nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and thank you for joining us we start off tonight with yet another late winter punch of severe weather across the country as we begin this week including multiple tornadoes confirmed today in illinois at least a dozen reported from the plains to midwest since yesterday. but we are also watching snow moving east tonight, potentially bringing new york city its first significant snow of the season. right now there are winter alerts affecting an estimated 42 million people. from wisconsin clear to maine for many high winds will make things worse. and there s no break for storm-weary california rocked by more rain and snow today al roker will take us through it all in just a moment but first let s go to morgan chesky in oklahoma where they are picking up the pieces from tornadoes tonight. reporter: tonight oklahoma facing a mangled mess homes shredded and cars tossed. from terrifying tornadoes striking overnight. there s possi
biden tells ukraine no f-16s for now as putin s deadly invasion hits the one-year mark. tonight, new concerns russia may be on the verge of getting some new and lethal assistance. plus, alex murdaugh back on the stand and grilled by prosecutors, making the case nothing he says can be believed. and wnba star brittney griner back on the court after spending ten months in a russian prison. how is she doing? the president of the phoenix mercury is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, no f-16s. president biden saying the united states is ruling out ukrainian president zelenskyy s request for fighter jets for now. president zelenskyy continues to say what he really needs are f-16s. will you send f-16s? look, we re sending him what our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, he needs artillery, he needs air defense, including another himars. but there are things he needs now you
move that could change the trajectory of the war. let s bring in retired four-star general jack keane. he s chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general keane, welcome. so let s, we ve got a year into the war. what lessons have we learned, and what to do they tell us about what comes next? well, certainly we all welcome success that ukraine has had, and i think the center of gravity for that success has been the iron will of its soldiers and its people. and certainly the u.s.-led western coalition has been providing all the arms and ammunitions. but also while that is commendable in terms of the support provided, we have actually handcuffed the success of the ukrainian forces because we slow-rolled so much of weapons that they needed. we sent them in their piecemeal, and they arrived mainly after the fact. as an example, the ukrainians began an offensive in july after russia s offensive had talled in thalled in the east. an
rebuilding an empire will never be able to ease the people s love of liberty. brutality will never grind down the will of the free. and ukraine, ukraine will never be a victim of russia. never. president biden gets a raucous welcome in poland, vowing that a united nato will never ban ukraine, while vladimir putin tries to justify his disastrous war to his people. meanwhile, the caucus in the house would like to see ukraine lose. one tweeting, ukraine is not our friend and russia is not our enemy. plus, the forewoman says the georgia special grand jury looking into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election recommended multiple indictments and that list is not short. good evening. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we re just days away from the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion of a sovereign country, ukraine. today, president biden standing in front of the royal castle, a historical landmark in warsaw that was rebuilt after another invading force, the nazis, destr
been. i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, i can proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. meanwhile, russian president vladimir putin is dialing up his rhetoric against the west, suspending participation in the last nuclear arms treaty with the u.s., even using the word war as he sends a clear message about what russia has long called a special military operation. translator: i would like to repeat, they started the war and we used the force in order to stop it. complicating questions about the future of this conflict, china s top diplomat is now in moscow this morning. live reports from russia, poland, and ukraine in moments. meanwhile, back here at home, a compounding crisis in ohio, the head of the epa is back in east palestine today as a clinic is set to open to address the community s health concerns following the derailment of the train with toxic chemicals on board. can they treat the mistrust building in the community