Along with a powerful and heartwarming stadium tradition. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening im tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that Breaking News on this labor day. The Surprise Holiday Ruling a judge handing former President Trump a legal victory, appointing whats called a Special Master to oversee the documents seized from his home that ruling essentially removing the files from the Justice Departments possession the move could slow down any further investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents. The doj now has to decide whether it wants to fight that decision and it comes as mr. Trump blasts the fbi in his first rally since the search for his part President Biden was on the Campaign Trail today as both ramp up their roles in the final sprint to the midterm elections. Kelly odonnell starts us off tonight reporter tonight the criminal investigation into those classified documents found at maralago is tempo
being careful about what body camera and surveillance video w ws we show you. we want to be respectful of the grieving families. some videos are difficult to watch given knowing what is happening off screen. there is a lot to learn but worth mentioning had parents and families, reporters and others not demanded answers from law enforcement officials in the hours and days and months after this massacre, it s likely we wouldn t know as much as we do about what really happened in uvalde:breaking news out of texas police on the scene of a deadly shooting at an elementariry school. difficult images. for hours after the shootings in uvalde, there is chaos around the school and few details. we ve not been give b or heard reporting on a timeline. is it clear how quickly police were able to get on the scene. relatively quickly but not fast enough. i don t want to go beyond that because we don t know how quickly agents were able to respond to the scene. there s a lot of fac
economy is his top priority inflation a rare white house meeting by the host and the chairman of the federal reserve, our colleague peter doocy pressed the white house yesterday. does president bush take any responsibility for his policy potentially contributing to inflation when we talk about the gas prices right now? this is indeed gas, right? and as you mentioned, cauli gas is setting another record today. a gallon of gas now costs four dollars. sixty seven cents, that s over 50 percent from a year ago. the white house says student loan forgiveness won t make inflation worse. the impact on inflation in the near term is likely to be is likely to be quite small. but again, because the president hasn t made a decision and we re not talking about a specific plan, i won t speculate specifically ,but i think most of the analysis suggests that the near-term impact would be pretty small things which critics say otherwise quote even partial debt cancelation would be costly, regre
states will in fact send advance rocket systems to the war-torn country. we ll have more on what changed the president s mind there. along with joe and mika, we ve got mike barnicle and elise jordan and the former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. we will begin in texas, where the official account has changed again, about how the gunman who killed 19 children and their two teachers entered that school in uvalde. last friday, you ll rememberer the director of the department of public safety said a teacher had propped open a door through which the gunman entered the school. well, now, the agency said the teacher had come back to close the door but it just failed to lock. this new account comes after an attorney for the teacher told the san antonio express news the teacher did prop open the door using a rock to carry food from her car into the school. when she saw the gunman crash his car into a ditch, she went back inside to get her phone to report t
the gas prices soaring another 5 cents overnight, adding to the strain on americans wallets. we ll talk about what the white house is doing about it. this morning in uvalde, texas, a grief-stricken community continues to lay loved ones to rest after last week s school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. today, seven separate services will be held for victims of this tragic shooting. next hour, a funeral for irma garcia, a teacher at robb elementary and her husband joe. irma was killed while protecting her students during the shooting. her grieving husband died thursday after delivering flowers to his wife s memorial. doctors describe his death as a possible example of broken heart syndrome. irma and joe were high school sweethearts. they would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary later this month. they leave behind four children. this afternoon 10-year-old jose manuel flores jr. will be laid to rest. he was honored for his good grades