announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s
Harold ford jr. Thanks for having me on. Bret House Republicans work on articles of impeachment against President Biden over his threat to stop sending weapons to israel. Protest organizers may have ulterior motives with some students. We will bring you to that investigation, Border Patrol agents under fire from mexico. We will take you there. First, attorneys in the criminal trial of donald trump will have the weekend to prepare for the most crucial witness in the c case, former trump lawyer and selfdescribed fixer, Michael Cohen. Today wrapped up the third week of testimony in that case. This is covered outside the new York Supreme Court tonight. Good evening. Michael cohen is one of two witnesses remaining before prosecutors rested their case. He paid Stormy Daniels 130,000 to suppress her story about an alleged affair with donal donald trump, leading up to the 2016 president ial election. On monday, he will answer questions about what trump knew during that time. There is no gag or
Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin with this Breaking News after devin stating tornadoes rip through the Central Plains overnight with more threads on the way. Now, nearly 55 Million People from texas to michigan are under threat for Severe Weather area between dallas and kansas city is expected to get the hardest hit with tornadoes. Baseballsized hail, and flooding among the hazards at least 78 tornadoes were reported across five states on friday, with no fatalities reported. Officials credit the Warning Systems for saving lives now rescue crews are up against the clock searching flattened homes for anyone trapped before the storms intensify again we got home as fast as we could i got my babies in the basement. We covered up with a blanket. We got her dark down there all of a sudden the lights went out and we heard everything thrown around above us who is so scary those place those carried our neighbors everybody, every
i know you re probably going to be head of the cia, but do you believe you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short order in the first couple months so we can get rolling on prosecutions? yes. one thing we learned in the trump administration the first go around is woo have to put in american patriots top to bottom. we got them for law enforcement, for intell collection, for offensive operations, for dod, cia, everywhere. that s kash patel, who might run donald trump s cia, and how about stephen miller at the doj or chief of staff steve bannon? those are just some of the people trump would likely dredge up from the maga swamp if he somehow gets a second presidency. speaking of trump, he was back in court today, and there s new reporting on the signals from prosecutors in georgia that they expect trump and/or his codefendants to get prison time. plus, an update on the major scandal involving florida s republican party chair and his wife, which is shining a light on