charges he faces. the new storm threat taking aim at california with an untold number of residents still trapped by record snow. we re tracking it. the crash that killed a norfolk southern conductor, the company s third accident in ohio in just over a month after those two derailments. and the special investigation, the ntsb announced today into the company. my report tonight on how a letter from a prisoner led to a 20-year-plus search for the truth is now the subject of a hit nbc news podcast. and the bluegrass star and the obstacles he overcame to become one of the best fiddlers in the world. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and thank you for joining us. a violent kidnap drama that targeted a traveling group of four americans in matamoros, mexico, is over, sadly with word two of them were killed. the others recovered alive in what may have been a case of mistaken identity in an increasingly lawless area near the texas bord
as president putin begins drafting new troops in the fight in ukraine. some flights out of russia have sold out. also in the programme. the bank of england raises interest rates to their highest level for m years it warns the uk may already been in recession. and a fracking ban in england is lifted in a bid to increase energy production but critics say the move could harm the environment and trigger earthquakes. the us secretary of state has said russia s president, vladimir putin, can t get away with shredding international order over his invasion of ukraine. he was speaking at a special meeting of the united nations security council. here s what else he had to say. even the number of nations that maintain close ties with moscow have said publicly that they have serious questions and concerns about president putin s ongoing invasion. rather than change course, however, president putin has doubled down, choosing not to end the war but to expand it. that expansion he was
who have been called up for the war, but there are plenty trying to escape, with long queues forming at the border and, the sixth day of protests in iran, triggered by the death of a woman in police custody what does it tell us about changing attitudes in iran? tonight with the context, stefanie brown james, the co founder of the collective pac, a group campaigning for equal representation in american politics and joe twyman, director of the political research company, deltapoll. hello, welcome to the programme. the un secetary general has told the security council there will be a reckoning for those responsible for a catalog of cruelty in the occupied areas of ukraine. antony gutteres said the investigators are seeing evidence of torture, sexual violence, and summary executions. the high commissioner for human rights has been documenting the unacceptable impacts on this war on human rights. the reports are a catalogue of cruelty, executions, sexual violence and torture and
somehow. so, anyway, they are getting, this is just south of myrtle beach, down there by garden city, surfside beach on the southern part of the grand strand, just south of the grand strand on down toward georgetown. georgetown in this area here, and then i want to make a note of this spot right here, this is mcclellanville, and behind it is march. it was notorious near hugo, they had a high school that flooded and they had to hang from the rafters and on top of tables and stages to save themselves. looks like right now the center of this broad circulation is going to come ashort, kind of a little face i drew there, isn t it, come ashore somewhere near mcclellanville, right about there, that puts the worst of the water to the north with the winds like this. the worst of the water into the georgetown area, and just north of georgetown is the famous place, pawleys island, and the pier, a famous attraction there on the island, i ve seen the images of that now of the end of the p