john: begin america reports with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current president s son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. sandra: we made it to wednesday. i m sandra smith in new york. washington post reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the post says phone records of some trump officials have been seized and witnesses have been questioned before a grand jury. john: as iowa senator chuck grassley accuses the fbi and d.o.j. for trying to bury the dirt they have on hunter biden. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house with the latest on the hunter biden investigation. rich edson, how deep does the investigation go? john, the justice department is investigating the attack on the capitol and phony electorat
committee and other law enforcement agencies want access to the text messages his lawyers accidentally sent to the plaintiffs. plus, changes to airline cancellation rules may be about to take off. why passengers could actually get refunds for all of those canceled and delayed flights. welcome to the lead. we start with the world lead. a russian court found wnba star brittney griner guilty today of drug smuggling, quote, with criminal intent. the judge ordering griner to spend nine years in a russian penal colony that s under the maximum sentence. griner was arrested and charged in february for smuggling less than one gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. her lawyers argued she had been packing quickly to play for the russian premier league and didn t know that the cannabis oil, which had been prescribed by a u.s. doctor, was not allowed in russia. griner delivering this plea as part of her closing statement. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any
if there s nothing to indicate, guys, there might be some quite significant restrictions on this, then it is potentially misleading. so, is terracycle all it aspires to be? you know, my hope at the end, one day we re all going to die and my hope is that, when that happens, that the world misses me. i ve come to treyarnon beach, in cornwall, for the monthly local clean up. we re all looking for the same thing. the majority of the plastic will be on the high tide point or the car park we know there s litter up there and the sand dunes. four years ago, emily and herfriend lawrence found something that shows just how long plastic pollution can last. i found this crisp packet when i was ten years old. i looked at it, and was, like, this is not a crisp packet you would see today. i ve never seen this design on a walkers crisp packet. so i think i gave it to emily, and she said, that looks like something from a long time ago. the packet dates back to the 1980s much, much
and two teachers died in a mass shooting at an elementary school. the coffin of ten year old ameriejo garza was borne into the sacred heart catholic church, across the road from her school. those are the main headlines. now on bbc news it s time for panorama. how much do you know about what happens to the plastic in your cupboards? we built plastic as the perfect material. it s durable, but that s exactly why it s become such a problem, because it doesn t degrade. there s a good chance you ll have bought stuff with this logo on it. behind it, a company, terracycle, that says it can recycle anything. ever looked at a crisp packet and thought it would make a nice chair? but the company s been accused of greenwashing in the us. when you describe terracycle s business model to people, i often get a kind of really? look off them. if there s nothing to indicate, guys, there might be some quite significant restrictions on this, then it is potentially misleading. so, is terracyc
with an assault rifle and he started shooting. jericka: as millions take to the skies for thanksgiving, we are tracking a major storm that could impact your flight. this is united s newark airport operations center. everyone here is watching the weather and about 370 departures with 50,000 passengers trying to get out and get home on time. jericka: our living well series, raising spirits without alcohol. i just feel a sense of calm that i hadn t felt when i was drinking. mr. david letterman. [applause] jericka: and david letterman returns to late-night to find some surprising changes. is it anything like what you had over there down there? what, all of this weed? [laughter] davi letterman, everybody! [applause] jericka: good evening and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night. i m jericka duncan in for norah. we begin tonight with israel and hamas on the verge of a deal that would free a number of hostages in gaza in exchange for a temporary p