[dramatic music] narrator: you re the accidental president. leader of a nation in mourning. now you ve got to make the tough calls, confront your demons. outwit your enemies. and prove you ve got what it takes. to be the leader of the free world. - president s car now turning onto elm street, and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the trade mart. it it it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route. it was definitely the president s car. - we were traumatized. it was in a sense like what happened to us after 9/11. - president kennedy has been assassinated. it s official now. the president is dead. - it was incredible that our president, this beautiful man with this beautiful family, could be just eliminated just like that. - there s only one word to describe the picture here, and that s grief and much of it. narrator: kennedy s vice president, lyndon baines johnson, becomes the 36th president of the united
trapped. the city under fire for trying to demolish the building today. we hear from desperate family members. also tonight, the most brazen attack inside russia yet. drones targeting residential areas in moscow. how president putin is responding tonight. the mass shooting on a boardwalk in florida. nine injured, four of them children while in california, a group of teens attacking these marines. the first big test in congress for the debt deal with a deadline to default just days away. news about former first lady rosalynn carter. her new diagnosis just announced. close call caught on camera. a chinese fighter jet comes within 400 feet of a u.s. air force plane. our richard engel s dangerous assigngnment insidide a african nation practically run by a russian mercenary group. how it s fuelling the war in ukraine. why the famed venice canal suddenly turned green. and a major comeback for the pitcher diagnosed with cancer just five months ago. announcer: this
2.5 million passengers today alone, amid questions of whether the system can handle it after last year s summer travel meltdown, and the roads are just as packed. plus, imagine if this was your pilot locked out of the cockpit climbing in through the window. also tonight, we ll show you the terrifying new video. a passenger apparently opens an airplane door midair. the wind whipping through the cabin. how it was able to happen. the new deadline just announced when the u.s. will default on its bills if there is no debt ceiling agreement. are we any closer to a deal? new concerns about the health of pope francis. a fever forcing him to cancel events. new insight from the reporter who intervieiewed him face-to-face just yesterday. the u.s. coast guard joining an urgent search in the bahamas for an american teen, who went overboard while celebrating his high school graduation. the critical shortage of more than a dozen cancer drugs. patients being turned away from their
case also tonight we return to florida devastated by hurricane ian eight months ago florida insurance companies are accused of short changing homeowners were damage claims altered? families still in limbo in uninhabitable homes. we investigate plus florida s massive tourism industry, booming in some places but struggling in others we met them right after ian hit. some left, some stayed the steps forward big and small as ft. myers beach comes back announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from ft. myers beach, florida. good evening and welcome, everyone. we ve taken nightly news on the road tonight to ft. myers beach, florida for a story of unfinished business tonight with the official start of hurricane season just over a week away, a followup to hurricane ian, which came ashore here last september as a destructive category 4 hurricane. in many spots here as you can see around me it looks like it just happened last week there ar
one-on-one with house speaker kevin mccarthy, negotiators back at the table tonight. the new signals a standstill may be over soon with the u.s. just days from default and the major meeting now set for tomorrow there is no agreement. we re still apart. presidents biden and zelenskyy face to face as ukraine gets new american support. and our correspondent pressing president biden, does his sign-off of f-16 fighter jets to ukraine risk escalating the war deadly stampede at a soccer stadium. a dozen people killed. nearly a hundred hurt. the terrifying videos as fans run for their lives. the suspect charged with manslaughter after that subway chokehold now speaking out for the first time why he says he d do it again. the idaho murder suspect set to be arraigned tomorrow and we have new nbc news reporting. did he break into another female student s apartment before the murders? and liftoff. late today a private company launching paying tourists into space, and the woman on