kathy park, nbc news. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. a family in south carolina demanding answers tonight after a man died days after being arrested. state investigators are now reviewing the case after nbc news started asking questions about whether authorities delayed medical treatment until it was too late. nbc's gabe gutierrez has that story. >> reporter: nathaniel rhodes' van crashed last august in charleston, south carolina. according to a police report the father of three was already on a stretcher in an ambulance when an officer decided to conduct field sobriety tests after finding an open bottle of wine in his van. annette was his wife of 35 years. >> it was unbelievable. i cou i couldn't imagine. >> instead of going to the hospital rhodes went for dui. >> why wasn't he taken to the hospital? >> that is the big question and that's the question that both charleston ems and the city of charleston police department have to answer. >> in this surveillance video provided by nbc news by the family's attorney emts at the police statio

for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. the move just made in t >>> right now at 6:00, suing the trump administration one more time. the move just made within the last hour by california's attorney general. plus -- >> we've been trapped up here. >> trapped by a the families in the south bay waiting for days for crews to clear a mess. > >>>. >>> that gun taken at sfo belongs to someone who trained police. it's on the streets tonight after it was taken from a baggage carousel. tonight, the owner said he did everything by the book. nbc's damian trujillo is there with questions about who is to blame. the airline or the man transporting that gun, damian? >> reporter: jessica, the man has a gun permit and he does not want to be identified but he does train police officers. the man says he checked in his gun with tsa and unitedirline at the air las vegas. as is protocol. the gun arrived on a different flight when his flight was delayed and now the gun is missing. >> this is a nightmare for anybody who owns a firearm. >> the man, w

we talk to that member of the nbc family ab out his brush with that devastating blow. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. everyone.vening, two new accounts of the investigation swirling around ha president trum him firing back tonight. former acting fbi director amccabe doubling down about the investigation he says was oped on president trump, telling nbc news he told congressional leaders l about it, and no one objected. but as the president was blasting away at mccabe's credibility twitter today, "the new york times" was out with a story of its own about something it reports the president asked of his recent acting attorney generou. peter alexander has details. >> reporter: president trump tonight is denying the explosive "new york times" report that saysstate year he tried to put his own appointee in charge of the investigation into those hush money payments during the 2016 campaign. >> i don't know who gave you that. more fake news there is a lot of fake -- there is a lot of fake news out there. no, i didn't. >> reporter: "the times" reports the called nt matthew whita

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nbc's miguel almaguer leads us off. miguel, good evening to you. >> reporter: savannah, good evening. this is the courthouse where jussie smollett had his hearing just a short time ago. he's now free on a $100,000 bond. if convicted of that felony, he could get probation or up to three years in prison. even tonight, though, detectives say after being taken into custody he's still not speaking to investigators. tonight a crush of cameras. all eyes on jussie smollett for all the wrong reasons. the actor arrested today after police say he sought publicity by reporting a fake hate crime. in court, where smollett has been charged with a felony for filing a false police report, the 36-year-old visually frustrated and rolling his eyes before being released. >> je ok age of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. >> reporter: chicago's top cop says the "empire" actor was upset with his salary, so he orchestrated the con. after police say he mailed himself this death threat, investigators believe he paid ola and abel

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. it's about a phone scam targeting older americans, but this time it backfired in spectacular fashion, because the scammer zeroed in on one of the top people in the country you don't want to mess with. here is pete williams. >> reporter: the calls from jamaica promised a $15 million lottery prize in return for wiring $50,000 to cover taxes. but when the 90-year-old washington, d.c. man who answered the phone didn't send any money and neither did his wife, the caller threatened violence. >> i'm going to [ bleep ] kill you. i'm going to [ bleep ] kill your husband. i'm going to [ bleep ] set your house on fire. i'm not giving you any more warning. >> reporter: what the scammer, keniel thomas didn't realize is the man he targeted was william webster, former director of the cia and the fbi. >> it seemed to me that something wasn't quite right. this was pretty obvious to me that there was something fishy about it. >> reporter: he and his wife linda notified the fbi. >> reporter: when he thr

nbc's andrea mitchell with that story. r >>orter: jon stewart has an urgent message for congress, take care of the 9/11 first xiresponders exposed to to materials at ground zero. >> this has to stop. th're not pawns. they're not people to be played with.ig do the thing and do it in a manner that respects the 18 ars that they've suffere through this. >> reporter: as the years pass, cancer cases and death claims are skyrocketing. y firs after jon stewart took up the cause, empty chairs as the losses mounted.ur >> just out ofsity, where is everybody? >> it's you and i. >> reporr: now compensation for victims is running out. so the government plans to cut payments by 50% to 70%. john field, a demolition work on the pile. >> everybody knows these cancers and respiratory illnesses have different latency periods. i mean, come on. it's just insulting. we're sick and dyin we're not stupid. >> you've gone to 181 funerals of responders? >> yes, ma'am. and i paid f because they couldn't afford to bury their loved ones. >> reporter: ra

nbc's medical correspondent dr. john torres is here. dr. torres, i was startled when i saw that number. does that mean all those people, half of americans, should be taking some sort of medication? >> not necessarily. we used to think high blood pressure started around 140. with new guidelines, the new number is 130. ideally though you want it 120. now some people might need medication, but there are three important lifestyle changes that can really make a difference. exercise. just 30 minutes of activity a day can drop your blood pressure up to 10 points. also following the dash diet. that was specific specifically created to lower blood pressure. for every two pounds you lose, you could lower by up to 1 point. and finally, the new addition, sleep. you need seven hours every night for a >> we take that for granted sometimes. >> we do. >> thank you. there's more information about that dash diet on our facebook page. >>> mnews, the massachusetts attorney general is suing the maker of a highly addictive painkiller, oxycontin, alleging its sal

kate snow, nbc news, new york. >>> just ahead, miracle survivors. a family of six all alive after a plane crashed into their home. >>> then the star who stunned oscar partygoers at her first appearance since revealing a private battle. >>> tonight, the small plane that fell out of the sky and crashed into a florida home. a person on board the plane was killed, but miraculously, the family inside that house all survived. here's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: they said it was a miracle anyone could survive. r, just south o >> reporter: florida rescue teams found the plane's wreckage wedged into a bedrooy six was home when the twin cb plunged to the ground. the pilot, james wagner, killed on impact. student pilot, former navy s.e.a.l. timothy sheahy, kicked his way out of the mangled metal and reached a teenager pinned by the plane, using his shirt to stop her bleeding. >> it was a blessing today that we didn't have an entire family wiped out. >> reporter: all six inside the home survived. the left engine reportedly failing on takeoff. but not the insti

ken dilanian, nbc news, houston. >>> still tonight, outgunned. the army's effort to develop guns that could shoot as far as russian guns. >>> and also remembering an air force trail blazer. lester holt on a woman who rose to the top, breaking through barriers. >>> we are back now with a look at how the u.s. army will fight the wars to come. potentially with russia. one of the challenges, developing a new generation of artillery systems that could make this country more competitive with russia's fire power. >> we want to make sure we could outgun them and our soldiers man-to-man are more capable than their soldiers. >> hans nichols got a look at some of the newest weapons in the works. >> reporter: when it comes to big guns, it is all about range. >> the oldest challenge for the artillery is shooting farther. >> reporter: this doubles the current range from 20 to 45 miles. a barrel ten feet longer means the army could pack in more propellant. the physics are basic and more propellant and more bang and that means a longer shot. the army's aim is no

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kelly cobiella, nbc news, london. >>> and that's "nbc nightly news" for this tuesday. i'm lester holt. foright now at 6: you )ll want to look up tonight. the special celestial sight greeting us for a second night in >>> right now at 6:00, you'll want to look up tonight, the special sight greeting us for a second night in a row. >> changing the way people buy guns. san jose's mayor lays out a plan to increase safety. >>> first. >> i just want to say thank you to the city of oakland doing a great job hosting us here today. >> that's him sharing the stage in the east bay. the event bringing president obama, steph curry and john legend all together. >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. i'm jessica aguirre. >> i'm raj mathai. this was no ordinary event and message. this evening political figures, sports stars and a musical legend are in oakland supporting boys and young men of color. >> this is part of president obama's foundation called my brother's keeper. steph curry joined mr. obama on stage. amo although the topics are serious ones, the 44th president started it by l

inside, the state department tells nbc news two americans. a witness told kenyan media a woman tried to jump out of the plane but was tangled in her seat belt. >> it had five passengers on board who unfortunately, all of them lost their lives. >> reporter: they were in the world-famous mosai mara national park this morning, heading more than 400 miles north. at 10:29 local time, a distress signal. 16 minutes later, at 10:45, the plane went down. tonight kenyan officials are looking into what caused this plane to fall out of the sky and delivering the devastating news to loved ones. lester? >> kelly cobiella, thank you. >>> to medical news, potential new help for americans battling es a drug closely linked to the party drug ketamine could soon be approved as the first new treatment for depression in tedaren has details. >> reporter: ketamine is abused as a club drug. but now a version of its active ingredient is on the verge of being fda approved for people suffering major depression when nothing else has worked. >> there was no happiness, the

stephanie gosk, nbc news. >>> the u.s. tonight is playing a risky card against russia in a game where the stakes don't get much higher. nuclear weapons. the trump administration announcing today it's suspending a landmark arms treaty with russia that for decades kept the lid on a nuclear arms race. andrea mitchell with the latest now. >> reporter: tonight the president taking the dramatic step of announcing he will withdraw from a landmark cold war-era arms control treaty because russia has been cheating s.ided russia an ample window of time to mend its ways and for russia to honor its disadvantage of going by a treaty, limiting what we do, when somebody else doesn't go by that treaty, okay? >> reporter: at issue, russia's deployment of missiles along european borders that eaty.opinto pressure russia back into line says the allies fully support the u.s. withdrawal, which becomes final in six months. but the european union says it wants the treaty preserved. signed by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev more than 30 years a

>>> this is nbc "nightly news" with jose diaz balart. >>> good evening. kate snow is off tonight. it has shocked the political world, a sitting governor who admits he wore black face in his medical school yearbook is ignoring a chorus calling for his resignation. president trump tweeting that his racist picture and denial is unforgivable. what people are saying about the governor and his future. >> ralph northem faces a growing chorus of calls over the racist photo. >> he has to resign and it's in the best interest of the commonwealth. officials nearly unanimous in their demands he step down. >> you've got to work as one unit to move your commonwealth forward and he's just not going to have thatable to do it. >> for some constituents it's not as clear cut. >> he's an honest, hardworking man who has worked hard for the state many years. we all have done things we are not proud of. we all have. >> is the way he's handled this episode, has it undercut his ability to govern effectively? >> i think so. again, that's something i struggle with personally because i admire him. i respect h

kristen dalgren, nbc news, nv de. >>> there's more to come tonight. she fled arica to marry an isis fighter. now she is pleading to come home. we'll have her story. >>> then trapped in quicksand. one hiker's amazing story of survival. >>> and the iconic photo from the end of world war ii. why so many are talking about it tonight. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. it may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or if these feelings develop. some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. upper respiratory tract infection and headache may occur. tell your doctor about your medicines, and if you're pregnant or planning to be. ready t

nbc's rehema ellis has the latest. >> reporter: tonight r. kelly is facing charges for sexual abuse spanning more than a decade, from 1998 to 2010. >> earlier today robert kelly was indicted before a cook county grand jury on ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims. >> reporter: prosecutors say three of the alleged victims were between 13 and 17 years old. pace is one of them. in january she told "dateline" she began a relationship with kelly when she was 16. >> i didn't agree to having sex with him or performing, i would be locked in a room. >> reporter: the charges come a week after michael avenatti said he gave authorities a video showing kelly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. avenatti said he represents two alleged victims, one was included in today's indictment. for years the singer has been under suspicion of sexually abusing young woman. in 2008 he was acquitted for child pornography charges. 52-year-old kelly has consistently denied all allegations against him, and his lawyer has said kelly never knowi

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kristen welker, nbc news. ju >>> a federae in florida said tonight that one of president trump's cabinet members broke the law ile serving as a prosecutor in the case of a florida billionaire accused of sexual abuse of minors. here's justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: audge in florida has ruled tonight that when alexander acosta, who's now the labor secretary, w the u.s. attorney in miami, he and his prosecutors broke the lawhile cutting an extremely generous deal with jeffrey epstein, the politically connected billionaire accuseof sexually abusing more than 30 underage girls at his palm beach mansion. >> he was just talking to people on the phone. when he flippeover, that's yen he said, okay, you can go ahead and take or shirt and pants. >> reporter: the government spent untold hours negotiating with epstein's lawyers, the judge said, but scant sh information waed with the victims, a violation of the federal victim rights law. that meant the victims had no opportuny to object before the deal wa

kathy park, nbc news. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive, a family in south carolina demanding answers tonight after a man died days after being arrested. state invesgators are now reviewing the case after nbc news started asking questions about whether authorities reatment until it was too late. nbc's gabe gutierrez has that story. >> reporter: neshaniel rh van crashed last august in charleston, south carolina. according to a police report, the father ofhree was already on a stretcher, in an ambulance, when an officer decided to conduct field sobriety tests after finding an open bottle o wi his van. annette was his wife of 35 years. >> it was unbelievable. i didn't even imagine. i couldn't imagine. >> reporter: instead of going to the hospital, rhodes went to the police station, booked for dui. ing medicalref treatment was signed by the officer, not rhodes. why wasn't he taken to the hospital? >> that is the big question. that's the question that both charleston s and the city of charleston police department have to answer. >> i feel pretty bad. >> reporter: in this surveillance video

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> now n nbc news exclusive. it's about a phone scam targeting older americans, but this time ibackfired in spectacular fashion, because the scammer zeroed in on one of i the top peopthe country you don't want to mess with. here is pete williams. >> reporter: the calls from jamaica promised a $15 million lottery prize in return for wiring $50,000 to cover taxes. but when the 90-year-old c. washington, an who answered the phone didn't send any money and neither did his wife, the caller threatened violence. >> i'm going to g bleep ] kill you. i'm go [ bleep ] kill your husband. i'm going to [ bleep ] set your house on fire. i'm not giving you any more warning. >> reporter: what the scammer, keniel thomas didn't realize is the d man he targes william webster, former director of the cia and the fbi. >> it seemed to me that something wasn't quite right. this was pretty obvious to me that there was something fishy about it. >> reporter: he an his wife linda notified the fbi. >> reporter: when he threatened violence, di

>> kevin tibbles, nbc news, grand rivers, kentucky. >> and that's nbc nightly news for this sunday pf. lester holt will be back for tomorrow's broadcast. i'm jose diaz balart. thank you for the privilege of your time and good night. rb they were ln unforgettable experience, and they got it-- but not how they pictured it. a hot air balloon, full of a dozen people, made an emergenc >>> right now at 6:00, they were looking for an unforgettable experience and they got it. not how they pictured it. the hot air balloon made and emergency landing. >> nbc bay area starts now. thank you for joining us. >> they ended up needing to be rescued by a chp helicopter in the >> is from sonoma to tell us how it literally went down. >> reporter: i did speak to the operator of that hot air balloon. they'rel

illinois. >>> and that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. tomorrow, a new era for scouting as girls start to join the ranks of the boy scouts. i'm jose diaz-balart reporting from new york. thank you for the privilege of your time and good night. and go. hail falling in parts of the bay area. this storm that slammed the bay area with rain, isn )t done yet. >>> right now at ing in. the storm is not done yet. >> the news evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. >> the bay area under a micro climate weather alert. on and off showers over the next 24 hours and the concern is now strong wind and thunderstorms. live look outside over free month. you see the rain over the lens. we got team coverage for you. let's track the storms path, rob? >> watching the showers. you can see in the north bay you are seeing showers. a little bit of break in san francisco, but you can see the rain approaching from the west and dodging some downpours in the last 15 minutes. it's 54 degrees. on the radar you can see that rain passing by. it looks like comes the ne

nbc's kelly cobiella explains. >> reporter: it's a wild scene. hungry polar bears and their cubs rummaging through a landfill, even wandering down a hallway in this small arctic town they've counted at least 52 bears. russian officials have declared a state of emergency saying locals have been attacked. with sea ice disappearing, the endangered animals are spending more time on land. >> we've seen definite trends in certain parts of the arctic where polar bears are congregating in ways that we have not seen before. >> reporter: in russia, killing them is a crime. so now a plan to scare away these out of towners and get rid of the garbage so the bears don't wander back looking for a snack. kelly cobiella, nbc news. >>> up next here, before you hear her voice on tonight's "america's got talent," hear her powerful story. "america's got talent," hear her powerful story. ts' retirement. oh, don't worry. voya helps them to and through retirement... ...dealing with today's expenses... ...like college... ...while helping plan, invest and protect for the

nbc's steve patterson has been following the story for us. steve, what's the latest? >> reporter: marlie, this is yet another stunning turn in what has been an incredible series of events in this story. now sources close to the investigation are saying that smollett is no longer considered a victim, nor is he yet considered a suspect. and at this point they just want him to come in so he can clarify his story. police are now investigating if the actor famous for his role in the hit series "empire" paid two men to stage an alleged attack against him. in january jussie smollett filed a police report stating two masked men assaulted him while hurling racist and homophobic slurs before pouring b hh neck. he identified the attackers in this blurry surveillance picture. >> i don't have any doubt in my mind that that's them. >> reporter: friday night police said they questioned and released two men i.d.'d in the picture, confirmed by nbc news as two brothers, both followed by smollett on instagram, no longer suspects. investigators say they searched the brothers' home and fo

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nbc's tracie potts joins us from d.c. with more. this is mr. trump's first address before a divided congress. >> reporter: exactly, and it's the on again, off again address that's finally on again. republicans on one side tonight, democrats on the other. one analyst described it as sort of a seesaw with people applauding different parts of the speech likely tonight. we have already seen the type of gridlock that this the government shutdown and the threat of another one looming. the white house says the president's speech tonight will focus on working together, that the theme will be choosing greatness, that he'll talk about immigration, trade, lowering health costs, infrastructure, and foreign policy, and also economic success. here's what the president said previewing his speech tonight. >> i think most of the things you would know. economic development, its success. i mean n years. >> reporter: now, critics are wondering is this just words or will there be some action to follow up this call tonight for bipartisanship. of course it's coming i

stephanie gosk, nbc news. >>> the u.s. tonight is playing a risky card against russia in a game where the stakes don't get much higher. nuclear weapons. the trump administrati announcing today it's suspending a landmark arms treaty with russia that fodecades kept the lid on a nuclear arms race. andr mitchell with the lates now. >> reporter: tonight the president taking the dratic step of announcing he will withdraw from a landmark cold war-era arms control treaty because russia has been cheating for years. >> we prided russia an ample window of time to mend its ways and for russia to honor its commitment. >> we can't be put at the sadvantage of going by a treaty, limiting what we do, when sebody else doesn't go by that treaty, okay? >> reporter: at issue, russia's deployment omissiles along european borders that the u.s. a ys violates the treaty. tonight nato hoping to pressure russia back into line says the allies fully support the u.s. withdrawal, which becomes final in six months. but the european union says it wants th

catie beck, nbc news. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive investigation about sexual abuse in one of the largest evangelical missions in the world. new tribes mission operated in more than a dozen countries, and a group of women are speaking out about what they endured as children. >> reporter: while their parents preached whe word of god, these en were put in boarding schools in the philippines and senegal where dorm fathers were in charge. all say they were repeatedly sexually abused. >> he would tuck me in at night, and he would just sit on my bed and stay too long. >> reporter: carrie and bonnie's dorm dad in senegal was david brooks. bonnie says she was 7 when he began abusing her. both say brooks told them not to tell anyone. did you all feel it would take your parents away from god's work? >> yes, that's what we were told. >> if their work was impeded, that meant people wouldn't be saved? >> and that would be our fault. >> reporter: when carrie did tell she says new tribes mission tried to cover it up. >> the mission leadership told my dad on the phone, you are going to ruin this

nbc bay area )s pete suratos joins us live from san mateo, with the details on what took place, pete? ad lib scene on humboldt st. in san mateo >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you,u, laura and marcus. a tragedy here along the peninsula as we stand here in san mateo. you see fire investigators on the scene and that's where we know according to fire officials an 86-year-old woman passed away as a result of this fire in san mateo. according to fire officials, they got the call about the house fire that damage you saw there showing the viewers, got the call around 4:30 a.m. they say when they arrived there was a heavy fire in the front of the home and able to get in there, get a hose line in there to put out the fire but they say shortly after the occupants inside who escaped said that their grandmother was still inside. we're being told by fire officials they went into rescue mode and located the 86-year-old woman but despite efforts to resuscitate her, she passed away on the scene. >> this does illustrate the need to have a plan, make sure that you have a plan in case your home catch

nbc's steve patterson with the dramic rescue. >> aahh! >> reporter: a moment of pure terror. frantic screams piercing through piles of snow. the chilling video tak cg on the backountry slopes near park city, utah, 9,000 feet up. you can see the instant the skier loses control, triggering the avalanche and tumbling 200 feet down. >> i'm here! >> reporter: one ski sticking out of a foot of snow alerted three friends who quickly dug him out. >> we got you, buddy. we're right here. >>his gentleman's alive simply because he d the right rescue gear, and he had his partners in the back country ready to come in for that rescue and get to his airway. >> reporter: the incident now part of a concerning trend. nationwide, more than 1,000 avalanches in january alone. so far this season 15 people have died. >> i'm here! >> reporter: and now a frightening reminder of how dangerous the slopes can be. steve patterson, nbc news. >> absolutely terrifying. >>> up next, we'll turn from n ow dangers to snow delights. who needs skis wu can have one of these? . i never count the wrinkles. and i don'

nbc news has learned the u.s. plans to drop a demand for now that north korea share a full list of all of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. that is according to multiple officials familiar with the process. but if the u.s. can get pyongyang to agree to dismantle parts of a key nuclear facility, experts say that would be a significant step toward denuclearization. we'll find out more as this summit goes on overnight, lester. >> a big dramatic evening. hallie, thank you very much. >>> for the first time we're seeing video appearing to show the amazon cargo plane seconds before it crashed into a lake near houston saturday taken from a nearby school. it seems to show the plane in a very steep nosedive. three crew members died in the crash. investigators are still searching for the plane's black boxes. >>> still ahead, the big changes to the way americans diet. why weight watchers and star spokeswoman oprah winfrey are losing millions over it. >>> also, he stood by a president's side. now tonight sull

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gabe gutierrez, nbc news, atlanta. mb> some alarming health news tonight about the one killer of americans. a new report from the american i heart asion finds nearly half of all adults have heart disee, most of them diagnose with high blood pressure. nbc's medical correspond john torres is here. dr. torres, i was startled when i saw that number. does that mean all those people, half of american should be taking some sort of medication? >> not necessarily. we used to think high blood re prestarted around 140. with new guidelines, the new mber is 130. ideally though you want it 120. now some people might need chdication, but there are three important lifestylges that can really make a difference. exercise. just 30 minutes of activity a day can drop your blood pressure to 10 points. also following the dash diet. that w specific created to lower blood pressure. for every two pounds you lose, you could lower by up to 1 point.d nally, the new addition, sleep. you need seven hours every night for a healthy heart. >> we take t

tammy leitner, nbc news, monticello. we'll be back in a moment for an amazing run. >>> after getting a break today, seattle and other parts of the pacific northwest will get hit by a second winter storm tonight with almost eight inches of snow on the ground, seattle could see additional eight inches making its the snowiest february on record. this fast moving storm will reach the east coast by tuesday. speaking of snow, it was an end of an era today. lindsey vonn competed in her final race of her career. vonn found enough strength and speed to win the bronze medal in the world alpine championships. afterwards vonn admitted she was the most nervous she had ever been as she ended her phenomenon career. congrats to her. when we come back, i will take you to the university that becomes a real pipeline to the grammy awards. >>> tonight is music's biggest event, the grammy awards. you may be surprised that seven of the nominees have roots in a state school you may never heard of. outside nashville had been teaching young produ

joe fryer, nbc news. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this wednesday. right now at 6: flames -- 2-3 stories high -- shooting from a san francisco >>> this is a really quiet neighborhood. things like this don't happen. >> right now at 6:00, flames two to three stories high shooting from the san francisco neighborhood. the explosion that started it all and why it took crews so long to put out these flames. >>> the news at kf starts right now. good evening. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. we're tracking this breaking news for in o-- for four and a hours. this is the laurel heights area from sky ranger. the fire is out, crews are still on the scene, though. and the spoke is dissipating. the investigation now begins in earnest to figure out how this started and the two-hour process to cap that gas line, why it took so long. >> a lot of people are there at this hour. but if you were with us throughout the afternoon, this is what we saw. these intense flames in the middle of this dense neighborhood. right near the usf campus. dozens of people were

that's nbc "nightly news" for this wednesday. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thanks for watching and good night. his personal real estate - >>> rite now at 6:00. san jose mayor on the defensive. hi personal real estate deal that has him under the mike scope. >> the body cam video that shows what made her do it. >> a college student indicted by the feds. high-tech way he's accused of selling drugs on campus. through an app. >> the news at 6:00 starts now. good evening. thanks for being with us. >> it's the dark side of the technology. a local cyber security expert is telling us. >> this college student from the south bay was running a drug business through an iphone app. a sign of the times here. >> now the game is no longer available in apple app store. this is what is looked like. a simple game to kill some time allege dl hiding a very dangerous and potentially -- >> 18 year-old colin howard. studied computer science for less than a month. tonight the college freshman is facing felony drug charges accused of hiding a drug business i

that's "nbc nightly news." i'm lesterwe )re following bre: a chase involving a u-p-s truck in san jose has now turned into a >>> right now at 6:00. we're following breaking news. a chase involving a ups truck in san jose. now has turned into an armed stand off. right in the city streets. we are live with the latest. >> the news starts now. good evening. thanks for joining us. >> this is turned into a tense situation. and the stand off involving several people as far as we can see. we have been tracking this breaking news on air and online for the past 40 minutes. let's get you caught up. a live look from the sky ranger in north san jose. north first street. actually a couple blocks away from the studio. this is north first street. and trimable. a ups truck and behind that truck about ten to 15 san jose police cars and sheriffs. behind that truck. inside the truck is a ups driver from what we can see. also a man with a shotgun. this happened around 5:15 the chase started. this came to a close. an end here in ter

here's nbc's ron mott. >> where's my journal? >> i think it was in the back room. >> reporter: when ann hunt was di magazine editor and her husband, bruce, feared a fast decline. so they jumped at the chance to challenge her brain in a new way. ♪ my name's ann >> reporter: by starting to sing. >> how did you guys find out about this choir? >> i was really looking for something i could find that would be a place where i could participate and understand what was happening to me and feel like i could do something about it. >> reporter: the hunts are part of a growing movement in alzheimer's treatment, making music to exercise the brain, reduce anxiety, and socialize. nationwide, at ass een formed for people like ann. the choirs can help calm caregivers too. >> learning new stuff and knowing that there's life beyond the initial diagnosis. i think it's an important message for folks. >> reporter: dr. mary littleman is an alzheimer's researcher at new york university and founded a chorus called the unforgettables. >> research suggest

katie beck, nbc news. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive investigation about sexual abuse in one of the rgest evangelical missions in the orld. new tribes missirated in more than a dozen countries, and as kate snow reports, a group of women are speaking out about what they endured as children. >> reporter: while their parenta pred the word of god, these five women were put in boarding schools in the philippines and senegal where dorm fathers were in charge. all say they were repeatedly sexually abused. >> he would tuck me in at night, and he would just sit on my bed and stay too long. >> reporter: carrie and bonnie's dorm dad in senegal was david brooks. hnnie says she was 7 when began abusing her. both say brooks told them not to tell anyone. did you all feel it would take your parents away from god's work? >> yes, that's what e told. >> if their work was impeded, p that meanteople wouldn't be saved? >> and that would be our fault. >> reporter: when carrie did s tell she sw tribes mission tried to cover it up. >> the mission leadership told d on the phone, you are going to ruin this ma

of nbc bay area news. a cargo plane crashes in texas. >>> right now on a special edition of nbc bay area news, a cargo plane crashes in active s >>> the effort to fiend the bod of the woman buried. >>> we've learned new information about the death of san francisco public defender jeff adachi. >> thank you for joining us on this special edition of nbc bay area news. >>> we begin with a developing story. nbc bay area's investigative unit, spfd has opened a suspicious death investigation. the city's mayor and adachi's colleagues are in mourning and paying their respects today to a man called a champion for those who didn't have a voice. nbc bay area's christie smith joins us outside the public defender's oic set up. >> reporter:. >> it's a big loss for us. he was such a, you know, fierce advocate. >> reporter: chief attorney matt gonzalez worked alongside san francisco public defender jeff

nbc news new york. >>> what a terrific update to her story. that's nbc "nightly news." i'm lester holt. thanks for watching and good night.new information newsroom moments ago >>> right now at 6:00, where are they? new information just into the newsroom moments ago about the search for a missing san francisco couple that went on a camp trip. >>> also ready to move across the boy, the one hurdle remaining for the raiders to in frci falling on some of the local mountaintops. the news at 6:00 starts now. good evening and thanks for joining us along with jeff ranieri, i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm karaj mathai. it doesn't happen often but when it does it catches everyone's attention. snow in the bay area. something we've been forecasting since last week and tonight it is there on our mountaintops. a -- among the few spots, the santa cruz mountains above the summit near highway 17. about the east bay, mt. diablo in contra costa county, a couple of people out for workouts like this cyclist getting his workout in peddling through the snow and in the north bay not snow but pl

joe fryer, nbc news, los angeles. >> nothing stopping her. great story. and we're back with more from here in vietnam in just a moment. more heavy rain across the north bay. we're tracking the flood threats, plus where evacuation orders have already been issued. that's next at 6:00. >>> we'll be following a lot of breaking news in the hours ahead. we'll be back on the air to cover all of it. our special coverage of the summit between president trump and kim jong-uar 6:00 a.m. hour eastern time, then beginning at 10:00 eastern, michael cohen testifies before congress. for now, that's "nightly news" from hanoi. have a good night, everyone.be . the area in san jose that has city leaders concerned >>> right now at 6:00, be prepared for a flash flood. the area in san jose that has city leaders concerned tonight. >>> also, a highway covered in mud. the landslide hitting a north bay community. >>> but first, we're keeping an eye on the local rivers rising, prompting mandatory evacuations. the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening, everyone. i'm jessica agu

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nbc's peter alexander explains. reporter: elizabeth warren watching the ent at the state of the union, but tonight her own quest for the white house is again facing rough terrain. "the washington post" revealing this 1986 registration card for the texas bar, showing for the first time in in her own handwr warren identified herself as american indian. >> i am not a member of a tribe, and i have apologiz not being more sensitive to that distinction. >> reporter: the massachusetts democrat under fire over the issue r years after citing family stories. >> i consider myself as having a native american that's what i said. that's what i am. >> reportearren was accused of ng native american heritage to advance her career, which she denied. president trump repeatedly targeting her with racial taunts. ah ontas, pocahontas. >> reporter: even daring her to take a dna test, which she did, revealing she had a distant native american relative. >> what do the facts say? >> the facts suggest that you absolutely have native american

we'll keep you up-to-date here on nbc bay area. we have this trough of low pressure in the pacific, and we're going to see several disturbances move in from this, from friday right through sunday. tonight, next possibility of rain lines up, and then this is going to bring back some scattered areas of rainfall by 11:00 p.m., possibly some heavier pockets as we head to tomorrow morning. there we go, more scattered activity, a few heavier pockets as well. maybe some low snow, down to about 3,000 feet. and we keep these on-again, off-again chances through tomorrow afternoon, even right into tomorrow evening. en d we finally get dry here? weather? i think that's going to happen from monday through thursday of next week. that's some good news, but let's go ahead and get you through this weekend. i think we're good for about 0.25 on sunday. and we're going to need that drying of course here across the bay area. inland forecast your rain and also your temp forecast is pretty similar. low snow down to about 3,000 feet could bring us to abou

nbc's rehema ell has the latest. >> reporter: tonight r. kelly ic facingrges for sexual abuse spanning more than a decade, from 1998 to 2010. >> earlier today, robert kelly was indicted before a cook county grand jy on ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims. >> reporter: prosecutors say msthree of the alleged vic were between 13 and 17 years old. jeronda pace is one of them. in january she tol"dateline" she began a relationship with kelly when she was 16. >> if i didn't agree to having sex with him, orerforming, i would be locked in a room. >> reporter: the charges come aa weer michael avenatti said he gave authorities a video showing kelly ving sex with a 14-year-old girl. avenatti says he represents two alleged victims. one was included in y's indictment. for years the singer has been under suspicion of sexually abusing young women. in 2008 he was acquitted of child pornography charges. 52-year-old kelly has consistently denied all allegations against him and his lawyer has said kelly never knowingly had sex

you can watch the state of the union here on nbc bay area. it starts tonight at 6:00. >>> we're also streaming the speech on tv and online i a battle. >> it is hard to tell what's more popular, scott. >> that's because, laura, we haven't agreed on how to count viewers. netflix largely reports its own numbers talking about them at all. a fox television executive this week wondered if netflix wasn't overestimating the viewers and did not respond to the allegations. nielsen is starting to estimate amazon prime's viewership starting with the series "the marvelous mrs. maisel." other news, san francisco based slack fired paper work for an ipo. butterfield with his wife at the time also started the photo sharing website flickr. look at the markets this morning, dow industrials gaining again. up about 150 points. nasdaq up 48. parent company of and youtube yesterday said it made 39 billion in the last 3 months, that works out to $2,000 every second, marcus! >> all right. thanks, scott. >>> a large, new technology complex is reportedly in the works f

that's nbc "nightly news" for this friday. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thanks for watching. good night and have a what )s next for kap? we talk to prominent civil rights activist, dr. harry >>> right now at 6:00, what is next for colin kaepernick. we talk to prominent civil rights activist dr. harry edwards now that the former quarterback and the nfl have settled his lawsuit. >>> i'm tracking more low snow, rain also the chance of hail as we head into our weekend. we'll have that coming up. >>> purposely drove over the spike strips -- >> that is the police chief of san jose describing how that ups driver and the quick-thinking saved lives and why some say a computer glitch could have prevented last night's deadly standoff which played out on live tv. the news at 6:00 starts now. good evening. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm janelle wang sitting in for jessica aguirre. you saw that chase and standoff unfold here during the newscast last night and tonight new details on how it all start and the two people involved. first the woman who