kristen dahlgren, nbc news, beaumont, texas. >>> what a beautiful story. we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. that is "nightly news" for this monday night. i'm lester holt. >>> well it's disturbing. obviously. you know, i would assume that those kinds of things would be shredded. >> right now at 6:00, are where your tax records? we found hundreds of them inside this dumpster that could expose financial records for hundreds. the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening and thanks for with us on this monday, raj mathai. >> jessica aeye giere. only on nbc bay area. a stunning discover. hundreds of tax returns complete with personal information including social security numbers. all found inside a fremont dumpster for anyone to take. nbc bay area mariana favro with how the paperwork got there. and what's being done with the papers now? >> reporter: right now, they have been taken out and they're going to be shredded tomorrow. they are safe we're happy to say. the tax returns were found in this dumpster, it was full, including this one th

nbc's kristen dahlgren has the latest. >> reporter: from a man who could sell out arenas to a sordid mea culpa. another meteoric fall from grace as tonight comedian louis c.k. comes clean. these stories are true, he writes, after five women told "the new york times" the comedian either asked to or pleasured himself in front of them without consent. the power i had over these women is that they admired me, his statement continues. i wielded that power irresponsibly. there is nothing about this that i forgive myself for. i have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything i want. i will now step back and take a long time to listen. he said he never acted without asking first, acknowledging he was in a position of power. two female comedians who accuse louis c.k. responding, you asked but we never said yes. the fallout has been swift. today the star's latest film "i love you, daddy" scrapped. netflix pulling an upcoming stand-up special. hbo wiping his content. fx ending all associations with the comedian. his management company severing ties. >> he's been criticized a lit

here's nbc's kristen dahlgren with more. >> reporter: as tim piazza's parents brace themselves for the first holiday season without their son, a dozen more of his would-be fraternity brothers now face charges. >> they then left him to die alone, and they tried to cover it up. >> reporter: the new evidence comes from a basement camera inside penn state's beta thetapi fraterni fraternity. surveillance video the district attorney says was intentionally deleted but now restored by the fbi. >> what you see is you see the brothers coming up to him, and bringing him the alcohol, and putting it up to his mouth. >> reporter: the new charges range from involuntary manslaughter to hazing. one brother charged with tampering with evidence. for allegedly deleting the video as police searched the house. plus additional charges for some of the 14 previously charged in piazza's death. according to the district attorney, the new video shows piazza given at least 18 drinks in an hour and 22 minutes. >> that's -- that's murderous almost. i mean, how -- how could you not know that that's bad? >> reporter:

kristen dahlgren, providence, rhode island. >> justice with a heart.preciate you spending part of your evening with us. this is "nightly news," for this tuesday night, i'm lester holt, for all of us at nbc >>> i can't allow you to destroy blair's wedding. >> now a horrific sexual assault allegation against gossip girl's ed westwick and wait until you hear

kristen dahlgren, thank you. >>> in washington sexual politics and charges of double standards today. president trump taking twitter shots at his liberal nemesis democrat al franken over his admission of past sexual misconduct while steering clear of the simmering controversy over conservative republican senate candidate roy moore. the president's stone throwing at franken predictably bringing back into focus the string of sexual allegations the president himself faced and denied late in the campaign. our kristen welker has more. >> reporter: the white house on defense tonight after president trump dubbed senator al franken "al frankenstein" on twitter last night. franken apologized for inappropriate sexual misconduct toward a former model and radio host during a 2006 uso tour. so why has mr. trump stayed silent all week on republican embattled senate candidate roy moore? >> he did it while he was on a foreign trip in asia. i did it repeatedly yesterday. >> reporter: the president briefly told reporters while in asia he was aware of the story and indicated he would speak further. that

here's kristen dahlgren. >> you've got a smile. >> reporter: at dr.ando's office in spotsylvania, virginia, patients still say ah but they also say mm. every day the pediatrician trades her white coat for an apron and enters her fully functional teaching kitchen. where did this idea come from? >> of frustration of seeing so many children with pediatric obesity. >> reporter: instead of lecturing patients on the benefits of good nutrition, she now shows them. smoothies, salads, how to get even the pickiest eater to celebrate spinach. >> i love it. >> i had to really show them how fun food can be and show them how to prepare the food. >> reporter: fernando also started the dr. yum project, bringing nutrition to schools and camps. kids tend to the garden, then turn the fruits of their labor into delicious dishes. it's working. 15-year-old michelle castro was prediabetic. >> getting more fruits and vegetables in your diet. >> reporter: now she's lost more than ten pounds and has fewer health problems. >> it's a great day for me if i give more recipes out t

kristen dahlgren has the latest. >> reporter: as intense flames rip through the senior living center, some residents trapped inside in beds and wheelchairs unable to escape the raging inferno. >> it was heavy black smoke. you can't see. you couldn't see. >> reporter: nurse assistant toni struthers was on duty, just one of the countless heroes who rushed in to help. >> i didn't think about me running out. i thought about getting them out to safety first. >> reporter: as she roused residents, high winds spread the blaze. >> they need as many ems units at the scene as they can get. >> reporter: hundreds of firefighters were soon joined by neighbors. >> a lot of them don't have anywhere to go tomorrow and their families are scared and it's just sad. >> reporter: andrew and luke took an uber from their college 20 minutes away. >> at first we were just looking for my grandmother. >> it was a moment of panic. >> reporter: but even after his own grandma was safe they stayed pushing others from danger. >> a after we knew she was safe, we were going to help at that incident po. what other optio

here is nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: as tim piazza's parents brace themselves for their fir hn more of his would-be fraternity brothers face charges. >> they left him to die alone, and they tried to cover it up. >> reporter: the new evidence comes from a basement camera inside the beta theta pi fraternity, surveillance video the district attorney says was intentionally delete bud now restored by the fbi. >> what you see is you see the brothers coming up to him and bringing him the alcohol and putting it up to his mouth. >> reporter: the new charges range from involuntary manslaughter to hazing. one brother charged with tampering with evidence for allegedly deleting the video as police searched the house. plus additional charges for some of the 14 previously charged in piazza's death. according to the district attorney, the new video shows piazza given at least 18 drinks in an hour and 22 minutes. >> that's -- that's murderous almost. how could you not know that that's bad? >> reporter: prosecutors say no one called 911 until almost 12 hours after piazza first fell down the sta

kristen dahlgren with tonight's "inspiring america" report. >> reporter: many kids focus on what they get this year, walt would rather give. >> i heard a lot about giving, and i thought maybe i could be one of those givers. >> reporter: a second grader with a heart bigger than he is, collecting pajamas for kids in foster care. chloe couldn't stop thinking about a homeless on the way to school. now she puts together bags of necessities for those in need. >> giving me a hug is good thousand dollars to me, very valuable. >> reporter: both are gofundme kid heroes, 100 of the most generous among us, featured in a new campaign by the giving site. on this giving tuesday, each granted $1,000 more for their favorite causes. >> not only are the kids compassionate but super creative and their appetite to solve the world's problems is so large and inspiring. >> reporter: amiah sells lemonade to help pay off school lunch debts. >> helping the world by setting example for other people. i'm still a kid though. >> reporter: kids showing us all that age doesn't matter when you want to change the world

our kristen dahlgren is in philadelphia with the latest. >> reporter: just before 5:00 p.m., a rare 4.1 magnitude earthquake hit near dover, delaware. >> the house was shaking. i had no idea what it was. i thought maybe it was a close flying plane. i had no idea. but our house was shaking. >> reporter: it was the strongest ek esest earthquake to strike the east coast when a quake hit d.c. shaking the nation's capital so strongly it cracked the washington monument. >> this is a large earthquake for the east coast. it's one of the largest in the last decade and is felt from new york to washington, d.c. >> reporter: this earthquake caught the region by surprise. now, some people here say they didn't even feel it. they only learned about it afterwards on social media, but experts say with an earthquake like this, a 4.1 magnitude, the average aftershock is about a 3.1. so people in this area, especially in delaware, can expect more smhaking in the coming days. >> kristen dahlgren in philadelphia, thanks. >>> now to the drama erupting inside the president's cabinet, the white house denying re

i imagine that they would have gotten here very quickly. >> kristen dahlgren, nbc news correspondent. kristen, thank you for helping us through this thing, much appreciated. joining us here in studio is bill bratton, new york city police commissioner until last year. thank you for coming in. you heard kristen saying in that part of new york you don't have to go far to find a patrol officer. what do you know today, what have you been able to learn in terms of the immediate police response, the way the police are handling this, and what it means for this to be a joint police/fbi investigation going forward? >> on any day, new york city and particularly manhattan is the most heavily policed place in america. probably more so than washington, d.c. it's something that the nypd has consciously done since 9/11 in particular. and down in the world trade center area, this awful tragedy, the idea that it occurred within sight of those horrific events of now 16 years ago, it's so ironic. >> this was like a mile from the trade center. >> if not actually planned by this individual. so the fact tha

nbc's kristen dahlgren is live on the scene in tribeca. nderstand that you talked to one of the witnesses who is being called a hero today. what did he tell you? >> reporter: hey, good morning, craig, yeah. so many ordinary people with just these extraordinary stories from yesterday afternoon. the man i talked to, an eyewitness, his name was anthony. he was actually bringing -- going to pick up his son from school and that's when he heard a crash. he looked and he saw the suspect getting out of that car with guns in the air. at the time he didn't know that they were fake and he started pushing the kids back inside yelling about somebody with a gun. he then went to get police. you mentioned that word "hero," though, here's what he said when i asked him about that. >> i just reacted. and i did what i think was right. and i hope somebody else would do that if my son was outside that school. pushing them back in. >> reporter: so just an extraordinary story from him. he definitely is a hero today. another hero, ryan nash, that officer. he was on

kristen dahlgren explains. >> all rise. >> reporter: in the courtroom people seek absolution for theiric sins. >> are you ready to confess? >> i am, i feel like this is confession. >> reporter: court where common sense rules. park one minute before it's illegal. >> it's close enough to 10:00, dismissed. i don't wear a badge under my robe but a heart. i don't think there's anything wrong with that. >> reporter: courtroom videos now viral, showing compassion for broke and brokenhearted. like this woman struggling with death of her son. >> i'm not going to leave you with $5, i'm going to dismiss everything. >> reporter: once came worried about lost revenue. >> not revenue enhancement officer but judge. what did you have for breakfast? charge is zero, she buys you breakfast. >> reporter: sometimes helps with tough decisions. >> i can charge him $30 or nothing, what do you think i should do? >> $30. >> reporter: there is just one rule. >> i don't like when people lie to me, i want to know what the problem is. >> reporter: tell the truth, maybe get a break, a hug and at very least a reason t

nbc's kristen dahlgren has the inspiring america report. >> oh, my gosh. >> unlike a lot of teen boys, 16-year-old anthony berry doesn't shy away from showing his momma fex. maybe because she wasn't always mama. this time last year she was dr. berry, an english teacher at the alternative school where anthony was sent for discipline problems. he was the son of drug addicts. stuck in foster care for seven ye i wasn't wanted. >> when one forever home fell through, he vowed he would never put his heart on the line again. >> how against adoption were you? >> i did not want anything to do with it. >> when he and classmates joked about wanting to live with their favorite teacher, something clicked. >> we talked about it. the next day he showed me the website. >> he asked berry to adopt him. >> it wasn't hard for me to say no, he has too much potential, give me the papers. >> this month at 43, the teacher who wasn't planning to become a mom made it official. opening her home and her heart to her new son. >> if it wasn't for her, i wouldn't know where would i be right now. >> the boy who was o

kristen dahlgren in lower manhattan. >>> u.s. energy secretary rick perry says bringing fossil fuels and energy to african villages will have an impact on sexual assault. he was at an axiom forum. here's what he said. >> from the standpoint of sexual assault, when the lights are on, when you have light, it shines the righteousness, if you will, of, on those types of acts. so from the standpoint of how you really affect peoples lives, fossil fuels will play a role in that. i happen to think it's going to play a positive role. >> not sure what the specific focus on fossil fuels are, because any energy generation can give you light. the progressive group sierra club called on perry to resign. >>> reps from facebook and google testified for hours again on capitol hill this week. at least two senators say it was not enough. calling on the ceos of all three companies to lay out the specifics of how they plan to keep russia in future from meddling in elections. during the hearings we learned even more americans were exposed to the russi

now to kristen dahlgren in tribeca in lower manhattan. you have been out there talking to witnesses this morning, and what they're describing is, frankly, just horrific. >> reporter: it is, hallie, these were normal people doing normal things at 3:30 in the afternoon on halloween. they were out and object. i talked to one father who was picking up his 12-year-old son from school. he heard a crash and then saw somebody get out of the truck with two guns in the air. he started yelling to the kids, get back inside. he was pushing them, trying to protect them from what he thought was a shooter. here's what he had to say about what he saw. >> he had his hands up in the air and i saw guns in his hands, waving them, and coming towards me. but then he went around the truck and went to west side highway. i literally went and started grabbing kids and said, get back in the school! get back in the school! there's a shooter, there's a shooter! and i was pushing the kids back in the school, looking for my son, to make sure he was not out. i didn't see

as kristen dahlgren reports, video was apparently deleted by one of the fraternity brothers. >> as timace themselves for the first holiday season without their son, a dozen fraternity brothers now face charges. >> they then left him to die alone and they tried to cover it up. >> reporter: the new evidence from a basement camera inside penn state's beta theta pi fraternity. the district attorney says it was intentiona now restored by the fbi. >> what you see is you see the brothers coming up to him and bringing him the alcohol and putting it up to his mouth. >> reporter: the new charges range from involuntary manslaughter to hazing. one brother charged with tampering with evidence for allegedly deleting the video as police searched the house. according to the district attorney, the new video shows piazza given at least 18 drinks in an hour and 22 minutes. >> that's murderous almost. how could you not know that that's bad? >> reporter: prosecutors say no one called 9-1-1 until almost 12 hours after piazza first fell down the stairs. in september, a judge dismissed the original felony cha

kristen dahlgren reports now. >> reporter: as intense flames ripped through the senior living center, some residents trapped inside. in beds and wheelchairs unable so escape the raging inferno. >> it was heavy black smoke. you couldn't see. >> reporter: this nurse assistant was on duty. just one of the countless heroes to rushed in to help. >> i didn't think about me running out and leaving them in. i thought about getting them out to safety first. >> reporter: as she roused residents, high winds spread the blaze. >> they need as many ems units at the scene as they can get. >> reporter: hundreds of firefighters were soon joined by neighbors. >> a lot of them don't have anywhere to go tomorrow and their families are scared and it's just sad. >> reporter: andrew and luke took an uber from their college 20 minutes away. >> at first we were just looking for my grandmother. >> it was a moment of panic. >> reporter: but even after his own grandmother was safe, they stayed pushing others from danger. >> once we knew she was safe, we were going to help at that point. what other option do you

nbc's kristen dahlgren reports from west chester, pennsylvania. >> reporter: as intense flames ripped through the senior living center, some residents trapped inside, in beds and wheelchairs, unable to escape the raging infer inferno. >> heavy black smoke. you couldn't see. >> reporter: nurse assistant e toni was on duty. >> i didn't think of me, running out abut getting them out first >> reporter: high winds spread the blaze. >> they need as many ems units to the scene as they can get. >> reporter: hundreds of firefighters were joined by neighbors. >> a lot of us don't have anywhere to go tomorrow. their families are scared. it's sad. >> reporter: andrew and luke took an uber from their college 20 minutes aw. my grandmother. >> it was a moment of panic. >> reporter: even after his own grandmother was safe, they stayed, pushing others from danger. >> once we knew she was safe, we were going to help at that point. what other option do you have? >> reporter: 27 were injured. the mayor telling nbc news, some people are still missing. police won't confirm how many people are unaccounted f

here's nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: this morning, officials are investigating what caused a massive blaze toer the through a senior citizen facility thursday. overnight, flames ripping through the community in westchester, 30 miles west of philadelphia. >> multiple calls, reporting flames on the roof. p.d. is advising the entire building is on fire in the rear. >> when i looked out the window, it looked like a sunset. that's how big the flames were going at that point. >> reporter: the flames spreading to multiple buildings. forcing employees to rush through residents' rooms, frantically working to get everyone out alive. >> at this time, emergency personnel have relocatedlocatrl. >> reporter: dozens of residents were lined up on the street outside, wrapped in blankets, while the personnel worked for more energy help. >> i don't think we need more fire. we need ambulances. >> reporter: neighbors scrambled to the scene. jumping in to help get seniors out of arm's way. pushing them in wheelchairs away from the fire and transporting them to temporary shelters. >> my friend said, bring

nbc's kristen dahlgren has more. >> reporter: bodies and mangled bicycles strewn across this new yorkleast eight people dead after a truck sped down this popular bike track intentionally hitting pedestrians and cyclists. >> all the people on the ground. >> reporter: the attack targeted a school bus injuring two adults and two children inside. and this shows the suspect running from the scene with something in his hand. >> i saw the guy with two guns. the guy with two guns for some reason was running around. he was getting chased. all of a sudden four shots went off and we started running this way. >> reporter: he was shot by an on duty patrol officer and taken into custody. the suspect is now being treated at a local hospital. >> this was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civili civilians. >> reporter: the nypd that had been focused on heavy security for the halloween parade a few blocks away now consider it an act of terror. the man screamed sal eed allah. >> we will be more vigilant. police everywhere. you'll see them in the airports, you'l

i'm joined by kristen dahlgren covering the victims.res. nine remain in the hospital, four still in critical condition today. as for those killed the consulate general of belgium says one woman from that country was killed. he says she was a mother. she had a baby. also five men from argentina celebrating their 30-year anniversary of celebrating high school. >> we hear about people who are injured and learned this morning from this briefing some of those injuries are quite, quite serious. some people have been released from the hospital. kristen, thank you. pete williams, thank you to you. much more on nbc.com. we'll see you tonight on "nbc nightly news"at sounds good. >> mike turico is going to host the prime time coverage for all of us. he's already in pyeongchang, mike, tell us about it, what can we expect? >> well good morning, we have the youth of south korea, here 100 days away from the 23rd olympic winter games. and pyeongchang is getting the attention of the global sports fans because this will be the first asian city to host th