80 degrees and look for low 90s potential inland. crazy. >> thanks for joining us right now lester holt joins us next with nightly news. on this wednesday night, to the streets. massive crowds on the move in baltimore again. police at the ready with another night of mandatory curfew ahead as major league ball players are forced to play to an empty stadium. no fans allowed. shockwaves on everest. richard engel reaches base camp where so many are reeling from tragedy. tonight, what happened when the mountain started shaking and where the search for the missing stands. cockpit scare. a drone comes dangerously close to a commercial plane coming in for landing. a police hunt in the air to find it and whoever was at the controls. and tracking your every move. a consumer alert for tens of millions of smartphone users. something you may not know about the apple or android device that never leaves your side.

nightly news begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world head quarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening. protesters have been on the move tonight again in baltimore. out of the wary eye of police and national guard troops just ahead of another night of mandatory curfew. it started late this afternoon when growing crowds of peaceful marchers headed en masse to train station and on to city hall where a large police presence awaited them. they're demanding accountability for the death of freddie gray who suffered fatal injuries while in police custody. nbc's ron allen is there. ron? >> reporter: good evening, lester. hundreds of people from local universities and out of state as well. marching from the main

train station in baltimore to city hall, demanding justice for freddie gray and his family. they're frustrated an upset that police say they will not release on friday the results of a preliminary investigation into why gray died. why out here? >> this is enough is enough. we all need to be equal and we all ought to be treated right. we're all human beings. we all mean something. that's why we're out here fighting there. >> is an investigation under way. there is a system in place. you don't trust it? why not? >> because we've been having this for so long and still nothing has been done. >> reporter: through it all, there were no incidents reported no violence, no confrontations with authorities. now they repair to home because once again baltimore faces a curfew at 10:00 p.m. tonight. lester, back to you. >> all right, ron allen. thanks. now to peter alexander who was at city hall where the national guard is out in force. peter? >> reporter: lester good evening to you. officials here said late today 101 people, nearly half of all those arrested during monday's riots have

been released from police custody because police didn't file the proper paperwork in time. the police commissioner says they may still be prosecuted as we see new protests against tonight. the demonstrations resumed again, hundreds marching through the streets of west baltimore peacefully as police watch. >> people are picking up bags and brooms and cleaning up. parents are keeping kids at home and off the streets and community leaders have been urging people to head home before the curfew. >> reporter: at camden yards, the best seat in the house was on the outside looking in. fans forced to watch through the gates. >> let's go o's! >> in a sport that straights statistics, a whole new category games unattended by fans. >> one delivery, get a hold of that one. >> reporter: the hits echoed across 46,000 empty seats, this image may echo much farther. life in baltimore is hardly back to normal.

these scenes from outside last weekend's orioles game showed tensions were already high. then a week of violent protests convinced the team to postpone two games and play today to a closed house. citing concerns about taxing the city's resources. >> it's sad. it's just a baseball game. this part is not tragic. it's the part on the other side of town that's tragic. >> reporter: john hawkins needs baseball back too. he is a concession manager at the stadium. >> losing out probably $350. >> >> reporter: this week? >> yeah. >> we need this game to be played, but we need this city to be healed for. >> reporter: not far from the ballpark at troy staton's barbershop, customers say it makes little difference to them. most can't afford tickets. >> can you imagine how frustrating it is to stand back and watch people go to the orioles games all the time? so maybe it's apropos that nobody is there today. >> reporter: while schools reopen today for 58,000 students, police and national guard remained on alert, but were not facing off with protesters. last night's curfew kept most off the streets. but there were limited confrontations and

arrests. today, music replaced the mayhem. baltimore's symphony orchestra with an outdoor concert to help soothe their city. again, that curfew goes into effect tonight at 10:00. many people, as ron said have been anticipating baltimore police to publicly release their results of the freddie gray investigation this friday. but the department now said instead they're going to hand the results over to the state attorney's office to be released later as part of their investigation. the police said they didn't want to hurt that investigation's integrity. lester? >> all right peter. police in baltimore are hardly the only department under the microscope. after a series of violent encounters with officers in recent months has provoked outrage and anger from coast-to-coast. against that backdrop, a number of police officers and sergeants from around the country have come together tonight for an extraordinary conversation with nbc

national correspondent kate snow about what it's like to put on the badge and go on patrol day in and day out in a climate of mistrust. >> if you had to use one word right now to describe the relationship between the public and the police force -- >> i would say skeptical. >> i'd say strained. >> strained. >> misunderstood. >> people are looking at us a whole lot closer today than they were before. >> you all see what happens when these incidents get put on television. does it make you reluctant to pull your weapon sometimes? >> no. >> no. >> not at all. >> people have to know that no officer that i know that i've talked to over 20 years wants to wake up in the morning and shoot an unarmed black teen or anybody for that matter. we have kids. we can relate. our job is as unpredictable as humanity is. >> they worry about the rush to judgment after a cell phone video comes out. >> with social media they're acting as the judge, the jury the executioner without having any of the information or letting the investigation take its course. >> are you all in

favor of body cameras? >> yes. >> i am. >> yep. >> because it shows everything. >> and it will show our side of it. >> this is a tricky question to ask. but do you feel judged because of your skin color sometimes? >> no more than anybody else. and actually, and i don't know if anybody else wants to comment on that. some officers -- some black officers in our department tell me they have bigger issues going into some of the communities because they're labeled as betrayers. >> exactly. >> he hit the nail on the head. when we go out to the incidents where a male black, female black is the suspect, they've been shot, we take the brunt of that from our -- our own society. you know, i've been called everything from traitor, uncle tom. >> what do you do to diffuse that? >> most times i ignore it. because a lot of times i realize it's because they're angry that they're lashing out at me.

>> what would you say to the angry voices out there? >> channel your anger. your anger, channel it. channel it for something positive. help us. help us help you. >> nbc's kate snow with important perspective from people doing a tough job. turning overseas to the devastating earthquake in nepal and stunning new images just now surfacing including this security camera video capturing the shocking moment the quake hit. terrified people with nowhere to run as a building collapses in the street. and these photos of a baby boy pulled from the rubble after 22 hours, alive and remarkably uninjured. now four days after the quake, hope is fading that more survivors will be found under all this wreckage, but the search continues. the earthquake shook even mt. everest itself triggering a massive avalanche. that killed at least 18 climbers. today our chief

foreign correspondent richard engel became one of the first journalists to reach everest and has our report. >> reporter: through the window of a rescue helicopter, we finally saw it. and that is everest. the tallest mountain in the world and the site of last weekend's deadly avalanche. most died here. this is the everest base camp. the avalanche came down from here. the snow and rock came crashing down destroying all of this part of the base camp, and they are still looking for bodies. hundreds of climbers remained in what is left of the long and narrow tent city the storied staging ground for the ascent of everest. climbed because it's there. >> we decided to go up to camp one at 2:00 in the morning. >> dan mazur from olympia, washington, was leading his group up the mountain but one man chose to stay behind, american documentary filmmaker tom taplin. >> we tried to convince him to come with us.

we worked really hard. >> mazur says taplin was worried about leaving the safety of base camp. >> everything started shaking. you know, the mountain was falling down all around us. we got a radio call from base camp, our staff that said base camp had been wiped out and we couldn't find our friend. like an hour later, they found his body. >> reporter: he was one of at least 18 killed at base camp. many others were injured. but most survived. thanks in part to the extraordinary efforts of this swiss pilot. bad weather had grounded every other rescue helicopter in the area. rush was on his own, transporting victims to an aid station miles and mountains away. >> how many times did you go back and forth? >> 39, 40 times back and forth. >> he shuttled the seriously injured to safety, all 73 of them. base camp is slowly emptying out. there will be no climbing season this year.

>> if the mountain doesn't want you to be here, you shouldn't be here. you have to respect it. >> reporter: most at base camp now want to walk down out of respect for the mountain and those who died here. richard engel, nbc news, everest base camp. now alarming moment in the skies over dallas when pilots spotted a flying object coming way too close for comfort and realized it was a drone. all it would take was a collision with an engine or window and a drone could cause a major disaster in the air. nbc's halle jackson has this report. >> reporter: it's a dangerously close call. >> some sort of a lighted drone just flew right over us. >> reporter: an airbus landing in dallas from new york tuesday night narrowly missing a drone inside controlled airspace. >> it was a lighted drone? >> it appeared to be. maybe just a hundred, 200 feet above us. >> reporter: the virgin america flight was on its final mile and a half approach to the runway at love field. 600 feet above the ground. that's when the faa says pilots noticed the drone lit with red and green lights below

the plane. they watched as it climbed straight up passing a couple hundred feet above their plane. immediately notifying air traffic control. >> airbus reported a drone passing over the top of them right around your present position. >> reporter: dallas police launched a search for the quad copter, tweeting a picture from the air and a plea. use drones responsibly. >> if they end up colliding with an airliner, it's going to be similar to a bird strike or potentially worse. it can do significant damage to the airplane or an engine. >> reporter: it's illegal for drones to fly above 400 feet or within five miles of an airport. but that's happening more often and at major hubs like l.a., chicago and atlanta. >> it raises questions about for another pilot seeing such an aircraft, what's it going to do. >> reporter: it's why the faa is working to teach drone operators the rules to keep the skies safe. halle jackson, nbc news, los angeles. an historic moment in washington today. the first time a japanese leader

addressed a joint meeting of congress. prime minister shinzo abe offered condolences for the americans killed in world war ii, but he did not explicitly apologize for japan's atrocities during that war as 25 members of the house had requested in a letter last week. a lot more news still ahead on a busy wednesday night. coming up, what your cell phone knows about you. shocked reactions when we showed people how their smart phones are tracking exactly where they go and keeping a record including dates and times. how you can turn it off.

we're back now with a consumer alert for millions of smartphone users. technology in your phone that knows exactly where you are at all times tracking everywhere you go and keeping a record of it. nbc news investigative correspondent jeff rossen with what you should know. >> reporter: it is the mother lode of personal information stored right on your phone for anyone to see. >> oh, my goodness. >> reporter: on the 5th you were there from 7:18. >> holy cow. >> where you live, where you work. see all those little blue dots? it even maps out where you go, including the date and exact times you were there. on the iphone, that personal tracker is buried deep. go to privacy, location services, systems services, scroll down even more and there it is. frequent locations. tech expert says on android devices, all your tracking data is sent straight to google.

>> it knows where i was this morning knows where i was sleeping, how long i slept for, when i left when i arrived here and right now knows here's where i'm sitting. >> reporter: and i can look if i have access to your account? >> any computer anywhere in the world. >> we showed this group of new moms in the park. >> i'm at home alone with my son all the time. i don't want anybody to know where i live. >> so i could take my husband's phone and look at all the places he's been recently? >> reporter: yes. >> maybe i won't tell him how to turn it off. >> reporter: apple says they use the information to provide personalized service, and it's kept solely on your device and won't be sent to apple without your consent. apple wouldn't tell us if they take the data or not. google, the maker of android telling us users have the ability to enable or disable location capability both on their android device and google account. okay. so how do you shut the function off on your phone? let's take you through it step by step starting with android. from the home screen

hit apps then settings. scroll down to privacy and safety then hit location, then right there, google location history, hit that. and then just slide it to off. on the iphone, it's a little different. we're going to walk you there that as well. from the home screen, hit settings, scroll down to privacy, location services, scroll down again, i told you it's very deep, to systems services. scroll down again, and there it is, frequent locations and slide that to off. by the way, there are several different molds of android devices. the instructions vary slightly. here's the good news on androids and iphones, even if you shut off this particular function, your other location services like maps and traffic routing stuff we use every day will still work. >> jim, thanks. a lot of us scrambling today with our phones. we know it was lot to take in. you didn't catch it all, don't worry. we posted all the instructions on our facebook page. you can find it there right now. and we're back in

a moment with a dramatic day of testimony in a trial that has gripped the nation.

in colorado today, gut-wrenching testimony in the movie theater massacre trial. james holmes accused of going on an unthinkable killing spree three years ago has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. today we heard about the youngest victim. nbc's jacob rascon was in the courtroom. >> reporter: veronica mosier will always be 6 years old. recently graduated from kindergarten, one of many children inside theater nine that night. >> my two cousins. >> reporter: veronica's teenaged cousin called 911. >> can you hear me, ma'am? >> reporter: veronica had been shot. her mother ashley was also injured. >> i had my hand on her stomach to see if she was breathing. and she was. so i kept telling ashley that veronica was okay. >> reporter: panicked

moviegoers sprinted out as officers rushed in. officer michael hawkins noticed veronica almost immediately. >> i picked her out and ran her out of the front entrance of the theater. i looked down at her and i realized she was probably gone. >> reporter: one by one, the prosecution will ask survivors and first responders to relive that night. >> if my cane is the weapon, i can see him with the gun pulled up to his chest, and he was pointing down to the ground, looking for other people. >> reporter: the shooter, james holmes sat practically motionless in court, staring straight ahead, not speaking. in video evidence, a psychiatrist asks him about those who wounded. >> they're like collateral damage, i guess. >> reporter: ashley mosier would survive but never walk again. and her daughter veronica, the youngest of 12 victims, gunned down during a night at the movies. jacob rascon, nbc news, centennial, colorado. when we come back in a moment, a teacher worried her harrowing ordeal would make her unrecognizable to her

students and the people who helped ease her fears.

finally tonight, a story about women who find themselves in the battle of their lives and

the people on a mission to give them back the confidence they need to go about their daily activities. even when they feel at their most vulnerable. here's nbc's kevin tibbles with tonight's making a difference. ♪ hello day, hello gerald ♪ >> reporter: ms. lauren's chicago preschool class is a happy place. and 33-year-old lauren smoke pregnant with her first child wants to keep it that way. despite the fact she's been diagnosed with breast cancer. >> one of the first things i worried about was how am i going to be able to go to work and see these kids and do what i love. >> reporter: when she lost her hair to chemotherapy, would they recognize her or be frightened? would she feel too uncomfortable to go out? when lolly toll lost her hair her daughters noticed just how therapeutic something as simple as a wig could be. >> it meant she could feel like her and feel beautiful and feel like the conversation was not always about her

cancer. and that she didn't get pity eyes when we went out. >> reporter: so when lolly passed in 2012 lolly's locks was created to ensure women would have access to quality wigs that often run into the thousands of dollars. >> thanks to all of you for the beautiful wig you sent me. >> reporter: is a far more than 300 have been provided free of charge to women across the country. >> this could be it, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: as she prepares to start her chemo, lauren is fitted for her new her. that's half the battle, isn't it? feeling good about yourself? >> i think so. i think if i feel good about myself, then it makes me think about the bad stuff a little bit less. >> reporter: helping women to face the world and the battle with newfound confidence. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. that will do it for us on this wednesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night.

. . . right now at 6:00 all about strategy. police in the south bay ruling out a new plan to battle the growing burglary problem. good evening, i'm jessica aqueera aguirre. >> i'm rob mathai. with limited resources, the embattled police department is shuffling it's staff. using officers who originally

had a much different mission. nbc bay area damian trujillo is here. >> reporter: the problem sfot was almaden. they assigned them to patrol the streets of almaden to catch the burglars. now, the problem has moved east and north. they were assigned to catching truants with the task program or daily patrol cars with officers working an extra day on overtime. the tab officers were shipped to the valley to battle a spiking burglary problem. the new hot spot is here in bariesta. the truancy officers are moving again. >> we are going to reassign them. typically, what we do is re-evaluate where some of the crime trends are moving to some of the hotspots. >> police are still crunching the numbers but the website crime report shows