on this monday night, off and running. hillary clinton's road trip to iowa. fast food and pit stops. what's behind the low-key and marco rubio jumps in as well setting up a likely florida showdown with jeb bush. another controversial police shooting caught on camera. a suspect killed a 73-year-old reserve deputy now the parenting debate that has people taking sides. kids as young as 6 walking off unsupervised. their parents in trouble again. how young is too young to go it alone? and master class. the young american who just made history and the sister who inspires him to win. "nightly news" begins right now. from nbc news

world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening. they are off and running. late today, on the heels of hillary clinton's official entry into the presidential race yet another long-anticipated name joined t florida senator marco rubio addressing supporters just a short time ago in miami formally declaring his bid for the republican nomination. meantime, just over 24 hours under her twitter launched candidacy, hillary clinton has barely been seen, apparently by d only sightings of her posted online as she makes her way to iowa by car. yes, it's her on a security camera video at a fast food restaurant. this has started out at least as a very low-key campaign ki we're covering both campaign launches tonight. andrea mitchell starts us off in des moines, iowa. andrea, good evening. >> rep evening, lester. it's certainly an unconventional launch. her campaign for the presidency.

one of the best known women in america on her road trip here to iowa stopping at coffee shops like this one and trying to blhe for her first day on the road, this was the only evidence hillary clinton was campaigning. her tweeted picture from a gas station stop near altoona, pennsylvania. and pictures from chris lern, a college student who bumped into her. >> literally when i walked out the door i saw her and i was like, oh, that's her. i didn't even realize she'd be here. it was funny, though. >> reporter: this afternoon security camera video of her ordering a chicken bowl with guacamole at a chipotle outside tole tantalizing hints of a seemingly carefree jaunt from the clinton estate in chappaqua across key battleground states. more than a thousand miles to her first public event tomorrow carefully choreographed to re-introduce hillary clinton as the self-declared champion of everyday americans like those seen in. >> we've been doing a lot of home renovations.

>> but most importantly we just really want to teach our dog to qui the trash. >> reporter: trying to re-create the voting blocs of the winning combination from '08. women, latinos millennials. like this couple who said they had no idea the interview they did two months ago would be part of her campaign announcemen >> we were p shocked. i rushed home and by the time i got home my phone had already exploded. >> reporter: and a group with growi political clout-gays. >> we invited hillary clinton to come to o >> reporter: it did not mention her most recent job, secretary of state and questions she's sure to face about foreign policy failures like benghazi or more rece deleted e-mails. instead she's borrowing language from critics on the left like senator elizabeth warren about the economy. >> but the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top. so i'm hitting the road to earn. >> reporter: some iowa democrats still need to be convince >> i haven't made up

my min i want to see all the candidates and hear what they've g say before i make up my mind, but i'm really excited a her joininth >> i wou a woman in the white house. i am concerned about the clinton, bush, clinton, bush you know that there's just been so much talk of clinton >> reporter: and so she gets here tomorrow, she'll meet people in small groups trying to reconnect with the very voters the iowans who rejected her soundly, she came in third when she ran for the presidency last time around in iowa. lester? >> andrea mitchell by contrast republican senator marco rubio is making a very public entrance into the race. kelly o'donnell is i miami where rubio just made it official in front of a pumped-up hometown crowd. hi, kelly. >> reporter: hi, lester. candidates rarely make their announcements in the evening, but marco rubio did. he came here at the precise time of 6:03 p.m. to make sure that cable networks like the conservative home

of fox news would carry it live for a friendly audience and the location was also intentionally . the landmark, miami's freedom tower. the ellis island for cuban refugees who fled fidel castro's regime a generation ago. the legacy. a crowd of supporters who registered for tickets came to see a blue-collar son of cuban immigrants. >> you know, i think we need somebody who is real. i think that's so important. >> reporter: tonight senator marco rubio launched his run for the republican nomination appropriately in the place where his parents entered the country. >> i live in an exceptional country where the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege. >> reporter: earlier rubio stopped by to rehearse all smiles, but taking no saving his thunder for later. senator, you're the youngest candidate. are you prepared president, sir? at a local lunch spot florida voters told me they can relate to rubio.

he is a younger candidate compared to some. what does that mean to you? >> i think like i do. and have same views as i do. >> reporter: like the extra sugar heaped in cuban coffee, here rubio's heritage sweetens his appeal. what do you think rubio's biggest strength is? >> his background. his double culture. the united. >> reporter: rubio's quick political rise does include some awkward moments. pressure appeared to get the better of him with that water break delivering the gop state of the union and now more personally. rubio is challenging his own mentor, fell floridian jeb bush, who is also expected to r f and rubio is the third first-term senator to get into the race, but unlike ted cruz and rand paul, he's more establishment than tea party. and unlike rand paul his aides tell me that rubio will not seek

re-election to the senate while he's running for president. lester? i'm joined by chuck todd our political director and of "meet the press." let's talk about the timing of the rubio announcement in the wake of the clin announcement. does it he a contrast? >> well, look, it does. obviously, he would like t let's not pretend he wants to be overshadowed and have this split-screen mome however there's a way for him to make lemonade. he did it well in this speech. he's generation x, she's a baby boome by the way, marco rubio's chief primary opponent is jeb bush, another baby boomer. so he's able to make that point quite a bit, that he's abo. you talk to anybody, presidential campaigns are always about the future. this is something th clinton campaign is very worried about they're hoping her gender, the idea of electing the first woman president will do that. and lester, one othe note -- and this is why generation matters. five of the last six have been won by the younger candidate. voters instinctively respond to the future sometimes by going

with the younger candidate. >> we're going to see others jump very quickly, jeb bush among them? >> i think we're going to see a little bit of a lull here next couple of weeks, and then watch out for may. that's when you're going to see officially hillary clinton with her b speech and then everybody else like planes on a runway, ben carson, jeb bush, you name it. may will be a big announcement month. >> all right, chuck, than. senator rubio will appear live tomorrow morning on " now to the shocking video adding fuel to the firestorm over use of police force. it shows another incident in which law enforcement fatally shot an unarmed man. we learned late today charges will be brought in this case though the sheriff's office says it was an accident. >> i got you. i got you. >> reporter: police video of a sting operation in oklahoma. the suspect bolts from undercover agents with the tulsa county sheriff's office and is chased. a scuffle is picked up by a police body cam. according to police, one deputy says,

taser. >> roll on your stomach. now. >> reporter: but then 44-year-old eric harris, who authorities say had an extensive criminal record, is not tased but shot. immediately a voice is heard. >> i shot him. i'm sorry. >> reporter: officers then subdue harris. one kneels on his head. >> i'm losing my breath. >> reporter: the man who pulled the trigger is 73-year-old bob bates, an insurance broker who volunteers as a reserve deputy. the sheriff's office says he mistakenly pulled his handgun instead of his taser and fired. harris died later. >> he believed he had a less lethal device in his hand and he was going to administer a less lethal taser probe when in re he had a firearm in his hand. >> reporter: the sheriff's office says reserve deputies are members of the public, doctors, bankers, even retired police officers who receive varying degrees of training. bates donated

thousands of dollars in equipment, and the authorities say his role in this operation was in a. >> if he had as much training as he supposedly had, he would definitely know a .357 from a taser. >> reporter: while a sheriff's office investigation recommended bates not be charged, late today the tulsa county district attorney did charge him with second degree manslaughter. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. the images from that tulsa shooting emerge less than a week after the country saw video of an officer in south carolina fatally shooting an unarmed man running away from him. tonight more dash cam video is filling in gaps about what that officer did in the aftermath. nbc's gabe gutierrez has that for us. >> reporter: just minutes after officer michael slager shot and killed walter scott, we hear his voice on his dash cam video speaking to an

>> when you get home, probably be a good idea to kind of jot down your thoughts or what happened. >> okay. >> you know, once your adrenaline quits pumping. >> it's pumping. >> oh, yeah, oh, yeah. >> reporter: then slager is heard speaking with someone else on the phone. >> hey, everythi okay. okay? i just shot somebody. >> reporter: now, there are calls to charge other officers on the scene who claimed in written accounts they rendered first aid, including cpr. >> thank god for video because what we see is is that there was a very different encounter that actually hap >> i haven't seen all of the videos yet, but i know that the one officer did try to prevent the bleeding. >> reporter: also today a second man came forward to claim slager used excessive force. julius wilson, seen here in this dash cam video says slager tasered him in 2014 even though other officers had alr how painful was it?

>> excruciating. >> reporter: last week mario gibbons said he was planning to sue claiming slager used excessive force by tasering him the. slager now charged with murder has not yet entered a plea his new attorney is declining to comment. the state investigation into the walter scott shooting is expected to last at least until next week. some residents here praised city officials for charging the officer within days but right behind me others just finished protesting calling for change lester? >> gabe gutierrez, thank you. four americans received lengthy prison sentences today for an infamous incident during the iraq war. all four are former blackwater security contractors convicted for the killings of 14 unarmed iraqis including women and children in baghdad in 2007. nicholas slatten was sentenced to life in prison. he was the only one the other three each got 30 years in prison. spring means

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finally tonight, it was one of the best performances in golf history as millions tuned in the masters yesterday and witnessed something of a changing of the guard. a young texan shattering the record books on his way to a triumphant victory. nbc's stephanie gosk takes a look at the driving force behind his will to win. >> reporter: jordan spieth says he didn't sleep well the night before the final round of the masters. up early, waiting all day to tee off, the nerves had a chance to build. and then he drilled it right down the middle. leading to one of his record breaking 28 birdies for the tournament. watching anyone win at augusta national is exciting. watching a 21-year-old win is special. tiger woods in 1997 was younger but only just. at 21, you're not supposed to be this poised, this gracious, this good. >> just how are you feeling right now? >> yeah, i don't really know.

it's incredible. it's one of the best feelings. >> reporter: spieth grew up in texas with golf clubs in his hands and a philos from his father -- set goals and achieve them early. when he walked off 18, family and friends were there to share the moment. a beaming grandfather in the stands, hugs from his parents and a kiss from his girlfriend, a high school s his younger sister ellie who was born with a neurological disorder couldn' there. >> after each round she said, jordan, did you win? did you win? i can tell her i won now. >> reporter: being her older brother, the golfer writes on website, humbled me every day. >> i'm a professional golfer, but what i do on the course i want to be secondary to what i do off th course. >> reporter: that humility has won over the competition. >> he's just a qua individual. i think it's hard not to like, hard not to pull for the guy. >> reporter: fair to say the gentleman's game not only has another champion, it has another gentleman. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. and that will do it for us on this

monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night.

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