freedom today, tomorrow, and for as long as it takes! reporter: the speech in lithuania s capital, coming at the end oh of a dramatic, sometimes heated two days of discussions over ukraine s future within the nato alliance. it s going to happen. we re moving in the right direction. i think it s just a matter of getting by the next few months here. reporter: presidents biden and volodymyr zelenskyy all raise and thanks closing out the nato summit, despite ukraine coming away without the biggest ticket item it had hoped for a concrete path to nato membership. zelenskyy came in blasting the lack of a membership timeline as absurd and unprecedented. wednesday, he took a soft ever tone, arguing the summit was a success because of security guarantees. the outcome of the nato summit was much needed and meaningful success for ukraine. i m grateful to all leaders in the nato conference for very practical, unprecedented support. reporter: while the u.s. and others argue tha
the weather outside is still frightful and in places still potentially deadly. pamela brown here in for anderson. it s hard to imagine that some parts of western new york could see another foot or more of snow on top of the nearly four feet you see in these pictures on your screen. winter storm warnings there and elsewhere still in effect. buffalo s airport still closed. the entire eastern part of the country still in a deep freeze. almost 4,000 flights canceled today and nearly 2600 tomorrow. nationwide, at least 49 people have lost their lives in this massive storm. 27 and the buffalo area alone. we have wide reporting tonight from buffalo and denver international airport. let s start tonight with paula who has been right there in the works of it from day one. what is the latest on the ground? today those rescues also continue. in fact, new york governor saying that state police officers carried out some 550 rescues at least over the weekend. but we also learned about wha
general. in ukraine, 23 civilians including three children were killed and 91 wounded after a russian strike. we will be going to ukraine live. the buffalo supermarket weirton black people were killed in a racist attack is officially reopening as the accused gunman faces new charges. what buffalo residents are saying about the reopening. . we begin in the middle east where president biden is about to begin the second part of his trip to the region. the president is scheduled to arrive in saudi arabia this hour to meet with leaders of saudi arabia and the gulf region. the flight comes hours after a historic decision from saudi arabia to open its airspace to all civilian flights including those to and from israel. before he took off, he met with the palestinian president and reiterated his commitment to a two state solution to end the israel palestinian conflict and paid tribute to an american journalist who the state department says was killed by an accident likely from
Happening now, a federal judge is imposing the Prison Sentence for the former proud Boys Chairman who was convicted of Seditious Conspiracy due to his role in the january 6th violent attack on the u. S. Capitol. He faces a steep sentence. Prosecutors are asking for 33 years behind bars. Cnns evan perez joins me now from outside the Federal Courthouse. So prosecutors asking for 33 years. Of course, it is up to the judge within guidelines. But what do we expect here . Well, jim, the judge, timmy kelly, has given far under what prosecutors have been asking for. This is the fifth member of the proud boys. Hes one of four of them who have been convicted of Seditious Conspiracy. He wasnt actually at the capitol on that date. He had been arrested just before january 6th, before the crowd gathered that day. In part because he had weapons on him and he was involved in a previous altercation, stealing a sign at a church right here in the district of columbia. So for that reason, he wasnt here. B
Today forcing Secretary Of State blinken and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shelter in a bunker during highstakes talks. And the moment today, our team taking cover from incoming fire in belgium the deadly shooting near a Soccer Stadium investigated as a Terror Attack. And now the urgent manhunt. And the horrific stabbing in illinois a 6yearold boy dead. His mother gravely injured. The suspect, their Landlord Police say he targeted them because of their muslim faith and the israelhamas war the hate crime charges he faces our Special Edition of nightly news begins now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight live from israel. Good evening from israel as hamas Rockets Streaked over tel aviv tonight, Warning Sirens briefly interrupted delicate highlevel talks to dial back the israelhamas war and there is late word that President Biden may travel to israel as early as this week. Secretary of state Antony Blinken already on the ground here tonight leading