the networks destructive project continues. in fact his case, he specifically didn t want any that s not a problem. tonight, the question legal exposure for so-called news channel that shared confidential biden campaign information with the trump white house. we put, you know, a different viewpoint, if you like. i was david wallace wells in the massive problem that the partisan mania over the origins of covid-19. we re going to investigate the chinese virus. and senator may actually be republican support to increase real safety in the wake of the east palestine disaster. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. in the wake of the bombshell revelations confirming once and for all the abject dishonesty a fox news, democrats and congress are now demanding action. today, house minority leader hakeem jeffries and senate majority leader chuck schumer penned a letter urging fox executives to protect american democracy against
taking partial responsibility saying it didn t act with enough urgency, but are there more bank failures ahead the incredible scene on a school bus as a brave seventh grader takes control after the driver passes out. politics embracing artificial intelligence a potentially useful tool, but will distortions of reality get even worse and giving kids with autism a powerful voice that s inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome on this friday as large parts of the country head into a potentially volatile weekend of weather in the midwest, eyes are locked on the slow but steady rise of the mississippi river. a spring snow melt producing flooding across portions of minnesota, wisconsin, illinois, iowa, and missouri scenes like this in davenport, iowa, expected to grow worse between now and monday, but right now it is the south, once again, facing the immediate threat of violent and dangerous storms an estimated 2
last while in the southeast at least seven tornadoes reported along with hail and flooding. the threat far from over. also tonight, the deadly collision of two army apache helicopters killing three soldiers and injuring another. dozens killed in ukraine, most at an apartment building, as russia launches its worst attack on civilians in months. our reporter is on the ground. inside the manhunt for two escaped inmates still on the run after a third is captured, and another found dead after murdering a pastor. after the collapse of silicon valley bank, the fed now taking partial responsibility saying it didn t act with enough urgency, but are there more bank failures ahead? the incredible scene on a school bus as a brave seventh grader takes control after the driver passes out. politics embracing artificial intelligence. a potentially useful tool, but will distortions of reality get even worse? and giving kids with autism a powerful voice that s inspiring america.
tom costello has been looking this new report over. tom, the fed essentially admitting it failed here. reporter: that s right. the fed says there s plenty of blame to go around in the failure of svb. it says first this is a textbook case of bank mismanagement, and in a mea culpa the fed said it also failed. government regulators did not understand the depth of the bank s problems and were far too slow to react. one big issue, the fed s very bureaucratic regulatory oversight system. the fed is now considering whether to require banks to have more cash on hand and tougher regulatory rules, lester. and, tom, meantime, there s growing concern about another bank that s in trouble, first republic. what do we know? reporter: there s right. our partners at cnbc is reporting that the government is preparing to put first republic into an fdic receivership. they put 30 billion into the bank to keep it afloat, and its
where it is and what it is. right? no one s like, we re gonna run some experience on this. that is treated as, you know, an acute national security threat that as a whole set of regulatory regimes around it. sounds like what you re seeing from your reporting is, like, independent of what the definitive answer this causal question is, the regulatory regime both nationally and internationally in place on these labs maybe we should be taking another look at it. it s lagging behind where the research is. it s especially ranking behind parts of the world weather building new labs for the first time. the u.s. is in a slightly better place, erupts in a better place, but the truth is, globally, we re gonna be doing much more this research, we want an integrated network and oversight system so we know exactly what s happening everywhere. there s an even bigger black hole in the field research, so people go out into the field and collect viruses there to bring them back to the lab. there s