the attorney shot in the head now accused of plotting the attack himself. and the countdown to tonight s historic spacex launch. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. we know them from another arena, celebrated gymnasts, olympians. but today they sat tearfully in front of a different audience in a senate hearing room simone biles surrounded by fellow gymnasts, telling senators we have been failed, the young women accusing the fbi of turning a blind eye to their complaints of sexual abuse at the hands of team dr. larry nassar in 2017 nassar pleaded guilty to abusing 10 of the more than 265 women and girls who have come forward to say they were molested he is serving up to 175 years in prison. tonight the emotional call for accountability for those the women accuse of protecting a serial child molester rather than them. anne thompson was in the hearing room and has our report to be clear, i blame larry nassar, and i also blame an entire sy
to leave kabul, the question is will the u stits have to extend its deadline to withdraw troops. plus t new york times says that the fda is looking to approve the vaccine. and tropical storm henri makes landfall triggering flash flooding and knocking out power for thousands of americans. the question is what is the full scope of the damage? it s way too early for this. good morning. it s way too early. we start with the news. president biden says the u.s. military is executing a plan to increase access to kabul s main airport. amid mounting criticism, the president defended the u.s. troop withdrawal, telling reporters yesterday that the exit from afghanistan was always going to be difficult. let me be clear. the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started or how it began. there s no way to justify it. it s just a fact. my heart aches for those people you see. our first priority in kabul is getting a
space rocket science there that makes a lot of us optimistic about the possibility that more and more humans will get an opportunity to go to space. and that opens up all kinds of things that you could possibly not imagine right now. yeah. it was interesting, miles, i spoke to jeff bezos just a couple of minutes ago when his brother and we ll have that tape shortly for you. but one of the things that we said is that it is better than he expected. he read a lot about what to expect, what it was going to be like. but it surpassed his expectations. he talk the a lot, too, about his vision for the future of space exploration and space colonization. i want to bring in mitchia kaku, a theoretical physicist. how likely is that vision of having a permanent settlement on moon or on mars, having the kind of space exploration, the kind of human presence in space that bezos and elon musk are talking about? well the key factor that has not been mentioned yet, cost. the cost has been d
trump ally arrested: why was a former campaign advisor toer cao president trump charged with acting as a foreign agent? more than a million acres burned: wildfires explode out west as two blazes merge and become a megafire. how smoke prompted air quality warnings all the way to new york city. olympic games in jeopardy: what the head of tokyo 2020 is saying tonight. busting that back-to-school budget: why are prices for clothes and school supplies skyrocketing? sleepy tom: the super bowl winning quarterback visits the white house bringing president biden a jersey and some election-related jokes. and a dream deferred, but not denied: wally funk s long road into space and the history books. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. all eyes were on west texas today when billionaire jeff bezos blasted off with a crew that i
registering with the justice department. in this case he was working for his clients in the united arab emirates. when confronted with the evidence, he lied to federal agents when questioning him back in 2019. he was a prominent donor to then candidate donald trump back in 2016. he played a big role at the republican national convention. helped the virtues of having donald trump become president and his influence grew especially after his role in the inauguration. according to prosecutors, he had enough juice, enough power within the donald trump administration that he managed to get some praise of the uae inserted into a may 2019 speech that president trump was delivering. that s one of the things that the prosecutors list here as an example of the type of power and the influence that he had during the previous administration. they also mentioned that he promoted the candidacy of someone who the uae wanted to be ambassador to that country. managed to provide information, non