escalate its response. also tonight, the mother of a michigan school shooter testifying at her own trial. what she said about wishing he d killed her instead, and why she didn t think he needed help with mental health. the catastrophic hangar collapse at the boise airport. three people killed, five critically injured. how did it happen. back-to-back storms slamming the west coast. cars trapped by floods. swift water rescues. we re tracking it. the two nypd officers attacked in times square. multiple suspects arrested. why were they released without bail? the midair meltdown. an unruly passenger on a jetblue flight to new york restrained by fellow flyers. and checking in with elmo. how his innocent question on social media got a very unexpected response. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. offering what he says was an explanation, not an excuse, secretary of defense lloyd austin broke his public silence today surrou
right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at m headquarters in new york city. nearly 24 hours after president biden vowed to strike back, we re waiting for his critical decision. how will be u.s. retaliate for the attack that killed three u.s. soldiers and wounded dozens more in the middle east? what s it going to take to get them to back down but not trigger a bigger war in the process. he s not president and not in congress. how is it possible that donald trump could pull the rug out from under a border deal that both parties say they want and that the country desperately needs? it s the race the american people have been dreading. the two oldest candidates in u.s. history duking it out in what may be the longest presidential campaign we ve ever seen. what it s going to take for them and us to make it to election day. we begin with the deadly attack on american troops in the middle east, opening a new potentially explosive chapter in the israel-hamas war. president
stay at that task. does the white house acknowledge that the previous retaliatory strikes in the region have been ineffective at protecting american troops? the strikes that we have taken in the past have definitely had an impact on the grading and disrupting the activities of some of these groups. clearly, they have decided to keep conducting those attacks. now it has legal consequences for american troops. we will weigh an additional set of options. the president will make his decisions to respond appropriately. you have been listening to president biden s national security council spokesman, john kirby, from the podium at the white house. he says the volatile information in the northeast is fundamentally different after a drone strike killed three american service members in jordan. he confirmed president biden met twice with his national security team as they worked through different options to retaliate, but he would not say which options are on the table, or even
only represents mesothelioma victims and their families. if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelial collis. now you are in the cnn newsroom. i will flip sir, in washington. thanks very much for joining us and we begin with breaking news sentencing hearing for the parents ichigan school shooter, ethan crumbley. but before they learned their fate, they must also face their son s victims and their families james and jennifer crumbley were both found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter qatar after their teenage sudden murder, four of his classmates back in 2021. this is a unique case with the crumbleys being the first parents to be held responsible for a school shooting committed by their child cnn s jean casarez has been covering this story from the very beginning. she s joining us right now, live gene, what s happening? being in court right now? well, right now, the victim impact statements have just begun in this precedent setting sentencing
The parents of a Michigan school shooter have each been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for failing to take steps that could have prevented the killings.