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tennis legend billie jean king on the game changing moment for women in sports 50 years ago. this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening. president biden tonight announcing his new plan to bring down high fuel prices the president calling on a somewhat skeptical congress to suspend the federal gas tax. thats currently around 18 cents a gallon for gasoline. 24 cents for diesel. a federal gas tax holiday will provide only minimal relief from the price at the pump which...

at the supreme court. >> did not abortion decision today but still a heavy presence of demonstration. >> protests turn into riots and violence. >> slashed the price of the picture of the v.p. >> selling tickets for $15,000. now you can get a photo for 5,000. >> she would have to pay me to take a picture with her. ♪ say hello hello. are. >> steve: hello. its wednesday, june 22nd, 2022. you are looking live at niagara falls, right now, 17 degrees there daytime high of 89. theres a chan...

spenders, let them know, almost $2 trillion in deficit reduction. i dont want to hear anymore of these lies are reckless spending. were changing peoples lives. maria: our lives are certainly changing. coming up former secretary of state mike pompeo on the number one threat to today and the mistakes that got us here from foreign policy to economics. as joe biden claims it is bizarre to blame him even as the presidents approval rating plummets with key voting blocks abandoning him, minor...

spenders, let them know, almost $2 trillion in deficit reduction. i dont want to hear anymore of these lies are reckless spending. were changing peoples lives. maria: our lives are certainly changing. coming up former secretary of state mike pompeo on the number one threat to today and the mistakes that got us here from foreign policy to economics. as joe biden claims it is bizarre to blame him even as the presidents approval rating plummets with key voting blocks abandoning him, minor...

semiautomatic rifles used in many mass shootings and raising the age to 21 to purchase those weapons even though the killer in uvalde, texas, was only 18 years old and wielded an ar-15 style weapon. >> why not raise the age to 21 for people buying semiautomatic rifles? >> were talking about a lot of things, and what were talking about most are background checks, juvenile records, the areas where we can get consensus. >> why dont you have agreementd greement on that. >> we have a lot of...

hello, america and the united states of texas. it is great to be here. yesterday we left new york city leaving therefore here is like waking up from a bad dream. its like going from theng texa to the cowboys. you know what, i dont even kno what that means. i dont know anything about sports its like going from job a joe behar to anything that isnt joy behar. i would even take a bed of nails , that i know. thank you, by the way for the gift basketi ive only been in texas for one day and ...

♪ >> vigils are underway in uvalde, texas for the 19 children and 2 teachers gunned down inside robb elementary school by an 18-year-old high school drop-out. memorials outside the school from the community not far from the border with mexico. a friend of the gunman says he had a history of fighting as we see here in video obtained by cnn. texas authorities report he had no criminal record, no history of mental illness. more now on the investigation from cnns ed. >> im going to shoot...

out. our correspondents are covering every angle of the story, including our cnn teams on the ground in texas. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. >> without anyone initially trying to stop him. cnn national correspondent jason carroll is on the scene for us. jason, police revealed alarming new details as you well know as they face very serious questions right now about their response to the massacre....

the department of public safety that he drives into a ditch. this is after the shooting where the grandmother is shot. sometime after that hes in this incident where the car ends up in a ditch, and then somehow manages to get past the shootout with law enforcement there to get into the school and kills these 19 kids. so thats what we know at this point. we dont know very much about the motivation. we know from law enforcement that that is focus right now, talking to people who are in t...

classroom, barricade himself inside that classroom and thats when just -- he started shooting children and the teachers that we talked about, two teachers were killed inside that classroom. >> is it a 911 call or -- what is the call? >> they received the call -- >> was it a 911 call? >> it was a call, called into the police department regarding a crashed vehicle. >> a 911 call? >> a 911 call. they received that call. that was the initial call. thats when law enforcement responded to th...