good day to all of you. welcome, everyone, to alex wooit reports. here s what s happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific time, a memorial service for former nevada senator harry reid is getting under way in las vegas. president biden is there, along with house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer and former president obama will be delivering the eulogy. nbc capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell is also there. leigh ann, set us up for what we can expect this hour. reporter: hey, alex, the service today is going to be the who s who of democratic politics, of course, president joe biden, former president barack obama, speaker pelosi, majority leader schumer in the senate, they re going to speak here but perhaps for the late senator, the most important person who s going to be here is his wife, landra, of 62 years. he kept a poem of e.e. cummingss in his desk to always remember her, titled, i carry your heart out with me. so she was
because its demands weren t met. more than 90% faxed. don t take my word for it. the entire school system for what? when our district was always remote, our children suffered. there is no disputing that reality, we should not be politicizing the pandemic. that is a mistake. and ultimately hurts our children and families. i believe schools should remain open. they have what they need because the american rescue plan we provided the states with 130 billion. a billion dollars. to specifically keep our students safe and schools open. to speak of the union is demanding that they spend even e money for a safer work environmt the city of chicago already got $2 billion in covid funds for schools. so what happened all the money? and then there s the signs. eve heard it over and over again. chicago s top docs blasting the unions for not listening. at least among children, we have to think of this as similar to the flu. you add vaccination on top of that, the risk is even lower. and
courtroom and she looked like she owned the place. she loved defending those clients. she loved law. reporter: she d stayed late at work to read up on a murder case. but the next murder police wound up investigating was hers. she s representing some really hardened criminals. maybe somebody had a beef with her. it was personal. reporter: the clues? a missing gucci wallet. mystery strands of hair. it suggested that a female had maybe killed her and she d pulled the hair out. whodunit? who came up here and did it? somebody planned this murder. somebody wanted her out of the way. i told her, i will make this right. i will make this right for you. reporter: i m lester holt. and this is dateline. here s dennis murphy with shining star. reporter: cajun country is where the dreadful thing happened. baton rouge, the louisiana state capitol perched on the banks of the mississippi. three blocks off the river, on a chilly thursday night, a criminal defens
lading much to the shooting, and blaming the two parents for not doing more to stop their son. i suspect parents and everyone to have humanity, and to step in and stop a potential tragedy. later in the show, we re going to follow those new developments. we also have the latest on the omicron variant, now confirmed in six states, including nebraska recently, as lester gog one on one with rochelle walensky. shaq brewster is on the ground in michigan, and catherine schweit, who ran the fbi s program for mass shootings. let s start with you, the new charges. it s my understanding, shaq, they re on the docket, set to be arraigned at 4:00 eastern, right? so 60 minutes from now? reporter: that s the expectation. the one thing we re continues to watch are the charges against them. the last arraignment was with the 15-year-old suspect. when we heard him in court, we got the sense of the additional evidence against that suspect. we might hear more than we heard in that press conf
we control them all. and laid out options that trump or allies employed in trying to overturn the results of the election from legal challenges to promoting alternative slates to focusing on the date of january 6. an attorney for don trump jr. confirms that the message was sent and passing along someone else s ideas. this text which outlines the way that team trump spoefb cli donald trump jr. s son and trump tried to overturn the election results before being certified is part of a stream about the trump coup plot. revelations coming out since the insurrection took place. revelations that left the select committee convinced that there s evidence to refer the former president to doj for criminal charges. that bar is reached by the committee. here s what vice chair cheney said ant that on sunday. it is clear that what president trump was doing, what a number of people around him were doing, they knew it was unlawful and did it anyway. she would go on in that interview to do