investigation. severe storms, more than 30 million under the threat of a potential tornado outbreak, and heavy flooding from texas to west virginia. we re ting it president biden and canadian prime minister justin trude anncing a major immigration deal. will it stem te record surge of migrants at america s northern border? taking the stand at a utah trial. the man suing the actress over a skiing accident. and our series, ai revolution, the rapidly developing technology that can literally read your mind. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. we beginith american warplanes in action over syria conducting what officials call precision air strikes in response to a drone attack against americans that killed one u.s. contrac and woued five service members. president biden ordering the retaliatory strikes. u.s. officials saying the targets were linked to iran s revolutionary guard corps. the u.s. saying the base where the amer
and wounded five u.s. troops at a base in northeast syria. our reporting, the key radar system that was down at the time. did that leave the base open to attack? also tonight, the scare at the office of the manhattan d.a. investigating donald trump. the suspicious powder and threatening letter discovered. police hauling hazmat bags from the building. it comes as mr. trump warns of death and destruction if he s charged for a hush money payment and a new blow for mr. trump and the special counsel s january 6th investigation. severe storms, more than 30 million under the threat of a potential tornado outbreak, and heavy flooding from texas to west virginia. we re tracking it. president biden and canadian prime minister justin trudeau announcing a major immigration deal. will it stem the record surge of migrants at america s northern border? gwyneth paltrow taking the stand at a utah trial. the man suing the actress over a skiing accident. and our series, ai revolution,
this is a film about storytelling, about how we tell the story of our country s past. why do we want to believe one version and not another? maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. there is one episode of america s history that is told very differently, depending on who you are and where you live. it is the story of our civil war and what came after. the hot winds of war blew across the land. made of it, a country divided. friend turned into foe. brother fought against brother. it was such a long and drawn out struggle. and the feeling on both sides was so intense. we re all just romantics, lost in contemporary times you might say. every one of us feels like we were born 125 years too late. to introduce myself, my name is rachel boynton. this is nelson walker. we are independent documentary filmmakers. we re making a film about how we tell the story of the civil war. we re filming in different schools all over virginia and we re going to place this with a deep
dangerous cult as evidenced by his creepy rally for jd vance this weekend. as the new special master gets to work, why does trump seem so confident that his preposterous claims of executive privilege will hold up? plus, why ron desantis may have gravely miscalculated the politics of using migrant men, women, and children as political pawns. we begin tonight with qanon. the conspiracy driven cult born in 2016 on the idea that there is a kabul of pedophiles including prominent democrats and media elites running the world, drinking the blood of babies. and only donald trump can stop them. they also believe that jfk jr. is leading their resistance movement against the baby eating hordes. despite the fact he s been dead for more than 20 years. that bonker idea, which used to be relegated to the darkest corners of the internet, has now become mainstream in today s republican party. they even got some congress members in the faith. that was evidence this weekend at a rally in yo
far left socialist agenda which led to increased spending, increased inflation. democrats should talk about the economy. they should contrast their views with the republican decision. they should be talking about how much things cost at the supermarket, the gas pump. if they talk about anything else, they are nuts. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington with the very latest. alexandria? you heard that last sound bite. they ve been trying to talk about anything else. inflation is a top issue for midterm voters combined with recession concerns and the biden administration has had to come up with a sensitive response. it s possible but not inevitable and we are doing everything we can to strengthen the foundations of the american economy. retail sales, payload employment, industrial production, all of those have not been flashing red. all of those are not recessionary territory. eco-there is s vehicle there is now a 63% chance that recession will hit e next three mo