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
and defamation case brought by author e. jean carroll. court resumes this hour. and a man accused of a shooting rampage inside a medical center is about to appear in court. what we re learning about the suspect and what his mother is blaming today. we re following these major developing stories and more all coming up right here on cnn news central. this morning the white house is pushing back hard on russia s baseless accusation that the u.s. directed ukraine to carry out an alleged attack on the kremlin. moscow claims it was an attempt to assassinate president vladimir putin. the white house calls the allegation the u.s. was behind that ridiculous, and ukraine is also strongly denying any involvement in that attack. after making that claim with no evidence, russia ramped up its attacks on ukraine. at least 23 people were killed by russian shelling in the kherson region wednesday. and kyiv s military chief said the city was hit by the most intense air strikes so far thi
It now heads to the state senate. now, the state s democratic governor roy cooper is a vocal supporter of abortion rights, but a super majority for the republicans in the general assembly means that any veto would not hold. the last of the four men who escaped a mississippi jail last month has been arrested. cory harrison was taken into custody this morning about 30 minutes away from the jail in crystal springs, mississippi. two of the other inmates who escaped were found dead, a fourth was arrested in texas. some scary moments for a woman in california. the stroller that was carrying her great-niece rolled directly toward traffic. you can see it going right there. oh, my gosh, she tried to rush and catch up to it but she fell and could not get back up, but luckily right there you see a good samaritan sprinting in to stop the straeler in the nick of time. everyone, we are told there, doing fine. i mean heart stopping as i was just watching that. good thing he was there, right?