announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. after a dangerous confrontation in the skies, a warning tonight from russia to the u.s. not to fly aircraft near its airspace throwing the onus on the united states for that midair collision between a russian and american plane over the black sea yesterday. the u.s. making clear its pilotless surveillance plane was flying legally in international airspace when it was knocked from the sky by a russian fighter jet that had been flying close and aggressively the act raising alarms in the pentagon. secretary of defense lloyd austin confirming he spoke by telephone today with the russian defense minister, though not revealing the nature of their conversation. the u.s., however, accuses the russians of reckless and unprofessional behavior, and we have new reporting tonight on just how high up the orders came from in russia. peter alexander is at the white house with more reporter: tonight, for t
hell of a lot more bills. we ll sort through the republican s successful removal of a proposed $35 cap on insulin in the private market. and president biden and the first lady are in eastern kentucky surveying the damage from last week s floods. we ll have live coverage. and there are renewed concerns either potential nuclear catastrophe for ukraine and europe after weekend shelling near europe s largest nuclear plant in ukraine with the international atomic energy agency sounding the alarm of the very real risk of a nuclear disaster. we begin with ali vitale and jillian tet. 11:29 p.m. saturday night they finished after 4:00 sunday afternoon. reporter: this whole process from the time they started with the motion to proceed vote on saturday until the moment they passed it on sunday was about 22 hours continuously of work in the senate. this is a building that s rarely working on the weekends and certainly not stretching for 22 hours at a time. but that s what it to
In a region where the Himalayas are still active, a collapse on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway means more unpredictable events for the authorities to battle
years says she has had it and is fed up with the administration s handling of the situation. here is what she had to say. i wish they would, but i know they have no intention of doing so. honestly, i don t feel like them coming here would make any changes. they needed to foresee what the impact of their choices is going to cause. five or ten years down the road. sander and john, we went out exclusively with the border patrol chief yesterday and saw this from an airboat right in front of us on four occasions. migrants crossing in just a one hour period. they were haitians, cave-ins, from 29 different countries in the last seven days. more than 5,800 migrant crossings. here is a little bit about what the chief said when it comes to the dangers and cartels benefiting.