amy: that was richard engel three years ago. now, two years after being kidnapped in syria, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel reveals he was actually seized by militants tied to the u.s.-backed free syrian army, not shia militias tied to the asad government. did nbc knowingly cover up the truth? we'll speak to asad abu khalil who openly questioned nbcl's -- nbc's claim back in 2012. then to the house the herman built. >> what you see before you is a model built to scale of herman wallace is cell. he spent years in solitary confinement for a crime he could not have possibly committed in louisiana. 27 of those years were spent in the cell. amy: we will speak to artist jackie summell about "herman's house," her collaboration with former prisoner and black panther, herman wallace. and we will get an update on the case of glenn ford freed from death row after 30 years. he is now dying of cancer in hospice care. while exonerated, he has not been compensated. but first, in an act of mass civil disobedience, tens of tho

richard engel reaches base camp where so many are reeling from tragedy. tonight, what happened when the mountain started shaking and where the search for the missing stands. >>> cockpit scare. a drone comes dangerously close to a commercial plane coming in for landing. a police hunt in the air to find it and whoever was at the controls. >>> and tracking your every move. a consumer alert for tens of millions of smartphone users. something you may not know about the apple or android device that never leaves your side. nightly news begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world head quarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. protesters have been on the move tonight again in baltimore. out of the wary eye of police and national guard troops just ahead of another night of mandatory curfew. it started late this afternoon when growing crowds of peaceful marchers headed en masse to train station and on to city hall where a large police presence awaited them. they're demanding accountability for the dea

talked about for richard engel. williams on the bench been two and a half months another three and a half months left. is nbc going to bring him back? this story may go away in a day or two but the brian williams story an anchor wrapped around nbc hurting the network confusion about what's going to happen to him. i have a feeling they're going to make some sort of decision well before that august period before he's supposed to come back. >> it's also hurting not to have him on air apparently because nbc has slipped behind cbs. >> seems like a lose/lose situation for everybody involved in that brian williams story. >> thanks for keeping us on top of the story. but a lot of news. let's get to it. [ gunfire ] >> i shot him, i'm sorry. >> a new report calls into question whether robert bates should have even have been carrying a gun. >> there are hundreds of hours that may have been falsified. >> they got it wrong. aaron hernandez's words. >> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> life without the possibility of parol

our team is there tonight and we begin with ear chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. >> reporter: flying into kathmandu today on a plane full of turkish aid workers, it was clear that after saturday's massive earthquake nepal is bracing for worse to come. we felt an aftershock, a big one. outside the airport, tensions turned to scuffles. people here want out before the next quake hits. kathmandu is a poor and crowded city built of brick and cement. they're staying as far away from buildings as they can. with aftershocks still coming, people here understandably don't want to spend time indoors, with spend the night in their homes. they're camping out in the sidewalks and in the parks, any bit of green space is being occupied. on a blanket with his family, we met the this 13-year-old. >> i'm so nervous in bed for this earthquake. many people are running here and there for their life. many houses are falling here and there. many people are dying also. >> reporter: he thinks his family will sleep here for the next week. to the east of kathmandu, on mt. everest, climbers ran for their

nbc news has changed its story about the 2012 kidnapping of chief foreign correspondent richard engel in syria after reporting by "the new york times" called his account into question. engel had said he was captured by shiite forces loyal to the government of syrian president bashar al-assad. but after "the times" found engel was likely captured by sunni militants affiliated with the opposition free syrian army, engel issued a statement saying the group was sunni, not shiite, but had "put on an elaborate ruse to convince us they were shiite shabiha militiamen." in ukraine, a prominent journalist has been shot dead in the capital kiev. ukraine's interior ministry said oles buzina was attacked by masked gunmen. his death comes after a former lawmaker and ally of ousted president viktor yanukovych was found shot to death in kiev on wednesday. about 400 migrants have perished off the coast of libya after the boat they were traveling in capsized. rescuers managed to save 145 people, including at least one baby, but hundreds more appear to have drowned. amnesty international criticized euro

. >> reporter: this is richard engel. warren weinstein wasn't the only american killed in the u.s. drone strikes. there were two others fighting with al qaeda. the voice on this video, experts say, belongs to adam gadahn. >> these heroes were not 19 armies from 19 countries but rather were 19 mujahadin. >> reporter: an american narrating a notorious al qaeda propaganda video of the 9/11 hijackers. born adam pearlman, his grandfather jewish, gadahn was raised on a goat farm in california converting to islam in his teens, attending this mosque and getting into trouble there in the mid-1990s for his increasingly extreme view. gadahn traveled to pakistan in 1998, at first hiding his face. but he was identified by u.s. officials and in 2006 became the first american charged with treason since the world war ii era. >> his death, the killing of adam gadahn, is a big blow to al qaeda's operations specifically in the recruitment of westerners. >> reporter: gadahn was al qaeda's most famous american, but this man also killed may have been more dangerous. ahmed farouk started out as an al qae

we want to start with richard engel. >> reporter: flying into kathmandu on a plane full of turkish aid workers, it was clear that after saturday's massive earthquake nepal is bracing for the worst. we felt an aftershock a big one, 6.7. immigration officials ran away from their stations. outside the airport, tensions turned to scuffles. people here want out before the next quake hits. kathmandu is a poor and crowded city built of brick and cement. the people are staying as far away from buildings as they can. people here don't want to spend time indoors, let alone spend the night in their homes. they're camping out in the sidewalks and the parks. any bit of green space is being occupied. on a blanket we met a 16-year-old. >> i'm feeling so nervous and bad. many people are running for their lives. many houses are falling here and there. many people are dying also. he thinks his family will sleep here for the next week. aftershocks triggered more avalanches and landslides. a british army climbing team pinned down. >> we can hear rocks crashing down around us but you can't see them coming.

lester. >> richard engel, thanks. >>> a lot of fast moving developments tonight in the investigation into the co-pilot who officials say may have deliberately crashed that plane into the side of a mountain. disturbing internet searches found on his tablet computer as recovery crews discover the second black box at the crash scene. nbc's katy tur with that report. >> reporter: today, in the french alps among the scattered debris recovery workers say they've collected 40 smashed cell phones, larger pieces of wreckage and, finally, in a ravine the normally orange flight data recorder looking so badly burned it was black. still investigators say they are hopeful the data remains intact. inside the germanwings flight 9525 second black box french investigators hope to learn what co-pilot andreas lubitz was doing when he was alone in the cockpit. and whether just before the plane began its steep descent the autopilot had been manually changed from 38,000 feet to 100 feet as the tracking site flightradar24.com suggested last week. meanwhile, inside lubitz's dusseldorf apartment, german inves

>> richard engel tonight. thanks, richard. >>> six men from minnesota are in federal custody tonight planning to go to syria to fight with isis. they're all somali americans ages 19 to 21. four were arrested in minneapolis, two others were picked up in san diego where investigators say they were trying to get fake documents to get into mexico then make their way to syria. >>> tonight millions are keeping a close eye on severe weather with tornado watches in effect across nine states in the east, the threat of severe storms from the northeast all the way down to the gulf. meteorologist dylan dreyer is monitoring it for us. dylan, what are we looking at here? >> reporter: there are major east coast cities under these tornado watches tonight. that includes philadelphia, washington, d.c., baltimore. it stretches all the way back down into atlanta. the situation is setting up like this. we have this cold front moving into some very unstable air. so even after midnight tonight we're still looking at the chance of so

richard engel, nbc news, lampedusa, italy. >>> we have a lot more ahead tonight including the story of a brave little boy and his parents opening their home and their lives to share their story about what it means to be transgender. >>> and later, the crowded house party as tv goes back to the future. >>> tonight, we're taking a closer look at something that's been getting a lot of attention recently, the subject of being transgender. we've seen adults share their stories on television shows and in magazines, but rarely do we hear from the youngest members of the transgender community. tonight, our national correspondent kate snow is here with one family's very personal story. kate. >> lester, good evening. by some estimates there are 700,000 adults in the u.s. who are transgender. while we don't know the exact number of children, increasingly families are going public with what it means to be a transgender kid. 5-year-old jacob lemay is fierce. he loves karate and dogs and spaceships and playing with his sisters. so two sisters and you're the brother, right? >> yeah. >> reporter: were

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our ch correspondent richard engel was there. >> reporter: around midnight these days the rescue boats come into port. this one had 92 migrants aboard plucked from a rubber dinghy. they're processed, bussed away and now in european hands. italy, especially in the south, has received more than 20,000 migrants so far this year. they're coming across these waters in record numbers. but the sea has been unforgiving. migrants have long tried to cross the mediterranean for europe and it's still been dangerous. even when there's just a little wind like today the seas can be quite rough in the water. but this year aid groups say 30 times more people have died compared to last year. abandoned by the roadside is a graveyard of ships. these are the wrecks that survive the journey. we came across a group of ethiopians. they arrived last week. so you came on a boat just like this? >> just like this. >> reporte on deck or down below? >> yes. >> reporter: insid >> inside. >> reporter: they left from libya, spent 25 hours at sea. everyone cramped like this. so you had to -- show me. you had to hold yo

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>> richard engel tonight. thanks, >>> six men from minnesota are in federal custody tonight pl to syria to fight with isis. they're all somali americans ages 19 to . four were arrested in minneapolis, t others wer were tryin fake documents to get into mexico th their way to >>> tonigh are keep eye on severe weather with tornado watches in effect across nine states in the threat of severe storms from th northeast al down to the gulf. meteorologist dylan dreyer is monitoring it for us. dylan, what are we >> reporter: there are major east c cities under these tornado watches tonight. that includes philadel washington baltimore. it stretches all t the situation is setting up like th. we have front moving into some so even after midnight tonight we're still looking at the c of some st then by tomo morning mainly just rain across new england. but in this orange area, th enhanced chanc seeing not only isolated tornadoes b also large hail, damaging wind gusts up near 70 miles per hour and also dangerous cloud- if you'

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel reports from the italian island of lampadusa. >> r as the t bodies recovered off libya's coast were brought ashore in malta, disaster struck again. further east. a ship packed with syrian refugees ran aground off the greek island of rhodes. at least three were killed but more than 90 rescued. many dragged from the surf close to shore. those lost off libya this weekend had no such luck. their ship sank in deep water at night miles from shore. only a few dozen survivors have been found. a tiny fraction of the 950 one survivor wer on board. survivors say when this cargo ship approached many thought they were being rescued and rushed to one side to be seen. their boat capsized reportedly with hundreds locked below. just last week 400 migrants drowned when their ship capsized off libya. why so many now? conflicts in iraq syria and libya and across sub-saharan africa are pushing people to escape economic and political hardship. many are running for their lives. >> people fleeing in desperation aren't fleeing out of choice they're fleeing because t

richard engel's a little skeptical about this from over there. let's watch. >> in the aftermath of a situation like this, it raises legitimate questions about whether additional changes need to be made to those protocols. again, to put it more bluntly, we have national security professionals diligently followed those protocols based on everything we know so far. they followed those protocols, and yet it still resulted in this unintended, but very tragic consequence. and that's why the president has direct ds his team to conduct a review of this particular operation, to see if there were lessons learned, reforms that we can implement to this process. >> chuck, you pointed out before we started tonight, there is a big debate about the moral use of drugs and the question of what's the fallout when you do it. you kill people, everybody knows about it. >> and there's going to be plenty of pakistanis that see this and say, oh, americans are outraged when an american dies accidentally -- >> but we've been done doing that over there. >> we've been doing

nbc's richard engel is in kathmandu right now.munications in and out of nepal even by satellite have been very difficult today and tonight. we asked him to file this for us just tonight for his reporting today. >> rachel, what's amazing this about this story is even three days after this earthquake when we speak to military officials medical officials, they have no idea of the scale of the problem. they are all concerned that they're going to eventually reach some village or town cut off because the roads are blocked because it's inaccessible because of avalanches or land slides and that they're going to find that the town has been destroyed and all the people killed. they are very cautious about the death toll. now they talk about 4,000. but they are very worried that in the coming days as they learn more, that the number could rise dramatically. this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the jake left thousands dead. and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water, centuries old temples fell. he

engel. this morning we're pleased to be joined by senior representatives from the department of state and defense. general john allen is the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter isil. appointed on september 16th, 2014, by president obama. general allen is a retired u.s. marine four star general, former commander of coalition and u.s. forces in afghanistan from 2011 to 2013, during his combat tour in iraq he played a critical role in the awakening movement in al anbar province. brigadier general michael fantini is the middle east principle director for the office of the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. previously he served as commander of kandahar air field. brigadier general olson is with us. the deputy director from middle east joint staff strategic plans and policy at the department of defense and previously he served as the deputy commander for marine forces central command. brigadier general olson, as i understand, you'll not be

richard engel reports on that part of the story tonight. >> warren weinstein wasn't the only american killed in the u.s. drone strikes. there were two others fighting with al qaeda. s -- the voice on this video experts say belongs to adam gadahn, an american narrating a notorious propaganda video of the 9/11 hijackers. born adam pearlman, his grandfather jewish, his grandfather was raised on a goat farm in virginia, attending this mosque and getting in trouble in the mid 1990s for his increasingly extreme views. he traveled to pakistan, initially hiding his face. he was the first charged with treason since the world war ii region. >> his death was a big blow to al qaeda operations, specifically in the recruitment of westerners. >> gadahn was al qaeda's most famous americans, but experts say this man also killed may have been more dangerous. ahmed farooq rose throughs ranks to become their second in command in pakistan. farooq was at the same compound where dr. weinstein and the italian aid worker were held, an american keeping a fellow american hostage for al qaeda. the u.s. doesn't a

nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in kathmandu and filed this report this morning. >> reporter: kathmandu is a city where people are living outside tear homes. this is one of the biggest markets and it is a campgroundment people don't want to go inside buildings, sleep inside. so they are sleeping in open areas, in parks. almost evergreen space in the city has been turned into a campground. fans with cooking pots and their children are living on the sidewalks. they are living in the streets. they don't even want to be near the buildingsment a lot of oh buildings are made of brick, concrete. and because of the after shocks bits and pieces of the building, entire wall withes in some cases, are still falling down. so you don't want to be near them. we felt one of the after hock this is morning. quite a strong one. 6.7. we had just arrived in this country. we are still at the airport. the building started to shake. we were going through immigration at the timement the customs officials and immigration officials ran away. they ran for cover. but then after just a few mi

>> richard engel with a great report there. joins us is christopher hill and ambassador, you've been through a lot of diplomacy in your life. is this a desperate last-minute effort? >> i think we're probably getting somewhere. i think they would have quit some time ago if they didn't think they were. the problem is, as your piece suggests, it hinges on a lot of technical things, which people don't really understand, so you've got a lot of analysts explaining whether it's a good deal or a bad deal. the overall problems is they're not going to be able to set this easily, so they're trying to backload some of sanctions relief, because they know they can't sell sanctions relief. meanwhile, a similar situation is going on in tehran, where they're going to -- they want immediate sanctions relief. that's going to be a problem. i think they want to keep the moment mum going, maybe try to handle these issues in the next few months, but right now, when you've israel and the arabs together, you know you have a problem. >> we have a new po

, who in december 2012 is taken hostage with his crew. >> engel and his colleagues -- some of the mosttured by manny, an independent french photographer and filmmaker. manny uses a fake name in order to protect his identity. >> i used to teach kids in schools in paris. >> as a young man manny also teaches in syria where he travels to steady arabic. >> i start going to syria quite early in my life. >> when he decides to switch careers and become a journalist, the syrian conflict beckons. >> when these movements happen in the arab world, i thought, okay, this is something that is really important that is happening and i live there and i know those people. >> using his teaching credentials as cover, manny sneaks into the country. >> i had to go through the border illegally. the biggest danger you are facing is to be discovered. >> in syria he begins reporting the human side of war. meeting and talking with ordinary citizens, including children. >> manny also gains the trust of the fighters of the free syrian army, the fsa, an opposition force made up of defectors from assad's military. >>

and switzerland would only be rewarding aggressive behavior. >> richard engel, thank you so much.joined by special correspondent with the daily beast. michael, good morning. >> hi jose. >> you say we shouldn't did i lewd ourselves thinking it will lead to changes regarding iran's behavior. explain that. >> you hear sometimes from administration officials and other supporters of the deal that if we strike this deal with iran, they hope it will change iran's behavior change the nature of the regime that it will modernize in certain other ways, and i don't think all of that is true. now, i support getting a deal for other reasons, for reasons for the deal on its own terms, but i don't think we should be under any illusion that it is going to change the regime in any ways for the better. they do all of the things richard engel said they do and deal or no deal i think they're going to continue to do those things. >> are they going to be strengthened if they get a deal certainly the optics in the middle east will be that iran is becoming a bigger and bigger player, in the future they ma

i think richard engel is correct, perhaps we have focused a lot on isis but like what happened at westissued warning to university a few days before. there is a certain pattern we have been seeing as far as them giving a warning and executing the attack. biggest difference between west gate and what we have seen at ger east a, in west gate mall they were allegedly prepared to be suicide bombers but didn't actually carry it out, whereas at ger east a, they told the hostages we are here to kill and here to die. so al shabaab has been engaged in suicide bombing through this whole period they have been using women. but i guess they have been in some ways overshadowed by coverage we have had, with isis and boko haram. so perhaps we are seeing a competition between all groups for media attention, for recruits and eventually for funding. >> mia bloom, thank you so much. >>> coming up more news we broke on hillary clinton, ready to set up a campaign headquarters here in new york. we will talk about that and what it means. >>> severe weather threatening the midwest this holiday weekend, more to

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chief foreign correspondent richard engel just arrived in kathmandu. he and his team were rocked by an aftershock shortly after they got to the airport. richard, what can you tell us? >> peter, this is a city where people are now living on the streets. you can see behind me a park. in almost every green space, people are now set up tents. they brought their families. they brought cooking pots and they are living in these parks, on the sidewalks, in the streets, afraid to go back into their homes because there've been many aftersho shortly after arrival today, it was a 6.7 aftershock. it lasted for about a minute. we were going through immigration, we had just landed at the airport, and suddenly the building started moving. the airport officials ran away. the police went to find safer cover. we did, as well. but then just a few minutes later it was back to business as usual, although with this fear that you could have more aftershocks, or even another major quake, and that's why so many peopl the same is also true for foreigners. there are not that many

first we go to our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel in the capital, kathmandu. >> reporter: this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead. and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water. centuries old temples fell. here in kathmandu, the historic town center was devastated. many are staying outdoors in parks and on the streets, terrified of repeated aftershocks. two more big ones today. nepal has mobilized its troops for relief work. volunteers desperately dig by hand. this woman used to come here to have coffee in the shade of a temple. mostly they're searching for bodies in these piles. but sometimes there is the unexpected. a man pulled out alive today. international rescue teams have finally arrived. but getting outside the capital is a struggle. roads blocked, helicopters in short supply. nbc's ian williams reached one town just outside the capital. >> some of the worst damage is around these narrow alleyways where there are a few buildings which haven't been impacted by the quake. this one propped up precari

nbc's richard engel has the latest from mount everest. >> we spoke to three rescue pilots. all of them have told us they do not believe there are any climbers still trapped or stranded on mount everest, this most have made their way down to the base camp the place where we visited today, and are making their way off the island, off the base camp or they have already been evacuated. the base camp is where the main avalanche occurred and when we were able to visit it today, we got a real sense of what happened. on saturday, around noon when the earthquake struck a large piece of ice and snow and rock broke off of a mountain overlooking base camp. it fell with incredible speed. that avalanche swept through the middle section of the base camp taking away tents, sending some climbers hundreds of feet in the air. it also wiped out the only medical facility on the base camp killing at least 15, maybe 17 people, maybe more. they haven't been able to go through all of the snow banks, and there is still some efforts under way to locate the remains of climbers or sherpas in the area t

joining me now is nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. joining me. i know we have a slight delay, so i'll get right to it. erbil is known as one of the safest cities in iraq. and i wonder how much this upends that perception dramatically? >> reporter: it is certainly something that u.s. military personnel, u.s. diplomats are going to be concerned about. they had felt that erbil was a relative pocket of safety. it is in the autonomous kurdish region of northern iraq. the kurds have been working very closely and have for many years with the u.s. government they consider very close allies. and it wasn't just in erbil it was in an area of erbil, a neighborhood very close to the airport. you do go to cafes. it is not like being in baghdad or parts of central or let alone northern iraq these days. we do have some new information about the casualties from that attack. a car bomb that exploded in front of the u.s. consulate there. a medical official in erbil has told us that an american woman was injured. that she has second-degree burns. that sh

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the details. >> reporter: the target of terror, reportedlye benedict himself. a plot to target the vatican, italian prosecutors say, by a major al qaeda-linked cell spanning italy, a cell broken up today with police raids in seven areas, recorded on police video. 18 arrest warrants, 9 sunts detained, 9 others still at large. the suspects are pakistanis and afghans. a key figure, prosecutors say, this preacher, arrested outside milan. it was a fund-raising cell for al qaeda in pakistan, investigators say, in direct contact with osama bin laden's inner circle. italy has been following this group for years, recording thousands of their phone calls. one investigator said that's how that 2010 plot against the pope was finally uncovered. >> this is a series of guys who are involved from sometime back. in some ways we're seeing a historical network being disrupted now. >> reporter: italy these days is on edge, and it's not alone. since the paris terror attacks in january, s american, while president obama is reinforcing his faith in the nation's spy

richard engel reports from kathmandu. >> reporter: this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead. and much of this already poor country without power short of clean water, centuries old temples fell. here in kathmandu the historic town center was devastated. many are staying outdoors in parks and on the streets. nepal has mobilized its troops for relief work. volunteers desperately dig by hand. this woman used to come to this very spot to have coffee in the shade of a temple. >> it's my place and my country and my people. >> reporter: mostly they're serging for bodies in these piles but sometimes there's the unexpected. a man pulled out alive today. international rescue teams have finally arrived but getting outside the capitol is a struggle. roads blocked. helicopters in short supply. in more remote and inaccessible villages the toll is still unknown. in a hospital in kathmandu, we saw workers take away dozens of unclaimed bodies to be cremated. a line of people hoping to identify missing loved ones. the embassy has opened its doors. you'll likely g

. >>> richard engel, thanks. we are learning the confirmed death toll of the everest avalanche has rised to 18 lives lost. a military plane is on its way carrying 70 people including members of an urban search and rescue team. a disaster assistance team and cargo. we have the latest from the heart of kathmandu. >> reporter: they search by hand brick, by brick. this team convinced they've located another body under the rubble around kathmandu's most famous temple complex. >> one of the people is buried there. >> reporter: this is what remains of the historic heart of kathmandu kathmandu. the buildings are too vulnerable to withstand the quake. the area around the square seems to have taken the brunt of the quake. some of the buildings date back to the third century. the nine-story tower has been reduced to a shattered stump. this was one of the most popular attractions commanding a panoramic view of the kathmandu valley. open spaces here are packed. the people who live through saturday's quake are too afraid to re

richard engel is there with more. >> reporter: this is the moment nepal was brought to its knees. the quake left thousands dead and much of this already poor country without power. short of clean water, centuries old terms fell. here in kathmandu the historic town center was devastated. many are staying outdoors terrified of aftershocks. nepal has mobilized its troops for relief work. volunteers desperately dig by hand. this woman used to come to this very spot to have coffee in the shade of the temple. >> it's my country and my people. >> mostly they're searching for bodies in these piles but sometimes there's unexpected. a man pulled out alive. international rescue teams have finally arrived by getting outside the capitol is a struggle. roadblocked. helicopters in short supply. nbc's ian williams reached a spot outside the capital. >> here there are few buildings which haven't been impacted by the quake. this one propped up precariously by pieces of wood. >> reporter: in more remote and inexcessive villages the toll is still unknown. we saw workers take away dozens of unclaimed

." >>> with us now in "the situation room" we have new york congressman eliot engel, the top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks so much for talking with us. i do want to talk to you about iran but first, i want to ask you about this situation in yemen. al qaeda fighting and managing to release almost 300 prisoners in a coastal city there. have you been briefed on this situation? can you share anything with us? >> well the only thing i can really say is what's really been said. yemen is terrible. it's certainly been overrun and the government is destroyed. iran has played a large role in that. that's what makes some of little bit nervous about doing any kind of a deal with iran because iran has been such a bad player in the region and a bad player around the world, supporting hezbollah and hamas, so it really all ties in. >> yeah. and supporting the houthis there in yemen as well. >> yes. as well. >> u.s. officials are calling this situation dire. it was as you know just less than a year ago when president obama cited this as an example of a place wher

. >>> richard engel from nbc news and wound telephone first looks at mt. everest base camp today after the avalanche triggered by nepal's massive earthquake killed at least 18 climbers. much of the base camp was destroyed. investigators are still searching for bodies here as the camp clears out. most surviving climbers are opting to walk down the mountain out of respect for those who died. >>> there is growing frustration among the villagers in nepal over the slow trickle of aid coming in from around the world. those living near the epicenter of the earthquake say they are desperate. nearly 200 villagers were seen shivering under umbrellas and plastic tarps. helicopters arrived with sacks of rice but a u.n. official says that's not enough. he said the next shipment will have to include plastic sheets. the death toll from that earthquake has now gone beyond 5,000. >>> sale prices. we assume they're deep discounts for a limited time. but what if something is always offered at a sale price? consumer reporter erika gonzalez tells us why jumping at the word sal

>> richard engel ght, thank you, richard. >>> it's been a sad and stunning fall from grace for led american forces in two wars. retired general david petraeus who once also headed up the cia was sentenced two years probation and fined $100,000 for sharing classified material ws one-time mistress while she was writing a book about him. petraeus gave a brief statement today >>> turning to the race for 2016, hillary clinton under fire tonight as s on her campaign amid a slew of ne headlines that raise question dealings of her family's foundation going back to her time as secretary of state. nbc's andrea mitchell takes a closer look. >> reporter: hillary clinton, the biggest celebrity at a star-studded w conferen tonight. so when the cheering stops, clinton is trailed by a cascade of stories about whether she did favors as secretary of state r donors to h. chelsea clinton, now the foundation's vice chair, def work today >> what the clinton foundation has said is that we will be >> reporter: when she took office, hillary clinton, pre the white agreed to a memo voluntarily di foreign contribution

in engel ton texas a circus performance had to be stopped and the crowd evacuated which the tent looked like it might collapse. there is more >> axelrod: and there is morein severe weather moving to the middle of the country. let's bring in meteorologist lauren casey of our minneapolis station wcco. lauren, where exactly is this nasty weather going? >> yeah, well we have a dime andea i can wide-reaching storm system that is going to the bring threat of severe weather from the central plains to the mid- atlantic this weekend. numerous revere storms are likely tonight in parts of kansas, oklahoma and texas in areas under enhanced risk. enhanced is the third highest category on the new storm prediction center's modifiedin scale. tornado and severe thunderstorm watches are in effect from nebraska down to central texas until 9:00 p.m. central tonight. and then tomorrow that threat spreads eastward to include the southeast and mid-atlantic. cities from little rock toan atlanta to charlotte may experience storms producing large hail and damaging winds. >> axelrod: lauren casey with the bad wea

. >> nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is live for us in tel aviv. so richard, where do things stand as we speak? again, the deadline come and gone. >> i wish i knew frankly. if you listen to the russiasns and listen to the iranians they're sounding quite optimistic they're going to have some sort of framework agreement by the end of the day. it would basically be a political statement allowing the two sides to continue to negotiate. so a nonagreement or just an agreement to keep talking. if you talk to other countries, the european capitals they are less optimistic that there will be even that kind of nonbinding resolution reached by the end of the day. so frankly, we don't know where we are, but what we do know is that israel several arab countries have come out very strongly against the entire process. they don't like what they are seeing in switzerland. they don't like the fact that iran is being allowed to, as they see it, set terms of this deal. they would very much like to see iran being pressured with sanctions, with the threat of military ac

eliot engel, ranking democrat on the house foreign affairs committee.e appreciate it. let's start with this -- do you classify this as just a bottom line intelligence breakdown? >> well, it was obviously a mistake. i know that these things are very delicate and difficult. we make a decision to go after al qaeda and hope that things go well. this was a drone strike. and obviously it -- it didn't go as we thought. and unfortunately mr. weinstein and mr. lo porto were killed. of course, my heart goes out to their families. this is a terrible, terrible tragedy. >> especially since the white house saying that the cia did adhere to near certainty standards. the president calling this cruel and bitter truth in the fog of war. want to play more about what the white house press secretary, josh earnest, said last hour about the president and alerting congress to these actions. >> made clear that when these kinds of counterterrorism operations are carried out the relevant members of congress are briefed about each operation. that is an indication of the serious ne

it's much more of a populist pitch and a pro-worker and pro-middle-class engel than anything that we have heard before. host: more specifically on that topic from your colleague at "the washington post," he had a piece in his deep read column saying, "the president shifts his trade pitch" if viewers want to look at that as well. you are an the line for democrats. josie, good morning. caller: i have a question for mr. wilson. if it were possible, what sunset phrase could be embedded in the law so for those of us who have supported president obama more confidence that he is -- that the vagueness in the tpp is going to balance our country? guest: part of the trade promotion authority is that the final deal -- by the way, it is important to receive -- remember that the actual deal itself has yet to be finalized. there's still a long ways to go for that. host: any concerns about the closed-door nature? guest: opponents of tpa are critical and the whole tpp speaking negotiated behind closed doors. the report -- to your point it would not allow congress to amend anything to change anything