is a queue for laura coats to make sense of it all. what? let me figure out a way to remind myself of what it would be like in court to tell a judge, or to hear witnesses, i m sorry i can t be there because we have kids. we have kids who are in the courtroom because the parents were subpoenaed, or they themselves or a defendant. i remember, abby, actually being pregnant prosecuting cases and saying, i m sorry your honor, we ve got to move the trial date i m actually due to deliver that day. all, really is the entire government pregnant? is that what s happening right now, miss coates? trust me, i am a little bit look, it s not like she can t afford childcare. that s an important point, oh tell you for a lot of people, even those who can, or it s taken for granted if they can or cannot, it s a subpoena, it s important, trial it s a civil trial, people oftentimes it was not criminal prosecutions which the big deal? it s a very big deal to release the a.g. in new york. t
tonight 74 americans and their family members getting out. hundreds more remain. ian pannell on the ground for us. also at this hour, the news coming in from capitol hill right now. house republicans with help from some democrats passing billions in aid for israel only, not ukraine, and no humanitarian aid for palestinian civilians caught in the middle of this war, as president biden had asked for. so, what happens now with this? mary bruce standing by with late reporting. the massive gas explosion outside new york city. more than a dozen victims, some pulled from the debris, and children are among the victims tonight. the dangerous driving. the deep freeze from mississippi all the way up to the northeast. the temperatures on tap for tomorrow morning now, and then the whiplash. rob marciano is here. donald trump jr. and his brother eric trump both on the stand today. once they were given control of the trump organization, what they claimed today they did not know. aar
israel and gaza. also tonight, president biden visiting maine in the aftermath of the mass shooting that killed 18 people, meeting with survivors, victims families, and first responders. his message to a grieving community. the security scare at a nuclear plant in south carolina. a man driving through the gate, ramming the barricades, the urgent man-hunt tonight. the one-time crypto king sam bankman-fried found guilty on all counts in his fraud trial. why his legal troubles aren t over yet. the explosion aboard a jet blue plane. a backpack bursting into flames. flight attendants seen pouring bottles of water over it as passengers evacuate. what officials believe caused it. and remembering a hero astronaut. after disaster struck the apollo 13 mission, the key role he played in saving the crew. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. we begin with the united states and israel tonight at odds over what next in the war in gaza as civilia
where we do have an enhanced risk for strong tornadoes. tomorrow the threat shifts ever so slightly to the east including mississippi, parts of alabama and parts of louisiana as well. that s the warm side of this storm. where it s cold we have blizzard warnings in effect because not only will we see a lot of heavy snow but wind gusts up to 60, 70 miles per hour. that will drastically reduce visibility and make conditions very dangerous and still we could end up with another foot of snow in parts of the dakotas. lester. dylan, thank you. tonight when federal prosecutors call one of the biggest financial frauds in u.s. history carried out, they say, by former crypto billionaire sam bankman-fried, now under arrest and facing multiple criminal charges. cnbc s kate rooney has more. reporter: he was once hailed as the king of crypto, but today sam bankman-fried, founder and former ceo of crypto exchange ftx, is facing a criminal indictment and a wave of civil complaints. bankman-frie
his co-conspirators stole billions of dollars from ftx customers. he used that money for his personal benefit. reporter: bankman-fried arrested in the bahamas last night facing eight criminal charges in the u.s. authorities alleging he defrauded investors by funneling customers money into his own hedge fund behind their backs. as a result they say $8 billion have gone missing. this committee will not stop until we uncover the full truth behind the collapse of ftx. reporter: in washington today a congressional hearing on ftx s collapse following what amounted to a run on the bank last month. bankman-fried who was expected to testify was instead making his first court appearance in the bahamas. there was no corporate controls, no corporate oversight. reporter: ftx s new ceo, john ray, led energy giant enron through bankruptcy after its collapse. today appearing before congress, he ripped into bankman-fried s management. this is just taking money from customers and using it f