d-day was a pivotal turning point in world war ii. d-day was the beginning of the end and that s where we are today. make no mistake, it was not the end. months and months of hard-fought battles occurred and it took diligence, courage, and strength to eventually achieve victory. trace: the north korea post has another word for it v-day. team fox coverage with analysis from dr. marc siegel. john roberts at the white house. we begin with mike tobin live in portage, michigan. good morning to you. what is happening at the pfizer plant today? you can see the trucks are back in place. after yesterday s historic days with the first boxes of vaccine leaving the docks the follow-up today is more boxes of vaccine when leaving the docks. yesterday 189 boxes were shipped out of pfizer plant here in portage, michigan. that worked out to more than 920,000 shots in the arm. today 400 boxes or 1.9 million doses of vaccine are scheduled to be shipped out of here. within hours of the fi
lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, but war
forcing evacuations with the worst still days away. in california, communities bracing for epic flooding there from the meltdown of record snow. plus, tens of millions in texas and florida on the lookout for tornadoes and large hail. also tonight, the woman who accused former president trump of rape and defamation takes the stand in his civil trial. what she says about their alleged encounter years ago. the former president s denial. disney fires back suing florida governor ron desantis in their feud about free speech and the future of disney world. just breaking, republicans in the montana legislature punish a transgender lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. the pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help. it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail. the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking. and a song that echoes through the
ahead of the trading day on wall street, the u.s. government steps in to protect a failed bank, promising depositors they won t lose a penny. one film won everything, everywhere, all at once on this year s oscar awards. already-flooded parts of california bracing for yet another powerful storm. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joining us. we begin in the united states where the biden administration is stepping in to contain the fallout from the sudden collapse of silicon valley bank. authorities say customers will have access to all their money starting monday morning. the president also promised to hold those responsible for the bank s failure fully accountable. he will speak about the issue in the coming hours. regulators also shot down another regional institution, signature bank, fearing it was also on the brink of collapse. cnn s arlette saenz has more. reporter: the biden administration took extraordinary steps sunday to ensure that al
Tonight. lester. it s been a rough spring, all right, maggie, thanks. and california has historic levels of mountain snow melt, severe flooding will test decades-old levees. here s steve patterson. reporter: california is a climate war zone. after suffering through a decades long megadrought followed by months of record rainfall and deadly flooding, now residents brace for another crisis, the snowpack in the sierra mountains that melts in the spring is more than 250% what it normally is. it contains twice as much water as the state s 28 major reservoirs, and as temperatures rise, what goes up must come down. my anxiety for the next few months is that we ll go into an extended heat wave, and the snowpack will start to melt very, very rapidly. reporter: all that water is a problem for central california s tulare basin where officials warn an estimated 200 miles of farmland could be