"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight lester holt. >>> good evening. is it safe to go there? against the spector of terrorism it's a question so many ask before venturing off on overseas vacations these days. sadly for dozens of tourists who are about to visit one of the important museums of the arab world, the answer proved no, at least for today. in tunis, tunisia's mediterranean capital, armed gunmen opened fire. they killed at least 19 people and wounded around 50. most of them vacationers from europe. many had just arrived on cruise ships. nbc's katy tur has been working this story for us all day and has more. >> reporter: guns drawn, tunisian officers scramble to evacuate tourists from the museum. one describes her terror as police told her to get out fast saying, "you must run, you must run." the gunmen killed at least 19 people. others were held hostage. tunisian forces finally killed two gunmen, but others may still be at large. the bardo museum is in central tunis next to parliament whic

keir simmons, nbc news, london. >> remarkable. en "nightly news" continues on this sunday, one city takes an aggressive stand against obesity by banning new fast food restaurants. but what happened next might come as a shock. >>> later one of the biggest achievements in space exploration and almost went terribly wrong. >>> seven years ago los angeles took a step in the battle against obesity. it banned new stand-alone fast food restaurants in one of the poorest sections of the city hoping to encourage healthier fare. a new study is weighing in with the results and the findings may surprise you. here's nbc's hallie jackson. >> look at this. they are flowering. >> reporter: they have plenty of produce to pick in their garden which they planted a year ago. >> cauliflower, cabbage. >> reporter: desperate for healthy, affordable food close by. let's say you didn't have the garden, what are your options here in south l.a.? >> drive to a 99 cents store that has a good produce section. >> how far away is that? >> nine to 15 miles. >> repor

miguel almaguer, nbc news, san diego. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm carl quintanilla reporting from new york. from all of us here at nbc news, good night. going to happen to us. but it did. >> right now at 6:00 the search is over. sierra lamar's mother tearfully thanks volunteer who have spent the last several years looking for her daughter. good evening i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm peggy bunker. a very sad milestone in the case of missing morgan hill teenager sierra lamar. three-year anniversary of her disappearance is two days away. still no body has been recovered. as nannette miranda reports her family and dozens of volunteers have decided today would be the last day of formal searches to look for her. >> we're taking the north end of the island. >> reporter: the last formal search for sierra lamar concentrated in the coit creek area of morgan hill. teams of volunteers braved rugged terrain. looking for clues, any sign of the missing 15-year-old who disappeared nearly three years ago on her way to school. >> we were specially looking for depres

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening on this very busy news night. we begin with a high-stakes showdown that has left years of american peace efforts in the middle east teetering on the brink. even with votes still being counted benjamin netanyahu took to twitter tonight to declare himself the winner. if he prevails, the implications are enormous, because just before today's vote, netanyahu locked in a tight race publicly shut the door on a two-state peace solution, rejecting the idea of a palestinian state long a key pillar of american diplomacy in the region. we begin with our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in tel aviv. >> reporter: it was a dramatic finish to a frantic three-month campaign, capped by benjamin netanyahu's desperate last-minute appeal to his hardline base. in a rare election day appearance, the prime minister said, go out in masses to the ballots. pleading with his supporters to offset what he called extremist israeli arab candidates.

world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. hillary clinton is not yet a candidate for president, but she may have gotten a preview today of what the campaign trail could be like when she came face-to-face with reporters here in new york all hungry to hear why she used a personal e-mail account to conduct government business when she was secretary of state. the simple answer, mrs. clinton says, convenience. pointing out that she broke no rules and she has encouraged the release of her official e-mails. but what about those e-mails that she deemed non-official? what was in them and why were they deleted? our andrea mitchell joined in the questioning today and has a lot more for us. >> reporter: it was a media frenzy unlike anything ever seen at the u.n. a likely presidential candidate trying to quiet a firestorm by finally explaining why she used a private e-mail system while secretary of state. >> i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account which was allowed by the

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. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> and good evening. coming off the 50th anniversary of the march on selma and a weekend in which so much of the nation's focus was on racial healing, what has played out at one of this nation's major universities may seem particularly galling. it centers on a video that has exploded across the internet. it captures members of a university of oklahoma fraternity chapter spewing a racist chant referencing lynching. the target was black students, but the hurt has been universal. on that campus tonight widespread condemnation of those on that video from other students and university officials who quickly moved to shut down the fraternity chapter behind it and launch an investigation. nbc's gabe gutierrez is on the story for us tonight. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ] >> reporter: the video first posted sunday has sparked national outrage. [ bleep ] >> reporter: now a second recording from a different angle shows members of the fraternity sigma alpha epsilon or sae a

erica hill, nbc news, virginiadale, colorado. >> nice way to end the night. that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. i'm peter alexander reporting from new york. lester holt will be back here tomorrow night. from all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. rback here tomorrow night. from all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. iback here tomorrow night. from all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. ghback here tomorrow night. from all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. tomorrow night. from all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. >>> right now at 6:00 a pitbull goes unit tack and nearly kills a woman in the east bay. we're live with the latest. good evening, everyone. >> thank you for joining us. the woman was air lifted to the trauma center after her own pitbull attacked her at her home. the attack happened at about 10:00 this morning on silverado drive. nbc bay area talks to neighbors and joins us live. this was a woman's own dog, kimberly? >> reporter: that's absolutely right, peggy. that lifeflight helicopters with you are t

miguel almaguer, nbc news, san diego. >>> that is "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. new york. from all of us here at nbc news, good night. >> our exclusive interview with the only father figure in gordon's life. hi everybody. welcome to "access hollywood"weekend edition. parent heart broken n.e. motional pain and clearly under the influence of alcohol gordon buried his soul to dr. phil and i watched it unfold and alongside his stepfather jack walker junior. >> my pain is horrible. my look my heart hurts. >> he has said to me many times that he is going to kill himself. and he's tried. >>reporter: wow! quite emotional to watch that. >> it is. very. very. >>reporter: what touches you th

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening and thanks for being with us. one was loaded with passengers and flying into the teeth of a snowstorm and nearly into icy waters. the other flown by a world famous movie star who nearly crashed into a row of homes. two plane accidents, both skirting the edge of disaster and still getting a lot of attention tonight for all the questions they raise about our safety. we'll get to the harrison ford crash in a moment, but we begin with new information about that delta airlines plane that slid off the runway at new york's laguardia airport yesterday. and there is new focus on the airport itself and whether it was safe to fly at the time. tom costello remains on that story for us tonight. >> reporter: inside a hangar at laguardia airport today the delta air lines jet that went off runway 13 in a snowstorm yesterday morning. its nose ripped off, the left fuel tank ruptured. overnight port authority crews used cranes to move the plane. by mid-

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. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. days after his stunning 11th hour campaign declaration that there would not be a palestinian state on his watch, israel's benjamin netanyahu did an equally stunning turn-about today. it came in a one on one interview with our andrea mitchell that itself is making headlines around the world tonight and drawing a strong response from the white house. fresh off his election victory, netanyahu tried to explain to andrea a series of statements he made that caught the world off guard seeming to dash hopes for a peace settlement. here's what he's saying now. >> reporter: it was benjamin netanyahu's last-minute campaign promise when he thought that he might lose that set off the firestorm. promising to reverse decades of policy. stunned by a furious white house reaction today he tried to walk it back. >> i haven't changed my policy. i don't want a one-state solution. i want a sustainable peaceable two-state solution but for that sirng um stanc

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." roaring tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. the st. louis county police chief is calling last night's shooting of two police officers in ferguson missouri, an ambush. nbc news was there as the shots rang out striking and wounding the officers just hours after the city's embattled police chief agreed to resign. it happened near the end of a protest. tonight, the hunt for the shooter goes on. and ferguson itself which has ridden a wave of anguish, mistrust and change since the michael brown killing, faces an unsettling future. ron allen is back in ferguson for us tonight. >> reporter: without warning gunfire, at least three shots shattered the calm evening outside ferguson police headquarters. >> shots fired. officer down. >> reporter: a potentially deadly moment. >> is he hit? >> yeah, in the face. >> reporter: two officers hit. one took a bullet through the shoulder. the other hit in his face. rushed from the scene. an nbc news team right in the middle of the chaos. >> the police

an nbc news investigation. hundreds of i.d. badges used t access secure area stolen from the nation's airports. >>> and caught on camera. chilling video from a quiet town. a stranger snatches a toddler and runs off. tonight the children who gave chase, and the hunt for the kidnapper. >>> "nightly news" begins now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters i this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. hillary clinton is not yet a candidate for president, but s may have gotten a pr of what the campaign trail cou be like, when she came face to face with reporters here in ne york. all hungry to hear why she used a personal e-mail account to conduct government business when the simple answer, mrs. clinto says, convenience. pointing out that she broke no rules and she has encouraged the release of her official e-mails. but what about those e-mails that she deemed non-official? what was in them and they deleted? andrea mitchell has a lot more for us. >> reporter: it was a media frenzy unlike anyt

"nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york. "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> we begin with a high-stakes showdown that has left years of american peace efforts in the middle east teetering on the brink. israeli elections still being counted, president benjamin netanyahu took to twitter tonight to declare himself the winner. if he prevails the implications are enormous because just before today's vote, netanyahu publicly rejected the idea of a palestinian state. we begin with our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in tel aviv. >> reporter: it was a dramatic finish to a three-month campaign. capped by benjamin netanyahu's appeal to his hard line base. the prime minister said go out in masses to the ballots. pleading with his supporters to offset what he called extremist israeli arab candidates. netanyahu pledged to prevent the creation of a palestinian state. reversing decades of promises by israeli leaders to american presidents. from carter to obama. and what netanyahu told me only last october. >> we ne

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. it's that point in the flight when even nervous fliers tend to relax. germanwings flight 9525 from barcelona to dusseldorf had just reached cruise level, 38,000 feet as it sailed high over the french alps. whatever happened next was sudden, and the plane was in an apparently controlled descent from which it never recovered. bits of debris are littered across the remote mountainside where the plane crashed. there is not one intact piece of wing or fuselage, said one official. anguished relatives of the 150 people onboard were told there are not expected to be any survivors. we have a team in place covering this horrible tragedy starting with bill neely in southern france. bill? >> reporter: good evening, lester. this is a crash that has experts baffled. a plane flying apparently normally in good weather that suddenly plummets more than 30,000 feet in ten minutes. unimaginable for those onboard. i'm at rescue headquarters today, high up

and two clinging to life. >> reporter: ron mott, nbc news, new york. >>> tonight, u.s. special forces are being evacuated from one of the most dangerous countries in the world, yemen. the move comes after a deadly terror attack that claimed more than 100 lives and it could have a significant impact on the fight against extremism. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker has been tracking those developments. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: peter, good evening. sources tell nbc news the u.s. is pulling its troops from yemen because the threat is just too high. it's a stunning turnaround for a country that president obama had once praised as a counterterrorism success story. after this week's deadly terrorist attacks in yemen, today the pentagon announced it's pulling out 100 special forces, the last u.s. troops in the country. >> it makes sense. if we can't protect our people, they just can't be there. it will have a real impact on counterterrorism operations. >> reporter: yemen is home to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, a training ground for the underwear bomb

"nbc nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. starting with the disappearance of his wife over 30 years ago, eccentric millionaire robert durst has confounded prosecutors and detectives from coast to coast as the murder suspect they could never quite make a solid case against until maybe now. tonight durst is behind bars in new orleans awaiting extradition to los angeles where he faces charges in one of those cases, the murder of a friend back in 2000. it's a case that may have been solved in part with millions of tv viewers watching. an hbo documentary provided a stunning twist to a long and sordid tale. our stephanie gosk was in the courtroom for his first appearance today. stephanie. >> reporter: good evening, lester. robert durst was escorted into the courtroom. he was handcuffed shackled in an orange jumpsuit. the 71-year-old is waiving his right to an extradition hearing, but prosecutors here in new orleans are threatening unspecified new charges defense him and that

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york this >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> facing a growing opposition from inside and outside the state and a threat to its economy, indiana's governor with glaring headlines like this in the indianapolis star called for a change to the controversial law that opens the door to legalized discrimination. governor mike pence says he wants legislation on his desk this week that clearly spells out the religious freedom law does not allow businesses to discriminate. as indiana rushes to calm the uproar tonight, another state may be about to step into the fray with its own law. nbc's gabe gutierrez is on that story for us again tonight. >> reporter: mike pence blasted his critics saying indiana's new law is about religious freedom, not discrimination. >> this law has been smeared. >> reporter: the front page of the indianapolis "star," fix this now. the governor said he's working with a lawmakers to clarify the intent of the law by the end of the week. >> un

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. with a shooter of two police officers still out there, every nightfall brings growing anxiety to the streets of ferguson, missouri. ferguson already is in upheaval amid cries for change and the abrupt firing of officials including the chief of police. the shooting yesterday morning came as the city was still grappling with how to fully respond to that justice department report which found a pattern of police bias towards the city's poor and minority residents. in a moment my conversation with the mayor of ferguson and his answer to those who want him to step down. but let's begin here with ron allen in ferguson. >> reporter: for a second day a huge police manhunt. an exhaustive search for a gunman accused of targeting a line of police at that demonstration this week. >> i cannot tell you at this point that an arrest is imminent. there's certainly nobody in custody. >> reporter: the two wounded officers recovering at home today, one wit

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. as we start tonight we're watching several big stories including the search for wreckage and survivors of the scene of a deadly military helicopter crash overnight off the coast of florida. we want to begin here this evening with what appears to be another embarrassment for the secret service. details just surfacing about an investigation into a possible car crash on the white house grounds involving members of the secret service including an agent assigned to president obama's protective detail. let's go right to nbc's tom costello in our washington newsroom. tom. >> reporter: lester good evening. a senior administration official is confirming to nbc news this evening that there is an investigation into the actions of two secret service agents including a top member of president obama's protective detail. the secret service confirming it's looking into what happened on march 4th when two agents drove a government vehicle into a whit

ron mott nbc news boston. >>> little bit of good news for you would-be entrepreneurs in boston more freshted tomorrow. that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm peter alexander reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. >>> right now at 5:00 a weather alert as wild weather rolls into the bay area hailing at times and sunny at others >>> a deadly high speed crash in the south bay. that's just the beginning for police. >>> getting a kick out of the new stadium. first look inside and why it paid to be early. >> indeed. >> very cool. thank you for joining us. i'm peggy bunker. >> and i'm terry mcsweeney a weather alert for bay area. certainly some strange weather today. you look at some right there. rolling through the south bay and a short time ago, boy, it got strange down here. take a look at the hail falling earlier this afternoon near morgan hill. other times today, if you could see the blue sky there, you get, you have the downpours or the sunshine. kind of depends where exactly you are in the east. in the east hills right now, there's a debate over whet

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. the force of the impact of that plane crash in the french alps was so strong that even the rugged container that held the voice recorder designed to withstand over 3,000 gs was left twisted. yet tonight officials are saying they have managed to recover the critical information it carried. sounds and voices from the cockpit which could help explain why the plane flew into a remote mountainside. tonight, it's the focus of a perilous search and recovery operation. also today we learned more about some of the 150 people who perished including three americans. we have two reports beginning with bill neely at the staging area in the french alps. bill, what's the latest from there? >> reporter: good evening, lester. investigators are confident they will find the cause of this crash after hearing those final sounds from the cockpit. the victims of this tragedy were from 18 countries including the u.s. their grieving relatives are beginning to

from all of us here at nbc news, good night. >>> good evening. i'm vickie nguyen. >>> we are following break news. a major earthquake has triggered a tsunami warning. that a is in effect within 620 miles of the earthquake epicenter. new guinea and islands are most at risk. western hawaii islands could see effects from this quake. we'll have updates as they happen. let's bring in our meteorologist rob with

gabe gutierrez, nbc news. >>> new questions are being raised in congress tonight about hillary clinton's private e-mails and the timing of her decision to delete them. nbc's kristen welker has that story tonight. >> reporter: new revelations about hillary clinton's e-mails this weekend from the congressman who heads the special investigation into the attack against the u.s. consulate in benghazi. congressman trey gowdy says clinton deleted all of her personal e-mails, writing in a statement "we learned from her attorney secretary clinton unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean and permanently delete all e-mails from her personal server." gowdy had demanded the e-mails from clinton as a part of his investigation and admonished the former secretary of state on "meet the press" last sunday. >> we don't get to grade our own papers in life. and she had a very unique arrangement with herself as it relates to public records. >> reporter: clinton has already turned over 55,000 pages of e-mails at the request of the state department, which wanted to update its records. gowdy noted clinton p

count on nbc 10 news for new information about this case on the air and with the nbc 10 news app for your smartphone or tablet. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> a day after the snowstorm, there are still remnants of that snow above the philadelphia museum of art in center city. plus, the melt cog happen soon. but not before a bitterly cold night ahead. >> we're waiting for those 50s to come alive later on. meteorologist sheena parveen is here with the evening planner for anyone heading out tonight. it's going to be cold? >> it is going to be cold jacqueline and jim. and the thing today, the fact that we have a lot of sunshine, even though it's been in the 20s, that sunshine helps to at least loosen a lot of that snow if you needed to get it off your car, your driveway. the sun certainly helped out today. we are nice and dry on the radar. we have no snow around the area. we don't expect it either. and here is a beautiful look at the center city skyline. still have eyes on the delaware river. but we are seeing plenty of sun, not really helping to warm us above freezing. we're

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. given the horrors we've all witnessed from overseas these last several months, it is hard to imagine anything more chilling than having your name and face marked for death by isis here at home. it's the situation 100 u.s. military members found themselves in over the weekend. their photos and addresses posted online purportedly by an isis affiliate that urged followers to do them harm. tonight, what the military is telling those service members about how to protect themselves. we get the latest tonight from our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. >> reporter: it may be the first assault by isis on america's home front. a group calling itself the islamic state hacking division posted on the internet names, photos and home addresses of 100 u.s. military and urged isis sympathizers to hunt down the americans and kill them on u.s. soil. >> it's a new front. it's a new sense of threat to the home base that we haven't seen before. >> re

. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. they were the faithful, adults and children who had gathered for friday prayers only to be targeted for death on a massive scale in a pair of suicide bombings. as many as 137 people are dead and more than 350 injured tonight. victims of the attack against two mosques in sanaa, the capital city of yemen. it's a place where the u.s. for years now has been actively hunting down al qaeda terrorists. but a recent government overthrow has changed an already volatile landscape. and tonight for the second time this week, it is isis claiming responsibility for a deadly terror attack that has rattled the region and beyond. nbc's katy tur has the latest developments. >> reporter: the first bomb went off inside the mosque, the second at the gates as those left standing tried to escape. in the pandemonium, worshippers rushed the wounded away while others prayed over the dead. moments later, two more explosions at another mosque. one bomber believed