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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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 directly in the path of the pilotless drone. one of several close passes by russian fighters according to the pentagon, one of which resulted in a collision. part of the american aircraft s propeller sheared off forcing the drone to crash while american officials allow the russian pilot may have accidentally bumped the drone, they say there s no question where the orders to harass the plane came from. courtney kube has more for us now from the pentagon. reporter: the dramatic new video showing the midair showdown all captured by a camera on the unmanned american reaper drone. you can see the russian fighter jet approaching the drone from behind, then spraying jet fuel on it. there is no collision. the drone s propeller intact. then another approach by the russian jet and more jet fuel. the moment of impact is not shown on the video, but later the drone s propeller vi
it was struck by the russian jet. the $32 million drone was then downed in the black sea. the u.s. says two russian jets made 19 passes over the drone in international airspace before the collision. the russian government denies any aggressive action or impact occurred. the biden administration saying they declassified the video to prove russia is lying. given the reckless and dangerous behavior and to demonstrate publicly what type of actions the russians had taken, we felt that it was important to provide this imagery. reporter: the u.s. assesses the actions of the pilots were approved by top kremlin leaders according to three u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence, though the actual collision appears to be pilot error. russia insists the drone was in temporary russian airspace, though the pentagon today saying the reaper stayed about 50 miles or more from russian occupied crimea. tonight the american drone is on the bottom of the black sea. still, no u.s. efforts to recov