christian school in nashville. police say the shooter was a 28-year-old transgender woman armed with two assault-style firearms and a handgun. how officers took the ok shooter down. the disturbing evidence police have found and the suspect s link to the school. also tonight the deadly path of destruction in the south. at least 22 people killed. entire towns destroyed. the powerful ef4 3r tornad1 for nearly 60 miles. the harrowing stories e1 of survival and the new threats on the move right now. al roker is here. new testimony in e1e1 the donald trump hush money investigation in new york.xd the tabloid king the grand jury heard from today. israel in crisis. tens of thousands protesting in the fá streets over a controversial plan from prime minister benjamin netanyahu. what he has now agreed to do. and the real-life ahe riveters.e1ç■ @&h(lc& the special honor today for the women who played a critical role during world war ii. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with
air traffic control asking, are you okay? first tonight, the life-threatening heat across this country. tonight, more than 127 million americans under heat alerts at we come on the air. new york city firefighters in brutal temperatures battling those massive fires in manhattan and the bronx. philadelphia issuing a heat emergency tonight. fires breaking out along the new jersey turnpike during the come mute home. and amtrak passengers stuck for hours. service halted from philadelphia to new york to connecticut. our team on it all tonight. and ginger zee with the latest heat forecast. and now the storms we re watching from detroit right into parts of the northeast. we re also following the deadly fires in new mexico. at least 1,400 homes and businesses destroyed. tonight, president biden approving a major disaster declaration for the state. the scare onboard a southwest passenger jet. the plane suddenly dropping to about 525 feet above the ground, coming close to a school
i m benjamin hall in for todd piro. jillian: i m jillian mele. minutes ago, the white house reveals additional executive orders president biden is set to sign as he aims to combat gender issues and sexual violence in schools. ben: doug luzader joins us live as the president always calls on congress to pasco individual relief. doug pass covid relief. reporter: hot off the presses, this adds to the pile of executive orders that the president has already signed. one of these asks the department of education to look into existing regulations to eliminate a sexual violence and evaluate changes made during the trump administration. the other sets up what they re calling a gender policy council. it s intended to combat what they call systemic bias and discrimination including sexual harassment, ensuring access to comprehensive healthcare and preventing and responding to gender based violence, promoting equity, that s a key word for this administration, not equality, but equity a
many of them with homes that look like this. we ve got mema and fema, joint teams on the ground here. reporter: president biden sending federal resources to help fill the gap, approving funding for temporary housing and loans to e1 those with no one of the major issues that we re going to face is housing. reporter: some residents fear the aid may not be enough. on a road to recovery that could take years, not months. which is why people here are coming together, looking for small glimmers of hope, like melinda s coffee shop. one of the few standqn%9ñstill one less thing to e1 rebuild. as these communities struggle to pick up the pieces. i don t have a lot of plans because i don t have a lot of >95 c1 money. and so i m just trusting god during the process. i know he saved a lot of us for a reason. and so i trust him. u(r&la thompson, nbc news, rolling fork, mississippi. here in new york