border wall and watched as hundreds of migrants were placed in a single file, put on white buss and processed and not quite clear how many were released. also fox news cameras captured migrants in brownsville, texas, yesterday after they were released yet the white house insists there s no mass releases happening. the way we see nah the way we see that is sabotage and it s clear and simple and cvp allowing and encouraging mass release of migrants is just categorically false. that s not occurring. reporter: it s also important to note that right now the government of mexico reporting there s 26,000 migrants on the mexican side of the border who are likely trying to make it into the united states or have already attempted to. as the sun comes up here in downtown el paso, you re likely going to be able to see much more activity here. this is a very busy area for migrants that are either released. they come here and they re fed and given shelter we re told inside of the she
brawl breaking out on a southwest flight a day after that midair attack on a united plane. we hear from a passenger who helped take the suspect down. the new storm threat in california as the death toll grows after record snow. we re tracking it. fox news under fire. president biden blasting house republicans for giving tucker carlson the video he cherry-picked to falsely portray the january 6th attack as peaceful and the newly revealed text messages. what carlson really thought about donald trump after the election. and on this international women s day, the all girls team of young scientists who fled their home and are wowing the world. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome on this wednesday night. rarely has an american police department, its practices, its culture, its performance been so thoroughly and broadly condemned. the u.s. justice department announcing results of its nearly two-year-long review of the louisvill
planting evidence at mar-a-lago. then, after it was revealed the documents were classified, trump s team said he had taken them home to work on them, falsely claiming that president obama had done the same. then, this third reason why it was okay from trump s team, quote, he had a standing order that documents were moved from the oval office, taken to the residence, were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. former national security adviser john bolton told nbc news this. i think that claim is almost certainly a lie. i was never aware of anything even remotely approximaing that policy and haven t heard anything of it since i left. so i think this is made up. and i think a key point here is when somebody is making up stories like that, i think it indicates a level of desperation. as we try to figure out why and how those classified documents ended up at mar-a-lago, nbc news has uncovered new details about the final days of the trump presidency and the last-
settlement in the george floyd case.city agreeing to george floyd s famil $27 million. across the country tonight, the race to meet new goals set by president biden. saying if americans remain vigilant and get their vaccinations when it s their turn we could be gathering with loved ones and neighbors for the fourth of july. and directing every state to make all u.s. adults eligible for a vaccine in just seven weeks. may 1st, the latest. how will this work? news tonight on the pfizer vaccine. we re also tracking a major winter storm across more than a dozen states tonight. denver for one bracing for up to two feet of snow. the national weather service warning of, quote, impossible travel conditions. rob marciano in denver timing this out for us. in new york city tonight, the newly released body cam. the shooting at a famous cathedral. how close this was to being much worse. and the woman appearing to play dead to survive. the unruly passenger fined more than $14,000 after
city of baltimore joining the list of democrat-led cities suing hyundai and kia for failing to prevent theft of their vehicles. baltimore trying to get a handle on soaring crime including a nearly 100% increase in autothefts from this time last year. so far this year, nearly 600 kias and hyundais have been stolen in baltimore as the mayor blames faulty antitheft technology and not the he s. new report from zillow predicts mortgage rates could spike as high as 22% if the u.s. defaults on the debt. one expert warning a sharp increase in rates could send the real estate market into a deep freeze and clock is ticking for the federal government to take action and the u.s. could default on its debt as soon as june 1.