Tonight the death toll from Helene reaching a grim new milestone as hopes fade in the

search for survivors a week after Helene made landfall the growing desperation the

deaths from the storm soaring beyond 200 inside the urgent mission to

deliver relief to cut off communities and our interview with the

administrator of FEMA is aid flowing fast enough?

And just in the verdict in the federal trial of three former Memphis police officers

in the beating death of Tywe Nichols,

the controversy for a New York Republican congressman, a photo surfacing of him in

black-faced for Halloween nearly two decades ago.

Now he's responding.

Kamala Harris campaigning in battleground Wisconsin with Liz Cheney, the former Republican Congresswoman and fierce critic of Donald Trump,

as the former president hits the trail in another key swing state.

Plus his wife Malania Trump coming out in support of abortion rights,

her dramatic break from her husband.

Our report on the Texas death row inmate convicted in the shaken baby death of his daughter,

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capital has about 700 parks and he's on a mission to visit every last one.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome, Misery and still more loss in the southeast, almost a full week after Hurricane Helene swept

through the region, causing the catastrophic flooding that ripped apart so many communities.

At least 215 people are now reported dead in six states and that number is almost certain to rise.

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