what prosecutors say happened to her body. and the disturbing google searches he allegedly made the case she disappeared. the winter storm on the move. a pileup shutting down a snowy highway. we re tracking the threat. in ukraine, a helicopter crashing into a kindergarten, killing at least 14, including the interior minister. was it an accident or intentional? george santos facing new allegations, a veteran who said he stole thousands in go fund me cash for his dying service dog. and ukraine s wounded warriors coming to the u.s. to get the help they could and find back home. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. prosecutors in new mexico are unveiling shocking new details of a series of shooting attacks on the homes of democratic lawmakers, allegedly orchestrated by a defeated republican candidate for state office. that candidate, solomon pena, appeared virtually in court today where he was charged with 15 counts, including shooting at an occu
exclusive report reveals federal investigators are looking into whether 50 children were vitims of human trafficking amid allegations they were illegally employed to clean slaughter houses. we begin with a high stakes fiscal fight now underway here in the nation s capital. the treasury secretary said today could be the day the u.s. reaches its borrowing limit. once that happens, the treasury department will start taking extraordinary measures to make sure the nation pays its bills, but those measures could run out sometime in june. now it s up to congress to raise the debt limit. many republicans say they will not do so unless there are cuts in federal spending setting the stage for an economic showdown with democrats and the white house which insists the debt ceiling increase is nongauchable. it s something that should be done without conditions. we should not be negotiating around it. it is the duty, the basic duty of congress to get that done. so we re not going to neg
cinematographer. miguel a ma gator is interviewing the special prosecutor right now. we re listening. we ll share everything we learn in realtime. plus president biden is putting 3,000 miles between himself and the growing political headaches in washington. the white house and some top democrats trying to down play concerns about whether the special counsel will derail his reelection bid. but are other democrats sensing a 2024 opportunity? and more proof of egregious lies from george santos ares exposed, including a claim about his mother and september 11th. alec baldwin is now facing serious charges in the shooting of a cinematographer. he will face two counts of involuntary manslaughter. here he is back in 2021. all of what happened on that day leading up to this event was precipitated on one idea, and that is that we had something profound in common. and we both assumed the gun was empty. the da writing if any one of these three people had done their jobs, she would
and the way he treated and spoke to other people and the fact that he didn t have conversations. he had accusations and he had a way of telling people they didn t know what they were talking about. always politics? yeah. reporter: video appears to show pena at three different trump rallies in d.c. in one clip his name is stitched into his hat and in july 2021, kr, nn video captured a man appears to be pena in the rally crowd. pena would later post a picture of himself as an attendee. a year later pena ran for office as a republican candidate for the state house. he lost last november by a slant sl landslide but pena would not accept an election loss. police say he targeted four democrats to blame finding their addresses and confronting them. so i went to the gate and that s where he was and he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive. i did tell someone about it. they said this guy is a felon. mr. pena orchestrated and made phone calls and hired people to sh
turned violent in atlanta tonight. wad tyler is live in atlanta tyler what is the latest have there been any arrests made tonight? well lawrence i can tell you six people are in custody tonight have been arrested according to thrarnght police that s what they told us an hour and a half ago and clean upunderway right now this was one of the businesses damaged by protesters scooping up glass theyrd board up woipgd here. this is one of three according to atlanta police that were damaged during protest here and video from earlier that really tells story you ll see it one point a police car was damaged by by a different protesters and then they lit it on fire multiple buildings brings and rocks used to knock out windows and it really started as largely peaceful protest against a proposed atlanta police training center. some folks are not happy about that. they say that they do not want to have it and earlier just a couple of days ago, a protester an activist was killed while t