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bret: breaking tonight, president biden says he has taken america from economic crisis to economic resurgence. the president talked about what he called unprecedented investments in his bipartisan infrastructure law to a group in boston today. americans are still focused on the economy and specifically record inflation that more than half say is has caused financial hardship for their household. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. officials here won t say if inflation has peaked yet. tomorrow we will see the numbers which could give us clues about how aggressive the fed might be in their next set of rate hikes. for now the president is out defending his spending that his critics say contributed to the problem. we re going to be spending a lot of money. president biden hit the trood argue he is spending taxpayer dollars where it s needed like 62 million at boston s airpor ....
retaken more than 1,000 square miles from russia. in just 48 hours russia retaliating by striking ukraine s power grid. is the war at a turning point? donald trump s legal team objecting to the doj s special master candidates to review the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. what they re asking the judge to do. extreme weather in the west. heavy rain triggering mudslides. more than 50 people rescued as dozens of wildfires rage in the region. caught on camera, jeff bezos s unmanned blue origin rocket bursting into flames after lift-off. and the tributes for the queen. and what officials are now asking mourners to stop leaving behind. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the coffin of queen elizabeth ii lies at rest tonight in edinburgh, scotland where thousands have lined up to pay their respects. tonight the queen s daughter and three sons led by charles holding a vigil for their mother at st. giles cathedral. it was ....
flight instate at london s westminster home. we get into wednesday, public will be able to pay their respects to the fall in monarch. today, crowds lined the streets of edinburgh, applauding, to show respect to the queen elizabeth, her hearse arrived at scotland s capital. she will remain there until tuesday. she will be moved to london for funeral services. today, we learned the president and first lady accepted the royal families invitation to that ceremony next monday, the 19th. meanwhile, proclamation ceremonies took place in the capital cities of scotland, wales, and in northern ireland, officially declaring charles king. joining us now from london, nbc news correspondent, matt bradley. matt, let s start with the new details just released about the ceremonies in london. tell us what you have learned. this is gonna be a typical state funeral. what we will be seeing is the monarch, queen elizabeth ii, who reigned longer than any other british monarch, lying in stat ....
continue to flock here, where the king charles the third has held meetings with diplomats from the 1a countries that recognise him as head of state. also ahead on the programme. ukraine s military says its forces have tripled the amount of territory it has retaken from russia in a little over 48 hours. and in sweden, voting in the country s general election has ended with an exit poll indicating that the prime minister s party may win slightly more seats than rivals. hello and welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. the coffin of queen elizabeth is being taken on itsjourney to herfinal resting place. it left balmoral, where she died on thursday, and has now arrived in edinburgh. crowds gathered along the route, as the cortege made the 175 mile journey to the palace of holyroodhouse where the coffin will remain overnight. as that was happening, proclamations formally announcing the accession of king charles iii took place in cardif ....
to services, despite having lived in the uk for decades. the home office said it was committed to making sure those affected got the compensation they deserved. earlier i spoke to a victim of the windrush scandal anthony bryan along with his son dijoun jhagroo bryan. i started by asking anthony about what happened to him. well, the experience i went to was i had a bad thing with the home office because i was supposed to visit my mum because she was sick. she was sick and injamaica. so i wanted to to take my passport to go to jamaica. but in doing that, i hold back travel because by then i had to show myjamaican id, but that was my passport. so by doing that, now they realize that to them i m not british because i m showing the jamaican passport. and how do you feel about what happened? how has that affected you? well, it stresses me out right now. my whole life is being upturned because the woman who helped me through all of this, she was great because i can t i can ....