rivera, did you kill mollie tibbetts? >> reporter: tonight, the man accused of murdering mollie tibbetts arriving in an iowa courthouse, shackled and escorted by deputies, 24-year-old cristhian rivera facing a judge. >> mr. rivera, you have been charged with murder in the first degree. >> reporter: rivera listening to the charges through a translator. his girlfriend and family in the courtroom. authorities say rivera confessed to abducting and killing mollie tibbetts while she was out for a jog, dumping her body in a corn field. investigators say they cracked the case using surveillance footage showing the suspect's car near mollie during her run. >> frame by frame and in real-time motion and eventually saw mollie on the video, led us to mr. rivera, identifying the vehicle. >> reporter: according to investigators, rivera, who is from mexico, was in the country illegally. tonight, the owner of the farm where he worked saying rivera lied. >> what we learned in the last 24 hours is that our employee was not who he said he wa

. >>> the molly tibbetts killin illegal immigration. democratic candidate in former san franscnewsom says president other republican leaders are politicizing a tragedy. >> this is a tragedy. my heart goes out to the family of the victim. it is not a tragedy that should be exploited. that is what they are consistently doing. i think it's a real outrage. >> republican candidate for governor john cox says tibbetts death is just the latest reminder that the u.s. needs to do a better job detecting its borders. >> we need a conference of solution. verified border security, including the border wall for sure. it is because of the drugs, guns, and human trafficking that's going on across the border that it is needed. >> has made illegal immigration one of themain issues ople are fed up with the u.s. postal service and a lot more. amber lee went to a town hall meeting people said the local postmaster should be fired. >> if i don't get something i don't know what i'm not getting because of not getting it. >>> -- >> reporter: residents attended th

. >>> chilling new details about the man accused of killing mollie tibbetts. what he was doing as so many others desperately searched to find her. >>> a monster hurricane barreling dangerously close to hawaii, bracing for catastrophic floods. the latest from the hurricane hunter in the eye of the storm. >>> new twists in the saga of the prominent "me too" movement accuser who finds herself accused. tonight alleged text messages surface that bring her denials into question. >>> and a breathtaking moment captured on video. whale watchers hope to catch a glimpse and get a spectacular surprise. >>> good evening. president trump did his best today to downplay his own potential legal jeopardy a day after his former lawyer, michael cohen, admitted to campaign finance violations and an open court fingered the president as a partner in crime. mr. trump today explaining why he thinks those hush money payoffs to women just before the election were not illegal, but he may have dug himself in a little deeper by contradicting his original story of what he knew and when he k

one of mollie's friends speaking at the vigil decried how politicized mollie's murder has become. >> i don't want her death to be used as propaganda. i don't want her death to be used for more prejudice and for more discrimination and i don't think she would want that either. >> joining us now is gauge misskimmon, a senior at the university of iowa and editor in chief of the student-run newspaper, "the daily iowan." thank you so much for telling us about the vigil and how the community is reacting to all of this now playing out on the national stage? tell us about the vigil last night? >> thanks for having me. last night, hundreds of people gathered at hubbard park, which is right across the adler journalist building, where the di is located. and you know, a lot of community members and faculty and students came together to, you know, remember mollie and lit candles and president bruce herold at the university spoke at it and our president spoke at it, as well. >> gage, president trump has just commented on this again. i know you haven't had an opportunity to hear this sound yet, nor

a dev78 ends in the search for mollie tibb etc. the 20-year-old iowa college student that disappeared last month while jogging. they say christian rivera led investigators to her body. he now faces first degree murder charges. the suspect an undocumented immigrant. one quick to pounce. kelly ward tweeting the lack of leadership and courage by open border senators like jeff flake and john mccain, republican, minds you, adding #build the wall. w.h.o. reports the suspect worked for years owned by craig lane a prominent iowa republican and had been vetted through e-verify. more now through brian young in iowa. >> dave, christine, this is not the ending so many people in this community wanted. in fact, it's not many times you go to a news conference and have so many people standing behind you, who start sobbing when police are giving details about this. mollie tibbets is somebody people wanted to find, from what they know, there was a under surveillance camera in the neighborhood. they started going through hundreds of hours in that vid

. >> fight over fact with a lawyer defending mollie tibbetts's accused killer. rob: gruesome new details about the killing and his illegal immigrant clients. >> these posters say you are a predator and sexual violence. what is going on? >> a businessman becomes the latest target of antichrist liberals. >> how he is firing back. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ jillian: friday morning, dark on the east coast. you are watching "fox and friends first" on this friday. rob: we are both in for heather childers. you need an umbrella in hawaii. hurricane nate lashing the hawaiian islands in what could be the biggest storm there in 26 years. jillian: the category 3 hurricane sparking catastrophic flooding and landslide concerns as the big island is hit with 20 inches of rain in 24 hours. the center of the storm moving dangerously close to the island. rob: adam is clocking to force, it is slow right now. >> it is a slow mover which gives more time for heavy rain to fall. it is still a way away from the island, looking at 120 mph, gusting to 150 mph, it is mak

molly tibbets boyfriend -- molly tibbets was dog sitting for her boyfriend. he said he heard from her that same night when she sent him a snap chat message. then no sign for more than a month. investigators launched a search effort involving dozens of officials from local departments all the way up to the fbi. they search nearby ponds, farms and homes and interviewed hundreds of people we're told. molly's father and molly's boyfriend talked with us here on fox news many times pleading for anybody with any information to come forward. investigators set up a couple of -- scheduled to give a news conference matter at 5:00 eastern time, so less than 1 1/2 hours from now. matt finn has been covering the case and he's live outside of brooklyn, iowa where she was last seen alive. matt? >> shep, right now the swarm of activity is ongoing in the rural area, about 13 miles away from brooklyn, iowa. that's where the medical examiner's truck was spotted. fox news has a crew there where we've seen a csi car recently leave the area. we cannot confirm if this is where her b

illegally and living in the same county where mollie tibbetts disappeared. rivera now in jail charged with first degree murder. officials revealing that surveillance video provided detectives with images of a suspicious vehicle. >> we identified that vehicle belonging to mr. rivera and then we located him, interviewed him and subsequently he led us to her location. >> reporter: the 20-year-old university of iowa student disappeared on july 18th. last seen going for a run in brooklyn, iowa. when she did not show up for work the next day, her co-workers got worried and her family reported her missing. according to police, rivera was brought in for questioning on monday. >> he tells us he ran alongside her or behind her and then at one point he tells us that mollie grabbed ahold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone. i'm going to call the police. and then she took off running. he in turn chased her down and then he tells us that at some point in time he blacks out. >> reporter: the suspect worked at a local farm for four years. yarrabee farms has now

you talk to mollie about herself. >> laura talks about how she can feel mollie's presence, about how she feels like she's sitting on her shoulder. do you have that sense? >> when you talk to mollie and you know why we're fighting, she's out there, we just feel it. >> reporter: do you ever feel like you hear back from her? >> i don't want to talk about it. >> reporter: last week, mollie was dropped off at a boyfriend's house to dog sit while he was out of town. later she was seen jogging. but neighbors say they used to see her all the time. >> she would come down the road and if i was over there working on my flowers, i would, you know, she would just wave and say hi and off she would go because that's the house right down there. that's where her boyfriend lives. >> right down there, that white house. >> it's just like this girl right now. now i pay attention to what they have on, you know, she's got a headband, she's talking on her shoes. >> but before we never would pay any attention, we would just glance and wave. >> reporter: they were some of the first volunteers who searched for

in kindergarten, and mollie in first grade, and in the yearbook. >> reporter: she remembers mollie is the little girl who attended catholic schools -- school until second grade. >> she always had a smile on her face. she loved to school. >> reporter: she checks the news twice a day, glued to the media coming out of iowa. >> i do not want it to be bad. >> reporter: worthen 200 leads have been followed up on, but there is no new information. they refused to clarify if mollie went missing during a run or sometime after on the night of july 18. >>> we do not know where mollie is at right now. i am not going to draw any conclusions about the circumstances of her disappearance, other than it is not consistent with her past. >> reporter: watching the update is hard for her first grade teacher, so she keeps busy. >> she was very good. she met her parents proud. that is what i remember. >> i am worried, where did she go tonight? is she cold, is she hungry? it is painful to think about. >> reporter: she is in touch with one of mollie's brothers, she even knows mollie's mother. >> i think there

student mollie tibbetts says they are trying to come to >>> the family of iowa college student mollie tibbetts says that they are really trying to come to terms with the new normal, life without mollie who disappeared without out for a run more than a month ago. >> the 24 immigrant accused of killing mollie appeared in court showing little emotion. here is ron mott. >> reporter: overnight, tears and tributes for 20-year-old mollie tibbetts. her brother jake speaking for the family for the first time publicly since her accused killer's arrest. >> from our family, from her friends, from the community of brooklyn, we thank you from the bottom of our heart. she was incredible. and we will miss her dearly. >> reporter: at the university of iowa where mollie would have been a sophomore, a vigil in her memory. >> she can rest efz and nasy an many love her. >> prayers in her hometown. >> life has changed for all of us. >> reporter: the man accused in court, 24-year-oldristhian rive through an better than prettier telling the court he understands the charge against him, first degree murder. hi

. >> molly's mother spoke to us tonight. she showed this photo of herself with molly. she said the prayer service gives her great strength to continue searching. >> no matter how little faith you have, you can work miracles and know that there is a whole world out there praying for molly. >> molly's mother is praying that questions about her daught daughter's whereabouts will be answered. >>> tonight two people dead after a tragic crash. the two passengers who died are 18 years old. another three young women are at the hospital, including the driver. >> there is just loss all around. it is difficult to describe right now. >> friends and family members hugged for three 18-year-old women badly injured in a terrible car crash. the crash killed two 18-year-old men also riding in the car. >> we're asking everyone to send out good thoughts. i can't begin to imagine the pain that those families are experiencing right now. >> her 18-year-old cousin from ant yoch was driving the car that plunged off this connector ramp. the car reduc

. >>> mollie tibbitts was missing more than a month. today they found her body and an arrested an undocumented immigrant for her murder. she was born and raised in the east bay and compared to the steinly murder in 2015. joins us now from piedmont where she went to high school. ma li melissa. >> reporter: she was in high school here in piedmont. tomorrow autopsy will have more details how mollie passed away. and people who remember watching mollie grow up as a little girl say they cannot fsee what happened in iowa. >> i can't see it. >> reporter: photographs with her childhood friends. among the smiling faces her two brothers. >> looking at the birthday pards and parties, just a very tight knit community as people are so sad for them and for mollie. >> reporter: ann woke up to the news tuesday morning mollie's bodes had been found in iowa not far from the small town of brooklyn where she was last seen. >> little town where you would think you are safe, then to have something like this happen. >> reporter: authorities in iowa believe thi

with mollie. she started following the case when mollie was missing. every day i'd see and wake up and see if mollie was found and tuesday when her body was found i woke up that morning and just cried. >> reporter: but instead of letting her grief turn paralysis, mary joined an online group started by two of tibbetts' friends in iowa. they call it the mollie movement. membe membs these random acts of ice cream. >> i left around town in the gym and a few people even reached out to me, hey, i got this. that made my day. thank you for being so kind. >> eric silva found one on his car at the gym. >> i think it's awesome. especially in her name. it's a sad story, but turning something where everybody is helping each other out. >> mary's husband says he didn't quite get her interest at first, but now he couldn't be more proud. >> she went out and bought all this stuff and this is something that she wanted to do, and it was something that she was passionate about and i supported it. >> i really hope that

the body of mollie tibbetts. police say cristhian bahena rivera admitted he chased mollie tibbetts while she was out of her dog, she became afraid and asked rivera to get away from her and said she was going to get out her phone and call police. rivera says he blacked out and doesn't know what happened next and came to in this rural area. investigators said they used additional footprint to establish their timeline extracting information, and molly was jogging at rivera's black malibu carland them. he confessed to dumping her body at a cornfield. >> donald trump touched on the mollie tibbetts case at his rally in west virginia. >> you heard about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly, from mexico and you saw what happened to that incredible beautiful young woman. should have never happened. illegally in our country. we have had a huge impact but the laws are so bad, the immigration laws are such a disgrace, we are getting them changed. >> agnes who lost her son to an illegal immigrant shares her pers

the body of mollie tibbets was found this afternoon in a cornfield in iowa. the missing it college student grew up in the east bay. the man arrested for allegedly killing her is an undocumented immigrant rekindling the heated debate about immigration you. cheryl hurd joins us this evening where mollie tibbets went to elementary school in piedmont. >> reporter: the suspect in this case will be arraigned tomorrow in iowa. mollie tibbets has tied to the bay area, as you said, see attended this school in her early years. her death has been a crushing blow to this community. >> we're all here praying for them. >> reporter: linda, a friend of the tibbets family, remembering mollie when she attended school in piedmont as a little girl and reacting to her deathing. > we will not forget mollie. we won't. she was just a bright night. >> reporter: a bright light that is tragically shining all over the country. authorities in iowa say they discovered mollie's body tuesday morning when 24-year-old cristhian bahena rivera led them to her weres. he followed her the night sh

we don't know -- mollie. a president conference is scheduled for -- a press conference is scheduled for later this afternoon. >>> residents of a oakland neighborhood is fed up with a peeping top that has been seen looking through windows. we talked to the people in the maxwell park neighborhood about the plans to catch the man. >> reporter: the prowl letter has been caught on camera -- prowler that be caught on camera four times in the last two weeks and doesn't seem to be deterred. women said that the peeping-tom has climb their fences to look in their windows. he scaled this six foot fence and the lights come own and her screams scared him away. she called the police, but the man disappeared. >> unless they were able to catch him, there was nothing they could do. it was the first time that they heard of situation. it wasn't till we posted to next door and started connect the dots ourselves that we realized that we were having the same advice tonight. >> reporter: after he did it again saturday, she posted o

medical examiner's releasing autopsy results for iowa college student mollie tibbetts. officials say her death was homicide for multiple sharp force injuries. the accused killer, kim jong tog to, her funeral is sunday, it will be held at the gym of her former high school. jillian: facial recognition technology airports nabbing crooks. an imposter caught at dulles airport after his passport did not match his face, agents later finding a id from the republic of congo hid in his shoe after he arrived from brazil, ground breaking arrest just three days after the scanning machines were installed at the airport. rob: donald trump urging jeff sessions to take action on the russia probe a lindsey graham sparks speculation of a shakeup at the justice department. jillian: of the republicans worn firing the attorney general could backfire big time. >> reporter: the you was simmering in the background, jeff sessions met with donald trump at the white house yesterday to talk about prison reform. that was after he put out a statement affirming his own job. he wrote i am attorney gene

robert: molly, "time" cover this week, president trump in deep. molly: i think that's a good metaphor, waters rising until they get up t your head. because there is a sense that there's such a perpetual outrage, perpetual controversy from this white house, that it can seem that something bles up, it happens and in the rearview mirror it wasn't that utgnificant because a week later we're talking a something else. in fact they have been cumulative from the appointment of special counsel in may of 2017. the manafort indictments coming down in october of last year. it has alled up to this. so in fact each of those was its own turning point. was its own step in this process. and it just coronets to snowball. so the president, i think, as dan said has to feel like the wallsre are iingly closing in on him. it is significant that, you know, before this week, there wasn't someone going to jail. nd now there is. now there's actually two people going to jail. so the manafort -- manafort er still has ano trial but him being convicted closes, in a sense, one c

mollie tibbetts vanished july 18th while out jogging in iowa. a 24-year-old man confessed to murdering tibbetts. he led investigators to a field where tibbetts' body was found reportedly found under corn stalks. christhian rivera told investigators he saw tibbetts jogging and started following her. video from a security camera helped find rivera. he has been living illegally in the united states. an autopsy will be performed today to determine how mollie tibbetts died. mollie tibbetts lived here in the bay area when she was a young child. the news of her death came on the first day of school in piedmont. >> i have all of my children here, the first day of school, and i have to be strong for them. it is not the outcome that i have been praying for or hoping for. >> this is her brother jacob. >> she attended the school from kindergarten until third grade until she moved to iowa when her parents divorced. principal katie murphy says she remembers tibbetts as a sweet girl loved by everyone. >>> time is 7:37. joseph deangelo, the accused golden state

molly. >> all right, garrett, thank you so much. for more let's bring kelly, deputy editing editor for weekly standard. >> thanks for having me. >> the president has tweeted quite a bit. one of the tweets he talks about jeff sessions saying that he wouldn't allow politics to influence only because he doesn't understand what is happening underneath commanding position, your thoughts on that, what the president says about sessions? >> a bit confusing, molly, he says he doesn't understand what sessions is doing under command and immediately moves talk about robert mueller investigation, robert mueller is not under jeff sessions command because he rescued anything doing with the investigation of the trump campaign as he was part of it and so it's deputy ag rod rosenstein who is in charge of that. of course, donald trump is not happy about that but that's the way it is and, you know, jeff sessions does not have control over that at all and he shouldn't, you know, the reason he rescued himself was the advice of career lawyers in the justi

tibbetts, with their biggest public plea yet, asking for mollie's safe return. >> i do think she's out there, and i think we can bring her home. >> reporter: the reward for information leading to her whereabouts skyrocketing, now $172,000. >> we believe that mollie is still alive, and if someone has abducted her, we are pleading with you to please release her. >> reporter: the family did not say if their plea was based on anything they're learning from police, who have been searching for mollie since she was last spotted july 18th. she'd been living with her boyfriend, dalton jack, who was working a construction job 100 miles away when she disappeared. police say he is not a suspect. today, jack took to the podium to speak directly to mollie's possible abductor. >> you know, if they're listening, then i would just like them to know that -- imagine this was you. how would you feel? just do the right thing and, you know, let her go. >> reporter: crimestoppers of central iowa saying all tips will be kept confidential. more than 200 so far. including a possible sighting at this truck stop

so i just felt a connection with mollie. >> reporter: she started following the case when mollie was missing. >> every day that would be the first thing, i'd wake up and see if mollie was found. and the day that -- tuesday when her body was found, i woke up that morning and just cried. >> reporter: instead of letting her grief turn to pa ral list, mary joined an online group started by two of tibbetts' friends in iowa. members printed out little strips of paper to distribute random acts of kindness. >> i'm getting someone ice cream. >> reporter: that meant putting treats like candy on windshields. >> a few people reached out to me, hey, i got this, that made my day, thank you for being so kind. >> reporter: erick silva found one on his car at the gym. >> i think it's awesome. especially in her name, it's a sad story, but turning into something where everybody is helping each other out. >> reporter: mary's husband says he didn't quite get her interest at first. but now he couldn't be more proud. >> she went out and bought all this stuff and this is something she wanted to do, somethin

authorities have found the body of missing student mollie tibbetts, who vanished nearly a month ago. >> we have confirmed with homeland security investigations he is an illegal alien. >> the accused killer chard with murder and believed to be in the country illegally. why did he do it? he >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester hol >> good evening, everyone. what a day it has been. two courthouses 200 miles apart providing a remarkable split oncreen moment as two men wh soared prompt -- prominently in president trump's orbit crashed to earth almost simultaneously and are convicted felons paul manafort, convicted on eight charges of financial crimit. the first case brought to trial by the robert mueller team. while here in new york, donald tmp's private lawyer, michael cohen accepted his own deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to serious crimes including paying hush money to stormy daniels, to keep her quiet before the election. cohen says it was at the direction of then candidate trump. that's where we start with nbc's hallie jackson. >> reporter: that bombshell plea deal means t

the suspect accused of murdering mollie made his first appearance in court. a judge ordered he be held on a $5 million cash bond. now investigators say he confessed to following mollie after she went for a run on the evening of july 18th, abducting her, killing her and dumping her remains in a cornfield. now we've also learned that his employer, a dairy farm where he worked for about four years here in this area, has learned they say that he presented them with false employment documents. they thought he was somebody else. now according to investigators, 24-year-old cristhian rivera was in the country illegally from mexico. authorities say they are continuing to follow this investigation and have not revealed any details yet about a possible motive. the judge ordered he be back in court august 31st. that's the latest from brooklyn, iowa, alex perez for abc news >>> a little more on that story, mollie tibbetts' death is continuing to fuel the debate on immigration reform among politicians, including president trump. some of tibbetts' relatives are now pushing

information leading to mollie tibbetts is $277,000. jillian: two hundred brave soldiers joining the largest wildfire ever, the army deploying active-duty troops to battle several major blazes across the state. the mendocino complex fire is the largest in california history. 14,000 firefighters are battling fires across the state, army engineers are expected on the ground early next week. todd: a moving tribute to following k9 offices, placing american flags at the graves in the state of florida -- georgia. jillian: he took a photo. officers are not sure who placed the flags but say they are thankful for the show of respect. it is 9 minutes after the hour. voters in 5 states headed to the polls just hours from now including ohio for critical special election were donald trump's pickups to keep the seat read. we are breaking down key races to watch and their impact on the midterms. >> this man looked like he had a lot of money. looks like keith urban and he said i am keith urban. todd: the convenience store encounter is going viral. ♪

he followed mollie while she was out on her job. she got on her cell phone and said, leave me alone, i'm going to call police. rivera told police that he then blacked out and does not remember what happened. authorities say that that surveillance tape, and also mollie's fitbit and iphone were critical in the investigation. police say rivera did seem only prior to july 20 18th, but they cannot expand on how often he saw her, and whether or not he might have been stalking her. rob tibbetts, the father, is from california it was here on the ground for more than 30 days pleading for information. he returned to california just a few days ago, per the advice of authorities who told him to get back to his daily life in california and his job. just a few short days after returning to california, he got the awful call that his daughter was found dead. >> what can you tell us about the reaction? people have been searching for mollie tibbetts for so many weeks now. this case has generated a high- profile level. it has been attracting national

the investigation continues today into the death of molly tibbetts. the latest details plus how the president is reacting. >>> san francisco mesa do -- may soon have controversial safe injection sites soon. we will tell you how much those insights could save the city. >>> two big outcomes yesterday that the white house is watching very closely. we will have more what happened coming up. >>> good morning and thank you for joining us. welcome back. we start with breaking news in los angeles. you can see they have pulled back a bit so we can see a wider picture of this fire. this is right near, right in downtown los angeles. not far from the staples center. you can see on the right-hand side a huge response from the la fire department. they are telling us the fire started just about 20 minutes ago or so . they are saying that to the one-story building. you say you know the building a little bit as margaux street. >> you can see how dense that area is. a lot of buildings are really close together. also you are to -- near two major freeways. you can see po

saw mollie on the video. led to mr. rivera, identifying the vehicle. >> reporter: the farm where he worked for the last four years saying when they hired him they screened him through an older system instead of e-verify. >> what we learned in the last 24 houwahehe was >> reporter: senator chuck grassley now asking homeland security to turn over all information on rivera. grassley co-sponsored legislation with joanie ernest called sarah's law, named in honor of another young iowa woman, sarah root, killed in 2016 by an undocumented immigrant. zachary kiesch, abc news, new york. >>> president trump is up overnight lashing out at the mueller investigation. >> he tweeted this, no collusion, rigged witch hunt. earlier, he called michael cohen a bad lawyer who lied under oath to make a deal. >> cohen pled guilty to paying off women who claimed to have affairs with donald trump before he became a candidate. he said he did so at the direction of trump, that is donald trump. but the president says that he didn't learn

mollie's former church and elementary school in piedmont.(vicki)mollie attended corpus christi until she moved to iowa in third grade.michelle -- i understand you spoke to some friends of hers tonight? mollie left the bay area when she was in third grade -- but people here still remember her ... many people kept in touch ... and everyone at corpus christi is now praying for mollie's family. a few friends and members a few friends and members of the church met here today for a small prayer service.they plan to hold a memorial mass in the coming weeks.live in piedmont michelle kingston kron 4 news (ken) and tonight... president trump is saying the death of mollie tibbetts is an example of what he calls the nation's disgraceful immigration laws.(ken) it's not the first time the president has used a national case to highli

we heard mollie's mom say she believes mollie is alive but may have been abducted. what do you think happen? >> i'm not putting a whole lot of speculation on what happened and putting that in the hands of the authorities to let them figure it out. >> you know her best among those who know her best. is there any chance in your mind that she could have left on her own? >> no. >> not at all? >> no. >> you were the last person to hear from her. it was a snapchat message. did it give you any clues about what could have happened to her? >> no, it was just a standard message, picture of her face and caption that didn't really mean a whole lot because we were just talking back and forth on snapchat. and i don't even remember what the caption said, to be honest with you. >> you were working 100 miles away when mollie went missing and we know investigators ruled you out as a suspect. can you walk us through the last night you heard from mollie. >> that would have been wednesday night before she went jogging. we were just having conversations on all through texts and snapchat

. >> we believe mollie is still alive. if someone has abducted her, we are pleading with you to please release her. >> hundreds of protesters take to the streets of chicago. demonstrators sending a loud and clear message to democratic mayor rahm emanuel. >> got some good things but i think if he don't step up and come to the people where the crime is. >> we are just hours away from the july jobs report. this is a very robust job market. people with

the smallown ofrooklyn, iowa is coming together to remember the life of 20-year-old mollie tibbetts. this is a community still reeling at the news, but the accused killer in this case was one of their neighbo >> do you have anything to s for yourself? >> reporter: 24-year-old immigrant cristhian bahen rivera in court facing a first degree murder charge in the death of mollie tibbetts, bot living in the same rural community. >> mr. rivera, you have been charged with murder in the first degree. >> reporte authorities say rivera is from mexico and was in the country illegally. he worked at small-run dairy firm run by a prominent republican. they checked his documentation in a government verification system but learned he had given them a name. >> what we learned in the last 24 hours is that our employee was not who he said h was. >> reporter: lane said he noticed no changes in ba her a's behavior and said he continued to show up for work on time after mollie's disappearae. >> this gtayed around 35 days after he did this. nobody noticed anything different. >> reporter: rivera's attorney

and this afternoon, investigators canvassing this field in the county where mollie disappeared. both leads turning up nothing. >> alex perez joins us live tonight from brooklyn, iowa, the town where mollie tibbetts went missing. and i know the searches overnight and today did turn up, at least nothing so far, but the fbi and local authorities indicating to you, alex, that leads are still pouring in? >> reporter: that's right, david. they are certainly not giving up hope. there are signs like this one across the area. authorities tell me they have about 40 investigators working this case every day. family members believe there's someone out there that has a clue that will help authorities crack this case. david? >> alex perez tonight. alex, thank you. >>> next tonight, the concern over extreme weather in the east tonight. 35 million under flash flood watches this evening, from georgia all the way up to new england. it comes after days of heavy rain already. this parking lot in west virginia getting slammed there. a possible tornado this morning in charlottesville, virginia, downi

also, more from iowa on the discovery of the body of mollie tibbetts. all that and a lot more tonight on the "cbs evening news." >> thank you for watching at 5:00. we will see you back here at 6:00. news" this tuesday, two former associates of the president are now convicted felons. one pleaded guilty, the other found guilty in separate fraud heses. and a stunning turn of events in iowa after the discovery of mollie tibbetts' body. all of that tonight, starting with the headlines in 60 seconds. >> the jury has found president idump's former campaign chairman paul manafort guilty of eight counts of fraud. >> reporter: this is the first conviction secured by special counsel robert mueller in his investigation. >> paul manafort is a good man. this has nothing to do with russian collusion. it's a witch hunt and it's a disgrace. >> reporter: the manafort verdict and the michael cohen apea deal were happening simultaneously.

a fight. >> reporter: dolton was the last to hear from molly in a snapchat message. he was working a construction job 100 miles away and has been ruled out as a suspect. >> it gets harder day by day because she's still not here. you miss her. >> reporter: possible sightings including one at this missouri truck stop have been investigated and dismissed by officials releasing very few details. molly's family isn't giving up. >> we wake up every day at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning to fight. everybody in this community is fighting to get her back. >> reporter: with searches here so far producing no sign of mollie, tonight, hope that money will. lester? >> blake mccoy in iowa, thank you. >>> turning overseas where isis is claiming responsibility for a vicious attack that killed a young american couple. they were tourists who quit their jobs to go on a journey around the world. heartbroken friends are speaking out matt bradley has their story. >> reporter: americans were 29 and on the trip of a lifetime. biking around the world, jay describing why. >> the more you see in the

in mollie's hometown people debated whether rivera's immigration status was important. >> he could be in his own country. >> i don't think him being an illegal immigrant had anything to do with what he did. >> reporter: along with this prayer service there was a vigil held at the university of iowa where mollie was to begin her sophomore year at this time. sadly, she obviously is not here. her family again as we said thanking the world for remembering her in their prayers. phillip? >> all right, ron mott for us. ron, thank you. >> hawaii is on alert bracing to get lashed by a major hurricane. lane now a category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles an hour. hurricane hte forecasters now say the islands are set to get socked with torrential r storm skirts by up to 20 inches of rain in some areas. officials are preparing for a major flooding and rescue operations. all hawaii public schools will be closed today and tomorrow. the storm is not expected to make land fall as it slides by. >> all right. let's turn it over to nbc meteorologist bill karins who is now tracking that

rob tibbetts is mollie's father. >> this is another tool in our arsenal. we're providing this fund to provide some financial incentive for someone who is otherwise reluctant to come forward. >> reporter: tibbetts was dog sitting at her boyfriend's house the last day she was seen. he was out of town and is not a suspect. the family believes she's still alive and may have been abducted. and today, her boyfriend pleaded for her safe return. >> everybody has a mollie in their life, a person that has affected them in a way that she affected everybody standing up here right now. imagine if this was you, somebody had taken your mollie. >> reporter: f.b.i. agents have also joined in the search and are analyzing location data from her fitbit and cell phone. and while the investigation continues in brooklyn, iowa, tibbetts' family wants the so search to go nationwide. >> everybody in the country has adopted mollie. so let's keep at it. let's go get her. >> reporter: police have already investigated roughly 200 tips, including a sighting of someone who looked like ti

cientos de universitarios participan en una vigilia en iowaen honor a molly tÍbet, la joven asesinada por un joven indocumentado. el caso ha intensificado la retÓrica del presidente tronco de los inmigrantes. llegÓ arizona el movimiento que pide la aboliciÓn de ice. cientos de personas piden que se eliminla . --- agencia del gobierno. comienza la ediciÓn nocturna. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ locutor: este es su noticiero univisiÓn edición nocturna. patricia: buenas noches. el paÍs entero sigue conmocionado por la muerte de molly tÍbet, la mujer asesinada presuntamente por un inmigrante indocumentado mexicano, trabajador de una granja lechera en brooklyn. viviana lÍbano tiene reacciones de la comunidad y de lo que ocurriÓ en corte hoy. viviana: con un minuto de silencio, y velas encendidas, cientos de estudiantes de la universidad de iowa participaron de una vigilia esta noche en honor a molly tÍbet, la joven de 20 aÑos estudiante de psicologÍa y cuyo cuerpo fue encontrado en un campo de maÍz en brooklyn tras mÁs de un mes de bÚsqueda. >> , tambiÉn la conocÍ, la conocÍ. estaba e

mollie went missing on july 18th. she's a college student, but she was home in brooklyn, iowa, a very small rural town of about 1,500 people. she was out for a run, and then she disappeared. everyone has been looking for her ever since. now, she spent her early childhood in oakland, she was here until she was about 10 years old and then she moved with her mom and two brothers to iowa. i spoke to a young man here this evening, he's also in college, but he went to school with mollie until they were in third grade. i spoke with a woman who arranged tonight's prayer service. >> she's just genuinely such a sweet person, outgoing and friendly. i remember her being there for people and overall being a light in people's lives. >> if ewe lived in iowa, we'd b searching the corn fields with her family. making meals. all we can do is share on social media, pray, and just keep the story going. >> reporter: and this is another photo of mollie tibbetts. her friends here tell me they are trying to circulate this on social media, on

he was in dubuque at the time that molly was said to disappear. they were scheduled to be in the dominican republic. they were high school sweet hearts. his family says any suspicions about him are wrong. >> i don't want to go racking it through my brain thing what happened, what happened. just driving myself insane. i know everybody else around here is. you have to lead by example. i love you and i miss you and i want you to come home. >> it's heart breaking to go through what he and the family has been going through. >> shepard: tell us more about the search. >> the search is continuing and going on ever since she first vanished. friends and neighbors and others have gathered. they've been going through corn fields and big farms. volunteers and the number has been growing. molly's family hoping for any information that can help bring her back. authorities say her disappearance and their words are "not consistent with her past." >> everyone knows everyone. everyone talks to everyone. you can't do anything there without someone seeing it. so we ne

we reclaim our mollie. a community ravaged by this now trying to start over. >>> and crews are trying to tackle the ranch fire about a-month-old. that and the river fire both started in late july. they burned a record 450,000 acres in lake county. the small river fire is now fully contained. the ranch fire containment is now 67%. >>> up north the carr fire is almost fully contained at 96% containment. the wildfire in shasta county has burned for weeks destroying more than a thousand homes. three firefighters have been injured fighting that fire. >>> and expect to see more chp in nevada. troopers are on their way to lake tahoe this labor day weekend. the law enforcement there is stepping up for this holiday. it's called the interstate 80 initiative. and officers are looking for those distracted and reckless drivers. >>> and a crash involving an alleged drunk driver has put tesla once again in the spotlight. the model-s sedan slammed into the back of a san jose fire truck on sunday, but does the bay area carm

here is mollie ticket's father. > -- tibet'sfather. >> the longer we go without finding mollie the longer we go without finding mollie's body, the more hopeful we are that she is alive somewhere and going through something that she can survive. >> mollie's dad also tells that's mollie was constantly using her iphone and fit bit which is electronic health tracking device. police can extract a ton of information from the iphone and fit bit, perhaps her exact steps that day. we reached out to fit bit to see if they have turned over any information to authorities. they don't want to comment on that. also reached out to apple and so far they have not returned a request for information. >> shepard: the reward at $260,000. how did it go up so extraordinarily? >> the family partnered with crime stoppers of central iowa, shep, which substantially increased this reward. just a few days ag it was hovering around $2,000. now it's inching closer to $300,000. the family says it wants to use this money to basically pay off anyone that might have her. also continuing to urge people to use that 1-800 o452

case when mollie was missing. >> every day, that would be the first thing i'd wake up and see if mollie was found and the day that tuesday when her body was found, i woke up that morning and just cried. >> but instead of letting her grief turn to paralysis, mary joined an online group started by two of tibbetts' friends back in iowa. they call it the mollie movement. members printout these strips of paper ran kin happens.>>t treats and gift cards on vacaville parking lots. >> a few people even reached out to me. i got this. that made my day. thank you for being so kind. >> eric silva found one on his car at the gym. >> think it's awesome. i think it's awesome. especially in her name. it's just a sad story, but turning something where everybody is low pressuring each other out. >> mary's husband says he didn't quite get her interest at first, but now he couldn't be more proud. >> she went out and bought all this stuff and this is something that she wanted to do and something she was passionate about and i supported it. >> i really hope that people will take the time to look up mollie and

mollie. and as to that end, there is over $200,000 reward for mollie's return safely and they have announced that they would certainly be willing to give that reward to anybody who would let-mollie go if they have mollie. abby: ted, as you know the country is watching this story closely and hoping for the best. she is such a beautiful young woman. can i give us a sense of the town? it's a small one. folks say they don't lock their doors at night. how particular is this situation? have they had missing people in recent years or is this something they really haven't seen before? >> abby, i wish you were out here. you would find, again, these people are engaged, they are wonderful people. they are very relaxed people out here. and they believe that and they have unlocked their doors. they know their neighbors. but, as a result of this now, there is a chill in the air. they are locking their doors. they are deeply concerned about where mollie is. now, part of my investigation is try to determine

tripadvisor. >>> the search for molly tibbetts continues today. she was last seen on july 18th jogs. she was living in brooklyn, iowa. the reward for finding her is now $300,000. her father rob tibbetts joins us now. thank you for taking the time to be with us. we can only imagine what a living held the past few weeks have been for you and your family. have the police shared with you any of their theories on what happened? >> no, they haven't, and we have an agreement with them from the outset that all of that information would be kept to law enforcement for two reasons. they don't want to compromise the search and they don't want to endanger molly. >> i know you have your own theory, your speculation, your intuition is that she is with someone she knows. can you expound on that? >> well, i do want to point out that it really is just speculation on a father's part that has lots of time an imagination, and i'm looking for a logical way to bring mollly home, so it is just that and it has taken on a bit of a life of it's own in the last few days, but

molly: absolutely. china is the one we have paid the most a russia.to other than this was mentioned at the sena aring yesterday as well. thatoc is still moreed on positive china news instead of information attacks.av but weseen gulf countries building these capabilities, others as well. anybody who can build these teams -- andfat is cheap and , that is why the russians do it -- has the capability to do this. what they have seen is very hard to combat. the platforms are very slow to stop this kind of operation. laura: molly mckew, thank you so e'ch. results in zimb's presidential election are being announced for nine out of 10 provinces, with incumbent emmersonnangagwa taking a strongly. the final tally will be declared later tonight. earlier there were calls from the international communit restraint as the nation waited for the results of the disputed presidential election after yesterday's violence.af ca editor fergal keane reports from harare. fergal: the city awoke to no result, and the traumatized a

i'm at work, i think of molly. it's true still to this day and will be pore years to come. >> the search is over but the heartache has just begin. deny sheneman, nbc news. >>> hawaii preparing for a category 5 storm as an intensifying hurricane lane moves toward the islands. many residents have stocked up on food. >> is and water. the governor issuing an emergency proclamation. the officials are plan forth worst as the hurricane threatens the state with rains and monster flooding. >> nbc's bill karins is here. give us an update. >> scary things. 106-mile-per-hour winds. the strongest hurricane ever recorded this close near hawaii. easily a chance this could be a billion dollar weather disaster. here's the latest. 160-mile-per-hour winds. the key to the forecast is how much of a northerly component this takes. 115-mile-per-hour winds category 3 only about 80 miles off the west coast confident big island. becoming very close to oahu as a category 1. they're saying the people amounts of rainfall will be over 24 inches

most of mollie's family is in iowa but her father lives here in the bay area. yesterday law enforcement i v l revealed the man was in the country undocumented. >> a person came in from mexico illegally and killed her. we need the wall. we need our immigration laws changed. >> the white house also launched a separate video on twitter today titled permanently separated featuring parents whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants. in iowa a farm executive who employ eed rivera acknowledged was in the country legally. >>> there are new developments in the case of 18-year-old nina wilson, who was stabbed to death at a bart station. the suspect could face life in prison or the district attorney's office added a special circumstance that the murder appears intentional. the stabbings happened at the mccm m mccarther bart station last month. >> hethe attorney for the famil says they are moving forward with their lawsuit against bart. they claim the transit agency should have done more to protect the two sisters. >>> in the south bay, a san jose elementary sch