we start here in the uk where businesses are welcoming an easing of coronavirus restrictions as england s plan b measures are abandoned. the government is no longer asking people in england to work from home effective immediately. from next thursday face coverings will no longer be required by law and covid passes won t be needed for nightclubs and large events. self isolation rules do remain in place for people who test positive, but could soon be phased out as our health editor hugh pym reports. masks on and off, the rules have changed at various times over the last two years but in england the government has said they will no longer be compulsory in shops and on public transport. in bristol, people gave us their reaction. i reckon it s a good thing that we are now learning to live with the omicron variant and that we have got to have the restrictions removed little by little. for me and for my family, i have elderly parents, ijust would rather if we could keep the
historic summit at camp david with the leaders of japan and south korea. on the agenda, confronting threats from china and north korea. donald trump deciding to skip next week s first gop presidential debate, and new reporting tonight, when will he surrender on new charges in georgia? nbc news reports aboard an f-16 fighter jet, the u.s. today approving the shipment of f-16s to ukraine, but how long will it take to train ukraine s pilots to fly them? and after losing her restaurant in the fires, the top chef still cooking with compassion for maui. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. normally this time of year, people in the south and the east are keeping an eye open for potential hurricane threats. tonight, however, in a historic weather twist, americans on the west coast are on alert with an eye on hurricane hilary as it races northward off the baja peninsula parts of california are under the first tropical storm watch
we start this hour with a shocking incident at our southern border. look right there in that highlighted area. because a human smuggler is dropping a 4-year-old child over that very tall wall to american soil below. pete: this comes nearly two weeks after the expiration of title 42 and highlights the surgent need to stop those cartels and human smugglers. we have been watching, do you see the baby actually fall the 4-year-old. right there they say the child is okay. griff jenkins is live at the white house with the latest for us, griff? good morning, ainsley, pete and steve, these videos are far too common, yesterday the border patrol chief raúl ortiz tweeting that video out. it s hard to watch. it s heart breaking. you see the smuggler dropping the 4-year-old toddler near san diego. near the san ysidro port of entry. he drops. fortunately he was okay. border patrol agents and emsz quickly responded to begin rendering care and first aid to the child who fortunately was
nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. firebrand former donald trump adviser steve bannon was found guilty this afternoon on two charges of criminal contempt of congress for defying subpoenas to appear before the january 6th select committee a federal prosecutor saying the defendant chose allegiance to donald trump over compliance with the law. the verdict coming less than 24 hours after a primetime session of the committee featured testimony from former white house insiders describing indifference by former president trump as deadly violence was rocking the u.s. capitol. tonight with the investigation reaching a turning point, the committee sending a strong message through steve bannon, who himself is still pushing back let s begin with pete williams reporter: just shy of three hours after getting the case, the jury came back with its verdict, guilty on two counts for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the committee investigating the capitol riot w
primetime tonight. not h and we re not here friday. they were not here saturday. sundy. day.ot here sunda they were not even here monday.o they came back on tuesday. so to ask that questio to asn is actually incredibly irresponsible. well, loo actualk what we have here. that s the white house cocaine . a homeless bomb blows up the l.a. freeway. why did you stop the ballots? one, there s surveillance video stopping the ballots. if anythinbag, today we found the stuffer. plus, who won the civil war? the patriots. not the patriots. oh. oh, you sure about the patriots? fox news alert. picter have the pictures of the white house cocaine courtesy of dailymail.com. you can see the cocaine in a locker in the west wing. there it is, next to a rulernext for scale. another phot to shows the baggie next to a test kit that concluded the powder was indeede ba cocaine, not another white powdery substance like anthraitx. documents from a lab show the coke was cut with baking s