diaz-balart. the latest of a string of powerful and deadly rainstorms reeking havoc on california forcing thousands of evacuations and leading to rescues. the storms killing as many as 15 people. a 5-year-old is still missing a the this hour. months after the fbi searched donald trump s mar-a-lago home for classified documents, lawyers for president biden say also found classified materials in biden s private office. we ll break down what we know about that. and next how the president will stand alongside justin trudeau along with their joint summit. where the crisis will take center stage. and any minute now on capitol hill, house republicans will hold a press conference ahead of what could be an exlowsive battle within the party over committee assignments over the new congress takes shape. we ll talk to the congressman about that. we begin this morning with the intense rain pounding california leaving more than 34 million people under a flood watch. a series of powerful
. right know, on msnbc, the massive winter storm bringing holiday travel to a virtual standstill, a dangerous weather system marching across the midwest, toward the east coast, as we come on the air. high winds and bitter cold keeping planes on the ground and many cars off the roads. threats now of a so-called flash freeze, in parts of new england, as heavy rain turns to ice. we ve got the latest forecast, with our reporters standing by. also this hour, new fallout from the final report of the january 6th committee, what committee members are telling us about how it all came together, and what former president trump is saying after the panel said squarely that he is the one to blame. plus, the clock ticking down to a government shutdown. the house voting now on a bill to keep everything open before the midnight deadline. our nbc news reporting on the last-minute vote wrangling on capitol hill. good to be with you. we start this hour with the latest on this monster storm t
what prosecutors say happened to her body. and the disturbing google searches he allegedly made the case she disappeared. the winter storm on the move. a pileup shutting down a snowy highway. we re tracking the threat. in ukraine, a helicopter crashing into a kindergarten, killing at least 14, including the interior minister. was it an accident or intentional? george santos facing new allegations, a veteran who said he stole thousands in go fund me cash for his dying service dog. and ukraine s wounded warriors coming to the u.s. to get the help they could and find back home. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. prosecutors in new mexico are unveiling shocking new details of a series of shooting attacks on the homes of democratic lawmakers, allegedly orchestrated by a defeated republican candidate for state office. that candidate, solomon pena, appeared virtually in court today where he was charged with 15 counts, including shooting at an occu
clearly went awry and led to pena s arrest, when you listen to the details laid out by the lawmakers of the bullets that struck their homes, one of them detailed that her 10-year-old daughter believed she had sand in her bed. that sand was dust from the sheet rock from where the bullet holes wentet through in her daughter s bedroom. the details are very difficult and lucky that nobody was tail lightly harmed during these four different incidents. vaughn hillyard, thank you. now to capitol hill where some controversial lawmakers are getting committee assignments that will put them at the center of investigations and policy debates. house republicans haveit assign marjorie taylor greene to the homeland security and oversight and accountability committees. she was removed from those committees in february 2021 after her social media posts revealed she was spreading racist conspiracy theories. arizona congressman paul gosar will serve on the natural resources and oversi
doors to get the gavel. those holdouts who were keeping the the speakership from him now have some plush committee assignments. lauren boebert, scott perry, and where they got assign and why the white house is watching so closely. our congressional reporters are here to explain what those members will now be able to do. they also learned about, more about why congressman marjorie taylor greene might have gotten so close to mccarthy, becoming one of the loudest supporters for him to get the gavel, she got two top committee assignments making past statements like this one from 2018 all the more relevant today. there is an islamic invasion into our government offices right now. okay? they are, you saw after midterm elections what we saw so many muslims elected, i don t know, i don t know the exact number but there were quite a few, we have that woman out of minnesota, now she s going into congress, and she s got to wear a head covering, you know, they want to put their hand on