good morning, everyone. it is saturday, february 25th. i m amara walker. good morning, amara, i m boris sanchez. we re grateful you are starting your weekend with us. you are live in the cnn newsroom and despite the vicious lies you may be reading on social media, amara and i didn t plan to coordinate our outfits, it happened naturally because great minds think alike. i think we re ready to welcome spring when it has ppen ukraine enters the second year of war with russia with a message to the world. [ speaking non-english ] [ cheers ] ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy acknowledging the grim milestones speaking before troops in kyiv. he declared 2023 as a year of ukraine s victory over russia and expressed confidence in his country s ability to fend off attacks. in the meantime, ukraine s international allies showed their solidarity with tributes and announcements of new weapons and funding heading to the region. the first shipment of heavy battle tanks arriv
janet yellen today appearing before congress. what she said about the safety of american banks. the u.s. threatening to ban tiktok over national security fears. how the popular app s owner is responding. the cross-country storm, tornado warnings and hail in texas. snow in the midwest, and caught on camera, the daring flood rescue in los angeles. nbc news investigates, why is this school still open near a plant the epa says emits a toxic chemical? families demanding answers. the first big upset in march madness. the tiny school pulling off a stunner in its first tournament appearance in 40 years. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. the u.s. tonight offering compelling evidence that russian fighter jets were the aggressors in a confrontation with an american air force drone over the black sea this week. newly declassified pentagon video from the drone s camera captured a russian warplane spraying jet fuel dire
nichols. the full videos, released last night, show five former memphis police officers repeatedly beating the 29 year old, and i want to warn you, what you re about to watch is extremely graphic. the videos document nichols being pulled over earlier this month for alleged reckless driving. police are then seen yanking nichols from his car, chasing, kicking him, using pepper spray and batons. nichols, unarmed, cries out for his mother at one point. he died from his injuries three days later in the hospital, and those videos sparking largely peaceful protests all across the country. earlier this week the five officers involved were charged with second degree murder, and now after this video has come out two officers from a different department who are also on scene that night have been put on leave pending an investigation into their conduct. cnn s boris sanchez breaks down these newly released videos. again, a warning for you, they re very graphic. reporter: tyre nichols sc
ring out across ukraine as russia steps up the assault in the east. tonight, drive ukraine out of one town that is key to russia s plans to take a crucial city plus, breaking news, trump invited back, face facebook and instagram inviting him back. mr. war george sanchez got his money is deepening tonight. the embattled congressman suggest the $700,000 personal loan was not personal at all. details ahead. let s go out front. good evening i m aaron burnett. at front sight, ukraine sounding the alarm. air sirens blaring across much of central and eastern ukraine today. as forces wrap up. forces are making gains in the east but, any small gains are becoming a great cost. just take a solo door. no one knows the number of dead there, except that it is unbearably high, not strategically located town. tonight russia controls this so take a look at this what does it mean to control the town? there is new video that you can see, a total wasteland. total total destruction. and it s
i m going to break your cra cranium, you got that? we are quick to flare, aren t we? one, two, three, four, five, six. is that why you played that song? we re going to do it. he walked on to set this morning playing this song. i m going to get you a blue tooth speaker. i loved laverne and shirley. happy days, and later it was joanie loves. you re like, what are you talking about. good morning, everybody. we re talking about someone we love. hollywood has lost another star, we re talking about actress cindy williams who played shirley on happy days , more on her life in a moment. two more memphis police officers taken off the street, including the one who said he wanted to stomp tyre nichols. coming up, what they did on the night of that deadly beating. and a dangerous ice storm spreading misery across multiple states right now. 40 million americans enter winter weather alerts. travel nightmares beginning this morning. you have treacherous icy outside and a th