they shouldn t get away with it. and any day now a texas judge could make one of the biggest rulings on abortion access since roe v. wade was overturned could a popular and fda approved abortion pill be pulled off the shelves nationwide plus, what we now know about a top college basketball star being linked to a fatal shooting and the dancing grannies hit the streets during mardi gras. why it was so much more than just a celebration announcer: this is nbc nightly news with jose diaz-balart. good evening we begin tonight with a rare storm that hasn t been seen in california in decades. as we come on the air, millions are under life-threatening flash flood alerts after an historic system pummeled the state. just listen to this, a blizzard warning was issued for the first time ever in san bernardino county, where they saw more than 5 feet of snow other parts of the state saw hurricane-force winds and torrential rain. rescue workers raced against the clock to save stran
with lester holt good evening i m savannah guthrie in for lester. tonight, the impassioned calls for change in this country, from the uvalde teacher, the lone survivor of his classroom among 11 dead students, to a grieving son of buffalo in a hearing room on capitol hill to the white house briefing room where this afternoon the actor and uvalde native matthew mcconaughey made a surprise appearance, eulogizing the dead in heart wrenching detail, down to the green high tops the only identifying marker left for one little girl, so ferocious the wounds from the gunman s ar-15. for a moment the nation was captivated. rare roadblock coverage on cable news we have been here many times. tonight, bipartisan momentum appears to be growing for some change to the nation s gun laws what s on the table and will it make a difference nbc s gabe gutierrez leads us off reporter: tonight as the u.s. grapples with the dramatic surge in gun violence, relatives of those killed in the buffalo m
medicaid services also oversees hospital transparency. in a report released last week, cms says of the 600 hospitals they sampled, 70% were in full compliance, up from the 27% the year before. but patient advocacy groups are dissatisfied. it is not happening fast enough. reporter: and they re challenging cms survey results. patient rights advocate.org released their own report analyzing the websites of 2,000 hospitals within the nation s largest hospital systems their findings, only 25% were in full compliance. patient advocate cynthia fisher shows us what patients should see on a compliant hospital s website. showing all of the codes. reporter: and she showed us what she found on many instead. instead of prices, they put nas in the field. reporter: so we took it to cms. would this hospital be considered compliant yes, because na, according to
posted online. under the federal hospital price transparency rule. jason hadn t heard of it he says he was told his insurance would cover everything weeks later, a bill came for $6,500. what was your reaction i couldn t believe it i thought it was a joke. reporter: insurance covered some of it, but left jason owing more than $3,000 hospitals have been able to keep patients in the dark. reporter: cynthia fisher, founder of patient rights advocate.org, is on a mission to stop scenarios like jason s. nowhere else in our economy do we not get prices in advance of purchase. reporter: the hospital price transparency rule, born as part of th affordable care act, took effect in january of 2021. presidents obama, trump, and biden hav all openly supported it it requires health systems to publicly post costs of items and services online, standard charges and also by health insurance plan, showing patients what to expect to pay,