brought down a presidency 50 years ago today. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening the fate of two missing american military veterans, volunteers in ukraine s fight against russia, may be coming into focus tonight. video said to show alexander drueke and andy huynh, appearin on russian television this evening the men apparently captured by russian troops we are showing still frames of the video that appears to show both men alive a third american remains unaccounted for. they are among an unknown number of u.s. citizens that traveled on their own to fight on behalf of ukraine, prompting a renewed warning against such travel from president biden today. notably the captured americans were not mentioned by a defiant president vladimir putin today in a speech in the russian city of st. petersburg keir simmons is there tonight, and thus, we remind you russia is cracking down on the media, limiting what reporters can say under threat of imprisonm
millions of americans? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from the mouths of babes, 11-year-old girl appearing by video before a congressional hearing today describing in spellbounding detail her desperate and agonizing efforts to save herself from a gunman inside her school smearing herself with the blood of a classmate, pretending to be dead to survive. young miah cerriillo telling lawmakers i don t want it to happen again as the house prepared to vote on a series of gun control measures, families and survivors of the uvalde school massacre appeared in washington to demand new gun laws insisting lawmakers know the depths of their sorrow and their loss their testimony incredibly moving but not necessarily moving republicans from their opposition to new restrictions on guns and those who wish to own them gabe gutierrez was inside the hearing room reporter: in one of the most chilling firsthand accounts so far of the uvalde massacre, 11-y
with lester holt good evening i m savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only identifying marker left for one little girl, so ferocious the wounds from the gunman s ar-15. for a moment the nation was captivated. rare roadblock coverage on cable news we have been here many times. tonight, bipartisan momentum appears to be growing for some change to the nation s gun laws what s on the table and will it make a difference nbc s gabe gutierrez leads us off reporter: tonight as the u.s. grapples with the dramatic surge in gun violence, relatives of those killed in the buffalo m
where we re police in new york. what they re doing to seize illegal weapons. soaring gas prices. fuel hits more than $5 a gallon in more than a dozen states as we learn the pain at the pump might be here to stay. the battle against long-haul covid. the first in our two-part series about the 23 million americans, including kids, fighting to the battle against long-haul covid. recover after months of illness. and american kindness: a teenager using her birthday money to help her neighbors. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. t, the presso something on gun reform came to washington today in moving testimony and star power. oscar award-winning actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey gave one of the most emotionally powerful speeches about gun laws that we ve ever seen at the whit
making reporter: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening it goes against every fiber in our being, having to bury our own children parents in uvalde, texas now facing that grim reality, beginning to lay their children to rest in a world no safer today than it was a week ago when their children became victims of mass murder this holiday weekend, nine people were killed and more than 60 hurt in mass shootings across the u.s. overall, at least 156 died by gun violence hundreds left wounded. but in the tiny texas town of uvalde, still mourning the 19 children and two adults who were ruthlessly murdered last tuesday, we re still learning about the timeline and what officers did or didn t do to try to save them but today s focus, the first of 21 funerals celebrating the lives lost our morgan chesky is there. reporter: tonight heartbreak hitting home, with hundreds saying final goodbyes. you feel sad, man, it hits you hard reporter: 21 funerals over the ne