control. but a city of bakhmut is facing a ferocious assault right now with thousands of civilians in dang danger as the russian s advance. and a man is rested for trying to bring explosives on a flight to florida in his suitcase. what we re learning about the case. new information coming in. and juries visit the scene where alex murdaugh s wife and son were kill and then the closing arguments in the disgraced lawyer s murder trial. prosecutors wrapping up just a short wild ago after condemning his lies confirm his guilt. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story this evening. very intense fighting raging right now in the key eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut. civilians hunkering down as russia throws some of the most battle hardened forces into the fight. cnn s melissa bell is joining us live from kyiv with an update. melissa, how dire is the situation in the
congress. plus, the ohio governor is visiting the site of this toxic train derailment in east palestine at this hour just as there s news of another train crash that s killed dozens of people overseas. and tiktok taking what it considers a major step to limit daily screen time for young people. how far does it go? this is what we re watching at this hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan. we begin on capitol hill where attorney general merrick garland is testifying before the senate judiciary committee at this hour. he s facing questions on everything from gun violence and social media regulation to the fentanyl crisis and that s just in the first few minutes. he is also expected to be asked about the special counsel investigations into president biden and former president trump and their handling of classified documents and there s more already facing questions about the ongoing investigation into president biden s son hunter that republicans are pushing on. paula reid is
traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i m harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate. they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china s responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperate afte
climbing back up to avoid another plane. gio benitez on this tonight. we re tracking yet another storm already. pounding the west at this hour, racing across the country. the real tornado threat expected, and the storm set to hit the northeast, too. rob marciano timing this out. president biden s plan to relieve college debt for millions of students, will it be halted by the supreme court? tonight, the new audio from the court. what the conservative justices are already saying about this. overseas tonight, drones hitting deep inside russia. one of them outside moscow. what the kremlin is saying tonight. and vladimir putin now ordering the fsb to secure russia s borders. james longman with late reporting from inside ukraine. here at home, the alex murdaugh trial. prosecutors taking aim today at that new defense theory that there must have been two shooters. also, the u.s. swimming star found dead. tonight, the family heartbroken in that mysterious death. the former s
the epa chief in ohio again today as officials battle over where to send the waste from that toxic train derailment. why the epa s plan to transport contaminated water to texas is back on after local leaders objected. the new drone strike deep inside russia, and our rare look inside crimea. will it become the new flash point in the conflict? the white house giving a deadline to remove tiktok from all government devices. could the popular app be banned altogether in the u.s.? and the american skier who just made history on the world stage. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome, everyone, in a pair of cases that will impact tens of millions of student loan borrowers, the supreme court heard arguments today on whether the biden administration had the authority to forgive some of those loans. the president s loan debt relief plan calls for erasing up to $20,000 in student loans for certain borrowers at an estimated cost of $400