david holt of atlanta. his daughters, megan and britney have a huge surprise for him.no idea where they're taking him. he's totally game. >> a trusting dad. and we have jesse, where is he? waiting for us for this huge surprise. moments from now, part of our huge thank you to all dads this father's day week. >> cannot wait it off. right now, the morning rundown from dan harris. >>> two shark attacks within 90 minutes of each over along the same stretch of beach. the first, a 13-year-old girl lost part of her arm. she may lose a leg, as well. the 16-year-old boy was the second victim. he also lost part of his arm. both teens reported to be in good condition this morning. experts say it's extremely rare to have two major attacks close together. >>> air strikes in libya have targeted one of the most wanted men in the world. al qaeda leader mock tarhktar el mohktar. >>> fire spreads through this basilica in france. the flames destroying the roof. everybody got out safely. work crews may be to blame for sparking that fire. >>> the woman accused of helping those two killers e

david holt, you're looking at him, of atlanta.im. if you're wondering why they are walking like that. you can see. he's blindfolded. he has headphones on. he has no idea where they're taking him. he's totally game. >> a trusting dad. and we have jesse, where is he? there's jess. waving, helping us mastermind this huge surprise that we have just ahead for this dad. it is moments from now. part of our huge "thank you" to all dads this father's day week. >> cannot wait to kick it off. right now, the morning rundown from dan harris. >>> hey, guys, the big story two shark attacks within 90 minutes of each other along lieutenant beach in north carolina. and there's word of two more shark sightings. a 12-year-old girl lost an arm and leg injury. and a 16-year-old boy also lost part of his arm. experts say two attacks so close together is extremely rare. >>> overseas, u.s. air strik in libya havave targeted one of the most wanted men in the world. al qaeda leader mokhtar belmokhtar. known as the uncatchable. u.s. officials are not confirm

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he was replaced by lester holt, the first african american to be the sole anger of the evening news. he completes in the 6:30 news slot with a.b.c.'s david near and scott perry. the 8:00 p.m. slot is the prest eege job, and the -- prestige job, and those anchors are not exactly the most diverse group. >> media was segregated for a long time. white males control the industry. white males were the first broadcast openers, the first tv station owners, running the companies that became networks. few of colour to this day own radio tv station. the world is seen through a white male perspective. the anchor men are white and male, anyone who watches the newscast knows that the correspondents that report to them are a diverse group and so are the producers and other people that support them behind the scenes and anchor men and diverse group. >> i want to see it mean something. i want is to be beyond a figure head. i want latinos and african-americans to have a shot. it has to be that anchor person, that person who has the ability to shape the news. shape the perspective it's told from. >> today's news anchors are the product of history. what kin

david potchen said he's never looking or going back. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago heights, illinois. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. lester holtl be here tomorrow. i'm carl quintanilla reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. >>> good evening to you. thank you for joining us. >> let's start with a look at the weather. much needed way coming our way. there's a live picture of the golden gate bridge. dark and overcast. it's been that way for a good portion of the late afternoon out there. no rain yet. but it's on the way. not a lot, but some rain. anthony slaughter here now with how much and when. >> in fact you know we're in a drought when we get excited about a few hundredths of an inch of way. a little bit of green out there and that's all we're finding out there. the cloud cover is

nightly news" job to lester holt while williams will be an anchor for breaking news on msnbc after williams made inaccurate statements and not just about iraq. joining us now is david and media critic for "the baltimore sun." what about those that say punishment is too harsh? >> you know howie, if credibility is what you base a news division on it's what you sell how cannot banishing him be a good idea? why do you move him from -- he's not trustworthy enough to be the anchor for nbc news but he is for msnbc. >> that's my next question. if credibility is the issue, what about credibility of msnbc? >> it says -- what would a potential viewer to msnbc say? it's like you run an accounting firm and one of the accountants stole from your of your clients and you say rather than firing him he'll move him from a-list of clients down to b-list of clients. nobody will be happy. he stole. that's the point. a lie is a lie and a liar is a liar. that's why i said banish him. all this other stuff of that statement from nbc saying well most of it he didn't say on the air on nbc platforms. it's still a lie. the moral reasoning here is so tortured that you have to wonder why would nb

david sweat. we continue to work this story and will have a lot more on this on a very very busy friday. when we see you for "nbc nightly news." i'm lester holtws, new york. automated voice: to file a claim, please state your name. carnie wilson. thank you. can you hold on? ♪ hold on for one more day ♪ really? hey, i know there's pain. why do you lock yourself up in these chains? ♪ ♪ this would be so easy if you had progressive. our mobile app would let you file a claim and help you find one of our service centers where we manage the entire repair process. things will go your way if you hold on. [ sighs ] someday somebody's gonna make you wanna turn around and say goodbye. ♪ say goodbye ♪ no, you just made it weird. >>> we have a first alert out for saturday afternoon and night with a flood watch from philadelphia area westward. just about the entire area could get one to three inches of rain but those areas are most vulnerable to flooding. the highest risk of severe storms is delaware and extreme south jersey. now, the forecast for tonight is for showers, just some isolated showers across the area. nothing too significant. it's tomorrow when

david said in his memoir he did not cheer when he heard the news of lincoln's assassination, but he did not regret. professor leonard: i think a significant, interesting little bit of trivia, joseph holt becomes a prosecutor of the conspirators, was the secretary of war under buchanan, when lincoln is broad and carefully into washington, carefully and safely, and for him to carry that memory into prosecuting you know, it shapes his view of what his job was. mr. holzer: and the attorney general must have developed an interesting perspective there, too. professor varon: that is a great observation on which to end this morning's panel. i want to remind everyone we will resume probably at 10:15 on the nose, and we encourage you to submit questions for the q&a that is going to happen after panel number two so thank you all very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and ac that a lot are watching american history tv. 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span 3. follow us on twitter for information on a schedule of upcoming pro

february is lester holt going to hold as many viewers as he has i think people -- >> i worked at abc for a long time and those are friends of mine running the show now especially davidnerous to nbc? it was a very tight race. he's now losing in the demo to abc. which as we know is what really matters in the business. so couldn't you also say not holding up well you know with all due respect to lester and the team abc caught them and they're passing him. >> and certainly brian williams supporters or people who want to see brian williams back in the chair are saying that. they're still on facebook brian williams fans saying when is he coming back? i'm not going to watch until -- >> but this guy was the dominant figure male figure certainly in news. >> that's why this story is so incredible. he was the number one anchor in the united states until this fall from grace. it's a reminder among other things is you can lose a lot in an instance in a business like this. but you can also recover. there are stories and there are legends of people recovering having second third, fourth -- >> especially in this country. remember when paula deen happened. you can argue all day whet