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peter alexander, nbc news, new york. >>> quick program note. of it, the world swimming championships all this week on the universal sports channel. saturday, and sunday at noon eastern here on this nbc station. >>> that meeting at the white house between president obama, harvard professor, henry louis gates, and cambridge, massachusetts, police sergeant james crowley set for thursday two weeks after their confrontation between crowley and gates that led to an arrest and such a national discussion on race. well the three men are meeting as you may know for a beer. and regarding preferences, professor gates reported to be a red stripe man. crowley, said to be partial to blue moon. the white house isn't talking about the president's brand of choice. that might constitute, you see a white house endorsement. >>> when "nightly news" continues in just a moment -- what works. what happened when one company made a big investment in its own employees. has beauty editors buzzing? perfect 10 -- the 10 minute phenomenon from nice 'n easy. rich color, stunni

. >>> hidden danger, nbc news investigates a safety hazard at public pools. >>> and from the deep, the incredible invasion off the >>> and from the deep, the incredible invasion off the california coast. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and good evening, the tributes and fond millennium rivalries pouring in for walter kron cite, tonight, the lege legendary news man is the news. his death last night here in new york at the age of 92 was on the front page nearly 23ri american newspaper this morning. for a time in our history, it seemed that each milestone moment, the loss of a preppeds, journey to space, a painful was croon kite was there guiding americans with a trusted voice and becoming something of a national institution in the process. we begin our coverage tonight with nbc's ron allen. >> good evening from the cbs news control center in new york, this is walter cronkite reporting. >> reporter: there's never been a stronger, more reassuring presence in television news than walter cronkite. especially when the news was what we did not weren't to hear. >> martin luthe

tom costello, nbc news, boston. >>> up next as "nightly news" continues this saturday, the great dividewhen it comes to race, have there been lessons learned this week? >>> and later, dance fever. why did one wedding video out of so many others become an overnight internet sensation? we've always been alike. we even both have osteoporosis. but we're active. especially when we vacation. so when i heard about reclast, the only once-a-year iv osteoporosis treatment, i called joni. my doctor said reclast helps restrengthen our bones to help make them resistant to fracture for twelve whole months. and reclast is approved to help protect from fracture in more places: hip, spine, even other bones. (announcer) you should never take reclast if you're on zometa, have low blood calcium, kidney problems. or you're pregnant, plan to become pregnant or nursing. take calcium and vitamin d daily. tell your doctor if you develop severe muscle, bone or joint pain or if you have dental problems, as rarely, jaw problems have been reported. the most common side effects include flu-like sytoms, fever, muscle

, chris vanderveen in colorado. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday.'m lester holt reporting from new york, i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" then right back here tomorrow evening. morning on "today" then right back here tomorrow evening. good night, everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com y

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it also reminds nbc news and reiterates it is committed to safety. brian. >>> tom costello, national airport in washington with the story tonight. tom, thanks. >>> developments tonight in florida surrounding the case of the double-murder there, the adoptive parents of so many special needs children. an awful story. and now a new turn in the investigation tonight. police say they have seven people under arrest and they have solved this crime. but they say this story doesn't end there. our own mark potter in pensacola tonight with the latest on this. mark, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. officials say they believe they have now caught all the alleged killers of burt and melanie billings and say the home invasion in which they died was long planned. military style. >> just a few opening statements i would look to make. >> reporter: in an emotional moment today, sheriff david morgan told members of the billings family the killers of parents burt and melanie billings are now behind bars. >> we have found them and they are in custody. >> re

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. i'm lester holt in tonht for brian williams. less than two months ago there was a virtual deathwatch over general motors. but billions of government dollars later after what amounts to a pit stop in bankruptcy, gm is tonight free from court supervision. a new gm, if you will, tried to move back into the fast lane with a slimmer look and new ways of selling cars. the reinvigorated company is even talking about repaying the massive government loans ahead of the 2015 deadline. but no matter what road gm travels going forward, it will be looking out of the same rocky economic landscape. so, what's the strategy? phil lebeau covers the auto industry for cnbc, he joins us from detroit with more. phil, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. strange as it sounds, going through bankruptcy may have been the easy part of fixing gm. now comes the tough part. winning over skeptical american car buyers. >> an exciting day for general motors. >> reporter: 40 days after declaring bankruptcy,

john yang, nbc news, england. >>> and that's "nightly news" for this saturday.eporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today," then right back here tomorrow evening. happy fourth. tomorrow evening. happy fourth. good night, everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> there are big health questions surrounding north korea's leader come jong il. south korean tv is reporting that he is suffering from pancreatic cancer. recent pictures show him looking gaunt and sickly. the state department says it can't confirm any of this, but there are deep concerns about who might actually be in charge there. >>> back in the country, we turn to the wrenchingly sad story of the murder of a florida couple well known in their community and beyond for adopting children with no parents of their own including many special-needs children. the mom and dad were murdered late last week. there are new developments, like fwhoers a motive and a growing circle of suspicion. nbc's mark potter is following this story and joins us tonight from pensacola. >> reporter: good evening, brian. there have already been some arrests and officials say there could be more tonight for the murders the sheriff here calls chilling and shocking. investigators now say there were more people involved in the attack at the rural home of byrd and melanie billings

>> reporter: peter alexander, nbc news. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm carl quintanilla reporting from new york. for lester holt and all of us here at nbc news, good night.

stephanie gosk, nbc news, france. >>> we'll keep you posted. is our broadcast for this tuesday night. a few things before we go. tomorrow night we'll cover the president's news conference here, live, 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, 9:00 eastern, cnbc, a live special report "california in crisis" more on our lead story tonight. for now, for us, thank you for being with us. i am brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening, as always. here tomorrow evening, as always. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

jim maceda, nbc news, moscow. >>> police in nashville, tennessee, are offering new details about the death of former nfl quarterback steve mcnair. while questions remain about how he died, fans and fellow teammates remembered a player admired on and off the field. nbc's ron mott is in nashville with the latest. ron? >> reporter: hey there, lester. good evening. this is the stadium where steve mcnair dazzled those home fans all those years. tonight this city is in shock and disbelief that one of its favorite stars of all time was found shot to death early yesterday. for 13 seasons he was called air mcnair, a former nfl star quarterback whose team famously came up inches short in the 2000 super bowl. but this weekend in tennessee 36-year-old steve mcnair is being called a fallen titan, vkt of a suspected murder/suicide inside a downtown nashville condo he rented. today police say the married mcnair was shot multiple times. the body of a 20-year-old friend and a handgun were found nearby. authorities were not searching for a suspect. >> as a result of the autopsies rtion we know steve mc

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. we've come a good, long way since the cold war but relations with the russians have been downright chilly for a good number of years. tonight the president of the united states is in russia, and when those two leaders talk, the whole world has a stake in it. as "time" magazine put it this week, between them, let's not forget they own enough firepower to blow us all to kingdom come. they talked about that firepower today as a new u.s. president now gets to deal with the russians. it's where we begin tonight. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd traveling with the president in moscow. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, it was a very busy first day in moscow for president obama, because in the words of the russian president, the two are dealing with a backlog of problems. those problems include that nuclear proliferation issue you were talking about, iran, even u.s. beef exports. flying all night, the president arrived in moscow early monday with his e

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polling from the wall street journal and nbc news, shows president obama's build for health care reform see to be losing traction. 42% say the president's proposal is a bad idea, a 10-point jump from just last month. when it comes to quality of care, 39% believe the s plan wod actually make things worse. that's up 15 points from april. the good news for the president, his overall job approval still remains high at 53%. down just 3% from last month. well, faced with those slipping numbers, it is no surprise the white house is embracing yesterday's health care breakthrough on capitol hill. nbc's steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: the deal struck among house democrats seemed to reenergize president obama. he made his health care pitch in raleigh and went after republican critics. >> if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. these folks need to stop scaring everybody. >> reporter: what had scared the president was 50 conservative blue-dog democrats who blocked health care votes in the house. ross got what he

janet shamlian, nbc news, san leon, texas. >>> that's our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being with us. i am brian williams. we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night from a rainy new york tomorrow evening. good night from a rainy new york city. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> michael jackson's chef

rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> now to the pacific northwest where the story tonight is the heat. in parts of the northwest, heat records are being shattered, in seattle, take one, parts of oregon, temperatures this week are over one hundred degrees, weather channel meteorologist, mike seidel in seattle tonight where a lot of people are trying to beat the heat at the beach there. mike, good evening. >> good evening, brian. and some bad news tonight. we just learned one person has died from this heat wave here in king county, washington. this is the fourth consecutive day, soaring temperatures have sizzled in the pacific northwest making it the hottest july on record. >> hot, too hot, way too hot. we are trying to stay hydrated. >> reporter: in seattle where temperatures yesterday reached an all time high, people flocked to water fountains. and lake fronts. anything to stay cool. >> we don't have air conditioning. >> reporter: they're lining up to get ice cream at baskin robbins. >> anything to get out. >> reporter: at home depot, fans and air conditioners sold out, 30,000 this we

nbc news has learned there are concerns the teenagers might have swine flu. udes a couple of students from walter johnson high school in bethesda. that's where news 4's tracee wilkins joins us live with details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we are now learning, according to our nbc foreign desk, that all 21 of the students are from the montgomery county area. they went to beijing, china, about a week ago for a culture and language tour. we have been in contact with at least one of these students who does attend walter johnson high school and is going to be a senior this year. she is being quarantined in her hotel room. she tells nbc's foreign desk that there are seven students who are in the hospital, at least seven. that the rest of them are in their hotel room where they are being isolated at this point. evidently when they first arrived, one boy showed some symptoms of the swine flu. he was taken off of the airplane and isolated and quarantined. but then the rest of the group began to get sick. now, they're hoping that if everyone recovers they'

martin fletcher, nbc news, aquila, italy. >>> let's wish them well. en our broadcast continues, along the way, on the wednesday night, there is a new hot spot on earth tonight. as the show of force showed clearly today. he made it big but never forgot where he cam from. now he is using music to make a difference. ♪ baby rescue me my high cholesterol was contributing to plaque buildup in my arteries. that's why my doctor prescribed crestor. she said plaque buildup in arteries is a real reason to lower cholesterol. and that along with diet, crestor does more than lower bad cholesterol, it raises good. crestor is also proven to slow the buildup of plaque in arteries. crestor isn't for everyone, like people with liver disease, or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. simple blood tests will check for liver problems. you should tell your doctor about other medicines you are taking, or if you have muscle pain or weakness. that could be a sign of serious side effects. while you've been building your life, plaque may have been building in yo

adrian mong, nbc news, china. >>> safe to come out now.s our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being with us. a reminder we are back on the air at 8:00 p.m., 7:00 central, for coverage of president obama's primetime news conference tonight. so good night, for now, from new conference tonight. so good night, for now, from new york. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

>> reporter: peter alexander, nbc news.

kevin tibbles, nbc news, eeka, missouri. >>> terrific way to end the broadcast on a friday night and end this week. thank you for being here for it with us. i'll get that out. i'm brian williams. savannah guthrie will be here with you tomorrow night. i clearly need a break. we will look for you monday night. in the meantime, have a good night. in the meantime, have a good weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

it, i'm going to have a different response than a 65-year-old white man. >> reporter: ron allen, nbc news, new york. >> for more now on the controversy and all the other political headlines, we're going to turn to david gregory, moderator of "meet the press." good morning to you. >> morning, jenna. >> professor henry gates says he's ready to sit down and have a beer with the president and sergeant crowley and talk about racial profiling. has the president turned a difficult situation into a perhaps political win for himself? >> we'll find out. there was some criticism of the president. he felt the need to soften his tone and actually, if not apologize, say he would have said it differently when he was first critical of the cambridge police department. look, this is america's first african-american president who has a unique voice on these matters, who is able to elevate any issue, really, with the bully pulpit of the presidency and chose to speak out on this in a more personal way, both initially and then when he came back out and said it's important for me to talk about it, because it st

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ron allen, nbc news, cambridge. >>> re cockpit recording transcripts have come out of that plane crash in buffalo this past winter. it was a commuter prop plane, you'll recall, operated by colgan air for continental express. you will also recall, perhaps, it started a debate over crew training and pay and often grueling work schedules. on the new transcripts, first officer rebecca shaw, who was sick with a cold, can be heard telling the captain, marvin renslow -- quote, oh, i am ready to be in aotm.elle roo renslow -- i feel bad for you. shaw -- well, this is onof ose times that i felt this when i was at home, the's no way i would have come all the way out here.no but now that i am out here -- >> renslow -- you might as well. >> shaw -- i mean if i call in sick now, i have got to put myself in a hotel until i feel better. you know, we'll see how it feels flying. 50 people died when flight 3407 crashed back in february. >>> when our broadcast continues here on a monday night -- sarah palin's farewell address. but not for long. tonight, what she said and where she might turn up next. >>>

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. we all know how it works. there's the health care debate going on in washington, almost impossible to follow. and then there's real life. in real life, the millions of americans who are badly overweight, obese, know about the struggle. they're aware of the high cost to their own lives. but tonight someone has finally put a price tag on the cost of obesity to this country. and this is part of the health care debate going on right now. we have two reports tonight. savannah guthrie is at the white house. robert bazell will start us off here in our new york studios tonight. bob, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. 34% of american adults are not just overweight but obese, as are 17% of children and adolescents. in a study out today shows those numbers do not just affect how people look, they impact our entire health care system. this time the experts are rising the alarm about our ever-fatter nation by focusing on cost. in a new partnership between former president clinton's foundation and the cdc. >> w

the camel news caravan on nbc actually, you know, bore the name of a cigarette company. s, they loved the nickname the tiffany network, really made their bones from hard news coverage, dating back to ed murrow, the blitz in london over radio. they came up with a very, very strong combination headed by walter cronkite, who set journalistic standards. he was an old school print reporter from the midwest. he was a no-nonsense guy. look, he loved the air time. he was an on camera creature, after all. but his first concern, his first love was journalism. i'm a great collector of the recorded telephone conversations of president johnson and to hear those two guys talking, a president at the prime of his power, an anchorman at the prime of his, really sounds like they're running the country over the phone almost too close a collusion for journalists and president. but walter never crossed that line and he worried about that line until the day he died. he expressed his dismay over some of the trends in television news early and often. >> brian, i'm told that you had at least some

ron allen, nbc news, new york. >>> some of the intensity of lastight carried over today to the president's push for health care, one day after the health care reform plan was said would actually cost money, president obama put together a hastily scheduled appearance at the white house for a pep talk on capitol hill. correspondent kelly o'donnell with us tonight for more on that. kelly, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. clearly the president -- issues are basically cost and time. it really set off alarm bells when the congressional budget office said that the plans would increase spending, not reduce it. and today, key democrats and republicans, moderates the president needs, made a direct appeal to the white house asking for more time to resolve these differences. but as you'll hear, the president's answer was a definite no. >> those who are betting against this happening this year are badly mistaken. we are going to get this done. we will reform health care. it will happen this year. i'm absolutely convinced of that. >> reporter: and what happens here next week will be critical in

so walter cronkite did the first network national half hour evening news broadcast. nbc followed pretty quickly behind that. and then he had milestones in between but the kennedy -- the evening news went to a half hour in 1962. president kennedy was assassinated in november of 1963. and walter stayed on the air for i don't know how many hours during the kennedy assassination and he became associated in the public's mind with the kennedy assassination. he also became a very identified with the space program. having said that walter loved fast cars, fast boats, he loved space. he loved the idea of going to the moon. let me say as a footnote, i don't know that it's been said, walter was a tremendous competitor. yes, he was uncle walter. yes he had all the social graces and professional graces which made him a legend, but down where he lived, he was determined to win. and everybody was climbing on the space program. "life" magazine, nbc, everybody. but walter became such a champion of the space program that in many ways he was seen as the extra astronaut. he went to cape can

nora o'donnell, nbc news, crownsville, maryland. >>> that's "nightly news" for this friday night.hank you for being with us. brian williams will be back here monday. i am david gregory. i will see you sunday on "meet the press." good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 42% a bad idea. 36% say reform is a good idea. ew york times," lawmakers cut house bill's price tag. negotiators in house and senate move towards compromises on reform packages. "usa today," comes back fast. phelps sets record just a day after being beaten by some german guy. more ahead on sports. "the seattle times" tellsing about us that story bill cairns brought us. 103 degrees, all-time high. >>> also in "the washington post," a bill in the senate that requires states to write laws to prohibit text messaging by drivers or risk losing 25% of their federal highway money. i hope it happens. >> that story's picking up a lot of steam. >> absolutely. >>> coming up, a first look at business live from london, also, must-read opinion pages, straight ahead on "morning joe." (announcer) some people don't just work. they work to make a difference. to make an impact. to improve the lives of others. they're people in positions of great power. the power to effect change. for them, career advancement is a goal. but not e only goal. for them, i