Tonight the powerful storm slamming the west coast as we come on the air

another dangerous system fueled by an atmospheric river pounding California

on top of ground already saturated by wet winter weather. The images coming in, mudslides and

flooding, cars trapped, roads cracked, palm trees falling into the ocean. We're tracking

it all.

Also tonight, the widow of Alexi Novani speaking out accusing Vladimir Putin of

killing her husband and vowing to continue his fight.

And the questions, where is Novani's body? Former President Trump

breaking his silence about Novani's death, but no mention of Russia or

Putin. Days after two people were fatally shot inside a dorm at a Colorado University,

there's word tonight of an arrest.

The search for answers after two police officers and a firefighter were killed in a shootout at a Minnesota home.

What we're learning about the shooter was he banned from owning guns.

The video from Iran-backed pookey's claiming to show a missile launching and then wreckage of a US drone.

As the war in Ukraine nears the two-year mark, the fears that a nuclear power plant is on the

brink of disaster, our Richard Engel is there, and having a renaissance, Al-Rocha,

on the amazing new exhibit honoring an extraordinary era in black history.

This is NBC nightly news with Lester Holt. Good evening everyone after weeks of rain, saturating the ground in flooding vulnerable communities relief is

hardly in sight tonight for the West Coast. Yet another storm bearing down on

California with heavy rain and threatening to bring more flooding to areas where the ground is

already thoroughly soaked. Nearly 35 million people, almost the state's entire

population, under flood watches tonight in Southern California, multiple reports of flooding

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