i m danya bacchus in los angeles. dry brush is adding fuel to multiple fires burning as record-breaking heat scorches te west. also tonight, found, the alabama woman who called 911 to report a wandering toddler on the highway and then disappeared on thursday, returned home last night. we ll have the details on this developing stotory. on the front line. cbs news charlie d agata covering russia s war with ukraine and the sobering reality of combat. reporter: this is what it s come to along the front line. this relentless artillery battle, firing off at russian positions, trying to push them back from areas around bakhmut. and safety concerns. as more and more electric vehicles hit the road, some safety advocates are raising a red flag. the crash for the other vehicle, when you are heavier, is going to be more severe. and later, confronting history. a new museum in the city of charleston exposes deep wounds from america s past and a search for healing. this is a
northeast to the southwest. when it is 90 degrees out, you know, it s just it s too hot. the city of newark lost two of its bravest in a cargo ship fire. the firefighters died while battling flames that broke out last night on the tenth floor of the ship. instagram now has a new app. it is called threads. the app is seen as the most fierce competition yet to social media powerhouse to twitter. we ve got the digital cage match, that is what this play is for mark zuckerberg. he is playing to his ego while being able to undercut elon musk. jericka: russian police allegedly raid yevgeny prigozhin s mansion nearly two weeks after his armed revolt. but the mystery tonight, where is the wagner group s leader? alzheimer s breakthrough? the fda improves a drug that could slow down the progression of the disease. it s a miracle, in my view, that i can stay active and healthy and with it. they are a public health threat called pfas, forever chemical
through a plane crash and stayed alive for 40 days in the amazon. a court hearing for the utah mom accused of fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl after writing a kids book about his death. what was allegedly found in her online search history child labor laws being changed so kids can work longer and later. economic necessity or exploitation we investigate and the man who had pennies to his name, an estimated one million of them. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome on this monday night. donald trump is back in south florida on the eve of his second criminal court hearing in just over two months the ex-president traveling from his new jersey resort to miami ahead of his scheduled appearance there tomorrow before a federal magistrate, this time indicted by a grand jury on charges related to more than 100 secret government documents discovered in his mar-a-lago estate after he was out of office the 37 counts against
c confirmed could happen as soon as june 1. manu raju has the latest. reporter: speaker kevin mccarthy has been pessimistic as talks have occurred on the staff level the past week to try to avoid the nation s first ever debt default. the white house has resisted calling for the national debt limit which is more than $31 trillion to be raised without any conditions whatsoever to avoid the prospects of the u.s. not being able to pay its bills. the house did pass a bill that included a host of priorities that democrats say is dead on arrival. so there is not much time left. in order to get a deal by that june 1 potential deadline to avoid the default, default could occur in the first couple weeks of june according to the treasury department or as soon as june 1. but he spoke to reporters on monday, and mccarthy made clear there is a long way to go. the way the president has ignored it for 100 days and he still hasn t taken it serious. reporter: even if they would to get a
one-on-one with house speaker kevin mccarthy, negotiators back at the table tonight. the new signals a standstill may be over soon with the u.s. just days from default and the major meeting now set for tomorrow there is no agreement. we re still apart. presidents biden and zelenskyy face to face as ukraine gets new american support. and our correspondent pressing president biden, does his sign-off of f-16 fighter jets to ukraine risk escalating the war deadly stampede at a soccer stadium. a dozen people killed. nearly a hundred hurt. the terrifying videos as fans run for their lives. the suspect charged with manslaughter after that subway chokehold now speaking out for the first time why he says he d do it again. the idaho murder suspect set to be arraigned tomorrow and we have new nbc news reporting. did he break into another female student s apartment before the murders? and liftoff. late today a private company launching paying tourists into space, and the woman on