i m poppy harlow, in for erin burnett. cnn learning 26 people have died from the severe winter weather that has hammered the lone star state, as officials brace for another night of below freezing temperatures. expected to push the water system to the brink. 14.9 million people across texas are being told to boil water, or they have no water at all. that s more than half of the state s population. they re also dealing with burst pipes and water treatment plants that are offline. officials say it could be days before we get the water back. people desperate to get water, military planes shipping water to hard-hit areas. and food is almost as scarce as water in some places. and the estimated financial toll is $18 billion from the deep freeze. that is equivalent to the damage from a major hurricane. and now, president biden says he s making plans to visit the hard-hit state. as texans wait for more than 400,000 doses of covid vaccine that were expected to already arrive this week
young age is tragedy wine brian laundrie is charged with the unauthorized use of the debit card belonging to death, brian is considered a person of interest. he s still missing. when he s located, we will address the pending fraud charge against him. dr. michael baden is standing by with fascinating insight. let s recap what we just learned moments ago with laura ingle. she s live in new york. laura? trace, of course, you know this is a big day in this case, learning the cause and manner of death. homicide, strangulation. as we know from all of the cases we ve covered and talked about, strangulation is a very personal and intimate matter of murder. of course, we don t know and the coroner could not tell us if it was brian laundrie who so many do have questions about. that is not his job, he said. that is for the fbi. the fbi not offering any comments on that today. we have reached out to the gabby petito family and the schmidt family. they re not prepared to make any type o
this much we do. some closure for the family perhaps on the details of their daughter s tragic death. but so many questions besides. let s go to laura ingle with the latest. laura? as you mentioned, the cause of death made public by the coroner. he said she died by strangulation and explained how his team came to their conclusions on a zoom call. we look at the crime scene, the scene of the death, the scene of the body. the condition of the body. findings of autopsy and toxicology. that is how we arrived at the manner of death. so it depends on lots of circumstances. another key finding that petito had died three to four weeks before her remains were found, september 19th near the border of the grand teton national park in jackson, wyoming. this is a stretch of wilderness 30 miles down the road from where she was last seen, august 27 at a restaurant arguing with her before, brian laundrie. when asked about the condition of petito s remains, the doctor couldn t specify
north korea now. flash flood emergency in kentucky after almost a foot of record-setting rain. a tornado rips through north carolina doing major damage to a pfizer facility. and passengers on stretchers taken off a las vegas plane with no working a.c. as a brutal heat wave sets more records across the planet the two irs whistle-blowers telling congress why they think hunter biden got preferential treatment in a criminal investigation. democrats pushing back and the unlikely blockbuster double feature that s become the summer s hottest ticket announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. we begin tonight with what we have learned about the very serious categories of crime special counsel jack smith is focusing on against former president donald trump that are spelled out in that target letter mr. trump says he received from the government over the weekend. a grand jury is investigating the lengths prosecutors say the ex-preside
Revealeded that gabby petito died of strangulation but did say if it was manual or done with some type of ligature. that s the story of tuesday, october 12. as always, the story goes on. we ll see you back here tomorrow at 3:00. have a great day. your world with neil cavuto is right now. we find the cause of death to be death by strangulation and manner is homicide. neil: we know at least this much. gabby petito was strangled. people don t know whether her boyfriend, brian laundrie, is the guy that strangled her. i m neil cavuto. this is your world on top of a history that gripped the nation nor a better part of a month and growing questions as to where brian laundrie is. so much we don t know.