The new questions tonight about what happened and the threat is is not over. Here are tonights headlines. You can just see how much of the landscape has been charred. The town just totally wiped out. Our visit to historic lahaina now in ruins. Nothing but ashes. Its like an ashen moonscape, every single house. Every single tree. And it goes on like this for a block after block after block. We speak with survivors as a Community Waits for news about their loved ones. I do expect the numbers to rise. Heads up, the line is live on the ground right there. Norah tonight the new video about what may have caused the fire and the stories of desperation to get out alive. The sirens did not go off and even Fire Hydrants did not have water. How did so much go so wrong . One of the islands most famous longtime residents Oprah Winfrey spent the last several days doing what she could to provide emotional comfort and physical aid to one of the hardest hit areas. Former President Donald Trump could fa
A new york gas station in custody what police are saying. The severe storms in the South Flood Evacuations and rescues, and more dangerous heat. Were tracking it all. Donald trump entering his second not guilty plea in 24 hours, this time to new charges in the classified documents case the dramatic video, a ukrainian sea drone striking a warship in the black sea. Our Richard Engel is standing by. Simone biles back in action for the First Time Since withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics and do you have your tickets more than A Billion Dollars up for grabs tonight. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt good evening, and welcome. We start tonight with Breaking News. Police in New York City restoring calm tonight after a riot broke out in manhattans union square neighborhood. A crowd estimated at 2,000 people descended into the area after popular social Media Influencer kai cenat advertised a video game giveaway. The crowd appearing to be mostly young people turned restless and
governor ron desantis is wrapping up events in the granite states. nikki haley will hold a rally there tonight. donald trump is also expected to head to new hampshire after spending the day in court in new york. let s bring in former arkansas governor asa hutchinson. he finished sixth in the iowa republican caucuses. governor, i want to start with the fact that the democratic national committee put out a snarky statement about you suspending your campaign, saying this news comes as a shock to those of us who thought he already dropped out. a number of democrats said you were telling the truth about donald trump and standing up for democracy. i understand that president biden s chief of staff called you to apologize. well, that s correct. of course, i didn t pay much attention to what the dnc said, but it s actually gratifying to see a bipartisan rebuffing of this snarky tweet, as you say, or comment. to me, it just doesn t reflect the best of america whenever you have ridic
defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
and dialing of the urgency, making no bones about the fact that if donald trump is back in office he will bring to bear some of this political violence and incite some of it, which we know some are afraid of the trend, the weight is moving in the country, and to touch on actually, the all-out war, and the all-out word he can to in the campaign, and amount of campaigning every day and not allowing trumps lies to go unchallenged and that sort of thing. what biden was saying was people don t actually want the state of politics to be a constant factor attachment battle, they don t want to feel like it s my team against your team and we can never find common ground, and been talking about it on cable, motivated on twitter or x or whatever we call it now, the average voter does want to see elected officials work together. i thought it was interesting to that into a speech and and it was an important piece, an important piece of how you will hear him talk as the campaign moves for