the tale of triumph for a baby giraffe inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening a solemn journey to buffalo for president biden today meeting with some of the grieving families who lost loved ones in saturday s supermarket massacre the president and first lady visiting the site the president offering comfort and giving full-throated voice to the anger so many feel over the racist ideologies that drove the attack that allegedly targeted black people the president declaring white supremacy will not have the last word this evening a chill still sweeping across buffalo as the pieces of the horrific plot reveal themselves. tonight what we ve learned about the suspect s previous journey to the city, the planning, the alternate targets allegedly considered all under the nose of an unsuspecting community. emilie ikeda has new details for us tonight. evil will not win, i promise you. reporter: today president biden and the first l
transcripts of the interviews it has conducted in its investigation. the request came on april 20th with the doj indicating that some committee interviews may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting. nbc news has now confirmed that reporting. the doj did not indicate the number of transcripts they wanted or if there were any specific interviews they were interested in. so far the committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people, including many close to the twice-impeached former president. while attorney general merrick garland has received criticism about the justice department s response to the insurrection, this is the latest sign of the department appearing to escalate the scope of its inquiry. and as the new york times also points out several months ago the department quietly detailed a former federal prosecutor from maryland to the department headquarters. he s overseeing the politically fraught question of whether a case can be made
his skin. on his son s 3rd birthday. ten people were killed saturday at tops friendly market in a racially motivated attack allegedly by an 18-year-old white man who is now in custody. wasn t even the only mass shooting this weekend. we have learned a lot about the alleged killer already. his background, prior red flags, the racist poison he apparently drew on and how widespread it sadly is, and we ll talk about all of it tonight, but we re not going to use his name or show his photo. he livestreamed the killings. he wants fame. we don t want to be part of giving him that. instead, we begin tonight by telling you what we know about those whose lives were stolen on saturday, like andre mackneil. by the way, he went everywhere, we re told, with his son. his fiancee said his little boy would follow his dad like a shadow. saturday she said today my baby was born, but today my soul mate was taken. how do i tell my son his daddy s not coming home? how do i as a mother make it okay?
the feds are reporting a record shattering number of migrant encounters with a quarter of a just last month alone. that s a record. this, while our drone captured some pretty disturbing images at our southern border just over the last three days. on saturday we saw just how brazen migrants have become, not even barbed wire stopping them from hopping a fence onto private property in texas. then, just hours later on sunday morning, and even larger group numbering roughly 150 is seen wading in the river and crossing illegally into our country. and yesterday that scene was repeated and multiplied several times over, raising fears that the worst is yet to come. raymond, it s hard to believe that 234,000 migrant encounters in april, record, and 100,000 released into the interior of the country. think of that, one month, attended a million people. just to put this in perspective, title 42 is listed, we have a number all our viewers need to know. 1.9 million migrants with title 42. i
saying he spoke with the suspect. the alleged gunman asking, are you going to be here tomorrow? stephanie ramos here at the scene tonight. we are also learning more about the victims here. and we will honor them. the youngest, 32, the oldest, 86. tonight here, their stories. and the hero security guard killed while confronting the shooter. our interview tonight with a mother and daughter working inside the store. what they saw that guard do. tonight, how they describe his heroism, his bravery. the investigation tonight and major questions now about the warning signs. the suspect interacting with law enforcement around the time of his high school graduation last june. his alleged threats one year ago. and what s now been found tonight. what he posted just two weeks ago on the internet. was his plan out there weeks before this horrific attack? pierre thomas and what he s learned tonight. the other mass shooting in america, this time, at a church in california. one perso