pivotal midterm elections. in a little over 24 hours results will begin pouring in, with huge implications for the direction of the country and the future of the biden agenda. also tonight, two election exclusives. cnn sits down with republican leader kevin mccarthy to preview his plans if the gop wins the house. and speaker nancy pelosi opens up to anderson cooper in her first interview since the brutal hammer attack on her husband paul. cnn reporters and kr correspondents are on the campaign trail covering key races, the house and senate and governor s mansions across the country as well. all are at stake. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first let s go to cnn s kate baldwin standing by just outside of philadelphia. control of the senate could come down to pennsylvania. both mehmet oz and john fetterman are spending the final hours getting out their closing messages. what s the lat
britain and the world feeling shock over the sudden death of queen elizabeth ii. at the age of 96. don has broken here in the palace where people have been coming to pay their respects and share their memories. and just be part of this tremendous moment in time. the formal notice of queen elizabeth s passing was posted on the gates of the palace behind me, on thursday, as part of the royal tradition. church bells have been toiling across the country, and we are expecting more of that in the coming days. and we will also hear from her oldest son, then you came, charles a third, who will address the nation in the coming hours. he and other members of the royal family have rushed to balmoral in scotland on thursday where the queen spent her final days. she leaves behind a complex legacy, but few can doubt her steadfast dedication to this country. and how much she will be missed. we ve been hearing people say, it feels like we ve lost a grandmother. when the news of her death was
more than 60% of flights canceled. also tonight the water crisis. more than 100,000 without water. new reporting from jackson, mississippi where the system has failed again. border emergency. the bitter chill colliding with the crush at the border. many forced to sleep on the streets. plus the bus of migrants dropped off at vice president kamala harris s home on one of the coldest nights of the year. plane down. the crash landing into an icy creek. the kayaker who jumped into action to pull the pilot to safety. holiday spending up. way up. but tonight the new rules. shorter windows and added fees. what you need to know so you don t get burned on your returns. and inspiring america. when ten strangers knocked at the door, a buffalo family turned a winter disaster into shelter from the storm. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas, in for lester. tonight the images are coming in and the reports on this deadly blizz
complete holy hell, remember? this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, joe biden, and nancy pelosi. they took on the wrong guy this time. well, that s what makes the one-time trump white house advisers move now, well, extra confounding because eight months ago, bannon said that he wasn t backing down ever. i mean, the wrong guy this time, right? well, trial dates have a funny way of making people change their minds, shall we say, because now he is, well, backing down. willing to testify before that very committee that he seemed to be mocking and taunting. now, what exactly changed other than maybe the calendar date? we re going to dig a lot deeper into all of that tonight along with new january 6th hearing developments. and if bannon thought his decision to testify now would call someone s bluff at the doj, well he s surely mistaken because a trial is still happening and it won t even be postponed. a federal judge denied his legal team s request
learn a whole lot more with the subpoena for pat cipollone who knows what was going on behind the closed doors before, during and after january 6th. we re learning more about the lengths trump world may be willing to go through. two unnamed witnesses say thads heard from people in the former president s o bit who they have been trying to intimidate them. what they said to me is as long as i can t to be a team player, they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing. i m protecting who ni need to protect. you know i ll continue to stay in good graces if trump world. they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. we have heard about this kind of behavior before in another hearing from someone else who knows all too well how trum