good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart reporting live from monterey park, california. it is a community here now reeling from tragedy as it becomes the scene of the nation s latest deadly mass shooting. it s a story that s become far too familiar here in the united states where a night of celebration turns into horror and heartbreak after a gunman opens fire at this dance hall, the star ballroom dance hall right here. this is the entrance. there s a small memorial that s just come up in the last couple of hours. this is where this tragedy, this massacre occurs. people were marking the lunar new year on saturday night, ten people were killed here. five men and five women. ten others were injured. the attack happening in one of the country s largest asian american communities. it is the deadliest shooting since the massacre at robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, last year that took the lives of 21 people. the suspect has been identified
the lead in testifying against the former president in yesterday s hearing, including the speaker of arizona s house, who says he told trump in late december 2020 that he would not go along with the scheme to steal joe biden s win in his state. you re asking me to do something that s never been done in history, the history of the united states, and i m going to put my state through that without sufficient, and that s going to be good enough for me? i do not want to be a winner by cheating. incredibly powerful testimony. also new this morning, president biden aiming to help americans out, at least a little bit at the pump during the summer travel season. the white house expected today to call on congress to suspend the federal gas tax, three months. we have details on how much that would help reduce prices at the pump, and downsize to it as acknowledged by some members of the administration. more on that in just a bit. begin this morning with cnn s manu raju on the hil
as the cost of living rises, the long awaited plan on the future of food in england is being published. but the man behind the review says the government s vision is not detailed enough. is it the big, bold, unified strategy that i think we need? no. is it progress, you know, am i.? do i think we re going in the right direction? yes. personal items belonging to missing britishjournalist dom phillips and his brazilian colleague are discovered by police in a remote area of the amazon rainforest, a week after the pair went missing. and, a warning that lives could be at risk after a bbc panorama investigation finds the uk s biggest chain of gp practices lets less qualified staff see patients without adequate supervision. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk russia has been accused of killing hundreds of civilians in ukraine s second biggest city, kharkiv, through indiscriminate shelling. amnesty international says it has evidence
victory for the u.s. women s soccer team in their years long battle for equal pay announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone with many american families bordering on desperation in their search for baby formula, the white house has just announced a major step to increase formula availability, invoking the defense production act. that will prioritize manufacturing resources and ingredients for formula production it comes as a network of milk banks report a 20% increase in demand for donated milk, but tonight, some parents are pursuing their own alternatives, in some cases leading to trips to the hospital. our kate snow is here with late details. first of all, what are you learning about the white house s move tonight? so this is the biden administration, as you say, announcing that it will push private industry to ramp up production of baby formula and they re launching operation fly formula using defense department aircraft to bring
honk the victims, 86-year-old ruth whitfield who stopped for groceries, she had just returned from visiting her husband in the nursing home. her son spoke to omar jimenez. one of the things that we as a family wanted to ensure is that we call it what it is, it is white supremacy, it is hate, it is racism, it is bigotry. we got to call it what it is and stop beating around the bush and take it head-on because it is proliferating, it is not getting better. jasmine wright is for us in washington. and as you just heard, the families are calling for officials to confront racism head-on and it seems like that is what the president plans do today. reporter: that s right, christine. a white house official says that the president is expected to address the racial motivations that led to this shooting and he is expected to condemn them, but also call on americans to embrace diversity, the thing that makes this country really america frankly america here. so we will see the presid