right now it is time for a special assignment with richard engel. a brand-new report from the front lines of the war in ukraine. >> vladimir putin said it russians and ukrainians were one people. relatives bound by blood. with a shared history. a common culture. and one united soul.

let me go to kyiv where richard engel is, also with uz courtney kube at the pentagon and former defense secretary bill cohan. we showed a little bit of your reporting, richard, in bucha earlier today. i know you spent the morning there. just do your best. tell us what you saw. and compare it to other -- you have seen, sadly, other war zone where is atrocities were committed. compare it, if you could. >> reporter: so i've been to many war zones, and you go into a place where a battle has just occurred and it's not uncommon to see bodies. that is a natural result unfortunately of war. that's what these weapons are designed to do. but this felt more like a crime scene. the bodies were -- many people have been executed at close range, soldiers were going house to house conducting searches, stealing everything they could get their hands on. so i spoke to one woman and her apartment building sort of encapsulates the entire mood in bucha. on the doors they have written in handwriting we are just peaceful civilians, please don't bother us. it didn't help. the russians would burst in. most of th

richard engel is in cariv in the northeast region. ander is at his post and i'm joined by jason beardsley, national director of the association of the u.s. navy. richard, let's start with you. this attack happened across the border from where you are. it marks the first time russia has accused ukraine of launching an air strike on russian soil. what do we know at this point and how significant could this be? >> so the multiple russian officials, including the local governor say that overnight in the darkness hours, two ukrainian helicopters carried out this raid and destroyed a russian oil depot that is about 20 miles inside russian territory. the helicopters were reportedly did not receive any fire and may have returned back to this country. it would be the first time that ukraine has carried out a cross-border attack. no reports of casualties. according to the kremlin spokesman, vladimir putin was informed about this attack. it would be extremely embarrassing for russia if ukraine was able to cross the border, send low-flying helicop

russian troops had just left, and she was struggling to take it all in >> "on assignment with richard engel" airs tonight at 10:00 eastern on msnbc >>> up next, inspiring america. how chess is helping young refugees adjust to a new life. >>> finally, they may not speak the language but a game that transcends words and cultures is helping some refugees feel at home here's blayne alexander. >> reporter: thi elementary school in raleigh, north carolina, the chess lessons go well beyond the board. these students are refugees from afghanistan forced to flee their country with their families when the taliban regained control >> they loved their home, they loved their country, and it has been a difficult transition >> reporter: cindy teaches english as a second language. incorporating critical thinking she says has been especially difficult. >> it's hard to do that when i don't speak their language and they don't know a lot of english yet >> reporter: a friend suggested she introduce the game of chess. to help, she brought in a chess grand master, one of the world's most preeminent players born in

and nato for more weapons richard engel is there. >> reporter: all that's left of the russian military around kyiv are their wrecked vehicles, the damage they caused, and the casualties they inflicted all russian forces have pulled back from the capital. and as they receded, life here today returned people out listening to music soldiers taking a break. ukrainians doing what's been so rare these days, smiling. >> there was a lull. >> reporter: but in this lull, ukraine is anxious to strike while its enemy is wounded. now pleading with the u.s. and nato allies for more weapons to attack before russia can regroup. ukraine's foreign minister put it plainly to nato officials in brussels. >> my agenda for the discussion has only three items. it's weapons, weapons, and weapons. >> reporter: and after president biden announced new sanctions on russia, ukraine's president zelenskyy said the sanctions seem impressive but it's not enough the pentagon, which assesses ukraine, can, quote, absolutely win, according to the spokesman, has promised to send another $100 million of tank-killing rockets

. >>> right now our richard engel visits the ukranian town of bucha himself and sees the evidence of atrocity for civilians and what he says about his russian crewmates and how the war was discussed when we join our viewers here i the west from los angeles on "nightly news." >>> in one hour, the world we live in. the bay area. one hour. the stories we're living through and the changes they bring all yeah, my bowling team. i like it. there's money in puns. do business like a gigillionaire at&t business fiber, now with speeds up to 5-gigs. limited availability. >>> more text messages were shown today in the second theranos trial. it's sunny balwani on trial. his ex-girlfriend is the founder, elizabeth holmes. the trial is about all the money theranos spent as it grew. holmes argued that he was in charge of fundraising. he made a text message that said, i am responsible for everything at theranos. he tried to convince the jury that he wasn't involved. >> you make sure things don't happen again, then it does happen again. all this trial will do is make people think about how do i avoid b

lester >> richard engel, thank you. >>> as more people make their way acros ukraine, new and harrowing accounts that escaped the most intense fighting gabe gutierrez spoke with some of them in central ukraine. >> reporter: this is the heart-stopping drive out of southeastern ukraine as seen from the car of olga. how hard was the journey from mariupol? >> reporter: it was horrible, she says the city is destroyed completely these are more images from her neighborhood, now a ghost town this man, who asked us not to show his face, says he was with mariupol's territorial defense. his hand shattered by what he tells us was a russian grenade. do you think mariupol may eventually fall? no, never. but he says the russians captured his father and he hasn't heard from him in almost two weeks here, a humanitarian hub has sprung up in of all places a mall organizer anna chernakova says it already helped more than 2,000 refugees. >> when people are coming i understand by my heart >> reporter: because she's been through it. she fled the donbas region after russia annexed crimea in 2014 >> i never saw

it's where richard engel is tonight >> reporter: russian officials say ukraine took the war to russia launching a cross-border attack with two combat helicopters. this video appears to show their tracer rounds destroying a fuel depot 20 miles from the ukrainian border a senior u.s. defense official tells nbc news that ukraine was responsible for the daring raid, ukraine's first of the war but ukraine's official response seemed deliberately ambiguous with defense officials saying they couldn't confirm or deny involvement. the kremlin tonight criticizing the strike on the russian facility saying it could harm ongoing peace talks. but the attack pales ipcomparison to what russia has done just 45 miles away across the border in the ukrainian city of kharkiv where russian artillery and rockets have destroyed hundreds of buildings. and as we saw today, flattened nearby towns. in some areas not leaving a single home standing at the hospital a farm worker was taking a break with a friend when he heard that dreaded whistle and a russian bomb exploded next to him. his friend was killed. down th

today nbc news chief "fortnite" correspondent richard engel -- chief foreign correspondent richard engel travelled to a nearby town and some of the images in this report are deeply upsetting. >> destroyed tanks are all that remains of russia's occupation of the town of borodyanka outside kyiv. gaps in rose of apartment buildings. today, ukrainian rescue workers work to find survivors, trying to recover bodies. local officials believe hundreds of civilians, many of them women and children, were hiding in shelters beneath these buildings. entombed under the remains of their homes. residents today came back to salvage mostly memories. photos. in nearby butcha, russian troops killed civilians up close, shooting people in the head. in borodyanka most were killed by air strikes but as many or perhaps more civilians died here. tetiana and her husband came back today. they escaped to another town. >> what is it like to come here now and see your home like this? >> translator: i have no words, my husband is a builder, she says, 30 years, we were making this house for our children, now we have no

richard engel in kharkiv, the largest city in the east, richard, thank you. >>> and joining me now the secretary of state antony blinken. mr. secretary, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, chuck. >> let me start with the news, the russians pulling back from kyiv, focusing appears now on the east where they've had a bit more military success. are we in a new phase in this war? >> well, chuck, we may be. i think this is evidence that russia's original plans to take over the whole country, including kyiv, have been dealt a devastating setback. they are regrouping. they maybe focusing on the east. but let's keep in mind they still have the ability to wreak massive death and destruction, including in places like kyiv, with air power and missiles, and at the same time, they may be regrouping, they may be recalibrating, and we're focused on what they're doing, not what they're saying, and if it's a refocus on the east, there's still, you know, a tremendous amount that goes toing be ahead of us as president biden said recently this could go on for some time and how much death an

well today, nbc news foreign correspondent richard engel went to bucha. and i will warn you, as i said we must do every night now, that some of the images in the descriptions in richards reports are deeply disturbing. >> to enter bucha now, you have to drive past a graveyard of russian tanks. ukrainian troops kick the russians out of this kyiv suburb and once again are in charge. but for five weeks, russian soldiers occupied bucha. destroyed much of it. and imposed a reign of terror. today, residents were coming out of hiding. in front of their building, valentina and her friend said russian soldiers went apartment to apartment, mostly searching for men. they were breaking open doors with axes and sledgehammers, she says. if you talk back, they shot you. she wanted to show me something behind the building. we she saying, one of her neighbors was so frightened because the russian soldiers were banging on his door. that he jumped out of that window on the third floor and came landing on the ground. didn't die, hurt himself but managed to escape. he felt the

this all comes as nbc's richard engel says russian troops have severely suffered a shocking setback at chernobyl. >> reporter: russian troops have suffered many setbacks here in ukraine, some of them self-inflicted and now ukraine's state nuclear agency says that russian troops have gun to leave the chernobyl nuclear site, which is still radioactive after the 1986 nuclear meltdown, after russian troops began digging trenches into the contaminated soil and contaminating themselves. the full story coming up on the "today" show. >> reporter: and you can see richard engel's full report on the "today" show. that's at 7:00 a.m. right after "today in the bay" here. now, it's worth noting that overnight australia agreed to send armored vehicles to ukraine. this is following ukraine's president's request for them. marcus. >> it's interesting to see how this is all turning out when you know the power of russia, but the resilience of ukrainians. brie jackson in washington this morning, thank you. >>> for people trying to make it in the bay, new hope for a let-up in the skyrocketing gas prices. it

. >> nbc's richard engel in bucha today. as ukrainian forces regain these towns around kyiv and places north, officials there are calling it crimes. they're trying to build an evidentiary record in hopes of holdingpe russian forces and vladimir putin accountable. sky news was at the scene of another part of bucha. >> reporter: this is no ordinary crime orscene, plaques numbered one to six are all that distinguished lives from one life to another. each body burned beyond recognition. like so many victims in the town ofms bucha, their identities ar not yet known, but what is clear is ukraine's resolve for justice and its rage at russia. >> reporter: how can you talk to vladimir putin when his forces do this? we've not been here very long, but in this small corner of bucha, we've already counted eight bodies. there are many more houses and gardens yet to be searched. down the road, two more stolen lives, discarded in death but further evidence of ukraine's investigators. >> sky news deborah haynes in bucha, ukraine. yesterday,

. >> and richard engel joins us now, back in kyiv. richard, your testimony, your eye-witness testimony and the video that zelenskyy forwarded to the united nations. they then played it after the speech is so graphic and so personal and human, it makes ludicrous russia's denials on the world stage. >> reporter: absolutely ludicrous. and this was not just one case. to follow up with what we were just talking about erena. we were in her home. she was there. she walked us through exactly what happened. she was standing there watching as russian troops shot her husband dead. she described exactly where they put the gun next to his head and how part of his skull came off and then the russian soldier started yelling at her because she went to them and said shoot me too. you've left me with nothing. shoot me as well. kill me too. she pleaded with them three times to kill her as well. they didn't. instead they were screaming at her saying that she and all the other people in the town were nazis; that they deserved what they were getting; that t

. >> and stand by with me a moment, general, because chief foreign correspondent richard engel has just filed this report from a town 15 miles from bucha. >> reporter: after russian forces pulled out, driven out by ukrainian troops, ukrainians are discovering more and more places that look like this, not far from kyiv, very close to the suburb of bucha, which saw terrible abuses and primarily russian air strikes devastated this town center. unfortunately what these rescue workers are doing is not looking for survivors, they were shelters under these buildings that building, another building right here and local officials don't know exactly how many were in the shelters, but they say hundreds at least. when these buildings came down, all the debris blocked access, entombing them essentially, and they're trying to clear away the debris and get an estimate of the number of bodies. there have been estimates of 700 in bucha. neighbors say it is inexcusable. they don't understand why russia has done this, russian troops came in, acted with such brutality only now to leave. seems they are refo

today richard engels to the near town of borodyanka. this report and the images, i must warn you, are deeply upsetting. >> destroyed tanks are all that remain of russia's occupation of the town borodyanka. and the holes in the skyline. yawning gaps in rows of apartment buildings. today ukrainian rescue workers work to dig for survivors here. they were trying to recover bodies. local officials believe that hundreds of civilians, many of them women and children, were hiding in shelters beneath these buildings in tuned under the remains of their residents today came back to salvage, mostly memories, photos and what else could be saved. in nearby bucha, russian troops killed civilians up close, shooting people in the head. in borodyanka, we'll circle by airstrikes. this woman and her husband came back today. >> what is it like to come here now and see your home like this? >> [interpreter] i have no words. my husband is a builder. 30 years, we made this house for our children. now we have no future here. [end of translation] >> we went up to

richard engel in ukraine for us, thank you. i'm going to move over to hungary. this is the first election we'll have and the war is having an impact. two months ago nobody thought this was going to be that competitive. lo and behold, there's a lot of thought that this is going to be a long weekend for mr. orbon. raf, what have you learned? >> reporter: he has historically had a very close relationship with putin, probably the closest of any leader in a nato country and that relationship is now a major issue in the election here. orbon was in moscow meeting putin a couple of weeks before the invasion started. he has been refusing to allow the direct transfer of nato weapons over his border from hungary into ukraine. compare that to the situation in poland where they are sending anti-tank weapons and all sorts of missiles every day. orbon had a rally here just a couple hours ago and he's presenting himself as the man who will keep hungry out of the war next door. he says he doesn't want to see a single hungarian caught between the russian hammer. his opponents are

and thanks to our colleague richard engel.nited nations general assembly voted to suspend russia from the human rights council. you in ambassador linda thomas-greenfield called it one collective step in the right direction. let's bring in our colleague -- nbc's ali arouzi in lviv. ali, ukrainians don't care much about a collective step from the un. what do they care about tonight? >> they care about weapons, and getting armaments to fight the russians. they know exactly what they need. you speak to man, woman, or child, they know they need weapons, weapons, weapons. in part that is because i hang onto every word that walensky says. he makes a video message every night and you hear it from them in the next day. close the skies, give us air defense systems, give us thanks to fight the russians. so that our cities do not turn into bucha or mariupol. i spoke to one woman who escaped booted two weeks ago. she escaped horrific scenes there. and that is exactly what she told us. let's take a listen to what she had to say. >> every da

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before i get to you, peter, i want to bring in nbc chief correspondent richard engel, who shared this reporting from bucha in the last hour. let's watch. >> reporter: this is the center of bucha or what's left of it. and russian forces didn't just bomb and destroy this area. residents say that russian soldiers were going door-to-door, house-to-house, kicking down the doors, shooting the locks and searching for young men, they say. that if anyone gave them any kind of resistance, argued with them, tried to talk back to them, they would quickly be shot. there were so many bodies that people started to bury the bodies in their backyard. they talk about snipers. how civilians would have to cross through this area to go from house-to-house and they would hear the whiz of sniper bullets going past their heads. scenes of terrible destruction also accounts of horrible, horrible brutality in this one suburb just on the outskirts of kyiv. >> you know, my colleague, richard engel, has seen it all. but clearly, what people are describing in bucha, peter and harold, is really beyond anything as, h

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. >>> nbc's richard engel is in bucha to account what's going on there. he shares what he's seen so far in an area that ows war. >> reporter: there can be no doubt that russian troops carried out systematic atrocities in the suburb of bucha which is just outside kyiv. it was described how russian soldiers would go house to house, searching primarily for mas,etimes shooting them on the spot. one woman described how her husband was put on his knees and executed in front of her. the full story coming up on "nightly news." >> his full story on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. that's at 6:30. >>> americans are worried about a nuclear attack. the american psychological association says 70% of americans fear russia's invasion will lead to a nuclear war, according to this new survey. researchers estimate there are at least 13,000 nuclear weapons spread between nine countries with the u.s. and russia holding the majority of them. the white house stresses that nuclear attack is unlikely. it has not changed the threat level. >>> we invite you to share and follow

it is going to be a long slog. >> and thanks to our colleague richard engel.o suspend russian from the human rights council. you and ambassador linda thomas-greenfield called her one collective step in the right direction. let's bring in our colleague, nbc's -- in lviv. ukrainians don't care much about a collective step at the un. what do they care about tonight? >> hi, stephanie. they care about getting weapons, and getting armaments to fight the russians and i know exactly what they need. you speak to man, woman or child, they know in the country and they need weapons, weapons, weapons. and in part that's because they hang onto every word that zelenskyy says. he makes a video message every night and you hear it the next day. close the skies, give us airplanes, give us air defenses storms. give us thanks to fight the russians, so our cities are not turned into mariupol, don't turn into bucha. spoke to one woman who escaped bucha two weeks ago. she escaped horrific scenes there. and that is exactly what she told us. let's take a listen to what she had to say.

first i want to turn to richard engel with more with what he is seeing on the ground this eastern ukraine. >> reporter: the war here in ukraine is seeing horrendous civilian casualties. just in this residential compound, at least seven civilians were killed by incoming russian fire and now there is growing evidence that russian troops carried out massacres as they were retreating from a suburb outside of kyiv. ukraine's president zelenskyy compared russian troops to looters, rapists and murderers. and a warning, some of the images in this report may be disturbing. when russian troops pulled out of the kyiv suburb of bucha, they peeled back the curtain of the horrors they allegedly inflicted on ukrainians under russian occupation. bodies of civilians lining the streets, some with their hands tied behind their basks, shot at close range execution-style. the mayor of bucha says 270 civilians were buried in two mass graves. ukraine presidential office says women showed signs of rape. ukraine accused russia of war crimes in bucha and called for an international investigation. russia denied it

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. >> tomorrow night, at this hour, and the msnbc's richard engel takes you inside the invasion of ukraine stories of the bravery of the ukrainian people as they face war and destruction. here's a preview. >> 65-year-old nina was sleeping. when a rocket struck her apartment. >> [speaking foreign language] >> you're going to rebuild? fix everything and come back? >> yes. [speaking foreign language] >> nina was born in her three room apartment. it's the only place she's ever lived. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i'm sorry. >> [speaking foreign language] >> on assignment with richard engel, ukraine freedom or death. tomorrow night, 10 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. president biden announced another $800 million in military aid to help ukraine against that russian war. especially the offensive in the east of ukraine. the united states will send heavy artillery weapons including, 70 to howard sir, 144,000 rounds of artillery, 121 tactical drones. along with weapons president biden said would remain secret. >> to modernize teddy roosevelt's famous advice, sometimes you will speak softly and

richard engel reports from kharkiv, where they're getting ready for more assaults.. and some of the images you're about to see are disturbing. >> russian troops have suffered a catastrophic defeat outside of kyiv, pulling back from not just areas around the capital, but the entire province around kyiv. russia says that it pulled back in order to give peace talks a chance and more momentum, but they pulled back under fire. they were forced back. they had been taking heavy losses from ukrainian troops and suffering many, many casualty. and now that russian troops have left ukrainian towns and cities, troops have been able to go in and see the atrocities that russian forces were carrying out. there have been bodies laying on the ground. many of them appear to have been killed execution style at close range, some with their hands tied behind their backs. some bodies were dumped into quickly dug mass graves, also widespread reports of looting, even rape. and this is consistent with what we have also been hearing in other parts of ukraine, directly from victims of systemi

more from richard engel in a moment. this morning ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy again spoke to the u.n. security council. he asked the assembled nations what exactly is the point of the u.n. when a member nation can blatantly defy the very first article in the organization's own charter? where is the security, he asked, that the security council is supposed to guarantee? >> translator: we are dealing with a state that is turning the veto into the u.n. security council into the right to die. this undermines the whole architecture of global security. it allows them to go unpunished so they're destroying everything that they can. or if there is no alternative and no option, then the next option would be dissolve yourself altogether. >> zelenskyy warned there may be more horrors like bucha yet to be revealed. russia denied all of it, though. claim the ukrainians did it themselves. faked and staged it. its ambassador claimed russia was the one saving lives, pulling civilians from mariupol. other nations were not buy

right now, especially anna simon with richard engel.sent russians in ukrainians for one people. relatives, bound by blood. with a shared history. a common culture. and one united soul. putin said he was liberating ukraine. but they didn't want liberating. for ukrainians, it was only one choice. freedom or death.

richard engel reporting. joining us now from ukraine, nbc news national correspondent, gabe gutierrez. in washington, nbc news correspondent, carol lee. gabe, you've also been reporting about bucha. how are ukrainians reacting to what they're seeing from bucha? >> reporter: well, jose, just complete and total outrage. we've been speaking with people from that area, we spoke with an adviser to the city's mayor. and this morning, she is just completely outraged. there's no other way to describe it, jose. we also spoke with a member of ukraine's parliament, who is from the area in kyiv, and we spoke with her yesterday, and this is just an atrocity on another level. and it's something, jose, that we had heard about happening, for example, in places like mariupol. but because of the limited ability to get pictures out of there now, we're seeing this devastation firsthand from the reporters on the ground, in and around the suburbs of kyiv. whereas in mariupol, that city is still besieged. now with the russian troop

the fighting, he said, could last many months or years richard engel has the latest from ukraine. >> reporter: their destroyed tanks are all that remains of russia's occupation of the town of borodyanka outside kyiv and the holes in the skyline. yawning gaps in rows of apartment buildings. today, ukrainian rescue workers weren't digging for survivors here they were trying to recover bodies local officials believe hundreds of civilians, many of them women and children, were hiding in shelters beneath these buildings, entombed under the remains of their homes. residents today came back to salvage mostly memories photos were all that could be saved president biden today imposed new sanctions on russia for atrocities like this banning new american investments in russia and sanctioning putin's daughters and other elites >> our sanctions have wiped out the last 15 years of russia's economic gains >> reporter: though u.s. actions so far have done nothing to stop putin's assault here in nearby bucha, russian troops killed civilians up close, shooting people in the head in borodyanka, most we

tonight, journalists including our own richard engel are on the ground answering the call the moment demand, bearing witness to brutality we thought belonged to another century the world's outrage has so far been no match for russia's cruelty. ukraine's president zelenskyy speaking to the u.n. security council today asking that russia be held accountable and describing the atrocities in bucha in horrifying detail, but no more graphic than what survivors and eyewitnesses are describing to richard directly here's his report, and once again, let me remind you the images are highly disturbing >> reporter: to enter bucha now, you have to drive past a graveyard of russian tanks ukrainians kicked the russians out of this kyiv suburbs and once again are in charge, but for five weeks russian soldiers occupied bucha, destroyed much of it, and imposed a reign of terror today, residents were coming out of hiding. in front of their building, valentina and her friend said russian soldiers went apartment to apartment mostly searching for men. they were breaking open doors with axes and sledge hamme

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nbc news chief correspondent richard engel has more from kharkiv, another city fearful of what's to come. richard? >> washing troops have suffered a catastrophic defeat outside of kyiv, pulling back from not just areas around the capital, but the entire province around kyiv. russia says it pulled back in order to give peace talks a chance, and more momentum. but it pullback under fire. it was forced back. they've taken heavy losses from ukrainian troops suffering many many casualties. and now that russian forces have left the area, and have left civilian towns and cities, ukrainian troops have been able to go in and see the atrocities of russian forces, which have been carried out. there have been bodies laying on the ground, many of them appear to have been killed execution style in close range, some with their high hands tied behind their back. somebody's were dumped into a what was quickly dubbed mass graves. also lot widespread reports of looting, even rape. this is consistent with what we have been hearing in other parts of ukraine, directly from victims of systematic looting and al

richard engel reports on the efforts. >> reporter: hope and anxiety this morning, for some 100,000 ukrainiansaccused russia of blocking and stealing humanitarian aid in the city, frustrating repeated attempts to open a safe passage for supplies to get in and for residents to lead. >> reporter: the aid organization, however, was not allowed to bring aid into the city, and there are concerns here that this corridor, this lifeline to mariupol, could collapse like so many other efforts to bring relief to the city. >> our thanks to richard engel for that reporting. the red cross says it will try again tomorrow to reach these increasingly desperate civilian residents. >>> up ahead, there is a growing outcry over what critics are calling ron desantis' don't say gay law. we'll deal with that, politics, and a lot of the cultural history with a very special guest, harvey fierstein returns to "the beat", coming up. at", cp . ♪ ♪ nice suits, you guys blend right in. the world needs you back. i'm retired greg, you know this. people have their money just sitting around doing nothing... that's bad, they sho

in just a few minutes the "today" show will continue coverage of the shooting and richard engel is liveskyy is meeting with the u.n. council. as cryptocurrency gets more popular, a new opportunity for scammers to take advantage of you. all of that at 7:00 right after "today in the bay." >> testimony resumes in the criminal fraud trial of former theranos executive sunny balwani. this is where things resume at 9:00 this morning. balwani's attorneys are trying to create a distance between him and theranos founder elizabeth holmes, who is also his ex-girlfriend. the government is trying to show that he was making those executive decisions about the company's blood testing technology and devices. >> quickly approaching 7:00. kari has a look at our forecast. >> it's going to be a busy week because we have all of these changes coming our way. we do have to brace for the heat that really starts to hit us tomorrow. upper 80s in the inland areas and low 90s on thursday. still in the 80s on friday. san francisco is also going to heat up, reaching possibly a record high 85 degrees on thursday. >> w

with two reports, starting with a nbc's richard engel. and once again we want to warn you. images coming out of ukraine are disturbing richard, good morning. >> reporter: good morning savannah after russian forces pulled out from around kyiv, ukrainians are discovering more and more places that look like this. this is the town of borodianca and rescue crews aren't even looking for survivors anymore. just trying to count the bodies. there is a large gap in the center where an apartment building one stood residents say hundreds of civilians were hiding in shelters under the buildings shelters that became tombs still unreachable under the debris it is unclear how many were killed deliberately targeting civilians is a war crime unless russia can somehow prove that this was a military target. borodyanka is just 5 miles from bucha where mass graves were discovered after russian troops were driven out. addressing the u.n. security council tuesday, president zelenskyy wondered if there is a point to having a security council if it can't provide security russia denies that its troop

nbc's richard engel now with more insight about those dangers. >> good morning, steven. one possibility that experts say is a cause for concern is called a false flag attack, a staged accident it works like this a chemical plant across the country. you can see some of the attacks right now on this map. they can use missiles to try to damage it, releasing dangerous chemicals into the air that's not the actual chemical attack if you will, but it is what russian officials say is an accident or say ukrainians blew up their own chemical plant as strange as that might sound. either way it's an attempt to create deniability the russian officials will hide behind chemical plants like these that are across the country. these are the top eight, by the way. they would hide behind that explosion. here are all of them all the facilities in ukraine. and they produce zindustrial chemicals like ammonia, chlorine, nitrates notice the proximity to the conflict areas, right here these are, of course, of interest around kyiv and the donbas region. military strategists warn russian operative

a survivor telling our richard engel she witnessed russian soldiers execute her husband and destroy theiresident zelenskyy accusing russia of the most terrible war crimes since world war ii. what he demanded today from the u.n. security council. also tonight, dangerous storms on the move in the south, several reported tornadoes touching down. al roker is tracking it. >> two more arrests in the deadly mass shooting investigation in sacramento. one man charged with having a machine gun. >>> ivanka trump testified before the january 6th committee, what they hope to learn about what, if anything, she did to stop the attack >>> barack obama's return. what brought him back to the white house for the first time since leaving office the fleecing of america, covid relief money used for luxury homes, ferraris and private flights. why many will never face justice. >>> and tiger woods, a little more than a year after his near-fatal crash goes for his sixth green jacket at the masters. >>> this is "nbc nightly news with lester holt". >>> good evening all the denials in the world cannot ease or diminis

but first nbc's richard engel has made his way to bucha.nd we want to warn you, the images you are about to see are very disturbing. >> reporter: every day they are finding more bodies in bucha a suburb of kyiv and the surrounding towns. russia's withdrawal revealed what looked like more like crime scenes ukrainians shot in the head at close range. bodies bearing signs of torture and rape, the some lined up in basements in a village near bucha, the mayor, her husband and the son were discovered in a shallow grave. president zelenskyy toured bucha yesterday describing what he saw as a war crime and genocide. we called on the united states and other allies to sanction russia even harder and send more weapons and aid to ukraine president biden called for a war crimes tribunal to hold president vladimir putin accountable. not everyone has seen it at least not in the same way russia's foreign minister claimed ukrainians staged bucha, using actors pretending to be dead russian propaganda has risen to dangerous levels, dehumanizing ukrainians, cal

you remember that image of richard engel with that elderly woman who was just crying.re doing in ukraine are unfathomable. >> but we have to fathom them. >> we have to fathom. >> we're so lucky to have you over there and have you back here. i'm glad you're back. >> thank you. you invited me here while i was there. >> it's not fair to do it on live tv. what do you think? what do you say? nah. thank you so much. thank you so much. to be continued. let's keep having these conversations. you'll be back at 9:00 and you have congressman jamie raskin, and that's only the other huge, huge, huge story. >> in some ways we're all fighting for democracy all over the world. >> and it is amazing. he's got that awareness. he's spoken about it at some of these hearings that they're fighting. we're fighting too. richard engel is going to shine a bright light on everything we're talking about, the spirit and resilience even through all their sadness of the ukrainian people. watch "on assignment with richard engel: ukraine freedom or death" quick break for us. we'll be right back. we'll

today, richard engel will give us a first-handlook of the destruction decline >>> in sunday's massacreen accused of firing a weapon. six people died and several others the injured. police believe that man carried a machine gun that night. he has not yet been charged, and police say that more than 100 rounds has been charged. another man was not connected to the shootout with a weapon, and the weapon was not discharge and the weapon was tied to a gang dispute. >>> and now, looking at the san francisco temperatures are expected to soar. reminder though, we need that rain. we will get through the heat, and it is a roller coaster of temperatures that we are having. checking in with the "today in the bay's bob redell, and we are all being asked to conserve. >> that is thermometer said 52 degrees, and we will expect it to be 40 degrees higher at 92, and that an all-time record in livermore. cal fire put it out there that it is going to be a dang der of heat wave, and the water supply outlook appears dismal. there is no indication that supplies will improve given the statewide drought, and th