democrats who participated in a gun violence protest inside the general assembly we ll talk to one state lawmaker what calls the move a very dangerous precedent. a violent start to the holiest week in the middle east. new air strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip in lebanon. we re going to bring you a live report from jerusalem. plus, classified documents detailing u.s. and nato plans on ukraine posted to social media we ll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story about how the pentagon is responding and it has been six months since hurricane ian decimated parts of florida we go back and see how communities there are rebuilding and we begin this hour with that extraordinary move in tennessee where the republican-led state house voted to expel two democratic lawmakers for an alleged rule violation for the first time in the state s history. people were removed from elected office before there, but never for violating decorum rules. j
both sides about when is his next court date, and when could he stand trial our full coverage. also tonight, the dangerous tornado threat more than 40 million on alert in the south and midwest, including areas still reeling from deadly storms al roker is here for the first time the officers who took down the nashville school shooter speak out. what went through their minds as they raced toward the gun fire and the uconn huskies winning it all in the family dynasties inspiring america. announer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it was a legal spectacle never seen before in america with potentially unprecedented political ramifications, as well donald trump, the former president and current presidential candidate, walking into a new york courtroom after being fingerprinted and being charged with 34 felonies the charges stemming from a series of alleged hush money payoffs to an adult film star in hope of avoiding scandals as he ra
president to be criminally charged surrendering at the courthouse in new york where he was processed and fingerprinted, but no mug shot. he was then taken into the courtroom and the indictment unsealed. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors alleging an illegal conspiracy involving hush money payments to two women during the 2016 campaign and the allegation of a third payment to a doorman at trump tower. the new evidence d.a. alvin bragg hinted at. mr. trump pleading not guilty to t court date and when could he stand trial? our full coverage. also tonight, the dangerous tornado threat. more than 40 million on alert in the south and midwest including areas still reeling from deadly storms. al roker is here. for the first time the officers who took down the nashville school shooters speak out. what went through their minds as they raced toward the gun fire? and the uconn huskies winning in all in the family dynasties inspiring america. this is nbc
house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo
unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled