nbc news, new york. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. from all of us here at nbc news, new york. from all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >> good evening, everyone. i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm peggy bunker. crews are reportedly collecting evidence and bodies from the sprawling crash site of malaysia airlines flight mh-17. the pro russian separatists suspected of shooting down the airliner have allowed international investigators only brief visits into that area. today secretary of state john kerry is now calling on the russian government to follow through on its promises to ensure a fair investigation. brian mooar has the story now from washington. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry laid out a case suggesting pro-russian rebels shot down a malaysian passenger jet overai

they're adorable. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is ""nbc nightly news"" with lester holt. >> good evening. as the obama administration struggles to stem the surge of central american migrants crossing into the united states, it is the children many making the journey without their families who are presenting the biggest practical and political challenge to officials here. the dilemma? grant them refuge or send them back? in a few minutes you'll hear the homeland security secretary's answer to that during an interview today with david gregory. first, we want to take you to where many of those kids begin their dangerous 1,000-mile trek to america. their fates placed in the hands of strangers and ultimately if they make it that far, a country that says it doesn't want them. our stephanie gosk has made her way to near the honduras/guatemala border, which is where we begin tonight. >> reporter: for honduran kids traveling by themselves, the journey really begins here. adults are allowed to cross into guatemala legally, but the children are not. so they come

for all of us here at nbc news, new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> fire comes close to bay area homes. crews battle flames and hot, dry conditions. the latest as crews remain on scene watching for hot spots. >>> high-end shops in union square closed for business. the damage caused by flooding and hear from the people who are disappointed. >>> air strikes and fighting intensify in the middle east. tens of thousands told to evacuate as israeli troops move into gaza. >>> i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm peggy bunker. new details on a grass fire in fairfield. the fire is now contained but earlier several homes were evacuated. those people have been let back in. the fire broke out about 2:00 in a g

>> announcer: from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. >> good evening. with american fighter jets providing cover along with a force of u.s. marines, more than 150 americans were evacuated from libya after heavy fighting in tripoli forced the closure of the u.s. embassy there. libya has been increasingly unstable with rival militias engaged in some of the fiercest fighting of the gadhafi regime today's exodus has large implications which helped topple gadhafi and the threat of the bloody 2012 attack on the american consulate in benghazi. we begin our coverage with white house correspondent kristen welker. >> reporter: the evacuation was necessary to protect the more than 150 americans in tripoli. it's the worst violence in the area since the revolution in 2011. th u.s. embassy was caught in the middle of intense fighting between the militia causing the americans to be evacuated. john kerry inherits on a diplomatic mission. >> because of the free wheeling militia that is taking place in tripoli, it presents a very real threat. >> it took abo

in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. we're going to start here tonight with what may be happening outside your door this evening. severe weather, violent weather system working its way from the midwest to the east tonight, with millions of people in its path. we've already seen strong thunderstorms and large hail in a vast stretch extending from illinois all the way to massachusetts. and as we look now at live radar, parts of kentucky, ohio, eastern tennessee, west virginia, and pennsylvania are under tornado watches, and what could be a very tough and dangerous night. we'll get the latest guidance on the storms in a moment. >>> but first, nbc's john yang tells us what they've done so far. >> reporter: large hail, intense lightning, high winds and dangerous thunderstorms pushed through several states, including illinois and kentucky. triggering a tornado warnings and watches. a tornado touched down in central connecticut this afternoon with estimated winds of 85 miles an hour. several homes were damaged in wolcott. heavy

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. it's the kind of thing that is bound to happen more frequently now. and it happened last night at a hospital in charlotte when a patient entered the emergency room with a certain set of symptoms and nerves were on edge because everyone is now aware the ebola virus is now officially considered out of control in west africa. so much so the u.s. peace corps is pulling its volunteers from the region. the uk is talking about how to prevent its spread through airline passengers into england. now, two americans are still fighting for their lives being held in isolation in liberia. it's where we begin tonight again with our chief medical correspondent dr. nancy snyderman. >> reporter: health care workers are on high alert. today there was a concern about a patient who came to a hospital in charlotte, north carolina, who had flown in from africa last night. a hospital corridor was shut down. >> once we got more information about the patient, we realized that it was essential

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. it is not an all-out war but it's awfully close. and right now this back and forth firing between hamas and israel is preparing to take a pause, a temporary humanitarian ceasefire, so they can get aid into gaza where upwards of a million people are without water and where most of the casualties have been civilians. many signs continue to point to israel now preparing to move on the ground. they've activated 52,000 ground troops in that nation where military service is mandatory. this cycle of violence continues when hamas launches rockets from gaza rather, israel hits back. well, today sadly our cameras were there when disaster struck when civilians were hit and killed including four children. it's where we start again here tonight, our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has made his way to tel aviv. rich ar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this brief pause isn't even an attempt to try to end this conflict. it's just a way to get some supplies to

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. it was early this morning on a summer friday and most americans have no idea what was happening in the skies above them. a flight from canada southbound to panama was over the united states when a passenger onboard is alleged to have become agitated and made a remark about a bomb. the response included f-16 jets escorting the plane back to canada. and once it had performed a huge u-turn and was back on the ground, the video you're about to see and hear shows not only the hair-trigger response of aviation security but also how militarized law enforcement has become these days. it's where we begin tonight. nbc's tom costello covers aviation for us. he's in our d.c. newsroom. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. at one point this morning air traffic control, law enforcement and defense authorities from both the u.s. and canada were tracking this plane and coordinating their joint response as norad dispatched american fighter jets from ohio. >> heads down! heads down

>>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> providing cover overhead along with the force of u.s. marines, more than 150 americans were evacuated from libya today after heavy fighting in tripoli forced the abrupt closure of the u.s. embassy there. libya has become increasingly unstable in recent weeks with rival militias engaged in some of the fiercest fighting since the fall of the moammar gadhafi regime. large implications for the u.s. which helped topple gadhafi and the fresh memory of the bloody 2012 attack on the american consulate in benghazi. we begin our coverage with nbc white house correspondent kristen welker. good evening. >> reporter: lester, good evening. the evacuation was necessary to protect the more than 150 members at the u.s. embassy in tripoli. experts say it's the worst violence since 2011. the u.s. embassy caught in intense rival between militias prompting americans to be evacuated. u.s. secretary of state john kerry in paris on a diplomatic mission. >> because of the free wheeling violence taking place in tripoli

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening and happy independence day. i'm kate snow in for brian tonight. for a lot of americans, it was a wet and windy one, thanks to hurricane arthur. the storm caused many towns along the east coast to cancel holiday plays, parades and fireworks. when it made landfall overnight, arthur was a category two storm, the first of this hurricane season. and take a look at this view from space. north carolina has never seen a hurricane hit so early in the season. the good news, no deaths are reported, but the storm did do some damage. tropical storm warnings are still in effect this evening in massachusetts, with watches farther to the north. we have team coverage for you tonight. we begin with nbc's kerry sanders in kill devil hills, north carolina. kerry? >> reporter: well, kate, this was a deceptive hurricane, packing a serious punch. the region escaped widespread devastation. there are no reports of serious injuries. just tonight, thousands who are still waiting,

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nbc news, washington. the united states today accused the soviet union of shooting down a korean airline jumbo jet carrying 269 including congressman larry mcdonald of georgia and perhaps 30 other americans. there are not thought to be any survivors. the airliner which originated in new york was on a flight from anchorage, alaska, to seoul, south korea. the u.s. claimed that soviet fighters tracked the korean 747 for more than 2 hours as it swerved off course and wandered in and out of soviet airspace. >> the president was first informed the korean plane was missing last night but not until this morning he was told the soviets shot it down. presidential counselor said the president was, quote, very angry about the attack. later spokesman larry speakes had a formal statement. >> the president is very concerned and deeply disturbed about the loss of life aboard the korean airlines flight overnight. there are no circumstances that can justify the unprecedented attack on an unarmed aircraft. the soviet union o

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news with brian williams." >>> good evening. tonight we want to show you what happened today when the people of a small country came out in droves to make up for lost time, to make up for the treatment of their citizens, the abuse and neglect of the human remains at the malaysia airlines crash site in eastern ukraine. the dutch people today paid tribute to their own, 193 of the 298 people who died on that flight were dutch. while they ended up in a battlefield, they were just civilians murdered on a commercial flight from amsterdam to asia. what we witnessed there today was solemn and emotional and dignified, precisely what the dead deserved. we begin tonight with nbc's katy tur in amsterdam. ♪ >> reporter: a lone bugle signaled a moment of silence at the airport. 40 bodies, 40 coffins, the first of hundreds of remains that will be brought here. victims from more than a dozen countries. at the airport to greet them the dutch king and queen, foreign dignitaries and shielded from view, family members. a simple cere

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news with brian williams". >>> good evening. brian has the night off. i'm lester holt. july fourth holiday plans are on hold tonight for a lot of folks living and vacationing along the north carolina coast and potentially beyond as the season's first tropical storm arthur gains strength, threatening to become a hurricane tonight or tomorrow. a state of the emergency has been declared for coastal counties in north carolina, including the outer banks, already under a hurricane warning. arthur is packing maximum sustained winds of 70 miles an hour, just below hurricane strength, and could make landfall by friday morning. the latest tracking on arthur in a moment, but first kerry sanders in kill devil hills, north carolina, with the urgent preparations now under way. hi, kerry. >> reporter: good evening, lester. those who live in this area and have experienced nasty weather before know that even a tropical storm can be very dangerous. arthur is expected to impact this area as early as friday morning. and by then,

nbc news, washington. the united states today accused the soviet union of shooting down a korean airline jumbo jet carrying 269 including congressman larry mcdonald of georgia and perhaps 30 other americans. there are not thought to be any survivors. the airliner which originated in new york was on a flight from anchorage, alaska, to seoul, south korea. the u.s. claimed that soviet fighters tracked the korean 747 for more than 2 hours as it swerved off course and wandered in and out of soviet airspace. >> the president was first informed the korean plane was missing last night but not until this morning he was told the soviets shot it down. presidential counselor said the president was, quote, very angry about the attack. later spokesman larry speakes had a formal statement. >> the president is very concerned and deeply disturbed about the loss of life aboard the korean airlines flight overnight. there are no circumstances that can justify the unprecedented attack on an unarmed aircraft. the soviet union o

>>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. we suspect but don't know for sure that there are loved ones, crash victims, human remains still lying in a field in eastern ukraine five days after their wide-bodied jet was taken out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile. some of the bodies have been put in bags and loaded into rail cars. many people have walked through that wreckage and trampled on the evidence and people's possessions. the president today expressed his frustration, so have civilized people around the world. incredulous that a commercial air disaster is being handled or mishandled in this way. it's where we begin tonight with nbc's keir simmons in ukraine. >> reporter: train cars packed with bodies were taken away today. no one knows when they will be returned to their families. 282 discovered so far, laid on the ground in the hot sun before finally being loaded into refrigerated rail cars, inspected by a team of dutch forensic experts who arrived this afternoon and must identify each individual. >>

mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you back here tomorrow on "today" and right back here tomorrow evening. good night. nbc's keir simmons went the day at the scene and joins us from donetsk. >> reporter: some of the dead being carried away today, the bodies of passengers whose relatives around the world are waiting. but it took two full days after flight mh-17 was blown out of the sky over the ukrainian countryside. there is debris scattered across this entire area. and people's possessions are everywhere. their suitcases, clothes, here a diary, a cuddly toy and a child's life jacket. further along, we found blackened earth where a big part of the plane came down in flames. the crime scene guarded by just a few men. there's a growing

ron mott, nbc news, new york. >>> we're back in a moment with the strange reason the beatles are in the news tonight. >>> this following picture had a lot of new yorkers saying the same thing today. if someone can sneak up to the towers of the brooklyn bridge and replace the american flags with white flags, what else can they do? and how safe can our landmarks really be despite all this talk of homeland security? we've already seen base jumpers make their way to the roof of buildings like the new world trade center. surveillance video shows someone climbed up there and replaced old glory with what appeared to be bleached american flags made white. still unclear what they were supposed to signify. nobody surrendered today, and there's been no claim of responsibility. >>> they are old men now, but 45 years ago this week, they were the young astronauts on their way home from the moon. there's michael collins on the left. he piloted the command module. next to him is buzz aldrin. second man on the moon. with them in spirit in the oval office today was the late great neil armstrong, they wer

now new york's emergency services have a big problem on their hands. our report tonight from nbc's ron mott. >> i did nothing. i stood here the whole time minding my business. >> reporter: amateur video shows new york city police officers confronting 43-year-old eric garner. suspected of illegally selling cigarettes. >> i did not sell nothing. don't touch me. [ bleep ]. >> reporter: an officer appears to apply a choke hold, a maneuver prohibited by the department. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter: garner was later pronounced dead. the official cause is pending. the video sparked protest. his widow overcome by emotion during one of the rallies. the growing outrage extends to four emergency workers who also responded to the scene. witnesses say no effort was made to resuscitate garner while he lied on the sidewalk here. and bystanders took note of that as well on video. >> gentle giant. >> reporter: aisha knew garner and captured the scene. the video does not show garner being given cpr, oxygen or other treatment before he's lifted onto a stretcher. >> i had to film.

. >> from nbc news headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >> good evening. tonight, president obama is in texas, so close and yet so far from an on going and exploding humanitarian crisis, with people pouring over the southern u.s. border by tens of thousands. the president did meet tonight with one of his harshest critics. the republican governor of texas, rick perry. it's where we begin our coverage of the region and this humanitarian crisis tonight. our senior white house correspondent chris jansing traveling with the president in texas. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. after days of back and forth over whether this meeting would even happen, the president is in that private terminal behind me with governor perry and about ten other officials talking about the crisis on the border. and in fact, the president and the governor is had some one-on-one time in the ride over here on marine one. all of it, part of a series of carefully negotiated compromises. but coming to some sort of common ground with congress will be far more difficul

thanks for being with us. >> this is a special edition of nbc bay area news. what they are finding on the ground, a field of horror, wreckage, bodies in a war torn area of ukraine. the malaysian jetliner heading from amsterdam to kuala lumpur shot down with 289 people on board. lives ended with bitter conflict between ukraine and russia. no one is stepping forward to accept responsibility. a ukrainian government official says the plane was shut down by a russian built missile. a system used by both russia and ukraine. officials tell nbc news they have confirmation a ground to aramis shill knocked that 777 out of the sky. >> this is a politically charged story as well. president obama called ukraine's president pothis afternoon. mark matthews has reaction tonight but we begin with steven stock from our investigative unit. steph stephen, there were warnings here for several airlines. >> that's right, raj. we pieced together several flight paths over europe and over this region dating back over the last several weeks. though many airlines do appear to have avoide

in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> welcome back once again here as weour coverage of these two major stories tonight starting with the apparent shooting down of a malaysia airlines 777 passenger jet over ukraine. here is what the "new york times" has written tonight. "headphones and computers were scattered throughout a field of sunflowers. in another field a dutch passport lay open. bodies fell from the sky looking like rags or clumps of ash." that's what's left of a massive wide bodied jet and 295 souls on board. according to

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> we're back in a moment with a big summer change on the way across a big part of the country. >>> plus, the strange thing happening tonight in one of the most beautiful places in our country. >>> movies have the oscars, television has the emmys and the nominations were announced this morning. we put the entire list on our website tonight. there were the usual complement of surprises and snubs. hbo got 99 nominations. almost twice as many as the nearest of the big four networks while still relative newcomer netflix got 31. your 66th annual emmy awards will be monday night, august 25th. >>> the weather is in the news. in terms of extremes and in some of the places where it now really feels like summer, here are today's daytime highs. perfectly average for july but wait, next week, what one forecaster is billing the polar vortex sequel. a pool of cold air from the gulf of alaska flowing over the great lakes down on to the east coast and upper midwest bringing temperatures way down. >>> if you have been to the stunningly beautiful confines of yellowstone

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his piece for "the intercept" at first look media is "nbc news pulls veteran reporter from gaza afternessing israeli attack on children." we are also with democracy now! correspondent sharif abdel kouddous, who knows ayman mohyeldin well. sharif abdel kouddous is in gaza city. glenn greenwald, talk about what you found out yesterday. >> interestingly, this came to my attention because there were people inside of nbc news, including high-profile journalists that were angry that first of all when nbc news with brian williams reported of the killing of the beach -- on the beach, instead of having the reporter who witnessed this first hand instead have richard engel do the reporting from tel aviv. you could chalk that up to standard news machinations about who is the bigger star, and the like, but what is stunning is of the biggest events in his journalism career, where he made a huge impact on having the world understand what is onlyning in gaza, they not blocked him from appearing on the air to talk about it on nbc news, but they told him to leave gaza immediately. when i interviewed nb

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. tonight, a veteran u.s. crash investigator says it's an outrage and an insult to the remains of the victims that the crash scene of malaysia airlines flight 17 is not being treated the way it normally would because the carcass of that wide body jet came down in disputed territory in a war zone having been hit by a surface-to-air missile. no one has roped off the wreckage. there was fighting 60 miles from the crash site today, and reports of shots fired at the scene of the wreckage. some of it came down in a field of sunflowers. elsewhere you can find playing cards, comic books, coloring books, ribbons made from torn cotton sheets on stakes mark the location of the bodies. tonight, we know more about the victims, who they were, where they were from. and sadly it will be some time before their loved ones are reunited with their remains. tom costello starts off our coverage tonight from our washington newsroom. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. president obama ins

rehema ellis, nbc news, los angeles. >>> we'll take a break and be back in a moment with the greatest show on earth. coming this weekend. >>> the state of tennessee has lost two titans in just the last 16 days. first came the death of former senator howard baker. now today the death of john seigenthaler. while nbc news viewers came to know his son of the same name, john, sr., the patriarch is being remembered as a legend in the south and a champion of journalism and the first amendment. he was the long time editor of the nashville tennessean who showed such great courage in the civil rights struggle. he twice worked for bobby kennedy. he was an air force veteran and effortless writer with the restless mind. he loved the newspaper business and later had a hand in shaping "usa today." he meant the world to tennessee and he loved it right back. john seigenthaler was 86 years old. >>> on the eve of the world cup finals it has occurred to several million people around the world these two teams playing for all of it represent the home nations of two living current and former popes and they

live from ocean city, new jersey, cydney long, nbc 10 news. >>> south of cydney now, north carolina, thousands are leaving the outer banks ahead of this storm. >> nbc 10's jay gray joins us live from kill devil hills where people are packinging up and heading inland. jay, what is the scene there? >> reporter: hey there jacqueline and jim a few people still trying to get a couple more hours in before things take a turn for the worse. they are definitely doing that though, feeling it. the winds are picking up, the surf is building as arthur begins to move into the outer banks. a line of thick, dark clouds pushes across the carolina coast, a line of cars crowds the road leading away from the outer banks. >> arthur's just not worth playing. >> reporter: the first named storm of the season continues to get stronger as it moves closer to the shoreline. the intensity just too much for many tourists who had hoped to spend their fourth of july holiday here. >> packing up and heading home. trying to beat the storm, just in case. >> make sure the family's safe. >> reporter: locals, who have been

joe fryar, nbc news, seattle. >>> and we are back in a moment with the pilot being praised tonight for his actions on the ground. >>> well, you probably heard about this, the new tallest water slide in the world. after questions about its safety, they released this video this week of the guy who designed it going down it. he described it as terrifying. it opens to the media tomorrow. it's at the schlitterbahn water park, a big summer attraction out in suburban kansas city. the name means slippery road in german. it's appropriate. and this new water slide at the schlitterbahn is called the verruckt. just to get people like us to say schlitterbahn and verruckt in one sentence. it's not for the out of shape or faint of heart. you have to climb 243 steps to go up, it's 17 stories down at 65 miles an hour. we're going to try to put it to the test ourselves tomorrow with a correspondent. >>> and a couple states to the east, the state that has given us eight american presidents would like very much to be the place where they nominate the next republican president. gop has awarded its 2016 con

joining me now from the white house is nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. the latest? >> we have breaking news at this hour. i can tell you president obama, who is in new york right now attending two fundraisers. upon arriving in new york he placed a phone call to his national security team. he also called secretary of state john kerry. in both phone calls he discussed the tragedy of the downed malaysia airlines flight. in speaking with his national security team he said the goal right now is to get international investigators to the region to help out in the investigation as quickly as possible. vice president joe biden earlier today said ukraine had accepted the u.s.'s offer for help in its investigation. he said those international investigators are ready to move immediately. president obama, again, when he spoke from delaware earlier today, you heard him say the top priority is determining whether there were, in fact, americans on board that flight. >> right. >> i can tell you behind the scenes here at the white house, senior administration officials hav

i will spell it all out for you. >>> all new tonight on nbc 10 news at 5:00, new vud yo from a deadlyotel fire in south jersey. investigators tell nbc 10 how this started and who is to blame. that's coming up at 5:00. >>> the wawa welcome america festivities continue. tonight it's the return of "roc "rocky." you can see a free screening. the movie starts at 9:00. another philadelphia favorite was celebrated today as part of the welcome america fun. it's hoagie day. they built a five-ton hoagie. it was made up of thousands of shorties. they weren't just for show. they were served up for free to a hungry lunchtime crowd. >>> nbc10.com has your complete guide to festivities in philly and the surrounding communities. find out about fire works times and locations, road detours and more right now on nbc10.com. >>> all the extreme heat and hmm has triggered thunderstorms. some of them with a lot of lightning, hail, strung gusty winds and more to come as we go through the evening. the poconos have been the area hardest hit. you can see things have quieted down a bit. there's is it rain there

nbc news, los angeles. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." then right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> good evening. i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm terry mcsweeney. happening now, the last football game ever at candlestick park is less than an hour away. guys like montana, rice, white and a list of memories goes on and on. christie smith is there. so many great memories because of those guys. >> reporter: 16 and number 80 out here, montana and rice, that's what these fans are coming out here to see. they want to see a little bit of that old 49ers magic. this is some of the crowd out here. it's gotten very crowded within the last 30 minutes. almost feels like a regular niners game. fans

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> up next here tonight, any ideas out there about how to make the tsa process faster other than abolishing the tsa? if so, they'd like to hear from you and they're willing to pay top dollar. >>> could be if you have dollar in your name it means you're going to rake in a lot of them. two big retail giants are getting together, dollar tree agreed today to buy family dollar stores for over $8 billion in all. the combined chain will have 13,000 stores in 48 states and canada. that's more stores than walmart. >>> a big anniversary in world history, world war i started 100 years ago today. of course they didn't call it that because no one could imagine a second world war after the conflict called around the world, the war to end all wars. it was triggered, as you may know, by the assassination of arch duke ferdinand of austria a month prior. it killed close to 2% of the world's population. approximately 18 million people. there were commemorations today throughout europe. >>> and high above new york city today a silent anniversary of what happened on this

sarah dolloff, nbc news. >> our coverage continues on nbcbayarea.com. coming up in "nbc nightly news," a live report from the wreckage of malaysia flights 17. as evidence grows that pro-russian rebels are hindering the investigation. >>> thousands of people are getting ready for the bay area's largest aids fund-raiser. the san francisco aids walk kicks off tomorrow at golden gate park. nbc bay area's derek shore joins us with live with more. >> reporter: as aids walk continues to set up here at golden gate park, plans tomorrow will be to remember those who they have lost from the disease but as you mentioned, they will also be remembering those researchers who died on that fateful flight and worked so hard to beat the deadly disease. this was one of six researchers who were on board the malaysia flight shot down over eastern ukraine. the researchers were en route to an international aids conference in australia. he is credited in broadening the reach of life of saving drugs in third world countries. organizers here of the aids walk say they are dedicati

good morning, everyone, this is nbc 10 news today. i'm chris cato.we have leave team coverage of the storm's aftermath. jesse gary is checking on cleanup this morning and meteorologist bill henley is tracking the possibility of more thunderstorms later today. let's start with you, bill. >> we saw wind gusts of more than 60 miles an hour, the storms passing through last night. there's a possibility of strong thunderstorms, especially this afternoon. scattered clouds, still showers tracking through delaware and heading towards south jersey even at this hour. dover is seeing light rainfall but there's one area of heavier rainfall that's just pushing into delaware bay, moving into cumberland county in the next few minutes. otherwise it will be a waiting game for more storms this afternoon. showers in west virginia as part of what's going to be firing up here this afternoon. 72 degrees right now in philadelphia, 60s, cooler than it was yesterday morning. we'll start on the muggy side, 76 degrees with clouds thinning out by 9:00. 80 and then a chance of sh

ayman mohyeldin, nbc news, jerusalem. >>> new tsa rules will mean tighter security for u.s.-bound travelers from some airports. passengers at undisclosed airports zi s will have to physy turn on electronic devices when passing through security. devices that don't power up will not be allowed through. it may also trigger additional screening. the tsa is also seeing a surge in this relatively new hard to detect weapon. take a look at these. credit card knives. when you open them, part of the credit card becomes a blade. the rest of it then folds into a handle. when it's closed it just resembles a thick credit card. the knives are often priced about $15. so far this year the tsa has confiscated about 500 credit card knives. that's about 20 per week. >>> only a small fraction of data mined by the nsa actually comes from legitimate targets. that's the conclusion of a new report by t"the washington pos." 90% of nsa data comes from so-called bystanders that are cut up in nsa surveillance. and about half of those people by the way are americans. the report also found legally obtaine

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news with brian williams". >>> good evening. brian has the night off. i'm lester holt. july fourth holiday plans are on hold tonight for a lot of folks living and vacationing along the north carolina coas arthns sthening bricaneni coast counties in carolina including the yourt banks, are under a hurricane warning. arthur is packing maximum sustained winds of 70 miles an hour, just below hurricane strength, and could make landfall by friday morning. the latest fracking on arthur in a moment, but first kerry sanders in kill devil hills, north carolina, with the urgent preparations now under way. hi, kerry. >> reporter: good evening, lester. ning aearlyayve in thiseaeventot and by c a s recasa stand by. residents on the outer banks who went through hurricanere three years ago know the routine. the storm surge i that hurre washed away parts of highway 12 cutting off cape hatterass from the mainland. this will be the first test of that reengineered, are rebuilt highway. >> don't put your stupid hat on. >> reporter

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the news continues now with "nbc nightly news." >>> on the broadcast tonight, f.g odgit. loss of power for tens of thousands. tonight, the storm heads north. >>> take sides. wh elsewhere, the immigrante asa come as america's newest citizens. >>> flash fighting between israelis and palestinians. >>> water babies. te young h fnd oftenor rprising results. >>> and happy anniversary. citintem nightly news begins now. tly ws" with brinew york, this c >> good evg and h independence day pip. i'm kate in for brian williams tonight. hurricane arthur canceled many towns to cancel holiday plans an fireworks. this is the first of the this hurricane season. and take a view from space. north carolina has never seen a hurricane hit so early in the season. the g news, noeare reported, but the storm did do some damage.opical storm warnin still in effect this evening in massachusetts, with watches farther to the north. we have team coverage for you tonight. we begin with nbc's kerry sanders in kill devil hills, north carolina. kerry? a deceptive hurricane. packing a punch, the area escaped

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the world awoke this morning to news of yet another commercial airline disaster. and once again it was a flight over a conflict zone. in this case where there's been rebel fighting in africa. but there was also severe weather in the area where the plane was last heard from and the wreckage was later spotted. but for folks who fly in the middle of the summer season, it's another in a recent series of disasters just in these past several days after what seemed like a long period of safety in the skies. it's where we begin here tonight with nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: it's been a rough six months for international aviation, all told nearly 600 people have died. now, another crash. air algerie, flight 5017 an md83 left burkina faso in africa and crashed 50 minutes later in bad weather. like ukraine, northern mali is a war zone. in june faa warned pilots warned to fly below 24,000 feet citing the risk to include shoulder-fired man portable air defense systems. it's not

"nbc nightly news" is coming up next.nt to get a quick check of the weather. >> temperatures tomorrow a lit warmer than today. comfortable evening around the bay area. but tomorrow, approaching 90 in san jose. upper 90s for the tri-valley. >> "nbc nightly news" is next. see you back here at 6:00. >>> on this saturday night, seeking refuge. as the tide of undocumented immigrants continues to flow into the u.s., we travel to where the journey starts, to a town where you can see the desperation firsthand. >>> taken by storm. up and down the east coast, thousands are reeling from the impact of hurricane arthur. and for some, it's still posing a very real threat. >>> a new homecoming. for the first time in more than a decade, american soldiers are leaving afghanistan with no plans to go back. and here at home, their families couldn't be happier. >>> and back on track. the little storefront studio where elvis recorded his first hit 60 years ago today, still making records the old fashioned way.

good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> right now at 6:00, our hot weather fueling two separate fires in the south bay. our nbc chopper overhead. smoke could be seen across the south bay through several hours throughout the afternoon. >> let's give you the latest on this developing story. we want to show you a live look at the charred hillside in south san jose. so much better than it was just a few hours ago where one fire came dangerously close to home. one of the fires is burning close to a golf course. the larger fire is burning in south san jose. two fires were burning about 8 miles apart from each other. this is what it looked like over our chopper, when it was at the worst, at the height of the flames. we have team coverage for you on both of these fires, including with the weather conditions as well. we again with nbc bay area's michelle roberts, and i understand that some of the evacuation orders have been lifted? >> reporter: yeah. that's true. fire crews have been busy all afternoon. they were called to the scene here at about

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this is an nbc news special report. the news we bring you today is a little bit difficult to track down and confirm but we're getting a lot of reports, especially over social media and other sources that a plane has crashed somewhere near the ukraine-russia border. we are being told this is a malaysia air flight that started out in amsterdam on its way to kuala lumpur. >> and apparently this happened somewhere near the ukrainian-russian border in that airspace. we want to get right to nbc's tom costello. we've got multiple other news organizations reporting from that area that there were 295 souls on board. tom, what's the latest you've been able to find out? >> reporter: we are told this is malaysia flight 17, 17. amsterdam to kuala lumpur. it was a boeing 777 and it has gone down, we are led to believe by these reports coming from the interfax news agency out of russia as well as the a.p. and reuters, gone down near the ukrainian and russian border, an area that has been the scene of a great deal of military conflict.

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