richard engel reports. >>> the officer's side of the story. what we're learning tonight about what happened before all that chaos at the pool caught on camera. >>> and going to extremes. our journey deep underground as a major water source for millions rapidly disappears. wait till you see what they're doing to keep the water flowing. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. day 5 and a lot has happened in the hunt for those two killers who escaped from a new york state prison. police are reaching out to family and those close to the prisoners. the search itself is literally changing direction. some of the focus now turning to vermont. and interest continues to ramp up in a female prison employee. sources telling nbc news that she is still answering questions from investigators. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer leads our coverage again tonight. miguel what's the latest? >> reporter: lester good evening. to

richard engel, nbc news, nepal. >> you can catch much more of richard's reporting on a special edition of "dateline" coming up next. that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. here tomorrow. i'm carl quintanilla reporting. for all of us here, good night. a grisley discovery this morning in an east bay park... >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >>> a grisly discovery this morning in an east bay park. the body of a man, investigators do not think his death was natural or an accident. >>> good evening, i'm terry mcsweeney. >> i'm peggy bunker. that body was discovered had in coyote hills regional park 6:30 in the morning. it borders the bay and free mon north of highway 84. that's where we join nbc bay area's mary an fafr row with the latest on this investigation which i have to imagine is ongoing. >> reporter: yes, it is ongoing. the body was found just 40 yards from the entrance kiosk you can see behind me. a man who was herding some

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who spent over five years in iraq, has our report. >> reporter: the isis advance hasn't been slowed by the u.s.-led war against it. isis captured mosul in iraq one year ago today. and released pictures they say shows a gay man being thrown off a building in the city. so much for progress. isis still has a firm grip on vast areas of iraq and syria. last month they captured ramadi just 60 miles from baghdad, prompting the obama administration to reveal plans to send in more american troops. an extra 450 will soon head to iraq as trainers raising the total to 3500. the new forces will go right into eastern anbar province between ramadi and fallujah, both in isis hands. not to engage in direct combat administration, official tell us, but to support and equip local forces. in particular, sunni tribes who want to stand up and fight isis. will it work? >> probably not. i think it's a largely irrelevant gesture to indicate that we're doing something about the deterioration of the situation. >> reporter: a current senior u.s. military official te

richard engel, nbc news nepal. >> you can catch much more of his reporting on a special edition of dtne" coming up next. lester holt will be here tomorrow. for all of us here, good night. >>> i see something that shouldn't exist here. i see this monster wall of ice and i see it coming at us. i just yelled down! it was the most terrifying moment of my life. >> it was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. >> the ultimate mountaineer's challenge. >> a team conquering mount everest, the highest summit on earth. >> have a safe trek. >> you're at 20,000 feet. you're trying to breathe. they were prepared for towering dangers of everest. >> but no one that day was prepared for this. >> all of a sudden, the ground starts to shake. it's a whiteout. i thought, "this is it. i'm done." >> w

what is your answer to richard engel's question? >> well, i think the main answer andrea is first of all, i would suggest that the insurgency was very dug in during years of the iraq war. but part of the challenge that we've seen in the last several months is the need for there to be buy-in from all of iraq's different communities to push out isil and anbar province is going to depend upon the sunni tribes rising up and pushing isil out of their lens. that's what made a difference back in 2008 and improving the security situation. what this new deployment will allow us to do is to have more capability to advise and assist the sunni tribes in eastern anbar province so they can go on the offensive against isil. >> this reporting from "the new york times" based on general dempsey's briefing on the plane to reporters is that now we are considering lily pads lily pods smaller bases along the line in anbar with more deployments than even the 450, is that what we're looking at here? >> well, we've already done that andrea in the sense that

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richard engel reports. >>> the officer's side of the story. what we're learning tonight about what happened before all that chaos at the pool caught on camera. >>> and going to extremes. our journey deep underground as a major water source for millions rapidly disappears. wait till you see what they're doing to keep the water flowing. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news w

richard engel will speak with us and nick burns. plus steve ratner puts on his bookie hat for the latest set of charts. he'll show us which candidate betters are putting real money down to win the gop nomination. >> don't bet on this if forecast. >> don't do that. >> here is bill karins. what does the forecast look like? >> hot and steamy. i have to show you this picture of this hailstone that fell in illinois yesterday. you think kansas or oklahoma you get that big huge hail. but this was in central illinois. this is 4 1/2 inches of hail. that's a softball falling from the sky and probably at 100 miles an hour from that thunderstorm. thankfully no one was hurt or injured about it huge hailstones yesterday. where does that take us this morning? more severe weather today. a few tornadoes and we have the heat in the middle of the country spreading to the i-95 corridor from new york to d.c. a lot of heavy rain this morning. be prepared for. that eventually it will sweep into kansas city. des moines is locked in a heavy, steady rain tha

richard engel happened to be in the area at the time and caught up with the climbers for their story.an see the top of ever everest here. ultimate mountaineer challenge, you know so it's pretty cool. >> this april haylee who runs beauty salons in arizona and her father randall, a farmer from utah joined an everest kpe addition. the climbers worked hard and spent tens of thousands of dollars to get this far. the mount everest base camp. the next step was a difficult attempt at the summit itself. they were willing to put their lives in their hands of their guide. >> then you have -- >> madison a seattle-based guide lead the team up the mountain. >> i felt everybody was competent and ready to go. >> i was behind garrett and with some other of the guy climbers. >> but her 59-year-old father randall, was already falling behind when a few minutes before noon on april 25th. >> we just hear the most awful noise any of us have heard. >> the earthquake struck. >> all of a sudden the ground started to shake. like the glacier is literally going to crack. >> then an avalanche came crashing down. >

richard engel reports from everest -- "avalanche!" >> reporter: even amid the majestic himalayas, it dwarfs everything around it. >> it's almost indescribable. it's breathtaking. >> reporter: mount everest, the highest mountain on earth, is, for many climbers, the ultimate challenge. >> once you've had a taste of it, you just -- you can't stop until you've conquered it. >> reporter: a famous climber once said, "you climb mount everest because it's there." but that climber, george mallory, died on everest in 1924. the mountain's history is long and deadly. >> you just gotta deal with nature. it always got the upper hand. you can't fight nature. if you fight it, you will die. >> reporter: and when disaster strikes here, it takes a while for the outside world to realize it. with the aftershocks still coming, people here understandably don't want to spend time indoors, let alone spend the night in their homes. this past april, we traveled to nepal to cover the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, made millions home

in 2008, nbc news' richard engel the network's chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to reportased at restrepo. >> we didn't know what we were going to find. we went to the korangal valley which at the time was the most dangerous place in afghanistan. so we knew we would see action, we would see combat. >> engel and his crew, producer madeline herringer, and cameraman redden edwards, land right in the middle of the action. the men of viper company are trying to clear the valley of taliban fighters. the crew is there to document the action. >> pretty much every day this outpost came under attack. and pretty much every time the soldiers went out there to do a patrol in the area, that patrol came under attack. >> while living with the men for weeks at a time, the crew experiences the harshness of the environment. >> the troops are out there for a year and a half. it's pretty tough. there's no showers, the food was pretty much all out of a plastic bag. so the living conditions were pretty bad. >> every conflict is different. in iraq, you're real danger was getting blown up in a hum

the journalist richard engel will deliver the commencement address today. 1,700 bachelors degrees willhm 100 masters degrees and 1,000 doctorates. >>> her-ins heroines of world war ii are getting together this morning. there is a museum in their honor. richmond was where many women learned how to work in the shipyards. for many it was the first time they ever worked outside the home. >> most of them are very humble. of course they feel pride now but many of them never spoke of this time period because they didn't think of it as anything extraordinary. they were just ordinary people going and doing a job that was needed. however, what they did was extraordinary. >> like all world war ii vets they are -- many of them are dying off with them in our now in their 90s. there are fewer than 100 rosies still alive. >>> she claims she's black, her parents say she's white. coming up at 8:30 -- we're going to talk about when the president of a chapter of the naacp plans to address the public in the controversy around her. >> a dramatic scene in the former soviet republic. severe flooding led to a