Norm macdonald, the former snl stars long, private Health Battle Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, everyone as a hurricane, it was shortlived, but now tropical storm nicholas is still delivering a dangerous punch along the Gulf Coast tonight, water and lots of it 5 Million people living under Flash Flood alerts, Rain Amounts as high as 20 inches possible as the storm makes a brutally slow crawl across parts of texas and louisiana after its landfall not far from houston early today with 75mileanhour sustained winds. In this very active tropical season, nicholas the 14th named storm, the 8th to make a u. S. Landfall, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses Morgan Chesky is in the Storm Zone for us tonight with late details. Reporter tonight, nicholas on a Gulf Coast Course crash first slamming into texas as a Category1 Hurricane more than 90mileanhour winds knocked out power to 500,000 texans its Storm Surge ripping asphalts ri
forjoining us on sportsday. we start at the world athletics championship in budapest, and what a day for great britain sjosh kerr, he s taken gold in the men s 1500 metres after a thrilling race in hungary. he was neck and neck with norway s jakob ingebrigtsen going into the final 200m, before breaking his rival in the final50. the 25 year old clocked a season s best three minutes 29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a world championships. but it was history repeating itself for ingebrigtsen, the reigning 0lympic champion, beaten into silver as he was in similar circumstances at the last world championships in eugene. the day and the gold though belonging tojosh kerr. you know, a long time coming, so, it s quite an overwhelming experience, but i am so proud of myself. i m so proud of my team and my family that got me here. i didn t feel like i ran the best race either, so ijust threw my whole 16 years of the sport in that last 200 and didn t give up until the end. the of
hello and welcome to the programme. the man who led a mutiny against president putin and played a key role with his wagner mercenaries in the war in ukraine yevgeny prigozhin appears to be dead, in a plane crash in russia. this image has been confirmed by bbc verify as being from the crash scene near moscow. it s been confirmed that yevgeny prigozhin was on board the private jet. there s much we still don t know about this story. the uk government says it is monitoring the situation. in the us, president biden has said, there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind . our russia editor steve rosenberg has this report. caught on camera, the final seconds of a private jet. on board, reportedly, the head of a private mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin. look over there by the farm, it is burning, the eyewitness can be heard saying. in the distance, a giant cloud of smoke. the plane had crashed north of moscow. yevgeny prigozhin s right hand man, the wagn
i m samantha simmonds. two months after he led a failed mutiny against vladimir putin, russian mercenary leader evegeny prigozhin is reported to have been killed. this footage, verified by the bbc, shows the moment his wagner group s private jet hurtled to earth about 300 kilometers or 200 miles northwest of moscow. pictures have emerged of the aftermath of the crash, which happened about halfway through the flight from moscow to st petersburg, while the plane was at its cruising altitude. trajectory data suggest the aircraft essentially dropped out of the sky. russia s aviation agency shared what it claimed was a list of the passengers on the doomed flight among them, mr prigozhin and key wagner commander dmitry utkin. as police cordoned off the crash site, russia s emergency ministry claimed that ten bodies has been recovered from the wreckage. the bbc has not been able to independently verify this information yet. but outside the wagner group headquarters in st petersbur
to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the windrush generation. you look beautiful. how are you? it is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the empire windrush at tilbury injune 191i8, only a few months before i was born. and those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. many served with distinction in the british armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a better future for themselves and their families. when they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a pr