soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality index th
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone it was an encouraging sight for american families who had been hard pressed to find infant formula for their babies pallets and pallets of formula, 35 tons, arriving in the u.s. from europe aboard a military transport plane, enough to feed 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week but the math doesn t yet add up to full store shelves. with 43% of formula supplies nationwide out of stock tonight the biden administration moving on several fronts, including another military shipment planned for later this week to try to ease the shortage but relief may still be some weeks away, leaving frustrated and anxious parents further on edge. jo ling kent has late details. reporter: when the first emergency aircraft for operation fly formula landed, it delivered a sign of hope, alongside growing nationwide panic. everything is empty. i don t know about y all, but this is scary. reporter: aboard
communications plan for coronavirus, thatis communications plan for coronavirus, that is what that reference was recording hancock and co. and also, as you know there is an e mail from, on 25th february, i was saying where are all of these red teams, where is this testing and what not that hancock promised us existed, where are the documents and we at number ten were starting to get a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the absence of things and a feel for the fact that the first wave of all the fact that the first wave of all the communications plans. you say the communications plans. you say the system the communications plans. you say the system didn t the communications plans. you say the system didn t push the communications plans. you say the system didn t push him - the communications plans. you say the system didn t push him to - the communications plans. you say| the system didn t push him to come back, didn t regard it as crisis, but, you were part o
senior russian generals being executed, this is calamitous for russia and for putin. let s talk more about what prigozhin said. he predicted those firing squads in russia within two to three months, which would target putin s generals. he also suggested putin might detonate a nuclear weapon in russia, in belgorod. i don t know as a false flag or what, but he said that. he s claimed to take a russian commander, a top russian commander hostage as a pow. this seems to be reaching some sort of a breaking point, even for someone whose actions and words have, frankly, been quite shocking for a long time. they have been, erin. and it s a growing cascade of crazy statements by prigozhin. i mean, months ago, he was calling the minister of defense and the chairman of the russian
streak fuelled by inflation. the economy now a top issue in the midterm elections less than six months away. with democrats chances looking increasingly bleak, president biden is expected to ramp up travel and fundraising. but the party s strategy is coming under scrutiny here s kristen welker. reporter: tonight, with the midterm election season heating up, tensions are mounting inside the democratic party and white house. with a growing cascade of crises, including the president s handling of border policy, soaring inflation, and fears of a recession we have got to have the guts to go forward with an agenda that shows the american people what we re trying to do this is really about the collapse and support among young people, among the democratic base feeling like they are not they worked overtime to get this president elected, and they aren t necessarily being seen reporter: according to a recent nbc news poll, 75% of adults believe the country is headed in the wrong direc