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lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, b ....
forcing evacuations with the worst still days away. in california, communities bracing for epic flooding there from the meltdown of record snow. plus, tens of millions in texas and florida on the lookout for tornadoes and large hail. also tonight, the woman who accused former president trump of rape and defamation takes the stand in his civil trial. what she says about their alleged encounter years ago. the former president s denial. disney fires back suing florida governor ron desantis in their feud about free speech and the future of disney world. just breaking, republicans in the montana legislature punish a transgender lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. the pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help. it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail. the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking. and a song that echoes throug ....
reiser live from msnbc headquarters in new york on a busy saturday evening. happening right now, a man hunt intensifying in texas for the suspected gunman accused of killing five people, including an eight year old. after authorities say that they asked him to stop firing his gun in his yard. the search underway right now for the suspect. we are following extreme weather coast to coast from heavy rain to snow to dangerous heat. while the midwest faces flooding from the mississippi river, a result of melting snowpack. we will get the latest from iowa. plus, president biden s reelection pitch. she is in the fear of maga republicans to court democratic donors. and a live look at washington where nerd prom is about to be underway. it is the one night every year where you could find the president, top journalists, and hollywood elite all in the same room. we will have a preview of the white house correspondents dinner ahead. we begin in texas where moments ago authorities de ....
storms threatening the west coast. 17 million people across california and nevada are under flood watches. the storm is known as an atmospheric river, basically a fire hose of water. the big concern, flooding from rising rivers and melting snowpack. the ground is already saturated from weeks of heavy rainfall. look at oakland. parts of the interstate shut down because of flooding. east of oakland, the roof of a dollar store collapsed from the wait of the rain on top of the snow still there from earlier storms. the store said to be a total loss. the good news, no one was hurt. evacuation warnings are in effect for five central california counties. officials are telling people to move to higher ground now. we re covering this from all angles. nick watt is just outside san jose. let s go to we ll start with nick. nick, what are you seeing there? reporter: victor, we re seeing a lot of water here in felton. we re a little bit up river from santa cruz. as you can see, ....
trailing donald trump here at home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday. i m christine romans this morning. the u. s. has no embassy operating in sudan, a country on the brink of civil war president biden announcing the u. s diplomatic personnel and their families have been evacuated from sudan secretary of state antony blinken, adding that operations that the u. s embassy in khartoum have been temporarily suspended. cnn s sam kiley is reporting on the situation from djibouti for us and sam. how was the extraction of us personnel carried out and are officials saying why it was necessary? well let s start with why it was necessary there, christine, you say it s on sudan s on the brink of civil war, i think from the american and international perspective, it is a country in the throes of a very violent, actual civil war. there are, for example, sudanese jets bombarding positions inside their own capital. and it s that level of vi ....