Courtroom in washington just steps from the capital where his supporters rioted on january 6th. The former president facing his third arraignment charged with a criminal scheme to stay in power after his loss. Special counsel jack smith just feet away from him in the courtroom before leaving washington. Mr. Trump, who is running to retake the white house in 2024 coming before the cameras, calling it a very sad day for america. Our team at the courthouse and our legal analyst standing by. Also tonight, two u. S. Navy sailors under arrest, accused of spying for china. The secret theyre accused of selling. The Grim Discovery. Two bodies in the rio grande. One at that floating Barrier Texas installed in the river. What texas and mexican officials are saying. Terrifying moments aboard a delta flight. Police say a passenger with a sharp object cut himself and then attacked a Flight Attendant. How he was stopped. The new development in the gilgo beach serial killer investigation. What prosecu
his political opponents. also tonight, the alleged gilgo beach serial killer accused of having haunted even more victims years before the others. the new murder charges factor to be handed down. and a forgotten hero of d-day 80 years since the storming of warm and de, a black army medic is forgotten no more. his son is here to share his remarkable story. tonight on laura coates live all right, not one but two of the major legal cases around donald trump are now in a kind of legal quicksand and they re going nowhere fast, including the one that brought us this infamous mug shot. the one down in fulton county. now the chance of a trial happening there this year let alone before he number election, it basically evaporated today. a georgia appeals court put the election interference case on hold indefinitely until it rules on the appeal to disqualify the da fani willis and let s be honest, that is going to take months and we are what, 153 or so days away from the election burea
for us. what is all this telling you? what this is telling us is that the gilgo beach serial killer investigation where rex heuermann is the charged prime suspect, is expanding exponentially how and why first, because they re looking at someone who the offender characteristics would suggest probably started killing before the murders that they know about from the gilgo beach burial site, or even the one in mandeville, those victims go back to the early 2000s studies show laura that most serial killers start killing when their 20s. so that would put us back into the clock of 1985, 1987. so they re looking at unsolved murders, missing persons who never turned up bodies that were recovered in burial areas or dumpsites that might have some similar offender characteristics and how they were tied or how they might have been dismembered and left at more than one location.
gilgo beach serial killer investigation. what prosecutors are seeking to get from the suspect. and the countdown to kick off. the nfl is back tonight, right here on nbc. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. it was a moment surely seen through different lenses in this divided nation, and yet a moment of undeniable consequence. a former american president standing before a federal judge to answer whether he sought to thwart the will of voters and block a bedrock of american democracy, the peaceful transfer of power. in a 27-minute long arraignment, former president trump pleaded not guilty to four charges of conspiracy and obstruction. his third criminal arraignment in four months, and arguably the most serious. afterwards, mr. trump slamming the indictment as politically motivated, a persecution of a political opponent. the ex-president flying from his new jersey home to washington and a
lester, we should see and point out here, if you don t have shade and you don t have water, areas like this can quickly turn deadly. lester? miguel almaguer, thank you. now to new developments in the gilgo beach serial killer investigation. police in new york today using ground-penetrating radar and digging for evidence in the backyard of the suspect s long island home. police also confirming the home has a walk-in concrete vault with a big iron door where the suspect kept more than 200 guns. rex heuermann is charged with the murders of three women and has pleaded not guilty. and in alabama tonight an apology and admission that it was all made up. ten days after carlee russell claimed she saw a young child on a highway and was then kidnapped her lawyer today said in a statement read by police that none of it happened and that russell did not leave the hoover, alabama area. the lawyer said russell apologizes for her actions.