letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we
the train derailment emergency in ohio. authorities release toxic chemicals from tanker cars. the race to recover that suspected chinese spy balloon shot down off the south carolina coast. the military saying the debris field is roughly 15 football fields by 15 football fields wide. what can the u.s. learn from the remnants? president biden on the eve of the state of the union address. our new reporting on last-minute changes to his speech. a day after she made grammy history, tickets to beyonce s new tour on sale. and the father, the daughter, and the bucket list in inspiring america. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for joining us. powerful and dangerous aftershocks have continued to rattle parts of turkey near the syria border where the death toll has climbed above 3,000 after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake. as we begin tonight, let me warn you, some of the videos are terrifying. multiple-story buildings crashing into
responsible for the accident. joining us now, george solis, in east palestine, ohio, and julie grant, managing editor and reporter for the allegheny front also and has spent a lot of time in that area. we are awaiting the governor of ohio to speak any minute. when he does, we will bring you that live. george, i want to start with you. what do we expect to hear from the governor this morning? reporter: good morning, jose. we are expecting to hear what plans may be in place, should the rain start to move in here into town. that s a big concern as we know some of the runoff could contaminate the water ways further. the governor said there are response teams here in place to prevent that from happening. there is also talks of building dams to keep any water ways from being further contaminated. there is also going to be a question or two about any chance of more federal aid or if federal disaster declaration will be declared here to get more aid. they will be on the ground he
katy tur. can dominion win? new court documents are providing even more evidence that fox news hosts and executives knew the election was fair, knew the allegations of fraud were bogus, and that those pushing them were, quote, lying, and yet, pushed those lies anyway. it s remarkable how weak ratings make good journalists do bad things. former fox news managing editor and vice president bill salmon said the network pushed the false claims. maybe sean and laura went too far, rupert murdoch said of handy and ingraham, the day after joe biden s inauguration. it s been suggested that fox s prime time hosts should say something like the election is over and joe biden won said fox president suzanne scott to rupert murdoch. he replied that a version of this would go a long way to stop the trump myth that the election was stolen. all of these quotes show that what fox knew and said privately was a 180 from what the network was telling its audience, but does it clear the bar for defam
The coast of myrtle beach, South Carolina. Tonight, military crews are jam bling to recover the wreckage, and china is responding angrily. Meanwhile, President Biden says he and u. S. Military leaders decided to wait until the balloon completed its crosscountry journey and was safely overwater before shooting it down. Listen to this. On wednesday when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. Cnn has Team Coverage of this extraordinary moment in u. S. China relations. I want to start with cnns Orin Lieberman over at the palm. Walk us through what happened earlier today. This was days of planning to get to this point, to figure out how best to shoot this balloon down and where best to shoot this balloon down. In the end, the Department Of Defense recommended waiting until it was out overwater and the prevailing winds over the United States, especially over the course of the past day, took it out over the waters of north and S