the gunman first approached her teacher. >> she got an email.

lester?r alexander at the white house where we will be hearing from the president about 12:30 eastern time. little over an hour from now. if remains on schedule. nbc news legal analyst carroll lamb, former u.s. attorney and federal prosecutor. carol, the nuts and bolts here. i want to get the terminology right. abortion is not illegal, but it is no longer a constitutional right, correct? >> that is correct. this is not a ban on abortion. a total ban on abortion decided by the supreme court. it changes the approach to abortion. it says women no longer have a fundamental constitutional right to make the decision regarding terminating their pregnancy at any stage of the presidency. that no longer a protected right. and what that does is throws the decision back to each individual state. each state makes the decision. at what stage of the abortion or whether there is a ban on abortions in that state entirely. that is now an issue for each state legislature. >> stepping away from whatever side you

the countdown to the event 70 years in the making >> reporter: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening it goes against every fiber in our being, having to bury our own children parents in uvalde, texas now facing that grim reality, beginning to lay their children to rest in a world no safer today than it was a week ago when their children became victims of mass murder this holiday weekend, nine people were killed and more than 60 hurt in mass shootings across the u.s. overall, at least 156 died by gun violence hundreds left wounded. but in the tiny texas town of uvalde, still mourning the 19 children and two adults who were ruthlessly murdered last tuesday, we're still learning about the timeline and what officers did or didn't do to try to save them but today's focus, the first of 21 funerals celebrating the lives lost our morgan chesky is there. >> reporter: tonight heartbreak hitting home, with hundreds saying final goodbyes. >> you feel sad, man, it hits you hard >> reporter: 21 funerals over the next two weeks, including services for four 10-year-olds today m

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i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. night >>> i'm raj mathai, next on nbc bay area news tonight the vice is back home. she arrived at sfo just a short time ago. >> i'm glad to be here, and it's good to be back in the bay. >> we'll tell you who she's going to visit in the bay area and how much it costs to get in the door. >>> plus, is governor newsom planning a presidential run? >>> and is alameda county's recent mask mandate making a difference? one of the leading covid experts in the country has some answers. >>> and brace yourself if you're traveling during fourth of july weekend. we've got pro tips to avoid those delays or

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lester >> what does today's ruling tell us about the makeup of the court currently? >> reporter: it says that this court super majority is flexing its muscles, the conservative super majority remember, the court has ducked the question of guns outside the home for 14 years this term the conservatives had the votes to answer it the way they wanted and we are likely to see the same 6-3 voting pattern in decisions yet to come. >> pete williams at the supreme court, thank you. >>> the response to today's ruling was swift from new york's governor and the mayor of new york city, vowing new gun laws in response gabe gutierrez has that part of the story. >> reporter: with gun violence surging across the country, tonight some city leaders are blasting the supreme court decision >> we cannot allow new york to become the wild, wild west. that is unacceptable >> reporter: new york city mayor eric adams says local officials are weighing legal options. the nypd recovered more than 3,000 guns so far this year, gun arrests hit a 28-year high >> the decision ignores the shocking cris

lester? >> garrett haake on capitol hill, thanks. a reminder, join us for live coverage of the january 6 hearings tonight at 8:00 p.m. here on nbc. >>> also tonight, we are following breaking news out of maryland. a deadly mass shooting at a business about 75 miles west of baltimore. the sheriff says responding officers found three people dead and one critically injured, the suspect after fleeing the scene engaged in a shootout on the road with a state trooper. both the suspect and the trooper were injured and transported to the hospital. the fbi and atf are assisting in that investigation. >>> in grand rapids, michigan, a murder charge against a police officer that shot and killed a motorist in a traffic stop. the killing in april led to angry protests in the city. kathy park has late details. >> stay in the car. >> reporter: tonight, grand rapids police officer christopher schurr, charged with murder for the shooting death of patrick lyoya after a traffic stop in april spiralled into a stru

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>> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump's pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence's inner circle testifying about the presidential tweets, public taunts, and angry phone calls any they say pence was subjected to the panel releasing never-before-seen photos of vice president pence sheltering during the capitol riot reading a trump tweet as rioters roamed the grounds above him. pence praised by the committee for refusing to go along with the plan to reject the electoral votes. garrett haake is at the capitol with details. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: tonight the january 6th committee presenting new evidence of what was happening behind the s

and russia. >> reporter: that's right, lester. while we've seen these men on television, the russian government is saying nothing about this and we still don't know where the men are. lester >> keir simmons, thank you. >>> within days, it appears that very young children will be able to get covid vaccine shots after the fda today authorized the pfizer and moderna shots for children under five. but as stephanie gosk reports, not all parents are on board >> reporter: today, more than a year and a half after adults started to get covid-19 shots, the fda authorized pediatric versions of moderna and pfizer vaccines for children six months through four years old the last age group to become eligible. making up roughly 18 million americans. the agency determining known and potential benefits outweigh known and potential risks. the moderna shot is two doses one month apart. pfizer's vaccine is three doses. the first two three weeks apart with a third dose administered more than two months later. >> i would say parents should feel comforta

>> reporter: not publicly, lester. we're told he testified in front of the texas house committee for more than five hours today but behind closed doors you'll remember that earlier this month he said that he did not think he was the scene's incident commander, lester. >> thank you for that. >>> let's get to the war in ukraine tonight and reports of another american killed in that conflict as concern grows about two captured americans. molly hunter is in ukraine. >> reporter: according to a local newspaper obituary 52-year-old steven zabielski was fighting in ukraine when he died in may. the state department confirming he died in ukraine but not offering any additional details. >> in terms of any of the specifics of his death, that is just not something i can weigh in on. >> reporter: also today reaction to an nbc news exclusive interview about the two american veterans captured while fighting in ukraine. kremlin spokesman said they won't be dmitry peskov told nbc's keir simmons that they won't be treated as prisoners o

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lester >> thank you. >>> this just in from uvalde, texas. school police chief pete arredondo on administrative leave this after the state's top cop blamed uvalde to the slow response to the deadly school shooting sam brock joining me now. sam, why now >> reporter: yeah. lester, initially the school district said they were waiting for the investigation to finish before making personnel decisions. however, the superintendent of school said because of the lack of clarity and ongoing timing for what's to come they have decided to put pete arredondo right now on administrative leave as the city's mayor is bristling at the blame. after a withering critique of the police response in uvalde the mayor of the small texas city is pushing back. >> i wonder who the hell is in charge of this investigation because you can't get a straight answer. >> reporter: the mayor demanding accountability and rejecting the notion that uvalde school and police department deserve did brunt of the blame for the slow response >> it pisses me off i can't give you answers o

for now, i'm lester holt. thank you for joining us. good night. >>> it never the fourth video of the attack on the u.s. capital which came from first- hand accounts. we will break down what we heard tonight. the developing news here, for more cases of monkeypox what you need to know. prepare yourself for triple digit heat. how hot it could get. >>> what is the deal with that dead whale? why did it sit on shore for nearly 2 weeks. >>> a three-story food hall opening up in silicon valley. we will take you inside for a snack. >>> good evening, i'm jessica a gary. the house kemeny just wrapped up his first public hearing on the january 6 insurrection. as part of that hearing, we saw never before shown video of the riot, the preaching of the capital and the violence that followed. some of the shop by a filmmaker who was there to document the rally. he also testified this evening. over the course, they will show evidence that proves the former president trump was responsible for that riot and that he carried it out through a seven part plan.

i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other.ood night >> nicole: of course i understand, rafe. i'm--why wouldn't i? this is just how it has to be, and given the circumstances... it's best to call off the wedding. [dramatic music] ♪ ♪ >> lani: and julie, um, please give jack and jennifer my love. tell them how terribly sorry eli and i are. and that whoever took abigail's life--that we will bring them to justice. same here. give my love to doug. bye. [maracas shaking] ♪ ♪ [dramatic music] ♪ ♪ >> tr: what about justice for the person who murdered your father? >> chanel: mr. kiriakis, this is chanel dupree, and as you know, my mother has been locked up for weeks now. so i understand that you're doing your best, but it's just not good enough. all mama did was stop her abuser from hurting more people. he--he tried to kill my brother- in-law eli, and if you can't find a way to free my mother, then i am going to find her a better lawyer. she's a great person, and she doesn't deserve this. [cell phone beeps] >> paulina: i guess you told

how so >> reporter: that's right, lester. the committee wants to examine how former president trump tried to use the doj first to investigate and then to advance his claims of a stolen election on thursday we'll hear about the pressure campaign the president waged against his own vice president, mike pence. lester >> garrett haake o capitol hill, thank you. >>> it was another brutal day on wall street the dow plunging 876 points the s&p falling into bear market territory. it comes as the fed prepares to raise interest rates again to combat inflation, and gas prices top $5 a gallon here's tom costello. >> reporter: gloom and red arrows on wall street today as sky high inflation and a potential recession weigh heavily on investors. after being down 1,000 points the dow closed down 876 today, now down 16% for the year. the tech and biotech heavy nasdaq down 30% year to date, and the broader s&p index common in americans' portfolios sliding into bear market territory, down 21% year to date all of it real money for americans savin

lester?lester? yes, you go from one team that was mitigated i turnaround from lester? yes, you go from one team that was mitigated to | from one team that was mitigated to give me one team that should have been relegated because they could have gone down where it not for covid—19 of course. that was the season when premiership rugby turned around and said ok we are nothing to mitigate anyone and it's not fair, there's too many different permutations with teams having to not be able to put out a full squad and fixtures being cancelled so lester remained in the league of christ and steve has a job that come up and that means they will step out in their first vinyl for nine years at twickenham and an interesting selection also perhaps a bit canny in that he's chosen richard wigglesworth to start at nine for the tigers and he's a former saracenss player and that means they will be on the bench and he's been through an awful lot that last fortnight living the sad passing of his sister and —— siste

thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other.on >>> i'm raj mathai, next on nbc bay area news, what the president trump know about the riot and what did he do about it? >> it was un-american. we were watching the capitol building get defaced over a lie. >> explosive testimony from a former white house aid. we'll break down the key moments. also kicked out of an exclusive marin county school after questioning the curriculum. >> our second grade daughter was in a classroom, there was nothing that we could do. >> this mom says her kids got a raw deal. the gender identity lesson at the center of the drama. and the fda pushing for a new covid booster this fall. what will be different about it. and where's the money? a

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lester holt is preparing for nightly news. one of the top stories, how today's ruling could impact the upcoming midterm election. lester joins us in about three minutes. - [announcer] the more we learn about covid-19, the more questions we have. the biggest question now, what's next? what will covid bring in six months, a year? if you're feeling anxious about the future, you're not alone. calhope offers free covid-19 emotional support. call 833-317-4673, or live chat at calhope.org today. >>> happening now in petaluma, a different kind of dog show. the world famous ugly dog contest. >> i love this contest! >> me too! >> the judges aren't looking for beauty. since the 1970s, the sonoma fair has hosted this annual world's ugliest dog contest. they've even trademarked the phrase. you get a free trip to new york city if you win or lose whatever you say here, and a cash prize of $1,600. >> that's too good. >>> up next on nightly news, today's supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade. lester holt joins us from new york right n

because i keep coming back to this, lester.he single most -- this is -- we have had the mueller report and two impeachments, and you have this. four very compelling investigations into wrongdoing by president trump. this one truly has the receipts. this connects the dots. and i tell you this, there's basically, i think, they've laid out two separate conspiracies. conspiracy one was the one -- the lead-up, all of the attempts to overturn the election. and then conspiracy two that i think was laid out pretty compellingly, was the oath keepers and the proud boys doing what they were doing here to essentially take matters into their own hands if necessary, if plan a didn't work here. i've been waiting to see how much they can connect the president to that second part, to the attack on the capitol. and we got a very compelling piece of video there at the end, almost like a trailer, about where they're going, which is, every one of these folks who have pled guilty, who have been -- who have been forced to testify, they all seem to be

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight, there is an urgent manhunt in philadelphia police there searching for a gunman in a shooting that left at least three people dead, including a staffer at a nearby school for boys who worked with second graders. a second suspect, an 18-year-old, already in custody the mass shooting one of more than 13 over the past 72 hours in the u.s. putting june on pace to be the deadliest for mass shootings this year. it all comes at a time when americans are asking washington what can be done with bipartisan talks on capitol hill a top democrat saying his goal is for a proposal this week gabe gutierrez with a video police are analyzing frame by frame. he starts us off from philadelphia >> reporter: a party turning into panic on the streets of philadelphia [ shots fired pandemonium as multiple shooters opened fire leaving three people dead and 11 injured late today, a suspect arrested and charged >> the gun that he used was used was left at the scene it was a ghost gun and did have an exte

lester holt joins us now.ring making the case that donald trump knew he lost the election but spread false voter fraud claims anyway. trump insiders testifying one after another that they told the then-president he lost and his claims of voter fraud were bogus. former attorney general william barr testifying he feared trump had become detached from reality. and the advice the committee says trump took from an allegedly drunk rudy giuliani instead of listening to his own campaign team on election night. what giuliani is now saying >>> also this evening, wall street in free fall stocks closing in bear market territory for the first time in more than two years growing fears of a recession with all eyes on what the fed will do this week. >>> the bipartisan breakthrough in the senate on gun safety what's in and what's out. >>> the 31 suspected white nationalists arrested in idaho, released on bond. police saying they planned to start a riot >>> extreme heat spreading across the u.s. and heavy rain. the national par

and the little prince who stole the show >> announcer: this is “nbc nightly news” with lester holt >>d good evening i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight just moments ago president biden delivered an urgent address to the american people on gun violence the president speaking more than a week after 19 children and 2 adults were killed in uvalde, texas. and a day after four shot dead in a tulsa hospital the president saying every day places have become killing fields, battlefields in america. he called for raising the age to purchase assault weapons, expanding background checks, and creating a federal red flag law. while bipartisan lawmakers say they have a potential plan to try to curb gun violence, their efforts come after many failed attempts in washington. will any of it become a reality? we start tonight with kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: president biden who has grieved with families traumatized by mass shootings tonight implored the congress and the communities to change >> enough. enough it is time for each of us to do our part. it is time to act. >> reporter: making a rare eveni

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. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening. i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight, a dangerous tropical threat taking aim at florida, parts of the southern coast getting pounded by heavy rains. the tropical cyclone with warnings issued for a large part of the state, including south florida and the keys also on alert, parts of the bahamas and cuba where at leas one person already died dangerous rains expected to continue overnight, causing torrential downpours and possible tornadoes. just this week the national weather service predicting an above average hurricane season we start tonight with meteorologist bill karins tracking this dangerous storm. bill, what are you seeing >> reporter: tom, i'm very concerned with heavy rainfall overwhelming flood control systems in south florida. they're thinking the possibility for water into homes, evacuations and rescues in the next 24 hours. let me give you the latest on the storm. it is coming off the yucatan and heading to florida. heavy rainfall is well ahead of the storm, already drench

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening a rapidly shifting patchwork of abortion laws tonight as the battle in the wake of roe v. wade's demise spills from the chambers of the u.s. supreme court to state courtrooms across america.

it's clear they're not yet, lester. >> a ten-minute break, thank you so much. let me go to our washington correspondent. how are supporters characterizing what we're seeing? >> well, lester, supporters of former president trump and even aides who were helping try to contest the election on his behalf are shocked by what they just heard. i've been getting text message, wow, the truth is come out. he only cared about his own safety. not only lunge add the neck of a secret service agent, but the steering wheel. he was saying i'm not at risk. they're not going to hurt me. even though they had ar-15s and backpacks that was making the secret service very, very nervous. violence had already broken out at the capitol. when i'm talking to the people closest to president trump and aides on his campaign, they said it really hurts to think about the fact this was the president of the united states only thinking about his own safety. the committee really did set the stakes really, really high here and based on the reactions i'm getting from people, a lot of them trump suppo

so we're about to become a divided country, lester, where abortion is legal in about half the states, illegal in half the states. this is a 6-3 decision. it's written by samuel alito. we haven't had a chance to track it yet, but you may recall the justice alito was the author of the draft opinion that leaked in may, that suggested the supreme court was going to overturn roe v. wade. but lester, i have to say, this is not, while it is certainly going to be surprising to some, pleasing to others that have worked for this day for many years, it can't be too much of a surprise for three reasons. first of all, the fact the court agreed to take this place in the first place. this was a decision from the lower courts that said no, you can't strike down abortion that early because it would go against supreme court precedence. there was no division among the circuit courts. so why did the supreme court take it? the logical conclusion has to be they took it to overturn roe. secondly, what they did in the texas case when they allowed the texas law to go into effect that would restrict abortion,

holt >>> good evening i'm savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only identifying marker left for one little girl, so ferocious the wounds from the gunman's ar-15. for a moment the nation was captivated. rare roadblock coverage on cable news we have been here many times. tonight, bipartisan momentum appears to be growing for some change to the nation's gun laws what's on the table and will it make a difference nbc's gabe gutierrez leads us off >> reporter: tonight as the u.s. grapples with the dramatic surge in gun violence, relatives of those killed in the buffalo massacre are taking their grief to capitol hill. >> gun access is certainly t