migrant children working illegally in slaughterhouses. we speak exclusively with a 16-year-old still on the job about the dangerous conditions he faces. e-cigarette company juul paying lawsuits claiming it marketed vaping to underage users. about to be over for tuerware what happeneto a pif american kitcn culture. ouncerthis is nbc night news with lester holt > good even welcome. sidents of anoth small american town are tonight trying to comprehend the danger they face from a noxious cloud of burning materials that have forced up to 2,000 people to flee their homes. multiple fires burning right now in richmond, indiana, on a 14-acre former factory site. the fire is fueled by plastic stored on the te the fires are spewing an ominous column of k sme. captured on weather radar and satellite images tonight u.s. environmental protection agency teams are on the ground measuring the air trying to learn the level of danger. maggie vespa is there for us tonight reporter: a bi
hazardous fumes. as many as 2,000 people evacuated within a half mile. the plant s operator previously cited for violations. what we re learning. just released the desperate 911 calls during that deadly mass shooting at a louisville bank. employees pleading for help. even the shooter s mother calling police. why she didn t think he owned a gun. tennessee officials vote to reinstate the second of two lawmakers expelled from the state legislature for protesting against gun violence. the new threat against the manhattan d.a. overseeing the new york criminal case against former president trump. what officials are saying. our investigation of undocumented migrant children working illegally in slaughterhouses. we speak exclusively with a 16-year-old still on the job about the dangerous conditions he faces. e-cigarette company juul paying almost half a billion to settle settlements saying it marketed vaping to underage users. is the party about to be over for tupperware?
than half of everyone in the u.s. will face dangerous bitter cold temperatures today. plus, the january 6th committee s final report is out which says that donald trump is to blame for the violence on capitol hill. we ll have more. for the first time, vladimir putin uses the word war to describe his invasion of ukraine. live from london, this is cnn newsroom, with max foster and bianca nobilo. we begin with a huge winter storm bearing down across much of the united states. more than half of the u.s. population, about 117 million people are under windchill and winter weather alerts across the country. dangerous rigid conditions, bitterly cold wind, snow and ice making trip for treacherous travel conditions ahead of the holiday weekend. in south dakota, more than 500 miles of two interstate highways are closed because of high winds and blizzard like conditions. air travel is becoming even more chaotic, as more than 2700 flight scheduled for today have already been cance
we re clocking in the surface here over 150 degrees. relief is coming, but so are storms, causing more than 1400 flights to be canceled this weekend president biden s covid symptoms are improving significantly according to his doctor, and new information about the race to create a vaccine targeted at the omicron subvariants by this fall pope francis has landed in north america, why he s apologizing to the people of canada today. gas prices are falling. now 65 cents less than the peak one last fight, the veterans who never gave up the effort to honor their fallen brothers a new memorial open opening this week. and the stunning northern lights over the continental u.s. where you can see this amazing light show this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening from coast to coast, almost all of us are dealing with it. the brutal heatwave that s lasted for days today, some 90 million americans were under severe heat alerts, with multiple states hitting rec
capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi