Toward a Government Shutdown the new poll, who gets the blame if it happens . Sweeping antitrust lawsuit against amazon the online giant accused of an illegal monopoly how it is responding. The fleecing of america. Why are Taxpayer Dollars being sunk into navy ships that may never sail again and just in, news on a beloved Baseball Hall of famer. Remembering Brooks Robinson announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening and welcome. President biden today inserted himself in a Labor Dispute in a way no other modern president has. Joining striking auto workers on the picket line outside a gm plant near detroit through a bull horn, telling workers they deserve the significant raise they need, and Standing Shoulder to shoulder with picketers, as uaw leader shawn fain railed against corporate greed. The president making the trip 12 days into the strike against the big three automakers his visit marking a major shift from keeping a distance from negotiations to proudly sidin
Showing no signs of slowing down the marathon man inspiring america. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone. With Recreational Marijuana use now legal in 19 states, it has been easy to forget pot is still very much illegal under federal law, where the drug is classified right alongside lsd and heroin but tonight President Biden declaring its time to right the wrongs of what he called a failed approach to marijuana, announcing he is pardoning all prior federal offenses of simple possession of marijuana and asking states where most pot convictions take place to do the same potentially impacting thousands. Its an effort to end what the president sees as unfairness in simple Marijuana Possession cases where he says black and brown people are more likely to be prosecuted. And he also wants a hard look taken at how the government classifies pot, which for now is regarded as more serious than fentanyl Kelly Odonnell has details. Reporter today, President Biden change
Temperatures from coasttocoast how long with it last . The hero firefighter killed in a fouralarm inferno trying to rescue a baby how he saved two other firefighters the father of three just hours the tragedy at a specialto needs school, a 13yearold with autism dying after his family says he was restrained for more than an hour and a half. The new charges tonight. Nbc news investigates black market thc vaping pens the frightening mix of toxic chemicals we found in the vapor. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening the impeachment showdown went live today in the first public hearing democrats rolling out two career and selfdescribed nonpartisan diplomats who spelled out a sharp narrative of what they witnessed and what they saw as an effort by President Trump to trade Critical Military aid to ukraine for investigations into his political rivals William Taylor revealing another potentially troubling phone call involving President Trump. Our team has it covered a
meteorologist dylan dryer joins us now dylan, what s the latest lester, there is a lot going on we have had a lot of thunderstorms in and around the jackson area it s part of a stalled front that will continue to bring rain to parts of the gulf coast the next several days it s also bringing this cold front with lots of rain to the northeast. going to move through quickly. tomorrow, temperatures drop humidity drops as well out west, that s going to be the big concern for heat we have heat warnings, watches, advisories in effect for 52 million people temperatures will be the warmest they ve been so far this season we ll likely break many records across the west tomorrow, even into the next several days in fact, sunday, monday is the hottest days in it los angeles, lester. really only hits 100 degrees every couple years. looks like we should hit it this weekend. thank you for that. now to our nbc news exclusive rare access inside the pfizer facility producing the next generation of
the two were walking arm in arm in red square later, gorbachev let the berlin wall come down without sending in russian tanks, for which he won the nobel peace prize in 1990. americans were charmed by this new kind of young soviet leader with his ideas of openness and economic restructuring, and his very modern wife, raisa. but back home his kremlin colleagues tried to overturn him in a three-day coup and failed gorbachev returned from house arrest in crimea to find boris yeltsin in charge and soon resigned, he said to avoid a bloody civil war in a country saturated with nuclear weapons. mikhail gorbachev, the man who changed the world but could not save his own country from falling apart boy, andrea, it was a different time you can t help but contrast the relationship between the u.s. and russia of then versus today. absolutely, lester. they re so dramatically different these times. i interviewed gorbachev back in