what prosecutors say happened to her body. and the disturbing google searches he allegedly made the case she disappeared. the winter storm on the move. a pileup shutting down a snowy highway. we re tracking the threat. in ukraine, a helicopter crashing into a kindergarten, killing at least 14, including the interior minister. was it an accident or intentional? george santos facing new allegations, a veteran who said he stole thousands in go fund me cash for his dying service dog. and ukraine s wounded warriors coming to the u.s. to get the help they could and find back home. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. prosecutors in new mexico are unveiling shocking new details of a series of shooting attacks on the homes of democratic lawmakers, allegedly orchestrated by a defeated republican candidate for state office. that candidate, solomon pena, appeared virtually in court today where he was charged with 15 counts, including shooting at an occu
continues to spawn violence across the country. meanwhile on capitol hill, the stalemate over the debt ceiling continues as the country hits its borrowing limit. we ll have the latest on efforts by the white house to find some sort of compromise. plus, the george santos saga takes another really strange turn. now there are questions about where his mother was on 9/11. also ahead, we are hours away from a decision on criminal charges in the deadly shooting on the set of rust. remember that? we ll get you caught up on the case that could come to a major development this morning. and we ll dig into new reporting on an aggressive new proposal from the biden administration as it pertains to the war in ukraine. joe has the morning off but willie and i are here in new york, and we have with us, the former aid to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan, an msnbc political analyst. former white house communications director under president obama, jennifer
ainsley: we are one day away from an election. and we have a live studio audience for the first time in years. it s wonderful to see so many familiar faces, new faces. you all are our family. you are our customers. you keep us on air and we love you all and we appreciate your loyalty to fox news. thank you. thank you. [applause] brian: cover of the new york post is fascinating today. they merged two worlds. the jets upset over the best team in the afc. basically in the jets can come back fourth quarter on 13 play drive and win 20-17 why can t lee zeldin go from 24 points back and go ahead and win the governor s race. [applause] steve: absolutely. and when you look at the real clear politics average of the race, right now kathy hochul is leading him by 5 percentage points. the big question is ultimately who is motivated. and is that are those polls that they take the average of, are they accurate? because here in new york city, how many people are from out of town? a
close up shop over the holidays, you are practically inundated with releases a material. there was the committee s final report which clocked in at over 800 pages. then there were just thousands of deposition peaches and transcripts, court documents and exhibits from the committees. hearings dozens of videos. it is hard to believe that there was anything the committee did not release. and yet today, we learned there was something. today the washington post published this draft memo. prepared by a team of committee staffers and focusing on social media and extremism. they were known as teen purple. the team apparently hoped that there 100 plus-page memo would be adapted into a chapter investigations final report. but the committee decided to leave most of it on the cutting room floor. among team purples most damning findings was that in the run up to january 6th, social media platforms like twitter and facebook bent over backwards, that their own rules to, allow donald trump
steve: we start with fox news alert vladimir putin picture they are threatening to use nuclear weapons declaring he s not bluffing which meansu are bluffing. steve: the threat as hunter biden heading to address the leaders gathered in new york. ainsley: that is right. jacqui heinrich from downtown new york city, good morning to you, jackie. good morning, ainsley, steve, brian. the head at the summit was food shortages from the war in ukraine but that statement that speaks putin a threatening use of nuclear weapons and partial mobilization of the country s reserve troops. the first of its kind since world war ii. putin basically claimed nuclear threats of its own and framed a statement as a defensive move accusing the rest of nuclear blackmail and saying the last encourage ukraine to show the russian controlled nuclear plant in southeast ukraine. he accused the west also trying to divide and destroy his country. speak with those who tried to blackmail us with nuc