Breaking news tonight, the high stakes moment here in Washington.

President Biden said to make his case for a second term in his State of the Union address.

The President coming before Congress and the American people, his pivotal speech tonight in prime time here

on NBC.

With a rematch now said against former President Trump, Mr. Biden looking to jumpstart his

campaign.

The major announcement he'll make about a US-led emergency mission in Gaza and what will say

about the border, abortion rights and inflation.

Also terrifying take-off, a United Airlines plane, the tire falling off,

crushing a car below, the flight diverted what we're learning. The U.S. Army Sergeant accused

of selling the military secrets to China. The charges announced today.

The trial of the father of a Michigan school shooter underway, you'll hear the tape played in court the frantic 911 call he made the day of

a massacre the severe weather threat across the southern plains were tracking

it inside the mission to air drop aid into Gaza, our Richard Engel aboard a plane bringing desperately needed relief.

The report on the shooter who killed 18 people in Maine.

What a new analysis is revealing about his brain and the

American sailor and the scares at sea she overcame to make history.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome tonight from Washington, D.C.

where President Biden will this evening enter the Capitol behind me and speak to

Americans about the state of the Union. The speech comes just two days after

super Tuesday when the President and Donald Trump all but punched their tickets to the November

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