a hezbollah rocket attack fired from southern lebanon only about 2 miles away hit this random residential neighborhood. margaret: hundreds more foreign nationals escape gaza. cbs s chris livesay is in cairo as the first bus carrying americans arrived. every day we wake up alive we thank god. margaret: and the growing concern in the west bank, as violence against palestinians by israeli settlers intensifies. ftx founder sam bankman-fried now faces up to 110 years in prison after a manhattan jury found him guilty of what prosecutors call one of the biggest financial frauds in american history. this kind of fraud, this kind of corruption is as old as time. this is about protecting our freedom to go to a bowling alley, a restaurant, a school, a church without being shot and killed. margaret: president biden and the first lady visit lewiston, maine, to mourn the 18 people killed in a mass shooting. and it s friday, so steve hartman is on the road with a class o
judge and a combative eric trump and a prosecutor, will it be a preview of next week and the former president s testimony after his son calls the trial itself an absolute joke. the current president, sending his secretary of state on a very high stakes mission to israel, making a personal plea to stop the fighting if only for a few hours. the desperate push to get more people out of harm s way even as israeli forces encircle the largest city in the gaza strip with thousands trapped inside. a former u.s. ambassador to israel will join me to explain where things go from here. and the alarming surge of anti-semitic threats on college campuses now leading one university to pull the plug on classes today citing stress on the students. with no end to the war in sight, will the threats and the fallout get worse before they get better? but we start in new york where tensions exploded in a testy 25-minute long back and forth between donald trump s legal team and the judge at his c
evacuated. the major announcement from toyota, recalling nearly two million popular suvs because of potential fire danger and more than 50 years after they broke up, the beatles releasing their last song with a little help from a.i. make it through announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. today, more americans safely made their way out of gaza, a slow trickle of foreigners and dual citizens getting through the now partially open egyptian border crossing for many, their escape coming none too soon in the heart of gaza tonight, hamas and israeli military units are reported to be engaged in street-to-street fighting, as well as in below-ground tunnels. flares fired in the night sky illuminating the battlefield. each side taking casualties as israeli forces work to encircle the hamas stronghold of gaza city civilians are at increasing risk. the u.n. reporting israeli strikes damaged several of its camps inside gaza. and the whit
it comes as israel troops have surrounded gaza city. president biden, after he was interrupted at a campaign event, calling for a humanitarian pause. also tonight, eric trump s combative testimony in the civil fraud trial threatening his family s business empire. the heated moments in court. first at 5:00, former memphis police officers to plead guilty in the death of tyre nichols. how long he could spend in prison. the explosion at a house in new york. at least 15 injured. what officials are saying about the cause. the train derailing near detroit. schools nearby evacuated. the major announcement from toyota, recalling nearly two million popular suvs because of potential fire danger. and more than 50 years after they broke up, the beatles releasing their last song with a little help from ai. make it through announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. today more americans safely made their way out of gaza. a slow tr