asia, and she s not ruling out a visit all eyes on kansas, the first state to ask voters to weigh in on abortion rights since roe v. wade was overturned. and polls suggest the vote will be a close one. mystery in the sky. why did this co-pilot jump or fall to his death out of a plane as it made an emergency landing? number two jumped from the aircraft, did not have a parachute his family opening up to us and we lost two people today who shattered racial barriers bill russell, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, and nichelle nichols, who brought equality to the final frontier. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with kate snow good evening. from water to fire, we have two very different natural disasters to update you on tonight in northern california, extreme temperatures and bone-dry conditions fueling the mckinney fire 2,000 residents have been evacuated the fire expanding this weekend to cover 50,000 acres now and then to the east in kentu
dozens of people still unaccounted for this hour. our mola lenghi is in the flood zone, and rob marciano times out the rain and the new heat wave threatening the east coast. the growing monkeypox outbreak. new york city joins san francisco in declaring a state of emergency. the city s health commissioner calls new york the epicenter of the virus as the city awaits more vaccine doses. the war in ukraine. one of the country s richest men, a top grain tycoon, killed in a russian strike as dozens of ships remain docked at the country s ports, those vessels packed with agricultural products. and vladimir putin s new warning to the west. the nation mourns the loss of two trailblazers tonight, nba bill russell, a pioneer on and off the court, a hall of famer with 11 nba championships, two as the league s first black coach. after growing up in the segregated south, russell marched for civil rights and paved the way for generations of nba players who followed. and we mark the
campaigning, elections set to show much of a grip donald trump still has on the gop. our correspondents are standing by live later on in the show. i m hallie jackson with you on this monday afternoon in washington. so let s get right to ken delainian and danny. ken, we haven t heard from guy during the trial. he didn t testify on his own behalf. he wasn t expected to make a statement today, but that has changed and he s now going to speak, we understand. reporter: yeah, the latest twist in a day that s been full of them here, hallie. earlier, guy reffett was trying at the defense table as his daughter was testifying in his defense and talking about his mental health issues and trying to blame what happened on donald trump. and after that, the justice department suffered a major setback when the judge ruled against imposing a so-called domestic terrorism enhancement on the sentence, which is the first time the doj tried to do that, saying that this conduct was domestic terro
doesn t go far enough. my conversation with the parns of austin tice. this mark marking ten years since the american journalist banished in syria. their new plea to president biden. a u.s. drone strike in afghanistan is believed to have killed one of the world s most notorious terror masterminds wanted in the deaths of hundreds including americans abroad u.s. officials say ayman al zawahir laden was successfully targeted in a weekend drone strike in afghanistan. to this day he has been on the fbi s most wanted list for his role in the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya that killed 224 people including 12 americans also a key figure in the 9/11 attack. president biden addressing the nation tonight about the operation. kelly o donnell is at the white house with late details lester, the past saturday night 9:40 p.m. eastern saturday night the u.s. government used an unmanned drone and hellfire missiles to target the third floor balance coney in down on i