dana: nearly 60% say the president isn t paying enough attention to the most important problems. this according to a new poll from cnn. it underscores the achilles heel with the white house. administration struggling to give a straight answer for just about anything. the latest is the michigan oil pipeline whether or not the president will shut it down in the middle of an energy crisis. dana: last week the proposed $450,000 pay-outs to migrants. he called the report garbage and the white house walked it back a day later. bill: the number of americans left stranded in afghanistan. that figure is changing by the day ranging from 100 to 450 still. dana: messaging on vaccines is muddled at best. recent booster roll-out prompting more questions than answers and two dozen states are suing over a vax mandate. griff jenkins watching the vice president s trip to france. steve harrigan now to the border and the white house and the north lawn where peter doocy begins our cov
21st century. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening for years he has been dogged by stories of elicit relationships with underage girls. today the wheels of justice caught up to those stories and caught up with singer r. kelly in a brooklyn courtroom. a jury in his sex trafficking trial finding kelly guilty of all nine counts. the disgraced r&b superstar described by federal prosecutors as a predator who controlled his young and vulnerable victims through threats and intimidation but some of those victims turning the tables, testified against kelly in often vivid detail in the words of one lawyer following today s verdict, finally their voices were heard stephanie gosk is in brooklyn with more on the dramatic outcome and what lies ahead for r. kelly. reporter: it is a verdict prosecutors say was nearly 30 years in the making. r. kelly guilty of racketeering and sex trafficking i believe i can fly. reporter: the man who wrote the grammy winning 9
on capitol hill. nancy pelosi experts votes on the infrastructure bill and the social spending bill. pelosi can only lose three votes on her side. you cannot underestimate how difficult that makes your maneuvering ability in leadership. that say, this is one of the most difficult situations she s ever been in. as we say, it s about the math. democrat scott peters voted against the social spending bill in committee over the weekend. some liberals are threatening to vote no. at least ten republicans will vote in favor of infrastructure. all this bill does in a bipartisan way, i don t believe anyone, any faction of the democratic party will vote against the key legislative party that is good for the country. there s one estimate the social spending bill will cost $5 trillion. the price tag could shrink to court the votes of joe manchin. spoker pelosi didn t want to talk about the numbers saying it s paid for. it s paid for by putting a debt on the next generation of am
for health care workers kick in tomorrow. inside man, how an fbi informant provided details of the january 6th insurrection in real time and what that means against the case against the capitol rioters. we re so glad to have you this sunday, september 26th. thank you so much for waking up with us. good morning, great to see you. good to be with you as well. we start with a developing story out of montana where three people have died in a train derailment on saturday while an amtrak train was traveling from chicago to seattle. images of the scene show toppled cars and a lot of people just gathered around the tracks to see what happened. authorities say eight out of the ten cars derailed. now the crash happened in a remote area near joplin, montana, that is about 30 miles from the canadian border. let s get to cnn aviation and transportation correspondent pete munteen. a team of federal investigators headed to the scene to try to figure out what happened. what do we
train traveling from seat toll chicago. images of the scene show toppled cars and people gathered around the tracks. authorities say eight out of the ten cars were derailed. the crash happened in a remote area near joplin, montana. that is about 30 miles from the canadian border. let s goat cnn aviation and transportation correspondent pete munteen. a team of federal investigators headed to the scene to figure out what happened. what do we know so far about some of the condition surrounding this derailment? reporter: the big question is why did this happen? a tragic end to what was supposed to be a beautiful trip, only about half over. amtrak is deeply saddened three people died in this incident. 141 passengers on board and 16 crew, and amtrak now says passengers and crew were among the injured. this all happened about 4:00 p.m. mountain time on saturday. two locomotives, ten cars in all, about eight of those according amtrak derailed up from the original five that was