how close they came to catastrophe. you ll hear the urgent calls from air traffic control. the black boxes found after the passenger plane crash that killed at least 69 in nepal. the final moments caught on camera. the search tonight for answers. the death toll growing in one of the worst russian strikes on civilians since the war in ukraine began. italy s most wanted man captured. how a notorious mafia boss was found hiding in plain sight after 30 years on the run. and honoring a civil rights icon. the images from across the country on this martin luther king jr. day. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. california tonight suffering the effects of its tenth consecutive storm. weeks of rain from an atmospheric river undermining roads. some crumbling right before the eyes of horrified onlookers. saturated hillsides turning to mudslides. the round of storms now blamed for the deaths of at least 22 people. search and rescue
28th. welcome to cnn this morning. southwest airlines now facing federal scrutiny as thousands of passengers remain stranded, some for more than a week. southwest today has already cancelled 60% of their flights and the ceo now issuing this video apology. i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we ve been facing, whether you haven t been able to get where you needed to go or you re one of our employees, to understand that we re doing everything that we can to return to normal operations and also hear i m truly sorry. the supreme court has decided to keep in place the border restriction known as title 42 and the legal challenges the court will hear in february, it now could be months that the migrants desperately seeking asylum could get the way to enter the united states legally. and it s revealed that former white house aide cassidy hutchison said she saw mark meadows burning documents in his office about a dozen times. she also told the committee there we
great middle of the week. clearly they are playing that song for you, katie. she has some kind of wonderful. it is good, great day so far halfway between christmas and new year s the weird we saw a couple of poinsettias on the left and right but are you celebrating christmas? katie: why not? the tree is still on fox square. it is not new year s yet and i think it s great to have a couple of days. griff: rachel said we have to abide by the 12 days of christmas and not take any trees down here that will not happen on this show. katie: everything has been great. i am with you guys this morning. griff: a lot happened the last 24 hours, obviously regarding the border supreme court keeping title 42 in place against the white house s wishes for now. katie: and title 42 dropped, we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border, which would add up to 5 million illegal crossings each year. joey: lucas tomlinson is live, what do you got? speak with the s
let s welcome tonight s guest. readers get so lost in his books , his publisher includes at map. writer in literary critic walte kerr. she is so bright that daylight savings times since he hate mail. here in paris need. he gets in bed while you re still at work and he s always gone before you get home. cohost of fox and friends. she keeps yourself so thin so she can slip through the bars over holding cell. a fox news contributor kat timpf . so exhausted. it has been another great weeks of shows thanks to new creams and ointments i ve been using that allow me to sit comfortably . thanks, larry, but it s been seven days since my favorite segment so let s go do it right now, shelley? greg s leftovers. it is time once again for leftovers were i read the jokes we didn t use this week in as always it s my first time reading them. if they suck, it s not my fault. but if they are great, it s all me because that s how it works great if you don t like it, get your own show. don t
cry, is it? famously, general winter is russia s great ally. and although when vladimir putin launched his invasion of ukraine back in february, he clearly thought it would all be finished in a couple of weeks or so, he s now hoping to recruit general winter to help him win, more than eight months later. people in kyiv and many other towns and cities in ukraine are suffering from the loss of power and heating, even though on the battlefield itself, ukraine continues to do well. is the balance of the war changing, therefore? i spoke to frank gardner, the bbc s security correspondent. i think ukraine is still largely doing better because of the quality of its army, and its command structure and its use of combined arms. but russia is slowly reinforcing its front lines with all of these conscripts and reservists, some of them very poorly trained and poorly equipped. and it s very clear that what russia is trying to do is to make up for its military failures by punishing the civi