just in, the first guilty plea in the trump election interference case in georgia. a surprise arrest in the murder of rapper tupac shakur. why now after 30 years? the uaw expanding its strike against ford and gm as talks stall. fight over electric cars. and harry smith on whether a new grocery store could help feed one american town and heal old wounds. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening and welcome. as we come on the air, a nightmare commute home is underway here in the nation's biggest metropolitan area virtually paralyzed today by flooding rains. new york city under a state of emergency tonight with 23 million people under flood watches across new york, new jersey, and connecticut. new york's governor saying this is not an ordinary rainfall calling it historic. numerous cars have been stranded on flooded urban streets and roads. some drivers in need of rescue. subways and suburban rail trains stopped after water flooded tracks and flight disruptions at the regional's three major airports rippling across the country tonight. up to eight inches of rain have fallen in the new york area since last night some areas bracing for double-digit rainfall amounts before it' all over stephanie gosk starts us whooping cough from brooklyn tonight how serious was the flooding, steph? >> reporter: it rained so hard, so fast, this water had nowhere to go two to three months worth in a kay there were places in brooklyn it almost rained three inches in an hour. while it has let up a little bit, the damage is done. when the rain started coming down it didn't stop overnight and into rush hour. new york city grinding nearly to a halt. >> this is time for heightened alertness and extreme caution. >> reporter: states of emergency declared in new york and new jersey with major roadways flooded, drivers in stalled cars had to be rescued in the city and in suburbs along with several people living in basement apartments the heaviest rain hitting neighborhoods in brooklyn and queens transportation has been a nightmare one city bus braving a flooded street while passengers had no choice but get soaked. the rain impacting every subway line. some shut down all together in train stations water poured through grates, flowed downstairs, and even gushed straight out of the walls. >> the trains weren't running because of flooding. >> reporter: commuter trains in and out of the city shut down hundreds of flights canceled at jfk it was the wettest day ever recorded while at laguardia an entire terminal had to be closed when rainwater poured in. >> it was bad. you had water coming in all through bathrooms. >> reporter: some areas could see ten inches before it's over high-intensity rainfall like this an effect of climate change the conditions so bad it reminded many new yorkers of the remnants of hurricane ida that swept in and killed 13 people two years ago. many of the deaths then happening in basement apartments where flash floods caught families by surprise the governor telling people today not to take any chances >> leave your home if you are starting to see water accumulate don't wait until it's up to your knees or higher. >> reporter: tonight another rush hour and still the rain has not stopped. stephanie gosk, nbc news, brooklyn. also tonight, they tried and failed again today to come up with a deal in congress to keep the government funded and running past tomorrow's midnight deadline with millions of federal workers and government programs threatened. garrett haake with late details. >> reporter: the federal government on the brink of the shutdown. >> the bill is not passed. >> reporter: 21 house republicans defeating speaker mccarthy's latest plan to keep the government open while slashing spending. >> look up the word dysfunction in the dictionary and you will see united states congress. >> reporter: a handful of hard-line conservatives demanding even more spending cuts. the american people get screwed with more debt and pend spending they dheent want rich republican ainge we are one day left to pass a spending bill and avoid a midnight shutdown saturday. >> they killed the most conservative position we could take and then called themselves the conservatives which is like make that make sense. >> reporter: the speaker looking to shift blame if 3.5 million federal workers are forced to forego paychecks, though most will receive back pay when a a shutdown ends. >> what do you say to federal workers worried about their paychecks, that this is a political gamble - >> i am saying the republicans in here are trying to keep the government open. sounds like you think the democrats are going to shut it down. >> reporter: as president biden warned impact on 2 million military families who will serve without pay. >> you can't be playing politics while our troops stand in the breach it's an absolute dereliction of duty. >> reporter: faher husband serves in the coast guard. her message for lawmakers. >> if you believe in this country, if you believe in the people that are willing to lay their lives down to defend it, then show us. work together. >> you have covered congress a long time what are the chances they solve this by tomorrow's deadline? >> reporter: bad now they are getting worse by the hour. the house has no plan and the senate has gone home for the night. the government shuts down at midnight tomorrow night and lawmakers will still be paid in the event of a shutdown. >> garrett haake, thanks. a shutdown of the federal government is not absolute for example, the v.a. says veterans health care will not be impacted, some other v.a. services will be suspended and regional benefits offices will be closed. a shutdown would affect government programs, many others depend on, including headstart for low-income children and food assistance through w.i.c. and as for essential workers, including the millions who keep the country safely moving each day, they will stay on the job but be forced to work without pay as they did during the 2019 government shutdown tom costello has that part of the story. >> reporter: from the bus stop to the coast guard to food inspectors to nation's airports, another government shutdown will hit the very people who keep the country safe including 50,000 tsa officers who ensure planes are safe to fly. and 10,500 air traffic controllers already understaffed and working ten hour days, six day weeks. controller errors led to close calls this year now the added stress of working without pay. >> you can't not pay your mortgages you can't not pay your car payments you can't not pay your utilities. but the government is giving us zero balance pay days. >> reporter: four years ago many tsa officers going without a paycheck started quitting so they could find a job that would put food on the table. air traffic controllers after about a month started calling in sick. the 2019 shutdown finally ended when air travel was reduced to a trickle. also affected this year, the nation's parks. nbc's priscilla thompson is at big thicket national preserve in texas. >> across the country, 423 national parks could be shuttered, meaning services from trash collection to bathroom cleaning and campground operations would all be halted. >> reporter: while social security, medicaid and medicare will continue, passport processing will be further delayed. america's front line workers and everyday americans living paycheck to paycheck again in the crosshairs of political brinksmanship, even as members of congress continue collecting their pay. tom costello, nbc news, washington. dianne feinstein the longest serving woman in senate history and a role model for generations of women has died at age 90 andrea mitchell reports on her life and leg e legacy. >> reporter: tonight tributes from both sides of the aisle for dianne feinstein her desk draped in black, a vase of white roses, for a senator known for sending flowers to colleagues. >> today there are 25 women serving in this chamber and every one will admit they stand on dianne's shoulders. >> her beloved home state of california and our entire nation are better for her dogged advocacy and diligent service. >> the country will miss her dearly. >> reporter: and women senators for whom she painted watercolors. >> every time i would pass by i would look at it and think about how talented dianne was in so many different areas. >> reporter: feinstein's political career began in tragedy. november 1978, san francisco mayor george moscone and board of supervisors member harvey milk were assassinated in city hall. >> both mayor moscone and supervisor harvey milk have been shot and killed >> reporter: cementing her commitment to gun safety elected san francisco's mayor, she was on democratic nominee walter mondale's short list for running mate. >> i have had an opportunity to be the first women and the first mayor to be asked to go through an interview process, and i view that as a major opening of the door. >> reporter: it was the public outcry over the judiciary committee's grilling of anita hill at the clarence thomas hearings that got feinstein to the senate judiciary chairman joe biden made her the committee's first woman. she immediately led the charge to pass an assault weapons ban as the first woman to chair the intelligence committee she took on the cia's wbatter boarding of prisoners. in later years she showed signs of age and poor health, frail when returning to the senate, but rallying voting yesterday before a visit with former congresswoman jane harman. >> wint there because i miss her and she has been voting as she always did. >> reporter: always opening doors for women. >> dianne left us the way she lived. on her own terms she knew what she wanted to get accomplished she respected diversity of opinion she was as bipartisan as they come. >> reporter: dianne feinstein did to her way, always bipartisan, even frustrating some democrats but true to herself. lester. >> andrea mitchell, thank you. kristen welker, moderator of "meet the press" joins us now. kristen, california's governor will now have make an interim appointment to replace feinstein if tricky political waters >> that's right. the pressure is on california governor gavin newsom to decide who will fill senator feinstein's seat he said he would pick a short-term appointment, a caretaker to next year's election. the governor recently told nbc he wouldn't choose anyone who is currently running to avoid tipping the balance and among the candidates representatives barbara lee, katie porter and adam schiff they face off in a march primary. newsom pledged to appoint a black woman to the role. a source close to newsom tells me tonight he will announce his selection in the coming days lester. >> kristen welker, thank you. in georgia, the first plea deal today in the election interference case against former president trump. scott hall, a bail bondsman, was accused of trying to tamper with election data under the agreement, he pleaded guilty to five misdemeanor charges and was sentenced to five years of probation. also breaking tonight, a man arrested in las vegas in the killing of tupac shakur almost three decades after the rapper was gunned down the suspect had spoken publicly about being in the car that opened fire on shakur here is miguel almaguer >> reporter: 27 years after the violent and public murder of famed rapper tupac shakur, tonight las vegas authorities have finally announced charges in the case. arrested today, self-described gang member duane davis has been indicted by a grand jury for murder. >> this is the indictment we have been waiting almost three decades for. >> reporter: while police do not believe davis was the triggerman in the 1996 drive-by shooting, he is long admitted he was inside the gunman's car when shots were fired on the vegas strip. duane davis was the shock collar for this group of individuals that committed this climb. >> reporter: today's arrest comes just weeks after investigators raided davis' henderson home seizing a trove of electronics, photographs and a copy of his memoir, "compton street legend," in which he wrote and spoke about the shooting >> who shot tupac? >> this case was reinvigorated as additional information came to light specifically duane davis' own admissions. >> reporter: with davis in custody, authorities say the other men in the car that night are all dead ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: a hip-hop icon whose music is legendary, tupac was murder at just 25. tonight with an arrest in the case, shakur remains revered and relevant in life and death. miguel almaguer, nbc news in 60 seconds, a serious speed bump as the auto workers strike against ford and gm expands thousands more walking out. why electric cars are at the heart of the fight next 7,000 more workers walk off the job at ford and general motors plants today with a strike against the big three automakers now in the 15th day jesse kirsch has more now from detroit >> reporter: tonight more united auto workers walking off the job. >> we deserve more i would love to get it. >> reporter: the union striking at two additional plants, including this michigan general motors facility. after not targeting ford last friday, today the union putting that company back in the bull's-eye at a chicago plant. >> what changed with ford the last week >> they just didn't meet objectives where we need to be. we went backwards. we made movement on things we tried to accom accommodate concerns end of the day, they moved the goal line. >> reporter: ford's ceo, jim farley, taking a swipe at the uaw's president. >> shawn has been on the tv more than jake at state farm at this point. >> reporter: farley says he believes the holdup is largely over electric vehicle development. evs could require fewer jobs. >> we still have time to reach an agreement and avert a real disaster, but not much more time given the fragility of the supply base. >> reporter: the uaw's president said the two sides are far apart on multiple issues, adding like a good neighbor, we're available 24/7 gm says it's offering wage increases and job security while not jeopardizing our future the union didn't expand the strike against stellantis saying they made progress last minute stellantis writing we have made progress but gaps remain. ford says it's current offer allows an average employee to earn six figures in four years, but so far no deal. lester. >> jesse kirsch in michigan, thank you. next, richard engel on the front lines of the war in ukraine. what the children there have to do just to go to school. we're back with a closer look on front lines in ukraine and an unlikely place where children are finding safety in a war zone and a taste of normal life richard engel reports. >> reporter: for children in ukraine, back to school means heading back into the subways. as air raid sirens wail russian forces still bomb kharkiv almost every day, so teaching classes in the subways is safer, but there is also a practical reason nearly half of the city's regular schools have been destroyed. the subway station is open, but in the lit rooms above the tracks there is an elementary school the kids seem to be doing great, but that's what worries the thee teachers. >> how do you think the warm changed these children is it changing how they think yes, it impacts everything, there will be aftereffects for many, many years says anna give me ten. all right. what's it like when you hear the air raid sirens go off? here i don't hear the sirens at all. at home they scare me so much, she says. what do your parents tell you about the war? i know they want our territory because we are quite a rich country, and they want to take it away, says sofia, who is 6 years old. at school in the subway, lunch is a highlight. teachers are working to make sure this generation of war gets at least a taste of childhood. many parents will understand how kids complain about going to school. not here the children we saw were running to go to school it is the best part of their day by far even in the subway lester. >> thank you. when we come back, harry smith explains how a new grocery store is nourishing a town where it's 50 years overdue. we are pea back with big news in the music world after aerosmith canceled the rest of its farewell tour dates this year the band saying front man steven tyler's vocal injury is more serious than though thought. he damaged his vocal chords and fractured his larynx new dates will be announced for next year. finally tonight, harry smith has a close look at a neighborhood that hasn't had a new grocery store in 50 years and why it's already breaking barriers >> reporter: waterloo, iowa, is on a top ten list, has been for several years. rated among the worst places for black americans to live. a community that's long felt underserved. developer rodney anderson believes that is soon to change. this is a real grocery store? >> this is a real grocery store, you know, real grocery store, real jobs, real people, and real hope. >> reporter: a 28,000 square foot $10 million plus raj were that includes literacy programs, after school activities, jobs and training for the formerly incarcerated. it's called all in. >> it's a community center that just so happens top sell groceries. >> reporter: all in stands in sharp contrast to the trend of stores closing in cities because of crime. anderson vows that will not be a problem here >> you see blight, they are going to do blighted things. if they see development, success, this is a community store, so they shall protect it self-protect. >> reporter: that faith, that hope drew the attention of nyra jordan, who works for the social impact arm of american family insurance. >> it's really important that we connect ourselves to the individuals in community. people in community that are closest to the issue are also the ones that are the innovators, change makers that have the solutions. >> reporter: as best as anyone can remember, it's more than 50 years since a new grocery was built near here. what do you say to the naysayers? >> come shop i say come shop. >> reporter: harry smith, nbc news, waterloo, iowa. and that's "nightly news" for this friday. join us monday for my exclusive interview with outgoing joint chiefs chairman general mark milley. thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night good evening from the nbc bay area studios. i'm raj mathai. a lot happening on this friday night. the bay area is mourning the loss of senator dianne feinstein, and a programming note for you. the giants on nbc in just a few

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