get this done. democrats are going to hold the senate? have to send a very clear message to washington. we want less radicalism and more balance. neil: well, are you ready for this? it is on. the voters lining up in the final hours to make their voices heard. this hour it s all about turnout, my friends in pennsylvania, in georgia, in arizona and nevada and so many more states and cities and districts. you have all of congress up for grabs. a third of the u.s. senate and both parties hoping for a surge to put them over the top once and for all. meanwhile, investors may be hoping for something else. stocks up because they think in this new environment to come, nothing gets done. i ll explain that in just a bit. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so much happening and so little time to get to it. so in the next hour, we re putting it all in perspective including that run-up in stocks that has some investors hoping that maybe with democrats and republicans continuing a
hello. i m victor blackwell, welcome to c cnn newsroom. and i m bianna golodryga. for the first time we re hearing from house speaker nancy pelosi. she sat down with our anderson cooper. pelosi returned to washington last night after being at her husband s bedside in california. she says that he has a long road to recovery ahead and recounted to anderson that the moment d.c. police broke the news to her, watch. i was sleeping in washington, d.c. i had just gotten in the night before from san francisco. and the i hear the doorbell ring and think, it s five-something. they must be in the wrong apartment. it rings again and bang, bang, bang, bang on the door. i run to the door and i m very i see the capitol police and they say we have to come in and talk to you. i m thinking my children, any grandchildren. i never thought it would be paul because i knew he wouldn t be out and about, shall we say. and so they came in at that time, we didn t even know where he was
how close they came to catastrophe. you ll hear the urgent calls from air traffic control. the black boxes found after the passenger plane crash that killed at least 69 in nepal. the final moments caught on camera. the search tonight for answers. the death toll growing in one of the worst russian strikes on civilians since the war in ukraine began. italy s most wanted man captured. how a notorious mafia boss was found hiding in plain sight after 30 years on the run. and honoring a civil rights icon. the images from across the country on this martin luther king jr. day. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. california tonight suffering the effects of its tenth consecutive storm. weeks of rain from an atmospheric river undermining roads. some crumbling right before the eyes of horrified onlookers. saturated hillsides turning to mudslides. the round of storms now blamed for the deaths of at least 22 people. search and rescue
the united states and all around the world. i m whitney wild in for christine romans. a resolution to the crisis at the southern border has been postponed again. the supreme court order dering title 42 to remain in effect for now as legal challenges played out. the justices agreed to hear the appeal in this session that begins in february. their 5-4 order defeats the biden administration which had hoped to end title 42 saying it outlived the pandemic it was designed to fight. it doesn t matter what i think the court will do. the decision is a huge disappoi disappointment for migrants. thousands have crossed anyway. cnn s rosa flores has more on that from el paso, texas. reporter: 1-year-old brenda has no shoes. her tiny feet bare on the cold pavement of an el paso parking lot. are you going to sleep outside again? what are you going to do? her parents anthony blanco and her mother said they wrapped this rosary afrptd her ankle and said it has saved her life multiple tim
that means traveling from coast to coast are stranded. some of them forced to drive thousands of miles. we were at the airport at noontime on sunday, finally made the call at 10:30 p.m., that we could not afford to lose any more time if we were going to drive. i can t rely on southwest to get the family home, so we maid need to leave a little early to drive ourselves home. the kreismt on the blaming the travel disaster on schedule and outdated infrastructure. the ruling that keeps on tens of thousands migrants now bait in limbo. we ll go to el paso, texas in just a moment. let s begin with an absolute nightmare for southwest airlines passengers. 0% of today s 2700 flight cancellations are from southwest. the company s ceo, bob jordan, said system upgrades are floes to avoid a repeat. the tools we use to recover from disruption service works well 90% of the time, but we need to double down on our existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances s