studied active shooters from i believe 2008 to 2013 no sorry 2000 to 2013. i think you studied 160 of them. what can you glean from the facts we know at this hour about this one. boy i don t know. this is a tough panel you ve got tonight. so they re on fire. so i have to be careful what i say. but they you know what we what we ve learned so far. is that the that we have exactly what we see a lot of situations exactly what occurs in a lot of situations. you ve got an individual who has some real or perceived grievance and they formulate this plan and they buy the equipment. they need to execute it. they do the surveillance and purchase their ammunition and plot their way out so that they can leave their message and send a message for whatever that is, and we ll see what that is, but it will be pretty common what we see in a lot of times and very troubled person, right? who has, who wants to leave their mark and say something when maybe they don t feel like they had an opportun
pushing a plane away from the gate. more than a million without power on the heels of a deadly holiday weekend. the massive explosion at a chase bank in ohio. debris blowing across the street. multiple injuries reported. israeli forces entering the heart of rafah for the first time. and deadly new strikes as outrage grows over the attack on a tent city that killed 45 people. the new study on preventing peanut allergies in children. what parents need to know. and the needle in a haystack search. the divers on a mission to reunite a couple with a wedding ring lost 25 years ago. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. after 21 days of trial, the opposing lawyers in the donald trump hush money trial have spent today appealing directly to the jurors. today s closing arguments the last chance for each side to convince 12 everyday new yorkers of donald trump s guilt or innocence. the former president facing 34 felony counts of
children, as both sides made their final cases. the prosecution accusing mr. trump of trying to illegally influence the 2016 election by covering up a payment to adult film star stormy daniels. the defense attacking michael cohen as, quote, the greatest liar of all time. and the chaos outside the court. actor robert de niro clashing with pro-trump protesters. also tonight, severe storms slamming texas. flash flooding on the highway in dallas. vehicles trapped. a church and homes possibly hit by lightning. hurricane-force winds pushing a plane away from the gate. more than a million without power on the heels of a deadly holiday weekend. the massive explosion at a chase bank in ohio. debris blowing across the street. multiple injuries were reported. israeli forces entering the heart of rafah for the first time. and deadly new strikes as outrage grows over the attack on a tent city that killed 45 people. the new study on preventing peanut allergies in children. what par
hamas hitting a tent camp, killing dozens of palestinians. prime minister netanyahu calling it a tragic incident. the global outrage tonight. the urgent search for survivors in papua-new guinea. a catastrophic landslide hitting in the middle of the night. more than 2,000 feared buried alive. the horrifying rampage inside a u.s. movie theater. four girls stabbed but surviving. three of them sisters. their mother speaking out. the mid-air scare for boxer mike tyson. the medical emergency he suffered on a cross-country flight. remembering nba hall of famer bill walton. he was a legend on the basketball court and in the broadcast booth. and on this memorial day a final salute to a pearl harbor hero more than 80 years in the making. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening on this memorial day. i m tom llamas in for lester. we begin tonight with the severe storms slamming the east coast. just as millions of americans are returning home
der promise. that s our promise our promise today to them the president also spoke of his own personal loss, the death of his son, beau in iraq war veteran saying, i know it hurts thanks for joining us. the situation room starts now happening. now amid global anger over a deadly israeli attack on a rafah. repeat g camp. prime minister benjamin netanyahu, he s now calling the killing of dozens of civilians, a quote, tragic mistake also tonight with states for donald trump and the nasal shouldn t as closing arguments are set to begin tomorrow in his historic hush money criminal trial, and breaking news, the death toll is rising from an outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes it s imports of the us kentucky s governor is set to join us this hour with an update on his states storm emergency. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. and wolf blitzer is off today. i m boris sanchez because and you re in this situation are tops story this hour, the isra