. . hi, i m craig melvin, and what did you find? this is dateline. all of a sudden i realize, why are they late? there s something definitely wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? somebody hit them. a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. i couldn t deal with it. two families in torment. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite two families in shock and heartbreak. excep
the closest estimation to sales figures. 0ur north american business correspondent reports. byd calls itself the biggest car brand you have never heard of. but that may be about to change. the chinese automaker sold more battery powered electric vehicles in the last three months of the year than tesla did. that is a first. the american company is facing headwinds, higher borrowing costs in the us led to slowing demand but its lesser known chinese rival is enjoying tail winds including a massive domestic market, cheap labour, and strong government support. and unlike tesla, byd makes its own batteries. so controlling that part of the supply chain gives byd more flexibility to cut prices which it did in the last part of the year, sending sales spiking. as my colleague has just reported, tesla s latest number puts byd ahead of the curve. the chinese ev maker reported around 3 million in sales last year but that number comprises both electric cars and hybrid vehicles. even as the
reconnaissance plane. during a security summit overseas, defense secretary lloyd austin saying the u.s. will not be bullied. we have late reporting from washington. the race for 2024 heating up. most top republican candidates minus donald trump descend on iowa, mingling with voters, trying to stand out as more gop hopefuls prepare to announce a run. rachel scott in des moines. the president signs the debt ceiling deal two days before the country could have faced its first of a kind default. what it means for the average american, and why the u.s. credit rating could still be downgraded. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the search for answers in two serious building collapses. what witnesses say about the connecticut structure that caved in sending workers 30 feet into the basement. and the newly uncovered 911 call in iowa describing a bulging wall the day before the collapse. a weekend washout for millions. remnants of a tropical system bring torrential rains to florida,
new york city in the path tonight. rob marciano on this and the record heat. he s tracking it all. new reporting tonight on former president trump s handling of highly classified documents, abc news learning donald trump s lawyers were unable to find the sensitive document trump was allegedly recorded discussing about a potential u.s. attack on iran during the trump years. pierre thomas reporting. also a word coming into night that the cia director, william burns, has made a secret trip to china for the biden administration. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. the senate passing the debt deal overnight, and president biden a short time ago addressing this from the oval office, on the bipartisan nature of the agreement, arguing neither side got everything they wanted. mary bruce in washington. also, major news on the economy tonight, the u.s. adding 339,000 new jobs last month, nearly doubling predictions. the stock market soaring today on the news. in california,
wrong. he said your family was in an accident. and my world just dropped down from underneath me. the scene told the story why did you find? something i don t want to see again. yuck a deadly crash on a dark road. two gone, one barely alive. to a tragic accident. but look closer. can all of the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? the last thing i wanted to have was to have to take a double fatality and not treat it as a homicide. murder. and no one saw coming. two families in torment. i couldn t deal with it. we were both just a small town trial with big emotions. you took it. you did it. and the verdict that would shake them all. hello, and welcome to dateline. a dangerous highway in big sky country. that was a setting for a deadly crash that would seem to unite to families in shock and heartbreak. except they were about to find out that the truth about what. . ,. happened on that fateful night might b