re-election bid. the republicans who jeered and booed his speech. the threat of severe storms and tornadoes across the south. al roker tracking it all for us. the deadly crash. a city bus slamming into a day care. the charges the driver is facing. the alex murdaugh murder trial halted for hours. why the courthouse was suddenly evacuated. the family terrorized with racist threats caught on doorbell cam. the charges announced today,but why did it take police more than a year to make an arrest? our nbc news exclusive. on the ground with the u.s. troops training somalians to take on one of the world s biggest terror threats. and all hail the king, lebron james earning his place in nba history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone. the clock and the calendar say time has nearly run out to find survivors in the earthquakes that rumbled across turkey and syria. heart and raw determination tell another story as res
bret: but, first, breaking tonight. house republicans are taking a microscope to the hunter biden scandal. the oversight committee grilling former twitter executives today about their censorship of the story in the new york post which many in the g.o.p. contended could have directly affected the 2020 election. the most pointed questions though aimed at the u.s. government influence into the censorship decisions. correspondent david spunt reports tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. a fiery hearing lasting the majority of the day. democrats argue there is nothing there but republicans believe something more sinister wer and. and this was the chance for republicans to make the case to the public. we don t know where the fbi ends and twitter begins. emotions running high. we are talking about hunter biden s half fake laptop story. i mean, this is embarrassment. front and center this new york post cover from october
contact my office, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i ll give you president biden heckled during the state of the union and he seemed to enjoy it. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. president biden delivering his second state of the union address, the first before a newly divided congress. the president of the united states. the president called for unity telling republicans he wants to work together instead of fighting for the sake of fighting. still he was heckled more than once by some unruly house republicans. some republicans want medicare and social security sunset. i m not sayings it is the majority. let me give you anybody who doubts it, contact my office and i ll give you a copy, i ll give you a copy of the proposal. i m glad to see i tell you, i enjoy conversion. you know, it means if congress doesn t keep the programs the way they are, they will go away. i m not saying it is a majority of you, i m not even saying it
what a moment. remember when we were on the court last week and we did that interview with tnt, they asked us about that and i got the note from kareem, he said he was very proud. people thought that he d be upset that someone is taking his record. but he said he was very proud and he was on the court last night. what a night. good morning, everyone. we re for getting we re on television. you can see we re this washington. the capitol is behind us and it is another big day for washington. the state of the union happening last night and president biden delivering his second address to a divided congress. he was heckled and booed and kept the focus on issues impacting middle america. highlights straight ahead. also survivors are still be pulled from the rubble in turkey and syria. the death toll has now risen to 9500 people from that earthquake. see the heartbreaking images this devastating story. we ll take you live to turkey. and we begin with president biden facing a
the restrictions claiming rescue teams have been using twitter to communicate. our reporter is in turkey, as the golden period for finding survivors rapidly comes to a close. reporter: a 5-year-old emerges from underneath the rubble in turkey s hard hit city. one of hundreds of young lives saved. but for too many, it was too late. in this town, they mourned one of the many who did not make it out alive with. the death toll rising by the hour, this is a race against time. how many are buried in this massive quake zone, nobody really knows. estimates in the tens of thousands. here, search and rescue crews work tirelessly around the clock, digging through a 14-story residential building where families lay asleeve when the earthquake hit. survivors have gathered at the site of the rescue mission, and in the bitter cold, they huddle around these fires. everyone with the story of the horror they survived. the shock, the trauma, the pain visible on every face. parents doing what t