and the ukrainians inspiring america through the power of dance. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we have our eyes tonight on five tropical weather systems churning in the atlantic, including hurricane fiona still a strong storm at category 3 racing towards the canadian coastline earlier today, sideswiping the island nation of bermuda sparing it the full brunt of its fury but still knocking out power for a time and at sea the hurricane churning up 50-foot waves like these captured in video on a sail drone. right now canada s atlantic coast bracing for what would be a rare major hurricane landfall in those parts. but here in the united states our attention now focusing on a tropical depression that early computer models suggest may strike the florida peninsula as a strong hurricane by the middle of next week. florida s governor tonight declaring a state of emergency for two dozen counties as he urgesloridians to prepare. let s go right
moskow. reporter: at the very same time that cnn and other western media were showing the attacks in kyiv, western tv was not showing live coverage from kyiv. in fact, it was showing pre-taped reports some of them very dramatic showing reporters in flack-jackets standing in front of tanks but coming instead from that break away region in the eastern part of ukraine, the donbas region where those two break away republics that were recognized officially this week by russia are located. this is all part of the messaging from the russian government on state tv constantly showing the people in those locations claiming that they are the victims of genocide, that they are being attacked by the ukrainian government. the ukrainian government, of course, denying that. but it is an attempt to justify the steps that the russians are taking now to remove that