draining their bank accounts. for some victims it s fatal. one mother who fought to convince police her son s death was no accidental overdose. those images of unruly passengers on planes. today, the flight attendants on the steps of the capitol. what they re demanding congress do about it. the growing scam involving ai. how criminals can impersonate you or a loved one and cash in. and on this vietnam veterans day, , haarry smiith on a a journey home more than 50 years in the making. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. we begin with developing news out of the vatican tonight surrounding the health of pope francis. just days before the start of holy week observances, the 86-year-old leader of the roman catholic church is in a hospital in rome tonight after suffering breathing difficulties in recent days. tonight the vatican reports pope francis is being treated for a respiratory infection and will remain hospit
air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d.c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1.6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy theories about dominion in the 2020 election, even as foxes fact-checker s, in what it calls
room found no evidence for fraud, but host continued to push the conspiracy theories on air. as top leadership called fact-checking bad for business. then, democrats holding republicans feats to the fire over gun safety legislation, demanding a vote be brought to the floor. congressman dave cicilline joins me live. and a new republican-led bill in idaho to make abortion access a whole lot harder in a first of its kind trafficking law, as the of our gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle, live from washington, d. c., newly-revealed evidence is ratcheting up the legal pressure on fox news. the network is facing a 1. 6 billion, with a b, dollar defamation lawsuit from dominion voting systems. nbc is obtained several slides of internal fox communications used by dominion lawyers in pretrial hearings. fox to try to keep these secret, but a judge released them. they show in new detail how the network repeatedly aired conspiracy the
got a lot to cover as you saw there in our five things. so let s start with brand new details in nashville and that school shooting and questions about how the shooter was able to buy so many guns. police say the shooter was being treated for an emotional disorder but was able to legally buy seven guns before murdering three children and three staff members at a private christian school in nashville. and there s brand new reporting from the new york times about the shooter s past, now, the shooter s former teacher at an art college told the times that years ago, the shooter had an emotional breakdown in her class when she had trouble creating a password for the school s online student portal, and in recent years a shooter had been grieving on facebook about the loss of a romantic partner. there s new, harrowing police body cam video that shows officers rushing in and confronting the shooter. we have sync up both angles released by officials warning for you now, okay? i just w
i had no idea at the time. what was going on? i didn t know if it was like a police chase that ended up in a shootout. it was when i saw the teacher come out of the woods and the kids find her that my heart sunk. that was jason hoffman. he was on with us last hour. talking about just happened to be driving by the school and soft kids running, he says. out of the woods into their parents arms. he stopped traffic to help facilitate the whole thing, and then took some video of it. i mean, just horrific all the way around, the more we hear, the worse it gets, but it is. it s nice to see someone like that. who did take a heroic action that day who got involved and tried to help, even if he was downplaying his own role. we have a lot to get to this morning. good morning, everyone. poppy is off. we have new video. that shows young children escaping and running across the street during the school shooting in nashville, and we re learning alarming new details about the shooter s past