victory for the u.s. women s soccer team in their years long battle for equal pay announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone with many american families bordering on desperation in their search for baby formula, the white house has just announced a major step to increase formula availability, invoking the defense production act. that will prioritize manufacturing resources and ingredients for formula production it comes as a network of milk banks report a 20% increase in demand for donated milk, but tonight, some parents are pursuing their own alternatives, in some cases leading to trips to the hospital. our kate snow is here with late details. first of all, what are you learning about the white house s move tonight? so this is the biden administration, as you say, announcing that it will push private industry to ramp up production of baby formula and they re launching operation fly formula using defense department aircraft to bring
cliffhanger in pennsylvania. the trump endorsed tv doctor, mehmet oz, is neck and neck with david mccormick. we ll break down the former president s election night wins and losses as he s now pressuring dr. oz to declare victory before the last votes are counted. and another chilling twist in the buffalo shooting massacre. we re now learning that the suspected gunman revealed his racist attack plans online some 30 minutes before the deadly rampage. and that s prompting a new state investigation. there s a lot to discuss when the mayor of buffalo joins us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, ukrainian forces are within miles of their enemy s backyard, after making significant new gains in the kharkiv region near the russian border. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the front line. every inch of respite from russian shelling here comes at grotesque cost. what
more about those lives that were taken so callously, solely out of hate. we re also learning more about the suspect. authorities identifying him as this 18-year-old white man who apparently traveled more than three hours from his home to target that community. a 180-page manifesto attributed to the suspect was posted online just before the attack. it shows the meticulous planning that apparently went into a racist attack in just chilling detail. we also learned the suspect was already on law enforcement s radar. he had made a generalized threat as a high school student last year. tomorrow president biden will travel to buffalo to meet with families of the victims. the terror in new york, sadly, just one of several mass shootings in recent days. let s begin with cnn s victor blackwell on the scene in buffalo. the suspect currently faces one count of first-degree murder. that really a starting point here. do we expect that federal hate crime charges will be added? reporter: y
hello, i m charlie hurt along with kennedy, mollie and david webb, come to the big weekend show . the big story tonight, big concerns over one of the virus in china. republican governors calling for president biden to restrict travel in the communist nation. mainstream media saying trust science, we shouldn t be worried but remember if china spent years lying to us about covid and they are after all, a communist country. fox news correspondent dany dana marie mcnichol has an update among those demanding actions. an immediate travel ban between united states and china until more information is gathered on the dangers of what they call mysterious illness. a list of republican senators include senator marco rubio and rick scott in florida, senator j.d. vance from ohio, senator tomi to prevail from alabama and mike braun from indiana. the letter to the president reads in part, we should immediately restrict travel between the united states and china until we know more about th