her attorney says school officials ignored. our nbc news reporting. the concerned texts the teacher sent to a loved one just before the shooting. the major winter storm moving into the northeast after a tornado outbreak left a trail of destruction farther south. al roker is here. president biden reversing course, now pledging the u.s. will send 31 abrams tanks to ukraine. so, what changed? just in, two years after he was suspended, facebook lifting its ban on donald trump. the dramatic video, a man with a long gun shooting up at a police helicopter. and the team of 25 performing a medical miracle for two infant twins. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and one of the country s most closely watched criminal cases today south carolina prosecutors began laying out their double murder case against alex murdaugh, prominent attorney and patriarch of a powerful charleston area family accused of murdering his wife and 22-year-old son.
ukraine after russia unleashed a round of brutal missile attacks just hours after the white house said it will send american tanks to the ukrainian watt thefield. weems we ll take you live to kharkiv. in virginia, a school board fired its embattled superintendent after new claims that administrators were warned multiple times that a 6-year-old student had a gun just before shooting his teacher. in washington more than 70 democrats in the house and senate are urging president biden to reconsider new are restrictions for those seeking asylum. just as the administration is touting. we ll talk to congressman ruiz about what can be done to fix our broken immigration system. and why one organization is arging tee knows are being excluded. we ll ask the chairman about what needs to be done to address the lack of latino representation in hollywood. we begin this hour with brand new nbc news exclusive reporting. president biden is considering a visit to europe to mark the one ye
and for some reason we welcome back mike baker. let s hope he can complete a sentence using only 50 ums in 24 groans. when you need a coherent thought and 24 hours, don t call him. all right. ever since joe biden s speech from the innermost circle of hell, i ve been think about the future of this country. not that he ate fiber before boarding the roller coaster at six flags. it s the extreme maga republican who apparently number in the dozens or perhaps millions. we really never get a head count on the threat. we are not even sure they have heads. the vagueness of the threat certainly is convenient mainly because it s hard to count something that doesn t really exist. unlike the persistent and violent crime we now experience everything the day across this country. oddly none of that is caused by people in red hats. extreme maga aren t like sheep. you can t count them to fall asleep because there s really not enough of them. for a democrat it s best never to know how truly big
37 minutes between the last time we heard gunshots to now. so the idea of if they thought it was a barricaded situation, or no longer an active shooter, that has now been retriggered. and it will be another half an hour before they make entry. i just want to talk about the victims, right? because i spoke to one of the mothers of one of the kids who survived. and she told me that her son recollects, remembers someone hearing a police officer say hey, you inside? do you need help? and the kid answers back yeah, we re in here. and then the gunman shoots and kills him. so that is happening. now it could have been in this moment. we just don t know. we don t know. and it s very hard to get that kind of specific information out of the children. but i think law enforcement has some idea, because actually, it was fbi forensic. type of ert. who deals with interviewing kids. to try to elicit specific information. that s what s going on. there are more people being shot. that s
shot? reporter: nbc news learned from a source close to the situation she texted a loved one an hour before she was shot saying the student said he had a gun in his backpack and that school officials weren t helping. the source said that the texts showed her frustration. yamiche, thank you. tens of millions are under winter weather warnings from that powerful storm that left a trail of destruction in the south. gabe gutierrez is in new hampshire. and, gabe, how are conditions up there? reporter: lester, the snow is starting to pick up here, and this comes after another storm earlier this week. now travel across the region expected to get more dangerous throughout the night. tonight, the fast-moving storm system that leveled homes across the south is racing toward the northeast bringing punishing wind and snow and making travel treacherous. more than 30 million people are under winter weather alerts. tornado on the ground right now right in front of me. reporter: these heart