dana: heartbroken family is blaming new york s democrat governor kathy hochul for the execution-still murder of a mother with three children thanks to her soft on crime policies. she is passing the buck and pointing fingers at everyone but herself. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: i love the blue. i m bill hemmer. governor hochul playing the blame game refusing responsibility for a cold-blooded murder that some say was preventable. a woman was shot and killed by her husband less than 24 hours after le lease with no bail from domestic abuse charges. the governor is claiming her death on the system which just happens to be the system that she is in charge of. the system failed her. the system has to work. orders of protection have to be granted. transition homes have to be available and we have to make sure that judges and prosecutors charge appropriately. dana: fox team coverage. griff jenkins covering the election battle for new yo
battlegrounds. north korea s new escalation, firing an icbm after launching 23 missiles in a single day. is a nuclear warhead test coming? u.s. officials visiting wnba star brittney griner in a russian prison. what the white house is saying about the stalled effort to free her. and the ace superstar kyrie irving and the firestorm over anti-semitism, after calls to suspend him, what the league commissioner is saying now. the faa flooded with complaints about shrinking airline seats. the mounting pressure to take action. and the jaw-dropping photo bomb. the photographer speaking out about this scary close encounter. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. breaking news as we come on the air tonight. word that paul pelosi, the victim of a brutal hammer attack at the hands of a home intruder has been released from a san francisco hospital. his release coming just days after the office of house speaker nancy pelosi revealed he faced a lo
delivering that speech on democracy in our country, preserving it in the wake of the attack on pelosi and other threats to leaders. and the escalating rhetoric. mary bruce at the white house. just six days now until the midterms. the economy issue number one. in nevada tonight, the first latina senator in the u.s., a democrat, fighting to hold onto her seat. former president obama trying to help. and what the voters there told our martha raddatz. pus tonight, georgia, pennsylvania, new hampshire, and ohio. rachel scott on these very tight races. we ll show you the numbers tonight. the fed hiking interest rates three quarters of a percent today to try to slow down inflation and try to stave off recession. how americans will feel this. in parkland, school shooter nikolas cruz face-to-face with families, formally sentenced tonight to 34 consecutive sentences of life in prison. victor oquendo is there. the alarming escalation by north korea. more than 20 missile tests lau
bulletproof vest and where they ve installed panic buttons. all of this as president biden warned in his speech that the issue of election safety, preserving democracy, he says, is on the ballot this year. terry moran tonight. the three states that could determine control of the senate. the new polls tonight. where those races stand right now. and why this will all come down to turnout. rachel scott and the eye-opening numbers tonight. the attack here in new york city. that woman jogger sexually assaulted, running along the hudson river. news of that arrest coming in now. and what we now know about the suspect linked to multiple cases. tonight, the warning from south korea and the u.s. that if north korea ever uses a nuclear weapon, they will end the kim regime. martha raddatz is here. james longman in ukraine tonight. the new concern at europe s largest nuclear power plant inside ukraine. international monitors tonight calling the situation extremely precarious. he
we asked republican governor ron desantis and val demings to come on as well they declined. first up tonight be though, president biden is taking part in a rally for new mexico governor, michelle lujan grist ham and other democrats in albuquerque. the president is trying to frame the election as crucial to the democracy. peter doocy has the story tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. president biden is suggesting the american experiment could fail if certain republican candidates are elected. and despite that heavy warning, he is also campaigning in new mexico trying to remind young people that he is the one trying to cancel some student loan debt. remember, this is not a referendum. this is a choice. pete: biden is backing incumbent new mexico governor believed to be v.p. short-lister. michelle grisham. he is not here to discuss the issues that new mexicans care about that is skyrocketing crisis, a border where we have mor