Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 15
tonight tough talk russia's warning to the u.s not to supply ukraine with more weapons and the consequences they're now threatening this as the u.s confirms it was ukrainian forces who sank russia's main battleship in the black sea russia in a possible retaliation striking a missile plant in kiev in mario polk growing concerns the port city could soon fall and what the cia director is now saying about fears of vladimir putin using nuclear weapons also tonight the holiday travel crush airports hitting new pandemic daily highs can the airlines facing staff shortages handle the rush twitter fighting back against elon musk the so-called boardroom poison pill that could block the billionaire's takeover bid extreme lockdown in china police in hazmat suits dragging away residents protests erupting in a single city 25 million now under severe covered restrictions plus the health mystery in one american town the claim of more than 100 brain tumors are they all connected to the same high school amazon adding a new surcharge why it's happening and how it impacts the price you pay and 75 years ago today he broke baseball's color barrier changing the game and america tonight we celebrate the legendary jackie robinson this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i'm tom yamas in for leicester as we come on the air tonight russia is lashing out they're now warning the u.s to stop sending arms to ukraine saying it is quote adding fuel to the conflict and may lead to unpredictable consequences russia also ramping up their military attacks tonight new video of residents cleaning up from that missile attack in kiev a city where they are now busy digging graves authorities revealing they found the bodies of more than 900 civilians russia is likely still reeling from losing its most important battleship they had claimed it sunk after a fire broke out on board but now u.s officials
are saying it was in fact the ukrainians who took it down dave gutierrez starts us off tonight from inside ukraine overnight russia says it struck a plant in kiev that made and repaired ukrainian missiles the blast captured on these surveillance cameras and coming just hours after russia's key warship sank a senior defense official says the u.s has now determined the warship named after russia's capital was hit by two ukrainian neptune missiles in the black sea it's not clear why the ship's air defense system did not kick in russia acknowledges there was a fire on board but has denied a missile strike nearby russia is intensifying its assault on mariupol the battle now entering a critical stage the ukrainians defiant we expect to bury as many russians as possible this soldier says but the besieged port city could fall to russian forces within days triggering russia's expected onslaught on ukraine's eastern donbass region in a new interview ukraine's president zielinski a former actor and comedian spoke bluntly when some leaders ask me what weapons i need he says i need a moment to calm myself because i already told them the week before it's groundhog day i feel like bill murray in chernihev northeast of keeve a massive effort is underway to get humanitarian aid to towns that are cut off among those coordinating victoria filatova who we first spoke with weeks ago as russian forces closed in she's now safe and we met her in person so she could show us how she survived for weeks in this cellar how many people were staying in here we were 20 people she was furious at the russian soldiers but is now grateful the ukrainian troops held them back i came up to them i thanked them and i started to cry because i felt that these people saved us ukrainians liberating their own people right there gabe joins us now from kiev dave we've been seeing so many stories about kev's recovery after russian forces left but we saw right there in your story there are new attacks and so many ukrainians are on edge yeah that's right tom russia's defense ministry said today that it will intensify attacks on keith after accusing ukrainians of targeting russian border towns tom all right gabe gutierrez leading us off tonight from ukraine gabe thank you now to the kremlin's new warning to the u.s and nato stop supplying weapons to ukraine or face unpredictable consequences andrea mitchell joins us now and andrea the timing here so important this comes right after the us announced that new aid package exactly right tom that warning from russia saying the u.s was quote adding fuel to the conflict came just after president biden agreed to send ukraine another 800 million dollars in weapons responding to an urgent call from president zielinski zielinski also asking the u.s to designate russia as a
state sponsor of terror right now putin may feel cornered his forces are pushed back from keeve he's been hit with tough new sanctions and finland and sweden are about to seek nato membership on his border cia director bill burns the last u.s official to meet the russian leader warns a desperate vladimir putin could use tactical nuclear weapons but he says there's no evidence of that now the cia is watching closely tom all right andrea mitchell with that new reporting tonight andrea thank you and back here at home the holiday weekend travel crush well underway but it comes as airlines are struggling with staffing shortages and coveted cases rise in nearly half the u.s we get more now from miguel almaguer in yet another sign our nation is ready to emerge out of the pandemic this holiday weekend is poised to become the busiest travel days of the year stubbornly high gas prices are just a bump in the road for tens of millions expected to move by car and while pilots at airlines like southwest have complained of scheduled chaos and fatigue the number of daily air passengers leading up to passover and easter hasn't been this high since before the pandemic oh my goodness that the airport was tremendously packed everywhere you went plane was full airports full lines around the block for food with today and monday expected to be the most congested travel days of the year roughly half the nation is recording a rise in new covet infections with cases up just over 10 percent across the u.s hot spots like pockets of the northeast have seen the biggest climb and are also now detecting two new omicron sub variants the virus is going to be with us for a very long time probably forever the question is you know is the virus going to cause massive spikes is it going to cause our hospitals to get overwhelmed but for now hospitalizations are under control and cova deaths are down more than 30 percent tonight a measurable change in the course of the pandemic and for americans who are ready to venture back out and on that travel front miguel today and monday are expected to be the busiest travel days and the big unknown tonight are the airlines ready well tom delta's preparing for nearly half a million passengers each day but most carriers are strained jet blue in alaska already cutting back on flights tom all right miguel we thank you for that we turn now to the shocking new images out of china where the government is resorting to extreme covet lockdowns in the largest city shanghai clash is erupting as police drag residents away to use their homes for covet patients janice maggie freyr's in beijing tonight in shanghai growing desperation videos verified by associated press showing clashes chaos in broad daylight police wearing white hazmat suits appearing to wrestle with residents who were ordered to surrender their homes so they can be turned into covet isolation sites people screaming i beg you please some kneeling on the ground others dragged away with the lockdown now in its third week the omicron variant is still spreading another 23 000 new cases added today shanghai's 25 million people still largely confined robot dogs patrolling streets drones in the sky reminding residents of covid protocols control your school's desire for freedom it says lucia shen and her neighbors built up their own online supply chain to get everything from flower to medicine for 1500 people in their community hopefully it's not going to be too long because i think for people who are in lockdown we all know this this this shouldn't be a new norm thousands of asymptomatic people still stuck at mass quarantine centers still china's president xi jinping says zero covid won't be relaxed with restrictions now expanding in dozens of chinese cities and no end to shanghai's lockdown in sight janice mackey freyr nbc news beijing and more images of violence tonight out of jerusalem more than 150 palestinians were injured in these clashes with israeli police at the alaska mosque complex a major holy site just as thousands gathered for friday prayers during ramadan that holy month on the muslim calendars coinciding with passover this year and back here at home twitter today is fighting back against billionaire elon musk's attempt to buy the company for 43 billion dollars the social media giant is adopting what's called a poison pill strategy that could block his proposed takeover emily akeda explains tech billionaire elon musk facing resistance tonight in his fight to rule the twitterverse the social media giant now fending off musk's 43 billion dollar bid to buy twitter with a business maneuver nicknamed a poison pill they are pulling up the drawbridge they are strengthening their defenses against elon musk buying the company right now elon musk has about a 9 stake in twitter if his shares grow to 15 or more the poison pill kicks in and the company makes discounted stock available to others to dilute his stake they're forcing anyone who wants to buy the company to negotiate directly with them rather than just buying twitter shares on the open market twitter says its plan was unanimously adopted by the board writing it will reduce the likelihood that any entity person or group gains control of twitter earlier this year musk started scooping up twitter shares revealing this week his hopes to roll back the platform's moderation policies having a public platform that is maximally trusted and and and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization twitter says the board is still open to discussing the sale of the company as the world waits for the wealthiest man's next move emily ikeda nbc news new york all right we thank emily for that in 60 seconds is amazon about to get more expensive the new surcharge just added and the claim of more than 100 cases of brain tumors in one town the link they may all have to a single high school stay with us and we are back now with a new surcharge amazon just announced they're blaming rising fuel costs and inflation and while this extra fee won't be charged directly to customers they're very likely to feel it blaine alexander has more the next time you see an amazon van roll through your neighborhood know that it's moving at a higher cost one that could soon be passed on to you the online giant says it's adding a five percent fuel in inflation surcharge to all third-party sellers in the u.s that's more than half of amazon's inventory everything from books to makeup clothes and more at a certain point you can't keep absorbing all those costs and run a business that's economic how much do you rely on amazon for your business yeah we rely pretty extensively on amazon bernie thompson's company plugable technologies sells computer accessories he says 80 percent of their items are shipped through amazon the new surcharge means his prices are going up again this will be the first time that we're really raising prices directly because of an amazon fee change amazon is not alone both ups and fedex have also tacked on a fuel surcharge meaning every package delivered to your doorstep could cost you a little bit more in a letter to sellers amazon said the company has experienced significant cost increases something they expected to go down as covid subsides but that fuel and inflation have presented further challenges i think what's really striking about you know not just with amazon but but many of the big corporations that have been raising prices in the last few months is that if you look these are companies that are also reporting record profits amazon's ceo says he hopes it's only temporary but for small businesses this has been an extraordinarily tough time for small businesses and costly especially for the millions of us who click buy blaine alexander nbc news now to an alarming story coming out of one new jersey community and the claim that more than 100 people linked to the same high school have been diagnosed with brain tumors tonight the search is on for answers here's jesse kirsch my wife died in 2012. i was just
diagnosed with astrocytoma in january robin was an amazing mother sister and daughter tonight a new jersey town is scrambling to understand a heartbreaking medical mystery dozens diagnosed with brain tumors across three decades what do those brain tumors do to your bodies they usually affect hearing first that's usually the first indication that they're there on the brainstem yesterday morning i tried to get dressed and i fell because i don't have the correct balance married 25 years michelle and al lupiano share a rare non-cancerous brain tumor diagnosis michelle's coming 22 years after al's it's like being struck by lightning at the same time last summer al's sister angela de sillas found out she also had a brain tumor hers was deadly i made a promise to her before she passed that i'll get to the bottom of it he found another area family hit with similar illness and tragedy searching facebook his list grew longer here we are today at 103. lupiano says all of these people share one thing in common they either worked at or went to this high school in woodbridge township new jersey radiation can cause in higher incidence of cancer in general as well as brain tumors but it's difficult to say if there's definitely an environmental environmental cause for this the people lupiano found mostly spent time at colonia high school between 1972 and 2000 woodbridge's mayor says an investigation for radiation on the school's grounds is underway right now they are going through every single square inch of the property despite the possible connection between the school and these diagnoses classes have remained in session in those halls today two of lupiano's nieces walking through the same school their mother once did their father distraught in my heart i hope they don't find anything that's still there tonight the federal epa confirms it is aware of the cases and is working with new jersey state and local officials as they investigate the mystery tom we hope they find some answers all right jesse thank you for that and we're back in a moment with the president's tax return and how it's making history all right the president's tax returns were released late today and here are the numbers president biden and the first lady earned nearly 611 000 in 2021 paying a little more than 150 000 in federal income tax much of their income came from the president's four hundred thousand dollar annual salary prorated to the day he was inaugurated another 67 000 though came from the first lady's salary as a teacher it's the first time a first lady has reported income from a day job all right moving on now to our ongoing series crypto universe some have gotten rich off cryptocurrencies and now more minority investors are putting their money in but some warning comes with a great risk here's gotti schwartz then there are others from tv to social media crypto hype is in overdrive fortune favors the brave beyond the celebrities and influencers some of the biggest groups buying in are marginalized communities is this a new avenue for black wealth often pushed away from traditional banking excited for an alternative the traditional banking system is not friendly to poor people that's simple and the lopez family has reason to mistrust they say they were part of the wells fargo scandal when the bank opened up accounts and customers names without their knowledge and that their parents almost lost their family home after getting locked into a piggyback mortgage with another bank with a 12 interest rate it was just getting frustrating each time i'm just like screw it you know i'm gonna check out this crypto stuff and after a small investment in bitcoin the twins amassed nearly a hundred thousand dollars now they're bullish on its potential for others in the community that won't save their family roughly 7.1 million households in the u.s don't have bank accounts and the majority of those without a savings or checking account are black and hispanic it's not a shock to you that they they don't trust the system no i mean the system has never been designed for their trust a recent harris poll found that 34 percent of black and 45 percent of hispanic investors own cryptocurrency compared to 27 percent of white investors it is those that are really trying to change their latin life that feeds into the american ethic of pull yourself up by the bootstrap economist derek hamilton is wary of the lure of crypto what are the dangers of crypto value is determined by speculation at the end of the day it is pretty much a casino it's not backed by anything of substance hamilton fears that if the bottom falls out in a loosely regulated space it is marginalized communities it'll be left holding the bag but for many like the lopez twins my parents trusted the banks so now you have this new generation coming in where it's just like they don't trust the banks because they see them as the cause of all these crisis of the financial bubble yeah of of the housing bubble and such and it still feels the effects today gotti schwartz nbc news los angeles well we thank god for that when we come back the celebrations for jackie robinson 75 years to the day that he made history finally tonight it was 75 years ago today that jackie robinson changed america's pastime and america itself rahima ellis now on the man who broke through baseball's color barrier and into the history books a trailblazer in the world of sports 75 years ago today at ebbets field in new york history was made jackie robinson became the first black man to integrate major league baseball he knew what it was to be black in america he knew what he was going to be up against and he had to steal himself that's because it was 1947 and the country was still in the dark days of jim crow segregation fans taunted robinson with racial slurs hotels turned the team away even some players shunned him the battery is robinson but robinson knowing it was about more than just a game persevered the dodgers had a plan to improve their baseball team jackie robinson had the skills and the courage born the youngest of five children in cairo georgia robinson would go on to become a six-time all-star world series champion and one of the most iconic athletes of all time today in times square a new generation celebrating his memory what do you hope your son gets from this appreciation of life of opportunity of the legacy that came before him meanwhile major leaguers all wore robinson's number 42. not about a black white male female latin america asian american it's about appreciating what jackie robinson did for all of us a pioneer of america's pastime whose determination on the field inspired change nationwide rehema ellis nbc news new york love seeing that 42. we thank rahima for that story and we thank you for watching that's nightly news for this friday i'm tom yamas for all of us at nbc news have a great night [Music] thanks for watching our youtube channel follow today's top 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