nominated for an oscar in 1965 for "the unsinkable molly brown." >> i'm unsinkable!> one of the things that really blew lexie and my mind was debbie's 80-year-old work ethic continued. i'm an actor basically first and foremost. and i was so inspired watching debbie ready to go on and continue and her performance. >> somebody had to save our skins. >> reporter: debbie's daughter carrie was also just 19 when she helped turn a sci-fi princess from "star wars" into a cultural icon. >> help me, obi-wan kenobi, you're my only hope. >> if you interviewed debbie, she's very proper. we see her, how's my hair? carrie during "star wars," she would just be like, okay, let's go. that was carrie. but -- i think that was what was so amazing about carrie. she was unfiltered. and almost -- i think incapable of kind of telling lies. which made her an incredible subject for a documentary. >> reporter: chain smoking and constantly sipping coca-cola, carrie complains bitterly about the diet and fitness regimen she's on. >> after your exercise class, what you need to do is smoke a cigaret

in the 1964 film "the unsinkable molly brown" in the end it took nothing less than the death of her carrie fisher to mo rocca has an appreciation times two. >> somehow both shocking and poignant. ed to fisher said about his mother's passing she wanted to be with carrie. >> debbie and carrie lived right next door to each other. >> our rita braver paid them a visit back in 2004. >> what did you think when your mother said, i'm buying the house down the driveway? >> i tried to litigate. >> she called me. mother, the man just died. and i said, should i go to the funeral? no, you should buy the house. >> but a good part of what made them so captivating as a pair, was what seemed to be their differences. >> would you please tell me what the this awful thing i did to you? >> dramatized in carrie's thinly veiled novel turned "postcards from the edge." remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up? >> i did not lift my skirt. it twirled up. >> you weren't wearing any underwear. >> well! >> if you only knew debbie and carrie from their screen work. you'd think that they were f

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she hit an iceberg and despite being supposedly designed as unsinkable, she sank and took 1,500 livesat, the filmmaker says, isn't the whole story. the whole story involve as fire that had been smouldering for days in one of the vessels cold storage bunkers, a fire whose heat may have severely weakened the ship and hastened its sinking. the new includes come from old photos of the ship's launching. he had been working on the fire theory for years. he said the dark patch on the titanic's hull says the coal was burning even as it launched. >> the intensity of the fire not only weakened the bulk head but may have caused the deformity and the ship put to sea with an out of control fire and require 12 men to tackle it during the maiden voyage. >> reporter: the smouldering fuel was dug out and burned in the ship's boiler. but maloney said the need to get rid of that burning coal quickly may have been one of the reasons the titanic kept going at high speed despite knowing there wir icebergs around. almost 105 years later, there's still enough doubt and interest to keep the story of the world

knows why the "titanic" went down, she hit an iceberg, and despite being supposedly designed as unsinkable, she sank and took 1,500 lives with her, but that, the filmmakers say, isn't the whole story. the whole story involves a fire that had been smoldering for days in one of the vessel's coal storage bunkers. >> look at this anomaly in the hull. >> reporter: a fire whose heat may have severely weakened the ship and hastened its sinking. the new theory comes from recently discovered old photos of the "titanic's" launching. >> they gambled? >> yes. >> reporter: irish journalist senan maloney had been working on the fire theory for years. he says the dark patch on the "titanic's" hull shows the coal was burning even as the ship was being launched. >> the intensity of the fire not only weakened the forward bulkhead but also may have caused that severe deformity to the hull and the ship put to sea with an out-of-control fire that required 12 men to try the tackle it for most of the maiden voyage. >> reporter: the coal fire was known about at the time and was dismissed as the cause of the disas

she was the consummate studio pro nominated for an oscar in 1965 for "the unsinkable molly brown." >>e things that really blew our mind was debbie's 80-year-old work ethic continued. i'm an actor basically first and foremost, and i was so inspired watching debbie get ready to go on and continue, and her performance. >> reporter: debbie's father carrie was also just 19 when she helped turn a sci fi princess from "star wars" into a cultural icon. their relationship was often deeply strained over the years which is why their closeness meant so much to both of them. bright lights gained critical acclaim. >> she loved the film. she thanked us many times at the end of the new york film festival and was like thank you. i'm so glad we did this. >> reporter: it was slated to premier in march but that all changed last month. >> all i know is debbie had been really ill. she kept bouncing back. and this was probably the last thing okay, ready. >> reporter: for nightline, juju chang in new york. >> i was going to say it's interesting. one of them was such an extrovert and the other an introvert, a

. >> 1500 lives were lost when the supposedly unsinkable ship did sink more than a century ago.rce of fascination ever since now with a new debate over whether the sul pri culprits were really fire and ice. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm reporting from ft. lauderdale. time. good night. >>> before this week's edition of the coach's show which was taped earlier this week, chris, news on thursday, the redskins let go some assistant coaches, at the top of the list, joe barry and also released secondary and defensive line coach respectively and strength and conditioning coach mike clark. let's start with joe barry. >> i think you have to start with jay gruden and how hard this was for jay. and it didn't work out and firing the coach and friend is the hardest thing you have to do in this league. i know that from coaches around. as jay looked at this defense, he had to say truly although the talent may not have been there. it was the worst defense in the league and it was

. >> 1500 lives were lost when the supposedly unsinkable ship did sink more than a century ago.rce of fascination ever since now with a new debate over whether the sul pri culprits were really fire and ice. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm reporting from ft. lauderdale. thank you for the privilege of your time. good night. the news at four.. starts rig >>> right now on nbc bay area, a micro climate weather alert, rain and rising rivers causing concern and the worst of it expected to come in the next 24 hours. >>> the news at 4:00 starts right now, good evening, thank you for joining us. i'm terry mcsweeney. >>> and i'm peggy bunker. right now we're feeling the strong impact of the storm and really this is just the beginning. >> we have rob mayeda tracking the storm. >> reporter: that is right, you see right rain around storam range as we show you the rain off to the east of san bruno mountain, south bay picking up the most rain and the santa cruz mountains not much in san jose, less than a tenth of an inch so far. but already at ben loman

. >> 1500 lives were lost when the supposedly unsinkable ship did sink more than a century ago.rce of fascination ever since now with a new debate over whether the sul pri culprits were really fire and ice. joe fryer, nbc news. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm reporting from ft. lauderdale. thank you for the privilege of your time. good night. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. ashley roberts: roll out the red carpet, strike a pose, and get your best acceptance speech ready. tonight, "1st look" is celebrating hollywood's golden night. if you do win tonight, remember that no one cares about that award as much as you do, ok. ashley roberts: we'll be mingling with the stars-- oh, behave. ashley roberts: --getting predictions from the pros-- gosling versus reynolds, i can't wait for reynolds to break the fourth wall and win. ashley roberts: --and strutting our stuff

she hit an iceberg and despite being supposedly unsinkable she sank and took 1,500 lives with her.hy was she going so fast through an iceberg filled sea and why did she go down so quickly? the filmmakers say it has to do with a dark smudge on the ship's hull that has come to light with a new batch of photographs in light of the "titanic's" launch. the mark on the hull, says irish journalist maloney is the result of a smouldering fire in one of the coal storage bunkers, a fire th >> the intensity of the fire and the robbing of the protective properties from the steel that very likely the fire itself was co-author of the catastrophe. >> reporter: the film even suggests the need to put out the fire by the smoldering coal into the ship's boilers was the reason she kept traveling at speed despite knowing the icebergs were lurking. the initial inquiry blamed it on the ship's speed. more than 12,000 feet down on the atlantic seabed some are now still being revealed. the "titanic" has become more than a well known tragedy. it's become a metaphor for disaster and it looks like the deck chai

knows why the "titanic" went down, she hit an iceberg, and despite being supposedly designed as unsinkable, she sank and took 1,500 lives with her, but that, the filmmakers say, isn't the whole story. the whole story involves a fire that had been smoldering for days in one of the vessel's coal storage bunkers. >> look at this anomaly in the hull. >> reporter: a fire whose heat may have severely weakened the ship and hastened its sinking. the new theory comes from recently discovered old photos of the "titanic's" launching. >> they gambled? >> yes. >> reporter: irish journalist senan maloney had been working on the fire theory for years. he says the dark patch on the "titanic's" hull shows the coal was burning even as the ship was being launched. >> the intensity of the fire not only weakened the forward bulkhead but also may have caused that severe deformity to the hull and the ship put to sea with an out-of-control fire that required 12 men to try to tackle it for most of the maiden voyage. >> reporter: the coal fire was known about at the time and was dismissed as the cause of the disast

let me introduce my unsinkable party panel. kristen haglund. jamie swin weinstein is here. hey, hey, no fascism in the usa. donald trump made a promise that will affect just about every single one of us. >> we are going to be cutting taxes massively for both the middle class, and for companies. and that's massively. we are trying to get it down to anywhere from 15% to 20%. it's now 35%. but it's probably more 38% than 35%. wouldn't you say? kennedy: he says he wants to slash the corporate tack rate by half. that means businesses would have more money to hire new employees and cut the price of their goods and services. but will it work? i love the idea of cutting taxes and regulations. >> it could make the economy soar. but he might raise tariffs which is basically a tax on all the consumers in the country. conservatives like the yesterday's cutting taxes somewhere. kennedy: i hope that he errs on the friedman side as i always do with everyone who has influence over my life. but at some point if you are going to cut taxes you also have to cut spending. >> that matters. but t

she hit an iceberg, and despite been unsinkable, she sank and took 1500 lives with her.hy was she going so fast through an iceberg filled see and why did she go down so quickly? the filmmakers say it has to do with the dark smudge on the hull. >> look at this anomaly in the hull. wow. >> reporter: the mark on the hull says irish journalist maloney, is the result of a smoldering fire that raged for days in one of the ship's coal storage bunkers that weakened the ship. >> the intensity of the fire and the effect on the steel, very likely the fire itself was co-author of the catastrophe. >> reporter: the film even suggests that the need to put out the fire by moving the smoldering coal into the ship's boilers was a reason she kept traveling at speed, despite snowing the icebergs were lurking. the official inquiry into the sinking blamed it on the ship's speed, but "titanic" apparently didn't take all her secrets with her to the grave. more than 12,000 feet down on the north atlantic seabed, some are now still being revealed. the "titanic" has become more than a well known t

>>> and a surprising new theory on what sunk the unsinkable titanic? was it fire and not ice?"out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. growing concern in the intelligence community about donald trump. u.s. officials tell cnn thr alarmed by trump's