her new statement tonight to nbc news and lauer's new denial >>> massive blackout power intentionally cut to millions as wildfires rage in california >> this is not an inconvenience for us it's life and death. >> the controversial move to prevent potential disaster >>> and our nbc news exclusive. bernie sanders' first interview since surviving a heart attack what he's saying about returning to the campaign trail. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone turkey tonight wasting no time launching a military attack on u.s. kurdish allies inside syria just two days after receiving a virtual green light from president trump. with american troops ordered to remain on the sidelines, a turkish air assault on kurdish areas is underway triggering panicked evacuations and fighters who once battled isis alongside american soldiers are now effectively on their own. our richard engel reports from turkey >> reporter: the bombing began in the afternoon smoke rising over border towns inside syria buildings on fire as turkish jets began striking america's all

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. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone. the white house late this evening has put democrats on notice that it will not be cooperating with the white house impeachment inquiry.ght cag urs house blocked a key witness from telling what he knows about the administration's dealings with ukraine. but tonight a brand-new nbc news/wall street journal poll finds more than half of americans think the allegations against the president are serious and should be investigated fully our hallie jackson has details >> reporter: a serious and significant escalation tonight as the white house notifies house democrats in a letter that the president, quote, cannot permit his administration to participate in this partisan inquiry, urging speaker nancy pelosi to abandon the impeachment effort and accusing democrats of trying to reverse the results of the 2016 election already the trump administration is blocking a key witness from a deposition today >> that is an abuse of power for him to act in this way, and that is -- that is one of the reasons

nbc news said his new yorker article bore little resemblance to his nbc news reporting. but again, that new yorker piece was less than two months after he left this reporting at nbc and took it somewhere else. nbc letting this story get away is, i think, the best way i can put it is, when you take nbc's word for it, nbc letting that story get away is a shame. but in ronan farrow's telling, it's not a shame, it's a scandal. nbc is saying, essentially, it's too bad that story got away. we were really hoping to get it to air once it was ready. ronan farrow saying, no, you were stopping me from getting it to air and that's why i had to leave. but that's not the only allegation ronan farrow alleges in his book. about seven weeks after his reporting appeared in "the new yorker" in 2017, nbc abruptly fired the longtime host of the "today" show, matt lauer, after what it called inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace that was brought to the company's attentions. the company never detailed what the specific allegation was that led to matt lauer's firing. but "the new york t

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officials tell nbc news for now u.s. troops will remain in the country, but won't confront turkish forces should they launch the assault after fierce backlash from many republicans who call his decision a betrayal of u.s. allies, the president today tweeting "in no way have we abandoned the kurds. >> we've told turkey, i spoke with president erdogan of turkey, and i said got to treat them good. you got to take care of isis >> reporter: but the people in the cross-hairs of the impending turkish assault are protesting, desperately appealing for help the kurds have been fighting against isis with u.s. special operations forces and have created an autonomous enclave in syria, which turkey wants to destroy. a kurdish official today tweeting if america leaves, all will be erased turkey's specific goal is to create a buffer zone 20 miles deep, 250 miles long along its border inside syria. president erdogan showed a map of the area at the u.n. last month. and erdogan doesn't want to just occupy the area. he wants to settle it wi

kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> what a great couple >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this monday.'m lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >>> right now at 6:00, tour guide by day, alleged spy by night. the bay area man accused of working on behalf of the chinese government. plus -- >>> absolutely no indication he was distraught. >> investigators, though, say he set fires and went about his day. tharbay. >>> what happened in the locker room, the sexual assault investigation involving a high school football team in the south bay. >> right now. good evening joining us. >> those allegations of sexual assault between members of a football team at a south bay high school, police in gilroy are now looking into weather several players attacked a teammate in the locker room. david is live at gilroy high on a story you'll only see here, damian. >> reporter: yes, the school has taken immediate and appropriate disciplinary action against the football players. and tonight this case is in the hands of police. the gilroy mustangs played everett high schoo

parents left hoping for enough medicine to give their daughter a fighting chance blayne alexander, nbc news, georgia. >> we'll take a break here still ahead tonight, drones delivering packages, the future already here with today's ground-breaking flight. >>> the deeply personal and moving comments by meghan markle being a new royal and a nu mother in the spotlight. >>> next for us tonight, the revolution in home delivery soaring to new heights with the first use of commercial drones dropping orders right at your doorstep here is katy beck. >> reporter: it's a sneak peek into the future. >> the aircraft stays at about 23 feet and lowers down the hook. >> reporter: at a small virginia town, a first for commercial aviation >> will ascends back up and fly off to the customer >> reporter: that is so cool. the drones launched by wing, a sister company of google and the only approved commercial drone delivery service in the country from what they call the nest, ten-pound drones carrying small packages, flying 60 miles an hour, hovering over homes to lower goods. >> any question that drone delivery

official tells nbc news u.s. forces are at increased risk. there are new reports tonight of isis fighters attempting to escape from places where they had been held in syria. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the ground. >> reporter: the u.s. is getting out of syria at the worst time, just as turkey is making rapid advances in its war against u.s. allies the kurds of syria. advancing with the help of arab militias, the same ones we saw last night executing kurds by the roadside were at it again today, u.s. officials tell nbc news. and they say the militias include former members of al qaeda and isis. so it seems turkey, a nato ally, is using alleged terrorists to attack the kurds who fought with u.s. troops against isis for four years and carved out their own unofficial little state in the process. now that autonomous zone is collapsing, and as the turks and their militias push deeper into syria, the big news dropped like a bomb. nearly all of the one thousand troops still in syria are leaving, announced by defense secretary m

nbc news says she is free to tell her story. farrow rights nbc took the step of having nevils and her lawyers and others close to her sign away their right to ever speak about the network. in exchange for a seven-figure sum lauer denied nevils' accusation in a lengthy ritt lengthy letter this week its alleged that a consensual encounter encounter i previously admitted having was an assault. it is categorically false, ignores the facts and denies common sense stephanie gosk, nbc news new york. >>> a lot for tell you, including a damning new report on failures leading up to the deadly 737 max crashes. away that could mean for your travel. >>> important vaping-relatedout illnesses as flu season approaches. >>> and that captivating moment that touched a lot of folks. a little girl with her mother writing about it and inspiring america. >>> back now with the faa under fire after a scathing independent report found systematic failures in how the faa approved boeing's 73-max for flight here is nbc's tom costello. >> seven months after b

we'll explain. >>> and an nbc news exclusive. our first look at a new dron delivery service lifesaving flights already under way. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening, everyone tens of thousands of californians have been driven from their homes as major fires burned from one end of the state to another and we're hearing some harrowing stories of survival tonight, many forced to flee to safety through gauntlets of flames as a fire just north of los angeles accelerated overnight, leaping a major freeway. several homes have been destroyed and many schools have been closed as the region braces for more fires and possibly more preemptive power shutdowns. our joe fryer is in the burn zone. >> reporter: across california, the exhausting battle is far from over. outside los angeles, relentless winds pushed the so-called tick fire toward crowded neighborhoods overnight, quickly devouring homes. >> wow i mean, that's the entire hillside. >> reporter: with little notice, 50,000 people were forced to flee

boeing did not bring this document to its attention immediately upon its discovery boeing tells nbc news, "we will continue to follow the direction of the faa and other global regulators as we work to safely return the 737 max to service. last month, the new faa chief exclusively spoke with nbc's tom costello. >> i'm not going to sign off on the aircraft until i would fly it myself or put my own family on it. >> reporter: no u.s. airline wish flying the max until january at the earliest. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york >>> authorities are investigating why a commuter plane with 42 people including a high school swim team went off the runway and crashed in one of alaska's aleutian islands. one person died and 11 others were hurt the plane operated by peninsula airways came to stop feet from the water. >>> in northern syria, u.s. allies, the kurds, are pulling back from the border driven out after a cease-fire drill with turkey, but there is still new violence underway tonight. >> reporter: small skirmishes today after the white house brokered a five-day cease-fire between turkey and ku

. >>> and my nbc news exclusive. amanda knox on her return to italy recently for the first time since her acquittal for murder >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone president trump, who often doubles down on controversial statements, this time may have doubled down on more impeachment trouble for himself, stunningly and publicly today calling on china to launch an investigation into a political rival, even as he faces an impeachment inquiry for doing the same thing with ukraine during a phone call. it was an extraordinary moment, and one immediately seized on by democrats, who today heard from a potentially key witness in their investigation of the president. peter alexander is at the white house tonight. >> reporter: facing an impeachment inquiry for privately urging a foreign leader to investigate joe biden today president trump, unprompted, publicly urged do the same.ign power, china, to when asked what he hoped ukraine's president would do about the bidens, following

he simply didn't have a story that met our standard for broadcast nor that of any major news organization. with nbc'sermission ronan would take his work to "the new yorker" where he got more accusers to agree to be named on the record than he had at nbc news. his article was published on october 10h,2017, just days rk s jody kantor and megan twoey broke the story of other weinstein allegation ppz it was a watershed moment for the me too movement with even more victims feeling empowered to break their silence. >> any comment, harvey? >> reporter: weinstein was arrested in 2018 and now awaits a january trial on charges of sexual assault and rape related to two women. he has pled not guilty those charges and has consistently denied any allegations of non-consensual sex with anyone. harvey weinstein told abc news "what ronan farrow insinuates as factual accounts are actually an amalgamation of unrelated pieces of information that he formed together to tell what is little more than a dramatic fictional tale." >> it is a huge story and an important one in a way that was bigger than harvey weinstein, that w

like bernie sanders and hillary clinton, and news organizations, like "the washington post" and nbc news. the trump campaign says it did not produce the video, which appears to be based off the movie "kingsman: the secret service. "the new york times" which first reported on the video said it was played at a pro-trump conference by an outside group at the president's resort in miami last week. both sides of the aisle disgusted. >> it puts lives at risk it's not who we are as people. >> i think it's a tragedy. it should be denounced by the administration blasted what he calls fake news. >> it truly is the enemy of the people the enemy of the people. they are the enemy of the people. >> reporter: and two years ago tweeted this controversial meme pretending to body slam a cnn logo the white house press secretary says the president has not see this newest video yet but based on everything he's heard, he strongly condemns it still, president trump has not publicly denounced the clip incling about "dancing with the stars. hallie jackson, nbc news the white house. >>> also developing tonight, t

stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >> tough to watch. >>> there is much more ahead tonight including alex trebek's story. the "jeopardy!" host getting deeply purnl a deeply personal and opening up about his cancer battle. >>> the woman who boarded a flight without an i.d. or boarding pass. how did she get on the plane >>> next tonight "jeopardy!" host alex trebek is opening up about his cancer story and his chemo. miguel almaguer with trebek's message. >> reporter: for 36 seasons of "jeopardy!" alex trebek has had the answers. >> virginia. >> reporter: but now as he continues hi battle with stage four pancreatic cancer amid setbacks in his treatment, the television host is offering answers to someone else's questions. >> there are weaknesses that i feel in my body, but i can always suck it up when it come time to tape the show. >> reporter: trebek struggles with carrying the burden of being the face of pancreatic cancer. >> to be the inspiration for a lot of other people makes me feel good but it does place some responsibility on me that i feel i'm not deserving of. >> reporter: back

kristen dahlgren, nbc news >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. rare access into camps in china that are believed to be detaining a million muslim citizens. there we found families torn apart and children being indoctrinated. nbc's keir simmons takes us inside. >> reporter: we're in western china for a rare look inside what human rights groups call modern day concentration camps. the chinese rejecting that criticism have allowed us to film but only with an escort for what often felt like a choreographed trip it's as if everybody is waiting for us. we find muslim uighurs a religious minority group sleeping in dormitories, expected to swear allegiance to the chinese communist party. china calls them education and vocation centers designed to fight terrorism after attacks the chinese blame on the uighurs our measures are effective a senior communist party official tells me. in this class we meet a mother who says her young daughter has lost both parents. her husband just died. now she is here. tell me that it isn't brutal to take a mother away from he

kathy park, nbc news, new york >>> up next, the new film revealing the secrets of one of the nation's most daring women. >>> hollywood is taking notice of a real superhero, highlighting the power and perseverance of harriet tubman rehema ellis now on an american icon. >> i made it this far on my own. don't you tell me what i can't do >> reporter: the movie "harriet" is based on the gripping real life story of harriet tubman, an uneducated black woman who escaped from slavery and made it her mission to rescue others an award winning actress stars as the tough, determined harriet. how important is this movie right now? >> it's extremely important because of where we are in the world. she serves as a huge example of how much power we hold as individuals. >> by some miraculous means, you have made it 100 miles to freedom. >> reporter: leslie odom jr. plays an abolitionist who helps tubman through the underground railroad >> these are our stories. we have to tell them again and again. >> reporter: tubman was born around 1820 into bondage and was enslaved on this farm in maryland. she marri

kathy park, nbc news, new york >>> tonight a woman convicted of murder as a teenager and sentenced to life is speaking out for the first time about the groundswell of celebrity support that led to her recent release after 15 years, cyntoya brown long was granted clemensy by the then tennessee governor. the attention on her case revealing a painful back story it was the moment she prayed for. >> it was like the most amazing feeling, like i would kind of just breathe. >> reporter: but could hardly imagine. >> i could just like exhale. >> reporter: these never before seen photos capture cyntoia brown long's first moments of freedom. >> i sat with people except they were exonerated, wrongfully convicted. that's not your story. >> no, it's not. i'm still a convicted murderer per the law. i won't disappoint you. >> reporter: yet to her supporters, she is looked on as a victim too >> it's been really smooth. >> reporter: at age 16, cyntoia shot and killed a man who had picked her up one night. just weeks earlier she said she had been forced into prostitution by another man. >> over the past

some parents admit guilt and others get ready for a high-stakes legal showdown miguel almaguer, nbc news, new york. >>> facebook tonight revealing it has just blocked new russian and iranian-based efforts on its platform meant to manipulate the political conversation here and abroad i sat down yesterday with facebook founder mark zuckerberg, who told me the company is now proactively applying the lessons of the 2016 election it's happening again but this time facebook says it is watching in realtime. >> some interference campaigns from russia and iran. >> in an exclusive interview, mark zuckerberg revealing how foreign actors are already working to influence the 2020 election. >> this signals that these nation states intend to be active in the upcoming elections, but it's also, i think, a sign that we've been able to proactively identify them and take them down. >> facebook today announcing several new measures, including labeling state-controlled media outlets. the identity of organizations and owners behind pages and content rated false by independent fact checkers. you used the term t

nbc nightly news for this thursday i'm lester holt. l of us, thanks for watching, and good night ing the story. nbc nightly news for this thursday. i'm lester holt. for all of us, thanks for watching, and good night. . >>> right now at 6:00, shots fired near a middle school in contra costa country. new video that shows the gunman running away. >>> plus president trump asked another country to dig into biden. his message to the president. >>> and facebook told to remove offensive posts, the move the european union just made that some said will be sold across the world including here in the bay area. >>> the news at 6:00 starts right now. we begin with breaking news. good evening everyone. >> that breaking news, a triple shooting in richmond. two men are dead, a third wounded. it happened near the intersection of 32nd street and edmund avenue. that is in the northern part of the city. this all unfolded about two hours ago in the city of richmond. >> nbc bay area cheryl herd joins us live there. what did you learn? >> reporter: well, the s

catie beck, nbc news >>> a huge thank you to all nurses that's "nightly news" everyone good>> rufflingb area neighborhood. >>> plus, they were given the thumbs up to build. why is the water district taking it back? the land grab fight in the south bay. >>> first, ready for round two. minutes ago pg&e outlining its plan for power outages this week. the news at 6 starts right now. good evening. i'm raj maasai. >> i'm jessica aguirre. anger and frustration over pg&e's warning it may cut power again as a precaution in a couple of days. the utility has put 16 counties on alert, including napa, sonoma, and cindy mccain. high winds, low humidity could lead to another round of power shutoffs this those high-fire risk areas. pg&e held a news conference to address that looming switchoff. here's what they had to say. >> we don't want to turn off the power, but if we have to do so we want to help people stay safe during the shut-off, keep them informed and turn the power back on as quickly and as safely as we can. >> let's get to mark matthews live in sonoma which was left dark less than two weeks

miguel almaguer, nbc news, new york >>> there were some anxious moments today at a high school in santa rosa, california after a gunman shot and wounded a 17-year-old boy outside the school that school and two others were placed on lockdown as a manhunt was launched for the shooter police arrested a suspect and possible accomplice a short time later. >>> as the houston astros ready to take the field tonight in game one of the world series, the team's already on defense with one official apologizing for his controversial comments made to reporters. nbc's stephanie gosk has more on that >> reporter: the world series between the astros and the nationals kicks off tonight with a cloud hanging over the first pitch. major league baseball announcing it will investigate comments made by houston astros assistant general manager brandon taubman saturday when the item clinched the american league pennant. "sports illustrated" reported taubman turned to a group of three female reporters during a postgame celebration in the clubhouse and yelled half a dozen times, "thank god we got osuna. i'm so gla

about giuliani's push to dig up dirt on the bidens in ukraine, according to documents obtained by nbc news, alerting colleagues about what he called a fake news-driven smear. it's another dramatic deposition following the explosive revelations by a former white house official yesterday. nbc news has now learned fiona hill testified former national security adviser john bolton called giuliani a hand grenade who is going to blow everyone up, describing his work in ukraine as a drug deal to "the new york times. "the new york times" saying bolton was so worried, he told her to alert white house lawyers. >> we will find that rudy giuliani, once the greatest mayor of this country is nothing more than a small-town crook. >> reporter: the president today accusing house democrats of allowing no transparency at the witch hunt hearings. >> adam schiff, who is running this secret proceeding behind closed doors where the president gets no rights and the minority doesn't get subpoena power like adam schiff has, this is the most ridiculous, wrong, unfair process. >> reporter: but democrats argue they're

>> reporter: the medical community urging awareness to stop a growing health crisis catie beck, nbc news. >>> up next for us, the little girl whose new book is inspiring america. >>> it was a moment of awe for a little girl who had us wondering what was going through her little mind as she paused spellbound in front of a portrait of michelle obama i caught up with her to hear a tale sure to inspire america. parker curry has a story to tell. >> one rainy tuesday, instead of going to dance class, parker's mom said let's go to the museum. >> reporter: about a little girl and an encounter that stole hearts >> it's the page. >> reporter: is this the page >> she is a queen, parker whispered. >> reporter:. >> reporter: it is parker's story about a visit last year to the national portrait gallery and that painting that stopped her in her tracks. >> we were specifically coming to see the portraits of barack obama and michelle obama she walked past the portrait and she stopped and she was frozen. >> reporter: that awestruck moment of a then 2-year-old staring at the former first lady was captured

gadi schwartz, nbc news. >>> we're w bravery. mystery, why was a family allegedly cut off for years from the outside world? announcer: time magazine reports: "the new american addiction. how juul hooked kids and ignited a public health crisis." other news outlets report- juul took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. markets e-cigarettes with kid frie5 million kids useses e-cigarettes. juul is "following big tobacco's playbook." and now, juul is pushing prop c to overturn e-cigarette protections. vote no on juul. no on big tobacco. no on prop c. >>> we're back now with a truly bizarre mystery, seven people said to have been found living a hidden room in a netherlands farmhouse possibly for years until one man said he escaped. we get the story prom -- from molly hunter. >> reporter: we're investigating how seven people, a father and adult kids live in isolation in a small lockable room in this farmhouse set off the road and shrouded from view by a line of trees. all seven people safe but police say they don't know why the family was the

new reaction from a former nbc insider, a bombshell new book straight ahead. where in the world, the spanish government handed nine separatist leaders lengthy prison sentences. their crime, taking part in the 2017 effort to achieve independence. nationalists have complained wealthy regions spend too much money and poor parts of fame. dutch farmers driving their tractors and convoys across the country to protest their treatment as the government tries to reign in carbon and nitrogen emissions. the second major protest by dutch farmers who say the government is unfairly targeting them. in north korea a series of photos showing kim jong un riding a white horse to a sacred mountain before making key decisions. near the mountain kim reportedly vowed to overcome us-led sanctions and paint and infuriated his people. shannon: the fight rages on in syria tonight. mike pence, mike pompeo and the national security adviser, all on their way to try to talk peace with the same turkish regime that is under harsh us sanctions with russia is offering an alternative. steve harr

first public trip with infant son archie now making headlines of a different kind kristen dahlgren, nbc news >>> new developments tonight in the vaping epidemic new jersey now reporting its first vaping-related deaths, raising the toll to 16 across the nation. also, ohio's governor calling on lawmakers to ban most e-cigarettes following the lead of five other states michigan's ban takes effect tomorrow. >>> there was a dramatic escalation of violence between pro-democracy demonstrators and riot police in hong kong overshadowing a huge parade in mainland china marking the 70th anniversary of communist rule janis mackey frayer reports from inside those protests. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time, hong kong police opening fire with live ammunition on an anti-government protester. this video appearing to show the teenager swinging a pole and an officer shooting him at close range "my chest is hurting" the protester says police say the officer's life was in danger the shooting triggered fury from protesters demanding democratic reforms. across the city, a chaotic mess of tear this proteste

kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> isn't that a great comeback story? hat's "nightly news" for this thursday i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. thsday mu for watching and gd night.oo >>> no customers, no money. >> to be in such little control for your livelihood is frightening. >> knowing that the power's off eliminates one of the potential threats. >> it's going to be apom ellipse. >> we can't accept it as the new normal, and we won't. >> the news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and raj mathai. pg&e is restoring power. that means more than a million people starting teehe light. the dangerous weather conditions are winding down allowing pg&e crews to inspect the lines and ultimately flip the switches back on. but some people are still waiting. pg&e is warning it could be days before they get their power restored. >> we are awaiting an update from pg&e. any minute now we're going to hear from bill johnson. that's the ceo of pg&e. let's hear what he ha

amazon's new salvo in the grocery wars how you can save >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt, reporting tonight from los angeles. >> good evening, everyone, from los angeles, where fires are still burning and where things are expected to take a very dangerous turn just a few hours from now with the arrival of what's being called a major santa ana wind event later this evening. perhaps record setting an unprecedented and dire extreme red flag warning in effect here, as we come on the air, for critical fire weather conditions while 400-plus miles to the north of us, crews are still working to gain the upper hand in that epic battle against the fire that has displaced more than 100,000 people and is still on the move. tonight with major fires on both ends of california, the worst may still be to come >> we have the most significant wind event in los angeles of the year it will be starting this evening. >> reporter: the biggest blaze, the kinkade fire, burning in sonoma county, growing overnight, now more than 75,000 acres, threatening more than 90,000 structures. air

. >> nbc news exclusive, the top kurdish commander one-on-one with our richard engel on what he calls ethnic cleansing and why he says the u.s. has abandoned them >> rallying back senator bernie sanders with his first big event since his heart attack >> i am back >> and the major endorsement giving his campaign new life >> stunning moment, caught on camera a student with a shotgun and the coach who disarmed him, but it is what he does next that made all the difference >> secrets of the tomb 3,000-year-old mystery, finally revealed in egypt today. >> plus, struck by lightning, the man whose heart literally stopped and the heroes who brought him back to life >>> good evening, quwe begin tonight with a dangerous weather system the remnants of tropical storm nestor spinning off multiple tornadoes through florida and now cutting through georgia, and head together carolinas, bringing damaging winds, heavy rain and the possibility of more tornadoes. morgan is tracking the storm for us tonight. >> tonight, the gulf coast, doing damage control after a fast-moving storm brought high winds, heav

. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening there was a wild scene at the u.s. capitol today a day after a star witness in the impeachment inquiry contradicted president trump's no quid pro quo claims over aid to ukraine. house republicans did their best to steal back the headlines today storming the hearing room in mass and criticizing the process of the inquiry itself as unfair also today, president trump continued his scorched earth approach to those who speak against him including that top american diplomat to ukraine who delivered yesterday's bombshell. our peter alexander now with the latest. >> we're going to go and see if we can get inside. >> reporter: chaos in the capitol, more than two dozen house republicans staging a protest today bargaining into a secure room where impeachment investigators were deposing a witness and blasting house democrats for holding hearings in private with no transcripts made public. >> what is adam schiff trying to hide voting members of congress are being denied access from being able to see what is happening behin

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the spotlight amid allegations they didn't do enough to protect young athletes kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >>> all right. there is much more ahead tonight including stepped up security as the movie "joker" opens and a warning message to parents. >>> also, the price you pay. what's driving up atm fees to record levels? >>> and she's their biggest fan and what the team did for her is inspiring america tonight. hope you can stay with us. >>> next for us tonight with the movie "joker" set to open tomorrow night, cities are stepping up security after the military warned its members an unknown theater could be targeted here is migu >> reporter: ahead of opening weekend, warner brothers new film "joker" depicting a life of violence is tonight triggering real-world security concerns police departments in new york, chicago and los angeles stepping up their presence around theaters it comes seven years after a mass shooting in colorado during the premiere of another batman movie. >> we're aware of the historical significance of the opening of this film. we'll be deploying extra officers t

geoff bennett, nbc news, the capitol. >>> we want to turn to a big california. myhake allowing anyone with a smart phone to be given a heads up that an earthquake is coming. >> reporter: alerting residents this is about to happen. after criticism a similar system failed to warn people in los angeles when this quake struck in ridge crest, the new app is available statewide. >> the app works using gps technology in california. it finds the user's exact location anywhere in the state pin pointing your location by region, then by city. your cell phone should get an alert that a shock wave is on the way. you should get that alert before the ground even starts to shake. after a series of jolts this week, this morning millions took part in the great shake outearthquake drill. it was 30 years ago today the landscape changed in california after the quake killed 63. tonight looking back on the past, the state is preparing for the future at a time when every second counts. >>> now to our nbc news investigation, the crisis of soaring college debt $1.6 trillion in federal an

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, new york. >>> this evening we want to look at an issue impacting millions of american parents. the fight for paid family leave, while many companies offer it, many of them don't and in the u.s. there is no federal law requiring it and for nbc's katy tur, a new mom herself, it's an issue close to home. >> reporter: this is not how she pictur her first days of motherhood. >> i would go to the hospital and see her and leave my breast milk there. i would read to her, sing to her and then go to work. >> reporter: her daughter was born three months early and spent 109 days in the nicu with tubes to breathe and eat but her mom was only a constant presence by her side for ten of them. >> you color so well. i'm fortunate she's well now and healthy but i ask myself the question what if i had stayed there with her. >> reporter: kimberly is a pediatrician her clinic didn't provide paid leave. with bills and loans to worry about, she had to go back to work. >> as a pediatrician, i see these stories, these difficult excruciating stories on a daily basis. >> reporter: the

having worked at nbc news for nearly a decade, we all knew matt was dangerous. d to be avoided at all costs. for nbc executives to say they didn't know, i had a hard time with that. it's time for us to get the answers. so that women at nbc news can be safe. so that comcast, the parent company should launch a real investigation. right away. >> shannon: you know as jillian reported, no one oppenheimer who is nbc news president saying these are false allegations, things that are being misconstrued. matt lauer wrote a lengthy letter quoted in variety, he said old stories are being recycled, and defamatory new allegations are being made. it's all about the promotional effort to sell a book and it's outrageous. what can you tell us about your personal experience? you say that people view to as dangerous. he's admitted to doing things he's ashamed of, did you see something more than that? >> i didn't see anything more than that but there's a problem with abuse of power at nbc news where people like matt lauer, people like tom brokaw, they are enabled day after day by ha

>>> nbc news investigates one of the nation's largest student loan companies taking employees on a luxury hawaii getaway at a time millions of americans are being crushed by student debt. >> we'd love to talk to you about what you guys are doing here. >> what the ceo said when we confronted him. >>> the new warning, toxic metals that can damage babies' brains found in a staggering amount of baby food. what parents need to know. >>> the tributes pouring in for a long-time congressman and civil rights champion. >>> good evening an embattled president trump may have gotten no favors from his acting chief of staff today who appeared to contradict one of the president's main impeachment defenses, that there was no quid pro quo. mick mulvaney telling reporters the president did hold up military aid to ukraine, at least in part for personal political reasons. he addressed reporters at the very same time a witness directly involved in those ukraine dealings was telling his story in the impeachment inquiry. kristen welker has details >> reporter: tonight, undercutting the president's denials of a

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rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> all right. still ahead as we continue here tonight, heart-stopping moments caught on camera as a car stuck on the train tracks. the dramatic rescue with seconds to go. >>> the bizarre mystery of a family allegedly kept in isolation for years in a small room cut off from the world. how they were finally discovered. >>> something everyone in washington can finally cheer about as world series fever grips the capitol. we hope you'll stay with us. >>> next, the tense moment on the tracks as a highway patrol officer in utah risked his life to save a driver from a speeding train with literally no time to spare. here is gadi schwartz. >> reporter: from the second a utah highway patrol trooper spotted a car on the tracks, it was a race against time in the distance the train rumbling ahead. the officer scrambling through brush and a fence and then opening the driver's door to find a man unconscious that heart-stopping moment such a close call that if trooper ruben correia could have gotten there a second

that's "nbc nightly news."'m lester holt thank you for watching, everyone good night >>> fire burning in the north bay. >> the house is still smoldering. >> the city of california has thrown everything at it. >> there's no water. some of them are injured. >> the fire was outpacing the firefighters. >> it's tragic, absolutely tragic. >> it's all hands on deck. >> one hour at a time. >>> good evening, thanks for joining us. >> the kincaid fire sparked late last night exploded in the overnight hours, scorching at least 10,000 acres. >> that's what stands right now. let's give you a live look from sky ranger. the kincaid fire threatening homes, wineries and also the river rock casino. you can see it right there. this is a live picture from sky ranger. at this point the fire is still holding at 10,000 acres but there's zero percent containment. we've been really, really fortunate that the winds have started to die down, but the problem is that an even bigger wind event is just around the corner, may arrive this week

the former nbc news employee whose identify had been kept anonymous by nbc news at her request is nowing out publicly. the woman, brooke nevils sat down with ronan farrow for his new book "catch and kill." nbc news has not obtained a copy of the book but variety did and released details of her interview overnight. in the book she alleged lauer raped her in the hotel room at the 2014 olympics. she had been drinking heavily and went back to his room twice, once to retrieve her press credentials, which she said he took as a joke. she had no reason to suspect that he would be anything but friendly based on prior experience. once she was in his hotel room, she alleged he pushed her against the door and kissed her, before pushing her onto the bed, flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex. pharaoh writes, she said she declined several times. according to nevils saying it was painful and she went silently into a pillow while it happened. adding, when lauer asked if she liked it, she said yes. also telling pharaoh it was non-consensual in the sense that i was too drunk to consent, atd a

joining us now, live from iraq, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. back with us. what is the situation currently like on the ground and what more can you tell us about the new alliance between america's former friend, the kurds, and the sdf, and now seeking help and protection, if you will from the syrian government in damascus, which is backed by russia? >> yes, you know, amin, i was speaking to some former u.s. officials and they mentioned that this depth of the betrayal that is felt by the kurds it is not just because the u.s. and the kurds aligned with each other in the long fight against isis, the kurds of course, they populate the majority of the syrian democratic force, and this is a very effective fighting force, i was with them back in march, and you know, they're not a first world army, they're still a militia, but they are very disciplined and well armed thanks to the u.s. and you know, what is interesting about this isn't just that the u.s. betrayed them, by backing out, and leaving them, to the mercy of the turk, but that the, the turks,