plus, neck and neck. several key midterm races across the country still a toss-up, just a month out from the election. and later, heroes at the wheel. a pair of quick-thinking bus drivers rescue a todd her after the car the child was in was carjacked. the remarkable story coming up. hello, everyone. thank you for joining us this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. new today, russia fires a barrage of missiles into the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, leaving at least 12 dead, another 87 injured, including ten children. these new strikes happening just hours after a massive explosion damaged the only direct road and rail connection between annexed crimea and the russian mainland. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the blast, but has publicly celebrated it. and new satellite images show the damage from above. but despite that, rush aif says it is resuming some car and train service. f fred, this attack overnight hitting a civilian area. what more are you learning? y
kevin: the president will speak at the un general asem blee a few hours from now, he has collected what he wants to say and sources say this will be a seminole moment in the short biden presidency. he is expected around 10:35 this morning. these things tend to slide as the day goes along, 10:35, could be closer to 11 or 11:30. we ll be watching. he will participate in meeting with un secretary general and have a bilat with the brand-new prime minister of the united kingdom. beijing considers its response to the president s repeated insistence that if china does invade taiwan, the u.s. will act. would u.s. forces defend the island? yes. to be clear, u.s. forces, u.s. men and women would defend taiwan in event of taiwan invasion? yes. kevin: surprised the reporter and many on the team at the white house. the address is expected to place china and taiwan issues front and center today and no, despite his previous comments to the contrary, no change in u.s. policy, tai
sean. high school police departmet is slamming a student and the video is shocking and the impact that ll have on elections. first, the white house is trying to back away from president biden s end of the world rhetoric as biden ran from reporter s questions about the comments on friday. he told democrat fundraiser think about it. we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis and said putin is not joking when talking about potential of tactical and nuclear weapons. those were a hot topic today on the sunday s shows from a former chairman of joint chiefs of staff to trump s former secretary of state. biden s rhetoric is being called wreck less. you re about at the top of the language scale if you will and we need to back off that a little bit. what he told putin by saying armageddon, you strengthened putin and gave him confidence to think that biden s scared. those comments were reckless and i think that even more importan
we re joined live with the very latest. david. john, at the outset it is not believed that anyone in lee zeldin s family was being targeted by this shooting. but it was literally at his front door. a few moments ago i talked to the congressman and he is running for governor here in the state of new york against a democrat cathy hochul and he did tell me his two 16-year-old daughters were in the kitchen when they heard the gunfire. one of the bullets he told me landed 30 feet from where his daughters were sitting. the two daughters immediately locked themselves in a bathroom and then called 911. he issued a statement saying in parting the two individuals shot were laying under my front porch in the pitches in front of our porch. my understanding is that they ve been transported to area hospitals and i do not know their identities and the law enforcement is at my house and my family is homeworking with investigators and working with home cameras and my daughters are shaken b
also tonight, president biden at the u.n. condemning vladamir putin after he announced he s drafting 300,000 more troops. the russian president escalating his nuclear threats, warning the west this is not a bluff. the two americans freed in a russian/ukraine prisoner swap. the key role played by the saudi crown prince. hurricane fiona is strengthening into a monster category 4 storm. we re on the ground. and al roker with where it s headed next. the fed announcing another super-sized fed rake to the highest level since 2008. the impact on your money. and the two major league sluggers chasing home run history. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. former president donald trump s legal troubles deepening tonight, putting his business empire in jeopardy. new york s democratic attorney general naming mr. trump and his three oldest children in a sweeping civil lawsuit, accusing them of 200 instances of fraud. for allegedly manipulating the value of