attack on pelosi and other threats to leaders. and the escalating rhetoric. mary bruce is live. just six days now until the midterms. the economy issue number one. in nevada tonight, the first latina senator in the u.s., a democrat, fighting to hold opt her seat. former president obama trying to help. and what the voters there told our martha raddatz. plus tonight, georgia, pennsylvania, new hampshire, and ohio. rachel scott on these very tight races. we ll show you the numbers tonight. the fed hiking interest rates three quarters of a per essential today to try to slow down inflation and try to stave off recession. how americans will feel this. in parkland, school shooter nikolas cruz face-to-face with families, formally sentenced tonight to 34 consecutive sentences of life in prison. victor oquendo is there. the alarming escalation by north korea. more than 20 missile tests launched. what south korea did for the first time and matt gutman in south korea. the war i
husband jose. he died of a heart attack days later after a memorial for her. there are virtual meetings tomorrow to try to find what leading senate republican john cornyn calls a basic framework for gun safety proposals that could become legislation in the coming weeks, although it s still a long shot. president biden is prioritizing inflation at the white house today, laying out his three-part plan to address the glowing problem in a wall street journal op-ed and promising he won t medal with the fed ahead of a key meeting with jerome powell. the president also sits down with new zealand s prime minister who led her country to crack down on guns after the christ church mass shooting in 2019. we ll bring you news from their white house meeting as we get it. european union commission president saying this package helps to finalize a ban on nearly 90% of all russian oil imports by the end of the year. we begin this hour with uvalde, with nbc s shaq brewster and nbc justice co
rachel, we ll see you here on election night. along with martha and the entire powerhouse political team. they ll be right here as the election results come in, begins at 8:00 p.m. election night. we have a lot of new tools here. right down to your community, how a candidate is performing, how they should be performing at a given hour, the benchmarks throughout the night.pa key inde new tools we ll have, so, we ll guide you right through the whole thing. next tuesday night, right here, our election night coverage. rachel, thank you. in the meantime, we continue with the rest of the news this evening and we turn to florida now, with the parkland gunman, nikolas cruz, was face-to-face with 23578lys of his victims today. tonight, he s been formally sentenced to 34 consecutive sentences of life in prison. and what those familis told him. victor oquendo again tonight in florida. reporter: tonight, face-to-face with the victims and families, the parkland shooter sentenced to life. the
you became an activist as a result of those experiences. can you talk about what 23578 lease and survivors in uvalde and elsewhere, buffalo and now chattanooga, are likely dealing with. thanks so much for that really important and critical question. i think it s really important to think about how big the ripple effect of gun violence truly is in this country, especially when we understand and know that not only are 100 people shot every day in this country. we have 40,000 people who were killed in 2020, a 25-year high and two to three times that number are individuals who are wounded and injured. the trauma that we experience as survivors of gun violence is on going. i m 17 years away from the day,
partners including the fbi to look into how this fire started. a search warrant was executed on friday on private property but the sheriff would not go into details about the ongoing investigation. the deadly wildfire ignited on a day with extremely dry conditions, essene sspecially w red flag notice. winds up to 100 miles an hour ripped through an area where hundreds of homes were destroyed. we spoke to families who lost everything they owned. one 23578ly family said they hs to take their cell phones, dogs and medicine to drive away into a red sky. one boulder county administrator said his house is okay but he was at a lookout point with winds strong enough to nearly knock him over. he realized it was time to go. i decided i better go home. i got a message from my wife that we had an evacuation order.