clocks that does it on its own. tom, thank you so much. that does it for us this hour. katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur. we re watching lewiston, maine, where president biden will pay respects to those murdered in the mass shooting last week. for now, we re going to start in new york city where the trump organization fraud trial wrapped for the week. eric trump is finished testifying now. reporters say he looked uneasy in the courtroom. we have two people who were there to tell us what he said and what they saw. outside the courtroom, eric trump called the case a joke and said the ag was unfair. she s come after my father ruthlessly. every single day a trump is in this court, she shows up. it s a press moment. we haven t done a damn thing wrong. if you can line up as many trumps as you can, she can sit in court for an extra couple of days, and send fundraising e-mails to her donor base saying i m going after trump. now that both b
judge and a combative eric trump and a prosecutor, will it be a preview of next week and the former president s testimony after his son calls the trial itself an absolute joke. the current president, sending his secretary of state on a very high stakes mission to israel, making a personal plea to stop the fighting if only for a few hours. the desperate push to get more people out of harm s way even as israeli forces encircle the largest city in the gaza strip with thousands trapped inside. a former u.s. ambassador to israel will join me to explain where things go from here. and the alarming surge of anti-semitic threats on college campuses now leading one university to pull the plug on classes today citing stress on the students. with no end to the war in sight, will the threats and the fallout get worse before they get better? but we start in new york where tensions exploded in a testy 25-minute long back and forth between donald trump s legal team and the judge at his c
evacuated. the major announcement from toyota, recalling nearly two million popular suvs because of potential fire danger and more than 50 years after they broke up, the beatles releasing their last song with a little help from a.i. make it through announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. today, more americans safely made their way out of gaza, a slow trickle of foreigners and dual citizens getting through the now partially open egyptian border crossing for many, their escape coming none too soon in the heart of gaza tonight, hamas and israeli military units are reported to be engaged in street-to-street fighting, as well as in below-ground tunnels. flares fired in the night sky illuminating the battlefield. each side taking casualties as israeli forces work to encircle the hamas stronghold of gaza city civilians are at increasing risk. the u.n. reporting israeli strikes damaged several of its camps inside gaza. and the whit
it comes as israel troops have surrounded gaza city. president biden, after he was interrupted at a campaign event, calling for a humanitarian pause. also tonight, eric trump s combative testimony in the civil fraud trial threatening his family s business empire. the heated moments in court. first at 5:00, former memphis police officers to plead guilty in the death of tyre nichols. how long he could spend in prison. the explosion at a house in new york. at least 15 injured. what officials are saying about the cause. the train derailing near detroit. schools nearby evacuated. the major announcement from toyota, recalling nearly two million popular suvs because of potential fire danger. and more than 50 years after they broke up, the beatles releasing their last song with a little help from ai. make it through announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. today more americans safely made their way out of gaza. a slow tr
for an academy award? hello and welcome. the biggest member states of the european union have now joined the list of nations questioning the performance of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine. germany, france, spain and italy are all taking the precautionary measure of suspending use of the vaccine because of fears about possible side effects, including blood clots. the world health organisation, along with the eu s very own medicines regulator, says there is no justification for the temporary ban. our medical editor fergus walsh has the latest. a public display of confidence in the oxford astrazeneca vaccine from northern ireland s chief medical officer today. by contrast, you cannot have the jab in the irish republic, in france, germany and is a growing list of eu countries which have temporarily suspended its use. this is a safe, effective vaccine as recommended by mhra. let s remember, this virus kills people, kills people my age, younger people and older people and the benefi