and against the whole world. junior doctors in england have voted in favour of strike action over a dispute over pay. say a three day work out is being planned for march. the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. an inquest into the deaths of five people who were shot by a man in plymouth, finds they were unlawfully killed. a solicitor for the victims families say the system has failed them. this evil act was facilitated and enabled by a series of failings and incompetence from the people and organisations that are supposed to keep us safe. bbc research reveals over half of england s schools for children with special educational needs and disabilities are oversubscribed. us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago. he met ukraine s president, volodmyr zelensky and both men visited a memorial for ukraine s war dead. at a news con
scrambling to cover the cost. and the swimmer defying the odds and inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone when it rains it pours, but rarely like this tonight, an unraveling emergency continues to unfold across swaths of the southwest as severe flooding leaves several areas under water or caked in mud. in texas, arizona, and new mexico fast rising floodwaters triggered some harrowing rescues and shut down major thoroughfares. dallas coming off its second longest dry spell ever, 67 straight days without rain only to now be facing what weather experts say is a 1,000-year flood east of dallas, storm totals approaching 15 inches downtown dallas more than 12 1/2. at dfw airport 7.8 inches of rain falling in just 3 hours. now even as the weather system moves eastward, rain is still in the forecast for some hard-hit areas. miguel almaguer has a look at what they re facing reporter: the record rainfall in cities like
by dangerous delays. crews are enduring long waits outside accident and emergency departments in england, because hospitals are struggling to deal with overcrowded wards. nhs england says it has recruited more staff and increased bed capacity, but acknowledged the system was under considerable strain. sharon barbour reports. it s been a long night for margaret. there were ambulances backed up outside. two hours in an ambulance. finally able to get off the ambulance and into a&e, margaret then faced a long wait. she told us she s been here for 14 hours. margaret s 73, and has had no sleep. what was it like last night when you came in to a&e? there were ambulances parked out there. there s ambulances parked out there today. there s no beds. you know, and there s people on trolleys in the corridors. waits in a&e here have been as long as 30 hours, with hospital bosses now warning of even worse to come, as they cope with a sharp rise this week and patients arriving. in the foot
he says, neil, i ve done a lot of bad things in my life. he ll always be my dad. either he has the worst luck in the world, or he s responsible for murdering two women. i wanted them to know the truth. i was talking to this lady. she s prettier than you. it was almost as if he considered himself like a celebrity. i didn t do it. you didn t do what? kill kathleen or make stacy disappear. it kill kathleen. or make stacey disappear. so everybody is making things up? a lot of people. or you may be here for the rest of your life. maybe, or i may not be. what keeps me going is my love, my heart. i will find her and i will bring her home. and that s my promise. i just think about, is this ever going to end, i my ever going to be able to find her and get the closure i need? in these murky training waters, a sister searches for answers. i m going to keep doing this every day i can and every day i can afford until the day i die, until i can bring home. solving t
zircon missiles. they conducted drills earlier in the atlantic. but cuba s foreign ministry says none of those ships are carrying nuclear arms, and that russia s five day visit does not pose a threat to region. this all comes as cuba s foreign minister bruno rodriguez and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, met in moscow. earlier i spoke with our cuba and america correspondent for more. you have heard there that they are at pains to stress that there is no threat to the region by these naval exercises. that this is simply and they have been underlining this a friendship between the communist run island and russia. that it underscores that friendship, that between of coorporation between long standing allies, notjust as russia, but previously of course with the soviet union. they want to remove any senses of echoes of the cold war at such a time of heightened tensions, and focus, if you like, on the fact that there is a bilateral relationship here between russia and cub