draining their bank accounts. for some victims it s fatal. one mother who fought to convince police her son s death was no accidental overdose. those images of unruly passengers on planes. today, the flight attendants on the steps of the capitol. what they re demanding congress do about it. the growing scam involving ai. how criminals can impersonate you or a loved one and cash in. and on this vietnam veterans day, , haarry smiith on a a journey home more than 50 years in the making. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. we begin with developing news out of the vatican tonight surrounding the health of pope francis. just days before the start of holy week observances, the 86-year-old leader of the roman catholic church is in a hospital in rome tonight after suffering breathing difficulties in recent days. tonight the vatican reports pope francis is being treated for a respiratory infection and will remain hospit
ruled that former vice president mike pence must testify before a federal grand jury investigating january 6th. officials pinpoint the cause of a fire that killed more than three dozen men in a migrant detention center in mexico. a cbs news investigation, female athletes are more likely to suffer concussions, so why is there so little research? do you think enough is known about concussions in women s sports? absolutely not. norah: and during this final week women s history month, the inspiring life of a civil rights icon. i thought my life was at an end. but a new life was just beginning. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night, nashville and the rest of the nation are heartbroken after that deadly mass shooting at an elementary school. tonight we are learning new details about the victims. one of those 9-year-olds evelyn dieckhaus, described by her family as a shining light. among the adults
political reasons. key player in the trump hush money probe just met with the manhattan grand jury investigating the former president. appearance at court monday, shrouded in secrecy corroborate a lot of what michael cohen said, and it also could be a very strong response to castelo. people are pleading with the prosecutor. don t do it. don t do it because i didn t do anything wrong. in france demonstrators continuing to protest the government s move to raise the retirement age. many of them entered an airport in southwest france just a short while ago setting off smoke bombs. authorities say around 13,000 police officers will be deployed across the country of european countries, people are feeling the pinch economically. paltrow s accuser took the stand in that skate collision trial hit in my back so hard, never been hit that hard describing a very different version of events thanks to her, i said, you skied directly into my stepping back and he said, oh, sorry. sorry. i m s
new police body camera footage shows us a room by room hunt for a school shooter. and now brand new cnn reporting on how donald trump is keeping tabs on the republicans who want to drag the manhattan d a before congress and the former president says law enforcement investigations equal election interference. i don t know whether it helps or hurts. i can tell you in my opinion. it s a new way of cheating on elections. it s called election interference. they can t beat you that way. they re going to do this kind of stuff. plus cnn digs into the archives that uncovers senator joe biden, siding with republicans on social security and medicare. but first our breaking news nashville police releasing body worn camera video from inside the covenant school shooting. now this tape shows officers as they are racing to stop this rampage. we do have to warn you that much of this footage is incredibly difficult to watch. but this video comes from the body cameras of two of the officers and
training in shooting from an elevated position. sandra: police were quick on the scene there, they ran immediately toward the sound of gunfire. it s all captured on bodycam footage, including the two officers who eventually took down the shooter. we are waiting to learn of a potential motive. john: what have we learned since we last spoke and since the police chief held his press conference there? well, john and sandra, learning a lot of new details about the shooter who brought terror to this nashville christian school behind me. in the last hour, metro nashville police chief john drake confirming first to fox that the shooter, audrey hale, had legally purchased seven firearms at five different stores across the middle tennessee region. she was being treated for an emotional disorder and her parents were concerned about the guns. her parents thought they were gone but instead, audrey hid them throughout the family s home. and sadly, six lives were taken yesterday in th