spring storms bringing snow from the midwest to the northeast. the stunning news involving baseball superstar shohei ohtani. his interpreter suddenly fired. the allegations of massive theft and illegal gambling. the medical milestone. for the first time ever, the kidney from a pig transplanted into a human. and the powerful new memorial. reclaiming a site with a painful past. the emotional journey and the moment i made a very personal discovery. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, everyone. we start with breaking news tonight. the manhunt now over for an escaped idaho prison inmate and his alleged accomplice. authorities say both men were arrested this afternoon after a short car chase. no shots were fired in contrast to yesterday, when three corrections officers were shot and wounded, one by apparent friendly fire during the escape. and now authorities say they are investigating two homicides that they say may be connected to the fugitive's time on the run. dana griffin has late developments for us. dana, still a lot of questions to be answered tonight. >> reporter: absolutely, lester. these dangerous suspects were arrested in idaho without further gunfire after investigators say they may have killed two people while on the lam. they managed to ditch their first getaway car and hop into another. investigators now piecing together their movements over the last day and a half. tonight, escaped inmate skylar meade and accomplice nicholas umphenour arrested after a vehicle pursuit with police, nearly 36 hours after their brazen shooting ambush on corrections officers outside a boise, idaho, hospital. investigators say the men may now be tied to two homicides during their time on the run. >> we did find the shackles at the scene of one of the homicides. the motive and why they did what they did, i don't know. >> reporter: the men taken into custody in twin falls, idaho, nearly 130 miles from the hospital where three officers were shot during the initial escape. >> the patient had a driver who was a shooter. >> reporter: authorities say both men are members of the white supremacist gang aryan knights. according to the doj, the aryan knights was formed in the mid-1990s in the idaho prison system. they often use initials "ak" to identify themselves, similar to the tattoos on meade's stomach. the gang has also used violence to target inmates of color. >> the fact they did basically a movie-type shootout to free him from prison is just really bold, and it means that they'd been planning it for a while. >> reporter: authorities now turning their investigation to how they pulled off the coordinated attack and escape. >> with near certainty, this was not an accident. this was a planned event. we're channeling every resource we have into trying to understand exactly how they went about planning it. >> reporter: a sophisticated criminal plot coming to an end with these jailhouse friends heading back behind bars. dana griffin, nbc news. tonight, the u.s. justice department is looking to take a bite out of apple, filing a lawsuit against the computer giant, accusing it of monopolizing the smartphone market by restricting its operating system. laura jarrett now with the legal battle. >> reporter: attorney general merrick garland announcing a landmark lawsuit today, accusing tech giant apple of leveraging its dominance over the smartphone market to box out competitors in a way that hurts customers. >> apple has consolidated its monopoly power not by making its own products better, but by making other products worse. consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies break the law. >> reporter: the justice department joining more than a dozen states in nearly a 90-page complaint, accusing the company of violating antitrust laws through the iphone, apple watch, and apple pay. doj saying the tech behemoth, which has more than a billion active iphones worldwide, deliberately makes products less compatible with its competitors' devices. >> as any iphone user who has ever seen a green text message or received a tiny, grainy video can attest. >> reporter: garland specifically calling out apple ceo tim cook, referencing this exchange cook had back in 2022 when he was asked if the company would fix the problems associated with texting video between iphones and androids. >> not to make it personal, but i can't send my mom certain videos and she can't send me certain videos. >> buy your mom an iphone. >> reporter: apple today calling the lawsuit wrong on the facts and the law, saying it threatens who we are and the principles that set apple products apart in fiercely competitive markets. if successful, it would hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from apple. the lawsuit the culmination of years of regulatory scrutiny of apple's wildly popular products, fueling its growth into one of the most valuable companies in the world. >> people love buying their iphones. people enjoy their iphones. it is the most popular smartphone brand here in the united states. >> so laura, what does the doj want apple to do to remedy this? >> lester, the government wants apple to make its products more compatible with other companies' technology. but the department hasn't ruled out even breaking up apple if necessary, a drastic step that hasn't happened since bell systems back in 1982. but lester, this is likely to be a legal fight that goes on for years. >> all right, laura, thank you. we want to turn now to two aviation mishaps under federal investigation. one involves an american flight that landed in dallas with no brakes. the other involves another problem with the boeing max-8. tom costello joins us. let's start with what happened in dallas, tom. >> reporter: yeah, this happened back in february, as the american airlines 737 landed on the dfw runway, the pilot found they had no brakes. they set their thrust reversers to maximum as the control tower started fire/rescue just in case. the plane rolled off the end of the runway into an overrun area, nobody injured. the ntsb found a maintenance team had improperly reconnected and swapped two hydraulic brake lines and electrical lines. american airlines tells us, "the safety of our customers and team members is our top priority, and we are fully cooperating with the ntsb." lester? >> and tom, the second investigation could suggest another issue with the boeing 737 max and quality control? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the faa wants hundreds of max planes inspected over three years for chafing wire bundles that could cause the pilots to lose control. nbcnews.com was the first to report this problem. it dates back to 2021, when pilots momentarily lost control of a max that suddenly rolled to the right. the faa warns wiring damage could lead to loss of control of the airplane. boeing tells nbc news this is not an immediate safety of flight issue. it's already being addressed. but it does come as the faa focuses on quality control breakdowns at boeing, lester. >> all right, tom costello, thank you. now to the middle east tonight. the biden administration taking a more aggressive stance and calling for an immediate cease-fire at the united nations. raf sanchez is in israel with late details. >> reporter: tonight, secretary of state antony blinken back in the middle east, as the u.s. for the first time puts forward a u.n. security council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in gaza. >> and we hope that all countries will back that resolution. >> reporter: those against? >> it's a marked shift for the u.s., which was left diplomatically isolated after vetoing three previous cease-fire resolutions. but those measures called for an end to the fighting even without a hostage deal. the new american resolution conditions a cease-fire on the release of hostages. >> negotiators continue to work. the gaps are narrowing. >> reporter: while at al shifa hospital, israel's military raid stretching into a fourth day. the idf says it's killed 140 militants inside and captured senior hamas operatives. but it's another blow to a health care system already near collapse. it's a fact manal and reen know well. both are mothers from gaza suffering from breast cancer. "my wish is to see my children and grandchildren and go back home," manal says they were allowed out of gaza for treatment in jerusalem. but now, an israeli court is deciding whether to send them back, to a place where basic medicines are impossible to find. "our fate will be death," she says. and the u.s. says it will bring that u.n. resolution up for a vote friday morning. also tomorrow, the cia director will be in qatar trying to jump-start those hostage negotiations. lester? >> raf sanchez, thank you. now to the crisis in haiti. the u.s. now flying trapped americans out on chartered planes as the country descends further into chaos. guad venegas is in miami as dozens arrived back on u.s. soil. >> reporter: this is what relief looks like. a plane of 14 u.s. citizens, including children, arriving in central florida after a harrowing escape from haiti. >> it took a couple of tries, and they didn't give up. they stayed with us until the end of the mission. >> reporter: felipe armand was on board this flight chartered by the state of florida with his wife and his 2-year-old son. >> very difficult part was getting around and making it to the airport to fly out. we were dealing with little kids, not adults. so that made it even more stressful on the parents and it was just scary. >> reporter: they were lucky. there is still more than a thousand americans in haiti. but with the airport in port-au-prince shuttered, roads closed, daily gun battles on the streets, and armed gangs overrunning the capital, most americans have no way out. >> i would say it's worse than a war zone. >> reporter: private security contractors now going door-to-door, trying to rescue them. >> helicopter got surrounded the day at the airport, where the helicopter had to take off in a manner that was just -- i don't want to say unsafe, but again, the tower told them he may not be able to land there again. >> reporter: another flight arriving in miami today. >> i'm just happy because i get to united states. >> reporter: 66 more americans now on u.s. soil. how is the country right now? >> country needs help. >> reporter: a country in chaos and people terrified for their lives, hoping to get out. guad venegas, nbc news, miami. and here at home, yet more winter weather on the way. tonight, 20 million people are under winter alerts from montana to maine. parts of the midwest could see 3 to 6 inches of snow with up to a foot possible in northern new england. then another winter storm will bring yet more heavy snow to parts of these areas early next week. in 60 seconds, the gambling scandal with a connection to the biggest star in major league baseball. now shohei ohtani's best friend and interpreter has been fired, next. we're back now with a scandal rocking major league baseball. the l.a. dodgers suddenly firing the interpreter for japanese superstar shohei ohtani amid allegations of massive theft and illegal gambling debts. here is liz kreutz. >> reporter: tonight, the biggest player in baseball, shohei ohtani, at the center of a scandal. the los angeles dodgers abruptly firing the star player's japanese interpreter, ippei mizuhara. attorneys for ohtani, who did not name mizuhara, say their client was the victim of a massive theft, a bomb shell allegation raising more questions than answers. the firing follows a report in "the l.a. times" saying ohtani's name came up during a federal investigation into a sports gambling scheme in california. a person familiar with ohtani and mizuhara's interactions items nbc news the allegations center on wire transfers of more than $4.5 million from ohtani's account paid to a book-making operation. the source says mizuhara told ohtani's representatives that he had a large gambling debt that ohtani agreed to cover. mizuhara later admitted to espn that he lied about ohtani's partic participation. the source says the wire transfers from ohtani's account were sent without ohtani's authorization. >> i think the public is just shocked. they cannot even conceive of something like this even remotely being associated with ohtani. >> reporter: the controversy clouding what should have been a triumphant week for ohtani, his first as a dodger after signing a $700 million contract. just yesterday, on opening day, ohtani seen with mizuhara. he was fired soon after. >> can't comment. sorry. >> reporter: ohtani has not commented. espn says mizuhara told them that this is all his fault, that he's ready to face the consequences. he did not respond to nbc news' attempts to reach him. lester? 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>> yes. you can see the metal points here. >> along the trail, visitors are reminded this human trafficking points here. >> along the trail, visitors are reminded was not just a stain on the south. north carolina, maryland, new jersey. its tentacles reached north. >> no. it begins in the north. it begins in new england. >> also posted here, laws that codify brutality against slaves. homicides shall be deemed excusable when committed by accident or misfortune in lawfully correcting a slave. a license to kill. >> that's right. that's right. and all of these laws really created an order that empowered people to use violence to maintain slavery. >> the monument park joins the recently opened legacy museum, which documents the history and impact of the atlantic slave trade. a third site, the national memorial for peace and justice, lays bare the raw history of lynching in america. it seems like a direct repudiation of some of the things, the movements we've heard over the last couple of years, to not teach some of this history, critical race theory. >> for me, it's been a life-long ambition to kind of get people to reckon with the truth. we can't get there if we don't talk honestly about this history. >> the centerpiece of the sculpture park, this wall embossed with 122,000 surnames that were adopted by newly emancipated slaves during the 1870 >> prior to the 1870 census census. >> prior to the 1870 census, enslaved people could only be numbers in the census, or first name. and these are the names that represent the 4 million people who were emancipated and recorded in 1870. and, you know, we wanted to see them in a place of honor, see them on the wall. >> scanning the names. you know what i'm doing now. >> of course them on the wall. >> scanning the names.. >> i find what i'm looking for. here we go. >> yeah, there it is. >> "holt." now, that name was picked for some reason. >> yeah, that's right. >> we don't know why. >> no. and what's interesting is, a lot of the names were names that people heard. >> i sit there and i look at that, and i think of who that name represents. >> yeah, yeah. >> what they went through. >> yeah. >> could they ever imagine me? >> yeah. that's the thing that's powerful. >> standing here. the urge is to grieve for them. bryan stevenson wants us to honor them. he quotes from the inscription at the base of the wall. >> "we honor your perseverance in the midst of sorrow. we honor your struggle for freedom. your children love you." >> and the line that jumps out at me, "the country you built must honor you." >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> that's what this monument hopes to do? >> absolutely. >> a powerful, and as you saw, personal journey of discovery. that's "nightly news." thanks for watching. please take care of yourself and each other. good night. i'm raj mathai. next on "nbc bay area news tonight," a major blow for california homeowners. one of the state's largest insurers is dropping thousands of customers. also, he's wanted again. the man we've been following as part of our series called "saving san francisco" is on the run, this time