it's your money and mine lester?l right tom costello, thanks. >>> in 60 seconds he says he's retiring again and this time for good, but for tom brady there are $375 million in his future off the football field. we'll explain right after this >>> a major announcement todayom t brady one of the all-time nfl greats announcing he is retiring again, but this time he says it's for good. here's kaylee hartung. >> good morning, guys. i'll get to the point right away i'm retiring for good. >> reporter: it's take two on retirement for tom brady. >> thank you guys for allowing me to live my absolute dream i wouldn't change a thing. >> reporter: one of the greatest athletes of all time holding back tears as he broke the news on social media ending his record-setting 23-year career >> i love you, man. >> reporter: a seven-time super bowl champion >> how about that? >> you only get one super emotional retirement essay, and i used mine up last year so -- >> reporter: brady first announced his retirement last february but quickly ch

. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening and thank you for joining us we have seen american presidents quietly slipping into war zones before, but never quite like what we saw today americans waking up to news that president biden had arrived in the ukrainian capital of kyiv on an unannounced visit cloaked in secrecy that included the president taking a ten-hour train ride across ukraine, venturing into a country actively at war and where there is no sustained u.s. military presence. the risk underscored by the wail of an air raid siren as the president strolled outside with president volodymyr zelenskyy. the visit coming just before the first anniversary of the russia mr. biden voicing unwavering support for ukraine and vowing the u.s. would stand with the battered country for as long as it takes. kristen welker begins our coverage >> reporter: tonight, president biden arriving in poland after his historic and highly secretive trip inside a war zone. in kyiv side by side with ukraine's president zelenskyy. >> thank you very much for coming, mr. pres

>> it's coming right for us here in the northeast, lester. stretching from wisconsin all the way into the northeast to new england. 42 million people. you can see now the snow making its way through buffalo. an icy mix just behind that and we've got more severe weather, possible risk of severe weather back through much of ohio tornadoes can't be ruled out. snowfall amounts generally anywhere from two to four inches here in new york city and boston four to eight in albany three to six inches in syracuse and out west another big storm coming this is going to be our next coast-to-coast storm and look at this wide swath of severe weather from wednesday, thursday, right on into friday for much of the plains all the way into the southeast for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. we've got a long week ahead, lester. >> all right, al, thank you for updating us >>> just in tonight, a major cybersecurity breach for the u.s. marshals sensitive data from one of the marshals' systems was hacked more than a week ago according to multiple senior u.s. law enf

>> lester, this is the defense team going on offense. clearly, the goal was to try to take the sting out of the damning evidence that the prosecution would raise on cross-examination, and that's likely why he was forced to admit that he lied to police and to his family, all while trying to plant seeds of reasonable doubt. but testifying at all, already the gamble. prosecution has tried to highlight his inconsistencies and also pierce through his folksy demeanor on cross-examination to try to show this jury that he is an accomplished lawyer who knows how to cover his tracks lester >> all right laura, thank you >>> now to that deadly crippling winter storm that is stretching right now across the country. and a separate threat here in the west gabe gutierrez is watching it all from minneapolis. >> reporter: tonight, devastating snow, ice, and wind pummelling even more of the country. this time knocking out power to nearly a million people across the midwest. most of those outages in michigan where a volunteer firefighter was killed when a t

pence had to say about the former president. >> reporter: that's right, lester. mr.ce drawing a sharp contrast with his former boss saying americans want, quote, civility to return to politics and that these times in his words call for different leadership experience as for the former vice president, he told me he and his family will make a decision by spring on his own plans to run for president. but, look, hanging over all of this, the department of justice's investigation into the efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. a senior law enforcement official telling nbc news today that the special counsel has asked a federal judge to compel pence to testify. the former vp reiterated tonight he feels the request is unconstitutional lester >> ali vitali, thank you. >>> here in california and across several western states, severe weather tonight. a dangerous winter mix of snow, flooding and powerful winds in a region that rarely sees these conditions. here's miguel almaguer >> reporter: snow near santa barbara, whiteout conditions in napa valley's wine country, and

the legendary tim mccarver >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, and thank you for joining us today for the first time, president biden addressed in detail what is known about those three high-flying objects shot from the skies of north america last weekend, offering more about what they weren't than what they were the president saying the objects are not believed to be foreign spy balloons or to have had nefarious intent instead, offering official speculation that they were more likely private, research, or even recreational balloons. pointedly, the president said they were not related to china's balloon program, which gained attention after an alleged chinese spy balloon transited u.s. airspace earlier this month before being shot down by u.s. fighters the president saying he makes no apologies for taking down that balloon. later, the president in an exclusive interview with peter alexander suggesting the episode should not fundamentally change u.s. relations with china. here is peter's report >> reporter: facing growing bipartisan criticism for

lester? >> kristen welker, starting us off. thanks. let's turn now to richard engel in eastern ukraine. richard, this surprise visit happening as russia's massive offensive is under way where you are tonight. >> reporter: and that's why this visit was so important, because of the timing. because russia has launched a new offensive out here in the east. and because we're now at the one-year anniversary, or almost at the one-year anniversary of this war. things could have turned out very differently. it seemed when russia first invaded, having a massive military advantage, that russia would win. and it could have been vladimir putin in that square today celebrating victory. instead it was president biden. and ukrainians are deeply appreciative that president biden, that the united states has been with them this whole time. and now they say the united states needs to stay with them and push for more weapons, and they want to see as fast as possible more weapons heading to this country so they ca

i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. and good night >>> i'm raj mathai. next on "nbc bay area news" tonight, a staple of local and national politics is out. senator dianne feinstein retiring next year. tonight, we're talking to her friends and colleagues. >> she showed that a woman could walk into a nightmare scenario at city hall and restore calm and bring people together. >> who will take her seat in the senate? we've got some insight. >>> also, how do you make up for decades of racism? a group in san francisco trying to figure that out. one idea for reparations includes a one-time payment of $5 million. >>> feeling the love this valentine's day. from city hall to classic cars, we'll show you how

lester. >> quite a backdrop. gabe, thank you. >> let's get right to al roker who is tracking this massive storm. al, what do we need to know >> lester, 69 million people under some sort of winter weather from the northeast all the way to the california coastline, and we are looking at snow stretching from the rockies across the upper midwest all the way into new england with icy conditions in between. this system will move through thursday pushing blizzard conditions with snow and wind throughout the upper midwest, another round of snow moves into new england, power outage and difficult traveltching fr england all the way to wisconsin because of ice, upwards of a quarter of an inch, and we've got snowfall amounts anywhere from four to six inches, especially in the upper midwest and, lester, record-setting temperatures tomorrow from orlando up to louisville and washington, d.c. lester >> what a contrast all in february. al, thanks. >>> in poland president biden reaffirming support for nato countries in the shadow

lester. >> what a contrast. all in february, al, thanks. >>> in poland president biden reaffirming support for nato countries in the shadow of russia, just two days before the one-year anniversary of the war in ukraine and condemning russia's decision to suspend a key arms control agreement. here's kristen welker. >> reporter: tonight, wrapping up his whirlwind trip in ukraine and poland, president biden responding forcefully to russian president vladimir putin's dramatic announcement, russia will suspend participation in its last remaining arms control treaty with the u.s. >> big mistake. >> reporter: the pushback coming as president biden helped hold critical talks with key nato allies from eastern europe who see russia's aggression as a potential threat to their own security. the president pledging full support. >> we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. >> putin. >> reporter: meanwhile, in moscow today, president putin rallying russians around his war in ukraine about to enter its se

lester. >> all right, richard engel, thank you.ight you can see much more of richard's powerful reporting on ukraine. watch "on assignment" at 10:00 eastern on msnbc and streaming on peacock. >>> in a speech in texas today, former vice president mike pence pushed for unwavering u.s. military support for ukraine. afterward he spoke with ali vitali and gave his take on former president trump's bid for another run at the white house. >> i think the times call for different leadership, and i'm confident we'll have better choices. >> and you're thinking about being one of them. >> than my old running mate come 2024, because -- >> have you talked to him lately? >> i -- i have not. >> ali vitali joins me now from austin. that wasn't the only thing mr. pence had to say about the former president. >> reporter: that's right, lester. mr. pence drawing a sharp contrast with his former boss saying americans want, quote, civility to return to politics and that these times in his words call for different leadership experience. asor the former vic

lester? >> all right al, thank you. >>> in south carolina, alex murdaugh's surviving son testified in his father's defense saying murdaugh was devastated by the murders of his wife and other son. catie beck now with late details. >> reporter: inside the courtroom for 21 days, buster murdaugh listening to painful testimony. >> i go by buster. >> reporter: tuesday, more than 60 witnesses later, alex murdaugh's surviving son on the stand describing his father on the night of the murders. >> what was his demeanor >> his demeanor was -- i mean, he was destroyed. he was heartbroken i walked in the door and saw him and gave him a hug and just -- just broken down. >> did he speak? >> not really. >> did he cry? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: showing little emotion, buster's testimony framing details that prosecutors highlighted as questionable as normal, saying it was common for his father to shower and change clothes after working outside in the heat and routine to find guns left around the property and o

lester >> ali vitali, thank you. you can watch craig melvin's network exclusive with nikki haley tomorrow morning on "today. >>> and new insights tonight into the downing of those high-altitude objects by u.s. fighter jets defense secretary lloyd austin discussing it in an exclusive interview with nbc's courtney kube. >> reporter: defense secretary lloyd austin sitting down for his first interview since the u.s. shot down a chinese spy balloon and then three other flying objects over north america. has anyone claimed ownership of the last three? >> no, they haven't. >> reporter: the intelligence community now believes those three objects were not hostile, but austin defended the recommendation to take them out >> the safety and security of the american people is always foremost in our minds. >> reporter: the decision, he says, made because the objects threatened commercial aviation and may have been collecting intelligence objects like these likely over u.s. skies for years but going undetected is this something that

>> lester, we are looking at a very volatile situation right now. tornado watches in effect for the lower mississippi river valley and into the mid-mississippi river valley till 11:00 tonight. we've got sporadic tornado warnings popping up 10 million at risk for severe weather with damaging winds and tornadoes. this area in red, this is where we could see ef-2 or stronger tornadoes overnight, nocturnal, twice as deadly, plus, from buffalo all the way down to louisiana, 50 million people under wind advisories, high wind warnings, where we could be looking at downed power lines and trees, areas of possible flooding down through the gulf anywhere from two to four inches of rain, and on the back side of this thing, lester, we're looking at two to five inches of snow from iowa all the way to northern michigan >> all right, al, thank you. >>> turning overseas now, ukrainian president zelenskyy making a surprise visit to the uk today meeting with both king charles and prime minister rishi sunak and in an address to parliament, he urged allies to send fight

>> reporter: lester, it was remarkable. she was alive. was speaking with rescuers and they say she managed to survive in a tiny space in the rubble behind me right now, search crews believe there could be at least one other person alive inside that pile lester >> the kind of story driving hope tonight gabe, thank you. >>> new evidence this evening of what that chinese spy balloon might have been capable of from information just declassified by the biden administration andrea mitchell has the latest >> reporter: the debris gathered from the search and data from u2 spy planes that circled the balloon as it crossed the u.s. reveal multiple antennas capable of collecting signals intelligence, say u.s. officials. that could let china get information from phone calls, emails and text messages. fbi counterintelligence experts on electronic spying are studying the debris a senior u.s. official says the amount recovered so far adds up to the size of a small car. but searchers have not yet found the payload. likely by now on the ocean floor, which

lester? >> maggie vespa tonight, thank you. >>> let's get to the new details about the high altitude objects the u.s. military has been shooting out of the sky. andrea mitchell reports on what more is being found and the challenges ahead. >> reporter: a potential breakthrough in the search in the atlantic from the debris from the chinese spy balloon. crews have recovered what north com calls significant debris including all the priority sensors and electronics as well as large sections of the structure. but big questions tonight about the shoot-downs of three smaller objects last week. the white house said today those unidentified ones which told congress are likely balloons could be for benign commercial use or academic research. the joint chiefs chairman acknowledging it took two missiles to bring down one of them. >> on the fourth one over lake huron, the first shot miss, the second hit. the missile landed harmlessly in the water of lake huron. >> reporter: that lake is several hundred fee

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lester? >> peter alexander starting us off from the white house, thank you. >>> growing outrage in ohio tonight among people who live near the site of that train derailment and toxic chemical release. despite assurances, many are still concerned about the air and the water. ron allen is there tonight. >> reporter: at the county humane center, teresa maguire says she hears about sick pets and livestock every day. >> we're hearing a lot of this. we're hearing a lot of decreased appetite, not wanting to drink. if they do drink, they're throwing up. >> reporter: luke lavin says he is too afraid to return to his home half a mile from the crash site. >> i don't want to go home because i don't have the answers to go home. >> reporter: anger mounting in east palestine nearly two weeks after a fiery train derailment and controlled burn of hazardous chemicals sent a huge, dark, toxic cloud over this rural community. and despite almost daily assurances that days later it was safe for thousands of evacue

lester >> all right, tom. thank you. >>> as the cdc reports growing sadness among teens tonight, next we'll visit a school that teaches lessons in happiness >>> good evening i'm dana griffin in los angeles. we're following late-breaking news out of lansing, michigan where a shooting has occurred on the campus of michigan state university police reporting multiple injuries. they're also searching for the suspect. michigan state community members are being asked to shelter in place we'll update you once we get the latest. now back to lester >>> with so many high school students today facing emotional challenges, a popular college course has now been revamped for teens with lessons in something most schools don't teach. how to be happy. kate snow has more in our series "kids under pressure." >> take a few more slow, deep breaths >> reporter: this is not a typical science elective for high school seniors, meditating, writing down what they feel grateful for at the noble and greenough school near boston, jennifer h

lester?the kind of story giving hope tonight. gabe, thank you. >>> new evidence this evening of what that chinese spy balloon might have been capable of from information just declassified by the biden administration. andrea mitchell has the latest. >> reporter: the debris gathered from the search and data from u2 spy planes that circled the balloon as it crossed the u.s. reveal multiple antennas capable of collecting signal intelligence, say u.s. official s that could let china get information from phone calls, emails and text messages. fbi counterintelligence experts on electronic spying are studying the debris. a senior u.s. official says the amount recovered so far adds up to a small car. but searchers have not yet found the payload. likely by now on the ocean floor, which could provide critical information on what sensitive intelligence the chinese may have gotten. the balloon, which flew over montana, today outraging the senators. >> quite frankly, i will just tell you, i don't want a da

>> that's right, lester. one of the headlines came at the very end when the president said that he expects to speak with president xi. this is significant because the president and the vice president have signaled that this incident in shooting down the chinese spy balloon will not mark a shift in relations with china. you heard the president say that he wants the relationship between these two global super powers to be competitive, but that this is not going to be a break. so we'll continue to monitor that. in terms of the other headlines, it was very notable that he said those three objects that were shot down over the weekend, they have now assessed our balloons that they believe were tied, as you said, to private companies potentially for meteorological purposes or research scientific purposes and you heard him talk about the fact that he has directed an inner agency review to basically write-up new rules of the road, to make the skies safer. they will continue, he said, to brief congress on those finding

i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other.were, what was in the containers. >> there's new potential evidence in the explosion that killed a person and hurt two others in san francisco. one big question investigators are trying to answer right now. good afternoon, i'm audrey asistio, welcome to nbc bay area news at 4:30. christie smith will join us live in the sunset district in a minute with new information on the fire. we're also watching rain hitting the bay area. chief meteorologis

lester >> all right, gabe gutierrez, thank you. >>> now to the war in ukraine.onight we have learned president biden will travel to poland for the one-year anniversary as russia today launched a new round of missile strikes richard engel is in ukraine, and, richard, russia again targeting the power grid >> reporter: the infrastructure hit once again. 71 cruise missiles fired just in the last 24 hours russia's launching a new offensive, and it's very different from the offensive that russia carried out a year ago when it first invaded this country. back then, it was an attempted blitzkrieg, a shock and awe campaign designed to quickly topple the government in kyiv with air strikes on the capital and tanks driving into the center of the country. this time it's more of a bulldozer approach with russia trying to advance its front line out here in the east deeper into ukraine. ukrainians say they can stop it, they just need one thing, weapons. lester >> richard engel, thank you. >>> in 60 seconds, new fallout after the killing of tyre nichols. the new action by prose

lester? >> grit and determination driving those rescuers tonight. matt, thank you. >>> just a short time from now, a critical moment for president biden, looking to out the his accomplishments, but facing a skeptical public as he delivers his state of the union address. kristen welker has late details. >> reporter: tonight, president biden set to address a divided congress for the first time, delivering an optimistic message on the economy and state of the union. a white house official telling nbc news a key line tonight will be urging lawmakers to, quote, finish the job. but the president will be making that argument to a country recent polls show overwhelmingly believes we're headed in the wrong direction. 62% of americans say president biden has accomplished very little or nothing. the white house says the president will point to bright spots in the economy, including jobs. white house officials say that president biden wants to deliver an optimistic message. how does he sell that message

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lester? >> andrea mitchell, starting us off tonight, thank you. >>> here in new york, a violent rampage by a man in a u-haul truck that hit and injured eight people in two neighborhoods in brooklyn before he was arrested. stephanie gosk has late details. >> it was a terrifying scene in brooklyn this morning. security video shows a u-haul careening into a bike lane hitting one cyclist while another dodges the out of control truck, but police say it was no accident. moments later that same u-haul smashes into a moped and tears into a sidewalk, a police car chasing behind. before it ended, eight people were hit including a police officer in what the new york police commissioner is calling a ent rampage. >> we have seven different locations to process including the one behind us. at this time, we have no indication that there is any terrorism involvement in this incident. >> according to multiple law enforcement officials the driver wang soor is in his 60s. his motive is unknown. police tried to

thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other.. >>> right now on nbc bay area news tonight, the disaster overseas. a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing thousands of people in turkey and syria. we are getting updated numbers within the hour on the lives lost. >>> also, could an earthquake of this size happen here? the similarities and differences to the bay area. >>> plus -- >> we will not be silenced. >> women of color in politics say they're the target of growing threats. what's been happening and the action they want to see moving forward. >>> and did you see this? some bay area love at the grammys.

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> and good evening i'm tom llamas in for lester tonight they were sworn to protect, but today five fired memphis police officers were in a courtroom facing charges of murder that they beat tyre nichols so badly during his arrest last month, that he died three days later

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receiving a rare honor for making history in space >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening it is winter at its most challenging an ice storm gripping areas from central texas all the way to west virginia tonight. it has brought air and ground travel to a virtual stop in many parts of the region, leaving at least two dead freezing rain and sleet creating dreadful conditions on streets and highways, causing hundreds of pileups and accidents, snarling traffic winter alerts posted right now for 31 million people. and behind it all, heavy rain on the way likely creating a flood risk as it spreads across the southeast. and on top of it all, the brutal cold that may soon grip cities like new york and boston al roker has the forecast in just a moment, but first the storm's impact. >> reporter: good evening. we knew this storm was going to be dangerous, but in the last 24 hours, unfortunately, it's proven to be deadly the accidents on these icy roads now number in the hundreds, and tonight, we learned two of them are fatal. tonight, an icy mess gripping the so

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lester?truly frightful. all right, thank you. >>> in this country tonight, the fbi says a potentially catastrophic attack on the power grid in baltimore was thwarted with the arrest of two people who they say were plotting to carry it out. stephanie gosk is in baltimore with more. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi says white supremacist sarah clendaniel and brandon russell were plotting to wipe out baltimore's power grid within the coming weeks. the alleged plan was to spray substations with gunfire. >> the accused were not just talking but taking steps to fulfill their steps. >> reporter: according to the affidavit, clendaniel told an undercover agent it would probably permanently lay this city to waste. russell said the goal was to create a cascading failure. federal prosecutors say these photos show clendaniel had access to firearms in. one a woman the fbi believes to be her is dressed in tactical gear containing a swastika, holding a rifle and with a pistol. authorities say russell started an

a cut out special by lester holt. >> cut out of lester holt's head? >> yes. his head. yes, exactly. he was there. he has to work tomorrow. so. >> he has to hurry back. >> right, right. so much fun. i am glad we were all there and got to see etch other. first time i met some of those folks. >> i had not seen lester before. there he is. bottom right. >>> still ahead, a bay area cartoonist facing black lash. the latest paper to drop a comic after a viral racist rant. >> even if you are not ready to adopt come on down, meet dogs, you never know. >> looking to find new homes for dogs after a shelter became overcrowded. how you can bring home a new friend. >> one round of rain starts to move out we are counting down to the next storm on the way for your monday morning commute. backing rain, wind, a chance of thunderstorms, and yes, low snow levels are returning to our bay area hills. i will have the timing when we come right back it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. science proves quality sleep is vital to your mental, emotional, and physical he

. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, and thank you for joining us a country still uneasy over that china spy balloon tonight still waiting for answers about the multiple unidentified objects shot down by u.s. fighter jets over the weekend. three objects over three days

how to get a love song personalized >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening there has been another -- sadly we can all finish the sentence there has been another mass shooting. another place struggling to comprehend the kind of horror that happened elsewhere until it

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, and thank you for being with us. official assurances that all is safe near the site of that ohio toxic train derailment aren't playing well with many area residents tonight, not with people experiencing physical dying by the thousands in nearby streams. it has been almost two weeks since the train jumped the tracks in

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, and welcome, everyone. the clock and the calendar say time has nearly run out to find survivors in the rubble of the massive earthquakes that rumbled across turkey and syria, but heart and raw determination tell another story as rescuers continue to

. >> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening and thank you for joining us we start off tonight with yet another late winter punch of severe weather across the country as we begin this week including multiple tornadoes confirmed today in illinois at least a dozen reported from the plains to midwest since yesterday. but we are also watching snow moving east tonight, potentially bringing new york city its first significant snow