Week after the evacuation order was lifted following that fiery crash and controlled burn. thousands of fish turning up dead in local waters officials urging people to use bottled water, but what do the tests show and just breaking, stunning video of a black hawk helicopter crashing in alabama. what we re learning. also tonight, the shocking moment in the courtroom. the brother of a victim rushing the buffalo supermarket shooter before he s held back by officers. the judge saying the gunman deserved no mercy. the sentence handed down the search for answers in the mass shooting at michigan state university have police uncovered a possible motive? the dangerous winter storm on the move millions on alert from arizona to michigan. al roker is tracking it. our nbc news exclusive. defense secretary lloyd austin, his first interview since the u.s. shot down those three mystery objects in the sky should the u.s. have spotted them sooner? we asked him, was there an intelligence failur
To brief lawmakers on capitol hill. there s going to be a classified briefing for senators today. and then an unclassified briefing call for house members. the question, though, right now is how much information and new information can they potentially share because, again, they ve been pretty clear that they just don t know much right now. mj lee, we ll stay tuned to see what questions they do answer today. thank you. there s a lot left to learn about all the mystery objects that we have been discussing. cnn s tom foreman at the magic wall to help us visualize what we do know. tom, good morning to you. so start us off, if you will, on the smaller side. let s talk about the objects shot down on sunday. yeah. this one was on the smaller side. get a scale here, statue of liberty, empire state building, much higher than any of that in that it was about 20,000 feet. it was described as being an octagonal shape here. and it was had some kind of strings hanging down the edges. that s
Thank you both so much. let s turn to capitol hill, another top story with the growing mystery over those flying objects being shot out of the sky in fact at this very moment all 100 senators are receiving a classified briefing on these mystery objects. they have been shot down over a three-day period. the latest on sunday over lake huron. and coming nearly a week and a half after that chinese spy balloon was shot down off the coast of myrtle beach. lawmakers on both side of the aisle are dialing up pressure on the biden administration to provide more details. this is not usual. you don t shoot things down over american air space. we ve never done that before. we have done it four times in the last few days. we re asking the president please tell the people what you know and what you don t know and what the plan is going forward. we definitely need more information. of course i assume that they have it. if they don t have it, we need to know why. good point right there from t