it comes after another gunman killed 11 people during lunar new year celebrations near los angeles. a search for answers tonight. tornado damage reported in texas as a powerful storm sweeps across the eastern half of the u.s. 83 million under winter alerts. al roker is here. the major reversal for the u.s. deciding to send abrams tanks to ukraine. how it could reshape the battlefield. ticketmaster on the hot seat on capitol hill after the taylor swift ticket debacle. what the company blames for the mess. and after disappointment at the beijing olympics, american mikaela shiffrin making history on the slopes. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and thank you for being with us. a big development tonight in the ongoing fallout and questions over the handling of classified documents at the highest levels. we learned today that documents marked classified have been found in the private indiana home of former vice president mike pence. i
on western military aid, has been asking for them for months but they require weeks of training, are difficult to maintain and the u.s. has to provide a version that does not include sensitive equipment to lead officials to resist sending them. an announcement to send a couple dozen tanks could come as early as tomorrow but stressed the decision is not yet final. the tanks would take many months to actually arrive in ukraine. lester. all right, thank you, courtney. in 60 seconds the justice department suing google. could one of its key businesses be broken up? and after the taylor swift ticket mess, music executives grilled by congress but will anything change? glitchy wi-fi and i ve decided. well, if you re on vacation, i am too. ha-ha-ha! which means your smart home isn t so smart. sprinkler on. and now i m sending mixed signals to your garage. and, if you haven t bundled your home and auto coverage, trying to unpack this isn t going to be too much fun. hey, check the router!
she had glass cases with some of her old touring dresses, almost as in a museum. and she is someone who is a stickler for detail. so a big screw-up like this is something i m sure gets under her skin and she is going to do everything possible to make right. she is a master at not only music, but marketing, too, and branding. so this is right in her wheelhouse to make it right. that is so right. i mean, you know, i was just gonna say, you know, that she is a unique artist. i mean, who is so adept at marketing, her music and her magtism. and she took on spotify back in the day, remember. she challenged the former president through her music. she knows her power, yet she couldn t even anticipate or head off this kind of ticket mess because of her popularity largely. so she hasn t toured since 2018. this whole debacle left many
saudi arabia. now, with respect to this person, we ve got to come up with some system for holding foreign leaders accountable. whether it s the international criminal court or some other big body but it just doesn t exist. this is why the pope isn t sued nation by nation on account of actions that he takes in his capacity as the head of the vatican which is itself a country. that s the same thing happening here. in that same town hall now president biden said at the time that there would be there should be consequences and a lot of people there is a sense this morning if these are the consequences it s terrible. elliott, nice to see you. well, it is not just taylor swift fans who are demanding answers from ticketmaster, now congress and the tennessee attorney general are jumping in. how this ticket mess has revealed just how broken the system is. we will have a deep dive coming up.
from cbs s nikki battiste. reporter: ticketmaster has become more like ticket mess for die hard taylor swift fans. lindsey rutland tried to buy tickets online two days ago. pretty much, when we were in the queue, they stopped and said, like, your queue s been paused. reporter: swift hasn t toured since 2018, so and in had reached a fever pitch. late today ticketmaster blamed the cancellation on extraordinarily high demand on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet the demand. earlier in the day ticketmaster s parent company said swift s unmatched popularity and a pre-sale opportunity overloaded the system. we had 14 million people hit the site including botts. reporter: ticketmaster and brokenhearted fans known wifte .