on this tuesday night, nuclear warning to america, the prime minister of israel before congress. slamming what he calls a bad deal with iran, and tonight president obama fires back. scathing reports after the fatal police shooting brown in ferguson ignited a movement. tonight the feds find a pattern of racial bias and extensive force. private e-mails, were hillary clinton's official e- questions tonight over whether she broke the rules while secretary of state. the crackdown on birth tourism. pregnant women coming to the u.s. and bringing them home as an american citizen. "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york,

this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. it was the must-see event in washington, d.c. today, unless like president obama you were going out of your way not to see it. not that it wasn't awkward for him when you had the pri minister of israel two weeks away from facing an election back home standing before a joist meeting of the united states congress and warning that president obama's support of freezing iran's nuclear program is a bad deal. benjamin netanyahu said the plan being negotiated wil a nuclear iran. and the white house didn't mince its own words in i afterwards. andrea mitchell is our chief foreign affairs correspondent. have we seen anything li? >> reporter: no, we haven't. you have a foreign leader coming to congress to lobby against a sitting u.s. president, and warn

of a nuclear nightmare. israel's prime minister arrived with all the pomp and circumstance of a state of the union speech. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister of israel! >> reporter: even the guest sat next to israel's first but instead of being delivered by the american president, this speech was aimed at the president, and his iran policy. >> to defeat isis, and let iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle, but lose the war. >> reporter: netanyahu said the deal john kerry is negotiating would let iran get a nuclear weapon. iran's foreign minister asked abou >> i don't think trying to create tension and conflict is >> reporter: netanyahu pulled out all stops, even invoking the holocaust. >> i wish i could promise you, eli, that the lessons of history have been learned. >> reporter: netanyahu sees obama's ten-year nuclear freeze as an invitation for iran to

cheat. >> in this deadly game of thrones, there's no place fo america or israel. when it comes to iran and isis, the enemy of your enem enemy. >> reporter: some democrats boycotted the speech and even those who attended criticized netanyahu's all or nothing approach. >> what if there is no agreement. what does he believe iran will do, and what will israel do, and what then would israel expect us to do. he didn't say any of those things. >> reporter: president obama was also critical. >> president obama said you have no viable alternative to prevent iran from getting a weapon. >> it's very clear to me, and it was clear to anyone who was there, that the support is strong bipartisan. >> reporter: but the real audience for netanyahu was in israel, where voters watching back home go to the polls in just two weeks. >> this was a campaign stop 6,000 miles away from the nearest israeli voter, the most important campaign stop in this race. >> the worry for the white house now that after listening to

netanyahu congress will try to block any deal that john kerry negotiates with iran. ? >> andrea mitchell on capitol hill, thanks. chris jansing is at the white house where president obama was quick to fire back. chris, what did he have to say? >> good evening, lester. even democratic supporters of the president calling th persuasive, president obama fired back point by point for 11 minutes from the oval office. he suggested the speech was theater and politics and criticized netanyahu for offering no viable alternative. >> the alternative that the prime minister offers is n deal. in which case, iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear progr accelerate its nuclear program, without us having any insight into what they're doing. >> reporter: he also argued the ongoing talks have actually kept iran from getting a nuclear weapon. he was responding after reading the speech. here's where he was during it. in the situation room for a

meeting added to his schedule just this mo one senior white house official told me that given the rancor between the two leaders, this will be a tough couple of months going forward. if there is a deal for them to vote on, get ready for showdown on capi. lester? >> chris jansing tonight, thanks very much. turning to another major story we're following tonight over six months after the fatal officer involved shooting of michael brown in ferguson, missouri ignited a national outcry we've learned details from a justice department report expected to be r. that report accuses the ferguson police and courts of racial bias. nbc's ron allen is in ferguson for us tonight with a lot more. ron, good evening. >> reporter: good even lester. first, this report was not about the death of michael brown, or whether officer darren wilson should face racial bias charges. that investigation continues. officials have already said that

those charges are no. this investigation looked at how ferguson police department conducts their job. who do they arrest, who do they stop on the streets, how do they use force. we understand they've found a pattern of racial bias. investigating the underlying tension and mistrust that caused so much violence and confrontation after the keth of michael brown, officials familiar with the justice department report say in the two years before that deadly encounter, in 88% of the cases when police used force, the suspect was african-amer. as were 93% of the people arrested. the probe officials say also found specific examples of racial stereotyping. a 2008 e-mail by a ferguson official saying president obama would not be in office long because what black man holds a city job for four year attorney general eric holder who visited ferguson after brown's death has said he was troubled by what he heard. >> what we are doing hopefully will have a positive >> reporter: officials also say the report accuses police of targeting black and poor drivers to raise revenue. 85% of motorists stopped were black.

>> i didn't know nothing about jail. >> being in jail? >> yeah. i was horrified. >> reporter: allison nelson said she was stopped at least five times. first for a cracked windshield, then when she couldn't pay the fine, court fees piled up. then an arrest warrant. eventually she was stopped and jailed. >> if you're poor and black and standing in front of a court and saying, i can't afford this, i think the court is less likely to listen to you. >> reporter: nelson said her dream job is to join the navy, but recruiters say no until she clears up her problems with the . >> it stresses me out, because i can't start my career because of these little tickets. >> reporter: officials say the justice department probe found that ferguson overwhelmingly charges african-americans some 67% of the population with minor or petty offenses that cause crippling debt, loss of homes, and jobs. ferguson's leaders have been meeting with federal o all day in private.

and they tell us they are digesting this report. and the sweeping reforms to force them to make to star rebuild trust with the community, they're supposed to protect and serve. lester? >> ron, thank you. a protest in the streets of los angeles today over the police shooting of a homeless man on skid row. the incident was captured on a cell phone video. the lapd said it will not publicly release video from the officers' body cam. the homeless man was identified today as a french national convicted of bank robbery 15 years ago. the officers involved in his shooting on sunday say he reached for one of their g there are questions swirling tonight around hillary clinton as she ramps up a potential run for president. and they concern a personal e-mail account she used wh serving as secretary of state, and whether conducting public business on a private account may have broken the rules. nbc's kristen welker reports. >> reporter: the new revelations are already haunting hillary clinton's unannounced presidential campaign.

as first reported in "the new york times," clinton exclusively used her personal e-mail account as secretary of state instead of a government e-mail, now required. >> this is a highly unusual situation where a high-level cabinet officer solely used a private e-mail account. >> reporter: last year clinton's aides submitted more than 50,000 pages of e-mails, after the state department asked former secretaries for their official documents. lant month the state department turned over about 300 of those e-mails to lawmakers investigating the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. then last night, revelations those e-mails were from her personal acc. in 2011, clinton told savannah guthrie her e-mails wer protected. but today republicans seized the opportunity to attac >> you do not need a law degree to have an understandi troubling this is. >> reporter: jeb bush called for the e-mails to be rele tweeting, transparency matters. a spokesperson for clinton said she followed the letter and

spirit of federal gu. and the state department says requirements to use government accounts came after clintons left office. today former secretary colin powell told nbc news he used his personal account whe but condoleezza rice's aides say she always used an official account. still, this latest dustup could carry into 2016. >> this builds on the rep days for secrecy that the clintons have built up over the y. >> reporter: according to the state department, john kerry is the first secretary use an official state e-mail account. kristen welker nbc news, washington. any hope of a first week of march would usher in a kindler, gentler phase of winter seemed to be dashed tonight. 30 m americans across 34 states are under a winter weather advisory this evening, with more snow on the way for cities that are already crying uncle this se like boston, which is where we find nbc meteorologist drier. hi, dylan. >> reporter: hey, good evening,

lester. we've had a few flurries here in boston. the heavier snow down by you in new york city right now. it's going to go snow to ice to rain as we watch that 32-degree line inch its way into the northeast. the leading edge of some warmer air. we are looking at accumulating snow overnight in new england before it turns over t we'll see mostly rain as we go into wednesday morning. but on the flip side of that, back through the ohio river valley, that's where it will go rain to ice to snow. we could even see a period through the day on wednesday of a lot of icing from little rock, arkansas, up through kentucky, where as much as a half an inch of ice is possible. then on top of that we're going to see some snow work its way back through the ohio river valley and into parts of the mid-atlantic. we're also looking at a foot of snow into northern kentucky into southern ohio. temperatures as we look into nashville, tennessee, we'll start off the day tomorrow morning at 58 degrees. then drop to 28 degrees by thursday. but lester, there's hope we could get into warmer weather pattern next week.

>> that's what we wanted to hear. dylan, thank you. retired general david petraeus' career came to end, after an extramarital affair came to light, has accepted a plea deal over the legal implications of the scandal. it should allow the man who once commanded forces in afghanistan and iraq and later led to avoid a jail . we get the latest from our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: david petraeus, the highly acclaimed commanding general of u.s. forces in iraq and afghanistan, and director of the cia, will plead guilty to unlawfully handling top- documents which he allegedly shared with his mistre. a one-count indictment filed today in federal court claims petraeus unlawfully took documents containing classified information. but additional court documents go much further. they claim that petraeus while head of the cia provided eight black books of classified material to paula broadwell, who was having an affair with

petraeus while writing his by biography. documents say the black books contain top-secret information about the afghanistan war and identities of covert officers. the scandal exploded three years ago when tampa socialite jo kelly told the fbi she was receiving anonymous threatening e-mails warning her to keep her hands off petraeus. the fbi traced the e-mails back to broadwell, uncove affair, and launched an investigation. when the story broke, it forced petraeus to resign from the cia. it took months before petraeus publicly expressed remorse. >> i regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the c >> the white house announced today president obama ap of the petraeus guilty plea. >> the president believed it was appropriate for genera to take responsibility for his actions. >> reporter: the charges of misdemeanors prosecutors

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from our affiliate caretv in minneapolis. >> reporter: when you're 4 years old, you have a few things left to learn. he's still working to make sense of directions. >> i don't really know left and right. >> reporter: but this he knows. >> who's that little shrimp? how are you doing? >> reporter: is right. it's been eight months since the friendship between world war ii vert ran kingdom and the preschooler next door became a social media sensation. >> i love him. >> reporter: half a year since they hugged good-bye. as emmitt moved to a house in the country. and erling to a retirement home. a 90th birthday is cause for celebration. >> does he like cake? >> yeah, i do. >> is the pope catholic? yes. >> reporter: emmitt's parents have made sure the visits have also continued. >> i think i beat you in the race. >> reporter: on the ordinary days.

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