striking a bird, and what we are learning about this. and a prom turns into a nightmare after 19 are injured when bullets start flying. we are following these developing stories and much more as they come in right here at cnn news central. a race to get out as people are rushing to get their people out of sudan. special forces have now carried out a risky operation to get the u.s. embassy officials and families out of khartoum. this is a photo of antony blinken monitoring situation. the u.s. government is warning an estimated 16,000 americans remaining there and many of them dual citizens after a large scale operation of those who want to leave is not happening now. the u.s. is facilitating evacuations in other ways. more from the white house in a moment, but sam kiley is in djibouti where the operation began. sam, this seems like a global retreat. global retreat is the exact way to put it. here we have a french air force long distance cargo plane. that has been, we u
cars spilling into the river with the worst yet to come. tucker carlson breaking his silence after his dismissal by fox news the nenew findingsgs about a diabetes drug that could be a game changer for weight loss the chananging face e of hollywood how prododuction is s being trtransformed by artificial intelligence and remembering jerry springer, beloved ringmaster of his hit talk show circus announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. we begin tonight with breaking news. sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news that former vice president mike pence appeared before a federal grand jury this afternoon as part of a special counsel investigation into former president trump s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. it s believed pence has direct knowledge of mr. trump s efforts to block certification of the 2020 election pence s testimony legally pitting him against the man who could very well be a rival for the 2024
let me start with the breaking news international criminal court that issued arrest warrants for putin and one of his commissioners for war crimes both accused of unlawfully deporting ukrainian children to russia joining me from london, nbc foreign correspondent megan fitzgerald explain the charges against putt yun putin and what it might mean this has been a month s long investigation that started in september. and the lead prosecutor for the icc saying that they were able togather enough evidence to bring about these arrest warrants he went on to say, want to read the statement, he said the pretrial judge as sesed there were reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility the statement went on to say that they found evidence that suggests these children were taken from orphanages and along with children in care homes and taken to russia. we know there was a u.n. report released yesterday that detailed a list of alleged war crimes by russia one of them
manhattan as early as next week. this is according to five senior officials familiar with the preparations and in the worlds of unprecedented, this would be the absolute definition of it. a former president has never been criminally indicted before, never. so local law enforcement agencies are running the possible scenarios, going through potential security plans, gaming out the variables, according to the same officials, who also stress that this is a just in case no charges have been filed and nbc news cannot report that any decision has yet been made that we know of more on what this means in a moment because it could get pretty complicated we also have new reporting from the washington post that could have a significant bearing on the special counsel investigation into january 6th the post has reviewed a copy of a report called project 2020. a study trump s team paid for but never released to investigate the election results in six key states that he lost according
discussing the charges he is set to face, connected to hush money paid to porn actor stormy daniels in the lead up to his campaign for the presidency in 2016. the exact charges he faces will be disclosed in full in court tomorrow. donald trump denies any wrongdoing, calling it a witch hunt. he s spending the night here at trump tower. you might be able to see that barricades have been erected around it, with new york police on high alert in preparation for donald trump s appearance at the manhattan criminal court. of course, trump tower, beefed up of course, trump tower, beefed up security for what new york prepares for is a historic moment tomorrow. so, that is trump tower, the former president speaking with his advisers. bbc news has been covering this from all angles. i would like to welcome my panel of guests. sarah krissoff, former assistant us attorney for the southern district of new york, doug jones former democrat senator for the state of alabama and will hurd