powerful new spacex rocket what caused it, and why nasa is still call calling it in a success. car repossessions on the rise as more americans struggle to make ends meet how to navigate the high cost of owning a car. cutting down on food waste to combat climate change the amazing school that s making sure less ends up in the landfill in our series climate challenge. and finding a signature moment with the coach who helps people tune up how they write their names. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. violent weather has exacted a heartbreaking toll this spring. the rate of tornado deaths in the u.s. rapidly outpacing last year and tonight, another community and state are reeling in the aftermath of a deadly strike people in mcclain county, oklahoma, found themselves in the literal path of disaster as a massive funnel cloud bore down last evening at least three lives were lost in what the weather service has now classified
homes leveled, airplanes upended in missouri. tens of millions of risk once again for massive hail and powerful storms. just breaking, criminal charges dropped against alec baldwin, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter after that deadly shooting on the rust movie set. production slated to restart today. so why are charges being dropped now? just in tonight, president biden s plan to announce his rebid for election as new details emerge on the hunter biden investigation and the criminal charges prosecutor have considered. this spectacular explosion on the first test flight of a new powerful space rocket. what caused it, and why nasa is still call it a success. car repossessions on the rise as more americans struggle to make ends meet. how to navigate the high cost of owning a car. cutting down on food waste to combat climate change. the amazing school that s making sure less ends up in the landfill in our series climate challenge. and finding a signatu
thursday is the first time that they re going to present their findings to the american people, and as you mentioned, they re going to do it in prime time. it shows you they re going to try to present the most compelling case possible around what they have collected. now, we know that they re going to present or they promised to present material that we haven t seen before. we know they re going to preview future hearings that haven t released a witness list yet. but we expect thursday s hearing to be really explosive and set the tone for the hearings that follow it. now, congressman, a democrat served as a house impeachment manager, he talked about his expectations for the hearings in a cnn interview yesterday. he said he expects the evidence to be disturbing. take a listen. thereby, i think, substantial evidence that demonstrates the coordination and planning and effort despite the fact that they understood the donald trump last the election, and even once the insurrectio
out production from uk reserves. it is entirely consistent with transitioning to a net zero, we use the energy we have got at home because we are going to need it for decades. are betterfor our decades. are better for our economy, forjobs, and for climate emissions that we get it from here rather than chipping it from halfway around the world. but chipping it from halfway around the world. ~ ~ , chipping it from halfway around the world. . ., ., world. but critics say it will not actually add world. but critics say it will not actually add to world. but critics say it will not actually add to uk world. but critics say it will not actually add to uk supplies. i world. but critics say it will not l actually add to uk supplies. the north sea oil actually add to uk supplies. the north sea oil and gas that he is helping north sea oil and gas that he is helping to encourage is actually overwhelmingly exported. 80% of the oil and overwhelmingly exported. 80% of the oil and mos
it is not helping us with our energy security and not helping to displace imports. it also is risks adding to uk emissions see many climate scientists and environmentalists. they argue the planet warming carbon dioxide food these new projects will breach the country s climate targets. so, our carbon capture and storage projects part of the solution? carbon capture and storage takes co2 from the atmosphere or industrial plants like this, gas fired power station, when the gas is burned, the co2 is separated out, then it is pumped underground to be stored in empty gas and oil reservoirs. the government has announced today it will fund a project at saint fergus on the north east coast of scotland and another on the humber. it is already announced investment on plants in teesside and on the mersey. none of these have been built yet, and it will be many years before they will be capable of trapping anywhere near the millions of tonnes of co2 these new oil and gas fields will produce. but gov