you know, we ve been talking a lot about racism in this country and race relations more broadly. after the fatal police beating of tyre nichols, an unarmed black man, there s been conversations about race, policing and about power and its abuse for years. complicated, of course, by the fact that the five officers charged in nichols death are also black. that s about how we teach about the legacy of race and racism in this country. and why it s become, frankly, so controversial. especially in places like florida, where the republican governor, ron desantis, have been slamming a new a.p. african-american studies course. tonight, the college board is out with changing to the curriculum, raising questions about why they chose to remove certain topics. look at this traffic. for 42 years, not knowing this man was killed right here, from that moment, was never the same. reporter: the man was arthur mcduffie, a black father, beaten to death by white police officers in 1979. the o
dpogood evening, everyone. i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. there sure are a lot of suspicious objects flying around our skies lately. exactly one week ago it was that chinese spy balloon. this afternoon it s what the the pentagon call a high altitude object shot down by an f-22 fighter jet about 10 miles off the northern coast of alaska. but what is that object? who does it belong to, and what was it doing up there? plus, of course, it s super bowl weekend. bob costas will be here tonight with what he s most excited about. americans are expected to bet $16 billion on this game. is this harmless fun or a new national addiction? bob costas will give us all the scoop on the big game. and congressman george santos is still at it. this time he s lying about senator kyrsten sinema according to her. we ll bring you the full compilation of santos deceptions from just this week and what his colleagues are now saying about him. let s start with the mice tearious obj
we re honored to have you take us off the air tonight and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late i will see you at the end of tomorrow this was the line to ge into the delaware courthouse with fox news was set to go on trial this morning the company was accused of defamation by the dominion voting systems corporation even the sheer number of lawyers showing up for thi trial today was impressive both the top side in the dominion, side looks like they had enough lawyers to form a soccer team in suits behind the courtroom a s mysterious walkway thing presumably for allowing jurors and high-profile witnesses t enter and exit the courtroom without being spotted, because there were going to be a lot o high-profile witnesses, an inside the court the lawyers and spectators were reportedly packed in like sardines. demean s legal team submitte more than 7000 exhibits, including vid
drawing national scrutiny just days after two democratic lawmakers were expelled by the republican led state assembly. what just happened there. alex perez in nashville tonight. we also have new reporting tonight into the damaging leak of top-secret u.s. intelligence. tonight, what the white house is now acknowledging. they don t know who took the highly classified documents and if there s more to come. and what they reveal, including what u.s. intelligence knows about russia and its military in this war with ukraine. and what it knows about ukraine as well. to the issue of abortion, major developments this evening and the legal battle over nationwide access to the abortion pill. the justice department now appealing a federal judge s ruling in texas, suspending fda approval of that drug after being used for more than 20 years in this country across much of the nation. tonight, the state is now stockpiling this drug. is this headed to the supreme court? rachel scott reporting.
live in the cnn newsroom. we begin with a series of deadly storms have unleashed a massive flooding across the central and northern portions of the state. mandatory evacuations are underway where a levy breached earlier this morning. california national guard says this is just one of more than 50 rescues near the breached levee off the river. the 10th to strike california this winter. we are joined from monterey county. give us the latest. reporter: we learned a couple minutes ago there are more than 90 rescues in this tiny town, which is incredible just to see how concentrated the neighborhoods are and to know there were over 90 rescues in a few hours is amazing. we also learned local authorities are bringing engineers to figure out the best fix for the levy that has been breached. that is why we have this water all the way around us. around midnight the water came over a particularly vulnerable part of the levy and came to the lower point of gravity over here to the middle