priority travel surge as highly contagious variants spread in new states governor cuomo under fire when a top aide admitted of covid deaths the survival story of the deadly pile-up. 80 migrants is trapped inside a truck gasping for air. the new roadblocks to filing the pandemic and how to get around them and they re turning this winter into something inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening everyone, the second impeachment trial with donald trump is on a fast track tonight. they call the accusation that mr. trump incited the attack on the capitol of a monstrous lie. the defense labeling trump s call fight like hell, punctuating the point of a 10-minute video montage of democrats uttering the same words. we are in the fight of our lives right now. we fight like hell. democrats are standing up to fight. we are in this fight in a serious way. the defense attacking the legality of the trial while avoiding some k
underneath her body? in the front driver s seat was what appeared to be a note. she had rekindled a relationship with one of the executives. did someone have something to hide? did you murder her? no. did you pull the trigger? no. did you kill her? no. it was like a script. he had answers for everything. your head s spinning. you re. you realize this is it. you re going to hell for what you ve done in this case. it was dark, past 3:00 a.m., a weak hint of crescent moon, struggled to penetrate the night here in the middle of america. kingman, kansas, population 3,000, was asleep. except on a quiet residential street a woman unable to sleep watched a crime show on tv. was that popping noise she heard coming from somewhere in the neighborhood or was it her tv show? or just a remnant of the windy day licking around her windowsill? the silent night closed in again, april 30, 2011, tornado season. oh, and there was a storm that night. the whirlwind even
president. so with even donald trump eyeing the exits all eyes are today on michigan where drama is unfolding at a meeting to certify its election results with at least one republican member of the board leaning against certifying even though a joe biden win there is legally inevitable. and though it would take two no votes to significantly delay those results it s worth noting the timing of the contentious debate there. its days after trump appealed to local michigan election officials and state legislators apparently as part of his push to disenfranchise michigan voters and overturn joe biden s win there. but even with michigan s move today it is quint essentially trumpian facing certain defeat trump still saw fit to fire a member of his legal team over the weekend. sydney powell along with alleging international conspiracies was evicted from crazy town with a statement over the weekend that read, quote, sidney powell is practicing law on her own. she is not a member of the
alone while pushing new reform in congress as well. the centerpiece today is reversing donald trump s approach to immigration, launching a process for reuniting around 600 migrant children in the u.s. who remain separated from their parents under donald trump s hard-line policies. biden ordering the federal government to do a top to bottom breakdown of immigration policies and finding ways to root out measures that biden s team says under trump were cruel and inhumane, or just not working. i m not making new law. i m eliminating bad policy. what i m doing is taking on the issues that 99% that the president, the last president of the united states issues executive orders i thought were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country. we want to put in place an immigration process here that can that is humane, that is moral, that s going to take some time. it s not going to happen overnight. a moral policy, they say, pursuing an ethi
bashing the biden administration as del rio, texas look like a third world country more than the united states of america and three ice agents are injured in a riot after deportation site carrying migrants back to haiti. jillian: president biden criticized on the world stage as the white house cuts of the uk prime minister midsentence to block questions for the united states president. todd: you are watching fox and friends first wednesday morning. jillian: a body discovered at a wyoming campsite identified as gabby petito and her death is ruled a homicide. todd: brian laundrie is still missing. carley shimkus in venice, florida, police investigated a new lead. what do we know? reporter: to start, some grim news but not surprising. the fbi come from the body found in grand teton national park is that of gabby petito. the manner of death is a homicide. the cause of death meeting how she was killed is pending a final autopsy results. gabby s family says they will make a sta