case. and the long overdue honor for a 102-year-old world war ii veteran. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone after holding the attention of millions of tv viewers this summer, the recent pause to the january 6th hearings into the attack on the capitol have turned attention now to the department of justice and attorney general merrick garland to provide what could be the next act in this american, legal, political, and constitutional drama with outside pressure mounting for indictments of mr. trum and some of his inner circle, i sat down with the attorney general today for an exclusive interview. the ag dismissing accusations his office hasn t moved swiftly enough to build cases against those at the top of the ladder and telling me concerns over further tearing the country apart would not deter his office from holding those criminally responsible accountable. let s start off and talk about january 6th. we just watched weeks of s
that s crazy. it s an island reporter: tonight stunning images of the latest american city to get slammed with severe weather across st. louis, historic rainfall an flash flooding. we ve got stalled out cars here. reporter: forcing rescue after rescue. i have several people trapped on a roof. reporter: roughly 100 people trapped in these apartments evacuated by boat. i was terrified because it is so high. reporter: more than 9 inches of rain falling since midnight shattering records set in 1915 and turning highways and roads into raging rivers. it was so dangerous with the water, we had to pull them out we couldn t even get our trucks reporter: authorities confirming one person trapped in their car has died and in suburban st. peter, the water surged into an animal shelter. staff scrambled, saving mos of the animals, but devastated to learn 10 puppies drowned.