About its main Graduation Ceremony after weeks of protests and dramatic arrests. The frightening moments during a livestreamed sermon. A man pulling a gun on the pastor. But it fails to go off. How he was stopped. The final countdown after years of delays. Tonight boeing is set to launch its first crewed flight of its starliner capsule. And a historic battleship like youve never seen before. Visitors flocking for a rare glimpse as it gets a makeover. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. The news traveled fast in gaza tonight, where celebrations broke out after word began to spread that hamas had accepted a deal to end hostilities in gaza. But hopes of a pause in the fighting were just as quickly shattered when israel declared the deal hamas was embracing was far from israels essential demands. And so instead of a deal tonight israel is raising the stakes, pressing forward on its threatened Military Operation in rafah, potentially displacing 100
Southern gaza city where it told nearly 100,000 people to evacuate. The uncertainty tonight. Also this evening, donald trump found in contempt again at his Hush Money Trial for violating his partial gag order. The new threat from the judge to send him to jail. Severe storms on the move. Millions in the central u. S. Under a rare high risk for tornadoes. After the flooding in texas that left a 4yearold boy dead. The u. S. Soldier detained in russia. The crime hes accused of committing. Columbia university making a major announcement about its main Graduation Ceremony after weeks of protests and dramatic arrests. The frightening moments during a livestreamed sermon. A man pulling a gun on the pastor. But it fails to go off. How he was stopped. The final countdown after years of delays. Tonight boeing is set to launch its first crewed flight of its starliner capsule. And a historic battleship like youve never seen before. Visitors flocking for a rare glimpse as it gets a makeover. Announc
Force another Prominent School to cancel its main graduation ceremony. We will take you there. House Speaker Mike Johnson meets with the republican lawmakers seeking to kick him out of his job. We have the behind the scenes of that meeting and who will former President Trump pick to be his running mate . A look at the contenders tonight. But, first, breaking tonight, israel has begun striking targets in the gaza strip city of rafah. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that a ceasefire proposal agreed to by hamas is far from his countrys essential demands. However, israel will send negotiators to continue talks to try find a solution. But, in the meantime, they are not letting up. Correspondent jeff paul is in tel aviv with the very latest tonight. Good evening, jeff. Jeff yeah, good evening, bret. We are learning the israeli war cabinet has than newly decided to continue its operations in rafah saying that it wants to keep pressure on hamas to eventually release all of the
Newsom accused the police of being too slow to respond, after Counter Demonstrators attacked the camp on tuesday night. In texas, riot police broke up a similar encampment, accusing the demonstrators of breaching trespass laws. Lets hear from our correspondent helena humphrey, who is at the ucla campus live for us. Hello, welcome to you. Just in the last while, we understand there has been a number of new police, to support the ranks already there . That is right. In terms of who exactly those officers are, you were describing the california Highway Patrol, we understand they are those people who will be going in to the encampment, where here, we can also see the presence of the lapd as well, to really enforce security. What you can see behind me is a human chain that has been developing in the last few moments. That is to resist further movement of the police, people have been telling me because you can see over in this direction, it is that stand off, but is continuing with police. W