why nasa is now joining the hunt for ufos announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, from los angeles where president biden today offered an explanation for why consumer prices are still climbing may s numbers out today dashing hope inflation was starting to cool. instead it jumpe another percent growing to 8.6% year over year, leaving inflation sitting at 40-year highs affecting everything from home prices to food, clothing to gasoline put another way, american households are paying $460 more per month to buy the same amount of goods and services with the port of los angeles as his background president biden putting some of the blame on shippers, oil companies and vladimir putin as wall street suffered a major sell-off the dow lost 880 points, 2.7% the nasdaq down 414 points, 3.5% tonight, all eyes now turned to the fed and its next steps tom costello has more. reporter: the red arrows on wall street represent real money for american
Argument swaying ivanka trump. it affected my perspective. i respect attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. reporter: but not the former president who on social media today attacked his former attorney general as a coward and said his daughter had, quote, long since checked out on following the election results. president biden speaking out this afternoon. the same forces that led january 6th remain at work today. reporter: the committee also presenting violent new video of the attack never before seen. moving lawmakers and capitol police officers present to tears. officer caroline edwards, who suffered a traumatic brain injury fighting on the capitol s west front, describing in vivid detail the sheer scope of the day s violence. what i saw was just a war scene. there were officers on the ground, you know, they were bleeding, they were throwing up,
Average for gas a penny away from $5 a gallon the stock market plunging and president biden under pressure what he blames the surge on also tonight, the fallout as the january 6th committee begins laying out its case against donald trump and the committee alleging trump was at the center of a sophisticate seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 election and incite the violent attack on the capitol. the stunning testimony from his inner circle including daughter, ivanka trump tonight, how the former president is responding and what to watch for in the hearings ahead the uvalde school police chief breaking his public silence how he s defending the response to the massacre after it took police 77 minutes to breach the classroom. the biden administration announcing it s dropping one of the longest running covid restrictions on travel. the dangerous heat wave, 51 million under advisories can the power grid handle it? and the truth is out there.