that hearing is young way right now in texas. the house homeland security committee is holding a hearing on protecting the southern border. democrats were supposed to be there before they backed out suddenly earlier this week. the hearing comes after more than 1,000 migrants rushed across the texas bridge and smugglers are going to new depths to hide things in plants even as they try to evade the border. we ll have the latest from the border coming up. sandra: from the hearing as well. we begin with this fox news alert as the stock market right now in the u.s. has fallen to its lows of the session over growing fears on whether the president can meet the moment to protect the u.s. economy. big questions are looming at this hour. we will dig into it. hello and welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. john, good to be you. john: always something. john roberts in washington. this is america reports. credit suisse their shares heading to an all time low, trading te
and the little prince who stole the show announcer: this is “nbc nightly news” with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight just moments ago president biden delivered an urgent address to the american people on gun violence the president speaking more than a week after 19 children and 2 adults were killed in uvalde, texas. and a day after four shot dead in a tulsa hospital the president saying every day places have become killing fields, battlefields in america. he called for raising the age to purchase assault weapons, expanding background checks, and creating a federal red flag law. while bipartisan lawmakers say they have a potential plan to try to curb gun violence, their efforts come after many failed attempts in washington. will any of it become a reality? we start tonight with kelly o donnell. reporter: president biden who has grieved with families traumatized by mass shootings tonight implored the congress and the communities to cha
worse? i think there s a bigger question mark. the clouds are darker. there s more confusion. when there s this kind of confusion, people ask questions later, find out the answers later. we had a big day yesterday on the upside, which might have been bigger if it wasn t for the russian plane crashing into that drone. then overnight credit suisse is in trouble. what boggles my mind on credit suisse is it s been in trouble since 2007. i mean, really. the stock was 76 bucks in 2007. two years ago it was 14 bucks. sandra: it s never been as low as it is today. just listen to me. all time high for this stock was 16 years ago and it crashed and it s never come back. i don t understand that if there is some contagion, if there is a systemic risk, this would be embarrassing. the big european bank. this should not be any u.s., true u.s. exposure to it because
the pain at the pump here s tom costello. reporter: with gas prices setting new record highs every day sources tell nbc news president biden is expected to travel to saudi arabia later this month and expected to meet with crown prince mohammed bin salman the news comes after intense diplomatic efforts, and on the same day, opec and ten allies unexpectedly said they will modestly increase oil production by 648,000 barrels a day in july and august for months the saudis have refused u.s. requests to pump more to bring gas prices down since taking office, the biden administration has tried to isolate the kingdom following the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. today most oil analysts appeared skeptical that the extra oil announced so far is enough to lower pump prices. the national average today hit yet another record, $4.71 a gallon eight states now pay more than $5 a gallon. $6.21 in california. let s see 76 bucks look at that
nic robertson, tell me more about what was discovered and more of what we learned about osama bin laden. reporter: here is the big picture that emerges from here. it is only part of the big picture. 17 of 6,000 documents. it is a partial picture of bin laden. it is bin laden struggling with the affiliates. he is trying to chastise them and give them direction. one of the big eye openers there is bin laden was jealous of some of his rising stars. anwar al awlaki, the yemeni cleric accused on some of the attacks of the united states. talks about al awlaki to take over leadership there. bin laden says i hear what you are saying, but where i come from, we like to see people tested on the battle field first. he hadn t been to the battle field. you can see the jealousies emerging. you talk about paranoia. it is fascinating when you read through the documents. did you find anything in there that showed that bin laden knew al qaeda was getting weaker and the u.s. was stronger? he