lester? >> maggie vespa, thank you. >>> after hamlin's injury, the focus quickly shifted to the nfl itself about how it handled the crisis and about the dangers of the game. here's tom costello. >> wide open >> reporter: damar hamlin's life and death emergency comes in a season of intense scrutiny of the nfl's priorities and practices, what some call a delay in calling off last night's game and allegations the league has a f failing to prioritize player safety. september 25th, miami quarterback tua tagovailoa suffered an apparent head injury, yet was cleared by a team doctor to keep playing. slammed to the ground four days later in another game, he was taken off the field unconscious. the nfl said its concussion protocols had not been followed and quickly tightened them on christmas day, tagovailoa suffered yet another concussion the risk, permanent neurological damage. >> i'm very concerned about the nfl's protocols. >> reporter: like damar hamlin, myron rolle played safety in the nfl. today

lester, a complicated storm. we've got snow on the back side. severe weather in front of it and, in fact, we have tornado watches now for much of louisiana, southern louisiana till 1:00 a.m. we have tornado warnings also coming up, so we're watching that we got the risk for 12 million people with damaging winds, hail, intense tornadoes possible, in fact, overnight tornadoes that could be ef-2s or stronger these are twice as deadly, the nocturnal ones, than the daytime ones, and then that severe weather moves east from norfolk to jacksonville, brief tornadoes, and we've got over 83 million people impacted by winter storms from texas into new england. we are talking about anywhere from four to eight inches of snow from central missouri all the way into new england. lester. >> al roker, thank you, sir. >>> now to the war in ukraine and our new reporting tonight that the biden administration plans to send ukraine m1 abrams tanks pentagon correspondent courtney kube is following this and, courtney, this comes as a bit of a surprise. >> reporter: a ma

agrees to send tanks of its own lester >> raf sanchez in ukraine tonight. thank you. >>> now to the special counsel investigation into whether president biden mishandled classified material found at his former office and inside the garage at his delaware home peter alexander joins us peter, there is a new headline about why the fbi was not involved in the search for documents. >> reporter: yeah, lester the justice department decided against having fbi agents monitor the search for classified documents by president biden's lawyers at his delaware home. a decision the doj reached after first discussing it with the biden legal team that's according to "the wall street journal. the report that cites sources familiar with the matter says the call was made not to have fbi agents present, both to avoid complicating the investigation and because the president's lawyers were cooperating nbc news has not independently confirmed the report the doj is not commenting but republicans are slamming the justice department's decision, saying they just took the president's la

>> reporter: lester. we have. the nfl says despite the timing they can't be sure the hit caused it, but they are investigating. that said, hamlin's high school coach tells us he doesn't remember his former player having any kind of health issues that would have otherwise caused this. lester >> maggie vespa with our update thank you. thank you. >>> the suspect in the killing of those four college students in idaho is being extradited from pennsylvania tonight gadi schwartz is in moscow, idaho. >>> lester we are following breaking news the plane carrying bryan kohberger has touched down and he is in the custody of the moscow police department this is video of that plane moments ago making its way from pennsylvania now touching down. even if they were to come straight to the courthouse, at this point the judge has left for the day so it is likely he will be in court tomorrow. we don't know right now if he has been served with those documents, that criminal complaint and the probable cause that would allow him and his

lester >> garrett haake at the capitol.hank you. >>> in 60 seconds, new travel troubles as millions return home from the holidays. and later, actor jeremy renner critically injured in a snow plowing accident the latest on his condition. >>> for many americans the holiday travel season is ending the way it began, with flight delays and cancellations. tom costello tonight on the new wrinkles in the battle to get home >> reporter: on this big post-new year's travel day mounting delays and cancellations yet again. fog in denver and gridlock in florida after an air traffic control computer failure cut traffic to a trickle. stuck on the runway in palm beach nbc news producer jason calabreta. >> we've been stuck on the tarmac for almost two hours. the pilot says it's a problem for the entire state of florida we are still unsure when we might take off. >> reporter: today's delays come after southwest airlines' multiday meltdown stranded hundreds of thousands last week. flying to portugal on vacation, the mullaney family's southwest

>> lester, the law here is clear. prosecutors don't have to show these officers intended to kill nichols. but the state does have to prove that the officers knew their behavior was likely to cause his death and possibly should have intervened to stop a fellow officer from hurting nichols usually, these types of cases are hard to win. officers typically claim they acted reasonably and juries tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. in this case, so much will come down to that video we'll see tomorrow and the jury's reaction to it, lester. >> laura jarrett, thank you. >>> in south carolina, dramatic testimony today in the trial of alex murdaugh. the jury saw police body cam video from the scene where his wife and son were killed and heard murdaugh's call to 911 katie beck is there tonight. >> permission to publish this exhibit -- >> reporter: the jury heard the chilling 911 call. >> reporter: from first responders recounting a gruesome crime scene. standing near it, a distraught alec murdaugh. >> did you ever see tea

lester >> kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you. >>> tonight a former top fbi counterintelligence official has been indicted for allegedly helping a sanctioned russian billionaire and for allegedly taking hundreds of thousands in secret payments ken dilanian is following this ken, what do we know >> reporter: lester, charles mcgonigal was the head of the fbi's new york counterintelligence division, which meant his job was to protect the united states from improper foreign influence. he's now charged with profiting from foreign influence both while he worked as a top fbi official and after he left while at the fbi, prosecutors say mcgonigal secretly took $225,000 from a former albanian intelligence officer in what they call an illegal scheme to hide a conflict of interest after he retired, mcgonigal is accused of breaking the law by going to work for oleg deripaska, a sanctioned russian oligarch with close ties to vladimir putin. mcgonigal was arrested saturday at jfk airport in new york. he pleaded not guilty today, and h

lester. >> steve patterson in southern california tonight. thank you. >>> we're tracking a massive winter storm bringing severe weather to much of the country including the houston area where there is damage after a reported tornado and very strong winds. al roker is here. al, it could be a dangerous fight for a lot of folks. >> that's right. lester, a complicated storm. we've got snow on the back side. severe weather in front of it and, in fact, we have tornado watches now for much of louisiana, southern louisiana till 1:00 a.m. we have tornado warnings also coming up, so we're watching that. we got the risk for 12 million people with damaging winds, hail, intense tornadoes possible, in fact, overnight tornadoes that could be ef-2s or stronger. these are twice as deadly, the nocturnal ones, than the daytime ones, and then that severe weather moves east from norfolk to jacksonville, brief tornadoes, and we've got over 83 million people impacted by winter storms from texas into new england. we are talking about anywhere from four to eight inch

>> good evening, lester. so the life-threatening high winds and extreme rainfall rates are about to move onshore shown on our radar by this bright yellow color and even red near san francisco. when this moves onshore overnight, that will be the chance of losing power and chance of getting mudslide, roads washed out. maybe debris flows on burn scar areas but the wind makes it unusual. even in san francisco and sacramento, gusts 50 to 60 miles per hour. in the mountains 80 to 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts. hundreds of thousands of people me tensionally could lose power tonight and then, of course, with the rainfall from all the northern california to the south, even los angeles is under flash flood watches, someone is going to get a chance for up to 8 inches of rain, and this is highly unusual, lester. we don't do this that afternoon. this is in feet, not inches, and someone is going to end up with three to four feet in the mountains. >> after years of drought. bill karins, thank you. >>> tonight he is still in

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lester? >> vaughn hillyard, thank you. >>> we'll turn to the breaking news in the idaho college murders investigation. search warrants for the home of bryan kohberger, the suspect charged with killing four students, have now been unsealed. steve patterson joins us. steve, what did police find? >> reporter: the redacted warrant released today is from a december 30th search of kohberger's apartment. items include a black surgical style glove, both human and possibly animal hair, a computer tower that may shed light on his digital foot print, and dark red stains on a number of bedding items. notably, no weapons found in the search. what investigators are hoping to find essentially boils down to any evidence from the victims to the suspect's apartment or belongings. some of the items retrieved have been shipped to a lab for processing and may help bolster the prosecution's case. the next court date is set for late june, where some of this evidence found inside could play a major role. lester? >>

and lester, there will be growing pressure from ukraine for the u.s. to match that british offer of tanks. meanwhile, the u.s. has launched an expanded effort to train ukrainian troops in germany lester >> all right matt bradley in kyiv tonight. thank you. in 60 seconds, it sounds like something out of a movie the capture of a notorious mafia boss, italy's most wanted fugitive, after decades on the run what made him come out of hiding. next >>> he had gone to the hospital for treatment. the trip gave italian police the break they needed to arrest the country's top fugitive today in sicily. kelly cobiella now on the end of a line for a mafia kingpin. >> reporter: hiding in plain sight. notorious mafia boss matteo messina denaro, led out of a private medical clinic in the sicilian capital palermo, under arrest this morning as people cheered. the 60-year-old alleged leader of the infamous sicilian crime group cosa nostra was italy's most wanted fugitive, eluding police for three decades. italy's prime minister calling it a hard blow to organized crime mes

>> it continues east, lester we're still seeing the snow draped across parts of the great lakes.e still have the rain, the heavy snow as well in parts of new england and that's where we're going to watch for tomorrow but the severe thunderstorm warning -- or watch, it's in effect until 7:00 p.m. tonight we're watching for the impact to remain to be hail, damaging wind which we've already seen reports of in parts of indiana as well as a brief tornado or two. that is in ohio mainly as we look to tomorrow, there is the lingering showers. this secondary low developed and brings a mess of travel for the early morning hours. you can see through friday, down wind of the lake, we're dealing with snow. the highest amounts are going to be in parts of northern new england. >> angie, thank you. >>> newport news, virginia, the teacher allegedly shot by a 6-year-old student has been released from the hospital the boy's family speaks out about it for first time. kristen dahlgren with details. >> reporter: tonight for the first time, the parents of the 6-year-old boy accused of shooting his firs

lester? >>> maggie vespa tonight. thanks very much. let's turn to the investigation of president biden's handling of classified material and the discovery of more secret documents in his delaware home as he faces new criticism from democrats. kelly o'donnell now with the latest. >> reporter: the president returned to the white house today facing a wider, more complicated bind with more classified records found at his delaware home. this time during an unprecedented fbi search of a sitting president's residence. the white house said agents were invited with no search warrant issued. some of the additional six items discovered date back to his senate years, according to the president's personal lawyer, suggesting those were not part of packing up his vice presidential office. today i pressed a white house counsel spokesman. are there any other searches at any other locations? >> look, we're not going to get ahead of the department of justice and their investigatory process. this is a responsibl

lester >> all right, ryan.nks very much. >>> tonight, president biden announcing a new plan to address the surge of migrants at the border peter alexander is at the white house right now. and, peter, the president also said he's going to the border for the first time as president. >> reporter: lester, that visit is going to come this sunday all of it after president biden has faced fierce criticism over his handling of the border crisis where there has been a record number of illegal border crossings. the president tonigh announcing he will expand efforts to quickly expel migrants from cuba, haiti, nicaragua and venezuela who come here illegally as he warned migrants today, do not just show up. still, the president says the u.s. will allow up to 30,000 migrants from those countries to come to the u.s. each month through a newly expanded vetting process. this weekend president biden's expected to stop in el paso where shelters there have been overwhelmed by a surge of migrants. the city's democratic mayor, leste

lester? >> monica alba, thank you. >>> now to that close call with seconds to spare at jfk airport. the faa and ntsb investigating how an american airlines jet came to cross the runway just as a d flight was about to take off. here's tom costello. >> reporter: at first the radio conversation sounded routine. >> runway 4 left ready for takeoff. y 4 left ready for takeoff. a d >> reporter: a delta airlines 747 cleared for departure. but seconds later controllers saw an american airlines 777 instructed to taxi across a different runway suddenly cutting right across the path of a delta jet. controllers urgently ordered both planes to stop. >> delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. delta 1943, cancel takeoff plans. >> rejecting. >> reporter: the delta jet traveling at 115 miles per hour was just seconds from impact. slamming on the brakes, it stopped 1,000 feet short of the american plane. passenger brian healey was on the delta flight. >> i felt then adrenaline and there was total quiet on the plane a

lester? >> all right, bill. thanks very much. >>> this all comes on the heels of flash flooding on the west coast. dangerous flood waters led to more rescues today in northern california as the region braces for another series of storms. here's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: the daring and dramatic rescues unfolded all weekend across california and continued today. a devastating deluge triggering a flurry of emergency calls as the suddenly stranded were plucked from submerged cars, flooded roads and homes that took on water. this woman who tried to cross a swamped street this morning thanking rescue teams who likely saved her life. >> if it wasn't for you guys, we'd be in a lot of trouble. and don't do nothing stupid like i did. >> reporter: after days of relentless rain northern california was pummeled with the brunt of a powerful atmospheric river, a band of moisture pouring onto the coast. in san francisco, where the city nearly broke its single-day rainfall record, pedestrians floated down

'n' roll hall of fame, the legendary david crosby ♪ >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lesterolt >>> good evening the world of movie making illusion became horribly real 15 months ago when mother and cinematographer halyna hutchins was shot to death by a prop gun on the set of the western themed movie "rust" in new mexico tonight the man who held the gun actor/producer alec baldwin stands accused of involuntary manslaughter the santa fe county da office announcing the office will file criminal charges against both baldwin and the film's weapons handler hannah gutierrez-reed. the d.a. declaring no one is above the law, rejecting baldwin's public claim that he did not pull the trigger baldwin's attorney calling the decision a terrible miscarriage of justice gutierrez-reed's attorney also denying the charges. miguel almaguer is in new mexico now with late details. >> reporter: with prosecutors calling his actions on the set of "rust" criminal disregard for safety, alec baldwin faces involuntary manslaughter and firearm enhancement charge for his role in the death of helena hutchi

i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >>> i'm raj mathai. right now on nbc bay area news tonight, the next storm hits in just hours. we're keeping a close eye on the problem spots, including the likelihood of more flooding. >>> also, we're in capitola getting an up-close look at those red-tagged businesses and the long road to recovery. >>> plus, an army of volunteers adopting drains in san francisco. they also get to name them. we'll share with you some of our favorites. >>> and the new numbers are out. the bay area housing prices continue to drop. >>> good evening. this is nbc bay area news tonight. i'm raj mathai. we have made it to friday, but for so many of us, this weekend will be equally stressful. we're tal

lester. >> all right, catie beck leading us off tonight. thank you. >>> disturbing new details about the shooting of that virginia teacher by a 6-year-old student. the teacher's lawyer now says there were multiple warnings and that school officials should have acted. yamiche alcindor has details. >> this tragedy was entirely preventable if the school administrators responsible for school safety had done their part and taken action. >> reporter: the lawyer for abigail zwerner shot by her student announcing she intends to sue. >> they failed to act and abby was shot. >> reporter: she laid out a time line saying late morning zwerner went to school administrators to report the boy had threatened to beat up another student. but she said nothing was done, about 12:30 another teacher concerned the child had a gun searched his backpack. and finding nothing warned an administrator she believed the boy put the gun in his pocket. then after 1:00 p.m. a third teacher warned the student saying the boy in question showed him the gun at recess and threate

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening. a defeated republican candidate for a state office in new mexico has been arrested and will be charged with paying and conspiring with gunmen to shoot at the albuquerque homes and offices of four local democratic leaders. no one was hurt in the frightening series of attacks, which began in december. authorities accuse solomon pena of orchestrating the attacks, hiring four men to carry out the shootings. pena had blamed his election loss on what he called a rigged and fraudulent election. he was defeated in a landslide. the case fuelling the conversation about rising political threats and violence in america hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: new details tonight on an escalation of extremism, with nbc news learning the alleged ringleader of a plot to shoot at democratic officials confronted some of them weeks before, tracking them down in person after losing a state election >> he was pretty aggressive >> reporter: then in december, county commissioner adriann barboa came home to

meanwhile, house republicans are investigating. >> lester, that's right.he oversight committee is looking into the documents they announced another investigation into the finances of president biden and his family something aides here at the white house say they've been preparing for. lester >> kristen welker, thank you. >>> more defiance tonight from embattled new york congressman george santos after calls by new york republicans for him to step down. one of them claiming lie after lie after lie by santos. garret haake has the latest >> reporter: embattled new york republican congressman george santos is digging in tonight amid new calls for his resignation from within his own party. >> i will not. >> reporter: the new york state gop chairman joining calls from county republican leaders in santos' district that he step down immediately. >> george santos' campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies, fabrications >> reporter: the freshman lawmaker tweeting he was, quote, elected to serve the people of ny 3 and that he will not resign as he faces an ar

lester >> all right gadi, thank you.uch more on a special "dateline: killings in a college town" tonight at 9:00 eastern here on nbc. >>> up next, the new warning about prostate cancer a deeply personal story coming up. ♪ every search you make ♪ ♪ every click you take ♪ ♪ i'll be watching you ♪ - [narrator] the internet doesn't have to be so creepy, the duckduckgo app, lets you search and browse pria blocking most trackers all forf your search history is never tracked, so it can't be shared. and when you leave search, duckduckgo helps keep companies from watching you as you brows. join tens of millions of people making the easy switch by downloading the app today. duckduckgo, privacy simplified. (upbeat music) >>> back now with a new report raising the alarm about prostate cancer, more men being diagnosed with advance cases. the story is personal for our miguel almaguer who sat down with his own father who was recently diagnosed. >> reporter: at 74, my dad tomas almaguer was enjoying retirement, traveling the world when

i'i'm lester holt. take care of yourself and each other.later, a massive boom. >> frightening. frightening. a little overwhelming, right? >> good evening. i'm chris chmura. thank you for watching nbc bay area news at 4:30. we are beginning with an ongoing

lester? >> kristen welker at the white house, thank you. our justice correspondent ken dilanian joining me now in our washington studio. what can you tell us about this new special counsel? >> rob hur is a republican who served in the top ranks of president trump's justice department. but he is not seen as a partisan, and his appointment has drawn praise today from democrats. he says he intends to follow the facts swiftly and thoroughly without fear or favor. some key questions, who had access to the documents, who moved them? and was this just a sloppy mistake or was there something more troubling. meanwhile, lester, we face the extraordinary situation where the sitting president and his predecessor now under scrutiny by special counsels. >> thank you. >>> a dangerous situation in the southeast we're watching right now where a tornado outbreak caused widespread destruction in alabama. millions still under severe threat, all as we learned that last year is one of the hottest on record. here i

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening from washington, where in response to what he calls the extraordinary circumstances, attorney general merrick garland today named a special counsel to look into secret documents found in president biden's delaware home in addition to a washington office he used extraordinary circumstances may be an understatement with one current and one former president entangled in questions over the alleged mishandling of sensitive papers that appear to belong to the national archives. democrats say the similarities end there. but the ag tonight leaving that question to what are now two special counsels examining the cases. meantime, biden lawyers disclosing the discovery of additional documents within his private home, including inside his garage, and a third discovery just this morning kristen welker has late details now from the white house. >> reporter: tonight, with growing questions over whether president biden mishandled classified information, including the revelation of a third discovery of classified material, att

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lester >> an upsetting story. catie, thank you >>> brazil is on edge tonight after supporters of the former right-wing president stormed the capital, a scene now being compared to the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol sam brock has late details. >> reporter: after chaotic clashes with police where protesters used metal barricades to bash in the windows of brazil's congress, around 1,500 brazilians are behind bars tonight, supporting the former president jair bolsonaro, who like trump pushed a narrative of electoral fraud for months without evidence, leading to scenes sunday that looked an awful lot like january 6th. police flash bangs and tear gas going well into the night to quell the crowds >> the people who invaded the brazilian institutions, they were thinking about what happened in the united states. if it didn't happen in the united states, it wouldn't have happened in brazil. >> reporter: president biden condemning the violence as an assault on democracy, throwing the country's support behind the newly

lester >> all right gadi, thank you.uch more on a special "dateline: killings in a college town" tonight at 9:00 eastern here on nbc. >>> up next, the new warning about prostate cancer a deeply personal story coming up. >>> back now with a new report raising the alarm about prostate cancer, more men being diagnosed with advance cases. the story is personal for our miguel almaguer who sat down with his own father who was recently diagnosed. >> reporter: at 74, my dad tomas almaguer was enjoying retirement, traveling the world when his doctor broke the news when you sat down with your doctor and he said you had prostate cancer, what went through your mind? >> i was stunned, frightened, confused. >> reporter: the devastating diagnosis which came six weeks ago revealed his prostate cancer was advanced doctors discovering lesions after a routine blood test known as a prostate-specific antigen test or psa. >> it was really simple, really simple. >> any reluctance in taking the test? >> no, not at all, not once i understood it

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lester? >> all right. ken dilanian with that late-breaking news. thank you. >>> and tonight president biden is in mexico as he grapples with a migrant crisis that is escalating along the southern border. gabe gutierrez reports. >> reporter: facing mounting pressure over his handling of the growing migrant crisis, today president biden met with mexico's president, andres manuel lopez obrador. the crucial talks ahead of a summit in mexico city come just one day after president biden's first trip to the southern border since taking office, where he met with officials in el paso. >> they need a lot of resources. we're going to get them for them. >> reporter: and while he did not meet directly with migrants he was met with criticism from all sides. texas republican governor greg abbott handed the president a letter, blasting mr. biden's lax border policies for encouraging the migrant influx and arguing the visit came two years too late. >> that is the only reason why we have these people coming ac

lester? >> all right. peter alexander, thank you. >>> the severe weather has moved on, but the problems continue. in california, a mudslide caused a train to get stuck on the tracks today. there were no injuries, while officials say the san diego river will take days to recede. and now the storms are moving east. angie lassman is here. angie, what are we looking at? >> lester, we're looking at the same storm that impacted yesterday to move across the country coast-to-coast. right now we're seeing impacts in parts of the rockies, over the four corners region is where we've seen the snow through today. this is going to continue its eastward movement, impacting folks in parts of the south and stretching up into the tennessee and even ohio valley. we're looking at snowfall in parts of the high plains that will make travel difficult tomorrow morning, combined with snow and ice. this eventually is going to be problematic, especially to the afternoon and evening hours tomorrow for some heavy rain, c

lester >> all right jesse kirsch starts us off. thank you. >>> the dramatic final moments before the deadly crash of a small plane just outside new york city. the desperate mayday communications between the pilot and control tower just released. kristen dahlgren has details. >> reporter: the crash touched off a massive search in the woods just north of new york city flight control had lost touch with the single engine plane less than two miles from an emergency landing at westchester county airport >> i understand you are losing oil pressure >> yes, we are losing oil pressure this is an emergency >> reporter: the plane had taken off from jfk airport about a half hour earlier pilot baruch taub was bringing his friend, ben chafetz, home to ohio from a funeral in new york the situation dire as the plane lost altitude >> you have engine power right now? are you able to maintain altitude? >> no, the engine is overriding mayday, mayday, mayday >> you want to correct back to the left for the runway on your 10:00. radar contact lost. >> re

lester? >> all right, brian nobles, thank you. >>> a 6-year-old student, a 6-year-old student shot a teacher in a classroom at an elementary school in newport news. the teacher at richneck elementary hospitalized tonight with life threatening injuries. police say the student is in custody and that it was not an accidental shooting. >>> more good news about damar hamlin four days after the buffalo bills safety went into cardiac arrest. everyone feeling a sense of relief tonight. maggie vespa with the latest from cincinnati. >> reporter: tonight another big step on damar hamlin's road to recovery. the buffalo bills safety breathing on his own, talking to family, doctors, even facetiming his teammates. >> he said i love you, boys. and, of course, i think it got the guys. they stood up right away and clapped for him and, you know, he yelled some things to him and it was a pretty cool exchange. >> hair on the back of my neck stood up when he said i love you boys. the room went nuts. it was just aw

lester >> all right tom llamas in memphis. thank you.ning me now is shelby county district attorney steve mulroy. what do you want the commity to take away from the showing o these images >> well, i want the community to see that the showing of the video itself demonstrates transparency on part of the criminal justice system i hope that they understand that because charges have already been filed in this case that there is accountability. this is not being swept under the rug. and i hope that weighs in to their decision about what kind of response they'll make to the video >> obviously, a lot of focus on the imagery and these tapes. but are the things w hear on the videos that help form a narrative or understanding of the confrontation or even the officers' state of mind >> yes without going into too much detail abou characterizing the video which i need to be careful not to do as a prosecutor, yes, there is video and audio and statements made by the participants that i think people will be able to judge for themselves but i think the vi

lester? >> thank you. >>> in new york city today, the verdict handed down for an isis-inspired truck attack on halloween in 2017. the jury finding the attacker guilty on all counts. prosecutors say he drove a rented truck along a busy bike path, striking and killing eight people in the deadliest terror attack in new york since 9/11. he could receive the death penalty. >>> the u.s. military killed a top isis leader in somalia. the raid took place in the mountains of northern somalia where he and ten isis fighters were killed. the defense secretary lloyd austin said he guided the growth of isis in africa and its funding worldwide, including in afghanistan. >>> in ukraine, a massive and deadly russian military assault. one day after the u.s. and germany said they are sending tanks to ukraine. raf sanchez is there and has late details. >> reporter: tonight, russia's revenge. just hours after the u.s. and european allies announced they will send tanks to ukraine, russia unleashing air strikes targ