announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank with us. official assurances that all is safe near the site of that ohio toxic train derailment aren t playing well with many area residents tonight, not with people experiencing physical symptoms and fish dying by the thousands in nearby streams. it has been almost two weeks since the train jumped the tracks in eastern ohio near the pennsylvania border spilling tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals. after a controlled burn meant to avert a catastrophic explosion, officials signaled it was safe for evacuated residents to return, but tonight there is worry, skepticism, and anger about what is really happening and about what people are being told ron allen is covering it for us tonight. reporter: tonight outrage growing less than two weeks after that massive train derailment and the controlled burn of hazardous chemicals sent up a toxic plume of black smoke in east palestine, ohio. it doe
the economy and vowing to finish the job, with the debt limit battles loom looming, what are republicans going to do? then, mystery in the sky the white house says no aliens, but questions remain after the u.s. shot down three unknown objects. defense secretary lloyd austin is speaking to nbc about it. and in what is being called one of the most disturbing docuseries of the year, victims of the sarah lawrence cut cult tell their stories. there is the director joins me live, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news we re reporting from cnn says special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows. the subpoena is part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. cnn s report is according to a single source familiar with the matter. nbc has not independently confirmed any of it. it comes
finish the job, with the debt limit battles loom looming, what are republicans going to do? then, mystery in the sky the white house says no aliens, but questions remain after the u.s. shot down three unknown objects. defense secretary lloyd austin is speaking to nbc about it. and in what is being called one of the most disturbing docuseries of the year, victims of the sarah lawrence cut cult tell their stories. there is the director joins me live, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin this evening s broadcast with breaking news we re reporting from cnn says special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows. the subpoena is part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. cnn s report is according to a single source familiar with the matter. nbc has not independently confirmed any of it. it comes just hours away from a cr
no. it s how you use your radars. they recently made some adjustments on radars and opened up the aperture and they are analyzing the video data abba differently. we are typically focused on things that are moving very fast. and so it is a bit more difficult to collect on slow-moving objects, like a balloon. china today, insisting again that its balloon flew over the u.s. accidentally and that in response to the u.s. sanctions it will, quote, take countermeasures against relevant u.s. entities. austin acknowledge recent tensions with china have halted communications with his military counterpart. when something happens, they somehow tend to shut down the military channels of communication. i think that is dangerous. but it won t stop me from continuing to encourage them to open up the lines of communication. i think that s the right thing to do. for more, let s welcome former republican michigan congressman mike rogers. during his time on the hill, he chair the house intelligen
may not have appeared in our airspace. we re learning a lot more about that. reporter: the fact that the u.s. military didn t know about these until recently, is that an intelligence failure was it a military failure? no, it s how you use your radar they recently made some adjustments on their radars and opened up the aperture, and they were analyzing the data a bit differently. we typically are focused on things that are moving fast, and so it s a bit more difficult to collect on slow-moving objects like a balloon. reporter: china today again insisting that its balloon flew over the u.s. accidentally and that in response to new u.s. sanctions, it will, quote, take countermeasures against relevant u.s. entities austin acknowledged recent tensions with china have halted communications with his military counterpart. when something happens, they somehow tend to shut down their military channels of communication. i think it s dangerous, but it won t stop me from continuing to encou