collecting over his state. james clyburn on the impact this is having on the president s big state of the union speech tomorrow. republican senator tom tillis on bipartisan calls for the administration to get tough on china and fast. it is all straight ahead. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with lucas tomlinson at the white house. hi, lucas. hi, neil. the white house press briefing just wrapped up and karine jean-pierre says things will china will continue to be calm despite u.s. forces shooting down a chinese spy craft. this was not the first brush with the chinese spy craft recently. four months ago, the same type of spy balloon crash landed in the pacific off of the coast of hawaii. mike waltz said the pentagon called them to tell them about other instances recently by these spy craft. what we were told is there were multiple incursions over florida, one over texas and separate reporting that we have not been able to ask about over hawaii and guam. so what we
some wonder whether the next major putin offensive will launch from. the special counsel investigating trump is locked in at least eight secret court battles right now. we re going to tell you everything we know about it and why tonight. a near collision on a u.s. airport runway. a 777 coming dangerously close to a cargo plane. this is the third close call in less than a month. what is going on? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, attacked. new video into outfront tonight showing russian soldiers coming under fire. i warn you, as we always want to do here, it is graphic. i ll show you now. these are heavily armed russian soldiers that you see on your screen hiding, trying to stay out of view of ukraine s drones. they re spotted, though, and targeted. now, according to ukraine, two of the men were killed. and a russian state television war correspondent, who is embedded with russian troops, tonight posting, claiming that the private
battlefield. now after a year of war, their powerful tributes announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and thank you for joining us tonight alex murdaugh s sometimes failing memory, glaring contradictions and courtroom admission that he had lied to police were all fertile ground for prosecutors today as the accused double murderer spent another day testifying in his own defense. at moments displaying flashes of anger murdaugh on trial for the murders of his wife and 22-year-old son facing more cross-examination today. the prosecution digging into the heart of its case against him. the time line of his actions around the time of the murders. confronting the former attorney with cell phone records, his own words from his initial interview with police, even the number of steps recorded by his smartphone leaving murdaugh at times struggling to provide full explanations. catie beck is covering the trial for us in walterboro, south carolina. when
forced to make an emergency landing in havana passengers evacuating on to the runway how a bird strike caused it all. nbc news first to report ukrainian pilots are now inside the u.s. preparing to train on f-16s what it could mean for the war. nba star ja morant suspended for at least two games after flashing a gun while live on instagram at a nightclub. is his nearly $200 million contract in jeopardy and hitting back chris rock rips into will smith opening up for the first time since that infamous oscar slap people are, like, did it hurt? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow good evening it has happened again. another train derailment in ohio involving the same rail company norfolk southern 28 cars jumped the trac 200 miles southwest of east palestine where a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed, you remember, back on february 3rd for some perspective, there are more than a thousand train derailments in the united states every single year. in t
the dead week, the best week of the year and for most people this week not a week off from work but at the same time a return to the normal rhythm of regular life. nobody knows what to do with this leftover week awkwardly such that the bottom of the year. this holiday purgatory is dedicated to low expectations, eating, visiting family and resting but even for those of us going to work, it is assumed not much will be accomplished before the new year. so what is on our twixmas to-do list? rachel, there s already down times and a lot to do at the end of the year. rachel: just before i came to get ready to do this show, i left a lot of to-do list with my kids, but it is funny, right? in the building, it feels different, no offense, producers but there is a lower expectation of everything that you can see that is how it feels. i think it is a great time to catch up with people. call your grandma if you haven t called her in a while. call your mom and have the conversations. i ju