the epa chief in ohio again today as officials battle over where to send the waste from that toxic train derailment. why the epa s plan to transport contaminated water to texas is back on after local leaders objected. the new drone strike deep inside russia, and our rare look inside crimea. will it become the new flash point in the conflict? the white house giving a deadline to remove tiktok from all government devices. could the popular app be banned altogether in the u.s.? and the american skier who just made history on the world stage. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone, in a pair of cases that will impact tens of millions of student loan borrowers, the supreme court heard arguments today on whether the biden administration had the authority to forgive some of those loans. the president s loan debt relief plan calls for erasing up to $20,000 in student loans for certain borrowers at an estimated cost of $400
lucky that we got the guy we got. reporter: the vast majority of fatalities actually happen because someone in the household is using drugs. fentanyl is everywhere in the drug market right now. but the second thing is fentanyl is so highly potent that it takes just an exceedingly small amount for a young child to have a fatal poisoning. reporter: you ve always had to think about drugs in a household with a child. yeah, but this is different. reporter: vanessa durantes is the commissioner of the connecticut department of children and families. since 2020, the county counts eight infants or toddlers who died after ingesting or having contact with fentanyl. in february last year, an infant died in salem, connecticut, just one day before a caseworker was scheduled to see the family. a state watchdog criticized the department of children and families as deficient in keeping that infant safe. i stand by the work of our staff at that time, and i recognize that since then, we ve ha
Dozens of Connecticut kids have new homes. They were adopted in ceremonies across the state as part of National Adoption Day. Those 50 children adopted Friday.