several hours. you can see it on screen. you can see the unpredictable path, very unsettling for local authorities in the area. the suspect was taken into custody some five hours later. nadia romero has been tracking this all day for us. also with us is cnn transportation analyst mary sciavo. what are we learning about the suspect and how all of this came to an end? and thank goodness it did, nadia. reporter: thank goodness it came to the end it did, jim. that s what we re hearing from the mayor of tupelo. saying he was woken up early this morning by police and fire and he said usually when he gets those calls it s always something bad so he feared the worst, that this pilot would go through with his initial threat, the threat he made was he was going to take that stolen aircraft and crash it into a walmart there in tupelo. that s when authorities evacuated the walmart, they blocked off the streets nearby just awaiting that threat to play out. we know it did not. we know th
the vehicle police need your help finding. and hollywood legend jane fonda, the health battle she s just revealed. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m peter alexander in for lester tonight, for the first time, we re getting a detailed list of exactly what fbi agents found when they searched former president trump s florida home last month. a new court filing reveals those agents recovered nearly 50 empty folders, all marked as containing classified information, but all of them with nothing inside that disclosure ordered by a federal judge is raising new questions whether the government fully recovered the secret documents or any remain missing and it comes as president biden is defending his attacks on mr. trump and his supporters, warning the future of american democracy is under assault. while republicans accuse the president of trying to distract from his own record on inflation and crime. kelly o donnell starts us off tonight re
country. rachel scott at the white house. the images coming in, a fast-moving wildfire exploding in flames in california. structures destroyed and evacuations under way. extreme heat dangers in the west. millions bracing for temperatures well into triple digits through the weekend as the first hurricane of the season forms in the atlantic. rob marciano with the track. record labor day travel expected as the long holiday weekend gets under way. tens of millions of americans driving and flying at prepandemic levels as gas prices plunge. overseas tonight, the war in ukraine. the white house now asking congress for more than $13 billion in additional military aid. and the new warning from the u.n. nuclear watchdog about that nuclear power plant caught in the cross fire. the chilling image seen around the world. a man pointing a gun right in the face of argentina s vice president. that gun failing to fire. news on the suspect. actress jane fonda revealing her battle with
even in the library. let s go out front. good evening. i m erica hill, in tonight for erin burnett. out front tonight are all documents accounted for. that s the question tonight after a newly released court filing reveals the fbi s search of mar-a-lago last month recovered 48 empty folders marked as classified information. it s important to note we don t know what was in those folders. what we do know, they were empty, all four dozen of them. according to the seven-page inventory unsealed today they also found press clippings, clothes, gifts, 11,000 non-classified documents, 18 documents marked cop secret, 54 marked secret, and 31 documents marked confidential. there were also an additional 42 empty folders labeled return to staff secretary/military aide. now, keep in mind this trove is on top of the 15 boxes trump s team turned over in january. there were 184 classified documents in those boxes. the former president claims many of the documents are actually protected by e
during that search. first though, we do want to begin with former white house counsel pat cipollone. his deputy appearing before a january 6 grand jury today. evan perez is outside u.s. district court in washington. this of course separate from the investigation to the handling of classified documents. this relates to january 6th. how significant is the testimony of cipollone and his deputy? reporter: jim, this is a very important testimony that we re going to get from the that the grand jury is going to get from pat cipollone and patrick philbin. these are two men who are inside the white house counsel. they were in a lot of the meetings that the president was organizing, as he was trying to overturn the election. he was trying to find ways to remain in power. and the importance of this grand jury is that this is the grand jury that is going beyond the 850 rioters who have been brought here and are facing charges for the violence that happened at the u.s. capitol. this