good evening, expecting a background briefing from the nst in about 30 minutes time and just now learning as you mentioned that over the weekend the u.s. carried out a successful counterterrorism operation, a drone strike against what it calls a significant al qaeda target in afghanistan, two intelligence sources tell fox news al qaeda leader zawahiri was the target of the strike and was killed. no civilian casualties and the target was a residential home in afghanistan. age 70 was the leader of al qaeda and usama bin laden s right hand responsible for the 9/11 attacks, the egyptian doctor fled to al pakistan during the 1980s after being jailed twice and asia for the member of islamic egyptian overthrowing the government of egypt and a former surgeon, the personal physician and closest confidant and became the nominal leader of al qaeda after bin laden was killed in 2011. since september 11th attacks the u.s. state department has offered a u.s. $25 million reward for inform
asia, and she s not ruling out a visit all eyes on kansas, the first state to ask voters to weigh in on abortion rights since roe v. wade was overturned. and polls suggest the vote will be a close one. mystery in the sky. why did this co-pilot jump or fall to his death out of a plane as it made an emergency landing? number two jumped from the aircraft, did not have a parachute his family opening up to us and we lost two people today who shattered racial barriers bill russell, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, and nichelle nichols, who brought equality to the final frontier. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow good evening. from water to fire, we have two very different natural disasters to update you on tonight in northern california, extreme temperatures and bone-dry conditions fueling the mckinney fire 2,000 residents have been evacuated the fire expanding this weekend to cover 50,000 acres now and then to the east in kentu
and good morning, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington following the continuing devastation from historic floods in kentucky. at this time at least 30 people are dead. thousands more are still trapped in their communities. with residents desperate for food, shelter, electricity, and clean drinking water. this morning kentucky governor andy beshear updating reporters on the devastation and search for survivors. i got to talk to some of the families here and the other places too. they don t have anything. i mean the clothes on their back, but happy to be alive and grateful for the folks that are helping out. on capitol hill, senate democrats are hoping to sell their colleague kyrsten sinema on a health care package than casts hundreds of billions into the climate and energy sectors. she has tremendous, tremendous input in these pieces of legislation. this is something everyone has worked on in the last eight months or more, and she basically insisted
threatened to respond and dramatic ways of speaker pelosi does stop in taiwan. what is the white house saying? not much apparently. at least not publicly, griff jenkins joins us live from outside the white house with more, griff? nothing much at all. the president has been monitoring that trip while isolating in the residence here. the doctor releasing a new letter saying he isn t feeling well and maintaining a strict isolation measures. although he added this the president continues to be very conscientious to protect any of the executive residence. white house secret service and other staff whose duties require social distance proximity to him for the white house also telling us today, the present has six close contacts and none have tested positive for this after questions have been arising over how strictly he adhered to the cdc guidelines after insane unmasked several public appearances recently. this comes as tensions are rising with china with all eyes on a possible