ahead this st. patrick s day friday starting with desperate measures on wall street. nearly a dozen banks teaming up to prevent this week s financial turmoil from spreading their $30 billion life line to save another major bank from potential ruin as janet yellen works to sooth the markets and reassure americans that their money is safe. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. plus major move in china s partnership with russia, announcing this morning that xi jinping will visit russia next week at the invitation of vladimir putin that comes as russia continues to search for the downed u.s. drone intercepted by a russian fire jets. why the pentagon says russia won t find anything useful even if they do track it down and rage on the streets of paris, thousands of protestors rise up over an unpopular move by macron raising the age of retirement
democrats seats. also tonight in a new report in the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan the white house largely blaming the chaos and decisions by former president trump on the actions it says the u.s. should have taken even sooner. the rising tensions in the middle east. israel striking back tonight after the biggest barrage of missiles from lebanon in more than 16 years. tracking severe storms on the move tonight in the midatlantic on the heels of that deadly tornado outbreak. nbc news investigates after our report on toxic air concerns near a louisiana school. what the epa is now doing about it. and it was 20 years ago we lost a member of our nbc news family covering the war in iraq. tonight my conversation with david bloom s widow about the lives his story may have saved. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. the tears of grief that consume nashville, tennessee, just ten days ago over the murders of young children and
janet yellen today appearing before congress. what she said about the safety of american banks. the u.s. threatening to ban tiktok over national security fears. how the popular app s owner is responding. the cross-country storm, tornado warnings and hail in texas. snow in the midwest, and caught on camera, the daring flood rescue in los angeles. nbc news investigates, why is this school still open near a plant the epa says emits a toxic chemical? families demanding answers. the first big upset in march madness. the tiny school pulling off a stunner in its first tournament appearance in 40 years. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. the u.s. tonight offering compelling evidence that russian fighter jets were the aggressors in a confrontation with an american air force drone over the black sea this week. newly declassified pentagon video from the drone s camera captured a russian warplane spraying jet fuel dire
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Eight mph you could see the temperatures and with a little bit cooler but it is very mild near the coast fifty three acre tech fifty one in hampton and his fifty two now in chesapeake along with alpha weve been tracking whether its been off to the west so far and really most of the area in pretty good shape but that will be chances for isolated to scattered showers today the front is going to push through the winds pick up from the north at ten to fifteen mph and thats going to impact those temperatures look for the falling temps falling in the low forties around midday and then will continue to drop later this afternoon by four five oclock i expect temperatures in the upper thirties so does turn cooler ill be back full forecast going to talk about a chance for rain for North Carolina tomorrow and some big improvements as we get into the weekend right now check hr bt good morning ashley watches a good morning craig taking a look at traffic conditions at the hr bt it is early yet but yo