hiss rival office holders killed. the lead starts right now. one city, four homes, each one shot at. police say who the man was who orchestrated the attacks, they say he wanted to cause injury or death and the apparent targets were his democratic rivals. plus, trading in on the biden family name, house republicans ready to investigate presidential son hunter and presidential brothers jimmy and frank biden for trying to use their access to the now president to try to make money. where does the investigatory trail begin? well, cnn is investigating. and, how did two passenger planes end up on a collision course? could this very serious question impact your next flight? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the white house counsel s office desperately trying to explain why the biden white house has repeatedly given the american people incomplete, late information about president biden and his staff s handling of classified documents. both
how close they came to catastrophe. you ll hear the urgent calls from air traffic control. the black boxes found after the passenger plane crash that killed at least 69 in nepal. the final moments caught on camera. the search tonight for answers. the death toll growing in one of the worst russian strikes on civilians since the war in ukraine began. italy s most wanted man captured. how a notorious mafia boss was found hiding in plain sight after 30 years on the run. and honoring a civil rights icon. the images from across the country on this martin luther king jr. day. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. california tonight suffering the effects of its tenth consecutive storm. weeks of rain from an atmospheric river undermining roads. some crumbling right before the eyes of horrified onlookers. saturated hillsides turning to mudslides. the round of storms now blamed for the deaths of at least 22 people. search and rescue
is a cnn situation room special report. we begin this hour with a growing fallout from classified documents found at president biden s home and former office. the possibility of yet more searches and more discoveries hanging over the white house tonight. let s go to our white house correspondent arlette saenz, tell us more about cnn s new reporting. reporter: cnn has learned that sources believe there are additional locations tied to president biden that could be searched for more classified documents or government records. so far, the president s personal attorneys have searched two homes in delaware and also that former private office here in washington, d.c. but sources believe that there may be additional locations that could be sourced though it s unclear who exactly would conduct those searches or where they would be but those are all matters that could come up as the special counsel s investigation gets underway. president biden refusing to answer questions today a
another plane suddenly in its past. gio benitez standing by. the major storm hitting the west at this hour. the last in a brutal pattern of extreme weather. los angeles with more rain this month than all of last year. the new system moving coast to coast now, reaching the east by thursday. ginger zee timing it all out. the war in ukraine. the death toll rising from a russian missile strike on an apartment building in dnipro. at least 40 people killed, a dozen missing. while the u.s. is now training ukrainian forces here on american soil. matt gutman on the ground. news on the chilling plane crash in nepal, killing at least 69 people. authorities recovering the black boxes from the crash site. italy s most wanted mafia boss behind bars tonight after 30 years in hiding. back in the u.s., a university of alabama basketball player charged with murder, allegedly firing into a car near campus, killing a woman in the passenger seat. his coach coming before the cameras toda
what we don t know exactly yet whether they broke the law or not, i will accuse the obama administration the biden administration of not being transparent why didn t we hear it when the first batch of classified documents were discovered? there s a lot to answer for for the biden administration. good morning. poppy. kaitlan is off today on a cold day. freezing, right? freezing. no football this weekend? no football. i did no live television this weekend. vikings, get over it. still another day, another classified document it appears inside president biden s delaware home, giving democrats headaches. what they re demanding from the white house, republicans. another storm if you can believe it pounding california after weeks of relentless downpours, deadly flooding and several feet of snow. is there any relief in sight? strategy striking the university of georgia football team. what we re learning about the crash that the car crash that killed an offensive l