retaken more than 1,000 square miles from russia. in just 48 hours russia retaliating by striking ukraine s power grid. is the war at a turning point? donald trump s legal team objecting to the doj s special master candidates to review the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. what they re asking the judge to do. extreme weather in the west. heavy rain triggering mudslides. more than 50 people rescued as dozens of wildfires rage in the region. caught on camera, jeff bezos s unmanned blue origin rocket bursting into flames after lift-off. and the tributes for the queen. and what officials are now asking mourners to stop leaving behind. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the coffin of queen elizabeth ii lies at rest tonight in edinburgh, scotland where thousands have lined up to pay their respects. tonight the queen s daughter and three sons led by charles holding a vigil for their mother at st. giles cathedral. it was a day
Night. Israels Ground Operations have now expanded. We have large explosions, arti artillery, tank fire, and possible Bunker Buster Bombs heard and seen all night long as the idf has now confirmed the expansion of operations, in other words, the Ground Incursion into gaza has now officially begun. Heres a description of how things went on earlier tonight, just how this all got started from trey yingst. Clearly something is happening. We cite the israeli military, they say theyre having ground raids into gaza. Dont want to speculate or call it what it could be, we need to wait and be patient. This is unlike any other night we covered. We have been here the past 20 days as it unfolds. This is a significant development. Also to give you a sense of the phases here, this is indicative of what we expected to come next. Israel told us they would be ramping up strikes against gaza before entering on the ground, this is the next phase of the war. At this moment, i cannot confirm the Ground Oper
This evening. Hell be going into an active war zone as israels war with hamas continues. President biden is undergoing pressure to get desperately needed food, water and other aid into zba sa and also supporting israel and trying to save american hostages currently held captive by hamas. Hes coming here at a critical moment for israel, for the region and for the world. The president will hear from israel how it will conduct its operations in a way that minimizing civilian casualties and enables humanitarian assistance to flow to civilians in gaza. It is critical that aid begin flowing into gaza as soon as possible. Overnight, the Israeli Military continued to bombard gaza ahead of a possible ground invasion. The idf said bidens visit will not delay its planning for potential future operations in the gaza strip. Vital humanitarian aid has been piling up at the Border Crossing in the south in egypt. That Border Crossing, Rafa Crossing remains closed and the World Health Organization is n
Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Caucus to r
Capital. Steve scalise, the man elected by the Republican Caucus to be the next speaker but was short of the votes to do so as just announced, apparently, inside the republican conference, that he is withdrawing his name from the speakership. We dont know why, other than the whip count a vote against him within the Republican Caucus today and ballooned to 16 or 17 votes. People were saying he could not get to 217 either to be elected Speaker Of The House. This comes a week and a half after mccarthy was deposed, successful with eight members voting i along with all the democrats. Theres been a speaker pro tem, Patrick Mchenry since then, serving in a custodial fashion. This is all totally unprecedented in american history. We havent had this before. Its 100 years since we had a motion to vacate the chair. Amidst an unfolding global crisis, the second in line to the president and Constitutional Office of Speaker Of The House remains vacant, with no clear path for this house Republican Ca