it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee
dr. sanjay gupta, great to have you analyst on. we appreciate it. thanks bianna. and good morning, everybody. i m bianna golodryga. the jury in the death penalty trial of nikolas cruz, the parkland school shooter has reached a decision on whether to sentence him to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. cnn s carlos suarez is outside of the courthouse in fort lauderdale. what more could you tell us about this? reporter: so we re expecting that the jury s verdict will be read in court at 10:30 this morning. they only spent a single day deliberating whether or not nikolas cruz is going to dry for his actions at marjorie stoneman d douglas. one of the last things they did yesterday was ask to see the ar-15 that cruz used to kill 17 people in parkland, florida. the jury s decision on death does have to be unanimous. so they all have to agree that cruz should die for these murders. if there is a holdout in my of the charges, then cruz would be essentially
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we re all about to learn more of what the government knows that drove it to search former president trump s mar-a-lago he estate a federal judge late today giving the justice department until noon eastern time tomorrow to make public a redacted copy of the affidavit that backed its application for the search warrant. the order issued just hours after the justice department submitted to the court sections it wants blacked out to protect witnesses, law enforcement, and methods used in the investigation. the full affidavit would describe the government s case and justification for the unprecedented search, but how much the redacted version will disclose remains an open question tonight. kelly o donnell is tracking late details. reporter: new tonight granted in part a decision from the florida federal magistrate to unseal by noon tomorrow a redacted copy of the affidavit used to authorize the controversial
they have left. north korea is already one of the most isolated countries in the world and just last month its government declared a law calling itself a nuclear state, kim jong-un saying the status is irreversible. so they intend to go forward no matter what threats or isolation they could face. ivan, thank you so much. to ukraine and one of the most significant battles of the war so far could be brewing around kherson. officials are saying russia has sent more troops to occupy the city. a kremlin official said a top aide to vladimir putin has visited kherson ahead of an expected ukrainian counteroffense to take it back. frederik pleitgen is there now, fred, a major offensive brewing.
january 6 committee if the first place. there was fighting in congress but congress passed a law calling for a select committee to investigate and report what happened in january 6. now that these are the hearing that we ve seen. behind the scenes have been meeting with witnesses and researchers and so on. so now report what is going on here a. the end of the process put out a big report. what is that going to look like? i think the clearest parallel going back for those of us old enough to remember, the 9/11 commission report which laid out number one in quite good detail what happened that led to the events of 9/11. but also made a number of recommendations as to laws that could be changed. people who can be hired by the government, positions by the government to make sure that this kind of thing never happens again. and i think that is sort of what we re going to see from congress. so the previous hearings featured testimony from many witnesses. who haven t we heard from. so a