seek the death penalty. the cdc s new warning about malaria in the united states the first new cases in decades. what you need to know. and the revelation about many members of congress their connections to america s legacy of slavery. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from aspen, colorado good evening from aspen, where i sat down just a short time ago with former congresswoman liz cheney my interview with her in just a few minutes. but if you re traveling by air, then you may have been one of the tens of thousands of americans affected by delays and cancellations, thousands of them brought on by severe weather. not an encouraging sign for this biggest travel week of the summer and for folks in the midwest, the air quality is the concern. smoke from canadian wildfires drifting south, making the air in chicago the most polluted in the world. and from california to florida, dangerous hot weather has 65 million people under heat
of forever chemicals the hottest ne sensation in the nba draft, he was number one in the draft, the expectations on him now a tall order and the cellphone earns its place in history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. was it an elite travel adventure or reckless experiment that challenged the laws of engineering? difficult questions being asked tonight, as officials and deep sea diving experts speak out on the deaths of five people on a visit to the titanic aboard a vessel built with uncertified technology tonight, oceangate, the company behind that deadly submersible dive, says it is closing indefinitely after the apparent implosion that killed, among others, oceangate s founder. meanwhile, we are now getting the first information on how the international investigation might take shape, as questions continue to focus on the design of the mini-sub and whether it should have been diving to such depths tom costello has late
cracks emerge in the russian facade. tornadoes touching down in indiana late today with a deadly heatwave in texas turning dangerous. one teenager now dead with temperatures feeling like 120. plus, how 12 people trying to cool down in this lazy river ended up in the hospital. the several children having trouble breathing. the new investigation just announced by the coast guard into that doomed titanic sub, and who they say will pay for everything. dramatic body coverage footage showing the moments before three san antonio police officers killed a woman at her own home. the charges they now face. the race to stop a possible environmental disaster after part of this train dropped into the yellowstone river. and wild video from on board a royal caribbean cruise. the freak storm sending chairs flying and passengers sliding. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. i m hallie jackson in for kate snow. we begin tonight with the shock and the uncert
politics comedian bill maher doesn t care if you re democrat or republican. his decades of cross roads of politics and comedy has given him an inside pollical consultants and bookies would die for. all those people who say donald trump could not go all the way i don t think they re right. to this just a few years later. i don t think he s leaving. even if he loses the election in 2020. tonight bill maher looks ahead to 2024 and trump s odds now. do you think he s going to get the nomination and do you think he can beat joe biden? and maher doesn t hold back against president biden or the democrats either. democrats sometimes can take it too far. reporter: he gives us his in filtered take. so you re a connoisseur i think that s fair to say. from realtime to prime time this is a cnn one-on-one special. welcome to cnn special one-on-one with bill maher. bill maher has been a figure in the world of political comedy for more than 40 years and he doesn t seem to care wh
translator: we will have our victory. reporter: volodymyr zelenskyy in an exclusive interview with cnn on the battle for it. republican scepticism about spending more. i said no blank checks. reporter: what president biden told him in the war zone. and his plea for american war planes. are u.s. fighter jets the weapon that will make or break a ukrainian victory? a cnn prime time special. the interview starts right now . good evening. i m wolf blitzer. at this very moment, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and his country are facing a critical time in the invasion. now in its second year. for the first time in eight months, the russians could, could be on the cusp of capturing a ukrainian city, bakhumt. the sight of the bloodiest battle of the war. a warning that bakhmut may fall in the coming days. ukrainian s military claims to be holding off putin s army around the city saying they killed more than 100 russian soldiers in a 24-hour period. they also ackn