Tonight the powerful remembrance in Normandy for those who storm the beaches on

D day 80 years ago President Biden joining other world leaders to honor the band

of brothers who helped turn the tide of World War II and issuing a stark warning about current

threats to democracy.

We're with some of those D-Day heroes for what may be their final journey back to these shores.

Also tonight from Normandy, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin,

one-on-one talking the war in Ukraine, the rising toll in Gaza, and what he told me

about his health after his secret hospitalization earlier this year.

The deadly tornado outbreak across multiple states, while in the West dangerous heat at a

Trump rally in Phoenix nearly a dozen treated for heat exhaustion.

The deadly air strike on a Gaza school, dozens killed, including children.

Israel tonight calling it a precise strike. The dramatic testimony from

Hunter Biden's former romantic partner and widow of his brother Bo, the new video

of her throwing away Hunter's gun at the center of the case.

The suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer charged with two more murders and the disturbing

blueprint allegedly found on his computer.

And the 21-gun salute honoring more than 4,000 allied troops killed 80

years ago the numbers that tell the story of D-Day. This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome and to the heroes of D-Day who we celebrate today, thank you.

It's where we start tonight, 80 years after the daring American-led assault

in the beaches of Normandy France that turned back the tide of Nazi tyranny, allied leaders gathered today to pay tribute to D-Day veterans who risked it all in the name of freedom.

Survivors of that harrowing day who fought their way off the beach as fresh-faced boys and

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