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>> good evening. the high speedlp high stakes an sometimes highly emotional sport of professional car racingxdt( . still what happened on a track in upstate new york stunned long time racing fanse1 lefrg a youn driver ged and another, one of the sports's billingest names engulfed int( tragedya5 ande1 controversy. officials say nascari] champion tony stewart competingñi at a dt track eventfá struck and killed fellow driver kevin ward jr. as he stood o tr after ar 'u%. today stewartñir national car event he was supposed to race in as police sought to determine ifw3 this w anything more than what itw3xd appeared to be. aq horrible accident. nbc's kristen i]dalgren has the latest. o today's nascar sprint cup race in upstate new york. details emerge of thee1 deadly

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ñ cars equipped with quing bu? uiu increase traction and help it turn corners. this is stewart's third crash in just over a year.a regular at l he competes on a grassroots level in his spare time. thrilling fans and amateur stewartpñiy owns his own dirt track raceway in ohio.ñrok stewart once through his helmet at another driver's caré@ afte the, racing for the lead. (? night the nascarxd champ released a statement about the crash that killed ward. >> there aren't wordse1 to describe the sadness i feel. my thoughts and hislpko family. >> nbc's kristen dalgrend tonight.i] >> reporter: therev outrage after an unarmed african-american teenager was shot and killed by police ing

protesters of different ages anp races demanding answers of the shooting death of the 18-year-old michael brown at the hands of a policeman. investigatorsñr said that about noon saturday the officers whot hasn't beene1zv identified encountered brown and another man ott street in an apartment complex. there was a struggle and one of the men pushed the officer into the car. >> within the police car there was a struggle over the officer's weapon. there was one shot fired within >> police shot this man for no reason. >> he came this cway. >> reporter: this woman who took the cell phone video says she sawb. those shots fromñi her apartmentñr balcony. >> he'se@/unning this way. he turns his bodyñr tosjt"s thi way. hands in the air. uz compliant.ñi he gets shot in the chest and goes down and dies. aid brown's body lay in the street for hours.ñi >> i would like everybody to

appreciatezv)pá it took a very long time yesterday to process the scene. >> reporter: the shooting sparked a furious lpreaction. police responded in force 1q rifles.urious lpreaction. michael brown graduated from high school earlier thi3ñá spri, was toxd begin college next r his mother hasok a message for e officer who killed him. >> you're not god. you're not decide when you're going to take somebody from her. if that was the case, i brought him here. i should have took him from heró that was mine.ñi that belonged to me. >> reporter: here at the spot where michael brown was killed, hundreds still gathering with calls for an evene1 bigger rall tomorrow at the police station. lefter? >> all right, john yangxd tonig, thank you. now to iraq. the u.s. launched new air strikes today in an effort to turn the tide against is isis. they're evacuate somethingc staf from its consulate in >aá(r&, a e north 3wisis "á )juu

overrun. we're i45 erbil with more. good evening. evåv lester. tonight kurdishfá+ fighters tes they have taken back a key town not far from here. using those u.s. military air strikes to gain aññd military advantage.e1 fierce fighting on the ground e9ñ andñi aidedw3 by more u.s. bomb raids today. kurdish force parntzlyñi overwhelmed isis in one key town, mcmore. a jihadistñrxd vehicle burned o. theó[ battle was broadcast+ o televiaimn 20 milesçów3 away in erbil, a city threatened by isis for days. people are crowded around the tv here to watch theokñi fighting is taking place right outside thisñi city?3 butr emerging of an isis reign of terror. an iraqi minister said isis kidnapped 300 women and killed

500 ñrpeople. he claims some werekoh!uried alive. where are my brothersjdñi sisters this girl says? where is+aá thousands community have sought safety by climbing mt. sinja inxd terribl( heat. there have been more aid dropsx and tonight there arekofá re)ì& that someñi bemple have been le to safety. pope francis todw4ñ expressed dismay andt( disbelief at the violence and called on the world and as the kurdish army fights back, some here are beginning to but want more help. >> do you think that the american air raids have changed things? >> of course. >> reporter: but the kurdish president says hisfá fighters nd more weapons. r(q&ebrated withñh captured qi flag. but they facew3 manyñi more bats

withr territory across northernñr ira. tonight theñi state department says añiw3ñr limited number of from the consulateñi in erbil a embassy in baghdad are relocated as a ñiprecaution. >-wñi thank you. president obama came under heavy criticism today fromko offensive ini] iraq. the latest from chris jansing traveling with the president who is vacationing inñi martha'shñ vineyard. >> reporter: in the days since american planes went intor president obama has become the targeab republicans today suggesting that the narrow focus of the missionxd isq putting american

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lefter? >> chris jansing, thank you. here is also a major develop. in the five-week oldñilp confli between israel and hamas. the two sides agreed to axd new three day cease-fire brokered by 1 but as billxdr gaza city, there were more deadlyñi attacks in the hours leading up to this latest truce. >> reporter: fire and the fury of an unfinished war raged in gp today. this the aftermath of anñi israi air strike. this building was hit justr minutes ago. first of all, came a warning strike and then about two s a massive explosion. amid all the talk of a cease-fire, the air strikes continue. gaza.

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>> relieved to be onxçm ground. hally jackson, nbc news. in the fight against ebola, health officials said today they're preparing to quarantine a handful of missionaries returning from liberia. they worked withlpe1 nancy rightbold, one t7 fighting ebola in atlanta. as a precaution, they will be closely watched for 21 days. the largestzv?hebola outbreakt( killed nearly 1,000 people in west xdafrica. torrential rain overnightxd triggered flash flooding in south carolina. officials sayt( one woman was killed and the man shew3 was wih is missing aftervp they we swept cleanup continues on hawaii's big island after

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elvis presley fans are flocking to his legendary home in memphis for a celebration of his life ahead of the 37 rnlg anniversary of his death. that includes graceland's first ever auction of elvis artifacts. we get a preview tonight from nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: the first thing you learn on a visit to graceland is that king called it graceland. and his memphis mansion remains an emotional magnet for elvis presley pilgrims 37 years after his passing. >> i wanted to come here since i was a kid. >> reporter: more than 600,000 visit, 3764 elvis presley boulevard each year, for one reason. something presilla presley remains proud of. >> i think the history is that he died so young. i think people look at that and

go what a shame that he's not here with us today. >> reporter: as this week's anniversary of his death approaches, 72 pieces of everything he will visielvis isr auction. >> everybody wants to own a piece of elvis. >> a lie brary card signed by the king when he was still a prince in grade school. elv elvis' original script from the 1956 film "love my tender". they say he memorized everyone's part. there is gem encrusted elvis jewelry including rings and this gold lion head pendant warn to meet president nixon. the last cadillac driven by the entertainer so famous for giving cars away as gifts. >> complete leather. >> this is the real deal. >> reporter: the auction items all belong to third parties. but graceland has authenticated all of them. in fact, it may even bid on a few. >> i do have some favorites. i really don't want to say what they are because we'll have

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