as jesse kirsch explains, you could invite them on the trip of a lifetime, thousands of miles away >>orter: in the middle of western new york's historically bad blizzard last year, outside buffalo, nine south korean tourists and their bus driver got stuck in the snow. without hesitation, san diego andrea and alexander campagna welcomed ten strangers into their home >> we wanted to make sure they were safe and maybe even enjoy themselves, considering it happened over christmas. >> reporter: how do you say thank you for possibly saving ten lives? some sent letters and gifts. then, last month, the campagnas got a whole lot more did you ever expect a full-circle moment like this >> never in a million years. >> reporter: the korean tourism organization treated the campagnas to a ten-day trip of a lifetime to south korea. hotels, tours, even business-class flights, all covered. >> it was just a dream come true >> we went hiking in the mountains. we saw so many beautiful parts of seoul. >> reporter: and they reunited in-person with six of the people they helped. >> tears welled up in my eyes

jesse kirsch, nbc news >>> all right. up next, too close for comfort.arning tonight about the troubling trend in our national parks. >>> we're back now with a much too close for comfort shark sighting it happened yesterday in the shallow waters off alabama's gulf coast. beautiful orange beach, to be exact you're looking at drone video. check it out there you see the shark, and just feet away, that's the swimmer. it's the second shark sighting there in just the past few days. that one near a child and another swimmer. >>> and there is a new warning tonight about getting too close to wildlife in our national parks as more tourists take big risks, often to get that perfect pic for social media here's erin mclaughlin >> reporter: tonight, in yellowstone national park, relief after this near disaster and a warning to summer tourists. >> because a buffalo could have kicked all of their butts pretty easily and ate grass like three minutes later and not even been worried it. >> reporter: the harrowing encounter as a woman reaches out, posing for a photo and the

jesse kirsch spent the day in iowa to try to find out >> reporter: in the contest for the republican nomination, iowa voters speak first. >> what does that mean >> i think it's a huge responsibility i think we need to make a positive statement to the country and to the world. >> reporter: some republican caucusgoers like fred are still undecided, but he knows for him former president donald trump's latest legal woes won't make a difference. >> donald trump was who he is before the indictment, and he'll be the same after. that indictment doesn't have any effect on my opinion about him, positive or negative i'm not going to vote for him. >> reporter: he voted for trump in the last election, but stopped supporting him after the rigged election claims outside des moines in pella, iowa, whether with mr. trump or against him, some republicans telling us the former president's federal indictment will not move the needle no matter how many details they know about the case >> so just the fact that he's facing federal indictment that's not enough to push you away? >> i don't think so, no. >> r

off separate beaches, and it's raising fears about the lifeguard shortage across the country jesse kirsch has the details. >> reporter: with summer just days away, tonight, a reminder that going for a swim is not risk free, after two fathers recently died trying to save their children in daytona beach, florida, last week, mark bryson raced to help his son and others battling a rip current in knee-deep water. everyone made it out alive, except bryson. >> mark wanted to make sure that our friends and the kids were safe, and, you know, and he made that happen, and unfortunately, the rip tide was just too strong for him. >> reporter: and just yesterday in new jersey, officials say a 39-year-old man drowned while trying to rescue his 15-year-old daughter >> i still have chills right now. i just came up to the beach to sit and say a prayer >> even a good swimmer can have a bad day. >> reporter: chicago fire department deputy chief jason lach says not everyone out on the water always has the survival skills they should, and he adds, lifeguards are crucial allies >> they're our first eyes a lot o

today desperate families were searching for their loved ones jesse kirsch has more. >> reporter: tonightuthorities in india revealing new details about what may have caused the horrific train derailment based on preliminary findings officials say it appears a signaling issue led to the crash after a passenger train switched to the wrong track, slamming into a heavy freight train before derailed cars collided with another passenger train. >> it is probably some kind of off signaling. i won't even call it a failure of signaling interference >> reporter: that senior railway official was asked about possible sabotage >> nothing is ruled out. >> reporter: in a makeshift morgue this woman searched among the dead i just need my husband, she says. i don't want anything else officials revised the death toll down to at least 275 killed this woman says my daughter kept crying and died right in front of my eyes meanwhile, authorities said roughly 400 people remain hospitalized cordelia lynch with nbc's partner sky news, visited some of the wounded. >> reporter: room after room full of the injured. s

jesse kirsch, nbc news >>> we're back in a moment with a history making win for novak djokovic, plus most spectacular water falls yosemite has ever seen. >>> we're back with a frightening moment on a delta flight when the emergency slide accidentally inflated inside the plane you can see the slide at the end of the aisle here it happened on the ground in utah after the plane had already been diverted due to maintenance issues one crew member was sent to the hospital for evaluation but then released. >>> now to a stunt that went wrong after a former ufc champion fought a team mascot at the nba finals. conor mcgregor knocked down the miami heat mascot bernie with a left hook and hit him again when he hit the floor. it was supposed to be a staged fight but the heat said the man in the costume needed medical attention and is now resting at home. >>> novak djokovic just became the most successful men's grand slam player of all time the tennis champion won the french open today winning a record of 23 grand slam singles titles and breaking his tie with rafael nadal >>> if you're a fan of na

highly appreciated by the german citizen rem kirsch.ked them so much that he came up with and soon implemented the ore project, named after the first letters of the words and the daughter of a russian german, so next to the village and nyutino arose, the prototype of a german settlement. the inhabitants of which intend to eventually obtain russian citizenship and move to russia forever, the kirsch market made this decision 6 years ago, having thoroughly traveled around russia, which he openly spoke about in his video blog. he believes that in in a rapidly changing world, european countries have lost their usual way of life, while in russia traditional values ​​are unshakable. and for him, this is an opportunity to save himself, when you leave you think about where you could go, then you swipe your finger on the map, you choose countries to visit and we always chose russia , i would say because of socialization in the gdr because of friends letters contacts that were then we made a trip in an old gaz-66 in an old russian military vehicle

the robert kirsch is named for novelist editor and teacher.robert kirsch, who spent many years as the paper's critic, book critic before his death in 1980. to present 43rd robert kirsch award, we are very pleased to welcome his son, jonathan hirsch, who is also an author book, reviewer and book editor for the jewish journal. please welcome. if james ellroy had written only one of the novels in the l.a. quartet series the black dahlia, perhaps for l.a. confidential, all of them international bestseller others, he would command our attention and our admiration. indeed, if had written only my dark places is a memoir based on his reinvestigation of the rape and murder of his mother an unsolved crime that place when he was only ten years old. ellroy would be entirely worthy of the honor that the los times is bestowing on tonight. as it happens, of course, ellroy's body of work, at least so far, consists 25 books. each one is a masterpiece of the high neo noir style, a sweet package of and revenge in the of one of his memorable, hardboiled cops. the

jesse kirsch, nbc news. >>> there is thank you, and then there is, thank you.wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night. yoyo >>> he was there to visit his grandparents. the new details we're uncovering about a 16-year-old boy shot and killed in the east bay.

jesse kirsch, nbc news. >>> we're following potentially severe weather tonight with 27 million people at risk of severe storms across the southern plains, the gulf coast, and the mid-atlantic. the main threats are large hail and gusting winds up to 70 miles per hour, and it all continues tomorrow along the gulf coast. >>> now, to developing news out of russia, where an american citizen, a musician named michael travis leake, was in court today. russia saying he faces drug charges. keir simmons is tracking it for us. keir, we saw those stark images today of leake in russian custody. >> reporter: they are images that are all too familiar now, aren't they, lester? he appeared behind bars in court and in a video maintaining his innocence, including during that interrogation saying he does not even know what he's accused of. russia says leake, a rock musician who has lived in russia for ten years, is under arrest for drug dealing, charges that could mean around 12 years in jail. his mother says she's worried and concerned, telling nbc news tonight the state department has made contact. the

have been under there >> reporter: questions unanswered after a day of exploration gone wrong jesse kirschws >>> wall street jienl j.p. morgan chase has agreed to a $290 million settlement with jeffrey epstein's victims. it surrounds claims that the bank supported epstein's trafficking ring j.p. morgan chase tells cnbc the settlement is not an admission of liability but that any association was a mistake. a similar lawsuit against j.p. morgan is ongoing in the u.s. virgin islands alleging the bank facilitated abuse of young women in the territory >>> one of the places popular for protests went out. the protest is over the platform's decision to charge third party apps to access its data the conversations on reddit have been used to help teach ai systems like chatgpt, and reddit ceo says the company shouldn't give that valuable information away for free. the popular third party reddit apps said they will have to shut down when the new pricing plan goes into effect at the end. month. >>> still to come. why the stars behind "good will hunting" are trying to solveve theieir problem with the tr

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jesse kirsch, nbc news. >>> new body camera video from san antonio shows the final moments before police shot and killed a woman in her own home. three officers now charged with murder, and a warning here, some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. dana griffin has more. >> reporter: three san antonio police officers have been charged with murder and suspended without pay after killing a woman armed with a hammer inside her own apartment. >> hey, lady, get over here. >> reporter: just after midnight friday, officers were responding to a vandalism call. >> get over here. >> reporter: 46-year-old melissa perez was suspected of cutting wires to a fire alarm system. police followed perez to her first floor apartment where they say she locked herself inside. an officer removes the screen to her open window. perez hits the officer with what appears to be a glass candle. >> you're going get shot. >> excuse me. >> reporter: here is a wider angle of the confrontation. >> hey, hey, watch out! [ gunshots ] >> reporter: they say perez then swung a hammer, shattering the window. officer the

jesse kirsch is following this for us. jesse, good morning. >> reporter: vicky, good morning.lations, but the lack of answers to have churchill downs move to another track. in the last several weeks, 12 horses died after suffering injuries at the famed track churchill downs. the track says neither an internal review nor outside investigations have found a pattern linking all of the deaths. the horse racing integrity and safety authority says the track surface expert conducted a review and found no red flags. suspending races will allow them time to see what happened in the tragedies and try to prevent them in the future. the ceo of churchill downs says what has had is upsetting and unacceptable. horse racing across the country has faced scrutiny over safety. this is widely seen as an unusual number of deaths in such a short time. and just days before the final leg of the triple crown, all of this is unfolding. this is after horse deaths at the kentucky derby and the preakness stakes on the race days, but not the races, but at the tracks. churchill downs is suspending racing af

false.arges the the bite administration currently trying to free wall street journal reporter, evan kirsch coverage of former marine colby lynch. both charged with espionage. has now confirmed leaks ment arresting us diplomats were present at his arraignment. they will continue to monitor his case closely. rachel? >> patrick, thank you. back at home 40 million americans from colorado to georgia on alert for severe storm threats that could hail and large tornadoes. let's get to abc cedar meteorologist rob marciano. rob, tell us where is the >> rachel, you said part of it. parts of denver and savannah georgia saying severe thunderstorms and everywhere in between. if severe thunderstorm for parts of arkansas through nashville through lexington until 10. you can see damaging winds with these. watch out for denver, colorado springs and parts of the high plains. i should mention dallas could see storms not just tonight but come out tomorrow as we slide the convective down across the gulf coast. you will see the storms fire from dulles to waco could be damaging winds. the mailing pushes to atlant

jesse kirsch joins us from the scene. what have we learned from today's hearings so far? >> yeah.ea of what investigators are focused on. this afternoon, the hearing is specifically looking at the question of whether or not it was the right move to move forward with what is called a vent and burn. so, for people who are not too familiar with the story or might need a refresher, there was the derailment in february and then after the cars had derailed, there was concern over a possible explosion that could come, specifically from a group of cars containing a material called vinyl chloride, a chemical, a known carcinogen. there was concern about pressure in the tank cars holding that material and what would possibly happen. they were worried about a catastrophic explosion scenario. so, the ultimate decision was made to vent off that chemical and burn off that chemical, to avoid an explosion. essentially, it was a choice between a bad option and worse option. that's how it's been framed. officials, both first responders and norfolk southern railroad and other entities are being quest

joining us from cleveland, ohio, is nbc's jesse kirsch. jesse, a sad, sad day. talk about communities recovering the reality is some people are not recovering because they lost their lives. by the latest reports we have from officials, at least nine people killed in these shooting incidents across the country when you look at that map, it speaks to the fact that this is not concentrated in one community, one state this was happening all over the u.s. during a holiday weekend. i want to highlight a couple of them which unfortunately turned deadly kellogg, idaho, four people shot and killed sunday. a suspect in custody in that incident according to officials. in washington, d.c., power people shot, a teenager boy killed another teenager, a 17-year-old reportedly killed in st. louis, missouri in washington state, two people were killed near a music festival as you mentioned a few moments ago, outside of chicago in willowbrook, illinois, what was described as a peaceful juneteenth celebration on saturday night when it turned into early sunday morning, according to o

back to you. >> jesse kirsch, thank you so very much.continues to grapple with gun violence, smaller countries that have experienced mass shootings are quickly tackling the issue head-on. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has more on that story >> reporter: last month there were two extremely rare mass shootings in serbia. serbians didn't see it coming. the third most per capita after the united states and yemen. but they have never been used like this before on may 3rd, a 13-year-old boy, for reasons still unclear, stormed into a school with two of his father's guns and a hit list and killed eight classmates the next day, a man in his 20s with a history of violence opened fire in a village, killing eight more but then came more than thoughts and prayers. outrage became action. tens of thousands demanded not just tighter gun controls, but a reorientation of society away from violence, a reaction against armed rage. >> i think a lot of us have just had enough, and now it's a make-or-break moment >> reporter: his nine-year

here's nbc's jesse kirsch. >> reporter: with summer just days away, tonight a reminder that going for two fathers recently died trying to save their children. in daytona beach, florida last week, mark raced to help his son and others battle a rip current in knee-deep water. everyone made it out alive except bryson. >> mark wanted to make sure our friends and the kids were safe, and, you know, and he made that happen, and unfortunately the rip tide was just too strong for him. >> reporter: just yesterday in new jersey, officials say a 39-year-old man downed while trying to rescue his 15-year-old daughter. >> i still have chills right now. i just came up to the beach to sit and say a prayer. >> even a good swimmer can have a bad day. >> reporter: the deputy chief jason locke says not everyone has the survival skills they should and he adds lifeguards are crucial allies. >> they're our first eyes. a lot of times they'll mitigate the situation before we even show up on scene. >> reporter: and tonight, those life savers are in high demand. >> we're experiencing a critical lifeguard shortag

him and killed the other as that trooper drove by the gunman then died in a shootout nbc's jesse kirschon bail after admitting he lined up his three sons and executed them. what in the world is going on this weekend >> reporter: yeah, chris, and that map you just showed really underscores what we're talking about here not an isolated incident, not an isolated community, we're talking about across the country, shooting after shooting over, as you said, what should have been an entirely peaceful and celebratory atmosphere for a holiday weekend. i want to mention these are unfortunately just a handful of the several shootings that we have been keeping an eye on over the weekend, and kellogg, idaho, four people were shot and killed sunday with a suspect in custody there, according to officials. in washington, d.c., our nation's capital, an incident, four people were shot, including a teenage boy who was killed, according to officials in washington state, two people were killed near a music festival at campgrounds in what has been described by officials as a shooting at random. one of the in

jesse kirsch is with us in cleveland, ohio. let me ask you about one particular shooting outside of chicago. what happened there? >> reporter: yeah, kate. this was in willowbrook, illinois, a suburb of the windy city. officials say saturday evening what was described as a peaceful juneteenth celebration, and in the overnight hours, violence erupted at this event. according to a report, at least 20 people shot. one person died in that incident according to officials. here's what we've heard from some people on the ground. >> when the gunshots happened, we heard the sirens and then within, i don't know, 10, 15 minutes, there was probably, like, 50 cops along with ems. >> there was, like, some girls coming out, you know, that was there. she said that she heard the gunfire and was laying down and was trying to get picked up by her friends. >> she told us she was celebrating juneteenth with her friends, and as the gunshots happened, they kind of -- >> she ducked under the cars. >> they separated and she hid under a car. >> reporter:

routine cruise in an underground cave which sent several other passengers on board into the water jesse kirsch has more. >> reporter: after an underground tour boat that appears to be like this one capsized in western new york, police are trying to figure out hugh how a tourist attract turned deadly the boat with 29 adults on board somehow flipped over in a cave, leaving one person dead with 11 more sent to the hospital. >> a number of victims were on top of that boat initially when rescuers got to them >> reporter: it appears at one point a man believed to be around 60 years old was trapped underneath and died. >> it did take some time to get him recovered and back to a safe location unfortunately, he had succumbed to his injuries. >> reporter: officials say some taller people were able to walk to safety on this own with first responders rescuing 16 others. >> 11 people total taken to area hospitals for minor injuries, the worst of which we believe is a jok a broken arm and possibly a head injury >> reporter: the operator has not responded to nbc's request for couldn't, asmment, as authol us

katie kirsch saying -- katie koch saying it will have a shakedown similar to brick-and-mortar retail to her assessment of the outlook for the u.s. economy, in particular she is seeing of risk of a hard landing. >> we are at the precipice of the economic landscape changing and people wondering whether we are going to have a recession and what type of landing we will have. i think until we get more certainty around that, we should expect that to be the continued backdrop for investing. shery: the malaysian ringgit declined as they signaled a higher chance of an extended rate pause. any further rate hikes will depend on how inflation hates. >> i think if you look at all of the economies, they are roughly the same. we have the crisis and measures, rapid inflation because of the supply, and subsequently demand. there are a lot of moving parts, real shocks that are happening. the central banks, market policy being forward-looking, crystal while is challenging. many central banks have taking the stance to have a reevaluation of the effects of our measures. in a way, when we do a conditional

meanwhile, russia says a bridge that connects the kirsch on region with crimea peninsula still not fit for use after it was damaged by several missiles on thursday. and we will have much more on the tense situation in russia coming up as well as other stories we are following like the search for what went wrong when that titanic found submersible imploded. authorities in canada and u.s. launching investigations. we will have a report when we come back. i'm world champion skier lindsey vonn, and ever since i retired, i've had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep - you know, insomnia. which was making my days feel like uphill battle. and i don't like going uphill. th is, until i discovered something differen quviviq - a once-nightly fda -approved medication for adults with insomnia. not getting enough sleep was leaving me tired... oh come on! wait, wait! and slowing me down during my days. on your left! making even the things i love difficult. but quviviq helped me get more sleep. quviviq works differently than medication you may have taken in the past. it's thought to target one of

for "sunday today" jesse kirsch, glenco, illinois. >> they still sound beautiful. much. >>> this week we highlight another life well lived. in 1972 a young woman named mary turner walked into a southern california radio station and did something audacious. xiao digsed to be a d.j. at a time when there were very few women behind the mic. she got the gig and quickly became an institution of rock and roll. nick named the burner mary turner at the famed a.m. station kmet. >> i'm mary turner, am 47 at kmet. >> she coolly spun the extended album music, the bubbly top 40 d.j.s were not playing on the fm side. turner was known best for her long, thought full conversations with rock and roll's biggest young stars drawing out the likes of the rolling stones, david bowie and bruce springstein. >> do you really know a pretty little place down in southern california. >> i was in san diego once and believe it or not it was with my father. >> there wasn't room there for a romantic interlude. >> no, i'll run any place for that. >> her popular interview series "off the record" soon

nbc news correspondent jesse kirsch has the details. >> reporter: amazon has agreed to pay $25 millionofits when it held onto children's personal information even after parents asked the company to delete that data collected with alexa. alexa, hello. >> hi. >> that voice is practically everywhere. the ftcc says more than 100 million alexa enabled devices like this echo dot kids have been sold worldwide. and also says ring has sold more than a million cameras like this one. inindoor cameras branded as something to make the home safer, but authorities say some cameras actually left customers exposed to illegal surveillance. amazon now agreed to pay nearly $6 million over that claim. when you setup a ring camera like this one you can keep an eye on a home from afar. the federal complaint says the issues predate amazon's 2018 purchase of ring and in a statement amazon says our devices and services are built to protect customers privacy. while we disagree with the ftc claims regarding both alexa and ring ring and denied violating the law, these settlements put these behind us. both settleme

. >> so troubling, for so many of those families as well, jesse kirsch, thank you. connecticut, another building partially collapsing on friday. this one in the city of new haven. at least eight people, all of whom are construction professionals, working at the site, were injured when a portion of the building caved in. two of the victims have been hospitalized, with critical life threatening injuries. new haven mayor, justin -- spoke with reporters yesterday. listen to this. >> they were doing a concrete pour on this building. as they were pouring concrete, a portion of the second floor collapsed on to the floor and into the basement. i did want to think a moment to think that new haven fire department, who responded immediately. and ensured that there were not other people in the building. >> moments ago, as well, the president signed the debt ceiling bill to avoid default. we have this new video just in from the white house. the moment he put pen to paper. in his primetime oval address, announcing this deal last night, the president commended speaker mccarthy and

signature cup series hosting its first ever street race the action is taking place in chicago where jesse kirschengine we are on the actual track right now, going at a crawl. but this is the official pace car. right in front of us, this is the start and finish line. i want to show you something, though, because when you are looking at this, it might seem like we are in the middle of any other racetrack, but we are actually in the middle of downtown chicago, transforming for a high-speed weekend when you think of nascar, you might have something like this in mind, souped up cars flying around an oval racetrack the sport shifting in a new direction. chicago's iconic lake front transforming to host the first ever street race from nascar's marquee cup series >> one block and you are like, all right, something is going on then you get closer and you are like, oh, man, this is wild. >> one of 40 drivers racing this sunday on a 2.2 mile track on windy city roadways. >> there is actually some elevation dips here probably for drainage or water drainage. >> yeah, it slopes. >> so, yeah, we will be doing o

and as this meeting is taking place, another lawyer in the white house, eric kirsch man, figures outppening. calls in the white house counsel, pat cipollone. mark meadows ends up joining at some point. on his last day of work joins, rudy giuliani gets called in. and this goes on for hours. >> how much time did you have alone with the president -- i say alone. you had other people with you, but before the crowd came running? >> probably no more than 10 or 15 minutes. >> was in that -- >> pat cipollone set a new land speed record. >> i opened the door and i walked in, saw general flynn. i saw sidney powell sitting there. i was not happy to see the people in the oval office. >> explain why. >> i don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. >> the team had arrived with a draft executive order that, had it been signed by donald trump, would have immediately ordered the secretary of defense to seize, collect, retain, and analyze ballot boxes, and it would have created, quote, a special counsel to oversee the operation and institute all criminal and civil p