on this monday night, racist chant. fraternity members caught on tape spouting hate-filled slurs. tonight the outrage and swift punishment from their college. off the stopping moment when an amtrak train collides with a truck sending cars flying off the track and dozens to the hospital. overshadowed. hillary clinton's speech, but not about her e-mail controversy. tonight, pressure mounts for her to give answers. and baby saved. a toddler found trapped in a car wreck after 14 hours. the mysterious clue that led rescuers to her that they still can't explain. "nightly news" begins now. fr headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news."

reporting tonight, lester holt. and good evening. coming off the 50th anniversary of the march on selma and a weekend in which so much of the nation's focus was on racial healing, what has played out at one of this nation's major universities may seem particularly galling. it centers on a video that has exploded across the internet. it captures members of a university of oklahoma fraternity chapter spewing a racist chant referencing lynching. the target was black students, but the hurt has been universal. on that campus tonight widespread condemnation of those on that video from other students and university officials who quickly moved to shut down the fraternity chapter behind it and launch an investigation. nbc's gabe gutierrez is on the story for us tonight. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] >> reporter: the v posted sunday has sparked national outrage. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: now a second recording from a different angle

shows members of the fraternity sigma alpha epsilon or sae at the university of oklahoma chanting racial slurs. ou's president joined hundreds of students at a pre-dawn rally, many with tape across their mouths. >> hurts we're still going through stuff like that and it just needs to stop. >> my jaw defini >> reporter: naomi is with the african-american student group that first received the video through an anonymous mes twitter. >> a lot of people like to say this is post-racial america. we're not in post-racial america. and this is just a huge example. >> reporter: sae local chapter immediately. >> we were absolutely appalled and shocked at this video. and more so we were outraged that any member of the sigma alpha epsilon would think this is somehow acceptable. >> reporter: graffiti reading "tear it down" written on the sae house. a the letters removed. all members ordered to m by tomorrow. across campus heated debate about punishment. >> because i want this to be a

rehabilitating time for us. >> reporter: the university's president did not mince words. >> take them out of here. they don't belong here. and i don't . so i hope they do. i encourage them, i might even pay personal bus fare for them if they'd go somewhere else. just go. >> reporter: tonight, students are banding together under the #notonourcampus. and right now workers here are boarding up the windows of the fraternity house behind me. a top ou football recruit has just decommitted. and the university is investigating whether the students in that video may have violated the civil rights act, lester. >> gabe gutier the capitol building in wisconsin was also a focus of a major protest of the shooting death of a young unarmed biracial man at the hands of an white officer. hundreds of students, packed the building claiming the incident is all too similar to other questionable

fatal encounters with police. nbc's ron allen has a story for us from madison, wisconsin. >> reporter: madison's high school students had a real live civics lesson today, walking out of class, taking to the streets demanding to know why tony robinson, 19, a recent high school grad was shot and killed friday night by officer max kenny, a 12-year police veteran. >> you can't just shoot like an innocent guy. >> reporter: police radio calls revealed some of what happened. reports of trouble at a gas station. >> we're looking for a male black, light skin, tan jacket in teens, outside yelling and jumping in front of cars, 19 years of age, name is tony robinson. >> reporter: police say officers followed robinson to a across the street, forced his way in because of disturbance and opened fire when the suspect who police say was not armed th well-trained, educated and diverse. >> it's only natural that questions and objections should arise. i get that.

and i'm empathetic to that. >> reporter: robinson' does not believe deadly force was necessary. >> our hands are stained with the blood of my nephew and we are all left to deal wit aftermath. >> reporter: now four straight days of demonstrations. they've been marching in this city now for a couple of hours and they've almost reached their destination, the state capitol. finally, police estimate some 1,500 people converged in the ro tundra one of the largest gatherings in the dome in years. >> like no one sho die. >> reporter: today, madison's police chief apologized to robinson's family, but he stopped short of saying the officers did anything wrong or criminal. that question now is under the control under the offices of state investigators because of wisconsin law, not local police. lester. >> ron allen tonight, thank you. you're about to see for yourself how a chilling accident played out in north carolina

today when an amtrak passenger train collided with a truck and sent cars flying off the rails in what is at least the third major train accident of this kind this year alone. here's stephanie gosk now with more. >> reporter: a woman in a nearby car caught the actual moment of impact on her cell phone. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> reporter: an amtrak train traveling from charlotte to new york barrelled through a tractor-trailer in the middle of a railroad crossing. a bystander says the truck got stuck trying to make a turn before the crossing barriers came down. ted was on the train. >> we moved out of the way, it was almost like that sudden jerk or whiplash feeling you get in a car accident. much more in >> reporter: 212 passengers an eight crew were on board. at least 40 people were taken to nearby hospitals. the accident comes roughly a month after a new york city commuter train slammed into an suv killing the driver of the car and four train passengers.

since then a 30-year-old woman was killed in silicon valley when her suv was hit by a commuter train. and hours later a metro link train just outside of los angeles plowed into a truck. there are roughly 2,000 accidents at railroad crossings each year. last year 239 people were killed. none of today's injuries appear to be life threatening, what one witness calls a miracle. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. turning now to the race for 2016. pressure is mounting on hillary clinton to say more about why she opted to use a private e-mail account as opposed to government e-mail for her official business as secretary of state. so far she's only made a brief twitter reference. so when she spoke at a high-profile event here in new york today, there was anticipation she might address the elephant in the room. we get more from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: hillary clinton rolling out a major study on women's inequality today but still ducking questions about the private e-mail system she

used while secretary of state. >> will you explain the e-mail, secretary clinton? >> reporter: today's event was to build momentum toward announcing her candidacy next month, a campaign highlighting her as an advocate of womens rights. ever since a speech in beijing 20 years ago. >> human rights are womens rights, and womens rights are human rights once and for all. today, two decades later it's clear, we're not there yet. >> reporter: instead her big moment was overshadowed by the e-mail controversy. party leaders from the president on down are not rushing to her defense. >> yes, the president was aware of her e-mail address. he traded e-mails with her. that shouldn't be a surprise. but the president was not aware of the fact this was a personal e-mail server and that this was the e-mail address that she was using exclusively. >> reporter: also undercutting her womens rights message, millions of dollars saudi arabia and other countries that permit violence against women donated to her family foundation.

bill clinton also with her today said saturday as long as the money is disclosed people can decide. >> i believe we've done a lot more good than harm. and i believe this is a good thing. >> reporter: but all the criticism has enflamed clinton partisans. >> there's always going to be a distraction in clinton land. there never is a time when there's not. i've lived through this for 20 years. don't you think that next week there'll be some other thing that they'll crop up? and then they' they'll run with it. it's not going to ever change. >> reporter: despite the latest controversy, clinton holds an extraordinary 86% support among democratic primary voters in our new nbc news/"the wall street journal" poll. but party leaders worry about the way her circle has stonewalled and want her to r this up. there are reports she' do that in a press con later this week. >> andrea mitchell, thank you. with a deadline fa approaching with a nuclear deal with iran, senate republicans

did what they might call an end around. warning any potential deal may not stick. now the white house is accusing the gop of interfering. nbc's peter alexander tells us more. >> reporter: in the oval office this afternoon president obama ridiculed senate republicans for reaching out to one of america's enemies. >> i think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in iran. >> reporter: today, this letter signed by 47 republican senators was sent to leaders of the islamic republic of iran, but its message was directed at the white house. the letter patronizing iranian leaders for not understanding the u.s. constitution. and warns that any nuclear deal reached between the president and u.s. allies could be undone if it isn't approved by congress. the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen they wrote, and future congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time. >> this letter is about nothing

more than stopping iran from getting a nuclear bomb. the united states and our allies cannot live with a nuclear iran. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with nbc news last week, iran's foreign minister said he would not interfere in u.s. politics. >> i read the american constitution. i believe the executive has the prerogative over foreign policy and for any foreign government it has to be with the executive. that's the onl international affairs. >> reporter: tonight zarif called the letter from senators a propaganda ploy. white house aides say it's the latest in a partisan strategy to undermine the president's ability to conduct foreign policy. lester. >> pet jurors in the boston marathon bombing trial got a look at video which prosecutors say shows the defendant red handed planting a bomb at the scene while survivors of the terrorist attack gave some heart wrenching testimony. nbc's pete williams was in the courtroom today. >> reporter: just after the second marathon explosion, the fbi says video caught dzhokhar tsarnaev running away while firefighters rushed toward the

blast seen to help. about 12 minutes before the bombings a surveillance camera mounted on this corner captured video of two men carrying backpacks. they were on the marathon route about two and a half blocks from where the first bomb went off. jurors saw that video today as well as pictures that the fbi says shows tsarnaev at the site. of the second bombing leaving just before the blast. among those killed a student from china, her close friend had to talk her into watching the marathon. severely wou tearfully recalled waking in the hospital and saying, tell the nurse and doctors and everyone to look for her. and a cancer nurse said marathon day was the last time she did anything on two legs. both she and her newlywed husband patrick lost their left legs in the bombings. last month doctors got permission to remove her other leg also badly injured. i felt like i was on a rocket. and when she saw her husband on

the ground, i thought he was going to bleed to death on the sidewalk. but dzhokhar tsarnaev barely an hour after running away from the bombing, the fbi says, was in a grocery store calmly buying milk. pete williams, nbc news, boston. there is other news now to your credit and a change that could give consumers a fighting chance when inaccurate information torpedos their credit rating. a poor credit score can sink your chances from everything to a car, home and job. fixing bad information can a journey through a bureaucratic maze. tonight, the biggest overhaul in a decade. nbc's tom costello explains. >> reporter: from car loans and credit card applications to rental agreements, home mortgages and employee background checks, our credit scores impact our personal finances every day. but what if our credit report is wrong? it happened to tom tupper whose credit score dropped nearly 50 points after his report stated he missed car payments on a car he'd already sold. >> they wouldn't tell me who i

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now to that amazing story out of utah where firefighters say they heard a voice calling to them to the remote scene of a car accident. inside the wreckage they found a baby who somehow survived for 14 hours after the car flipped over into a freezing river. but that voice that beckoned them to help rescuers still can't explain where it came from. nbc's miguel almaguer reports. >> there is one person in the vehicle. they don't appear to be moving. >> reporter: the call for help as a utah fisherman spots a car overturned just below the bridge. no sign of life in the mangled wreckage until rescuers heard the same voice. >> heard someone say help me inside that car. i think it was what everybody said, we're trying. we're trying our best. >> reporter: four first responders scrambled into the freezing water, flipping the car on its side. the driver, 25-year-old jennifer grossbeck died in the crash, but her 18-month-old daughter lily was somehow alive.

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