the u.s. fires back, fueling fears of an all-out war in the middle east. that s tonight on newsnight. good evening. i m abby phillip in washington. and we begin tonight with breaking news. american fighter jets and submarines delivering a message. that the moment of impact inside of yemen, caught on camera. tonight multiple individual yes, sir on social media capturing the fiery aftermath of u.s. and british tomahawk missiles unloading on houthi targets. president biden says that tonight s barrage amounts to a warning shot. he pledges that he will not hesitate to order more strikes if the houthis do not relent and stop attacking ships transiting the red sea. now houthi officials have already vowed to make the united states pay, quote, a heavy price. but there is no word yet out of iran, the houthis main military backer and persistent thorn in america s side. earlier on cnn, a top pentagon official says these strikes will end the houthi threat. these strikes again were
because of several horse deaths the final days of jeffrey epstein. the new details, the phone call he said he needed to make just before his death will these prison documents quiet the conspiracy theories? new video, a car stolen with a toddler inside they took my car with my baby in the back the suspect dropping him on the side of the road tonight, the moment he s reunited with his mother. and the school bus on fire. how this pregnant driver got everyone out to safety. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester the weekend is kicking off with dangerous weather across the country. take a look at this. it s a tornado ripping across western texas near fort stockton late today you can see how dark the skies got. one of at least five reported tornadoes in the state and the first named tropical storm of the season. you see it right here, arlene, adding to the heavy rain in florida. swamping streets just as hu
thanks, ari. thank you. we re tracking these two big legal breaking news stories. we have just learned the controversial new york republican congressman george santos has been indicted by the justice department. that s a federal indictment. we re tracking the story, as you heard nicolle just say in the handoff. this is as breaking as it gets. we don t have exact details, don t have the paper, but we do have reporting that that very controversial member of congress known, if nothing else, for his many lies that he was busted for, is now indicted. indeed, this is a fast moving story because he s expected to appear in court as soon as tomorrow. we re tracking that story as well as the other big legal development a jury finding donald trump liable for sexual abuse and lies the defamation this jury says he found he committed against e. jean carroll. that s a huge story, an important one. we have been covering that trial continuously, and i have two essential experts to lea
250 officers involved and a reward totaling $80,000 for tips that bring him in. they say the man they re looking for is armed and dangerous and could be literally anywhere. i pretty much can guarantee he s contacted some of his friends. we just don t know what friends they are. that s what we need in the public, is any type of information. right now we re just running into dead ends. do you all believe that the suspect is still in the area? we do not know. like i said, right now we have zero leads. that attack happened on friday night. since then ten more mass shootings have taken place across the u.s. including eight yesterday. among them, a shooting at a house party in mississippi that left a 16-year-old and 18-year-old dead and a 19-year-old under arrest. at almost the exact same time gunfire broke out at a house party in massachusetts killing an 18-year-old and wounding five others. in south carolina, nine people shot, most teenagers after gathering in a park arou
the search in several states across the south for the remaining fugitives now. 24 hours after declaring he is running for reelection, our mary bruce asking president biden about his age, whether he considered agent s own decision and if his decision to run would have been different had donald trump not run again. how he answers it all. columnist e. jean carroll taking the stained in her lawsuit against former president trump, declaring today i am here because donald trump raped me. the judge issuing a warning to trump s lawyer about the president. our parent company, disney filing a lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis accusing him of i targeted campaign of retaliation. click on how the governor is responding and what s behind all of this. tonight, the first call between president zelenskyy and china s president xi. what president she warned about nuclear war. back in the u.s. tonight three high school seniors under arrest in the deadly rock throwing spree near de