homes leveled, airplanes upended in missouri. tens of millions of risk once again for massive hail and powerful storms. just breaking, criminal charges dropped against alec baldwin, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter after that deadly shooting on the rust movie set. production slated to restart today. so why are charges being dropped now? just in tonight, president biden s plan to announce his rebid for election as new details emerge on the hunter biden investigation and the criminal charges prosecutor have considered. this spectacular explosion on the first test flight of a new powerful space rocket. what caused it, and why nasa is still call it a success. car repossessions on the rise as more americans struggle to make ends meet. how to navigate the high cost of owning a car. cutting down on food waste to combat climate change. the amazing school that s making sure less ends up in the landfill in our series climate challenge. and finding a signatu
it was expected to be a huge success if it only slowed the orbit by about ten minutes. but it actually slowed it by 32 minutes. dr. lori glaze and the dark team will explain more about how we confirmed that. now, this is a watershed moment for planetary defense, and a watershed moment for humanity. reporter: so that is an image right there that nasa just released at this press conference, brand new, taken by the huble space telescope on saturday. what you re see thing is the aftermath of this impact, which was more than two weeks ago. you re seeing the bright spot, that s essentially the point of impact on this astroid. and then this tail that stretches for about 6,000 miles. so victor, this definitely proves that if a potential killer astroid were headed towards earth, this is the type of technique that nasa would try to deploy. the only catch is, you would have to deploy it many, many years in advance in order for it to work, victor. now at least we have proof of conc
what his doctor said today about his recovery. new details on a 6-year-old student accused of shooting a teacher in virginia. how police say he got the gun. the former president of brazil reportedly hospitalized in the u.s. a day after his supporters stormed the country s capital in echoes of january 6th. the major crackdown. more than 1,000 detained. the new bombshells from prince harry. the accusations he s leveling at his stepmother, camilla parker-bowles. the grim discovery in the massachusetts home of a missing mom as her husband appears in court. and how a tiktok video led to the gift of a lifetime for an 82-year-old veteran. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. in california nature s floodgates are wide open tonight. that series of atmospheric rivers still flowing and bringing jaw-dropping rain and snowfall totals leaving many without power, others forced from their homes. the conditions forcing high water rescuers into ac
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
the january 6th hearing is appealing to both. it s pushing people to feel u.s. democracy is under assault. many insiders, political pros, people who populate your tv screen all day had a gnawing feeling the presentation on thursday would not sway public opinion. the fact pattern should convince steptics to care more about the attack on the capitol and all of trump world s dishonorable conduct in the winter of 2020. but this is where the facts come into conflict with feelings. i m with jim sciutto on this one. the cnn anchor was sick of all the chatter whether any minds will be changed on thursday night. that s not our job, he wrote. our job is to report and disseminate the facts, and that s what we do. it s also a fact the american media has been so split apart, and that split affects every story we cover. it s like the weather. it has to be factored into everything all the time. fox news put the facts refusing to air thursday evening instead showing video while tucker carlso