does she feel like she owes an apology? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. as riveting as the stories were, it was who was telling them that gave way to chilling testimony before the january 6th committee today about donald trump s pressure campaign on his vice president, mike pence, to stage an illegal one-man attempt to overturn the presidential election results one pence adviser calling it constitutional mischief another warning it risked the election being settled in the streets. members of pence s inner circle testifying about the presidential tweets, public taunts, and angry phone calls any they say pence was subjected to the panel releasing never-before-seen photos of vice president pence sheltering during the capitol riot reading a trump tweet as rioters roamed the grounds above him. pence praised by the committee for refusing to go along with the plan to reject the electoral votes. garrett haake is at the capitol with details. [
disaster in montana. after that devastating flooding in yellowstone national park. here s miguel almaguer reporter: tonight with 81 million americans broiling in record and deadly heat, states like kansas and ohio feel like an oven in the midwest, a double threat. excessive heat and damaging tornadoes carving through wisconsin. hey, boys, we got a tornado. let s go reporter: while extreme weather has moved out of montana, the disaster here is still far from over. there are literally bridges to nowhere and a multimillion if not billion dollar cleanup. new video of flooded roads into a washed out yellowstone show mass devastation this is a historic event, a thousand-year event. reporter: because some entrances into america s oldest national park could be impassable for months. today the only way we could reach the park s superintendent was by zoom there are a lot of things to do, not only
in the country this year. it spread overseas, rumors about it all day didn t happen until after the closing bell. there s the dow, down 2%. the big bank downgrades, including the biggest banks in europe, moody s saying that anybody with a lot of exposure to the credit markets, they were going to downgrade them. the banks one by one saying they disagree with the downgrades and some of the stocks are moving up a little bit. that s the bank part of it. banks are what pumps the oxygen through the financial system. when you have people worried talking about a slowing global economy, it caused all kinds of concerns. we re concerned about slowing numbers from china, from europe, from germany in particular. we had all kinds of macro economic data that was starting to show what many people feared that the global economy is slowing down. that means american factories are selling fewer things and american business owners are not hiring people because they are worried about the global sl