pressure and is preparing to send leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. and everything, everywhere all at once leads the oscar nominations, with 11 nods. we ll look at what else has made the cut. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start the show in new zealand, where chris hipkins has just been sworn in as the country s new prime minister after the shock resignation of jacinda ardern last week, who said she didn t have enough in the tank to continue in the job. prime minister hipkins was sworn in at government house in wellington, alongside carmel sepuloni, who becomes the country s first pasifika deputy prime minister. mr hipkins labour party will face a general election in october. for more on this, i m joined by stephen hoadley, associate professor of politics and international relations at the university of auckland. it s wonderful to get you on the programme. in the first instance, perhaps you could tell us mo
i m sure it is hard for you to hear. we have some video that we want to share with you, of part of what happened in half moon bay yesterday afternoon, the sheriff s video here. so this is the arrest of the 67-year-old suspect in the two shootings in half moon bay. a handgun was found in his vehicle. as for a motive, still no word at it hour. but all of this unfolding as we have also learned that an 11th person has died after initially surviving that mass shooting at the dance hall in monterey park on saturday. the gunman had stockpiles of ammunition at his home. we ll bring you more of what else they re staying in a moment. and he also made his own silencers. we begin with the shooting in half moon bay. veronica miracle is there on the scene and she ll bring us up to speed on that investigation. reporter: this mass shooting took place at two separate locations. and it all unfolded in a period of a couple of hours. the first call came in just before 2:30, sheriff s dep
a staffer injured. what we re learning. president biden returning to the white house after we learned the fbi found more classified documents at his home. the key questions still unanswered. the verdicts in now for the january 6th rioter that put his feet on nancy pelosi s office. and for oath keepers on trial for seditious conspiracy. jury selection underway for alex murdaugh, the south carolina attorney accused of killing his wife and son. the dangerous back-to-back storms. we re tracking them. and the major changes the fda is proposing on how often americans should get a covid shot. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. reporting tonight from monterey park, california. good evening, everyone, from monterey park, the latest american city shattered by mass murder. it happened beyond the doors of this popular dance hall, miles from downtown l.a. monterey park was considered the first suburban chinatown and is home to a predominantly asian american communi
van. what we re learning about the suspect, his possible motive. as we also learn the stories of the victims tonight. matt rivers standing by with late reporting here. and juju chang with the families tonight. the lives lost. and the scene inside that ballroom. also breaking as we come on the air tonight, there is late word coming in of another deadly shooting. this time, in des moines, involving students at a staff member. authorities say two students shot and killed. that staff member wounded. tonight, after the fbi finds more classified documents at president biden s home, after a 13-hour search, new questions. and what attorney general merrick garland said today when asked if president biden was being treated any differently than former president trump. mary bruce standing by at the white house. two back-to-back storms moving across the country. more than 20 states are on alert from arizona all the way east. snow and rain from philadelphia to new york to boston. and
monterey park, california. a gunman opened fire inside a dance studio near lunar new year celebrations saturday night. that suspect is a 72-year-old man who targeted another local after his initial rampage. police say he then took his own life, after an hours-long standoff in a parking lot the following day. he was disarmed by two community members they consider to be heroes. pause they saved lives. this could have been much worse. the weapon that we recovered at that second scene, i m describing as a magazine-fed semi-automatic assault pistol. not an assault rifle, but an assault pistol that had an extended large-capacity magazine. and just ahead, you re going to hear from one of the men who confronted and fought off the gunman, one of those heroes, fighting him off before he could open fire at that second dance studio. let s begin this hour with cnn s senior national correspondent, kyung lah who s on the scene there in monterey park, california. so kyung, what more ca