e leave you, a last live look. protesters are chanting there in writ l rittenhouse square. >> i'm renee chenault-fattah. >> i'm jim rosenfield. see you at 11:00. on this thursday night, the critical evidence in baltimore turned over to prosecutors who refused to make it public. tonight what the autopsy reveals and what a man who was held in the police van with freddie gray says he heard. found alive, survivors pulled from the rubble five days since that devastating quake in nepal. an eruption of cheers and celebration in a see of destruction. embryo battle. one of tv's biggest stars, her former boyfriend and a personal dispute gone public. who decide what is happens to frozen embryos when the relationship ends? and clash of the titans. the richest prize fight of all time. hundreds of millions of dollars on the line. we're in vegas tonight. "nightly news" begins right now.

>> announcer: from nbc world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening, we start with several new developments out of baltimore. as peaceful protesters take to the streets there for another night, key findings from the medical examiner and the story of a man who says he was held in custody with freddie gray shedding new light into gray's death. the protests meantime, have expanded to other cities. here's what it looks like this evening in philadelphia. the demand for action in the wake of gray's death intensifying tonight. hours after baltimore police put the results of their investigation into the hands of prosecutors. peter alexander is in baltimore tonight. peter. >> reporter: lester good evening to you. the rain is coming down but these protesters have not. as you can see they're demanding answers and accountability and today law enforcement sources tell our nbc station here in baltimore that freddie gray's catastrophic injuries according to that police

investigation occurred inside the police van and not during his videotaped arrest. it's these images that thrust baltimore into chaos. 25-year-old freddie gray being hauled into a police van but determining what the video doesn't show may prove just as explosive. today the 30-man police task force in charge of investigating gray's death turned over its findings to prosecutors ahead of schedule. >> i understand the frustration, i understand the sense of urgency and so has the organization and that is why we have finished it a day ahead of time. >> reporter: "the washington post" report that is a sealed baltimore police document quotes a prisoner who briefly shared the van with gray. the prisoner is daunte allen. this video shows the police van stopping to pick allen up. freddie gray was already inside. the two men were separated by a solid metal partition. they couldn't see one another. today allen spoke to jane miller. >> we went straight to the police station. all i heard was a little banging for four seconds. >> reporter: miller

briefed by law enforcement sources on the autopsy report. >> it contains no evidence that mr. gray was banging his head on his own against anything. >> reporter: the decision whether to prosecute any of the six officers involved now falls to the state attorney marilyn most by. at 35 the youngest chief prosecutor of any major city in the country. the police department's decision not to release the results tomorrow is fueling frustrations and fears of more violence. >> regrettably somebody has put a metal plate in the microwave and when you see it spin around you get to see flares going off and that's why we're working so tirelessly to subdue this. >> tracy williams wants justice to be served. >> it's not the 1940s this is 2015 and still have a long way to go. >> reporter: but they won't have to go at it alone. today several baltimore ravens including ray lewis who's had his own serious legal issues

delivered a powerful message to student. >> what is a tragedy in baltimore, we have an opportunity to change it. >> reporter: and tonight the white house tells nbc news that it has been contacting celebrities and athletes with strong ties here in baltimore hoping that they'll help defuse this situation. among those in attendance the nba star carmelo anthony. lester. >> peter alexander tonight, thanks. of the 235 people arrested during that chaos monday more than 30 of them were juveniles. many with no prior records including a young man who is now learning some very hard lessons about what happens when he disobeys his dad. both the teen and his father spoke with our rehema ellis. >> reporter: when baltimore streets erupted in flames earlier this week carlos brooks couldn't believe what he was seeing. >> i was sitting in the house looking at the tv and was just shocked that it was going on. >> reporter: he

immediately thought of his second oldest child, his 16-year-old son. >> my dad called me and told me don't go out there. don't go out there. >> reporter: what did you do? >> i went out there at nighttime. thought i was slick. >> reporter: for the first time ever with no previous record carlos jr. was arrested. his dad says for looting. being in police custody was beyond expectations. rain chains around your ankle. what was that like? hard. >> yeah it got hard to walk. i thought i was going to fall. that's what i felt like. a caged animal. >> reporter: you felt like a caged animal. >> he didn't come from a broken home. me and his mother might not be together but he was raised with morals and god. >> reporter: learning his son was arrested brooks' next thought was freddie gray and wonder what had happened to his own son. >> my kids are my life

so that's all i think about. >> reporter: brooks doesn't want his son to be another statistic. >> i don't want the streets to have my son. i will fight to not let the streets have him. >> reporter: how much do you appreciate that he stands here with you? >> a lot. most kids don't have a father that would do that. most kids don't even know their fathers. >> reporter: if you had to do it all over again, what would you do? >> i would stay in the house. >> reporter: for carlos jr. who returns to court for misdemeanor charges an encounter with the criminal justice system that he and his father hope to never repeat. rehema ellis, nbc news, baltimore. >> we turn overseas as the death toll in nen climbs towards 6,000. there's still more new video from the moment that devastating earthquake struck. shot by a tourist in a square outside kathmandu people frozen in place crouching to the ground as ancient buildings begin to crumble around them. meantime the increasingly grim search for victims took a welcome and

emotional turn as people were pulled from the rubble alive five days after the quake. nbc's miguel almaguer was there as a survivor was found beneath the rubble. >> i need a metal saw blade. >> reporter: when rescue team as rived they couldn't believe what they were hearing. from deep beneath the twisted metal and slabs of concrete. a faint voice, a boy buried alive for five days crying for help. search and rescue teams are virginia and california among those called in. >> the floors are within feet of each other. it's floor after floor after floor within a five-foot stand you had three floors. >> pancaked in between there. >> yes. >> reporter: to save the boy's life crews would risk their own. these rescues are always dangerous, the buildings above us here several stories high are teetering on the edge. but this is what it takes to save lives. as the life and death

drama unfolded the crowd grew. holding their breath waiting, six hours. hoping for this moment. the boy pulled from the rubble alive carried away by the same men and women who promised he would survive. >> the person has been rescued alive. this is miraculous. >> reporter: they're calling this a day of miracles. across town another rescue a young woman pulled free after 120 hours alone and afraid. tonight the rescued boy is recovering in a nearby field hospital. he says he tried to escape the quake but couldn't. this is where he had been trapped, surviving this this tiny space amid so much devastation. >> it's a miracle. it's a miracle. eating nothing and drinking nothing is a miracle. it's a miracle. >> reporter: tonight two miracles in the rubble. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: moments that rallied a nation desperately in need of hope.

search teams say earthquake victims can survive for up to two weeks in the rubble if they have any access to foot or water. the americans say they'll be back out here again tomorrow to search for any survivors. lester. >> all right, miguel almaguer thanks. in colorado today, dramatic testimony in the movie theater massacre trial. we heard from some of the first officers on the scene. describing the horrors they encountered. one officer so shaken she broke down on the stand. we also heard about the chilling moment police first spotted the gunman james holmes who has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. jacob ras scone reportcon reports. >> reporter: responding officers ready for a gun battle. >> shooting inside. >> reporter: what they found was much worse. >> it was a nightmare. >> reporter: patrol cars became ambulances for the most critic critically wounded.

natasha cabway took ashley most sure to the hospital. >> she lost consciousness and i thought she died in front of me. >> i helped probably ten. >> reporter: behind the theater officer jason ovira saw a man in a gas mask and full body armor. >> as i got closer to the car, i noticed that somebody was urgently doing something and this person was just very relaxed standing by the car not really doing anything at all. >> reporter: it was james holmes who didn't resist and when asked if there were other shooters said it's just me. >> did he cooperate with you. >> yes. >> did he answer questions that were asked? >> yes. >> did he seem confused about anything? >> not at all. he looked like he was sort of taking it all in. >> reporter: his sanity is the central question in this trial. it was critical testimony today and it picks up again on monday. lester.

>> an emotional day. jacob, thank you. hillary clinton is facing new obstacles on multiple fronts. her first official challenger for the democratic nomination independent senator bernie sanders of vermont running for president as a democrat and coming at her from the left. this as clinton is working overtime to separate herself from some of the policies her husband put in place. nbc's andrea mitchell is on the trail. >> reporter: hillary clinton arriving for her third washington fund-raiser of the day on her way to what is expected to be a billion and a half dollar campaign. even as she got her first official rival, independent vermont senator bernie sanders. >> we're in this race to win. >> reporter: he's not your typical blow-dried politician. a one-time socialist mayor of burlington vermont challenging clinton from the left over her fund-raising and possible conflicts of interest. >> we now have a political situation where billionaires are literally able to buy elections and

candidates. lease not kid ourselves. >> reporter: even as hillary clinton is run ago way from her husband's policies on wednesday, blaming his 1994 crime bill for some of the problems that exploded in baltimore. >> it's time to end the era of mass incarceration. >> reporter: on trade, he's known for nafta. she's skeptical. >> involving trade -- >> any trade deal has to produce jobs and raise wages and increase prosperity. >> reporter: he signed the defense of marriage act. now both clintons endorse gay marriage. as she moves left clinton hopes to blunt support for senator elizabeth warren not a candidate but a constant critic. as for bernie sanders, he's got his own fan base. >> in many european countries, how much does it cost to college in scandinavia? and the guy said in skandz nave scandinavia, they pay you to go to college.

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she's the highest paid actress on tyler. he is a florida millionaire. once they were in love but now sofia vergara and her ex nick loeb are locked in an ugly fight over their frozen embryo ss. the 600,000 or so others in deep freeze in this country. nbc's stephanie gosk has our report. >> what did you do? >> reporter: she's part of a modern family on tv. >> you ring our bell many times and you accuse us of taking your dog. >> reporter: now in reel life sofia vergara is dealing with an actual modern family dispute. a court battle over the two frozen embryos that her and nick loeb

created through in vitro fertilization. they are now split. but he wants control of them writing in "the new york times," in my view keeping them frozen forever is tantamount to killing them. he wants a surrogate to be implanted with the embryos so he can raise the babies on his own. but in a statement, she says she is content to leave the embryos frozen indefinitely as she has no desire to have children with her ex. an agreement both partners designed states any change to the embryos must be mutually agreed to. in court documents he argues the agreement doesn't state what would happen in the event of their separation. ultimately the agreement may not matter. >> unless there is a compelling reason to force somebody you know to potentially become a parent the court has sided with sofia's side. >> reporter: he asks when we create embryos for the purpose of life should we not define them as life rather than as property? >> it sounds like he's

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this is nbc nightly news wednesday, april 30th with john chancellor. >> good evening. the city of saigon was renamed today. >> 40 years ago tonight the stunning news saigon had fallen. the war in vietnam was finally over. the war that consumed this country and left deep divisions that persist to this day. covering the story that day from the white house, nbc's tom brokaw. on this anniversary we asked tom to look back on one of the most painful chapters in american history.

>> reporter: ever since the war's ugly end we have asked ourselves, what are the lessons of vietnam? the deep american involvement began as a trickle. if vietnam went communist southeast asia would fall like dominos. the south vietnamese couldn't do the job. so american ground and air power took it on in ever larger numbers with ever larger casualties. and still the north kept on coming. at home another kind of war against and for. the campuses hell no we won't go. but others did go and paid a terrible price. >> i will not accept the nomination of -- >> reporter: by 1968 a president was driven from office. >> gestapo tactics. >> reporter: the democratic convention was a brawl in the hall and in the

streets. richard nixon rose to turmoil to the white house and with his architect, promised a way out. instead, escalation. mcgovern took onyxen and pleaded -- >> come home, nixon. >> reporter: but he had his own demon. watergate. the scandal that drove him from office and took his finger off the trigger. then 15 years into this war, it came to a crashing dismaying end. one of the lessons of vietnam, here's one, don't use conventional means to fight an un unconventional enemy so far from home. here's another, there are people on that wall who had doubts about the war but answered the call. there are others who believed in the cause and they died as well. their common bond they died with honor serving their country.

>> tom brokaw at the vietnam memorial for us 40 years after the end of that long and difficult war. that will do it for us on this thursday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news thank you for watching and good night.

now chip's in the driver's seat with a game plan mapped out. >> philosophically i want to keep all our draft picks. i think you build your team through the draft. >> this off-season has been full of stuffs.ops. some players got off, others were picked up along the way. zp we . >> we thought it was a decision we had to make. we wouldn't have traded for him if we didn't think he had an upside. he immediately text me told me hey, jump onboard. >> the eagles even picked up a v.i.p. along the way. tonight, the journey continues in chi-town as future eagles prepare to take their course. >> we view every draft pick as an opportunity to improve our football teams. >> the question is will all roads lead to the s