building came crashing down. tonight families trying to reunite with their loved ones as we learn more about the recent complaints filed over the building s safety. the rush to return home from the memorial holiday weekend. tens of millions now heading home. from the roads to the skies. what it all means for the summer travel surge. cruise ship nightmare. carnival oceanliner s emergency after it was battered by a massive storm with fierce winds. the new video from inside the ship. water rushing in, hallways flooded, debris scattered. now questions over why the captain sailed through the storm. passengers outraged. i have never been so scared like i was on this trip. in washington the debt limit deal and the major new test for president biden and house speaker mccarthy. can they get enough votes for their it breakthrough agreement to pass congress and avoid default? a warning about infant loungers tonight with more than two dozen deaths linked to various brands. one
i have never been so scared like i was on this trip in washington the debt limit deal and the major new test for president biden and house speaker mccarthy can they get enough votes for their breakthrough agreement to pass congress and avoid default? a warning about infant loungers tonight with more than two dozen deaths linked to various brands one family s heartbreaking story and what parents need to know. and on this memorial day the emotional reunion of vietnam veterans after 50 years how they survived prisoner of war camps. and across the country remembering all members of the military who ve made the ultimate sacrifice. and the rockets re glare announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that breaking news out of davenport, iowa. at this partially collapsed apartment building look at that a chunk of the structure crumbling to the ground as residents were inside. the gap now
of migrant crossings days before covid era policy ends. we are live at the border. plus, rocket systems sabotaged. sources telling cnn that russia is using electronic jammers to throw off rocket systems in ukraine in some cases causing rockets to miss their targets. how the pentagon is responding. the labor market is on fire but april surprise jobs report is complicating the fed s inflation fight. so what will the central bank do next? following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central . we begin as we often do at the u.s.-mexico border. alejandra mayorkas there for a second day now. red cross volunteers also on the ground helping out with the growing number of migrants all crossing into texas. even before title 42, as it s known, ends. that trump-era policy allowed the government to quickly turn away asylum seekers due to covid-19. that expires on thursday. border towns are bracing for an immediate surge, really a furt
next up is the house, and they plan to take up the bill on friday. it s expected to pass, again, along party lines just as it did in the senate. once that happens, the white house plans to seize the momentum. while the president will be talking about this and explaining it absolutely to the american people and what it will look like is trying to explain in very practical terms why this matters for people s lives. the president will, our entire team will be out making the case. obviously right now we re focused on the last steps in this process, getting the bill through the house and to the president s desk for signature. let s go live to the capital and cnn s jessica dean. jes jessica, there are some wide-reaching provisions in this bill. lay it out for us. yeah, there s a lot in this bill. you mentioned that it s headed to the house. that s what comes next after senate democrats notched a big victory on something that frankly many of them didn t think they would see. t
lifting the gas tax is on the table. plus captured americans. russian state media shows two alabama men who volunteered to fight alongside ukraine in captivity held by russian-backed separatists. up first for us, nthe january 6h committee next hearing is tomorrow. fallen promises to expose donald trump s role in a scheme to sub in fake electors for the real ones. on cnn a committee member says part of the evidence will directly tie the former president to the plot. we will show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme. we ll also, again, show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. we ll show during a hearing what the president s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislatures would reconvene and bless it. will we see that he directed it? i don t want to get ahead of what we ll show during the hearing. we did hear last week from the forme