stunning video deposition and what both sides said today. alex murdaugh s admission he lied about the death of his long-time housekeeper. what s next in the case and why millions of dollars are at stake. as the summer travel season kicks off, could a new rule make airlines pay you when it s their fault that flights are canceled or delayed? when you could start seeing that cash and after this winter s massive storms, the runoff unearthed a glittering prospect in the mountains. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and thank you for joining us the news that came out of texas over the weekend was almost too much to take, especially after a series of grim headlines of mass violence that have rocked the country recently we don t know what caused a driver to plow his suv into a crowd of migrants waiting at a bus stop in brownsville on sunday, killing eight, but tonight he has been charged with eight counts of manslaughter the suspect describe
baby, you re not dancing on your own rachel: good morning, this is a live shot from london. it s 12:00 p.m. over there across the pond. but it is 7:00 here in new york city. and good to be here with both of you. we re going to bring in our colleague martha mccallum who is going to give us more information about what s happening in london. she is going to be there all weekend. we re going to have her covering the coronation tomorrow during the morning hours as well. martha, good morning. martha: good morning, guys. good to be with you. rachel: good to be with you. what can we expect to see? well, you know, this is the first time that this has happened in 70 years. i know there have been three big royal events over the course of this year. we had the jubilee and then very kind of unexpectedly the funeral just a few months after that of queen elizabeth. now we have the coronation of king charles iii which is going to happen here tomorrow at westminster, abby. he was
for president, you expect them to go out, shake hands and kiss some babies and most of all get on the debate stage. when it comes to joe biden who just told us to watch him, democrat party saying no debates for you. the sitting president of the united states of america is a democrat. a democrat that would like to run for reelection so much so that he has declared a reelection campaign. in that case, the democratic national committee will not facilitate a primary process. there will be no debate stage for bobby kennedy, marianne williams or anyone else. they re not going to set up a primary process for debates for someone to challenge the head of the democratic party. jesse: in other words, joe is running so voters should be thankful and not ask questions. 19% of democrats are already siding with his primary opponent, robert f. kennedy jr.. he s pulling the same numbers in the polls as desantis. he s nothing to sneeze at. if anybody deserves to debate joe, it s him. i th
like washington, jefferson, lincoln. well, guess what. latinos have been here every step of the way. [upbeat latin-tinged music] in fact, latinx heroes have fought in every war for the united states for centuries. this goes all the way back to the revolutionary war. american forces got major financial contributions from cuba, and they also got help from the spanish forces led by a young venezuelan commander named francisco de miranda. and then during the civil war, more than 20,000 hispanics served. almost half of them were mexican-american, and that was only 13 years after the mexican-american war. now where s the monument for that? huh? huh? huh? now, today, nearly 20% of the u.s. population is latin, and our numbers are growing. our voting power is growing too, and about one in ten votes are being cast by latinos, and yet we still make up less than 2% of our elected officials, but the good news is, we do have some prominent figures, like alexandria ocasio-cortez, veronica
the border, thousands more are coming every day than just last month, and that s before title 42 expires next thursday. plus, markets are soaring after the april jobs report blew away expectations, unemployment dropping back to its lowest level in more than 50 years. the good news may be short lived, especially if republicans and the white house can t agree on how to raise the debt limit in the next three and a half weeks. can the president tap into his decades of experience as a deal maker when it matters the most? we start, though, in texas where that highly anticipated surge of migrants crossing into the u.s. that we were expecting after title 42 expired next week has already begun. that s raising new fears about whether the immigration system can handle the growing humanitarian crisis, and what s in store for u.s. border communities with thousands more people still on their way. and the rio grande valley where the dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas will be speaking next