cynthia mcfadden has details. >> reports circulating that fox news chairman and ceo roger ailes is on his way out. this in the wake of a highly publicized claim of sexual harassment by former gretchen carlson who says ailes fired her in june after she rebuffed his advances. ailes denies. with revenues last year of more than $1 billion. >> ailes is fox news. there's not a detail of fox news that ailes does not have his fingers on. he is the person who is most central to his organization and the product it produces. >> ailes' rise included working as a media consultant with richard nixon and george h. bush. but he solidified his reputation as a king maker working closely with the executive chairman of 21st century fox. >> it has always been a very good relationship. roger ailesro thing that rupert murdock likes the most and really can't do without which is money, an enormous amount of money. >> reporter: a year ago murdoch put his son in charge of fox news, a source of direct knowledge told nbc news the brothers wanted ailes out even back then. the drudge report posted a document that p

we get more tonight from cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: tonight, a nation united in pain but divided, too, as people gather around the country rallying against violence. while the violence continues. this morning in georgia, a police officer ambushed and shot responding to a 9/11 call. in baldwin, missouri, an officer shot during a traffic stop. yesterday afternoon in tennessee, authorities say a gunman upset about police violence against african-americans killed one woman and shot three others including a police officer. the new york tabloids highlights the country's division. "madness," "civil war." in washington congressman john lewis pleaded for unity. >> we must learn to live together as brothers and sisters. if not, we will perish as fools. >> reporter: then what words could not accomplish -- a moment of silence in congress. tonight, police departments around the country on heightened alert. officers ordered to double up before going out in many cities including philadelphia, boston, seattle and chicago. the always-delicate balance between protecting the community and protecting

our cynthia mcfadden went to one such battleground, ohio to see how voters there are leaning. >> i've been a life long democrat and i'm done. >> do you believe her lies? >> they have forgot the white middle class. >> reporter: they're the voices that could help decide this election. >> i don't trust either one of them. >> reporter: we came to youngstown, ohio a traditionally democratic town to see how voters in the heart of the rust belt reacted to the conventions in cleveland and philadelphia. >> do you think the democratic party has left you? >> reporter: like many of his listeners, ron verb has been a loyal democrat all his life. but after 30 years on the radio here, he's supporting his first republican, donald trump. >> the problem is we have lost too many good jobs. >> reporter: not everyone in town agrees, we ran into one of his listeners on the sidewalk. >> on the democratic party, i think i have a chance, i really do. it seems like when trump gets in, he's going to say this is the way it's going to be and that's it. >> do you know what that's called? leadership. >> that's call

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, philadelphia. >>> we're back in a moment with some final thoughts from the dnc in philadelphia. >> is there a second? . next at 6: hillary clinton makes history. ===janelle/vo=== how she's helping inspire a local group to get more women involved with politics. ===raj/vo=== plus ..is a free trial offer -- really free? nbc bay area responds and quickly resolves the issue with "google express." ===raj/close=== next. ==janelle//take vo== >>> finally, in the emotional and supercharged atmosphere of this election season, it's not easy to set aside politics and our likes and d dislikes, but if you can, take a moment to consider it's been less than a century since women in this country were given the right to vote. and tonight a major political party has nominated a woman for president. history has unfolded here tonight. whether you support or even like this woman, the fact is that as of this day, the political playing field has been widened. what remains the same is the power of your vote, man or woman, that vote is hillary clinton's or donald trump or any other ca

cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: gretchen carlson worked at fox news for over a decade until last month that is when she says the chairman of the company, roger ailes, fired her. fox news says she wasn't fired, her contract was not renewed. today, she came back swinging, accusing ailes, one of the most powerful men in media, of a litany of boorish and harassing behavior, including claims that he ogled her and made sexual remarks to her and ultimately fired her for failing to engage in a sexual relationship with him quoting him as saying i think you and i should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago adding that sometimes problems are easier to solve that way. carlson was crowned miss america in 1989. a stanford university graduate, she claims her troubles began in 2009, while working as co-anchor of "fox & friends." she was often razzed on air by her co-host brian kilmeade. >> why is it that you talk so much, gretchen? >> because i can. >> reporter: that kind of bander did not bother carlson, say her lawyers, rather it was the show's other anchor, steve doocy, who she said treat

cynthia mcfadden has more on the mystery still baffling investigators. >> reporter: 45 years ago, d.bcooper bailed of a 727 with $200,000 strapped to his chest. it led to hundreds of news reports. >> he parachuted out of the plane. it landed in reno and he hasn't been seen since. >> reporter: inspiring a 1981 movie and dozens of armchair detectives. what the case has not had is a resolution. despite the fbi's pursuing thousands of leads and nearly as many suspects, the hijacker's true identity was never uncovered and now he's not likely to be. the fbi officially ending what it called one of its longest and most exhaustive investigations. it was the day before thanksgiving in 1971, a man in a suit and tie, identified himself as dan cooper. he passed a note to a flight attendant claiming he had a bomb. the plane landed in seattle, where he exchanged the passengers for that $200,000 and four parachutes. >> you saw the exchange of money? >> we saw them bring the money aboard. >> reporter: he then demanded to be flown to mexico, 45 minutes later, the rear door opened and he jumped 10,000 f

our cynthia mcfadden takes a look. >> reporter: donald trump has a problem with women. women voters, that is. hillary clinton is killing him there by 15%. so the question tonight as his daughter ivanka is poised to introduce him at the convention, will she, half-sister tiffany and step-mother melania, help him bridge the gender gap? >> there does seem to be this real concerted effort to get the trump women out in the front to say, my dad is a good person. you know, kind of trust me, i'm a woman. >> reporter: with a stay-at-home wife and a high-flying professional daughter, the trump women check both boxes, though with trump's three marriages, family values will be a sticky point for some republican voters. on the other hand, his kids have been a public credit to him, as mike pence said last night. >> you can't fake good kids. >> donald trump has never done anything halfway, least of all as a parent. >> reporter: the hope in camp trump is surely that the youthful dynamic trump children will help with younger female voters, 71% of whom have a negative opinion of him. look

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, louisville, kentucky. >>> that's going to do it for us on a thursday nighti'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night. an nbc bay area exusivewe have are the most crime dden. ==je/2-shot== and i'm jessica a jess/ots thtrait syst says crime overall has dpped by but crunched t numbers anfoundn vary -- based on ur stion. hill. y area's ely kirchner joi yce- we a motsly talng property crimes andobbies ? jess/vidbox they've seep seen a significant increase in that crime, though bart says overall crime is down. >> taking their son on bart -- >> we parked 17 minutes away. >> -- he avoided parking in the parking lot at the station in oakland. >> we'll probably be back late tonight. i just feel safer that way. >> reporter: he may be on to something. they crunched bart crime data dating back to 2013. we found property crime which includes car theft, shoplift and go vandalism is the most common crime, followed by stolen vehicles, assault and battery and robbery. that's out of around 10,000 reported incidents. >> crime was down in

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, louisville, kentucky. >>> that's going to do it for us on a thursday nightholt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night. >> charlie sheen versus donald trump. his unfiltered new attack on the presidential hopeful. >> now on "extra." ♪ ♪ >>> charlie takes on trump. >> it's like a nightmare we can't wake up from. >> unleashing on the billionaire as we reveal the stars lining up behind the candidates. >> i think he's a great guy. >> and pouring cash into donald and hillary. >> who quietly donated a million bucks to get a clinton back into the oval office. >> new video, taylor swift and tom, totally mobbed at the airport and hammered with questions. >> sarah silverman's near-death experience. the comedian going public about her freak medical scare. >>> all new oprah revealing the life-changing advice she got from jerry seinfeld. >> those words of jerry seinfeld became a mantra for me. >>> just married. the first photo of ciara and russell wilson after the "i dos." where they're sneaking off on their honeymoon. more couples news where we

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> that is going to do it on this thursday night.i'm lester holt. i will see you tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific for plim time coverage. thank you for watching and good night from philadelphia. @]@]úñúñ0ñ >> the president passes the baton. can hillary clinton take it to the finish line? tonight she steps to the mic to accept her party's nomination for president. >> i ask you to carry her, the same way you carried me. >> it's the democrat's final night in philadelphia and nbc 10 special coverage starts right now. you're watching nbc 10 live from the democratic national convention. >> good evening, everyone, i'm jim rosenfield, our final light at the rosen center in south

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> let's get down to business with cnbc's landon dowdy. good morning, landon. >> hi, dara. wall street will try to keep the good times rolling today. the dow managing to close at a record high for a sixth straight day. the broader market falling on netflix disappointing earnings. the stop dropping 13%. that's its worse day in nearly two years. you want to look for earnings from morgan stanley, american express and intel. meanwhile the back to school shopping season is here. a survey by deloitte finds the average household plans to spend about $488 this year. for those who started shopping before july will spend nearly $700. back to school sales are forecast at 3%. that's the slowest growth since 2012. >> landon, thanks so much. >> important health news that all men need to hear. plus president obama tells america's law enforcement we have your backs. details up next. she spent summer binge-watching. soon, she'll be binge-studying. get back to great. now get a swiss gear backpack for only $10. office depot officemax. gear up for school. gea

cynthia mac fad mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. mcfadden, new york. >>> finally tonight, there is nothing more partisan than one of these conventions. it's each party's chance to kind of show the world how they want to be seen, what they're all about. sometimes it's fun to step away from the politics and take in the pageantry, the choreography, the awkwardness sometimes. it's kind of the way democracy is sometimes. we're joined now by tom brokaw, who's been to a lot of these conventions, so much history, our democracy, so much is built upon these pillars but do you think this convention turn history on its ear in some form or fashion? >> the gop used to be the party of captains of industry and old money, and richard nixon took it to the south, reagan to the west. now a lot of the establishment republicans are staying home, not going to be here because they can't support him. but he's created another constituency, that will be the test. >> and when you l

cynthia mcfadden, michael steele, thank you.ox news a very, very big player there. >>> still to come, back to politics out in cleveland. donald trump preparing it deliver the formal acceptance speech for his party enomination for president. but he already appeared three times at the convention this week. been a little rocky. can he deliver tonight? what will his message be? >>> also the war between donald trump and ted cruz playing out with cruz's nonendorsement last night. what will rub voters think of them? how do they size up cruz versus trump? we will tell you about the most important number of the day. and he has been at, get this, 23 national conventions. tom brokaw, the one and only, is going to join us live from inside quicken loans arena in clevela cleveland. looking forward to that one. >> we are at the site of the republican national convention. we have the appearance of president bush and even a speech friends and neighbors are describing the most important speech of his political life. ♪ and these are the lungs. (bo

nbc's cynthia mcfadden has late details. >> reporter: reports circling tonight that fox news chairman and ceo, roger ailes, is on his way out. this in the wake of a highly publicized claim of sexual harassment by gretchen carlson, who says that ailes fired her in june after she rebuffed his advances, a claim aisle denies. ailes turned fox news into the political powerhouse it is today with revenues last year with more than a billion dollars. >> aisle is fox news. there's not a detail of fox news that ailes does not have his fingers on. he is the person who is most central to his organization and the product it produces. >> reporter: ailes' rise included working as a media consultant with a mt. rushmore of republican presidents, richard nixon, ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. database but as the founder of fox news, he solidified his reputation as a king maker, working closely with rupert murdock, the executive chairman of 20th -21st century fox. >> it's always been a good working relationship. roger ailes provides the one thing that rupert murdock likes most and really can't do wit

cynthia mcfadden has details. >> gretchen carlson worked at fox news for over decades until last monththat is when she says roger ales the chairman of the company fired her. fox news says she wasn't fired. her contract was not renewed. she came back swinging. accusing ales one of the most powerful men in media of a litany of borish and harassing behavior. he ultimately fired her for failing to engage in a sexual relationship with him. quoting him as saying, i think you and i should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago. adding that sometimes problems are easier to solve that way. carlson was crowned miss america in 1989, a stanford university graduate, she claims her troubles began in 2009 while working as co-anchor of "fox and friends." she was often -- >> why is it that you talk so much gretchen? >> because i can. >> that kind of banter did not bother carlson. rather it was the show's other anchor steve duesy who she claims treated her in such a sexist and condescending ways she complained to ales who called her a male hater. he gave her her own afternoon show. >> a big than

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cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >> we're back in a moment with a driver caught on camera slammingnto a police car. wait until you see what he was doing behind the wheel. >>> in south carolina, a group of kindhearted souls came to the rescue of a trapped driver and the remarkable scene was caught on camera. nbc's gabe gutierrez has the dramatic story of heavy lifting against all odds. >> reporter: the outlook was grim, a red convertible flipped over on a ditch in lexington, south carolina, on i-20. trapped underneath, jonathan jenson. >> all i remember was the initial hit and weightless and laying there and i'm all right. >> he had only a seatbelt and prayer after losing control of his car. now, he had no control over what would happen next. >> everybody stopped. everybody wanted to get that guy out. everybody wanted to save his life. >> reporter: among the dozen good samaritans that dropped everything to pick up a stranger. >> when we flipped it over, he put his hands up and said, thank you. it was just incredible. >> absolutely incredible. >> i was not expecting to see that many

cynthia mcfadden, nb news, new york. >>> that is going to do it on this thursday night. for now, i'm lester 7:00 pacific for plim time coverage. thank you for watching and good night from >>> chelsea clinton. her all-new "extra" interview. what she has up her sleeve for tonight and is she still friends with ivanka trump? now on "extra." ? ? ? ? >>> as the president passes the torch to hillary, chelsea clinton sits down with "extra". >> it's big. >> i just got the chills. >> how she feels about trump's attacks on her mother. >> a lot of hateful things said about your mom. >> has her friendship with ivanka soured? >> are you friends or -- >> then a peek inside hillary's war plan. what she needs to do tonight.

here's nbc's cynthia mcfadden. >> we have seen here, poised, sometimes fierce, always stunning, at debatefter debate. but tonight, melania trump will dive into the political deep end, with a prime time speech expected to focus on her husband's softer side, as a family man. they met in the late 1990s. >> my supermodel, where's my supermodel, melania. >> reporter: married in 1995. she had rarely spoken on the road this year, by passing the role of character witness for her husband on the campaign trail, for mother back in new york. >> reporter: normal hardly seems the right word. young barron, his mother said in parenting magazine, has his own floor in the three-floor trump penthouse. she's not your typical stay at home mother. she's posed on is cover of british "gq." but there is more than meets the eye, she speaks five languages, having grown up in then communist yugoslavia. >> she has to be the straight arrow to his zigs and zags. >> reporter: an interview for "harper's bazaar" last fall. >> reporter: what's your impression? >> she's not an ad libber, she's not a comedian, and she strike

nbc's cynthia mcfadden has more on what led her to this historic moment tonight. >> reporter: tonight is hillary clinton's. after nearly 40 years in the public eye. with ups. >> and women's rights are human rights. >> reporter: and downs. >> i'm not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like tammy wynette. >> reporter: tonight she owns the stage. 24 years ago when bill clinton accepted his party's nomination, hillary clinton did not even give a speech. >> the campaign is now making some hard decisions about how best to use her come the fall. >> reporter: voters back then sorting out what they wanted from a first lady. when she got to the white house, she doubled up on roles, trying to please both critics and herself. picking the china and leading the charge for health care. by 1996, in his second run for president, she'd moved into a speaking role. >> yes, it takes a village. >> reporter: her history now part of our history. betsy everling has known clinton since they were little girls. >> she wrote me a very sweet note after my putting the count, the vote in the roll call

cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >> now keep it right here for more news, weather and sports.rly today." laura/o plusa newhaptebeginfortc >>> good morning. i'm bob redell live in livermore where an overnight fire destroys a small business. what the fire department is saying about the circumstances surrounding this blaze. that story coming up. >>> plus, a new chapter begins for the san jose police department. today officers begin wearing body cameras. >>> south bay freeway goes high tech. how does the smart design expected to help traffic flow. "today in the bay" starts right now. >> and thank you for joining us in this mid week, wednesday morning. i'm sam brock. >> halfway there. living on a prayer. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >> we have nice weather again today. it will start to get very hot for inland areas today. well, san francisco still stays

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