gillian: very busy, if the first hour is anything to go by. thanks for sticking with us. gillian turner in for sandra. we ll take you live to the trial in the low country as soon as it resumes, but until then, a lot of news we want to get in for you. start with a fox news alert. oxycodone, morphine, testosterone, hgh, you name it, i got it, homey, 40% off on any medication. john: tell me what you need, i ll tell you what you want. supposed to be a sales pitch to americans in mexico but turns out it could be a death sentence instead. the drug peddler one of many hawking on behalf of mexican pharmacies to entice tourists just as spring breakers are about to flock south of the border. gillian: the cdc says do not fall for that. warn a high chance the pill that those guys are buying may kill you. talking about legal pharmacies, not shady street dealers like that guy. john: a study reveals nearly half the pills bought in pharmacies were laced with fentanyl and other dead
the epa chief in ohio again today as officials battle over where to send the waste from that toxic train derailment. why the epa s plan to transport contaminated water to texas is back on after local leaders objected. the new drone strike deep inside russia, and our rare look inside crimea. will it become the new flash point in the conflict? the white house giving a deadline to remove tiktok from all government devices. could the popular app be banned altogether in the u.s.? and the american skier who just made history on the world stage. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone, in a pair of cases that will impact tens of millions of student loan borrowers, the supreme court heard arguments today on whether the biden administration had the authority to forgive some of those loans. the president s loan debt relief plan calls for erasing up to $20,000 in student loans for certain borrowers at an estimated cost of $400
putting women s lives at risk. plus, house republicans finally have their chance to hold hearings on their anti-fauci, anti-mask conspiracy theories. as a government report raises new questions about the origin of the virus. we begin the reidout tonight with history repeating itself, because here s the thing. when you try to erase it like the florida governor wants to do, you are doomed to repeat it. over the weekend, the new york times published a stunning account of more than 100 migrant children, largely from central america, who according to the times reporting, were working overnight shifts and dangerous jobs for companies large and small throughout the u.s. according to the report, children stitch made in america tags into j. crew shirts in los angeles. they bake dinner rolls sold at a walmart and target. process milk used in ben & jerry s ice cream, and helped debone chicken sold at whole foods as recently as this fall, middle schoolers made fruit of the loom s
trump with quite the opening statement on the chinese communist party and president xi jinping. we have a lot to unpack from last night s hearing held by the new house committee on china. plus a new nonpartisan report is detailing more of the failures that led to the january 6th capitol attack. and also ahead, we ll break down what happened at the supreme court as justices heard arguments on president joe biden s student loan forgiveness plan. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, march 1st. march already. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. amid rising tensions between the two countries the new house select committee on the strew edgic competition between the united states and the chinese communist party held its first hearing last night. in prime time a bipartisan group of lawmakers set the stage for what republican chairman mike gallagher called an existential struggle over the future of america. we may call this a strategi
of mar-a-lago for classified documents. but also since he launched not one, but two special counsel investigations into both former president trump and president biden. we just saw garland walk into the hearing room moments ago. he didn t answer any questions on the way in. we are live on the hill. also, congress intensifies its scrutiny of china. one lawmakers even warning of a, quote existential struggle with the nation during the very first meeting of a house select committee dedicated to china. what we learned. plus, the warning from the head of the fbi about china s efforts to hinder investigations into the origin of covid. we are also following breaking news in greece, a devastating head-on collision between a freight train and a passenger train carrying 350 passengers. officials saying dozens were killed with reports of people being thrown out of windows from the impact. the desperate search this morning for survivors in the wreckage. and an extraordinary moment