classes resume at a virginia elementary school for the first time since a first grader shot his teacher. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans this monday morning, secretary of state antony blinken in egypt this morning, the first leg of his three-day tour of the middle east. his visit coming at a time when violence is flaring between israelis and palestinians. iran and ukraine also high on the agenda as blinken prepares to leave cairo for israel where prime minister benjamin netanyahu new right wing government is causing turbulence at home and abroad. nic robertson has the latest from jerusalem. what is blinken hoping to accomplish on this visit? reporter: i think the best hope here of people on both sides, palestinians and israelis is that he can lower the tensions at the moment. how does he do that? well, he s very likely to appeal to prime minister netanyahu to reconsider some of his cabinet s decisions over the weekend o
very good monday morning to you, i m jim sciutto. i m erica hill. this morning lawmakers back on capitol hill facing growing pressure after the deadly beating of tyre nichols by memphis police ignites renewed calls for federal police reform. nichols family attorney benjamin crump telling cnn tyre s tragic death should force congress to act. shame on us if we don t use his tragic death to finally get the george floyd justice in policing act passed. so will things change this time around? the congressional black caucus is calling for a meeting with president biden this week to push for negotiations on police reform. remember there was a push, bipartisan push in the wake of george floyd it didn t make it through two years ago following that death, those discussions broke down in the senate, congress failed to pass the federal reforms. now the president of tennessee s naacp chapter is pleading with congress to try again. we come to call to action for congress. by faili
her attorney says school officials ignored. our nbc news reporting. the concerned texts the teacher sent to a loved one just before the shooting. the major winter storm moving into the northeast after a tornado outbreak left a trail of destruction farther south. al roker is here. president biden reversing course, now pledging the u.s. will send 31 abrams tanks to ukraine. so, what changed? just in, two years after he was suspended, facebook lifting its ban on donald trump. the dramatic video, a man with a long gun shooting up at a police helicopter. and the team of 25 performing a medical miracle for two infant twins. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and one of the country s most closely watched criminal cases today south carolina prosecutors began laying out their double murder case against alex murdaugh, prominent attorney and patriarch of a powerful charleston area family accused of murdering his wife and 22-year-old son.
president pence s indiana home. the wall street journal first reported the news citing people familiar who say the justice department is talking with pence s legal team about scheduling. last month, the former vice president s lawyers admitted they discovered several documents with classified markings at his home and turned them over to authorities. nbc news has reached out to both the fbi and mike pence for comment. haven t yet heard back. joining me now is correspondent julia ainsley and nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. julia, you and i were talking about this very thing 24 hours ago. reporter: i thought about you, because maybe you predicted this. you asked me if we could assume that the fbi had also searched the residences of mike pence because of their searches of, at that point, the president s beach house in rehoboth, and now we understand that they are in talks. this is of course not yet confirmed by nbc news but the fbi plans to search bo
also tonight the biden white house is sticking to the script as its new strategy for dealing with the classified documents crisis takes shape. we ll have the latest on what s happening behind the scenes amid growing pressure on the president. and prosecutors reveal chilling new evidence as the massachusetts man is form formally charged with murdering his missing wife. our experts will break down the case and all the disturbing new details. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. tonight ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is calling the helicopter crash near kyiv is a tragedy, and he s suggesting that every death in his country is a result of the ongoing war. cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward has more from kyiv on this disaster and the investigation that is now under way. reporter: a quiet kyiv suburb turned into an inferno. the sounds of screaming can be heard. min