Tonight Hurricane Barrel making a direct hit on the Texas coast knocking out power to nearly 3 million homes in businesses.

Barrel slamming ashore as a category one storm with 80 mile per hour winds.

At least four dead homes destroyed, neighborhoods

underwater in Houston nearly a foot of rain flooding highways. The dramatic

rescue, a man stranded on top of his truck full to safety.

Our team in the storm zone and the dangerous heat wave, 136 million under alerts tonight.

Also this evening President Biden, vowing I'm not going anywhere

as calls grow for him to drop out. Mr. Biden daring dissatisfied Democrats to

challenge him at the convention. It comes as White House logs reveal an expert

on Parkinson's visited the White House eight times in eight months including a

meeting with the president's personal physician. The White House saying it can't confirm why he was

there.

The United plane losing attire during takeoff at LAX, what the airline says happened.

Boeing agreeing to plead guilty to a felony over two deadly 737 max crashes.

Victims' families now slamming the deal.

Comparing popular weight loss drugs, which is most effective, the new study, and three days that defined a generation.

More than half a century later, the nationwide effort to collect memories of Woodstock.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

It has lost its status and a lot of its punch, but what is now

tropical storm barrel is leaving a deadly and tattered trail tonight as the former

hurricane now powers its way from Texas and on into the center of the country.

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