lawmaker barred from speaking on the floor. a pastor killed, police say, by a man he stopped to help it turned out to be an inmate escaped from jail the violent standoff and manhunt ongoing. menopause and money. the new data on the billions in lost work. how some businesses are changing their thinking and a song that echoes through the past the violins that survived the holocaust and the people who saved them announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. it is like the worst of winter in reverse as excessive snow melt poses a rising disaster threat in parts of the country tonight. along the mississippi river, flood warnings up from st. paul to north of st. louis in places like davenport, an agonizing wait for residents powerless to halt the creeping waters still days before the river is expected to crest. almost 2,000 miles away, the atmospheric rivers that brought massive snowpacks to california s high country are gone, but war
ron desantis has his eyes on the white house. new exclusive reporting from nbc news that the florida governor is set to jump into the 2024 race as early as next month in just a few weeks, but he may have other things on his mind right now as the war of words between him and disney has turned into a legal showdown disney just filing a lawsuit alleging an orchestrated campaign to punish the media giant and desantis firing back overnight. i don t think the suit has merit. i think it s political i think they filed, you know, in tallahassee for a reason because they re trying to generate, you know, some district court decision, but we re very confident on the law plus, in a new in just a few hours, the airman accused of leaking classified documents is due back in court. this as new overnight filing alleges jack teixeira kept an arsenal of weapons in his house and talked about carrying out a mass shooting. and later montana republicans voting to ban the state s first transg
Mid-next month, but even while he criss-crosses the globe on a trade mission aiming to attract jobs to florida, his state s largest single employer disney is accusing him in a new lawsuit of being anti-business and orchestrating a targeted campaign of government retaliation. the federal suit announced just moments after a panel of desantis allies voted to invalidate disney s decades old deal with florida that gives itself governance as part of a special tax district desantis s feud with disney has dramatically escalated ever since the entertainment giant opposed florida s which critics dubbed the don t say gay bill last year it banned classroom instruction of gender orientation. you touted your record of bringing jobs to florida, main employer in your state now is coming back and saying that you are anti-business in this new lawsuit. what s your response to that