retaken more than 1,000 square miles from russia. in just 48 hours russia retaliating by striking ukraine s power grid. is the war at a turning point? donald trump s legal team objecting to the doj s special master candidates to review the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. what they re asking the judge to do. extreme weather in the west. heavy rain triggering mudslides. more than 50 people rescued as dozens of wildfires rage in the region. caught on camera, jeff bezos s unmanned blue origin rocket bursting into flames after lift-off. and the tributes for the queen. and what officials are now asking mourners to stop leaving behind. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the coffin of queen elizabeth ii lies at rest tonight in edinburgh, scotland where thousands have lined up to pay their respects. tonight the queen s daughter and three sons led by charles holding a vigil for their mother at st. giles cathedral. it was a day
treat victims compared it to those sustained in a war zone. we heard gunshots people thought for five seconds that it was fireworks until people started screaming bodies down, bodies down and everyone started running. there were six people who i saw who were horribly, horribly injured from the gun shot, and the gunshot wounds that these people sustained are like war injuries. i ve never served, but i ve been in the emergency rooms and i ve seen horrific things. the bodies that i saw it was not an image that anyone who is not a physician would have an easy time processing. let s bring in nbc news correspondent rehema ellis who has been covering this story for us. rehema, what is the latest on the ground? the very latest on the ground is they are engaged in an intense man hunt for this suspect. hundreds of officers are blanketing the area trying to find the person responsible for this mayhem. authorities say that local, state and federal authorities are all working toge
this is highland park, an affluent chicago suburb known for its safety. we certainly have great cops there. four hours yesterday those police hunted down the person of interest. arresting 21-year-old aspiring rapper with a very long history, what you can see online, violent postings, had been there a while. they caught him about 5 miles north of the mass shooting. identified him as 21-year-old, again, violence online is what marks his history. those who managed to escape the bullets raining down became witnesses to this unforgettable crime skin. we saw people falling, people screaming, people going all different directions perry migrant daughter said to me pop but don t let the bad guys shoot me. and she s two years old. daughter, mommy i don t want to die. closer holding her saying okay, honey, it s all right. keep running. harris: you can see on the screen right now the ages 8-85 years old the authorities have publicly identified two of the deceased, 73-year-old grand
yesterday. the fear for democrats, that voters frankly have had enough. the price of gas is just outrageous. these gas prices are crazy. luckily i m close to my business, so i don t have to spend as much. i used to fill up with 60, and now it s like 100. we ll have fresh reporting from the white house in just moments. in uvalde, texas, we re hearing from the school district s police chief in several days. he says, in spite of reports to the contrary, he is in touch with state investigators. also live this hour, we are keeping tabs on a briefing at the pentagon. we will cover a big announcement from the president, that the u.s. will provide some longer-range rocket systems to ukraine, although those weapons come with a condition. and hurricane season is here, and it could be a busy one. we just got a brand-new briefing, and al roker will join me in studio with what we should expect. i want to start with rising costs and the uphill climb the white house faces. jus
rest. as the city grieves over an unthinkable act and the questions still unanswered, we re looking to the country s elected leadership to finally take a stand, do anything, to help curb this endless cycle of senseless loss. in just the past week since the uvalde, massacre, there have been 18 more mass shootings across this country according to the gun violence archive in places like fresno, california, chattanooga, tennessee, benton harbor, michigan and taft, oklahoma. we just had the funerals for the victims in buffalo, houston and laguna woods, california. now, many more burials are being planned. in fact there have been 231 mass shootings so far this year, more than one per day. just let that sink in. so how would a rational country react to tragedy after tragedy committed with the use of the same weapons of war almost every time? how about expanding background cheques, banning hundreds of types of military-style weapons, starting a gun buyback program, banning the sale a