lester holt joins us ♪ ♪ >>> tonight, the jaw dropping oval office clash between president trump andsident zelenskyy. >> you don't have the cards right now. with us you start having cards. >> i'm not playing cards, mr. president. i'm very serious. >> lying to millions of people, gambling with the lives of millions of people, with world war iii. >> the president and vice president complaining zelenskyy wasn't thankful enough. president zelenskyy pushing back forcefully and things went downhill from there. his motorcade leaving as the conference was abruptly canceled. the minerals deal president trump demanded unsigned days after trump basically called him a dictator. as the war rages on, three years since russia's invasion. >>> new details in the death of gene hackman and his wife, what what happened with his pacemaker and what authorities are ruling out. >>> cdc's first advisory on measles, new states with cases and rush to vaccinate children, as the disease more contagious than covid or flu spreads quickly. >>> a new setback for the pope's health as he battles double pneumonia. >>>

i'm lester holt, please take care of yourself and each other. [applause] >> roy: yes! doing? welcome! welcome to "the kelly clarkson show." i'm your guest host for today. my name is roy wood jr. [applause] thank you. i know usually you see me on cnn saturday nights as the host of "have i got news for you," also streaming on macs, by the way. you can check out my comedy special on hulu. but today it ain't about that. today i'm up early with y'all at 30 rock to fill in for kelly and i'm also trying to take lester holt's old job at the anchor desk. please don't go, lester. we need you, lester. [applause] but if you're going to go, give them my name, lester. i can read the news. all jokes aside, i'm very happy to be here this hour. not only is today the final day of black history month, we've also got the oscars in two days. the oscars are coming up on sunday. for the audience, have most of y'all seen the best picture nominees? have y'all seen most of these films? good for you, because i ain't seeing 'em. i'm sure they're great films, but i'm one of the people, i never hav

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i'm lester holt, please take care of yourself and each other. good night.s, i mean, i know how the fire affected me, and there's always a constant fear that who's to say something like that won't happen again? that's fair. we committed to underground, 10,000 miles of electric line. you look back at where we were 10 years ago and we are in a completely different place today, and it's because of how we need to care for our communities and our customers. i hope that's true. [joe] that's my commitment. [ambient noise] 430. we have some breaking news. this is a live picture of the bay bridge. the eastbound lanes, a very large backup going all the way

so i'll take two things on that. you know, network news, nightly news, lester holt monologues, who goay, "we're my slight issue with that is, of course, whether you're a bbc anchor or an abc news anchor, everyone has their biases. that people are not coming with their own biases. "to give you the news straight, and then we give you liberal "opinion on our editorial pages." even there, of course, that news is filtered through someone�*s biases, choices, world experiences. we see that with israel, for example, and the coverage of israel, where the biases are very clear. we see that on a whole range of issues, i would say, on the economy, for example. so, i think it's good to aspire towards it. but i also think there's an important role for opinion journalism, of course, as there is in the uk. and you are very much making the case for it. i'm interested in the route that you've taken to the profile you have in the us. you mentioned columns in the guardian, the new york times, so really established legacy media brands. you've mentioned becoming a regularface on broadcast news, essential i

i'm lester holt. it is great to be with you on a saturday. we have a great lineup ahead from a rescued baby seal to an adorable baby elephant. plus, what's on your mind? everythi you need to know about eyelids and eyelashes. we'll also put you to the test in this week's pop quiz with a hollywood twist. >>> but first, let's begin on the weather front. today is the first day of march, and although some parts of the country are seeing milder temperatures lately, winter is still not officially over. and it got us thinking about one key factor in creating weather systems. i'm talking about the jet stream. our good friend, meteorologist dylan dreyer, explains. >> reporter: you've probably seen these weather maps on the news, showing those lines moving from west to east. or left to right on your screen. that's a jet stream. >> this parade of storms this weekend, storms moving west to east because of the jet stream. >> reporter: a jet stream is a fast-moving current of air flowing high in the earth's atmosphere and stretching across the entire globe.

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> > good eveng and welcome.start with the photo op that devolved into an uncomfortable spectacle the whole world is digesting tonight. president trump and vice president jd vance publicly unleashing their anger on ukraine's president zelenskyy. in raised voices, trump and vance dressing down the ukrainian leader, accusing him of being ungrateful and disrespecting the united states. the clash between allies as the leaders met to carve out a deal for ukrainian minerals prized by the united states. tensions spilling over when zelenskyy challenged vance in his belief that diplomacy is the path to peace. before it was all over, zelenskyy was literally shown the door. white house officials say he was asked to leave. a press conference featuring the two presidents abruptly canceled. president trump later posting on social media, zelenskyy is not ready for peace. our gabe gutierrez has the story. >> reporter: tonight, ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy leaving the white house empty handed after an explosive confron

i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, good night. and i don't think you'd be a tough guy without the united states. and your people are very brave. but you're either going to make a deal or we're out. what started as a hopeful day, a step toward ending the war in ukraine, is derailed with an explosive confrontation in the oval office. good evening. i'm garvin thomas. it was a scene unlike any other in american history. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky in washington to sign a deal with president trump exchanging rare earth minerals for american aid. but it all fell apart as the cameras were rolling. you invited me to have our military equipment. this war would have been over in two weeks. in three days. i heard it from putin. in three days. this is something less than two weeks. of course. yes. it's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this. zelensky w asked to leave the white house afterwards, cutting his visit short without signing the agreement before leaving washington. he did appear on fox news, commenting on h

. >>> lester holt is stepping down from "nbc nightly news".forehead is still available for pickleball. >>> and finally in england, a horse was rescued after falling halfway through a wooden bridge. welcome to my world, said one woman. [ cheers and applause ] she never goes to england. >>> biden and kamala harris might be gone and trump might be president by common sense is in short supply. case in point the nsa. the national security agency that monitors intelligence for various purposes. they know more of my darkest secrets than the doctors in the emergency room. i fall on so many things. they call me captain clumsy. it's true, if the world is a puppet, the nsa are jack dunham's fist. but what are they doing. they have obtained chat logs from within the nsa with wide-ranging discussions of, polyamory, and castration. and those are the things accomplished at work. and one nsa employee a male to female trends chatted about his brand-new adjoining saying i found i like being penetrated. i speak for millions of taxpayer americans win i say you. a