wraps up ice cream from theft. aishah: shoplifters are committing crimes all over the country. you won t believe how much retail revenue has been lost to crime in 2022 alone. number will give you sticker shock. rich: welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m rich edson. aishah: even historic winter blizzard cannot stop the smash and grabs. videos all over the place appearing to show stores ransacked in buffalo, new york. we are going to have that for you all new this hour, but first this fox weather alert. no flights until the third maybe the 31st. we kept calling, you can t get through to anybody. four, maybe five cancels for the same flight. 500 people, nowhere to go. i never want to fly commercially ever, ever, ever again. rich: thousands of passengers stranded at airports across the country following the historic winter blizzard. aishah: southwest airlines is still struggling to get back on schedule, more than 90% of their fligh
the tale of triumph for a baby giraffe inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening a solemn journey to buffalo for president biden today meeting with some of the grieving families who lost loved ones in saturday s supermarket massacre the president and first lady visiting the site the president offering comfort and giving full-throated voice to the anger so many feel over the racist ideologies that drove the attack that allegedly targeted black people the president declaring white supremacy will not have the last word this evening a chill still sweeping across buffalo as the pieces of the horrific plot reveal themselves. tonight what we ve learned about the suspect s previous journey to the city, the planning, the alternate targets allegedly considered all under the nose of an unsuspecting community. emilie ikeda has new details for us tonight. evil will not win, i promise you. reporter: today president biden and the first l
and the first lady laying flowers at a memorial at the market. you see that makeshift memorial there. during his remarks, president biden blasted the surge in white supremacy that had motivated him to run for office more than three years ago and that police say radicalized a white teenager to commit that mass murder in buffalo. white prsupremacy is a poiso. it s a poison. running through our it really is. running through our body politic. it s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes. no more. i mean, no more. we need to say as clearly and forcefully as we can that the ideology of white supremacy has no place in america. reporter: more on the president s speech in a moment, but first, the latest on the investigation. online postings show the suspected gunman visited the scene of the buffalo massacre, the store behind me, three times on a single day in march and he wrote about carrying out the attack on march 15th but then he delayed several times. repo
than 60. the evidence clearly suggest they were murdered simply because they were black. police say the 18-year-old white suspect traveled three hours from a different county to carry out the massacre. there are new details this morning. the police commissioner says the shooter had plans to kill even more african americans after leaving the supermarket. word of a previous incident when he was on the radar of law enforcement, making a chilling comment last spring. tomorrow president biden will visit buffalo to meet with the victims families. we re also learning new details this morning about a deadly shooting in southern california. four people were having lunch inside a church after services when a gunman entered and open fire, killing one of them and critically wounding four others. the taiwanese congratulations was there and investigators are investigating whether they were targeted. we ll begin this hour by talking about the investigation in buffalo. joining me now is
lashing out over sweden joining finland in seeking nato membership. the kremlin is now threatening to retaliate. and there s a significant new development impacting the nationwide shortage of infant formula. a deal has just been reached to reopen a plant that was shut down because of a recall. how soon will desperately needed nourishment for america s babies are back on store shelves? we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . we begin with new evidence that the buffalo shooting suspect was plotting a racially motivated slaughter for months. visiting the city back in march, and potentially looking to attack a second store. cnn s brian todd is on the scene for us, following all the new developments tonight. this was a straight-up hate crime, pure evil. reporter: tonight, police revealing details about the meticulous planning that went into the massacre of ten people in a buffalo store