victim worth millions, and all kinds of conflicting clues. i ve never had a case is complicated before. police following multiple leads until we asked, who is that? he says he s my neighbor, he lives two floors below. a suspect under arrest. having someone you love just taken away. sorry.! case closed. where was that? could there be something else or someone else they must? there were so many parts of the puzzle that we re not adding up. someone had pulled the trigger. but had someone else pulls the strings? he was the type of guy that could take bad luck and turn it into a fortune. hello. and welcome to dateline. they were neighbors living large and their salt lake city aloft building. a sophisticated crowd who enjoyed mixing business with pleasure. then a murder revealed a phony in our midst. a man they claimed repaid their trust with lies. was he, they wondered, the mastermind behind this cold blooded killing, or did investigators need to be l
hunt. we re watching the rescue effort in surfside, florida. search efforts had to pause while the remaining building was demolished last night. they say it could speed up the process because they sflou more access to the site. they really believe they will be able to make identifications, that they can accelerate now that they have access so that because because it had been inaccessible and there was likely a lot of people who were sleeping at that time unfortunately in that part of it. at the same time, florida s residents are bracing for tropical storm elsa turning off of the coast of cuba. vaughn hilliard is in surfside, florida for us and sam brock is in key west. vaughn, met he will start with you in surfside. what more do we know now about where things stand and where does the operation go after the demolition? that is right, the hope here is that the process of recovery can accelerate. they re still calling this a rescue mission essentially. they re not going to
many senate republicans are leaning on process claiming the trial is unconstitutional because trump is no longer president, a claim that s dubious at best zpl overnight a sobering reminder of just who trump is accused of inciting. a virginia man who faces conspiracy charges claims in a court filing he worked for the fbi and held a top secret security clearance for decades. security at the capitol was extra tight for the trial. national guard troops still patrol the outside of the capitol complex. house impeachment managers are flanked by a security detail. officials aren t tracking any security threats but enhanced precautions are in place out of an abundance of caution. what will this trial look like and how long will it last? cnn s jim acosta had details. reporter: christine and laura, senate democrats and republicans have reached a deal on the time line of the trial. under the agreement, the senate will vote on the constitutional role of holding a trial. then we will see
senate leader harry reid and nfl great john madden. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening i m kristin welker in for lester after the death of jeffrey epstein, the world has watched and waited as the jury deliberated for days about what would happen to his confidant, ghislaine maxwell. tonight they have found her guilty on five of six counts, including sex trafficking of minors. let s get right to ron allen, who is outside the courthouse reporter: tonight after six days of deliberations, a jury found ghislaine maxwell guilty of five out of six federal charges, including sex trafficking of minors, which is the most serious and carries up to 40 years behind bars. the road to justice has been far too long. but today, justice has been done. reporter: throughout the three-week trial, prosecutors calling two dozen witnesses. the heart of their case, four women who say they were recruited, groomed and lured by maxwell when they were teenagers so they cou
saturday. i m fredricka whitfield. while the web of legal jeopardy is facing donald trump, it keeps getting wider, one of those strands, the case pertaining to the former president s handling of classified documents, is starting to come into focus a federal judge in florida has officially set a trial date in that case for may of next year. with obvious implications for the 2024 election cycle. marshall cohen is following all of this from washington, d.c. for us. good to see you. what is the new potential plan? can you break down the schedule for us? reporter: we got a new schedule, fred. good morning. judge aileen cannon down in florida put this schedule on the docket yterday. and here s the decision. may 2024, that s when this trial is as of now supposed to begin. look, fred, that s right in the middle of the gop primary campaign season. by then, it might all be over. donald trump was the presumptive nomie by this time in 2016. we ll see how the primary contests go next