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committee investigating the house insurrection. five congressmen are subpoenaed including kevin mccarthy. and new evidence of possible war crime in ukraine. an exclusive on the general who ordered some of those acts of brutality. >> announcer: live from cnn. >> russia is reacting to finlands announcement that it homes to join nato with threats of retaliation. former president dmitri medvedev warns that it would strengthen its western flank. they called it a radical change in policy and...

Horizon telescope array. >> so all of these telescopes work together like a team. and everybody looked at these sources at the same time and everybody worked together to create an earth-sized telescope. so that we could create such an incredibly high resolution image. >> even though sagittarius star is massive, it is cosmically puny. a thousand times smaller than m-87 which is in a different galaxy, and seen here on the left. now, m-87 was the first black hole to be imaged. >> for our viewers on...

Universe. theyre cloaked by an event horizon where their gravity prevents even light from escaping. >> located 55 million light years away in a galaxy called m-87. in this galaxy, another black hole photo went viral the moment researcher katy bowman processed the first image. to see it, scientists in multiple countries around the world linked local telescopes to create this virtual observatory. predictably, twitter couldnt escape the doughnut memes. number four, in paris, a catastrophic fire s...

Space. very disturbing news on how climate change is affecting our planet and new developments in the ways to protect our online data. nbc jake word joins me now to take a look at some of the biggest stories in science and technology. jake, where you want to start? >> you know, i think you got to start with really the story that i think encapsulate both the great and the terrible sides of humanity. and that, of course, is the black hole that we managed to take a picture of the event horizon netw...

>> a huge breakthrough for humanity. >> the first photo of a black hole. >> black holes are the most mysterious objects in the universe. theyre cloaked by an event horizon where their gravity prevents even light from escaping. >> 55 million light years away in a galaxy called m-87. in this galaxy, another black hole photo went viral the moment researcher katie bowman processed the first image showing the massive phenomenon. to see it, scientists in multiple countries around the world linked loca...

Hole known as m-87 and that black hole is 50 million light years away. >> im headed thereafter the show. >> well, as the economy refs back to life. the housing market, last year banks foreclosed on more than 1 million homes. between 1928 and 1933 home values dropped 29% during the depression, during the recent economic slump they slid 26%, the housing market is in that territory. adam shapiro is here, answer that for us, depression era, are we headed for that. >> in some markets, nevada, for ins...