that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s
democrats seats. also tonight in a new report in the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan the white house largely blaming the chaos and decisions by former president trump on the actions it says the u.s. should have taken even sooner. the rising tensions in the middle east. israel striking back tonight after the biggest barrage of missiles from lebanon in more than 16 years. tracking severe storms on the move tonight in the midatlantic on the heels of that deadly tornado outbreak. nbc news investigates after our report on toxic air concerns near a louisiana school. what the epa is now doing about it. and it was 20 years ago we lost a member of our nbc news family covering the war in iraq. tonight my conversation with david bloom s widow about the lives his story may have saved. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. the tears of grief that consume nashville, tennessee, just ten days ago over the murders of young children and
saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, oh, there s nothing you can do. they say you can do something for everything else but this. that s why you find ourselves in a position where our children are afraid to go to school. this is the leading cause of death. it is the leading cause of death among children. you know, it wasn t always that way. i was explaining to some people a bit younger than me yesterday, that when colubine happened, it was a shock to the system. that was really something that massive had happened, and we thought it was a one off. then a movie theater in aurora,
and good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker in atlanta. good morning, amara. i m boris sanchez. coming to you live from memphis, tennessee, a city still reeling from the brutal beating of tyre nichols at the hands of five now former memphis police officers. the full video of that beating was released to the public just a few hours ago, amara. yeah, that s right, boris, and as many would say, it was very difficult to watch. that video shows the deadly encounter between tyre nichols and memphis police officers earlier this month. nichols was pulled over on january 7th allegedly for reckless driving, but the police chief said the department has been unable to find anything that substantiates those claims. in all, the video covers 38 excruciating minutes from the moment the officers pull him over to the moments after an ambulance arrives at the scene. the videos show officers hitting the 29-year-old repeatedly, kicking him in the face, even a
hi, everyone. thanks so much for joining me in washington, d.c. i m jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield today. a city and nation in shock. hours after memphis police released videos of the brutal killing of tyre 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 we re about to show you is extremely graphic. the videos document nichols being pulled over earlier this month for alleged reckless driving. place are seen yanking him from the car, chasing, kicking him, using pepper spray and batons. nichols, who is unarmed, crying for miss his mother at one poin. he died from his injuries three days later in the hospital. those videos are sparking largely peaceful protests across the country overnight and into today. earlier this week the five officers were charged with second-degree murder and now after this video has come out, two officers from a different department who were al