tomorrow s funeral, one of the biggest gatherings of world leaders ever, many meeting with king charles today, as president biden pays his respects to the queen. remnants of a typhoon flood parts of the coast, entire homes swept away, the worst storm there in nearly 50 years. deadly earthquake in taiwan, buildings shaking, some toppling, and a gym ceiling collapses sending children fleeing. our in depth look at the border crisis, the law enforcement agents overwhmed, and what residents of the inundated border town say about bussing them to the northeast. and the bench clearing football brawl that got multiple players ejected. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, remembering queen elizabeth ii, reporting tonight from london. good evening, everyone, from london. just hours before the state funeral for queen elizabeth. we ll begin that coverage in a moment. but first to puerto rico. as we come on the air, the island reeling after a direct hit fro
is the scene in central london. then the prince of wales just visiting, the crowds, you the qb waited to westminster hall, thanking them. a busy time for the royals. king charles iii meeting the new met commissioner. the mayor of london and suella braverman who are in charge of the extraordinary policing operation that will unfold on monday here in central london. let s get the reaction to down there. it is continuing flow of people. tens of thousands of people still coming here. the wait time thankfully for many people is way lower than it was when we started in the early hours of the morning. then it was something like 25 hours. now thatis it was something like 25 hours. now that is considerably more palatable. obviously getting used to these enormous numbers. it is down to m hours. the people coming through now as they approach the final leg of this whole epicjourney along the thames and across lambeth bridge are seeing thejoin the thames and across lambeth bridge are seei
years thanks to a robotic exoskeleton. sergeant richard snyder says the exoskeleton lets him be a guy again. brian: that is a superdome and that s exactly where you will find us today. steve: you mean the football team because other saints or elsewhere. brian: they came marching in a long time ago. that said he is a wonderful city with wonderful potential and marvelous history, but they have no cops. they have a lot of crime. and the mayor who likes to spend a lot. besides that it is smooth as glass. steve: a lot of people go on vacation, the french quarter has great food but they were really good drinks. brian: right. ainsley: lots of beads. brian: they may have to cancel mardi gras because i don t have enough cops, that s about it is a new or lens. it s a two hour wait time if you are a victim of a crime. it s unbelievable what is happening in that city. ainsley: while matt,: one and they say? i get the water shouts you get the superdome. you call the co
territory claimed by russia have been liberated. on sunday ukrainian military commander clanld the army had retaken nearly 1200 square miles in two weeks. by monday the official number had doubled. translator: from the beginning of september until today our soldiers have already liberated more than 6,000 square kilometers of the territory of ukraine in the east and south. the movement of our troops continues. the drastic jump in the news is the fact journalists are being denied access to the front lines. u.s. officials refraining from putting out numbers. they say ukrainian soldiers have pushed the soldiers back. clearly we have seen them go on the offensive in the last couple of weeks and actually regain quite a bit of territory. again, i think i ll stay out of quantifying it in too much detail but they are actually taking territory back certainly over the last two weeks during the counter offensive positions. cnn s matthew chance has more from ukraine and russia.