A new york gas station in custody what police are saying. The severe storms in the South Flood Evacuations and rescues, and more dangerous heat. Were tracking it all. Donald trump entering his second not guilty plea in 24 hours, this time to new charges in the classified documents case the dramatic video, a ukrainian sea drone striking a warship in the black sea. Our Richard Engel is standing by. Simone biles back in action for the First Time Since withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics and do you have your tickets more than A Billion Dollars up for grabs tonight. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening, and welcome. We start tonight with Breaking News. Police in New York City restoring calm tonight after a riot broke out in manhattans union square neighborhood. A crowd estimated at 2,000 people descended into the area after popular social Media Influencer kai cenat advertised a video game giveaway. The crowd appearing to be mostly young people turned restless and
The streets, Throwing Objects, climbing into cars, food trucks, even the roof of a major subway station. The nypd activating its highest Mobilization Level to restore order. Tonight, the social Media Influencer and playstation giveaway said to have started it all. Also tonight, a victim tied to the Gilgo Beach Murders Investigation identified 27 years after her remains were discovered. Why did it take so long . And is Rex Heuermann a suspect . The suspect in the fatal stabbing of a professional dancing at a gas station in custody. What police are saying. The severe storms in the south. Flood evacuations and rescues and more dangerous heat. Were tracking it all. Donald trump entering his second not guilty plea in 24 hours, this time to new charges in the classified documents case. The dramatic video, a ukrainian sea drone striking a warship in the black sea. Our Richard Engel is standing by. Simone biles back in action for the First Time Since withdrawing from the tokyo olympics. And do
one of the best defenses in the country. of course we would be remiss if we didn t mention how most teams would love a trip to the sugar bowl but the alabama crimson tide not one of them. they lost two games this season by a combined four points both on the last play of the game against texnnessee and lsu, so they miss the playoffs. they ll face kansas state tomorrow, some of the georgia fans in our sports department told me to remind you you can t spell sugar bowl without uga. i apologize for that. i ve been to the sugar bowl more times than i can count on two hands. spent a lot of time in new orleans in college. she was so annoyed we were doing the sugar bowl situation in the show. i ll be watching tomorrow. we kickoff at noon, it s fine. actually love nick saban said yesterday this has been one of the most enjoyable nonplayoff bowl preps they have had. that s one way to see it. yeah. coy wire, we ll be watching. roll tide. thank you so much. all right. cnn
executives say they ll need to cancel many more tomorrow. then, breaking his silence did i embellish my resume, yes, i did. and i m sorry. but i m still the same guy, i m not a fraud. republican congressman-elect george santos admits he lied about major parts of his resume, but wait until he explains his jewish heritage claims. and miami dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa has been placed in concussion protocol, hours after playing an entire game. welcome to the lead, i m phil mattingly, in for jake tapper. and we begin this hour with the winter travel meltdown plaguing a major u.s. airline. thousands of southwest airlines passengers are still stranded, unable to get to their destinations. some of those passengers is been trying to travel for five days or more, after a massive winter storm battered parts of the u.s. southwest canceled nearly 2,600 flights today, accounting for more than 85% of all flights canceled in the u.s. and the company s telling passengers
a super blood moon. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the prime minister borisjohnson will visit belfast today to urge the main northern ireland parties to resume power sharing. the largest unionist party, the dup, is currently refusing to take part in the government of northern ireland because of the post brexit trading arrangements with the eu, known as the northern ireland protocol. the uk government is expected to introduce legislation which would allow ministers to override parts of that protocol. speaking to the belfast telegraph, borisjohnson says that protocol is now out of date and changes are needed. our political correspondent nick eardley reports. boris johnson will arrive in northern ireland later to find a political system which is stuck. despite elections earlier this month, there s no new government. sinn fein finished top for the first time ever, but the democratic unionist party the second largest at stormont won t agree