victory for the u.s. women s soccer team in their years long battle for equal pay announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone with many american families bordering on desperation in their search for baby formula, the white house has just announced a major step to increase formula availability, invoking the defense production act. that will prioritize manufacturing resources and ingredients for formula production it comes as a network of milk banks report a 20% increase in demand for donated milk, but tonight, some parents are pursuing their own alternatives, in some cases leading to trips to the hospital. our kate snow is here with late details. first of all, what are you learning about the white house s move tonight? so this is the biden administration, as you say, announcing that it will push private industry to ramp up production of baby formula and they re launching operation fly formula using defense department aircraft to bring
responsible for the house crisis as the house scrambles for a vote tonight, tonight, on a multi million dollar bill to help. plus, check out the markets. have you seen this, wall street in a free fall in the last hour of trading. investors are getting ready for the biggest loss since 2020 because retailers, walmart, target, et cetera sounding the alarm on inflation. coming up, we ll tell you what is going on and when things could turn around. i m hallie jackson in washington and i want to bring in our poll lit. caller: political team. dasha barns, vaughn is in philadelphia and tony is in north carolina and our senior political editor mark murray is with us, as well. at 3:01 eastern time, 12:01 pacific here is where we stand after last night s primaries. in pennsylvania you have oz holding a lead over david mccormick. a recount is looking more and more likely. it s coming as you have former president trump as he did in 2020 not waiting around for the official results, ur
it s tuesday, november 14th. congress has until friday to pass a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. speaker mike johnson might get support from house democrats on his two-step strategy to avoid that shutdown. we ll explain that plan. plus, special counsel jack smith responds to donald trump s push for cameras in the courtroom in his federal election interference case. meanwhile, the former president s eldest son takes the stand again in the civil fraud trial against the family business. we ll get legal analysis on that testimony. and we ll have the latest out of gaza on the efforts to evacuate patients at the largest hospital, which israel says sits above a hamas command post. you look at the papers today, and that s the headline on so much. it s about the fact that the israel forces in gaza reached the hospital. this is in the wall street journal. talks about, as conditions worsen. the lead in the new york times, hospital shakes in gaza as fights rage
targeting a safe house and training facilities used by iranian affiliated groups. that s according to the pentagon. we ve got the latest on the significant escalation in the middle east amid rising tensions. plus, on defense, donald trump jr. back on the stand, the first witness for the defense in the new york civil fraud trial calling his dad today a visionary. what impact will his testimony have. and could the qanon shamon go back to washington, after serving 27 months behind bars, he s filing paperwork to run for congress. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin in gaza with one doctor in al-shifa hospital saying 600 patients need care, there isn t food and water among other things needed. erin mclaughlin is in tel aviv. you talked to a doctor inside al-shifa this morning. what did he tell you. reporter: that s right, chris. as the israeli military has pushed further and further into gaza city, there s desperation at a numbe
president biden s oldest granddaughter opening fire on multiple suspects. and the abc news exclusive tonight, for the first time, the videotaped interviews with two attorneys who worked with former president trump, charged in georgia s election interference case. what they have told prosecutors. first tonight, explosions and gun fire deep inside gaza. our team imbedded with the israeli military outside a children s hospital. the israelis tonight claiming it was used as a hamas command center. and what they ll show our team. is it evidence of hamas operations? and were some of the hostages kept there at one point? and outside the largest hospital in gaza city, the facility without electricity now. 39 premature babies inside had to be removed from incubators. and tonight, what u.s. authorities are now saying about that very hospital. matt gutman in israel. we have new reporting here tonight on the deaths of five elite american soldiers killed aboard a special operations h