. >> from nbc news would headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening on this memorial day. i'm cynthia mcfadden in for brian williams. >>> topping the news, the horrific massacre in santa barbara. ten minutes is all it took for a single gunman to take the lives of seven, including himself. as we learn more about those killed, a painful question, could something have been done to prevent the slaughter? mike taibbi has the latest. >> reporter: there were a number of red flags over the past year that elliot rodger was headed to trouble and might take others with him but none of the clues were clear enough to legally stop him. now an entire community is in mourning. a mother and father embraced in their doorway today in anguish and tears. >> i ask god why he don't take me instead of my son. >> reporter: their son was among the first victims of the rampage leaving the wang's to prepare for the saddest trip any parents could make and leaving a community in mourning. it was a long-planned outburst alleged killer, elliott roger. in a matter of min

and more from brian williams' interview with edward snowden. maya angelou, her life and her work. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm. [bell ring] "roll sound!" "action!" i missed you, too.ou. hi buddy. mom! awesome! dad!! i missed you. ♪ oh... daddy. chevrolet and its dealers proudly support military appreciation month. with the industry's best military purchase program, for all that have served. >>> there are many a patriot, you can go back to the pentagon papers with dan elseburg and others, who stood and went to the court system of america and made their case. edward snowden is a coward. he is a traitor. and he has betrayed his country. and if he wants to come home tomorrow to face the music, he can do so. >> and that was, of course, john kerry on chuck todd's show reacting to edward snowden, which aired earlier, part of it aired earlier on "today." and on "morning joe." brian williams' exclusive interview wi

i'm brian williams.ne last reminder, we're back on the air tonight live at 10:00/9:00 central for our exclusive conversation with snowden, and, of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> rig now at 6:00, the race to lead the bay area's biggest city and the big money going into that fight. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm rauj mathai. it's not politics but money. that's what political analysts are saying as we head to the final push to next tuesday's primary election. there are five candidates. damian trujillo joins us at city hall which is a familiar spot for four of these five candidates. >> reporter: it's only $1 million for the primary election and another million for the main election in november. these candidates here at the city hall have six days to convince voters they should be the next mayor. the signs are everywhere in san jose as a crowded field of candidates enter the last leg of th

his interview with brian williams. >> not just officially, in writing through e-mail, to these officesnd these individuals, but to my supervisors, to my colleagues, in more than one office. >> under pressure the nsa after a year released one e-mail, the sole e-mail it found from snowden to nsa lawyers but snowden has fired back about that release telling the "washington post" today the picture painted by the nsa is incomplete. i'm joined now by jerry mabash

. >> be sure to tune in tonight for brian williams' exclusive interview with edward snowden. the primetime special airs at 10:00 p.m. eastern. we'll have much more on that tomorrow, of course, right here on "andrea mitchell reports." and we'll be right back. 

i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> "nbc bay area news" starts now. >> right now at 6:00, hot during the day and hot this evening. record breaking temperatures. we'll tell you how long this heat wave will last. good evening. thanks for being with us. i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. it's not even may and we're seeing our first burst of hot weather. record-setting heat. a rare sight when you see san jose toastier than miami or even houston there. and probably a lot of this across san jose. kids trying to keep cool any way they could. that means the fountains downtown. marianne favreau shows us how hard it's been to stay nice and cool. we begin with chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. so far, hottest day of the year. >> most certainly. some of the hottest weather you'll see here in more than a year. we're updating them moment by moment. so far the hottest temperature today in the south bay. cupertino, 98 degrees. palo alto, 95. and a thing of note about this hour, those dry northerly and slightly out

good job. >>> brian williams was delivering the commencement address at a high school. he offered words of advice to hill high and went on to mention his most recent project. >> you'll need grit. you'll need character. a lot of good educators have worked really hard for four years to make sure character is part of your learning here. exactly 32 hours ago there was a knock on my hotel room door in moscow. i opened the door and in front of me stood the instantly recognizable, most-wanted man in the world today edward snowden. >> and you can see brian williams' exclusive interview with edward snowden wednesday night at 9:00/10:00 eastern on nbc. >>> president obama did something no other president had ever done. plus a good old fashioned duel. scrambled politics is next. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase like 60,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i ea 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to

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brian williams sitting down with the nsa leaker in moscow where he is currently living in asylum. williams saying snowden came armed with talking points ready to tell a story. no questions were off limits. >> to your knowledge, there is nothing in what you have handed over to the journalists materially damaging or threatening to the military or national security? >> there's nothing that would be published that would harm the public interest. these are programs that need to be understood, that need to be known, that require deep background and context for research that are difficult to report, but they're of critical public importance. >> in your mind, though, are you blameless? have you done, as you look at this, just a good thing? have you performed, as you see it, a public service? >> i think it can be both. i think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout american history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. i think it's important to remember that people don't set their lives on fire. they don't say good-bye to their families,

we'll fact check his most provocative statements from brian williams exclusive interview as the man who now faces spy charges defends his actions. >> i may have lost my ability to travel. but i've gained the ability to go to sleep at night and put my head on the pillow and feel comfortable that i've done the right thing, even when it was the hard thing. and i'm comfortable with that. >> system failure, a report of widespread misconduct to hide long delays for veterans ats va hospitals across the country, leading to a bipartisan call now for eric shinseki to fall on his sword. >> it's time for secretary shinseki to step down. and if secretary shinseki does not step down voluntarily, then i call on the president of the united states to relief him of his duties, to fire him. >> collision course, today's white house summit tackles the growing risks of head injuries in young athletes, a serious concern that hits close to home for all parents, including president obama. >> sports are important to our life as a family, jst like they are for families all across the country. the reason we're her

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. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," brian williams' exclusive interview with edward snowden. why snowden said he considers himself a patriot, not a traitor, and why secretary kerry says he should come back to the u.s. and prove it once and for all. >>> then we're going to huddle around the water cooler. why one direction's controversial video may put their american tour in jeopardy. jen, have you heard about this? their american tour could be in jeopardy! unless they go to colorado. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase like 60,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. and i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at office supply stores. with ink plus i can choose how to redeem my points. travel, gift cards even cash back. and my rewards points won't expire. so you can make owning business even more rewarding. ink from chase. so you can. he was a matted messiley in a small cage. ng day. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without

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in an exclusive interview with nbc's brian williams, the computer specialist and self-proclaimed american spy challenged the u.s. government to prove his actions put the country at risk. the hour-long conversation was held in moscow where the 29-year-old is living under temporary asylum. snowden described the nsa's surveillance tools, claiming analysts can watch americans as they draft e-mails, essentially monitoring their thoughts while the former contractor claimed some government programs are useful, he says others are downright dangerous and therefore needed to be exposed. >> in your mind, though, are you blameless? have you done, as you look at this, just a good thing? have you performed, as you see it, a public service? >> i think it can be both. i think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout american history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. sometimes to do the right thing, you have to break a law. >> from north carolina and while i, after this interview, am free to fly back to the united states, you can't. does that hurt yo

>> well, first of all, it was a really fine job by nbc and brian williams. and it was very revealing. but i don't think that it will probably persuade anybody on either side. i think that coming out of it, people are going to either still think of him as a traitor or a hero. what was interesting was the comment by secretary of state john kerry which was that he should man up and come home. and i suspect the response would be that maybe the administration should man up and let the american people, know how much they're being spied upon. >> isn't the american people, those who are perhaps on the fence here, bob, when you listen to the interview, though, very calm, very well collected in his thoughts. you have to wonder whether he perhaps got more supporters after that interview. >> well, i doubt it. i just think that this is the kind of thing where people have pretty much hardened their opinions. while it was very revealing, i don't think he said anything that was really a surprise. what i think was the value of that interview, and it was particularly a tribut

we'll find out in a primetime special this week how aggressive brian williams is with snowden. >> a good for williams, good for greenwald would has a book, and no matter what you think about him, whether or not you think he's a hero or traitor, we'll get interesting information out of it which is a win for the american people. >> i'm sure brian williams will ask a lot of questions but that will be critiqued as well and we'll talk about it next wire. that's it for "media buzz" this week and i want to take a minute to thank all the veterans out there who have given their service to our country and how much we appreciate it on this memorial day weekend. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. hope you go to our facebook page and home page, >> it's monday may 26th vpt after the president returns from a surprise trip to afghanistan we are live in washington with how the country plans to honor our nation's heros on this memorial day. >> brand new revelations about the weekend college campus shooting rampage. the cops are calling the work of a mad men.

has brian williams ever done that to obama? brian williams basically stands in front of bush and calls him a racist on the street. that's who brian williams is. >> thanks for being with us tonight. >>> there is more breaking news tonight in a couple of big stories. new e-mails surfacing in the irs investigation and the name of a top democratic senator is all over these e-mails. we'll have that story for you right after this break. >>> plus this. >> i'm here to tell you that my dead veteran husband cannot be much more patient than he is today, but me, i'm mad. >> with the scandal over medical care for our vets getting worse, angry families are speaking out. we'll show you how the white house is getting ready for a hearing tomorrow that could get very ugly for this administration. >>> plus, it may be the most watched video in america today, just ahead, the full story behind the courageous kitty that may have literally saved a life may have literally saved a life of a young boy. [ female announcer ] there's a gap out there. that's

snowden sat down with brian williams with his first interview on american television. he insists he is a patriot and tried to work within the system. the former nsa contractor said he complained repeatedly to supervisors before refleeing the country and leaking details about the government's spying programs. he says he wants to come back to the united states, but is still proud of what he did. >> i may have lost my ability to travel. but i've gained the ability to go to sleep at night and put my head on the pillow and feel comfortable that i've done the right thing. even when it was the hard thing. and i'm comfortable with that. >> the obama administration says clemency or simply dropping the charges is not an option. >>> rapper snoop line, joe montana and other big-name celebrities will host a benefit part of snoop's no gun allowed campaign. the events will start with a discussion about the importance of gun violence solution followed by an auction of snoop's paintings and other belongings. benefit the no-gun allowed initiative and the snoop youth football league. inc

i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening.ght. >> i feel violated. i just feel exposed. hurt. helpless. >> an nbc bay area teacher humiliated. why she's putting the blame on her students who say the game went too far. >> a well-known private school on the pe nirns ninsula is unde tonight. the head of sarah high school in san mateo admits some students were taking video of teachers up their skirts. nbc bay area joins us this evening with the exclusive details. jodi? >> reporter: it is a scandal that has rocked everyone here. the school says some students used dhar ed their cell phones some serious damage. while it all came to light last year, tonight, one victim is speaking out and firing back. >> i feel violated. i just feel exz posed. hurt. helpless. >> reporter: that's how high school biology teacher kimberly bonnert says she's been left to feel after learning that some students at san mateo's all boys' catholic school violated her private by taking up skirt cell phone videos of her private

i'm brian williams, we, of course, hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. we leave you tonight with a look at arlington national cemetery, which parked the anniversary of the first burial there. today they laid a wreath on the grounds. those sacred grounds. good night. . >>> nbc bay area news begins with a weather alert. >>> right now at 6:00, you can't see it, but if you were out in it, you sure could feel it. the temperature in san jose at this hour, still 95 degrees. and then look live here in san francisco where there's little relief, even in the city tonight. temperatures there in the 90s. a warm ending to a very hot day. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. a live look in san jose where cyclists are competing in the annual tour of california, they started in san jose and trek uphill to mt. diablo. the spectators are also braving the elements. if you spent the day in san francisco you just couldn't escape the heat. we have coverage on our alert. but we get started with jeff ranieri who's talking about the

i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you back here on monday night.hing all the moms out there a happy mother's day and we wish you a good weekend. good night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> what that teaches our kids is that you have to lie about who you are in this world in order to keep your job. >> right now at 6:00, parents wondering tonight if a bay area catholic diocese is teaching a lesson in intolerance. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm jessica adwe dweeguirraguir. >> the deadline is today to sign a reality clause, morality behavior in and out of the classroom. this is a delicate topic. what's the church's response? >> reporter: the church says that it's a broad definition in the actual contract and that they don't go into details for a specific reason. they just didn't want to. they were only trying to update the contract from 2013. but parents we talked to say it's taking it way too far. one parent told us she is going to take her jewish daughter out of the catholic church entirely if teachers start being punished for thei

i'm brian williams, lester holt will be here with you this weekend.hope to see you right back here on monday night. and in the meantime, please have a good weekend. good night. >>> nbc bay area news beginning with breaking news. >>> that breaking news is in santa clara county where firefighters are battling a brush fire. >> i'm raj mathai. this video just in to the newsroom from this fire west of gilroy and morgan hill. this is on the border of santa cruz and santa clara county. crews have this under control, about 7 acres have burned. containment at about 75%. no homes down there in this rugged terrain, but there is some kind of greenhouse. that greenhouse, though, saved from the flames. >>> well, it's not one anybody wants to see, fires like the one you just saw. a firebug is taunting firefighters with a string of suspicious fires in not just one but two bay area cities. novato has seen suspicious fires and walnut creek has seen suspicious fires. firefighters are looking at how and where those fires broke out in both of those cities. mark, not one b

we will find out how aggressive brian williams is. >> good for williams and greenwald and no matter what of him, whether he is a traitor or a hero he is a fugitive and we will get some interesting information, a win for the american people. >> i am sure he will ask a lot questions and it will be critiqued. we will probably talk about it next week harassment is it for "media buzz." i want to thank all of the veterans out there who have given their service to our country and how much we appreciate it on this memorial day week. we are back here next sunday morning, 11 and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest. hope you go to our facebook and home page. thanks for watching. >> u am chris wallace. chilling internet video and a new crime scene in the california shooting rampage. >> it is apparent he was severely mentally disturbed. >> son of a hollywood director, whose familiar alerted police to threat being videos he posted online. we will go to santa barbara where authorities are gathering evidence. >> frustration open right and left with rebound's response to the v.a. scandal. >> notallies prov

i'm brian williams, lester holt will be here with you this weekend. have a good weekend. good night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> right now at 6:00, it's get away day, but take a look at this backup of the bay bridge. people heading into the city right now. no one seems to be getting anywhere quickly. good evening. thanks for joining us. >> jess and raj are off tonight. happening now, the memorial day weekend is here, and that means, as we've seen, crowded roads where the commute is at a crawl in many places. on the left is interstate 80 in emeryville. that's stop and go, mainly stop. and there's a highway closure near at&t park. gerard moncure has a preview of tonight's giants game and jeff ranieri has the forecast. jodi hernandez is in the heart of the gridlock. >> reporter: there's a lot of sitting around going on in the city tonight. take a look at this long line of traffic along sixth straight at brannen. this is where one of the entrances to southbound 280 has been closed. and you can see that folks are re-routing traffic. and with the giants game-set to st

i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening.ood night. >>> right now at 6:00, you see the dramatic pictures here, a major fire marching through dry brush and devouring everything in its path. thousands of people have been evacuated, many homes already burned. >> i'm jessica aguirre. we begin with that breaking news. a third day of sweltering heat and a send day of wildfires in san diego county. firefighters are stretched thin struggling to put out six wildfires that have popped up just since last night. and bay area firefighters are on their way to help san diego out. the worst of the fires is the point see etta fire. we're covering the record heat and its impact for you. nbc bay area's chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is tracking the temperatures. but we again live in carlsbad on those fire lines. >> reporter: i have to tell you, within the last half hour, things have gone from bad to worse. two more fires have kicked up. another fire here in carlsbad appears to have reignited. we just saw fire engines race by us. and i want to

nbc's brian williams met with him last week in moscow. in the following exsermt -- excerpt from the interview, snowden touches on something he's never spoken of before on camera, about what he did for the government and how he describes his job, his training and his career right up until he put an end to it. >> were you trained as a spy? it seems to me spies probably look a lot more like ed snowden and a lot less like james bond these days. >> well, it's no secret that the u.s. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people. i was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the word in that i lived and worked under cover, overseas, pretending to work in a job that i'm not and even being assigned a name that was not mine. but i am a technical specialist. i am a technical expert. i don't work with people. i don't recruit agents. what i do is i put systems to work for the united states. and i've done that at all levels from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top. now, the gove

. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the federal government today opened a new front in a war that's been going on for sometime, but for the first time ever, the united states is filing criminal charges against the chinese. specifically, five members of the chinese military for electronic spying, hacking into the computers of some of the largest american companies and flat out stealing trade secrets. the first time the u.s. has done this, filed economic espionage charges against officials of a foreign government. it's where we begin tonight with pete williams. >> reporter: the top federal prosecutor in pittsburgh says chinese hacking into u.s. steals computers played a role in the company's decision to cut 140 jobs after the chinese flooded the market with cheaper steel pipe. >> cyber theft impacts real people in real and painful ways, but the life blood of any organization is the people that work, sweat and strive for it. >> reporter: the justice department filed the first ever foreign government for stea

i'm brian williams. we will look for you back home in new york tomorrow evening. good night from nashville. >> goods evening, thanks for being with us. chilling video. tonight, many people are questioning why police had to shoot at all the. outside of salinas police department, police commanders spoke about the case. damien, just last night, we saw protests in the streets. >> yeah, and there's fear that it might get worse. one city councilman and the national group lulac have asked the department of justice to invei investigate. that ball is now rolling. if kmucommunity here says sometg has to change. >> these are the moments that the salinas police officer repeatedly fires on a man with garden sheers. >> the compelling part of this video, particularly in the upper part of the television screen, is where he's swinging them around and back and forth. >> but if locals aren't buying it. >> reporter: things had escalated last night during a community protest. one officer was hit over the head with a bottle. >> we have to rebuild this strus immediately.

he spoke with brian williams about privacy and technology.ou can watch the interview at 10:00 tonight. the interception of privacy and technology is a big story. our business and tech reporter scott budman joins us with a preview. >> good evening, janell. just about every day our personal information is asked and every day we give that up willingly. so just how worried should we be? it's perhaps fitting that on the same day edward snowden decides to speak to a tv network -- >> and this is -- >> reporter: technology giant samsung introduces its latest product. a smart watch that can track your private health data. >> it's no secret that the u.s. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers than they do out of people. >> reporter: but with no many computers that are now the sizes of watches, should we be concerned? even samsung itself said yes. >> security of your data is really critical. i think we already are worried about our data that has been shared. >> we're always protecting it the way we want to yet? no. >> that's michelle

i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >> announcer: nbc bay area news starts now. >> right now, a call to action across the world for immigration reform on this may day. a live look right now at san jose city hall where thousands of marchers have just arrived. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. >> may day rallies across the country like this one in oakl d oakland. this is happening as we speak. they're heading to wards the fruit vail bart station. tonight, no different. thousands of people marching through the streets of downtown san jose. among the primary issues here, workers' rights and immigration reform. >> here at our lady of gaud lieu pay church, it's one reason why dozens of people gathered in front of the church this morning demanding immigration reform. >> primarily, we need to stop the deportations. they'revf happening right now a the rate of 1200 people a day. it's an immoral act of aggression against a culture, against a people. >> nobody is more passionate than 12-year-old jose gonzalez.

i'm brian williams. we, of course, hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> right now at 6:00, from movie directors and tech leaders, president obama touches down for a swing through california. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> today it's los angeles. tomorrow it's the silicon valley. one of the events on his agenda happening right now at the usc campus. he's expected to attend a gala hosted by steven spielberg. air force one landed about an hour ago. we'll be seeing this plane tomorrow afternoon at moffitt field. it's a busy schedule of events for mr. obama cheryl hurd is on our presidential detail. she joins us from the walmart where he will be speaking on thursday. >> reporter: it is no coincidence that people are running around sprucing up this walmart store. it's not every day the president drops by your store. for some, this visit is a little surprising. on friday, president obama will come to this walmart store in mountain view to talk about the importance of energy effic

i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> nbc is live outside where a meet and greet with the president goes anywhere from a thousand dollars to $32,000, mary anne? >> yes, but the people i talked to say that they believe it is worth that cost to meet the president of the united states. security is tight here in fropt of the fairmount right now. you can see that a group of about 40 protesters have gathered here in front. they are talking about issues ranging from drones to climate change to workers' rights. inside the hotel, about 250 people where already inside waiting to meet the president at a dnc fundraiser. in downtown, san jose, not business as usual as the city prepares to host obama.

i'm brian williams. we of course hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening.ood night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. ♪ ♪ sound of silence >>> right now at 6:00, an emotional tribute at uc santa barbara. thousands of students and families and community members are gathered on campus. >> i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. >> it is bigger than the eye is vista community. >> not one more! >> this video just came in from the memorial with the father of one of the victims. he led a chant with the crowd -- not one more, after bitterly asking how many more people have to die before there is reform. many more are mourning the victims, including those three students from the bay area. nbc bay area's kris sanchez shows us what is going done here locally to honor the students. but we begin with mark matthews. so emotional. >> reporter: it was, jessica. they heard from janet na paul tau know. but it was the father of christopher martinez, the young man gunned down at an isla vista deli, it was him, the father, that galvanized this stadium crowd. >> you will li

brian williams sat down exclusively with the nsa leaker in moscow, russia, where he's living in asylum. williams says snowden came armed with talking points, ready to tell his story. no question it was off limits. >> to your knowledge, there is nothing in what you handed over to the journalists materially damaging or threatening to the military or national security? >> no. there's nothing that would be published that would then harm the public interests. these are programs that need to be understood, that need to be known, that require deep background and context for research. they're difficult to report, but they're critical public importance. >> in your mind, though, are you blameless? have you gone, as you look at this just a good thing? have you performed, as you see it, a public service? >> i think it can be both. i think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout american history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. i think it is important to remember that people don't set their lives on fire. they don't say good-bye to their fam

i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening.ood night. >>> nbc bay area news begins with breaking news. >>> that breaking news, an investigation unfolding in south san jose after two bodies are discovered inside a home. good evening, and thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. two bodies, one home and a lot of questions at this hour from police and neighbors. this is off highway 85 at the corner of marlene court and cherry view lane. kris sanchez is in that neighborhood. we know the victims knew each other. what else do we know? >> reporter: police told us they found that out just a few minutes ago but we don't know how they knew each other. we can say they died of gunshot wounds. they were each shot at least one time. and right now it appears that they were both grown men. neighbors tell us that they heard some sort of ruckus last night. they heard something that sounded like fireworks. and then this afternoon a 14 year old girl returned home and heard a woman screaming "there are two bodies inside th

i'm brian williams. lester holt will be here with you this weekend. we hope to see you back here on monday night. in the meantime have a great weekend. good night. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> right now at 6:00, fremont police say you're looking at a thief helping herself to a package outside someone's front door in the middle of the day. city leaders have a pricey new way to catch her and others like her. >> the person who took that package likely doesn't live in fremont. that's why police want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new high-tech system to nab this suspect and others. we take a look at the crime fighting proposal. >> steve says he was shocked when he watched this video shot by his own surveillance camera outside his fremont house. it shows a woman carrying mail, she puts it down and picks up the package left on his doorstep. she calmly walks off with the box. >> i just felt violated that someone would actually come and take my things. >> reporter: it all happened around 3:45 yesterday afternoon. his next door neighbo

nbc's brian williams met with him in moscow. snowden has spoken about what he's never talked about before for government. right up until he put an end to it. >> were you trained as a spy? it seems to me spies probably look a lot more like ed snowden and a lot less like james bond these days? >> well, it's no secret that the u.s. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people. i was trained as a spy in sort of a traditional sense of the world in that i lived and worked under cover, overseas, pretending to work in a job that i'm not. and even being assigned a name that was not mine. but i am a technical specialist, i am a technical expert. i don't work with people. i don't recruit agents. what i do is i put systems to work for the united states. and i've done that at all levels from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top. now, the government might deny these things. they might frame it in certain ways and say he's a low-level analyst but what they're trying to do is they're

in an exclusive interview with nbc's brian williams, snowden describes him as a spy.hedding new light on work he did for some of nsa's secrets. >> were you trained as a spy? it seems to me spies probably look a lot more like ed snowden and a lot less like james bond these days. >> well, it's no secret that the u.s. intends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out 0 of people. i was trained as a spy in sort of the traditional sense of the world in that i lived and worked undercover, overseas, pretending to work in a job that i'm not. and even being assigned a name that was not mine. but i am a technical specialist. i'm a technical expert. i don't work with people. i don't recruit agents. what i do is i put systems to work for the united states. >> he talks about covert operations that he performed for the nsa, for the cia. you can see more of interview tonight on "nightly news." and also on the special that we air at 10:00 p.m. no one lets you know about edward snowden. does this new interview change anything about how you feel, wh

he was interviewed by nbc's brian williams. the 30 year old is responsible for leaks in intelligence. what he says he actually did for the government his training and his job. he was trained as a spy of sorts and was assigned a name that wasn't his. >> i am a technical expert i don't work with people. i don't recruit agents. i put systems to work for the united states. and i have done that at all levels from the bottom all the way to the top. the government might deny these things and frame it and say well he's a low-level analyst. >> he says it is misleading to call him a low level analyst. experts say he over inflated his position and that he was able to gain access to. reporting live today in the bay. >> thank you. the entire snowden interview will air during a one hourlong prime time special. >> in a show of soldarity there will be a candlelight vigil at 8:00 tonight. he went onto kill three more people before killing himself. the father of one of the victims seds it is time for change. >> not one more. not one more! >> we

brian williams joins us next. >> good night. >>> on our broadcast here tonight, under fire, the secretary of veterans affairs responds to the outrage this evening and the demands that he resign over allegations that vets have died because of substandard medical care. >>> new attacks by the terrorist that kidnapped those teenaged girls in nigeria as worldwide condemnation grows. >>> a question of excessive force, citizens rise up in an american city where the police department is suspected of killing civilians at an alarming rate. >>> and high anxiety. if you can stand it, 94 stories above chicago, a new way to lean out over the city of big shoulders. "nightly news" begins now. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams.

i miss the work. >> edward snowden with brian williams, joining me now, chuck todd, nbc justice correspondent pete williams, and msnbc national security analyst michael leiter. pete, first to you, he's clearly saying i want to come home, negotiate with me, make me a deal. what kind of deal if anything would eric holder and the justice department be willing to offer to edward snowden? >> well, they made it pretty clear that what snowden really wants, come home, all is forgiven, clem enltcy is not going to happen. so what really is the question here is, does he have enough to offer the government in exchange for some kind of reduced sentence? the three statutes he's charged with carry a maximum each of ten years in prison. not clear whether the sentences would be concurrent or consecutive but he could be facing that at the minimum, five or ten years in prison. the question is what he'll say, i can give a full accounting of what i did but doesn't retain the documents himself. and often times in these cases if somebody can give the documents back, that helps. he turned them over to journalists an

snowden sat down with brian williams in moscow. stole secrets from the nsa and released them to the media. william showed snowden the cell phone and what can intelligence agencies do with information connected on that phone? >> any intelligence service in the world that has significant funding and a real technological research team can own that phone the minute it connect to your network. the minute you turn it on it can be theirs. they can turn it into a microphone and take pictures off of it. it's important to understand that these things are typically done on a targeted basis. >> snowden also talked about his life in russia and if he has a relationship with vladimir putin. we'll have that coming up in our next half hour. continuing coverage throughout our newscast including a live report from washington, d.c., about the one place he would want to go to if he could. we also have coverage on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> travelers across the bay area and the state are worried they will lose out on their next trip. cox and kings

in an exclusive interview with brian williams, snowden says, not so much. >> i was trained as a spy, in sort of the traditional sense of the word, in that i lived and worked undercover, overseas, pretending to work in a job that i'm not, and even being assigned a name that was not mine. now, the government might deny these things, they might frame it in certain ways and say, he's a low-level analyst, but what they're trying to do is they're trying to use one position that i've had in a career here, or there, to distract from the totality of my experience. >> he did go by the nam da gur the true who ha about gaming and anime. that's a true story. but what he's talking about is a lecture for the intelligence agency at the counterintelligence training academy. maybe he'd care for it to be a little less so. he's living in secrecy in russia after being charged under the espionage act. tell us, mr. snowden, why russia? >> the reality is, i never intended to end up in russia. i had a flight booked to cuba, onwards to latin america. and i was stopped because the united states government deci

. >> speaking of snowden, ahead of brian williams' interview with edward snowden on nbc news tonight.interview on snowden's decision to stay in russia. >> personally i'm surprised that i ended up here. the reality is i never intended to end up in russia. i had a flight booked to cuba, onwards to latin america. and i was stopped because the united states government decided to revoke my passport and trap me in moscow airport. so when people ask why are you in russia, i say, please, ask the state department. >> remember that whole interview with edward snowden tonight on "nbc nightly news with brian williams." and again in primetime. imagine his argument saying that most data that is private remains private. >> it's interesting that edward snowden is still being cast in sort of a heroic light, despite at what we saw at south by southwest. where a lot of people felt his appearance there was totally wrong. there's a lot of appreciation, from tech ceos, that at least we know this is going on now. very interesting that he has those comments right ahead of brian williams' interview, we're hea

s brian williams in moscow it was known as first u.s. television appearance here he is telling williams how capable any well funded intelligence agency is at tapping into cell phones. the suit you turn it on it can be there they can turn it into a microphone they can take pictures from it they can take the data off of it but it's important to understand that these things are typically done on a targeted basis right it's only done when people go this phone is suspicious. but of course the government's definition of suspicion is open to interpretation to discuss last night's interview i was joined earlier by norman solomon executive director of the institute for public accuracy the attorney bruce fein and also just one rate actor director of national security and human rights at the government accountability project i started out by asking norman what was the one thing that stood out to him in this interview. oh i think that edward snowden made very clear and underscored his independence he has the kind of integrity. is extraordinarily his

he made that clear to brian williams and the question is will he get it?e questions or the conditions of the deal as it's been reported, the administration or sources have said if he comes back they will work out a deal of some sort, but that would mean he has to return with no assurances. >> that's right. one of the clips that you played there was edward snowden talking about civil disobedience and that was something we've seen in the country's history and whether it's martin luther king, jr., or foreign affairs where people like nelson mandela. those people in the civil disobedience was seen by history as being the right call and those people still were in prison and there are many people who were out there saying that edward snowden is in russia and if he wasn't in russia he would have rather have been in venezuela or cuba and to some people that remains a problem for them. >> mark murray, thank you very much. >> may is national foster care month and dozens of young people from across the country are on capitol hill today to try out congress and improve