of migrant crossings days before covid era policy ends. we are live at the border. plus, rocket systems sabotaged. sources telling cnn that russia is using electronic jammers to throw off rocket systems in ukraine in some cases causing rockets to miss their targets. how the pentagon is responding. the labor market is on fire but april surprise jobs report is complicating the fed s inflation fight. so what will the central bank do next? following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central . we begin as we often do at the u.s.-mexico border. alejandra mayorkas there for a second day now. red cross volunteers also on the ground helping out with the growing number of migrants all crossing into texas. even before title 42, as it s known, ends. that trump-era policy allowed the government to quickly turn away asylum seekers due to covid-19. that expires on thursday. border towns are bracing for an immediate surge, really a furt
events in our lives and our economy depends on these airlines doing a good job. when you board a flight, whether you are up before dawn, coffee in hand, ready to go to a conference or up past everyone s bedtime wrangling toddlers like we were the other night you count on that airline to provide the service that you paid for. we re here today to share the latest steps that we are taking to ensure that airlines do just that. it s important to note here that just over two years ago when president biden took office in the depths of the pandemic the biggest concern around our nation s airlines was whether they would stay in business at all, and if they did, how many years or even decades it would take for them to recover. but president biden acted to restore this economy swiftly and demand came back faster than most forecasters thought was even possible. we know some u.s. airlines have struggled to meet that demand. now, weather remains the top cause of airline delays, but staffin
stunning video deposition and what both sides said today. alex murdaugh s admission he lied about the death of his long-time housekeeper. what s next in the case and why millions of dollars are at stake. as the summer travel season kicks off, could a new rule make airlines pay you when it s their fault that flights are canceled or delayed? when you could start seeing that cash and after this winter s massive storms, the runoff unearthed a glittering prospect in the mountains. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and thank you for joining us the news that came out of texas over the weekend was almost too much to take, especially after a series of grim headlines of mass violence that have rocked the country recently we don t know what caused a driver to plow his suv into a crowd of migrants waiting at a bus stop in brownsville on sunday, killing eight, but tonight he has been charged with eight counts of manslaughter the suspect describe
and recently, not some past generation or just the past few years, if you had been the chairman of the intelligence committee in the house of representatives again not a long time ago but recently, if you had been the attorney general of the united states recently, if you had had any of those jobs in the very recent past you d think that you d kind of be a hot ticket, right? you d think that you d hav you d be moving in impressive circles maybe not for the whole rest of your life, the sort of impactor of that highfalutin jo you had would wear off, but at least while you were in that impressive very high end government job you d think you can kind of write your own ticket and you think you d move in kind of rarefied air. you would think. alas, this week all of those people i just mentioned, literallyt the guy who was attorney general of the united states ando the guy who was pentagon chiefuy of staff and national security advisor and white house trade chief, all the rest of th
neighbor s house, a walmart, and now an outlet mall, this time in allen, texas, this time, eight people are dead. this time, a witness tells us exactly what it looks like when the gunfire from an ar-15 hits the human body. because this time he saw it for himself. might want to warn you, his experience is graphic. . i went to the first person i found crouching in the bushes. looked like she was praying, and i felt for a pulse. there was no pulse. so i pulled her head up to look at her face and there wasn t a face. just brain matter. so i went to the next guy, he was already staring straight ahead, eyes were fixed and dilated. no pulse. went to the third guy, he was breathing put my hand on his chest, he chest wentz up and down, he moaned so i started i felt for a pulse, didn t feel a pulse, but he was breathing. but he was bleeding profusely, so i pushed on the guy s chest to start cpr and the blood came out of his mouth and he looked at me and died. there was nothing i co