Help now and officials working to identify the victims. Among the dead, a 68yearold man, who died shielding a Golden Retriever. Our team in the fire zone north koreas new claims about detained u. S. Soldier travis king. What he supposedly said about his reason for crossing into the country. Severe thunderstorm watches on the east coast, on the heels of Flash Flooding in the midatlantic were tracking it all. The mother of a 6yearold virginia student who shot his teacher. What she pleaded guilty to today. And the Superstar Surfer who jumped onto his jet ski to help after the fires that devastated his native maui announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. Already facing a Dizzying Crossroads of nearly unprecedented legal and political challenges, Donald Trumps trail of criminal indictments has grown longer the newest handed up late last evening by a Fulton County, georgia, grand jury. Mr. Trump hit with 13 charges, accusing him of being part of a consp
Conspiracy charges. The Fulton County d. A. Accusing of him leading a criminal enterprise to overturn his loss in georgia. 18 codefendants also charged including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows. Mr. Trump blasting the case as another witchhunt. Tonight, the deadline for him to surrender, and what does it mean for 2024 . Also tonight, the mounting questions about the response to hawaiis deadly wildfire. Many asking, where then, and where is the help now . And officials working to identify the victims. Among the dead, a 68yearold man who died shielding a Golden Retriever. Our team in the fire zone. North koreas new claims about travis king. What he supposedly said about his reason for crossing into the country. Severe thunderstorm watches on the east coast on the heels of Flash Flooding in the midatlantic. Were tracking it all. The mother of a 6yearold Virginia Student, who shot his teacher, what she pleaded guilty to today. And the Superstar Surfer who jumped onto his jet ski to help aft
that is expected to start any minute now. we ll bring you that as soon as it begins. plus, the polarizing plea deal for the president s son. republicans blasting the agreement that lets hunter biden avoid jail time as a slap on the wrist. but some legal experts suggest that if his last name wasn t biden, he might never have faced charges in the first place. and this deal was announced just about half an hour after we learned donald trump s court date. now less than eight weeks away. does judge aileen cannon s accelerated timeline suggest this trial could be over before the primaries even begin? but, we start with the extraordinary developments developing the current and former president on the same okay that donald trump s trial date is set, president biden s son hunter has reached a deal with federal prosecutors to avoid a trial and jail time. and we will get to that momentarily. but, first, let s take you to the coast guard briefing, the latest on the sub and the five p
one of the nhs s most busy periods. 0ur health correspondent sharon barbour has the story. hospitals across england, already struggling with the pressures that winter brings, are bracing themselves, as tens of thousands ofjunior doctors walk out for three days. whose nhs? 0ur nhs! dr greenhlagh is a surgical registrar. he s already qualified to undertake major knee and hip surgery. every time that i go and see a patient in the accident and emergency department, and i can t examine them in a room because there s no space, and so they re on a trolley in the corridor, it s not right. and when you see how little it seems the government values us, again that is a real blow to many doctors morale. we re not asking for a huge pay rise. what we re asking for is our pay to stop being cut and to reverse the pay cuts we ve already suffered. have you thought about leaving? i think alljunior doctors, to be honest, i think most have thought about leaving. the strike action will mean the c
more than 20,000 20,000 lives lost since monday s horrific earthquake. the lead starts right now. screams of joy amid the horror a mother and daughter found alive. coming up the miracle rescues. cnn is on the ground as crews climb through earthquake rubble in syria and turkey. and president biden takes his state of the union road show to rival rich florida and challenges a republican senator on his clear proposal to sunset all programs including social security and medicare. but first new images from the fbi as investigators begin to analyze that downed chinese spy balloon recovered from the atlantic ocean. and lawmakers begin to learn just how sophisticated the surveillance equipment onboard was. welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. and we start with the world lead and new information about the chinese spy balloon shot done. it started analyzing the first pieces of its balloon, and senior officials say those parts could be used as evidence in a future possible crimin