insurrection. the questions tonight, could it happen in other states, and will the supreme court weigh in? also tonight, the grim milestone in gaza. an estimated 20,000 now dead just as hopes grow for another cease-fire. the deal to free ten americans in a prisoner swap with venezuela and who the u.s. released in return. the powerful storm slamming the west coast while in the northeast, new rescues and evacuations days after that deadly storm. the christmas travel rush kicking off inside the tsa as they brace for massive numbers. our nbc news exclusive, the warning china s president gave to president biden at their summit last month about taiwan. nbc news investigates why patients are dying when they are not properly monitored. the lapses one woman says led to her husband s death. and the touching tributes at the secret christmas tree in central park. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome, everyone. even as they tr
this could be the storm that we have hoped would never come to our shores. the one thing i hear most common after these disasters is if i had only known it would be this bad. and so i think that s my message to them is we re trying to communicate to you that it can be that bad. okay. many in florida are heeding those warnings with long lines for water, fuel, sand bags and other supplies. schools and parks are closing and tampa s international airport is set to suspend operations entirely tuesday evening. hospitals meantime are transferring patients and putting up these large barriers to protect them from the potential storm surge. now the nags wall weather center has a storm surge in effect for large swathes of florida. they re bracin g for the storm s. people need to heed the warning and get out now especially where the storm-filled waters surge and affect them. we re not going to have the ability to come out and get them. then there are these images from the gran
simply empty rhetoric. more reaction throughout the programme. plus plaid cyrmru leader leanne wood tells this programme for the first time she s going through the menopause and admits to using illegal drugs. plus she can sing. # you and i know it s all over the front page, you give me road rage. there are macro it s up to you, boy, you re driving me crazy, thinking you re driving me crazy, thinking you may be losing my mind. and the award goes to. the queen ‘s 90th birthday. and the award goes to. the queen s 90th birthday. the bafta goes to the magnificent sarah lancashire. the bafta fellowship this year is awarded tojoanna the bafta fellowship this year is awarded to joanna lumley the bafta fellowship this year is awarded tojoanna lumley cheering hello, welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. i say we are alive but i do not feel very live having had two hours sleep. thank you s much for all your absolutely lovely messages following this a bafta
beyond simply modelling. yes! a steam train reaches 100mph on britain s mainline rail network for the first time in 50 years. and coming up in the sport on bbc news, an historic night for leicester in spain, and a big challenge too they face atletico madrid in the first leg of their champions league quarterfinal. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. in the space ofjust over a year and a half, at least seven babies died during or shortly after birth at one nhs trust in shropshire. and the cluster of deaths was avoidable. five of the babies died simply because their heart rate wasn t being monitored properly during labour. their deaths have prompted such concern that the health secretary, jeremy hunt, has now ordered a review of the shrewsbury and telford hospital trust. but it says its mortality levels are in line with the national average. our correspondent michael buchanan has this exclusive report. basic errors at this trust have caused healthy babies to die.
education secretary is using the school easter holiday to make a big speech about education in england tomorrow. we will ask if he has a strategy, or just a tomorrow. we will ask if he has a strategy, orjust a few ideas. and are we reading too much into the united airlines saga? good evening, and welcome to bbc news. us president donald trump has tonight described the syrian leader bashar al assad as a butcher and demanded an end to syria s civil war after the suspected chemical attack in idlib province. meanwhile, the us secretary of state has been in moscow for a round of high level talks on syria. he said relations with russia are at a low point and must improve. he was speaking in moscow after talks with president putin and the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov with syria top of the agenda. mr lavrov said the discussions had been substantial and that certain issues were time bombs inherited from barack obama s administration. from moscow, our correspondent, steve