I95 shut down an island cut off from the mainland and our reporter on the ground with the forecast showing no sign of a Slowdown we'll take you there live in Cuba a show of force from Moscow with Russian ships docking less than a 100 miles from the Florida coast our teams on the ground in Havana breaking down that message from Vladimir Putin plus what the fed's newest move late today means for your money as their keeping rates at the highest they've been since bootylicious was the number one song in America and in New York police investigat with some call anti-semitic vandalism at the homes of Jewish leaders by police in that City say it might be part of a pattern then the major move from one of the biggest church groups in America voting to oppose IVF in a real signal of where the conservative movement may be headed next the domino effect in Washington and Beyond later in the show hey I'm H and we are watching tonight an unbelievable amount of rain drowning Southern Florida shutting down part of I95 with storms and tornadoes sweeping the state take a look at this this is a live look at our reporter shot right now that's a car up to its tires in the water totally stuck the rain still coming down further north you've got a reported twister near Jupiter Island meaning it's totally cut off now from the mainland because of trees like this one down at the entrance to the island on Florida's West Coast there's some streets in Sarasota looking more like Rivers fire trucks trying to get through acting more like a boat that City setting a record for the most rain it's ever gotten in a single hour more than 8 in dropping flash floods coming with it you see some of it here now some drivers we've seen trapped hundreds of flights delayed dozens cancelled in Florida with right now millions of people under a flood emergency across the southern half of the state we're talking about cities like you see here Miami West Palm Marco Island too no relief expected until at least Friday for most of those spots I want to bring in now Sam Brock who is live for us on the ground in South Florida Bill Kens has our forecast in just a sec Sam I see you there still so wet and I'm sure that you have seen dozens of cars like the one you're standing in front of everywhere every road that you turn on hlee and I got to tell you you're talking about a pretty wide swath of land for those who don't live in South Florida and they hear you know Sarasota over here West Palm over there it's a three-hour drive from Sarasota along sort of the Panhandle aspect or sort of that Peninsula area of Florida over to Miami and then another 2 hours North out to Palm Beach County so we're talking about a huge huge chunk of land yes the cars are everywhere so I met a shopping mall aventur for those who like to frequ with Miami they definitely know this mall hundreds of people if not thousands on a daily basis I'm looking at cars all over the place that are just like this I actually saw a man Hy about 10 minutes ago climbing out of the window of his car to get behind it so he could start pushing it along with his girlfriend inside and that's like one little snippet of the things that we've seen so far people bailing water out of their cars I saw a mom clutching her daughter trying to carrier through a parking garage to get to their vehicle she was obviously in distress that is kind of standard for what we're seeing right now given the rate of rain that has come down some parts of this area here in Miami have seen a foot plus of rain so far today Hollywood I believe is the high water mark but it's all over it's not just there in Broward all the way down to Dade West out to Sarasota Naples these all these areas have seen just an inundation another interesting point here when you're talking about cars and how much it takes to flood them I mean it only takes inches to be able to actually destabilize the car and have it start to stall I'm 65 as we've talked before I'm on the taller side this water is almost up to my knee so you're looking at probably a foot and a half to 2 ft of water where I'm standing this is a parking lot that has been turned into a swimming pool thankfully we have not heard any reports to date of any injuries but this is widespread severe weather that has frightened quite a lot of people here and the weird thing I leave you with this hi is there were obviously warnings in conversations about saturating this entire area and seeing that carry over into the week and how of course there's going to be flooding and yet I talk to people and they tell me well I didn't think it was going to be that bad I went to work today and they were shocked to find out that their cars are in the middle now of a pool of water there's so much water I just stood up on a median you can't even see from your vantage point because there's so much water here I'm standing on top of it right now it's just everywhere and you hope you don't see ton of more who is it did they just try to drive through and got stuck like who oh no yeah I assume you're talking about this car right here this gentleman um and I got to be careful here because it gets deeper I want you don't have to go talk to him but I just like what there's another car stuck right there you know It's Tricky obviously just just a just a quick snapshot one two 3 4 5 6 7 8 n about 10 cars within just the radius of 50 ft from where I'm standing is what I'm looking at right now including unfortunately this guy too uh at least he looks to be okay uh Sam Brock thank you for being there for us you got to Than People sure you don't you don't want to make those moves right if you see a million cars stuck in the flooded water maybe don't try to you know to try to drive on through so we'll let Sam talk to him he seems to be uh at least physically okay so we'll see if Sam is able to to chat with him about being able to get out uh and get through to where he's going what language do you speak I'm going to leave Sam uh to do that for a second Bill Ken let me bring you in as we keep an eye on that live shot here wow I it breaks your heart to see to see that happened you know and that was the second car in just that live shot that we saw blast through behind Sam there and Florida is so flat and these vehicles are trapped in water and you people are so used to just driving their cars through puddles and they just it just and they just they think they can get out of it somehow and and I just want to let everyone to know I've seen a thousand pictures it's not just where Sam was I mean this is widespread in the Fort Lauderdale area Hollywood Beach to North Miami that area all looks just like the live shots we have we're talking hundreds you I I would say thousands of cars that are you know similar to that with waterers probably towards the bottom of them water was splashing up into the engines I mean you just think about you know we've reported a lot on the home insurance crisis in Florida you what's this going to do for the car insurance rates down there too when you had a huge event like this uh and you see like just Vehicles just they think they can drive through it and until they can't oh look at the oh no bill what are we watching this is stressing me out and you can see the bump right there so there's a curb right there so this little car the little s it's going over the curb it's like trying to follow the wake of the other car unbelievable and Samy Sam's trying to help get this guy and push him oh boy now Sam gets the medal for this one well it looks like it's working yeah I mean hopefully Sam can see that it's a little lower you know hopefully hopefully he's heading towards shallower water Sam's been there a long time now so yeah he knows but I that vehicle must be stalled because there's no you know there's no lights on in the back there's no brake lights there's no signs that so Sam's just doing that all on his own and Bill as you say and I mean I I am just totally Blown Away by and this is now I think the fifth car in the foreground here that pickup truck and you know they sit a little higher but trying to make their way and another one there behind him trying to make their way through all this can you imagine can you imagine driving by someone that's pushing a car like that and then hitting the gas and giving a big wave and awake and not even stopping the help as you say Bill you've seen this I mean this kind of rain it's not just here in Aventura where Sam is and it looks like he got this driver here to some Higher Ground it yeah it is a little more shallow and the rain rates are lighting up a little bit so that water level will start to drop so that you know hopefully the vehicle you know the Sam the guy that that vehicle won't get ruined any further I don't think the water is going to go up much more than what it is right now uh all through this area wow what a story uh and no relief in sight right I mean this rain is going to come and come and come for the next 48 hours or so yeah let me uh now that uh Sam's got that out we'll try to get back with a little bit we'll keep that live shot closer yeah yeah when we get them back so all right so let me just familiarize what we're looking at here this is Fort Lauderdale this is Miami this is Florida City this is down towards kargo all of the heavy rain for the last 4 hours had been from Naples across Alligator Alley 75 heading into this region so this is the area that has just gotten crushed with a ton of rain and now as we go throughout the rest of today it's sinking to the South that's why I was mentioning that the water levels are actually going to be dropping and going down as we go to it you can see the S just finished there so that's why I was saying the water levels going to be dropping I've seen High three different rain gauges that are now over a foot of rain since noon today and you know you hear those stories you hear like this is a one in 1,000 year flood or one in you know 500 the occurrence rate for this what we've just witnessed and are witnessing is about once in every 200 to Once in every 300 years that's the rainfall rates that we've been getting so we'll keep honor to this hopefully we can get you know get sand back up and we can find out the story of that gentleman and uh unbelievable I think that I would just pull back the curtain cuz that's we doing the show we don't have comms with Sam or his team right now um because obviously they're in the situation you saw the fluidity so to speak of Sam jumping into action there uh helping out that guy I I'm a little bit stunned by what we just witnessed over the course of the last eight minutes here with Sam watching that truck just try to blast on through getting stuck managed to push him to at least some higher water which is good that gentleman I see the tail the tail lights actually just came on there's some there's some hope that the car is not completely dead yeah as watching people kind of walk back from that parking garage this is again an outdoor mall or at least a mall in Aventura where people would typically be coming in parking there's that parking garage over in the corner there uh but again I don't think we have comms with his team at this point uh we will obviously bring that back as soon as we can just to hear from Sam what what went down there I mean I got to tell you Bill I don't want to over index on this like but but the point of this this is the kind of scene that is playing out all over the place in Southern Florida I mean this is just a micro look at a story that's happening again and again places all around Miami yeah and you could see when we showed that shot to the left that you could see dry ground so this is obviously a low area here by this intersection so the cars are approaching it and you can see the street just to the north there looks like it's a little higher elevated so people are driving and they have no clue how deep this water is but you would think that they'd see the stalled vehicles and that may be a big heads up yeah all right people got to get their packages I guess hopefully that FedEx truck made it through uh we're going to keep an eye on this live shot we're going to see what kind of coms we get we're going to come back to it if we can Bill I'm going to ask you to stay close to a camera to thank you very much with obviously a lot unfolding in Southern Florida we're also going to keep an eye on those flight delays as well we've got to get though to some breaking news out of Capitol Hill in just the last hour or so because you have House Republicans now voting to hold the Attorney General in contempt of congress here's what that means it means they're basically asking the justice department to pursue a criminal case against the head of the justice department this is after this guy Merrick Garland the Attorney General refused to hand over audio of president Biden being interviewed by the special counsel who was investigating his handling of classified documents remember it was back in February that this special counsel Robert her declined to indict the president for his handling of those documents after he was vice president because he was afraid a jury would hesitate to convict in in words from the report an elderly man a sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory NBC's sahok kapor is following this one for us from Capitol Hill what's the doj going to have to do now right cuz the balls in some ways in their Court where does this go yeah the doj gets to decide what happens next H this vote was 216 to 207 almost entirely along party lines just one member of the House broke ranks and voted uh with the other party that was uh Dave Joy a center right republican from Ohio voted with unanimous Democrats against this resolution uh Merck Garland the attorney general has already issued a statement criticizing it and let's show what he said says quote it is deeply disappointing that this House of Representatives has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon today's vote he says disregards the Constitutional separation of powers the Justice departments need to protect its investigations and the substantial amount of information that we have provided the committee unquote now Garland recently testified before Congress that they will not release the audio of President Biden's interview with the special Council Robert her he said they've released the full transcript already there's no value uh from an investigative standpoint to be releasing to audio and he said it would in fact have a chilling impact on future cooperation with the justice department if they were to publicize these sorts of things going forward there's also an an office of legal counsel memo uh written last month or not last month I should say or wait may excuse me last month uh May 2024 um you know that says this would not be an appropriate thing to do when executive privilege uh has been has been executed finally hie uh speaker Mike Johnson did make his case for this let's play what he said look we we did our job on the content and um it says an important message we're defending article on it we'll see what happens next but I mean the house has to do its work and I'm pleased with the outcome and the Republican Dave Joyce essentially agreed with Democrats when he said this was about scoring political points and not a serious effort hie soap poor live for us on the hill with that thank you right as we were coming on the air we also saw President Biden arriving in Italy with one of the goals trying to figure out a way to get more money to Ukraine want to show you the president in just the last hour there he is getting off the plane he's going to be at the G7 7 Summit with his National Security adviser on the plane over telling reporters that these talks and the agreements they hope come from them are meant to send a message to Russia if Vladimir Putin thinks that he can Outlast the Coalition supporting Ukraine he's wrong he just cannot wait us out and this agreement will show our resolve and continued commitment Monica Alba is live for us now from Italy and Monica while the president has a number of these international issues to work out it's also striking that I think the last time we saw him stepping off of a plane was about 24 hours ago almost exactly in Wilmington Delaware hugging his son who had just been convicted of that gun felony charge uh it's that it's that moment here um there is an emotional toll on the president even as he has now this other set of issues on his plate as he lands in Italy exactly hiy and that was a shift in schedule the president wasn't supposed to be going to Wilmington Delaware but he rerouted there to spend some time with Hunter his son of course before they parted ways and Hunter left and the president actually then spent the night with other family members with the first lady there in Wilmington before returning to Washington very early this morning to then board that flight to come here to Southern Italy to participate in this G7 conference with world leaders and on the flight over here the White House Press Secretary was asked about the possibility that even though President Biden and in an interview has ruled out pardoning his son for this conviction there was a question raised about whether he would for instance go through with a commutation of his sentence and at the time Karine jeanpierre said she hadn't spoken to the president since Hunter Biden's verdict came down yesterday about that so she didn't want to get into any of the specifics but it did raise this possibility but a White House official tells us that that kind of discussion is really quite premature because we don't even have a sentencing date yet for these three felony gun charges and there's a larger question here because the president did say in that statement yesterday after the verdict came down that he does respect this judicial process and the outcome but there are of course these lingering questions about the emotional toll that all of this is taking on the president we know that leading up to this point this is certainly something that he does constantly worry about as a father as a concerned parent and not as president of the United States while he is juggling these very weighty issues here on the world stage in Italy Callie Monica Alba live for us there in Italy thanks M for that a show of force from Moscow tonight with four Russian ships arriving down in Cuba look at this here they are these warships pulling into the harbor after some missile drills apparently in the Atlantic as they made their way to Havana more military exercises according to officials are planned in the Caribbean in the next couple days a spokesperson for the US military says they've been actively monitoring these ships that this is routine that there is no direct threat or concern Ed Augustin is in Havana he's joining us now so this may not be a direct threat or a concern but it is certainly interesting given the location of a few hundred miles off the US Coastline and the timing here talk us through the message Russia's trying to send I think the message is crystal clear as one military analyst uh put it the other day the me the the the message that Russia is trying to send to the United States is from their point of view you can cause us all sorts of problem all sorts of problems in our spheres of influence you can do huge um military drills like the drill that NATO performed last month with 990,000 soldiers and over and over 100 tanks but we can also project power in your backyard I'm speaking to you from Havana Cuba Cuba is only 90 nautical miles from the United States and um you know if if we're going to think in classic big Power terms solidly historically at least um in the United States sphere of influence at least before the Cuban Revolution so this is tit fortat uh Russia to put it mildly very very unhappy about us actions in Ukraine and given the Biden administration's decision two weeks ago to allow some U us uh weapons to hit some Russian Targets in Russian territory this I think and most military analysts are interpret it it this way is response we can be a nuisance to you as well and Ed real quick on the drills that Russia's doing what do we know more about them what what can we say there have been military drills uh so as this flotilla was crossing the Atlantic there were um there was artillery fire there had been simulations there have been military drills uh leading up to to to to uh the flotilla docking in Havana today Ed Augustin live for us there in Havana Cuba Edward glad to have you thank you very much for being with us to a sensational murder trial now over the death of a Boston police officer that could be in the hands of a jury relatively soon but first tonight the lead investigator admitting under oath he called the defendant a whack job Massachusetts state trooper Michael Proctor acknowledging now that his comments were in his words Juvenile and unprofessional but he insists they had no influence on the investigation into the death of Officer Jon O'Keefe still what he said about the defendant Karen Reed raising some questions on whether Proctor was biased in his investigation Reed has pleaded not guilty to Second deegree murder in the 2022 death of her then boyfriend O'Keefe prosecutors say she hit him with her car and left him for dead after a night of drinking her defense team argues that she's been framed in a pretty far-reaching conspiracy involving other law enforcement officers for Ellis is joining us now lot to unpack here right and partly it's because it involves the death of an officer outside the home of of another police officer and now these comments from the lead investigator yeah it's all very messy and it should set the scene that this was two years ago 2022 and it happened on a cold snowy night in January up in the Boston area now investigators say that the couple's relationship had been kind of Rocky before this tragedy but they had gone out for drinking the night of the tragedy she drops him off at a friend's house as you point out this was the home of a retired Boston police sergeant and later they said that the officer John um John O'Keefe that he died as a result of blunt force trauma and hypothermia they say they also found that her tail light on her car was broken and pieces of that tail light were found in the yard where the officer's body was found she insists that she did nothing wrong her prosecute her defense says she's a victim of a coverup including from that um in investigator the lead investigator the state trooper and his name is Michael Proctor she says they we're exchanging text message including one that said officers are involved this involves cops we should wrap this up quickly hie rahima Ellis following all of it for us on that just a really interesting case it's getting a lot of attention rahima thank you very much coming up here on the show a lot more to get to here tonight including of course did we just see that did that just happen the messy scene in South Florida we're working on getting coms from Sam Brock back so he can tell us about his end of this pretty remarkable video coming up in just a sec [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the paper towel will absorb the acid that's crazy green tea to calm acne tap magnifier we can zoom in oh look at that the steam from the ice takes out all the wrinkles the way to get it out is to use the shell that is left over it works every single time this is my favorite tip of the day brilliant brilliant brilliant personal finan is personal you don't want to do what somebody else is doing oh that's genius you just Sav me 40 bucks that's a good idea police in New York tonight investigating what local leaders are calling an abhorent act of anti-Semitism after the homes of the Brooklyn museums Jewish leaders were vandalized look at this this door covered in run pain one Banner calling the Museum's director a white supremacist Zionist police say they're looking for more than a dozen people who could be involved Antonia Hilton is following this story for us the NYPD says these incidents may be part of a bigger pattern that they're seeing that's right hiy they're investigating this what happened last night but also a series of incidents that they say have happened all over the city not just relegated to one burrow or one Community here they are looking at and tracking this activity that often involves the use of red paint red spray paint the kind of banners that you saw in those images there and they've happened in properties all around New York and they're looking for the suspect that they believe could be connected to what happened not just to the director the leader of the Brooklyn Museum named Ann Pasto but also several Jewish members of the leadership team of the board there the mayor Eric Adams released a statement this morning not mincing words saying this is not peaceful protest or Free Speech this is a crime and it's overt unacceptable and anti-Semitism other leaders including the governor and local Brooklyn level leaders have released similar statements as well today you know this is really reflective of the fact that these cultural institutions have become sites of conflict as the war rages on the just days ago the Brooklyn Museum was the site of another protest and at one point the protesters demonstrators actually entered the Brooklyn Museum they occupied it for a period of time they unfurled banners they marched and chanted until the NYPD came and responded and while we don't know that that group is necessarily connected to what happened here last night what we do know is this has really become a center of this kind of activity here and the tensions abroad very much hitting here at home and with Jewish community members and leaders here in New York saying that they're quite shaken up and fearful about all of this as the ADL says they're seeing these incidents incidents really a balloon across the country and New York is no exception hie Antonia Hilton Thank you very much for that let's get you over to the five things our team thinks you should know about tonight number one Illinois police say three sheriff's deputies are in good condition at the hospital after a shooting officials say they were making an emergency visit to a home after getting a call about somebody who had threatened both suicide and homicide the suspect was also shot and taken to the hospital number two a lot of tributes coming in tonight from all over for NBA legend Jerry West who died at the age of 86 to give you an idea how big of a deal he was look at the logo on your left that's him he's the iconic NBA logo guy he was an all-time great made nine appearances in the NBA finals for the Lakers he also built eight Championship Laker teams as an executive LeBron James today saying he will truly miss his conversations with West and the NBA commissioner calling him a basketball genius before tonight's NBA Finals game there's going to be a tribute to West number three a plane missing for more than half a century now reportedly found in Vermont's Lake Champlain the small corporate jet carrying five people disappeared not long after after taking off from the Burlington Airport back in 1971 after more than a dozen failed searches a team somehow has now found the plane not far from where it went missing number four North Dakota voters passing a measure that would put in place age limits on congressional candidates this bans people from running for a house or senate seat there if they could end up being 81 years old by December 31st of the Year immediately preceding the end of the term bottom line they're capping it basically it's believed to be the first of its kind in the country but it is also certainly expected to be challenged in court number five the FED today keeping interest rates where they are for now forecasting only one rate cut this year at one point there were hopes there could be three rate Cuts it's coming after new numbers out today showed inflation slowing down a bit the markets seem to like it with the S&P and NASDAQ hitting new records the Dow closing down but just a little bit also tonight the country's biggest Protestant group voting today against the use of IVF we're talking about the southern Baptist Church saying that Frozen embos embryos rather like those used in invitro fertilization are children it is a significant sign of where conservative evangelicals may take the fight over Reproductive Rights next a fight that may come to a head in Washington too with Democrats getting ready to vote to protect IVF to put Republicans in a tough political spot considering polls show IVF is broadly popular across party lines Julie cirin is joining us now so Julie talk us through this vote on IVF by the southern B this convention it seems like more than anything it is a major signal of where this fight's going yeah not only a signal hie but also yet another example and exactly why Democratic lawmakers behind this push to codify protections for ibf into law tell me they need to act that Congress needs to act look at this Julie ashelman and her husband who's in the Army Reserves had their 2-year-old daughter through inv vitro fertilization when we moved from Washington to Arizona and from Arizona to Illinois you know we didn't have to worry about whether we'd be able to access IVF they kept their Frozen embryos in storage during deployment but after the Supreme Court overturned roie Wade everything changed are we going to be able to access IVF in our new state are we going to have to pay to travel out of state Alabama was their next potential destination and the state supreme court at the time effectively banned the procedure deeming Frozen embryos are babies our military families don't have have a don't have control over where they live IVF restarted in the state but not before causing a political Firestorm making access to the procedure a key issue that's why a trio of Democratic senators pushed for a vote to protect the procedure nationally and broaden eligibility for service members for Tammy Duckworth it's personal I struggled for 10 years post my deployment to Iraq um uh trying to start a family and uh it was only through the miracle of I that I have my two little girls their bill would prevent States from imposing IVF restrictions expand access for service members and Veterans and require insurance plans to cover fertility treatments it's not about the petty politics it's about the people in our communities that are really struggling but just like Democrats efforts to protect access to contraception this bill will likely fail some people are looking at these attempts by democrats and are calling messaging bills what's your response to that they're a message to the American people that you have a right to IVF they're a message to the American people that we believe Rose should be um the law of the land their message to women in this country that they have the right to make their own health care decisions the majority of Republicans say they too support IVF but will probably oppose the Democrats Bill saying it goes too far I I clearly support IVF I have an ad supporting IVF I have a daughter going through IVF Alabama Senator Katie Brit outspoken after her State's actions earlier this year we strongly support continued Nationwide access to invitro fertilization trying to pass her bill with Senator Ted Cruz tonight it would withhold key funding for states that ban IVF but it says nothing about potential legal consequences of discarding nonviable embryos essential to the procedure but Democrats blocking it that's why I object their baill is very dangerous and is a step backwards if Congress can't find a solution Julie's family has a lot to think about and that could mean that my husband would have to leave the service which sounds like a really tough decision yeah I mean he's been in 14 years you know I am so proud of the work that he does for our country Julie uh you you hear and in those conversations that you had especially with her the stakes of this the stakes of what's Happening where you are on Capitol Hill so what is next then is this just a function of waiting until the election in November to see who ends up in the white house where this fight goes well unfortunately for women like Julie unfortunately yes that is exactly what is happening here I asked the Democratic senators this very question yesterday I said with the Democratic president in the white house with Democrats in control of the Senate is this really your last best shot and they said yes it is and that is only embolden by this text I got literally a couple of seconds ago from Katie Brit's office they circul ated a statement that we received first signed by all Republican Senators nearly all if not one lacking it says in part quote that this attempt by democrats this ibf bill ibf bill is nothing more than quote a partisan campaign of false fearmongering intended to mislead and confuse the American people they go on to say that IVF is legal across the country although we have seen attacks to it including what happened today that vote from the south southern baptist church leaders that you've mentioned there at the top H so certainly this is very issue and the two sides could not be more far apart yeah lot of developments on IVF today Julie cirin we're glad to have you covering all of it there from Washington appreciate it when we come back you're taking a look now some live pictures from out of Iraq what we know about a fire burning out of control there right now then Sam Brock back up and running we're going to be talking to our chief car pushing correspondent right after the break [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] oh still to come in the Channel 2 News well the waters are certainly receding now still too close to call reporting from round zero as it's being referred to is in fact that tast the Haitian people know a little something about resiliency what's the biggest risk right now some of the troops you have been I want to welcome you to the first presidential debate in fact we've been told we can't go any farther you were some rilian folks let me give a hint [Music] so if you've been watching our show for the last half an hour you probably saw this moment here we're talking about this unbelievable flooding and rain in south Florida this is Sam Brock during his live shot this car This SUV drives through stalls out uh and here's Sam trying to push this guy to safety essentially we have seen now not just in Aventura but all over South Florida a ton of rain falling in Sarasota on the west coast something like 8 in in just about about an hour and in the foreground of this video you can actually see some other cars trying to push through the issue here of course is that this area of South Florida is extremely flat so once the water saturates the ground it's Limestone it's really tough for that water to drain away and this is creating impacts having a domino effect all across the state you have hundreds of flights delayed you have dozens of them cancelled and we brought back Sam Brock cuz Sam we lost your CS there in this moment that we're watching watching what in the world happened what just what so I think you're referring to what happened during our last conversation Al you know obviously there is uh a lot of turmoil going on a lot of people not exactly sure whether or not to drive through this I can tell you several feet of water even if you're in an SUV not a good idea one gentleman live on our Airways discovered that um and this is a an area that is very diverse you have people that are from South America Central America Haiti this gentleman was was from Haiti uh does not speak much English I was trying to communicate with him and when it was very clear he was not going to be able to get his car out figured why not roll up the sleeves and see if we can push it along I had him put the car neutral and I was able to at least Glide it out of the center area which I suspect is the video that you're looking at right now his situation is a predicament that many people are finding themselves in tonight I mean just in this one area where I'm standing in front of a mall you got to be careful by the way that car made it right but he didn't go through the middle but again the bottom line here is if you see standing water don't try to drive through it right how many times do we hear people with backgrounds in meteorology or just common sense say that's not a good idea and yet people continue to do it but you're looking just right now within this Horizon where I'm standing at one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine 10 or so cars that are stranded I'm seeing people allei that are just bailing water out of their cars one guy that climbed out of his window to then go out and try to push it along there's people here that are walking barefoot and they obviously don't know what's back there but they just are soaked and drenched it's a general level of discomfort we're just trying to help one person at a time if we can how maybe I did a little bit of that tonight I think you did Sam that driver was okay did he his car turn back on or where is he now that's the problem so the next chapter in this is his car has not turned back on at least he's not in the middle of this but yeah he's got a he's going to need a toe for sure I mean I95 may be closed down not far from R are but it looks like a highway behind you Sam Brock listen good luck to all those people I guess that's all you got to say uh Sam thank you so much we're glad that you came back for us glad that you are okay too hero award for Sam Brock ladies and gentlemen our senior National Car saving correspondent here for us in South Florida thank you for appreciate it uh that's right you you can own that for a minute Sam thanks to Georgia now and the longest criminal trial in that state's history that could be heading totally off the rails after the judge sentenced a famous rappers loyal to jail time after a viral moment rocketed this long running case back into the headlines here's the deal it all stems from a beef between Young Thug's attorney and the judge in the case after the judge held a closed door meeting with one of the prosecution's star Witnesses now the lawyer the defense attorney had a big problem with that Brian steel he says in court well wait a second the defense team should have been there or at least should have been aware of that meeting and that's when things really blew up with the judge slamming steel demanding to know how he even found out about the meeting in the first place listen how did you how did you get that information supposedly from my Chambers did somebody tell you I'm not you should have told me sir I'm going to hold you in contempt if you don't tell me who this tell me tell me who this information want to be held in contempt I'm not answering that question Young Thug's lawyer did not give in did not share his source so the judge in the case found him in contempt to court had him arrested look at him he's taken off his jacket taken off his tie before getting walked out by an officer that moment that visual went viral as did this one when steel said if he has to report to jail he wants to end up in the same cell as his client so they can keep working on the case young thug real Nam Jeffrey Williams is facing charges he led an atlanta-based criminal gang and oversaw a conspiracy to commit murder armed robbery and deal drugs NBC legal analyst Danny savalos is joining us now I'm going to ask you to put on your defense attorney hat here who is out of line is it the judge is it the attorney unfortunately hie my defense attorney had is on way too tight all the time I'm probably biased here but this seems to be such a clear case of right and wrong in that the attorney is right the judge is wrong and here's why even if this ex parte meeting was uh appropriate which I can't see how it was and X parte means it's out of the hearing of other people other people were excluded namely the defense it was apparently between the judge and the witness and the uh and the state the prosecutors that's what I'm understanding if that's the case if I'm a defense attorney in that case I've got a real problem with that and so did this defense counsel and instead of saying hey explaining the judge why he had this meeting or explaining what happened he instead says who told you about that and then jailed him for not revealing his sources so I I mean even if the underlying exp parte meeting was acceptable and proper uh the whole where did you hear that I'm going to jail you unless you tell me who told you this uh that just seems inappropriate as well well to me this has really blown up I mean the moment where he takes off his jacket and TI is everywhere the moment where he says well then put me in a cell with my client while I'm serving my time on the weekends for this contempt charge is it possible that there could be a mistrial because of this moment because of what the judge did because of all this yes and the judge isn't likely to grant that mistrial after all it would be an implication that he did something wrong but on appeal this is probably going to be a major issue you know there's a lot of crazy stuff that's been going on in this trial this may be the craziest but again even if the underlying exp parte meeting was somehow acceptable uh this whole Fiasco of jailing the attorney because how can the defendant proceed if his attorney is in jail yes he's in on the weekends but he was taken out of court that day there's a lot of really really problematic issues cropping up as a result of the judge's insistence on jailing one of the defendants chosen councel what's interesting here and part of why this this case initially caught My ATT mention as you know a political reporter here in Washington is that the charges Young Thug faces are based on the same criminal racketeering law that former president Trump is facing in his own Georgia election interference case and if you look at Young Thug's trial so far we've seen a 10-month jury selection for this a list of 400 potential Witnesses a schedule that one of the attorneys said could push this whole trial into 2027 is it your sense that this perhaps may be a blueprint for the former president's case if and when that finally gets going yes and remember the decision to bring this this charge these charges against YSL and the charges against Donald Trump were made by the same district attorney who has made the choice in each of these cases to bring sweeping charges against a large number of defendants probably hoping that some of them would plead out and that's happened in both cases it's happened in the YSL case quite a few defendants have pleaded out but this is a really complex case and it's going to last years so Donald Trump's case is probably going to take uh just as long or at least close to as long it's chaos down there in Fon County Danny saalo super interesting thank you so much for being there for us for that analysis appreciate it NBC News covers hundreds of international stories every day and because it can be tough to read or watch or listen to them all our teams around the world have done it for you here's a look at what they're watching in a segment we call the global out of Iraq you're looking at live pictures of what is apparently a fire at an oil refinery burning out of control in herbal we're seeing some early reports of some injuries there we're going to keep watching it we're going to keep an eye on it we'll keep it posted with any updates out of Canada the wreck of a ship that an iconic Explorer died on more than a century ago has just been found off the coast of New Finland that's according to the Royal Canadian geographical Society this is the sonar image you're about to see showing the ship Quest Ernest Shackleton the legendary Antarctic Explorer died on that ship back in 1922 The Vessel stayed in use until the 60s when it was damaged and sank an international team of shipwreck hunters and his hisorical experts discovered the wreckage with one of them calling it profoundly moving and out of South Korea K-pop Star JY from BTS discharged from the Army today after 18 months of service there he is he's being serenad by another member of BTS playing the saxophone jyn is the first member of BTS to wrap up his mandatory service the rest of them have all put their music careers on hold too the band is expected to reunite next year much to the uh Delight of K-pop fans everywhere coming up tensions in a Georgia town over quite literally Monkey Business what our team found when they went there in the original [Music] [Music] he [Music] tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the G and [Music] we report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC news now to tonight's original now with in-depth reporting on a topic we've been watching and tomorrow a Georgia Court's considering a case that could topple a huge monkey breeding project that has folks in a small City there up in arms basically there's a plan to breed 30,000 monkeys for medical research researchers say they need it to make scientific breakthroughs but folks in town say no way and they won't let the monkeys on their Turf without a fight here's Yasmin vukin soon a small Georgia city could have twice as many monkeys as people if a massive breeding facility housing 30,000 longtailed Max comes to town and some residents of Banbridge Georgia are not happy about it well at a jungle noise stink the reynolds's home borders the land where the facility will be built this is my home here and it's approximately 400 ft from the monkey house that would be over here City officials think the $400 million project run by a company called safer human medicine will be an economic boom Rick mccal helped broker the deal it's a tremendous investment and it's a tremendous amount of good paying jobs when lifelong resident June Faircloth found out about the plan she was stunned to me it feels like somebody's going to drop a bomb right in the middle of everything that we've worked and built we can't sit back and let it happen she get some others coordinated with Peeta there's a monkey facility that's trying to be established and we're going to make sure that it doesn't happen armed with signs and pins and flyers June and others set out to stop the monkey Farm organizing online and and in person now a future monkey Farm could be my neighbor they've got a long list of fears like monkeys escaping which has occasionally happened at other breeding facilities here in the United States as well as River contamination and disease sa for human medicine declined interview requests responding over email that all waste will be contained in its facilities and sent to the city wastewater treatment plant It also says most noise will stay within the facility and there will not be a noticeable smell coming from it is it possible to miss diseases they might be carrying absolutely Ed newcomer a former special agent for the US fish and wildlife service tells us inspections are mostly paperwork uh fish and wildlife service law enforcement inspector will try to do a physical inspection of the primates just to make sure the numbers are correct that the U ages look appropriate and if there's any evidence that they're you know Wild when they're declared as captive captive monkeys are preferred for research wild monkeys can carry viruses like herpes be safer human medicine says it will not be using wild caught animals it says the monkeys will come from breeding facilities in Asia but did not specify where longtailed maacs are native to Southeast Asia but for a while the US got many longtailed maacs from China which imported them from other countries then exported them but in 2020 it cut off its longtail macak exports something researchers say contributed to a monkey shortage here in the US and said the cost of monkeys soaring this is a business effort to try to capitalize on that shortage while non-human primates make up less than 1% of animals in biomedical research monkey Studies have helped develop covid vaccines and a drug now used for kidney transplants in research studies they are sometimes put to death it's a real tragic life for these primates they may live their entire life moving from one research project to the other being exposed to pathogens having experiments done on them being poked and prodded it makes you wonder whether it's better for them to be euthanized after their first experiment or go through a life of you torture safer human medicine's not the only one trying to build a giant monkey breeding facility another company called Charles River Laboratories is planning a facility in boria County Texas that effort's on hold after local opposition everybody far as I know in boria county is against it Charles River telling our local affiliate in part it'll listen cooperate and work with the community as we assess next steps in Bainbridge tensions boiling over we felt like the divisiveness and the unrest in the community was outweighing the benefit of the project in February the Banbridge Development Authority voted to take back its support Chris hobby bainbridge's longtime city manager resigned last month hobby declined an interview request but told NBC News over email he was wary of being the face of every controversy he says if he had the same opportunity again he suggest passing on the project the plan now tied up in the courts the Reynolds unsure if their new neighbors will be monkeys safe for human medicine needs to realize that they're not wanted here they'll never be wanted here and it would pay them to find them somewhere else to go if they can if it comes it will turn our lives upside down gas man is joining us now chos what's the next step in the fight we know this court day tomorrow right yeah you got to think about this right because obviously covid vaccine development of covid vaccine wildly important on so many Global implications right so so important there but do you want that in in your backyard and then of course you're hearing about how they're being treated um when monkeys are actually part of uh part of kind of these test cases um let's talk through the legal cases quickly Hal if we can for a moment all is really up in the air right you talked about what's happening um tomorrow the Georgia appeals court overturning or weighing to overturn uh the bond that was granted by Banbridge there uh towards safer human medicine safe for human medicine appealing that um then there is this idea of sa Meson putting out there saying listen it's not even going to be until 2025 that we're actually even going to be getting monkeys um into this area into this property so there's that as well but then you think about the treatment right the paa concerns for instance that we covered there briefly and what actually happens to these monkeys researchers are saying okay there's a shortage um the the prices are Sky High and monkeys it seems are not being treated well and a lot of folks out there advocating for monkeys so maybe we need to find a different way for medical re search that does not include primates they're looking to do that how the problem is it's going to take quite some time so answer overall 30,000 foot above you it's all up in the air right now yeah has been vugi and super interesting thank you very much when we come back Elon musk's future with Tesla coming down to a vote about how many billions billions with a be he's going to get paid we'll explain in our breakdown [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] we're talking possibly a trillion galaxies that is a number that is just so hard to compute whether it's the moon whether it's Mars it feels like we are on the cusp of something big the fire has grown leaps and bounces you see behind me is typical how you doing oh pretty pretty [Music] bad news for the generation of now is NBC news [Music] now so eight former employees from SpaceX we're learning tonight are now suing Elon Musk and his company alleging musk personally ordered their firing after they accused SpaceX of tolerating sex harassment in the workplace the lawsuit says musk runs his company in the Dark Ages this is a quote here treating women as sexual objects SpaceX did not immediately respond to NBC's request for comment but in the past they've denied wrongdoing related to these firing all of it coming just one day before the Moment of Truth for musk at his other company Tesla where he makes a record 50 billion dollars in his comp package some big shareholders say he doesn't deserve it with a vote on that set for just hours from now here's Tom Castello a high stakes vote worth billions pitting the headline grabbing Elon Musk and Tesla's board against some shareholders this could be a big slight if it doesn't go through appalled by this the amount of money is outrageous it's all about a massive pay package worth a record $ 56 billion for a man who is already one of the richest in the world and the vote could signal chinks in the Billionaire's controversial armor the package was actually approved back in 2018 but a judge Struck it down in January of this year calling it an unfathomable sum that was unfair to shareholders adding it was negotiated by a board of directors beholden to musk the sum growing to such a huge number because the package was negotiated in stock options rather than cash at the time Tesla's stock was worth much less and the package amounted to about $2.6 billion but after years of supercharged growth now worth about 20 times that more than any other in Corporate America musk and the company say he deserves the huge payout his success is shared by all stockholders you saw the value of your Investments increase nearly 1,100% the vote is a task for musk and whether shareholders can keep the famous CEO engaged with the company he helped build he's already threatened to take his ideas like developing his AI platforms elsewhere if he isn't able to up a stake in Tesla AI is is sort of like at least 80% likely to be beneficial the vote pits many institutional investors against one another Florida's pension board supports the package but the pension fund for California teachers disagrees other critics note Tesla stock pric has sputtered more recently and point to musk's divided attention with stakes in SpaceX X and neurolink and his constant provocative social media presence Tom Costello NBC News Washington our thanks to Tom Castello for that reporting that's a wrap for this hour we've got more coverage picking up right now tonight life-threatening flooding slamming parts of Florida as Relentless rainfall plagues the region this video showing a possible tornado ripping across Southern Florida a rare flash flood emergency issued as streets turn into rivers and drivers are left stranded record rainfall upending travel not just on the roads but at airports the danger far from over as storms linger for the next few days and we're tracking the first tropical disturbance of the 24 Atlantic hurricane season Bill Ken standing by with that track also tonight the deadly bus hijacking a gunman taking more than a dozen passengers hostage holding a bus driver at gunpoint and forcing him to speed away the tense Rush Hour Chase and frantic 911 calls to loved ones the alleged hijacker actually speaking on camera to our local reporter just before his oneman Crim spree hate on display disturbing videos of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City we'll show you the Hostile protest outside an exhibit paying tribute to those killed at an Israeli Music Festival on October 7th and you'll hear what another group did on a subway car threatening Israeli supporters and telling them to get off the train plus the vandalism targeting the homes of a Museum's Jewish leaders defined Biden's executive order new reporting showing the president's Southern border policy isn't being implemented the evidence that migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the us as the ACLU officially files a lawsuit against the Biden Administration missing jet found in 1971 a private plane carrying five people on board vanished more than five decades later that mystery is solved thanks to an underwater Explorer tonight you'll hear from that man and see where he made the shocking Discovery wild Collision a deer bursting through the windshield of a city bus the animal flying right into passengers and the new discoveries is in the ancient city of Pompei our camera is inside a hidden Rune giving us a glimpse into the past top story starts right [Music] now and good evening tonight millions in Florida facing the threat of dangerous flash flooding as torrential rains inundate the region storms causing chaos at airports and parts of I95 are completely shut down right now new video just in as a possible tornado moved through you can see the force of that system right there that intense video taken just north of Palm Beach and you can see the debris being lifted into the air nearby Jupiter Island cut off from the mainland due to the number of trees down destruction reported in several cities and towns across the state take a live look at daa beach where a rare flash flood emergency is in effect the National Weather Service there even warning of the potential of catastrophic damage in Miami a water spout forming just off the coast of the beach and big bolts of lightning and striking as storms Rumble through from Miami to Fort Meers to Sarasota rainfall quickly turning streets into rivers car stalling out and in some cases even floating by Sarasota setting a record for the most rain it's ever seen in just an hour with 8 in quickly falling to make matters worse some of the strongest storms hitting during the rush hour commute officials continuing to urge people to stay off the roads the severe weather causing hundreds of flight cancell ations and delays at Fort Lauderdale and Miami international airports and we're also tracking the first tropical disturbance of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season Bill Karens is standing by with the areas it could impact but first we start with NBC's Sam Brock in the storm Zone tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles cancelling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flight with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we had to we had to stop and walk because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water's coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain so you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place are we want to move a car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come all right Sam Brock joins us tonight from Aventura Florida Sam it looks like you're completely underwater there I know during your reporting earlier today you had a jump into action helping people push a car out of those flood waters walk me through what happened there and how much of this are you seeing Tom I know that one of the things you appreciate about me is I'm a man of the people much like yourself so yes I saw someone stranded and figured you know why not help him out obviously Miami is a very diverse area this gentleman happened to be Haitian I don't speak Haitian Creole but he was out here in the middle of this water of this pool basically deao and I asked him if he could please put the car in neutral got behind and guessing you're playing this video right now pushed from behind I will say it makes me look like I'm a lot stronger than I actually actually am it kind of glided right along which makes you wonder how it could be right now you have so many cars that are stalled out here but clearly Tom this is sort of treacherous uh situation in terms of trying to get through Pathways that are deeper than people anticipate have obstacles that you can't see in my vicinity right now really within let's say 50 to 100 feet in each Direction you're looking at about 10 cars that are stalled out I still have people behind me right now that were like grinding up against the tree branches here trying to get through one guy almost got stuck right here 45 seconds ago so you'll never learn apparently uh I guess they say the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and a lot of people here are doing that right now luckily for those people you spent years building those quad muscles on the tennis courts where you grew up so those people are lucky for that and then Sam I do have to ask you you like many of the people that are living in South Florida are new to the area I know you've been there for for quite a while now but a lot of people move there during the pandemic are you seing a lot of people that this maybe is new to this flash flooding because it kind it really does take you by surprise without a doubt I spoke with a couple from Argentina earlier today they took out a bike they said well hey the last three days were beautiful in Florida why would this day not be beautiful and of course it changes in a heartbeat they weren't listening to some of the warnings that were coming along so that's from an outsider's perspective but also Tom I talked to one woman whose car it's her her car that she just bought a week ago is now stuck in the middle of this median because she said she heard the warnings and figured how bad could it be so the answer is it can be bad especially when you're getting four to 6 Ines of rain in some places per hour just at that speed it only takes a little bit to stall these cars out a lot of folks right now and more dangerous outcomes as well a lot of folks are discovering that right now and you got rain in the forecast nowhere for that water to go because Florida especially South Florida surrounded by water on all sides this is the most important Point obviously we are at sea level or below sea level in many parts of the Miami area and you have this line Stone underneath the ground Tom that is porous so you have the water table coming up at the same time that rain is coming down there is nowhere for it to escape it's a problem in Miami Beach it's a problem in Aventura it's a problem in haia Brickle downtown Miami you name the neighborhood this is an issue for the area and we're not going to solve that anytime soon all right Sam Brock again a reporter for the people Sam we appreciate all that for more on that dangerous rainfall in Florida NBC News meteorologist Bill Karens joins me now and Bill I can always catch that radar out of the corner of my eye you can't even see South Florida right now yeah all the bright Reds the dark dark Reds were the intense thunderstorms that were right over the Miami area as we went through all afternoon now they shifted down towards kargo but as you saw with say it's still raining and it rained hard yesterday now it is poured today and you know if it rains tomorrow it takes even less to get that significant flash flooding so here's the area that was hit the hardest here's Miami pem Pines to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Florida I've seen at least three personal weather stations that collect the rain over a foot of rain today one location had 4 and a half inches of rain in one hour that's the results you get when you see something like that for that reason for at least the next hour we were under flash flood emergencies for this area telling everyone to stay off the road stay home of course everyone's at work and they want to get home so that's the problem and as far as rainfall goes just even in the last 3 hours as we head towards north Miami beach about 6 and a half inches of rain Tom that's going to cause a lot of problems right through the evening and and Bill it is June I know you're tracking something in the tropics this is in the Gulf tonight yeah actually we have two areas one is the one we're just talking about which is right over the top of Florida and then the other one is going to be down in the southern Gulf so here's our areas of Interest these are not in formed storms yet the first one's heading off of Florida not really a good chance of forming but this one down in the Bay of camp this has about a 30% chance of development if anything it looks like it would head up there towards the Mexico Coastline not for the lower 48 here into the northern Gulf but we'll watch it and this is just a reminder we're just in the beginning of what we expect to be a very active hurricane season all right Bill Karen for us Bill we thank you for that we want to move now to Atlanta strange story tonight one person is dead after a gunman hijacked a commuter bus 17 people on board fearing for their lives as this bus was heading into nowhere knows where and was and the bus driver was held at gunpoint leading police on a high-speed chase for nearly an hour the alleged car hijacker actually spoke with reporters just before the Mayhem NBC's priia Sher was with that video and this story what is happening a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday sh hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking the bus H police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme mode earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's w xia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon who's previously been arrested 19 times he's now facing 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Tom okay Priya on that developing Story down there in Atlanta we want to head overseas now in The Barrage of rockets fired into Northern Israel from Lebanon the escalation comes as us back ceasefire plan for Gaza isn't Peril rap Sanchez is in Northern Israel with the latest it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead theas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bom bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of hisbah rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah commander and it is funeral today calls for revenge and with that rap Sanchez joins us tonight from Nazareth Raph understandably most of the attention the focus has been on Gaza and Southern Israel but there have been some civilians displaced and facing tragedy where you are as well tonight yeah that's exactly right Tom Hezbollah started firing into Northern Israel on October 8th just one day after the Hamas terror attack and there has been intense fighting here ever since on this side of the Border Northern Israel around 70,000 civilians have been displaced from their homes just over the Border not far from here in Lebanon around 990,000 displaced over there the death tolls at this point don't compare to Gaza it's eight Israeli civilians killed over here around 80 Lebanese civilians killed that's according to the United Nations but the fear is that that is just a small fraction of what could happen if an allout War breaks out remember Hezbollah is far more powerful than Hamas so the US very focused right now on trying to get to that Seas fire in Gaza as a way of De escalating across the region Tom rap Sanchez from Nazareth tonight and the war overseas in Gaza of course stoking tensions right here in the US a series of recent anti-semitic incidents in New York City has leaders sounding the alarm red paint splashed on the home of a Jewish Museum director and pro Palestinian groups slammed for protesting outside an Art Exhibit honoring the lives lost on October 7th NBC's Valerie Castro reports on it all pro Palestinian protesters making their Mark in red paint oh my goodness on the home of the Brooklyn Museum's Jewish director the latest incident in escalating tensions over the Israel Hamas War playing out in New York City think it's terrible I don't think it's an effective way to deal with a problem the vandalism condemned by New York Governor Kathy hokel calling it an abhorent act of anti-Semitism in recent weeks protesters taking to the Subways defacing train cars and seemingly trying to intimidate Riders exited in Manhattan a pro Palestinian crowd gathered outside the Nova Music Festival exhibition a display recalling the deadly terror attack on Israel and those who were killed or taken hostage on October 7th organizers of the protest had called for a day of Rage in response to Israel's raid on the narat refugee camp during which four Israeli hostages were freed and 274 Palestinians were killed protesters waved Hezbollah and M flags at other protests they carry banners reading Long Live October 7th and one person even yelled he wishes a quote Hitler was still here these are reprehensible and vile comments New York representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez describing the protest as atrocious anti-Semitism but the group claiming responsibility for the demonstration within our lifetime saying it reiterates the call for sustained action against any institution facilitating or justifying the genocide of the Palestinian people including the Nova exhibition the city continuing to make arrests while trying to quell any violence since October 8th the NYPD has made more than 2,850 arrest at Israeli Gaza protest alone okay with that Valerie CER joins us now live in studio so Valerie you know we asked these questions during the college protest what is the city of New York doing to keep Jewish residents safe here now so the NYPD has and will continue to step up patrols at various events around the city like the Israel Day parade that was just a few weeks ago uh they station outside synagogues when there are Jewish holidays and they continue to closely Monitor and watch these protests these demonstrations as they pop up last month 34 protesters were arrested for storming the Brooklyn Museum the NYPD now turning their attention to finding the suspects in those incidents involving that red paint Valerie Castro for us tonight Valerie we thank you for that we're also following some breaking news tonight from Capitol Hill the Republican controlled house voting to hold us attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress this stems from the investigation into President Biden over his handling of classified documents the vote was 216 to 207 with just one Republican representative David Joyce of Ohio siding with Democrats I want to get right over to Ali valal who's been tracking all of this for us tonight so Ali this has to deal with the interview he did with the special counsel and those tapes what do we learn on what's going to happen moving forward that's exactly right this is the latest escalation in congress's attempts to get those tapes from the attorney general he has said in the past and in just the last few weeks in fact that he won't be intimidated by this attempt at contempt now of course we've seen the house make good on the threat referring this to the Department of Justice though we don't expect the doj to actually act on Prosecuting its top lawyer still the house Speaker telling me tonight that the house did its job on this and that they sent the message that they needed that they want this audio even though they already have the transcript of the interview that her did with President Biden Tom so I'm confused now you're you're saying that the doj will not go after their boss I know I I don't mean to laugh but it's all so strange so what is going to happen next it is all strange especially because in many ways it's all in the family right but what we expect to happen next is likely nothing the doj releasing a statement tonight that read in part that Congress has turned in their words a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon that's the same kind of tone and tenor that we heard from the attorney general himself when he spoke before one of these very committees that's holding him in contempt saying again that he won't be intimidated and that while he respects contempt and cooperating with Congress in this case exerting executive privilege over this audio is The Stance of both the doj and the White House they fear it could have a CH effect in the words of the Attorney General on future people cooperating with Federal prosecutors Ali Vali from Capitol Hill tonight Ali thank you we now want to head to the southern border and just in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive action on the border and as that order faces challenges in court we're also learning more about the challenges actually on the ground some migrants Crossing illegally and still being released into the US NBC's Julia anley has this report tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again all right Julia Angy joins us tonight from Washington so Julia we were just talking to you last week when the executive order came out and it seemed like nothing was happening on the border now here we are almost a week later and it's the same thing do we understand why it's taking so long to put this executive order into effect well in short they don't have the resources to detain all migrants before deporting them so they have to release some migrants into the United States now we do understand that those releases have dropped by more than half but even still that's contradictory to what the president said when he announced this order um and what the White House said in their fact sheet that it would suspend the entry of migrants who cross the border illegally but it's not clear that they're ever going to get quite the amount of resources that they need short of Congress actually taking action and that does doesn't seem like it's on the table anytime soon Tom yeah last week the ACLU came on top story they said they were going to file suit against the bid Administration they said this broke the law this executive order because it goes against the laws of the country where people can file for Asylum when they cross the border whether it be illegally or not so now they filed suit do we know what's going to happen with the executive order and has the bid Administration responded yet we haven't seen a response yet and something that's a little different about this lawsuit is that they're not calling or they're not asking for an immediate temporary restri trining order in other words the judge doesn't have to decide right away if this action should be put on hold in fact I think if you read this it looks like there could be another move when they actually find migrants who've been affected by this they could come back and sue as part of a class action lawsuit showing those people have been harmed that might be one of the reasons why we saw a delay from the ACLU in these groups but even still it's they think they have a winning case here because they sued the Trump Administration over a very similar action and they won in that case Tom all right Julia Angley for us Julia thank you now to a devastating blow for the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissing a lawsuit from the Massacre's last two survivors who were seeking reparations and are both now over 100 years old this now dising the hopes of racial Justice Advocates that the state would make amends for that horrific attack that left more than 300 black people dead in the thriving Greenwood district for more on today's dismissal I'm joined Now by Demario Solomon Simmons he's the lead counsel for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and founder of justice for Greenwood DE Mario first were you able to relay this to your clients so that they could understand and have they been able to tell you how they took this news hey Tom well thank you for having me on it's been a very difficult day for all of us who seek racial Justice and Justice for what happened in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre our entire team including survivers are thoroughly disappointed that once again the Oklahoma judicial system has failed us it's 103 years since we've been trying to get Justice for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and my two clients Viola Ford Fletcher who's 110 and lesie Benfield Randle who's 109 both of them was hanging on for justice and hoping that they would see the right thing done and unfortunately the gold poost was moved again today by Oklahoma judicial system and we're hoping that the Department of Justice will now come in and do a federal investigation because we've done as far as we can go with the okah court so de Mario explain to our viewers exactly why why you were seeking those reparations and and the horrific events that happened there in Oklahoma well doing a 1921 TS race Massacre it was the largest and the worst case of domestic terrorism in the history of this country where a community my community where I live of over 11,000 residents uh were bombed from the sky and from everywhere else by a a a group of up to uh 10 to 15,000 whites who were deputized by the City of Tulsa Tulsa County and it destroyed the entire 40 block are of the city and this is this is a complete almost its own town and it was completely raised to the ground Harvard University back in 2020 estimated that the property damage alone was over $200 million uh you stated that there were up to three 300 people killed but we know that there over 3,000 people they were never heard from again disappeared lost killed we don't really know what happened to them and we simply was seeking underneath the public nuisance theory that we brought this case forward which has been enforced in Oklahoma since 1910 that a public nuisance was created by the massacre and that nuisance continues to this day and we just wanted to have an opportunity to go to court to have a discovery and have a trial on this issue and Oklahoma Supreme Court has denied us that and uh we are incredibly disappointed Tom we are going to file for a petition a re-hearing we have 20 days to do that we're certainly going to do that but again we're calling upon the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice and the Civil Rights division headed by AG Christian Clark assistant AG Christian Clark to come in and open an federal investigation which we've been asking for for many many years de Mario so the Oklahoma Supreme Court said they didn't think this was a court issue right they think they should have this should be handled uh as a legislative issue right with your representatives your state senators is there any legislation that could help out these survivors well first of all we think again they they are completely wrong on their analysis of this this is a public nuisance case we met the pleadings that Oklahoma is a notice pleading standard we met all the all the requirements and they moved the goalpost and they simply said now we have to go and talk about some type of legislation but the fact of the matter is these are the type of cases that Oklahoma courts have dealt with for over a hundred years this lucens law has been on the books since 1910 and obviously in Oklahoma which is a very very conservative magga leaning State we know that we don't have any uh anything in the house or the the governor's house is Dead on Arrival so at this point although we will file for a petition a re-hearing with Oklahoma Supreme Court know telling them why they got this wrong how they analyzed this incorrectly they pointed to facts with not even within our briefs they pointed to facts that was not even a part of our or argument we don't understand how they created the decision that they did but at the same time we're calling upon President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to open a federal investigation they need to come in and do what Oklahoma has refused to do for 103 years which is give Justice to Greenwood and Justice to these two living survivors de Mario Solomon Simmons we thank you for coming on we know it's it's been a very difficult day for you and your clients still ahead tonight the fireworks in an Atlanta courtroom the trial of rapper Young Thug taking an unexpected turn a judging the case holding his lawyer in contempt we're going to show you the video of why that happened SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused of retaliating against his own employees the lawsuit accusing musk of wrongfully firing workers after they raised concerns about sexual harassment and a private jet vanished back in the 70s five decades later the mystery has been solved we hear from the underwater explorer who made that stunning Discovery you'll hear from him it's coming up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] o [Music] [Music] we report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC news now are you comfortable with the role the Supreme Court is playing in the 2024 election is there not more that Israel can do to help the humanitarian crisis should abortion be the number one issue in 2024 if it's Sunday it's Meet the Press okay we're back now with wild moments during the trial of rapper Young Thug one of his defense attorneys held in contempt of court and ordered to jail in the middle of the courtroom the trial already the state's longest running with no end in sight Adrien brus has the latest take Mr steel and the custody police attorney Brian steel came to defend his client Atlanta rapper Young Thug but he left under arrest after this tense moment with the Fulton County chief judge Euro Glenville I'm asking you how did you get this information I'm not telling the court what I'm saying is based upon information okay well listen if you don't tell me how you got this information then you and I are going to have some problems the judge found steal and contempt for refusing to disclose how he learned about an alleged meeting between the judge prosecutors and a prosecution Witness who told you what I want to know is why wasn't I there why sir I'm going to hold you in contempt if you don't tell me who this tell me tell me who this information when still didn't give up the source He was ordered to spend 20 days behind bars that's 10 weekends in jail you were removing me against um his will my will you're taking away his right to counsel it's the latest twist in the high-profile trial for Atlanta rapper Young Thug also known as Jeffrey Williams Williams was arrested in May of 2022 on racketeering and gang charges connected to his music label YSL records prosecutors allege that label is a street gang it's a drug conspiracy case it is a RICO type case it is a gang conspiracy case it includes guns drugs homicide the trial started November 20123 and is the longest criminal State Trial in Georgia's history it's gone viral on social media big news in the criminal defense world today attorneys Jack Turnbull and Adele brockmire have followed the trial since the beginning they say if the alleged meeting took place the judge never should have let it happen without the defense present it's outrageous what we see happening in the courtroom we both have been practicing law a long time I'm a third generation attorney Jack's a Seventh Generation attorney and I've never seen anything with the judge the allegations that are being being placed regarding what occurred behind the with the judge in Chambers what does this mean for the case moving forward what it means for the case moving forward is that the defense is going to be impaired when we're in Long trials we work on the weekends we work at night if he's in jail on the weekends he's not going to be able to give Young Thug an adequate defense the rise to fame started in 2010 for the Atlanta rapper collaborating over the years with artist like Drake Chris Brown and gunana gunana also faced Rico charges in connection to YSL but was released from prison after pleading guilty in 2022 meanwhile Young Thug has pleaded not guilty in this case and now his legal representation finding themselves on the other side of the law any lawyer we've spoken to has no idea or has no recollection of ever seeing conduct like this Adrien broad has shown this now so Adrian what happens to steal the attorney does does he now have to find his own attorney to handle his arrest he now needs legal representation and has it Tom and many of our viewers May recognize the name Ashley Merchant she represents one of the codefendants in the Trump recal trial which is happening in the same Courthouse Tom yeah the one who brought up all those allegations okay uh Adrian we appreciate that a Twist in that case we didn't see coming next tonight to the major development in a mystery that has gone unsolved for more than half a century an underwater investigator finding wreckage at the bottom of Lake champ plne capturing video that he tells us tonight shows a private plane that vanished in the 70s ER mcglaughlin has this one on the bottom of Lake Champlain the answer to a 50-year-old mystery likely solved this wreckage believed to be the remnants of a private jet that vanished in January of 1971 discovered by underwater investigator Gary kak who says he succeeded where 17 searches had failed the NTSB has yet to confirm the findings and we brought in a remote operated vehicle and we captured the underwater images confirming that it's 99% the right plane the 10- seat private plane carrying passengers Frank Wilder George Nikita Donald Meers Randy Williams and Kirby Windsor vanished on a snowy Vermont night shortly after takeoff with no distress signal sent I started getting more interested in the problem and the challenge of why has nobody found this plane kak a seasoned underwater rescuer joined the effort in 2014 his first attempt to find the jet in 2022 turned out to be a false alarm and we got all excited we found it closer inspection it had uh stenciling that looked more military in nature not something you would see on a commercial private jet last month kak and his Partners say they finally cracked the case with Dees old sonar data it was in the location that the radar lost tracking of it when it crashed it is painted the same custom paint Scheme black red black that was on the side of this jet so there's very little doubt in my mind this is the right plane finally appearing to put one of Lake Champlain's Biggest Mysteries to rest and giving five families a sense of Bittersweet closure Frank Wilder's father was on the plane that night I'm feeling a lot of sense of relief because spending 53 years not knowing if you know the plane was in the lake or maybe on a mountain side around there somewhere was distressing unfortunately it's open up other questions and we have to uh work on those now Tom why the plane went down remains a mystery tonight we heard from the national Transportation safety board the NTSB put out a statement saying they're going to evaluate the condition of the Ag and based on that as well as a number of other factors they'll figure out next steps Tom all right a appreciate that when we come back deer versus bus a deer smashing through the windshield of a commuter bus in Rhode Island several passengers taken to the hospital a traumatic moment next [Music] he [Music] you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protest ERS have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hit that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel good to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC news now okay we're back now with top stories news feed and we're starting with the tragic death of a college football player police say Marcus MJ Daniels who was a cornerback at the University of Southern Mississippi was shot to death at an apartment complex in Hattisburg no word on what led to the shooting and so far no one is in custody eight former SpaceX employees suing the company and its founder Elon Musk alleging sexual harassment and retaliation according to a lob suit obtained by NBC News the employees alleged musk personally ordered their firing in 2022 after they circulated a letter that claimed the company tolerated open sexual harassment in the workplace SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit and shocking video of a deer jumping through a bus windshield in Rhode Island look at this the surveillance video showing the deer runs straight into the public transit bus through the window and into shock passengers three of the six passengers aboard were hospitalized but are expected to be okay Rhode Island Public Transit Authority commending the bus driver for his exemplary response to that situation okay now of money talks and the better than expected inflation numbers out today a hopeful sign that the prices of everyday items could be stabilizing look at this the Consumer Price Index up 3.3% year-over-year this may but the number is down when compared to April's number and Below expectations the market quick to react to the news the S&P and NASDAQ closing at near record highs but Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve taking a more cautious approach in their Outlook here's what they said the most recent inflation readings have been more favorable than earlier in the year however and there has been modest further progress toward our inflation objective we'll need to see more good data to bolster our confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2% and here to break it all down for us tonight is NBC's Brian chunk so Brian take a look at the chart we haven't seen the FED move rates in September what kind of data are they looking for before they make a move yeah as you mentioned they haven't moved in quite a while but they've been holding interest rates high and it's because of inflation inflation inflation again the figure that we got this morning show that prices are up 3.3% between May of this year and May of last year that's a bit of a slower Pace than the 3.4% figure we had seen in the April to April period but again we have to remember the Federal Reserve wants to see this number somewhere closer to 2% so not yet mission accomplished and a reason why they're not going to take their foot off the gas pedal when it comes to trying to deliberately slow this economy but one important thing that the fed's also watching for is wage growth versus inflation yes inflation is high but we just crossed the one-year Mark of wage growth which is about 4% outpacing inflation which again as I just mentioned is 3.3% if your wages are growing faster than the price tags are at the store that's a welcome development and that only happened as of about a year ago but stay right there Brian because because I do have a question here right I know Realtors and Traders will hate this question but why doesn't the FED raise rates if they really want to tackle inflation yeah and one big story here is that the Federal Reserve already aggressively raise interest rates for the time being and again just because they haven't cut interest rates doesn't mean that interest rates are low they're still just holding them at a high level again here's a recap of the chart that shows all the interest rate moves just over the last 2 years by the way there was a period in time post pandemic we weren't even thinking about a half percentage Point move at one time and then to get more aggressive the Federal Reserve did three qus of a percentage Point increases in the June July September and November meetings unprecedented we had not seen rate rate moves that big from the Federal Reserve in decades so you could argue that they have already front-loaded a lot of the aggressive interest rate hikes there players trying to keep it basically at this level for right now while it tries to biteen the economy also knowing that economists say it can take time for these interest rates to bite into inflation time and you were just telling me Jerome Powell actually said nothing is off the table which we should remind our viewers yeah and he was saying in the press conference that look he doesn't want to take any policy moves off of the table but that interest rate uh decisions from the Federal Reserve are likely Guided by the forecast that they baked in we saw forecasts from the Federal Reserve today no officials saw the case for an interest rate hike by the end of this year there's 19 of those officials but he said look we can't predict what's going to happen in the future we're not going to take anything off let's dig a little deeper into the data right cuz we have you here we have that beautiful screen so where are consumers where are Americans feeling the pinch the most what is still very expensive what's coming down yeah and I've got a wonderful graphic with this big board here and when we when we talk about some of these categories uh when we talk about travel right we're in the summertime and a lot of people trying to go out uh to maybe hit vacation uh Air Airline fairs are down almost 6% we've also seen uh cars down over 3% but unfortunately there are some categories that are increasing cost electricity we're talking about utilities here up 6% and then housing again this is a big one for Americans knowing that most of our paychecks are going into just putting a roof over our heads up 5.4% on a yearly basis again these are things that we're going to have to watch for so great that if your summer vacations is going to cost you a little less housing is the big story with that inflation above Target if they want to get that down housing is going to be a big part of let's talk about the housing market right people looking to buy people looking to sell what does that look like as far as mortgage rates are concerned yeah well look when we talk about mortgage rates they're about 7% and when you compare that to just a few years ago where people were locking in mortgages at 2 and a half% well yes certainly that's frozen a lot of potential buyers on the sidelines it doesn't mean that there's no activity happening right now it basically just means that people are continuing to wa on the sidelines to see maybe if mortgage rates right now at 7% can get a little bit lower but again based off of what the Federal Reserve has done so far we're not expecting them to cut interest rates back to zero which led to those 25% 30-year fixed mortgage rates anytime soon until this 7% mortgage rate can go down to maybe six maybe 5 and a half% which we don't know when that might be it's going to continue to freeze out the housing market and make it very difficult for sellers to move inventory Tom all right Brian Chun first nighton Brian we appreciate that coming up next a stunning verdict involving chaita Brands the banana distributor found guilty of bankrolling a terrorist group during Colombia's Civil War but they've been ordered to pay the families of eight victims who were killed during the conflict stay with us [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] are you comfortable with the role the Supreme Court is playing in the 2024 election is there not more that Israel can do to help the humanitarian crisis should abortion be the number one issue in 2024 if it's Sunday it's Meet the Press [Music] [Music] more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization we are back now with the Americas in a Monumental ruling against a corporate giant chaita banana ordered to pay almost $40 million to family members of those killed by a paramilitary group during Colombia Civil War a South Florida jury ruling the company funded those militants even after they were deemed a terror organization our Ellison Barber reports a stunning verdict in a South Florida federal court Chita banana Chita the banana giant found liable by a us jury for funding a so-called Colombian death squad and ordered to pay more than a dozen relatives of victims a total of $ 38.3 million it's a case that was decades in the making from 1997 to 2004 chaita then known as the United Fruit Company paid a right-wing paramilitary group at least $1.7 million the group The United self-defense forces of Columbia or Au formed as a reaction to left-wing Guerilla groups during Colombia's Civil War experts say the Au often promised people and businesses protection from other armed threats but as their power grew so did the violence the US designated the Au as a terrorist organization in 2001 how common was it for corporations companies particularly those based in the United States to be paying and or working in some form or fashion with these paramilitary groups at least 187 companies provided with financial support to these groups most of them 90% of them were domestic companies uh but there have been some American companies chaita a company headquarters in the US plad guilty to making payments to a designated terrorist group in 2007 and agreed to pay a $25 million fine the latest lawsuit began around the same time the plan in this case risked their lives to come forward his son worked at a banana banana plantation and um was killed a commander confessed and so we had a ton of evidence about who killed him and why and fell right within the period that Chita was paying the Au agesa frisman one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs has worked on this case for close to 20 years and says the jury got it right how rare is it for a corporation to actually be held responsible for their involvement in human rights violations Andor just nefarious activities it is actually very very rare this is I think the first corporate case I know of that has gone to trial I think it's that's a very important precedent and and it's really important important for making sure that corporations that operate in places where the rule of law is not effective and strong see that they can be held to account in their home courts but the fight is far from over chaita is a defendant in a suit filed in medine Colombia and the company tells NBC news they intend to appeal the US jury's verdict writing in part quote the situation in Colombia was tragic for so many including those directly affected by the violence there and our thoughts remain with them and their families however that does not change our belief that there is no legal basis for these claims while we are disappointed by the decision we remain confident that our legal Position will ultimately Prevail Ellison Barber NBC News all right when we come back a look into the past NBC's Kelly Koba getting exclusive access into new findings into the ancient city of Pompei the newly discovered rooms and artifacts giving us a glimpse into how Romans lived more than 2,000 years ago stay with us [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is real we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant future is now news for the generation of now is NBC news [Music] now following tonight uncovering history in the ancient city of Pompei researchers discovering preserved rooms and artifacts never before seen in one of the biggest digs of this generation Our Kelly cooba got exclusive access to some of these new findings in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius the old Roman city of Pompeii preserved in volcanic a for centuries are we on a Roman Road yet we're making a journey of about 2,000 years and now we're almost down at the Roman level now the biggest dig in a generation has Unearthed a breathtaking scene from the past oh wow this is the Blue Room this is the blue room I you can see why which is a very unusual thing for Pompei to have this blue wall it's so vibrant oh it's stunning NBC News getting an exclusive look at this ornately decorated Shrine as it was nearly 2,000 years ago female figures representing the Four Seasons it has this very Heavenly uh atmosphere and rare Egyptian blue paint on the walls why is blue so important in here blue was the most expensive col color it came from far away from Egypt and even from the Midland and Far East on the floor a row of clay jugs and oyster shells used for plaster sitting exactly as Builders left them that fateful day in 79 ad something strange started happening at Mount vus and you could hear a big bang and it starts raining these pommer Stones the entire city was buried in volcanic rock and Ash from the devastating ition and Frozen in Time what did you think when you first saw this room the blue room I was stunned these MIT students already on site using specially adapted night vision goggles and handheld scanners to study the new finds nobody's really looked at these materials before you can see these really fine details and evidence that's just incredible so it gives you a look into how the Romans were building things Bakers and artists Builders and Merchants more than 20,000 people lived here this was a big wealthy thriving City entire rooms like this newly discovered Banquet Hall decorated with mythical figures like the beautiful Helen of Troy showing the sophistication and elegance of the pomp what would this room have been like well you would have the owner in this corner here and then sofas on all three sides of the the wall cushion and and small tables in front of them musicians coming in or some kind of entertainment today teams are finding new clues about how those people lived carefully putting the pieces back together seeing something for the first time in almost 2,000 years 2,000 years ago somebody looked at it for the last time and now we who excavated are the first ones to look at it again some of these new finds open to the public this month we were given an up close look this is the little a little bedroom when this room was first uncovered and we thought that was amazing we had no idea obviously of what we were going to come down on to Fresco from the ceiling to the floor and this intriguing image of a boy and his dog this is unique around the corner another surprise charcoal drawings made by children a hunting scene a boxing match little that can kind of hear the little Giggles of the children it's like a hand reaching out from the past Pompei showing its flare in its fractured new form we have to imagine that this is all buried under volcanic materials a third of it is still buried and finding the artifacts is only the first step archaeologists now trying to put the puzzle back together these fragments part of a magnificent ceiling crushed under the weight of volcanic rock we don't know who was the the owner but we can say that he has um money because it was very very expensive the past slowly reemerging Peace by piece Kelly Koba NBC News Pompei and that does it for us tonight we thank you for watching I'm Tom yamas in New York stay right there more news on the way oh my God this is tornado a tornado ripping across Florida and rain and flooding that just won't stop more than a foot falling in a matter of hours in some places overwhelming streets neighborhoods with Rising Waters and that storm system isn't done yet I'm Gotti Schwarz this is stay tuned [Music] now and tonight some of the images coming out of Florida look like something you'd expect after a hurricane but this is just a monster storm system dumping so much rain that some are calling this a 1,000-year event it's already rained more than 2 feet in some places with another half a foot of rain expected through Friday night and a lot of that is coming down so fast Sarasota saw 8 Ines of rain in just three hours yesterday leading to scenes like this all that non-stop rain is causing a mess of problems in the southeast today stranded cars everywhere through Florida travel delays at airports en closures along the very busy I95 our team is tracking the severe weather tonight NBC News meteorologist Bill Karens is standing by with the forecast but first let's go to NBC News correspondent Sam Brock in Aventura Florida now Sam before we get started here I just got to shout you out man for some Hulk level reporting out there for those that that missed his reporting early on with our friend H Jack let me show you this video the guy that you're seeing out there using his massive like 6 foot I don't know six or 6 for8 frame to beast mode that stuck SUV to dry land yes that is our fearless Sam Brock uh Sam that guy is both super unlucky for all that water but also lucked out that you were just standing right there uh what happened next there bro first of all 68 and beast mode I don't think I've ever heard either one of those associated with me but I appreciate that Gotti 65 yeah so the reality was I was standing out here right right over my shoulder where we're still watching people right now navigate this swamp and not having a lot of success with it I did my report with hiy and you know I thought we were done so like that poor guy got stuck in the middle of this pool and he did and I went to go talk to him thinking that they were done he actually is from Haiti speaks Haitian Creole but not English so I had no idea what I was doing communicating with him but I did manage to get him to put basically his car neutral so I could push it and unbeknownst to me and I want to State unbeknownst to me I was pushing this car all the way through the lot here to try to get him out unfortunately the car itself the engine will not start so he is still stranded just not here he's away from the water and now closer to the exit to the mall so that's the story there wow and and you still got people just going by in that intersection and it's one of those circumstances where you know if it gets beyond the exhaust pipe if if you got something to show us go ahead and show us but just seems like so many cars are stuck in the water people here are so Brazen that the water has receded a little bit Gotti and I just saw someone drive through like 15 miles hour I am not kidding you in his BMW and he made it this poor guy right here unfortunately is not as lucky I don't know what happened he tried to do it you tried to make it across and then and then what happened there goes the tow truck he took a risk he took he took a risk yeah he took a risk there was a tow truck over oh there it goes that same tow truck was just arguing with another woman guy because she did not want to try to get over a median that you can't see because it's underwater right now and he was peer pressuring her to move and I guess he succeeded cuz now he's he's through there but the bottom line is don't try to drive through standing water I know we all think we understand that and then you see it and the urge is so strong but a lot of people in South Florida tonight are dealing with the ramifications of not making good decisions on that front yeah that that dude with this taking a smoke break right there proof positive I I guess what's what's the deal have people been caught off guard by this normally this is the type of flooding that you you see from like a hurricane that comes with a ton of warning but it seems like there's a lot of people that might not be taking the amount of water that we're saying very seriously at all what is that behind you what is that massive thing right some some did not I mean I talked to people who are from South Florida and they were like yeah I heard the warnings but like how bad could it be if you have lived in this state for any period of time you know it goes from being beautiful to absolutely torrential downpour and that can last a while then it clears up and comes back typically but you have this tropical system that's coming through right now and you have in some cases I believe Gotti two to three four plus inches of rain per hour there's too much water coming down too quickly and what ends up happening is because there's nowhere for it to go we're basically at sea level here in many parts of Miami the ground underneath it is limestone which is porous so there's a water table that's coming up it's already wet underneath and then you have all this rainfall coming down from above the water has nowhere to escape and so this does play out a lot in South Florida but I do think in this case you were looking at a foot plus of rain in some places Hollywood for example which is not very far from where I am North date I'm in aventor this is a popular Mall here obviously a lot of people were trying to go shop before they realized that was not going to be a possibility but it's just it's normal for this area but just so much in such a quick amount of time that it it led to disastrous results although thankfully we are not aware at least at this point of any injuries and again thankfully you're out there with with your your 65 Frame pushing cars out of the way I I know you probably have some more work to do there's a bunch of cars that just went by Sam Brock thanks so much brother thanks Scotty appreciate you and NBC News meteorologist Bill Kens joins us now bill this is wild stuff this is looking I don't know it kind of looks like an omen on what kind of hurricane season we could have or is it still too soon to tell I tell you what it is Gotti this is kind of like you know a wake up like how vulnerable FL is you know if you look at the State of Florida it sticks you know sticks straight down in between the Atlantic and the gulf extremely warm water you the most vulnerable you know highly populated area maybe in the world that's susceptible to like hurricanes and floods like this and you know there's a reason why home insurance is like hard to come by in Florida you know and you how about all these Autos probably thousands today got caught and Stranded and you know a lot of those cars will probably end up back on the market so be careful uh buying any used cars in Florida anytime soon especially South Florida so we still have 7 million people under flood watches the warnings were just dropped so for about 4 hours we had a flash flood emergency for Miami and the fort lauderale area I saw at least four separate locations that picked up over a foot of rain today this is on top of the rain they had yesterday and so every day you know you know when you get the ground saturated even the sandy soil tomorrow it'll be even easier to get significant flooding if we get more heavy rain which is possible so the heavy rain has shifted you notice that Fort Lauderdale northward just showers still steady rains from Fort Lauderdale to Miami all the really heavy stuff is down here in the keys around Key Largo and down here in Alligator Alley so this area is very swampy we're not going to see significant flooding out of this uh we'll have to wait and see if some of this tra is to rebuild northwards later tonight it does look like tomorrow some of that could because additional rainfall over the next three days we still could get another 3 to four inches of rain this is on top of the foot plus that we've already received in this area and I will include Fort Meyers Sarasota and areas the Naples you also could have additional flooding so we're not completely done with this yet Gotti but it does make you wonder and worry you know we're not we haven't even had a a tropical stor or hurricane yet but uh let's hope none head to Florida's way yeah and I know while this is going on there is a pretty scorching Heat Wave happening out here in the west any relation to what we're seeing happen in the East yeah that was really just more like a tropical wave down in areas of the you know South Florida what's happening in the west is it's summer now so you get these big ridges that build usually you're going to have somewhere in the country that's exceptionally hot and that's the case right now look at Phoenix again 111° Vegas at this hour is 101 Fresno's at 101 even Reno at 97 is pretty incredibly warm so what's going to shift and change in the next couple days is that the West is going to begin to slowly cool off and all of the heat spreading across the country whichat tomor 100 St Louis at 96 degrees and by the time we get to Friday it gets a little toasty in areas of the South Too Atlanta 95 Raleigh 97 a little warm DC to New York but we'll talk more about that them next week that's who's going to get it really bad uh so as we head through uh this weekend the developing story will be watch what happens in the Ohio Valley Gotti that's going to be the next region that we're going to break record highs yikes and Bill we also saw some tornado reports in Florida we saw that video at the top of the show I I know there's talk of Tornado Alley possibly shifting East but Florida like it doesn't get more East than that right is is this a part of that this is not this was more like when you get tropical waves and you know especially hurricanes and tropical storms we can get tornadoes with those so what we saw today was just this tropical disturbance that's this area that we've been tracking and the Hurricane Center is actually tracking it they said there's a 20% chance that develops off the Southeast coast and that's why we had the heavy rain and also that you know tornado there is another area that could develop 30% chance this one would more or less head towards Mexico in the next couple days then what you were talking about got was the study that's been done is typically you when I was growing up as a kid we referred to Tornado Alley as Kansas Oklahoma into Texas but what we've been tracking over the last you know three decades is that we're seeing an increase in tornadoes in areas of like Tennessee Mississippi and a little lower tornadoes in what we used to call Tornado Alley Bill Karens thank you so much now turning now to this story uh one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States has just voted to oppose inv vitro fertilization today at their annual meeting in Indiana more than 10,000 Southern Baptists decided that IVF should be condemned asking members to quote reaffirm the uncondition unconditional value and right to life of every human being including those in an embryonic stage they argue that IVF produces more embryos and can be implanted so the ones that are destroyed in their eyes are losses of human life but that did not pass unanimously the audience heard emotional testimonies from people within the faith who support the fertility treatment Southern Baptists have over 14 million members and are often looked at as a barometer on how evangelicals fall on Hot Topics meanwhile in Washington lawmakers are going to be voting on a democratic Le IVF bill tomorrow if it passes the bill would protect access to IVF Nationwide today Senate Dems blocked a competing bill from Republicans saying it did not go far enough to protect IVF access man over on Capitol Hill today the Republican L house voted to hold Attorney General meric Garland in contempt of congress and this is all because Garland refused to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert her now that was the interview when Biden's age and memory really came under Fire when the special counsel was investigating how he handled classified documents and her basically said that a jury would sympathize with Biden as quote an elderly man with poor memory eventually her did not prosecute Biden let's bring in NBC's Julie cirin to break all this down for us Julie can you can you just really quickly remind us why they can't have those recordings well it's plain and simple here Gotti it's because the White House had asserted executive privilege over those tapes that means the Department of Justice can't just go turning those tapes over to anyone who requests them even if it's Congress now the Attorney General Mara Garland certainly backs that move by the Biden Administration to assert executive privilege over those tapes remember why they're doing so in the first place it's because they feel like Republicans could maybe distort the audio could Stitch it in a way that doesn't represent reality that's at least what Garland is saying he also said when he testified before the house Judiciary Committee a couple of weeks ago that look maybe Witnesses in the future won't agree to sit down with us in our investigations like the president has with the special counsel if they know we're just going to turn over these tapes willy-nilly no matter what interesting in today's contempt vote is this kind of like the whole bill bar and Eric Holder contempt political sagas of the past and and what's Garland saying yeah look it's pretty simple uh it's pretty similar to those uh prosecutions that the house tried to take with Bill bar under President Trump with Eric Holder under President Obama and look Republicans that I spoke to acknowledged that it's very unlikely that this results this contempt resolution passing results in the prosecution and any kind of criminal liability for the Attorney General in large part because look the people that would be prose in this is the doj that mer Garland overseas and certainly it's unprecedented for them to go that far but it's not unprecedented as you mentioned for Republicans for Democrats as well to use their political power up here to try and hold people that they subpoena that they want to hear from that they want something from in contempt of congress if they fail to do so and that is why you saw that vote uh on the floor today I also want to read you a statement from attorney general Maro Garland responding to this he put it out very quickly he said in part quote it is deeply disappointing ing that this House of Representatives have have turned a series Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon today's vote Garland says disregards the Constitutional separation of powers the Justice Department's need to protect its investigations and the substantial amount of information that we have provided to the Committees of course Garland is talking about there the transcript they have provided the Committees and put out in public in full guy and speaking of partisanship I mean this is all coming as Donald Trump is expected to visit uh Capitol Hill tomorrow right any idea what that's going to be like yeah oh boy it's the former President's first visit to this General Capital Area pretty much since he was in the white house it's been quite a long time since we've seen Trump anywhere near the capital now he's not going to be in this building itself but he will be nearby he'll be meeting with House Republicans first in the morning his allies a lot of uh the people who have his back who support him and then later in the day he'll be meeting with Senate Republicans over at another location there that they use for campaign purposes now the interesting thing is going to be who doesn't show up to these meetings right of course we know in the Senate at least that Mitch McConnell the Republican leader who has had a very tense relationship with Trump over the years he is planning to attend this is going to be the first time the two are seeing each other face to face even talking in many years certainly since Trump was in the white house we also know for example that Senator Lisa marowski had said she's not planning to attend so that'll be interesting to see to be a fly on the wall Julie thank you very much and tonight eight men with suspected ties to Isis are now in US custody a high-profile sting operation led to their arrest in New York Los Angeles and Philly three sources are telling NBC News and all of the men were from Tajikistan and they came into the United States by crossing the southern border meanwhile it's been just over a week since President Biden signed an executive order limiting Asylum requests NBC News Homeland Security correspondent Julia anley has the latest tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed a legally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again Gotti a senior DHS official says it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness and they argue it's because they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights but Gotti I have to say they may never get that help it doesn't seem like Congress has anything on the horizon that's going to give them that funding of course they didn't get the bipartisan Senate bill that they wanted earlier this year and so it looks like it might only be a matter of time till those border numbers start to come back up and border patrol will again have to release migrants that they can't Deport fast enough it's simply a matter of space and also of countries that are reluctant to take migrants back countries like China places in the Eastern hemisphere Africa places that are really hard to deport migrants too um and that in those cases and we're already seeing exceptions being made now particularly in San Diego those are the migrants who are being released so it's something to watch particularly as the Biden Administration will really look to this action hang their hats on it and say when it comes to the election this is the major step they did which did take a large step away from what a lot of people might have expected the president to do when it came to immigration particularly when he was running for the presidency earlier we should also point out that ACLU thinks that they could win this lawsuit they think that they have a winning case here because they sued the Trump Administration and over a similar policy and they won there so if this gets enjoined it could be that really this is all a moot point they won't need more resources and they'll just have to return to exactly what they were doing before the order certainly something to watch particularly as immigration continues to be a flas point this election year Gotti absolutely such a reminder that what they say in Washington doesn't always match up with what we're seeing On the Border Julet thank you and don't go anywhere we are just getting started up next The Man Who s actually became the logo for the NBA has passed away tonight we are remembering Jerry West and how 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non-conforming people today becoming one of the first major cities in the country to do so San Francisco follows Sacramento in West Hollywood in hopes of providing a place of safety for the gender affirming community so if you've ever watched or been to an NBA game you've probably seen his silhouette more times than you can count that's because the shape in the NBA's logo is actually modeled after basketball legend Jerry West now west a Los Angeles Laker Legend and nine-time NBA champion has just passed away at age 86 let's bring in NBC News correspondent Morgan chesky with more on the loss of this Legend Morgan he was a Phenom on the court but off Court he's being remembered as a genius can you tell us a little bit more about that yeah Gotti the longevity that we see in Jerry West we may never see again with anyone in the NBA and that is because you have a guy who was drafted number one overall back in 1960s right as the Lakers move from Minneapolis here to Los Angeles he has a Hall of Fame career albeit with a bit of frustration from multiple losses to the Celtics but then he was able to do what so few other players have been able to do and that was he stayed with the Lego organization and began to share some of that basketball Insight uh with the team first in a coaching role then in a general manager role and we saw the benefits of that not just immediately in the decades that followed but here's a guy who was still relevant more than 50 years after he joined the league here uh we have just one player former player sharing just kind of how much of a basketball genius Jerry West was take a listen he had such a brilliant brilliant basketball mind he was always two and three steps ahead um so being a shooting guard and growing up in Los aneles or growing up in California Riverside but watching the Lakers and knowing the history of Jerry West um I was like a kid in the candy store I hung on every word he said to me yeah and Reggie Miller far from the only NBA player who gained some sort of insight some wisdom from Jerry West want to show you what LeBron's sharing as well today he had a few kind words to say calling Jerry West a mentor and a friend saying he would truly miss our convos my thoughts and prayer goes out to your wonderful family forever love Jerry Rest in paradise my guy and how about NBA Commissioner Adam Silver saying this online as well writing kind words to a gentleman he helped build eight championship teams during his tenure in the NBA a legacy of achievement that mirrors his onc court Excellence eight championship teams got who does that I mean half a century that is incredible uh now I know that after the the death of of Kobe there was this push to possibly replace the logo with with his likeness now that West has passed away do you think that that could ever happen or do you think that we're going to see West forever well I think just his body of work immortalizes him already whether he's on the logo or not you mentioned that petition more than three million people have already signed that hoping to see Kobe's likeness become the logo of the NBA I find that interesting because Kobe may not have been in the position that he was without the help of Jerry West we forget seeing all these young superstars come to the league now that back in the mid 90s whenever Jerry West was fighting to get this 17-year-old basketball star to come join the Lakers it was not a popular thought and Kobe credits Jerry for standing by him every step of the way uh the two were very close especially in Kobe's early years as a Laker so I you know we don't have any way to ask Jerry today here Gotti but I have to think that if that petition ever did go through and Jerry's likeness became Kobes for the NBA logo I mean what better tribute from one generation onto the next uh two incredible players uh whose impact really stretch far beyond the court here yeah when we talk about standing on the shoulders of giants he is one of them 100% Morgan thank you thanks Gotti and coming up Russian warships and a submarine as close to us Coastline as they may ever be why so-called routine military exercises around Cuba have the world on high alert but first you got to see this Colorado First Responders they had a complicated rescue yesterday after a three-month old puppy fell into an open floor vent oh apparently little Archie there jumped down from a bed only to disappear into the home's piping system and then remained stuck there for 3 hours as Archie's family held its breath Rescuers slid some cameras through those ducks to figure out where the puppy was and thankfully found Archie safe and sound as you can see W the good well what a bad little good boy we'll be right back [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is real we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant future is now news for the generation of now is NBC news [Music] now and welcome back Russian warships are showing up in Cuba we're going to check in with NBC's ated Augustine for more on that in just a second but first let's take a quick look around the world Ukraine says it managed to shoot down a bunch of Russian missiles and a barrage of drones overnight in Kev air defense systems from the US and other allies were key in that defense and Ukraine just got a refreshed inventory of anti-aircraft supplies after struggling for months and the European commission just announce tariffs on imported Chinese electric cars that could start next month it comes at a pretty bad time as there's a slow demand for EVS in China with prices falling Chinese automakers there might not H might have to cough up on a couple of billions in Euros in extra costs and Pope Francis is in hot water again he's being accused of using a homophobic slur according to the Italian news agency vianza he reportedly said the same anti-gay slur he used last month in a closed door meeting with priests in Rome the Vatican did not directly address the allegation but instead pointed to a statement on the Tuesday meeting with priests and dozens of firefighters battled a blaze at a cookware Factory in Athens Greece you can see see some massive plumes of black smoke here fill the air now it's unclear what caused that fire but apparently it might have been some sort of explosion according to a state broadcaster there were no immediate reports of people trapped inside and ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas are still at a standstill with the US saying today that some of the demands Hamas is making are unacceptable Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead the Moss waited nearly two weeks and then proposed more changes a number of which go beyond positions that had previously taken and accepted and that's Secretary of State Anthony blinkin still in the Middle East where he is trying to advance a ceasefire deal between the two parties with the help of cutter meanwhile violence is escalating between Israel and iran-backed Hezbollah the militia group fired over 100 rockets at Israel today after Israel said it killed a Hezbollah Commander yesterday NBC's Matt Bradley has more well we heard from Secretary of State Anthony blinkin today in Doha after he consulted and held a press conference uh with the prime minister of Qatar who has been crucial as an intermediary in these ongoing negotiations this is Anthony blinken's eighth trip to the region in as many months and you could almost hear how exasperated he was he put the whole burden on finishing this deal on Hamas saying that Hamas could have said yes to the deal but instead they waited for two weeks and now they have kind of notes they have uh different demands that they want and demands that Anthony blinkin said exceed or that us officials have said have exceeded even the ones they had before well Hamas has responded tahar Nono who's one of the senior of Hamas officials said that Hamas has always been consistent in their demands and in fact NBC News got word of that as well that their demands are changing the timeline by which Israel would be withdrawing completely from the Gaza Strip and ending its assault on the Gaza Strip once for all to be fair that always has been hamas's position they have always said that they will not ink a deal that has no stipulation for the final end to the conflict and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces interestingly we also heard from The Forum of families who represent represents the families of the hostages who are still in the Gaza Strip there's thought to be some 80 of them who are still alive they looked upon hamas's response with optimism they said that it was heading in the right direction but Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are going to be huddling tonight trying to come up with the response again the fact that they're still discussing it kind of undermines what blinkin was saying that Israel has been totally on board from the beginning so the two sides are quite close closer than they've been ever since the last deal in November but it looks like there's still a ways to go before an agreement and in Cuba today a very unusual scene kind of an eerie scene take a look at this this right here is is a nuclear-powered Russian submarine surfacing in a Cuban Port along with four Russian warships that have pulled in as part of some planned military exercises nearby the US state department says it's routine for Russian ships to temporarily stop in Cuban ports but that sub known as Kazan is out of the ordinary for a few reasons Russian Reports say the submarine carries new Hypersonic missiles that could reach the US from Havana in seconds Cuba says the ships have no nuclear weapons and US officials seem to be saying the same thing now a little earlier according to the Miami Herald open-source satellite data placed the Russian warships just 26 nautical miles from kargo Florida before they pulled into Havana this morning NBC's Ed Augustine joins us now from Havana Ed thanks so much for being with us I know that they say that this is routine but given the timing the war in Ukraine the G7 Summit should people in the US be concerned at all well I think you hit the nail on the head Gaddy by saying that in a sense it's routine of course Cuban Russia very longtime allies going back to Soviet times um on the other hand the war in Ukraine's raging and within that tensions have ratcheted up these last couple of weeks since the Biden Administration said that Ukraine could use some of the US weapons to hit Russian targets and Vladimir Putin has responded uh saying that the that Russia might respond in kind with with their allies so I think the timing is key and also this is the first um this is the first time since the war in Ukraine that you've seen that that we've seen a Russian naval deployment in Cuba um interestingly while the Russians are playing it up while the Russians were doing Naval exercises on their way here um along the Atlantic firing huge artillery guns both the Cubans and the Biden Administration have been playing it down the Cuban uh government has been emphasizing that there's no n no nuclear weapons on board Cuba is a signatory to a nonproliferation treaty dating back to the 60s so that would be impossible they say and also interestingly the Pentagon uh today again saying that this is not a threat to US National Security um it's not a danger um but that it is noteworthy yeah maybe not a threat or a danger as they say but definitely a very powerful image I got to ask what kind of message does this seem to send to Russia's allies is this a propaganda play uh yeah I think it's definitely uh a propaganda play the military analyst that I was speaking to earlier today said that the core of the Russian message is the following to the Americans look you can make our lives misery and what we see as our sphere of influence look our you you you can pull off huge um war games and drills in the Ukraine with over 100 tanks and 90,000 soldiers that took place last month but we can still be a nuisance to you we can still get into your backyard and and and and be in a country that's been a thorn in your side haven't been able to get rid of this government for many many decades and we can project power internationally I think that's what Russia's trying to to to to tell the Americans you know tit fortat um you were saying Eerie I'd say poignant and I think many Cubans are saying that saying that in the same place you know the place where the nuclear sub is docked in that exact same dock 5 years ago there were us cruise ships American tourists coming off those those those cruise ships most of them or many of them I should say for the first time in Havana pumping money into the islands economy how much things have changed that the water sloshing up and down now isn't against um American Cru ships bringing tourists but is against a nuclear powered sub what a strange world we live in yeah what a historical J position there uh speaking of our backyard I mean you're in Havana we just seeing video it seemed like there was somebody that was watching wearing somewhat of a an American flag I got to ask what are US Cuba relations like right now out there on the street well for me it's hard to meet a Cuban that that isn't Pro Us in terms of uh loving the American people that they've met loving American culture American films baseball here is the national sport I can't stand it but Cubans love it and so there's a whole load of um cultural affinity and sporting Affinity um but that's not mirrored at the political level um political relations were good uh icy but good almost 10 years ago now under the Obama Administration when that Administration took the historic move to as they'd say it bring Cuba in from the cold and to start normalizing the relations with Cuba and softening that that um decade long embargo um over the last five years we've seen first the Trump Administration and now the Biden Administration ratchet up us sanctions on Cuba to unprecedented levels that's making the Cubans feel that the the uh the Cuban government feel that the US is an enemy and it's pushing them closely most most analysts say to Russia you've got such a finger on the pulse there in Cuba Ed thank you so much for being with us tonight and coming up a Twist in an already Strange Case the lawyer for rapper Young Thug senten to jail time himself details on a tense courtroom back and forth that ended up with him being held in contempt and now there is another twist in that case that we're going to tell you about that is all straight ahead so stay tuned [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to 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that mob still affect the city today we've got some new inflation numbers and it looks like things are starting to cool down but not enough to convince the Federal Reserve to cut High interest rates this year with Fed chair Jerome Powell saying that it's probably going to take a little longer for that to happen an eight SpaceX workers are suing the company and Elon Musk saying that they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment the complaint alleges musk personally ordered their terminations SpaceX has denied any wrongdoing and former pharmaceutical executive Martinelli is being sued by the owner of the one of-a-kind wuang album for making a copy of the album and playing it online without permission now schelli used he used to own that album he bought it back in 2015 for $2 million but when he was convicted of committing Securities fraud in 2017 and sent to prison he had to Forfeit his assets which included that wuang album which he that album was later bought by a bunch of crypto Bros who are now suing him and rapper Young Thug is on trial but his lawyer tried to call out the judge in the case for a convers ation he had with the prosecution outside the court and he ended up being found in contempt in order to spend the next 10 weekends in jail the trial against Jeffrey Williams the Grammy winning rapper real name has been dragging on with no end in sight so let's bring in NBC News correspondent Adrian brus Adrian okay so back up here quick second I'm seeing some breaking news coming out of this case but first set the table here what are the charges that young thug is facing yeah we'll get to that breaking news in just a moment Gotti in regards to his attorney but let's rewind and bring our viewers up to speak speed we're talking about Young Thug whose real name is Jeffrey Williams he's a Grammy awardwinning rapper based in Atlanta his rise to fame dates back to 2010 he's worked with artists like Drake Chris Brown and Gunna he's facing some serious charges here though under Georgia's RICO Act so we're talking about racketeering and this stems from and we'll look big picture here at an indictment that names Williams as well as some others who he says are a part of his record label YSL but prosecutors allege that record label is a street gang Gotti okay so why was his lawyer found in contempt and and what are we seeing that just happened at the Supreme Court so just moments ago we learned that his lawyer will not have to report to jail on this Friday it's unclear if his attorney Brian Ste will still be required to spend 20 days in jail over the course of 10 weekends in Fulton County so why is his attorney facing jail time it's all because he challenged the chief judge in court on Monday about an alleged meeting between the judge prosecutors and a key witness now I've been speaking with legal experts who have been following this case since the beginning and they've watched the trial which started by the way back in November of 2023 they say if this alleged meeting happened the judge never should have allowed it without the presence of the defense so the big question now what happens moving forward listen in what it means for the case moving forward is that the defense is going to be impaired when we're in Long trials we work on the weekends we work at night if he's in jail on the weekends he's not going to be able to give Young Thug an adequate defense in fact he requested from the judge that if he was going to incarcerate him over the weekends that he be incarcerated in the same cell with young thug so that they could discuss the trial but that doesn't mean he's going to have access to evidence exhibits his the law books so once again again another twist in this case that took nearly 10 months to seat jurors Scotty 10 months to seat jurors I know we said that this case seems to be dragging on but seriously like this is this is like the longest criminal case in the state's history right how is this contempt charge going to add to that timeline yeah it is as of right now on a record the longest criminal case in Georgia's history we will see what this charge does uh the court the trial continued this week keep in mind it's not just Young Thug or Williams who is facing trial there are other codefendants and representing his defense attorney Brian steel is a name many of you have likely heard we're talking about Ashley Merchant and you may recognize that name because she represents one of the codefendants in the Trump RICO case happening in the same Courthouse got him yeah what a collision of Worlds there Adrien brus thank you so much before we go it is time for the future of everything and we're going to take a leap into the world of quantum Computing we're getting up close and personal with Google Labs as they explore the depths of the power technology stay with us [Music] he hey hey heyy [Music] news for the generation of now is NBC news now we report live from Tel Aviv from hes Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC News Now what is going to happen now going back and forth oh yeah nice to see [Music] you and for the future of everything tonight we are diving into the abstract realm of quantum Computing and you've probably seen images of a Quantum Compu computer it's this this thing that looks kind of like a golden chandelier instead of an everyday desktop but that is really just the refrigerator and the freezer part of the whole Contraption the real magic comes down to what a quantum computer can actually do and full disclosure I have been trying to wrap my head around that question for months now reading books even after a look inside of Google's Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara and that's where we found that what what seems like the science fiction world of quantum mechanics is just another day at the office we live in a day and age where humans are building machines to do things we still can't even dream of we like to think about this as the place where we're going to build the future of computing and here at Google's quantum computer lab in Santa Barbara California that future is right around the corner okay wow I'm just blown away but before we try to tackle the mindboggling question of what a quantum computer even is here's a quick crash course on how it works in classic Computing behind everything on our screens our phones our CPUs is a code behind a code that basically boils down to either a one or a zero on or off and that's a bit but quantum computers run on Quantum bits or cubits which aren't so binary think more like nature or a waveform or a coin that spins so fast it's both heads and tails all at the same time and that is the magic behind a cubit that allows us in our lowest energy state to operate not only one or zero but a superposition of multiple States so almost everything in between one zero both at the same time neither everything in between and then comes a process of shrinking and etching cubits in aluminum onto tiny silicon Wafers I can't even see them with my naked eye these little plus signs that's a those are cubits and stacking cubits leads to exponential power the 100 cubit quantum computer could perform over 1,000 billion billion billion calculations almost instantly the sound that we're hearing is that yes the sound that we're hearing this that is the sound of the refrigerator cooling their quantum computers to temperatures of just thousands of a degree above absolute zero it's called it in space it's colder than outer space only at Beyond Frozen temperatures can these cubits start to Magic vibrate in frigid entangled Harmony and then comes the really complicated question what can a quantum computer actually do how does this type of computing power compare to I don't know I mean a phone it's different it's a different application got it I can't FaceTime with that but I could do some crazy math imagine that you've got a a super tall closet has a million drawers in it and a sock is hidden in one of the drawers on average you're going to have to open 500,000 drawers to find the sock with a quantum computer you'd only need to open a thousand drawers on average to find the sock now that's a hard concept of follow because it almost defies logic but the dream is to someday use that kind of quantum magic for things like modeling Fusion to create unlimited energy designing proteins to cure disease or unlocking new physics the possibilities of quantum computer are seemingly endless and that's why Google is teaming up with the x prise foundation offering $5 million to whoever can come up with the best real world application but for now one of its most Supreme Feats is something that sounds so easy at first I thought my three-year-old could do it think of a number any number in the whole world uh five five yeah is that your final answer but as the top physicists in the world and coming up with a truly random number has been pretty much impossible for humans until now we as human beings subconsciously put in a method to the madness computers need an algorithm that is a way a method but the method itself defies the random number generation as for the future of computing just like trying to imagine how these massive machines that filled rooms with tubes and couldn't even play Pong still helped us with the math to get us to the Moon trying to Envision where quantum computers could lead is an exercise in science fiction some problems are are calculated to take 10,000 years 100,00 a billion years so what we're trying to do is create a computer that works in a totally different wayve access you guys are building a war drive for some types of problems corre now that same warp drive is maybe going to be terrible at some of the other problems that we use class computer for the work drive is not great at parallel parking but getting across the Galaxy much more effici exactly oh man and wait till we start talking about time crystals because those came up during that interview too but that is a whole other story so stay tuned for that meanwhile out here on the West Coast earthquakes are a fact of life and the big one is always looming and and we think about it from time to time thinking when is it going to happen most importantly how strong is it going to be the southernmost section of the San Andre's F has built up enough tectonic strain to produce a major earthquake oh my gosh an earthquake oh my goodness the Bay Area preparing for the next big one the entire upper deck of the Cy structure has collapsed these types of quakes are a double whammy because they also generate huge tsunami waves a mega tsunami in the Pacific Northwest it could be worse than predicted all right so the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire has produced dozens of magnitude 8 earthquakes are stronger in the last century but the West Coast remains eerily quiet in terms of anything that strong and maybe the closest we've come in 1989 the Loma pra earthquake that killed dozens of people caused widespread destruction in the Bay Area that Quake registered at a 6.9 on the RoR scale researchers say the Pacific Northwest could experience something a hundred times stronger now there's a new study mapping out the Cascadia subduction zone that's giving the clearest picture yet into this potential Mega Quake joining us now is a co-author of that report Harold Tobin he's a director of the Pacific Northwest seismic network uh Harold thanks so much for being with us based on what you've learned are you more or less concerned about the big one and and how strong are we talking here yeah we were concerned about the big one and what we've done is just sort of um really brought into focus and sharpened up our image of that fault tremendously with this new study um I'm not more or less concerned so much but recognize now that there's parts of the uh Pacific Northwest that might be um where more strain is building up in Parts where there's less and it's answering some questions for us about how this fault might be broken up into segments so yes it's the really big one in fact bigger than any San Andreas fault earthquake could be but U but we we have new new insight into that the the 2011 earthquake that struck Japan that saw that huge tsunami that was a magnitude 9 I know that here down in Los Angeles we've been told that the San Andreas can't rip uh at a magnitude nine if something that strong struck the Pacific Northwest is that a possibility and what could happen to cities like Seattle yeah if the Cascadia subduction zone has the earthquake that we anticipate is possible and has happened before it's at the magnitude 9 kind of scale just as big as Japan in 2011 um and the other of the largest earthquakes we've ever seen on this planet um it hasn't happened apparently since the year 1700 um but we are certain that something like that can happen again in the future future well since the 1700s and then you just think of all the pressure that may be continuing to build there I know that there's no such thing as predicting an earthquake um specifically but but how does this new mapping data improve Warning Systems yeah what it does for us is it really helps us forecast what the scenarios are that are most likely in the next earthquake that might happen and that's really important because it determines the level of ground shaking we might experience in the population centers like Seattle and Portland um it also really helps us determine where the tsunami impacts are the largest and that's really some ways the most dangerous part of an offshore earthquake like the Cascadia subduction zone it's the tsunami more than the ground shaking that we have to worry about unlike perhaps a San Andreas falter now I mean we worry so much down here about the San Andreas fault and and I want to ask you how far away do you think we are from having really good data a really good mapping system uh and an early warning system that gives us ample time and we're talking matter of years decades here cuz the big one is still looming yeah I'm sorry to say that the short-term prediction like saying okay it's going to happen in the next week or two or hour or two even is just not there we do have Shake alert you've probably heard about it the earthquake early warning system can notify your phone when an earthquake has just begun and maybe you have 20 seconds 30 seconds and so on same is true in the Northwest um but that longer term forecasting comes into more and more Focus all the time um so we know at least where they're likely to occur hopefully sooner than later Professor thank you for for joining us tonight and that does it for us tonight I'm Gotti Schwarz we're going to see you here tomorrow but until then stay tuned now tonight life-threatening flooding slamming parts of Florida as Relentless rainfall plagues the region this video is showing a possible tornado ripping across Southern Florida a rare flash flood emergency issued as streets turn into rivers and drivers are left stranded record rainfall upending travel not just on the roads but at airports the danger far from over as storms linger for the next few days and we're tracking the first tropical disturbance of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season Bill Ken standing by with that track also tonight the deadly bus hijacking a gunman taking more than a dozen passengers hostage holding a bus driver at gunpoint and forcing him to speed away the tense Rush Hour Chase and frantic 911 calls to loved ones the alleged hijacker actually speaking on camera to our local reporter just before his oneman crime spree hate on display disturbing videos of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City we'll show you the Hostile protest outside an exhibit paying tribute to those killed at an Israeli Music Festival on October 7th and you'll hear what another group did on a subway car threatening Israeli supporters and telling them them to get off the train plus the vandalism targeting the homes of a Museum's Jewish leaders Define Biden's executive order new reporting showing the president's Southern border policy isn't being implemented the evidence that migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the us as the ACLU officially files a lawsuit against the Biden Administration missing jet found in 1971 a private plane carrying five people on board vanished more than 5 decades later that mystery is solved thanks to an underwater Explorer tonight you'll hear from that man and see where he made the shocking Discovery wild Collision a deer bursting through the windshield of a city bus the animal flying right into passengers and the new discoveries in the ancient city of Pompei our cameras inside a hidden Rune giving us a glimpse into the past top story starts right now [Music] and good evening tonight millions in Florida facing the threat of dangerous flash flooding as torrential rains inundate the region storms causing chaos at airports and parts of I95 are completely shut down right now new video just in has a possible tornado moved through you can see the force of that system right there that intense video taken just north of Palm Beach and you can see the debris being lifted into the air nearby Jupiter Island cut off from the mainland due to the number of trees down destruction reported in several cities and towns across the state take a live look at daa beach where a rare flash flood emergency is in effect the National Weather Service there even warning of the potential of catastrophic damage in Miami a water spout forming just off the coast of the beach and big bolts of lightning and striking as storms Rumble through from Miami to Fort Meers to Sarasota rainfall quickly turning streets into rivers car stalling out in some cases even floating by Sarasota is setting a record for the most rain it's ever seen in just an hour with 8 in quickly falling to make matters worse some of the strongest storms hitting during the rush hour commute officials continuing to urge people to stay off the roads the severe weather causing hundreds of flight cancellations and delays at Fort Lauderdale and Miami international airports and we're also tracking the first tropical disturbance of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season Bill Karen is standing by with the areas it could impact but first we start with NBC's saman Brock in the storm Zone tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about a 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic Highway Vehicles SW wed by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canceling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flight with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we had to we had to stop and work because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water's coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain as you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move the car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come all right Sam Brock joins us tonight from Aventura Florida Sam it looks like you're completely underwater there I know during your reporting earlier today you had to jump into action helping people push a car out of those flood waters walk me through what happened there and how much of this are you seeing Tom I know that one of the things you appreciate about me is I'm a man of the people much like yourself so yes I saw someone stranded and figured you know why not help him out obviously Miami is a very diverse area this gentleman happened to be Haitian I don't speak Haitian Creole but he was out here in the middle of this water of this pool basically deao and I asked him if he could please put the car in neutral got behind and I'm guessing you're playing this video right now push from behind I will say it makes me look like I'm a lot stronger than I actually am it kind of glided right along which makes you wonder how it could be right now you have so many cars that are stalled out here but clearly Tom this is sort of treacherous situation in terms of trying to get through Pathways that are deeper than people anticipate have obstacles that you can't see in my vicinity right now really within let's say 50 to 100t in each Direction you're looking at about 10 cars that are stalled out I still have people behind me right now that were like grinding up against the tree branches here trying to get through one guy almost got stuck right here 45 seconds ago so you'll never learn apparently uh I guess they say the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and a lot of people here are doing that right now luckily for those people you spent years building those quad muscles on the tennis courts where you grew up so those people are lucky for that and then Sam I do have to ask you you like many of the people that are living in South Florida are new to the area I know you've been there for for quite a while now but a lot of people moved there during the pandemic are you seeing a lot of people that this maybe is new to this flash flooding because it kind it really does take you by surprise without a doubt I spoke with a couple from Argentina earlier today they took out a bike they said well hey the last three days were beautiful in Florida why would this day not be beautiful and of course it changes in a heartbeat they weren't listening to some of the warnings that were coming along so that's from an outsider perspective but also Tom I talked to one woman whose car it's her her car that she just bought a week ago is now stuck in the middle of this median because she said she heard the warnings and figured how bad could it be so the answer is it can be bad especially when you're getting four to six inches of rain in some places per hour just at that speed it only takes a little bit to stall these cars out a lot of folks right now and more dangerous outcomes as well a lot of folks are discovering that right now and you got rain in the forecast nowhere for that water to go because Florida especially South Florida surrounded by water on all sides this is the most important Point obviously we are at sea level or below sea level in many parts of the Miami area and you have this Limestone underneath the ground Tom that is porous so you have the water table coming up at the same time that rain is coming down there is nowhere for it to escape it's a problem in Miami Beach it's a problem in Aventura it's a problem in haia Brickle downtown Miami you name the neighborhood this is an issue for the area and we're not going to solve that anytime soon all right Sam Brock again a quter for the people Sam we appreciate all that for more on that dangerous rainfall in Florida NBC News meteorologist Bill Karens joins me now and Bill I can always catch that radar at the corner of my eye you can't even see South Florida right now yeah all the bright Reds the dark dark Reds were the intense thunderstorms that were right over the Miami area as we went through all afternoon now they shifted down towards kargo but as you saw with say it's still raining and it rained hard yesterday now it has poured today and you know if it rains tomorrow it takes even less to get that significant Flash flooding here's the area that was hit the hardest here's Miami pem Pines to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Florida I've seen at least three personal weather stations that collect the rain over a foot of rain today one location had 4 and2 Ines of rain in one hour that's the results you get when you see something like that for that reason for at least the next hour we are under flash flood emergencies for this area telling everyone to stay off the road stay home of course everyone's at work and they want to get home so that's the problem and as far as rainfall goes just even in the last 3 hours as we head towards North Miami Beach about 6 and2 Ines of rain to that's going to cause a lot of problems right through the evening and and Bill it is June I know you're tracking something in the tropics this is in the Gulf tonight yeah actually we have two areas one is the one we're just talking about which is right over the top of Florida and then the other one is going to be down in the southern Gulf so here's our areas of Interest these are not inform storms yet the first one's heading off of Florida not really a good chance of forming but this one down in the Bay of campiche this has about a 30% chance of development if anything it looks like it would head up there towards the Mexico Coastline not for the lower 48 here into the northern Gulf but we'll watch it and this is just a reminder we're just in the beginning of what we expect to be a very active hurricane season all right Bill Karen for us Bill we thank you for that okay we want to move now to Atlanta where tonight one person is dead after a gunman hijacked a commuter bus 17 people on board fearing for their lives as the bus driver was held at gunpoint leading police on a high-speed chase for nearly an hour and the alleged hijacker actually spoke with reporters just before the Mayhem NBC's priia Sher with that video and this [Music] story a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking the bus host police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme mode earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all folded she called me and told me that a guy one guy had shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon who's previously been arrested 19 times he's now facing 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Tom okay priia on that developing Story down there in Atlanta we want to head overseas now in The Barrage of rockets fired into Northern Israel from Lebanon the escalation comes as us back ceasefire plan for Gaza is in Peril rap Sanchez is in Northern Israel with the latest it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead Hamas waited nearly 2 weeks and then propose more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of hisbah rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah Commander and it is funeral today calls for revenge and with that Raph Sanchez joins us tonight from Nazareth Raph understandably most of the attention the focus has been on Gaza and Southern Israel but there have been civilians displaced and facing tragedy where you are as well tonight yeah that's exactly right Tom Hezbollah started firing into Northern Israel on October 8th just one day after the Hamas terror attack and there has been intense fighting here ever since on this side of the Border Northern Israel around 70,000 civilians have been displaced from their homes just over the Border not far from here in Lebanon around 990,000 displaced over there the death tolls at this point don't compare to Gaza it's eight Israeli civilians killed over here around 80 Lebanese civilians killed that's according to the United Nations but the fear is that that is just a small fraction of what could happen if an allout War breaks out remember Hezbollah is far more powerful than Hamas so the US very focused right now on trying to get to that ceasefire in Gaza as a way of deescalation across the region Tom rap Sanchez from Nazareth tonight and the war overseas and Gaza of course stoking tensions right here in the US a series of recent anti-semitic incidents in New York City has leaders sounding the alarm red paint splashed on the home of a Jewish Museum director and pro Palestinian groups slammed for protesting outside an Art Exhibit honoring the lives lost on October 7th NBC's Valerie Castro reports on it all pro Palestinian protesters making their Mark in red paint oh my goodness on the home of the Brooklyn Museum's Jewish director the latest incident in escalating tensions over the Israel Hamas War playing out in New York City I think it's terrible I don't think it's an effective way to deal with a problem the vandalism condemned by New York Governor Kathy hokel calling it an abhorent act of anti-semitism ISM in recent weeks protesters taking to the Subways defacing train cars and seemingly trying to intimidate riders in Manhattan a pro Palestinian crowd gathered outside the Nova Music Festival exhibition a display recalling the deadly terror attack on Israel and those who were killed or taken hostage on October 7th organizers of the protest had called for a day day of Rage in response to Israel's raid on the narat refugee camp during which four Israeli hostages were freed and 274 Palestinians were killed protesters waved Hezbollah and Hamas flags at other protests they carry banners reading Long Live October 7th and one person even yelled he wishes a quote Hitler was still here these are reprehensible and vou comments New York representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez describing the protest as atrocious anti-Semitism but the group claiming responsibility for the demonstration within our lifetime saying it reiterates the call for sustained action against any institution facilitating or justifying the genocide of the Palestinian people including the Nova exhibition the city continuing to make arrests while trying to quell any violence since October 8th the NYPD has made more than 2,850 arrests at Israeli Gaza protest alone okay with that Valerie CER joins us now live in studio so Valerie you know we asked these questions during the college protest what is the city of New York doing to keep Jewish residents safe here now so the NYPD has and will continue to step up patrols at various events around the city like the Israel Day parade that was just a few weeks ago uh they station outside synagogues when there are Jewish holidays and they continue to closely Monitor and watch these protests these demonstrations as they pop up last month 34 protesters were arrested for storming the Brooklyn Museum the NYPD now turning their attention to finding the suspects in those incidents involving that red paint Valerie Castro for us tonight Valerie we thank you for that we're also following some breaking news tonight from Capitol Hill the Republican controlled house voting to hold us attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress this stems from the investigation into President Biden over his handling of classified documents the vote was 216 to 207 with just one Republican representative David Joyce of Ohio siding with Democrats I want to get right over to Ali Bal who's been tracking all of this for us tonight so Ali this has to deal with the interview he did with the special counsel and those tapes what do we learn on what's going to happen moving forward that's exactly right this is the latest escalation in congress's attempts to get those tapes from the attorney general he has said in the past and in just the last few weeks in fact that he won't be intimidated by this attempt at contempt now of course we've seen the house make good on the threat referring this to the Department of Justice though we don't expect the doj to actually act on Prosecuting its top lawyer still the house Speaker telling me tonight that the house did its job on this and that they sent the message that they needed that they want this audio even though they already have the transcript of the interview that her did with President Biden Tom so I'm confused now you're saying that the doj will not go after their boss I know I I don't mean to laugh but it's all so strange so what is going to happen next it is all strange especially because in many ways it's all in the family right but what we expect to happen next is likely nothing the doj releasing a statement tonight that read in part that Congress has turned in their words a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon that's the same kind of tone and tenor that we heard from the attorney general himself when he spoke before one of these very committees that's holding him in contempt saying that he won't be intimidated and that while he respects contempt and cooperating with Congress in this case exerting executive privilege over this audio is The Stance of both the doj and the White House they fear it could have a chilling effect in the words of the Attorney General on future people cooperating with Federal prosecutors Ali Vali from Capitol Hill tonight Ally thank you we now want to head to the southern border and just in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive action on the border and as that order faces challenges in court we're also learning more about the challenges actually on the ground so migrants Crossing illegally and still being released into the US NBC's Julia Angley has this report tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it Rel to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again all right Julia Angy joins us tonight from Washington so Julia we were just talking to you last week when the executive order came out and it seemed like nothing was happening on the border now here we are almost a week later and it's the same thing do we understand why it's taking so long to put this executive order into effect well in short they don't have the resources to detain all migrants before deporting them so they have to release some migrants into the United States now we do understand that those releases have dropped by more than half but even still that's contradictory to what the president said when he announced this order um and what the White House said in their fact sheet that it would suspend the entry of migrants who cross the border illegally but it's not clear that they're ever going to get quite the amount of resources that they need short of Congress actually taking action and that doesn't seem like it's on the table anytime soon Tom yeah last week the ACLU came on top story they said they were going to file suit against the body Administration they said this broke the law this executive order because it goes against the laws of the country where people can file for Asylum when they cross the border whether it be illegally or not so now they filed Su do we know what's going to happen with the executive order and has the B Administration responded yet we haven't seen a response yet and something that's a little different about this lawsuit is that they're not calling or they're not asking for an immediate temporary restraining order in other words the judge doesn't have to decide right away if this action should be put on hold in fact I think if you read this it looks like there could be another move when they actually find migrants who've been affected by this they could come back and sue as part of a class action lawsuit showing those people have been harmed that might be one of the reasons why we saw a delay from the ACLU in these groups but even still it's they think they have a winning case here because they sued the Trump Administration over a very similar action and they won in that case Tom all right Julia Angley for us Julia thank you now to a devastating blow for the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissing a lawsuit from the massacr last two survivors who were seeking reparations and are both now over 100 years old this now diminishing the hopes of racial Justice Advocates that the state would make amends for that horrific attack that left more than 300 black people dead in the thriving Greenwood district for more on today's dismissal I'm joined Now by Demario Solomon Simmons he's the lead counsel for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and founder of justice for Greenwood DE Mario first were you able to relay this to your clients so that they could understand and have they been able to tell you how they took this news hey Tom well thank you for having me on it's been a very difficult day for all of us who see racial Justice and Justice for what happened in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre our entire team including survivors are thoroughly disappointed that once again the Oklahoma judicial system has failed us it's been 103 years since we've been trying to get Justice for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and my two clients Viola Ford Fletcher who's 110 and lesie Benfield Randle who's 109 both of them was hanging on for justice and hoping that they would see the right thing done and unfortunately the gold post was moved again today by Oklahoma judicial system and we're hoping that the Department of Justice will now come in and do a federal investigation because we've done as far as we can go with the okahoma courts so de Mario explain to our viewers exactly why you were seeking those reparations and and the horrific events that happened there in Oklahoma well doing a 1921 toal race Massacre it was the largest and the worst case of domestic terrorism in the history of this country where a community my community where I live of over 11,000 residents were bombed from the sky and from everywhere else by a a a group of up to 10 to 15,000 whites who were deputized by the City of Tulsa Tulsa County and they destroyed the entire 40 block area of the city and this is this is a complete almost it's own town and it was completely raised to the Grand Harvard University back in 2020 estimated that the property damage alone was over $200 million uh you stated that there were up to three 300 people killed but we know that there over 3,000 people they were never heard from again disappeared lost killed we don't really know what happened to them and we simply was seeking underneath the public nuisance theory that we brought this case forward which has been enforced in Oklahoma since 1910 that a public nuisance was created by the massacre and that nuisance continues to this day and we just wanted to have an opportunity to go to court to have a a discovery and have a trial on this issue and Oklahoma Supreme Court has denied us that and uh we are incredibly disappointed Tom we are going to file for a petition of hearing we have 20 days to do that we're certainly going to do that but again we're calling upon the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice and the Civil Rights division headed by AG Christian Clark assistant AG Christian Clark to come in and open a federal investigation which we've been asking for for many many years de Mario so the Oklahoma Supreme Court said they didn't think this was a court issue right they think they should this should be handled uh as a legislative issue right with your representatives your state senators is there any legislation that could help out these survivors first of all we think again they they are completely wrong on their their analysis of this this is a public nuisance case we met the pleadings that Oklahoma is a notice pleading standard we met all the all the requirements and they moved the goalpost and they simply said now we have to go and talk about some type of legislation but the fact of the matter is these are the type of cases that Oklahoma courts have dealt with for over a hundred years this lucens law has been on the books since 1910 and obviously in Oklahoma which is a very very conser magga leaning State we know that we don't have any uh anything in the house or the the governor's house is Dead on Arrival so at this point although we will file for a petition a re-hearing with Oklahoma Supreme Court telling them why they got this wrong how they Analyze This in correctly they pointed to facts with not even within our briefs they pointed to facts that was not even a part of our oil argument we don't understand how they created the decision that they did but at the same time we're calling upon President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to open a federal investigation they need to come in and do what Oklahoma has refused to do for 103 years which is give Justice to Greenwood and Justice to the two live in survivors de Mario Solomon Simmons we thank you for coming on we know it's been a very difficult day for you and your clients still ahead tonight the fireworks in an Atlanta courtroom the trial of rapper Young Thug taking an unexpected turn a judg in the case holding his lawyer in contempt we're going to show you the video of why that happened SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused of retaliating against his own employees the lawsuit accusing musk of wrongfully firing workers after they raised concerns about sexual harassment and a private jet vanished back in the 70s five decades later the mystery has been solved 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you get this information I'm telling the court what I'm saying is based upon information okay well listen if you don't tell me how you got this information then you and I are going to have some problems the judge found steal and contempt for refusing to disclose how he learned about an alleged meeting between the judge prosecutors and a prosecution witness who told you what I want to know is why wasn't I there why sir I'm going to hold you in contempt if you don't tell me who this tell me tell me who this information was when still didn't give up the source He was ordered to spend 20 days behind bars that's 10 weekends in jail you were removing me against um his will my will you taking away right to counsel it's the latest twist in the high-profile trial for Atlanta rapper Young Thug also known as Jeffrey Williams Williams was arrested in May of 2022 on racketeering and gang charges connected to his music label YSL records prosecutors allege that label is a street gang it's a drug conspiracy case it is a RICO type case it is a gang conspiracy case it includes guns drugs homicide the trial started November 2023 and is the longest criminal State Trial in Georgia's history it's gone viral on social media big news in the criminal defense world today attorneys Jack Turnbull and Adele brockmeier have followed the trial since the beginning they say if the alleged meeting took place the judge never should have let it happen without the defense president it's outrageous what we see happening in the courtroom we both have been practicing law long time I'm a third generation attorney Jack's a Seventh Generation attorney and I've never seen anything with the judge the allegations that are being placed regarding what occurred behind the with the judge in Chambers what does this mean for the case moving forward what it means for the case moving forward is that the defense is going to be impaired when we're in Long trials we work on the weekends we work at night if he's in jail on the weekends he's not going to be able to give Young Thug an adequate defense the rise to fame started in 2010 for the Atlanta rapper collaborating over the years with artists like Drake Chris Brown and gunana gunana also faced Rico charges in connection to YSL but was released from prison after pleading guilty in 2022 meanwhile Young Thug has pleaded not guilty in this case and now his legal representation finding themselves on the other side of the law we've spoken to has no idea or has no recollection of ever seeing conduct like this Adrien broad has showns us now so Adrian what happens to steal the attorney does does he now have to find his own attorney to handle his arrest he now needs legal representation and has it Tom and many of our viewers May recognize the name Ashley Merchant she represents one of the codefendants in the Trump Reco trial which is happening in the same Courthouse Tom yeah the one who brought up all those allegations okay uh Adrian we appreciate that a Twist in that case we didn't see coming next tonight to the major development in a Myster that has gone unsolved for more than half a century an underwater investigator finding wreckage at the bottom of Lake champ plain capturing video that he tells us tonight shows a private plane that vanished in the 70s ER mclaughin has this one on the bottom of Lake Champlain the answer to a 50-year-old mystery likely solved this wreckage believed to be the remnants of a private jet that vanished in January of 1971 discovered by underwater investigator Gary kak who says he succeeded where 17 searches had failed the NTSB has yet to confirm the findings and we brought in a remote operated vehicle and we captured the underwater images confirming that it's 99% the right plane the 10 seat private plane carrying passengers Frank Wilder George Nikita Donald Meyers Randy Williams and Kirby Windsor vanished on a snowy Vermont night shortly after takeoff with no distress signal sent I started getting more interested in the problem and the challenge of why has nobody found this plane kak a seasoned underwater rescuer joined the effort in 2014 his first attempt to find the jet in 2022 turned out to be a false alarm and we got all excited we found it closer inspection it had uh stenciling that looked more military very in nature not something you would see on a commercial private jet last month kak and his Partners say they finally cracked the case with decades old sonar data it was in the location that the radar lost tracking of it when it crashed it is painted the same custom paint Scheme black red black that was on the side of this jet so there's very little doubt in my mind this is the right plane finally appearing to put one of Lake Champlain's Biggest Mysteries to rest and giving five families a sense of Bittersweet closure Frank Wilder's father was on the plane that night I'm feeling a lot of sense of a relief because spending 53 years not knowing if you know the plane was in the lake or maybe on a mountain side around there somewhere was distressing unfortunately it's open up other questions and we have to uh work on those now Tom why the plane went down remains a mystery tonight we heard from the national Transportation safety board the NTSB put out a statement saying they're going to evaluate the condition of the wreckage and based on that as well as a number of other factors they'll figure out next steps Tom all right here we appreciate that when we come back deer versus bus a deer smashing through the windshield of a commuter bus in Rhode Island several passengers taken to the hospital that dramatic moment next [Music] news for the generation of now is NBC News Now people really don't know what's going to happen near a dozen hours after the eye roared ashore more good people than bad people you know right there is some late breaking news [Applause] theow right just too you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms 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immediately respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit and shocking video of a deer jumping through a bus windshield in Rhode Island look at this the surveillance video showing the deer runs straight into the public transit bus through the window and into shock passengers three of the six passengers aboard were hospitalized Li but are expected to be okay Rhode Island Public Transit Authority commending the bus driver for his exemplary response to that situation okay now a money talks and the better than expected inflation numbers out today a hopeful sign that the prices of everyday items could be stabilizing look at this the Consumer Price Index up 3.3% year-over-year this may but the number is down when compared to April's number and Below expectations the market quick to react to the news the S&P and NASDAQ closing at near record highs but R pal and the Federal Reserve taking a more cautious approach in their Outlook here's what they said the most recent inflation readings have been more favorable than earlier in the year however and there has been modest further progress toward our inflation objective we'll need to see more good data to bolster our confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2% and here to break it all down for us tonight is NBC's Brian chunk so Brian take a look at the chart we haven't seen the FED move rates in September what kind of data are they looking for before they make a move yeah as you mentioned they haven't moved in quite a while but they've been holding interest rates high and it's because of inflation inflation inflation again the figure that we got this morning showed that prices are up 3.3% between May of this year and May of last year that's a bit of a slower Pace than the 3.4% figure we had seen in the April to April period but again we have to remember the Federal Reserve wants to see this number somewhere closer to 2% so not yet mission accomplished and a reason why they're not going to take their foot off the gas pedal when it comes to trying to deliberately slow this economy but one important thing that the fed's also watching for is wage growth versus inflation yes inflation is high but we just crossed the one-year Mark of wage growth which is about 4% outpacing inflation which again as I just mentioned is 3.3% if your wages are growing faster than the price tags are at the store that's a welcome development and that only happened as of about a year ago but stay right there Brian because because I do have a question here right I know realter and Traders will hate this question but why doesn't the FED raise rates if they really want to tackle inflation yeah and one big story here is that the Federal Reserve already aggressively raised interest rates for the time being and again just because they haven't cut interest rates doesn't mean that interest rates are low they're still just holding them at a high level again here's a recap of the chart that shows all the interest rate moves just over the last two years by the way there was a period in time post pandemic we weren't even thinking about a half percentage Point move at one time and then to get more aggressive the Federal Reserve did three qus of a percentage Point increases in the June July September and November meetings unprecedented we had not seen rate rate moves that big from the Federal Reserve in decades so you could argue that they have already front-loaded a lot of the aggressive interest rate hikes they trying to keep it basically at this level for right now while it tries to biten the economy also knowing that economists say it can take time for these interest rates to bite into inflation time and you were just telling me Jerome Powell actually said nothing is off the table which we should remind our viewers yeah and he was saying in the press conference that look he doesn't want to take any policy moves off of the table but that interest rate decisions from the Federal Reserve are likely Guided by the forecast that they baked in we saw forecasts from the Federal Reserve today no officials saw the case for an interest rate hike by the end of this year there's 19 of those officials but he said look we can't predict what's going to happen in the future we're not going to take anything off let's dig a little deeper into the data right cuz we have you here we have that beautiful screen so where are consumers where are Americans feeling the pinch the most what is still very expensive what's coming down yeah and I've got a wonderful graphic with this big board here and when we when we talk about some of these categories uh when we talk about travel right we're in the summertime and a lot of people trying to go out uh to maybe hit vacation uh Air Airline fairs are down almost 6% we've also seen uh cars down over 3% but unfortunately there are some categories that are increasing cost electricity we're talking about utilities here up 6% and then housing again this is a big one for Americans knowing that most of our paychecks are going into just putting a roof over our heads up 5.4% on a yearly basis again these are things that we're going to have to watch for so great that if your summer vacations is going to C you a little less housing is the big story with that inflation above Target if they want to get that down housing is going to be a big part of let's talk about the housing market right people looking to buy people looking to sell what does that look like as far as mortgage rates are concerned yeah well look when we talk about mortgage rates they're about 7% and when you compare that to just a few years ago where people were locking in mortgages at 2 and a half% well yes certainly that's frozen a lot of potential buyers on the sidelines it doesn't mean that there's no activity happening right now it basically just means that people are continuing to wa on the Sidelines to see maybe if mortgage rates right now at 7% can get a little bit lower but again based off of what the Federal Reserve has done so far we're not expecting them to cut interest rates back to zero which led to those 2 and half% 30-year fixed mortgage rates anytime soon until this 7% mortgage rate can go down to maybe six maybe 5 and a half% which we don't know when that might be it's going to continue to freeze out the housing market and make it very difficult for sellers to move inventory Tom all right Brian chunk for tonight Brian we appreciate that coming up next a stunning verdict involving Brands the banana distributor found guilty of bankrolling a terrorist group during Colombia's Civil War what they've been ordered to pay the families of eight victims who were killed during the conflict stay with [Applause] [Music] us are you comfortable with the role the Supreme Court is playing in the 20124 election is there not more that Israel can do to help the humanitary crisis should abortion be the number one issue in 2024 if it's Sunday it's Meet the Press nearly a dozen hours 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the Americas in a Monumental ruling against a corporate giant chaita banana ordered to pay almost $40 million to family members of those killed by a paramilitary group during colia Civil War a South Florida jury ruling the company funded those militants even after they were deemed a terror organization our Ellison Barber reports a stunning verdict in a South Florida federal court Chita the banana giant found liable by a us jury for funding a so-called Colombian death squad and ordered to pay more than a dozen relatives of victims a total of 38.3 million dollar it's a case that was decades in the making from 1997 to 2004 chaita then known as the United Fruit Company paid a right-wing paramilitary group at least $1.7 million the group The United self-defense forces of Colombia or Au formed as a reaction to left-wing Guerilla groups during Colombia's Civil War experts say the Au often promised people and businesses protection from other armed threats but as their power grew so did the violence the US designated the Au as a terrorist organization in 2001 how common was it for corporations companies particularly those based in the United States to be paying and or working in some form or fashion with these paramilitary groups at least 187 companies provided with financial support to this group most of them 90% of them were domestic companies uh but there have been some American companies chaita a company headquartered in the US plad guilty to making payments to a designated terrorist group in 2007 and agreed to pay a $25 million fine the latest lawsuit began around the same time the plan in this case risked their lives to come forward and his son worked at a banana banana plantation and um but was killed that AOC Commander confessed and so we had a ton of evidence about who killed him and why and fell right within the period that Chita was paying the Au agesa frisman one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs has worked on this case for close to 20 years and says the jury got it right how rare is it for a corporation to actually be held responsible for their involvement in human rights violations Andor just nefarious activities it is actually very very rare this is I think the first corporate case I know of that has gone to trial I think it's that's a very important president and and it's really important for making sure that corporations that operate in places where the rule of law is not effective and strong see that they can't be held to account in their home courts but the fight is far from over chaita is a defendant in a suit filed in medine Colombia and the company tells NBC news they intend to appeal the US jury's verdict writing in part quote the situation in Colombia was tragic for so many including those directly affected by the violence there and our thoughts remain with them and their families however that does not change our belief that there is no legal basis for these claims while we are disappointed by the decision we remain confident that our legal Position will ultimately Prevail Ellison Barber NBC News all right when we come back a look into the past NBC's Kelly Koba getting exclusive access into new findings into the ancient city of Pompei the newly discovered rooms and artifacts giving us a glimpse into how Romans live more than 2,000 years ago stay with [Music] us news for the generation of now is NBC news now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwartz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have re doubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest bride I have ever hitch that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC News Now Kristen Welker hosts Meet the Press every Sunday on NBC democracy is 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[Music] following tonight uncovering history in the ancient city of Pompei researchers discovering preserved rooms and artifacts never before seen in one of the biggest digs of this generation Our Kelly cooba got exclusive access to some of these new findings in the shadow of Mount vvus the old Roman city of Pompei preserved in volcanic ash for centuries are we on a Roman Road yet we're making a journey of about 2,000 years and now we are almost down at the Roman level now the biggest dig in a generation has Unearthed a breathtaking scene from the past oh wow this is the Blue Room this is the blue room I you can see why which is a very unusual thing for Pompei to have this blue wall it's so vibrant oh it's stunning NBC News getting an exclus exclusive look at this ornately decorated Shrine as it was nearly 2,000 years ago female figures representing the Four Seasons it has this very Heavenly uh atmosphere and rare Egyptian blue paint on the walls why is blue so important in here blue was the most expensive color it came from far away from Egypt and even from the Midland and Far East on the floor a row of clay jugs and oyster shells used for plaster sitting exactly as Builders left them that fateful day in 79 ad something strange started happening at Mount vuia and you could hear a big bang and it starts raining these pommer Stones the entire city was buried in volcanic rock and Ash from the devastating eruption and Frozen in Time what did you think when you first saw this room the blue room I was stunned these MIT students already on site using specially adapted night vision goggles and handheld scanners to study the new finds nobody's really looked at these materials before you can see these really fine details and evidence that's just incredible so it gives you a look into how the Romans were building things Bakers and artists Builders and Merchants were than 20,000 people lived here this was a big wealthy thriving City entire rooms like this newly discovered Banquet Hall decorated with mythical figures like the beautiful Helen of Troy showing the sophistication and elegance of the pompe what would this room have been like well you would have the owner in this corner here and then sofas on all three sides of the the wall cushions and and small tables in front of them musicians coming in or some kind of entertainment mment today teams are finding new clues about how those people lived carefully putting the pieces back together seeing something for the first time in almost 2,000 years 2,000 years ago somebody looked at it for the last time and now we who excavated are the first ones to look at it again some of these new finds open to the public this month we were given an up close look this is the little a little bedroom when this room was first uncover and we thought that was amazing we had no idea obviously of what we were going to come down on to Fresco from the ceiling to the floor and this intriguing image of a boy and his dog this is unique around the corner another surprise charcoal drawings made by children a hunting scene a boxing match little hands that can kind of hear the little Giggles of the children it's like a hand reaching out from the past Pompei showing its flare in its fractured new form we have to imagine that this is all buried under volcanic materials a third of it is still buried and finding the artifacts is only the first step archaeologists now trying to put the puzzle back together these fragments part of a magnificent ceiling crushed under the weight of volcanic rock we don't know who was the the owner but we can say that he has um money because it was very very expensive the past slowly reemerging Peace by piece Kelly Koba NBC News Pompei and that does it for us tonight we thank you for watching I'm Tom yamas in New York stay right there more news on the way breaking news tonight the life-threatening flood emergency in South Florida as we come on the air the tropical rain drenching the region triggering dangerous flash floods parts of I95 shut down roads are submerged vehicle stranded dozens of rescues reported some areas getting a month's worth of rain in a matter of hours a possible tornado touching down cutting off a community we're in the storm Zone also tonight the new twist in the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta the suspect by chance speaking to TV cameras hours before the chaos what he said about his struggles with metal health the mass casualty incident in Illinois three sheriff's deputies shot as they entered home with a barricade suspect President Biden in Italy for the G7 Summit the new security agreement he's expected to sign with Ukraine as Russian warships reach Cuban Waters 90 miles off the US Coast House Republicans voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress but will it go any further than that and remembering the NBA legend who silhouette became the League's logo LeBron and Jordan paying tribute tonight to the Great Jerry West this is NBC Nightly News with Lester Hol good evening and welcome we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in South Florida tonight the rain just not stopping for a second day a slow motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding tonight flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening many streets are impassible cars have been left stranded adding insult to Dury the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts rain totals in the last two days across Southern Florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before Saturday downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of four to 6 in per hour flights in and out of the Miami area have faced hundreds of delays and cancellations Fort Lauderdale Airport recording 7 and2 Ines of rain in the last 6 hours Sam Brock is in the middle live it all tonight and starts us off with the latest tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe cribe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canceling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flight with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we had to we had to stop and work because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water is coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain as you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move a car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come and Sam as I mentioned at the top of the broadcast this will be around for a while look Lester parts of South Florida have already seen more than a foot of rain from North day where I am all the way out to Fort Lauderdale and as you suggest we have at least 4 to 8 Ines more expected by the end of the week and Lester it only takes 6 Ines to stall out a car something many people right now are discovering tonight all right Sam Brock thank you we're going to turn now to the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in at Atlanta and the stunning new detail we have learned about the situation here's PRI aurther what is a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking the bus hit police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme mode and earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Bert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon he now faces 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Lester all right Pria thank you there's breaking news out of Northern Illinois three sheriff's deputies and a suspect shot in an exchange of gunfire at home where police had responded to a report that someone was threatening to harm themselves and others the deputies are said to be in good condition no word on the suspect's condition overseas President Biden traveling to Italy for a high stakes meeting with allies as the war in Ukraine intensifies Gabe Gutierrez is there tonight President Biden Landing in Italy for a high stake Summit a critical Focus that warn Ukraine a Russian missile strike today in Ukrainian president zelinsky's Hometown killed at least nine people and injured another 21 in including two children the White House announcing President Biden will sign a bilateral security agreement pledging long-term defense cooperation this as Russian warships arrived in a show of force off the coast of Cuba just 90 mi from the US the Pentagon has sent ships and aircraft to track them but says they don't pose a threat the G7 Summit will bring together leading democracies President Biden is looking to shore up alliances though every leader at the Summit is facing low approval ratings just days a ago in European parliamentary elections hard-right and populist parties scored a clear Victory hun but also Weighing on the president the felony conviction of Hunter Biden while he's ruled out pardoning his son today the White House Press Secretary did not rule out the president commuting Hunter Biden's sentence which could erase or reduce any potential prison time but would not expunge the conviction a White House official later telling NBC news any talk of a commutation was premature Biden AIDS meanwhile are looking ahead to Hunter Biden's September tax evasion trial in California which could expose new information about its foreign business dealings here in Italy President Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian president zalinski tomorrow and Pope Francis on Friday Lester all right Gabe gutieres thank you a barrage of rockets fired into Israel today from Over the Border in Lebanon as a us back Seas fire plan for Gaza is in Peril Raph Sanchez is in Northern Israel it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead Hamas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw draw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of his bua Rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah commander and it is funeral today calls for Revenge here in Northern Israel tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting since October 7th a similar number just over the Border in Lebanon Lester all right WRA thank you now to Capitol Hill the house voting to hold attorney general Merrick gardland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over recordings of President Biden's interview with the special Council Ali Vitali is there Ally this was a very close vote along party lines very close Lester the speaker telling us the house did its job tonight all but one Republican voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt for defying a subpoena to turn over audio of an interview President Biden did with special counsel Robert her that regarding his handling of classified documents her did not charge the president saying jury would view him as a quote elderly man with a poor memory the White House invoked executive privilege regarding the audio but lawmakers already have the transcript of it the doj not expected to act on the referral saying the House of Representative has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon ler Ali valali thank you Justus in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive order executive action on the border and we have new reports that migrants Crossing illegally are still being released into the US here's Julia anley tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the Border Patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this guadan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again a senior DHS official tells us it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness they say they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights Lester all right Julia thank you in just 60 seconds the costs after you buy a home why insurance rates are going through the roof and some homeowners policies are suddenly being dropped next some welcome news today as May inflation came in cooler than expected up 3.3% year-over-year the FED today leaving interest rates unchanged and signaling just one cut is likely this year price relief coming in areas like Airline fairs down almost 6% used cars and trucks down more than 9% and smartphone prices down 11.5% but in our series The Cost of Living Brian Chung reports now even after buying a home the cost of maintaining it is hitting Americans hard put my phone teron Joiner is a single mom of three living in Atlanta when she bought her home in 2020 she thought her low mortgage rate would keep her monthly payments down but water damage from severe winter storms led to two insurance claims and the event planner wasn't prepared for what came next I did expect for my rates to go up but I did not expect to be dropped she scrambled for a new policy only to find rates skyrocketing her premium going up from 00 to more than $5,700 a year with her new provider to get penalized for just being a customer who needed help it just felt I don't know like a little bit of a betrayal she's had to cut back her spending and pick up more freelance work on the side as a graphic designer when I started reaching out to people like hey I'm back in the business like this is what I'm doing you know if you need something just cover this home insurance yeah just just trying to like brace myself the cost of owning and maintaining a home have soared up 26% since 2020 according to one analysis and home insurance is a major piece that's up 20% one of the reasons climate change last year the United States had a record 28 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion with insurance companies losing money in 16 States and now many insurers are dropping customers from their policies sometimes leaving entire States and not just ones on the coast we've never seen anything close to this even in Iowa a place that doesn't get hard hit by hurricanes or wildfires these Last 5 Years have been more difficult because of hail tornado wind and other factors that are uh not weather related in Atlanta Joiner says she and the kids are happy in their home but it hurts when she looks at the bills do you regret purchasing this home or um there are times where I feel that way yes the cost of living at risk of becoming too much to Bear Brian Chung NBC News Atlanta Georgia and up next for us tonight the massive settlement from Johnson and Johnson over allegations they misled consumers about the safety of baby powder after years of concerns about the safety of its tal based baby powder tonight Johnson and Johnson has reached a $700 million settlement with 42 States over allegations the company misled consumers about the product's dangers Kate snow has more the makers of that iconic white bottle Johnson's Baby Potter a feeling you'd never outgrow now paying out $700 million to 42 States in Washington DC Johnson and Johnson agreeing to a settlement after the Attorneys General accused the company of deceiving customers about the safety of baby powder containing talc we began our investigation 5 years ago uh but we worked together as a team arm inarm on a bipartisan basis and and we did a good job making sure that Johnson and Johnson stepped up the company faces tens of thousands of other lawsuits from individuals who say J&J baby powder caused cancer and mesothelioma research released last month did find a link between use of talc and ovarian cancer something the company has always disputed baby powder is absolutely safe back in 2017 I sat down with Bart Williams a lawyer representing the company at the time the notion that Johnson and Johnson would sell that product knowing that it causes cancer in women is just outrageous in the settlement with States Johnson and Johnson admits no wrongdoing but just last year it stopped selling all talc-based baby powder worldwide and the agreement with the states says J&J will never sell talc-based products again in the US in a statement Johnson and Johnson said in part the company continues to pursue several paths to achieve a comprehensive and final resolution of the T litigation does today's news feel like some form of vindication yes definitely I think it definitely is a step in the right direction Dean Berg used baby powder since she was a teen she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 49 I thought I was going to die so my husband and I we began to think about casket versus cremation she was the first person to file a lawsuit against Johnson and Johnson she refused a settlement then one in court but received no payout do you think if you hadn't gone forward with your case none of this might have happened definitely yes I do feel that way Berg has been cancer-free for 17 years and hopes no other women will go through what she did Kate Snow NBC News still had to look back at the incredible life of NBA legend Jerry West and how he became the original logo [Music] shot finally the sports world is remembering basketball legend Jerry West who died at age 86 Morgan chesky has a look at his remarkable career and how he came to define the NBA down to the logo in a game filled with players Larger than Life Jerry West stands alone his loss at age 86 follows a career spanning six decades four teams and countless moments never too big for a player Relentless as he was clut two seconds one second W throws it up he makes it after drafting West number one in 1960 he led the Lakers to nine NBA Finals capturing one title after six heartbreaking losses to the Boston Celtics the Lakers Jerry West shooting here is The Game's High scorer but it's all in vain following a Hall of Fame playing career he found new life in the Lakers front office assembling the championship Showtime teams of the 80s then another Dynasty alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal greatest baskball mine ever the West Virginia native immortalized when his silhouette was made the NBA logo in 2019 West honored again with the presidential medal of freedom I was a dreamer I'd sett alone on our front porch and wonder if I ever make it to the top of that mountain what will I see on the other side well I did make it to the other side and my dreams have come true NBA stars honoring an icon LeBron James writing my mentor my friend hopefully I continue to make you proud you're already missed Michael Jordan sharing I wish I'd been his teammate rest in peace logo I've often thought what would I like for people to think about me he was a good guy and he cared a gritty Champion proving an endless pursuit of Excellence is the only way to play Morgan chesky NBC News and that's Nightly News for this Wednesday thank you for watching I'm Lester Holt please take care of yourself and each other good night news lives in the now the front lines are still very active this is like quicksand and officials say an entire town is cut off this close you actually understand why people had to jump in the ocean news for the generation of now is NBC news now good to have you with us I'm Joe frier and I'm Savannah sers developing right now on Morning News Now growing frustrations over the migrant crisis reports of new drone attacks by the militants the storm is creating dangerous conditions all across the region now let's get to some Financial headlines new rules are coming to cap credit card late fees talking tuition as a new class of freshman gets ready to go to college this is a big decision for families do you think this could impact how people vote 100% Morning News Now streaming weekdays at 7 tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore should people be concerned 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news tonight the life-threatening flood emergency in South Florida as we come on the air the tropical rain drenching the region triggering dangerous flash floods parts of I95 shut down roads are submerged Vehicles stranded dozens of rescues reported some areas getting a month's worth of rain in a matter of hours a possible tornado touching down cutting off a community we're in the storm Zone also tonight the new twist in the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta the suspect by chance speaking to TV cameras hours before the chaos what he said about his struggles with mental health the mass casualty incident in Illinois three sheriff's deputies shot as they entered a home with a barricade suspect President Biden in Italy for the G7 Summit the new security agreement he's expected to sign with Ukraine as Russian warships reach Cuban Waters 90 Mi off the US Coast House Republicans voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress but will it go any further than that and remembering the NBA legend who silouette became the League's logo LeBron and Jordan paying tribute tonight to the great Jerry West this is NBC Nightly News with Lester Hol good evening and welcome we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in South Florida tonight the rain just not stopping for a second day a slow motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding tonight flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening many streets are impassible cars have been left stranded adding insult to injury the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts rain totals in the last two days across Southern Florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before Saturday downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of 4 to 6 Ines per hour flights in and out of the Miami area have faced hundreds of delays and cancellations Fort Lauderdale Airport recording 7 and a 12 inches of rain in the last 6 hours Sam Brock is in the middle of it all tonight and starts us off with the latest tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canc in flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flight with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we had to we had to stop and walk because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water is coming from underne you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain so you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move a car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come and Sam as I mentioned at the top of the broadcast this will be around for a while look Lester parts of South Florida have already seen more than a foot of rain from North day where I am all the way out to Fort Lauderdale and as you suggest we have at least 4 to 8 Ines more expected by the end of the week and Lester it only takes 6 Ines to stall out a car something many people right now are discovering tonight all right Sam Brock thank you we're going to turn now to the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta and the studying new detail we have learned about the situation here's Prius shur what is night a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking a bus H police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus drive to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in extreme mode earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget t authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon he now faces 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Lester all right priia thank you there's breaking news out of Northern Illinois three sheriff's deputies and a suspect shot in an exchange of gunfire at home where police had responded to a report that someone was threatening to harm themselves and others the deputies are said to be in good condition no word on the suspect's condition overseas President Biden traveling to Italy for a high stakes meeting with allies as the war in Ukraine intensifies Gabe Gutierrez is there tonight President Biden Landing in Italy for a high stake Summit a critical Focus that warn Ukraine a Russian missile strike today in Ukrainian president zelinsky's Hometown killed at least nine people and injured another 21 including two children the White House announcing President Biden will sign a bilateral security agreement pledging long-term defense cooperation this as Russian warships arrived in a show of force off the coast of Cuba just 90 miles from the US the Pentagon has sent ships and aircraft to track them but says they don't pose a threat the G7 Summit will bring together leading democracies President Biden is looking to shore up alliances though every leader at the Summit is facing low approval ratings just days ago in European parliamentary elections hard right and populous parties scored a clear Victory but also Weighing on the president the felony conviction of Hunter Biden while he's ruled out pardoning his son today the White House Press Secretary did not rule out the president commuting Hunter Biden's sentence which could erase or reduce any potential prison time but would not expunge the conviction a White House official later telling NBC news any talk of a commutation was premature Biden AIDS meanwhile are looking ahead to Hunter Biden's September tax evasion trial in California which could expose new information about its foreign business dealings here in Italy President Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian president zalinski tomorrow and Pope Francis on Friday Lester all right Gabe gutieres thank you a barrage of rockets fired into Israel today from Over the Border in Lebanon as a us back ceasefire plan for Gaza is in Peril Raph Sanchez is in Northern Israel it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceas fire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unaccept acceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead theas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of his bu of rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah commander and it is funeral today calls for Revenge here in Northern Israel tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting since October 7th a similar number just over the Border in Lebanon Le all right WRA thank you now to Capitol Hill the house voting to hold attorney general Merrick gardland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over recordings of President Biden's interview with the special Council Ali Vitali is there Ally this was a very close vote along party lines very close Lester the speaker telling us the house did its job tonight all but one Republican voting to hold attorney general Merck Garland in contempt for defying a subpoena to turn over audio of an interview president Biden did with special counsel Robert her that regarding his handling of classified documents her did not charge the president saying a jury would view him as a quote elderly man with a poor memory the White House invoked executive privilege regarding the audio but lawmakers already have the transcript of it the doj not expected to act on the referral saying the House of Representatives has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon blesser Alie Itali thank you Justus in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive order executive action on the border and we have new reports that migrants Crossing illegally are still being released into the US here's Julia Ansley tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border of Patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again a senior DHS official tells us it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness they they say they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights Lester all right Julia thank you in just 60 seconds the costs after you buy a home why insurance rates are going through the roof and some homeowners policies are suddenly being dropped next some welcome news today as May inflation came in cooler than expected up 3.3% year-over-year the FED today leaving interest rates unchanged and signaling just one cut is likely this year price relief coming in areas like Airline fairs down almost 6% used cars and trucks down more than 9% and smartphone prices down 115% but in our series The Cost of Living Brian Chung reports how even after buying a home the cost of maintaining it is hitting Americans hard put my phone teron Joiner is a single mom of three living in Atlanta when she bought her home in 2020 she thought her low mortgage rate would keep her monthly payments down but water damage from severe winter storms led to two insurance claims and the event planner wasn't prepared for what came next I did expect for my rates to go up but I did not expect to be dropped she scrambled for a new policy only to find rates skyrocketing her premium going up from 1,200 to more than $ 5700 a year with a new provider to get penalized for just being being a customer who needed help it just felt I don't know like a little bit of a betrayal she's had to cut back her spending and pick up more freelance work on the side as a graphic designer when I started reaching out to people like hey I'm back in the business like this is what I'm doing you know if you need something just tring Insurance yeah just just trying to like brace myself the costs of owning and maintaining a home have soared up 26% since 2020 according to one analysis and home insurance is a major piece that's up 20% one of the reasons climate change last year the United States had a record 28 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion with insurance companies losing money in 16 States and now many insurers are dropping customers from their policies sometimes leaving entire States and not just ones on the coast we've never seen anything close to this even in Iowa a place that doesn't get hard hit by hurricanes or wildfires this last five years have been more diff diffult because of hail tornado wind and other factors that are uh not weather related in Atlanta Joiner says she and the kids are happy in their home but it hurts when she looks at the bills do you regret purchasing this home or um there are times where I feel that way yes the cost of living at risk of becoming too much to bear Brian Chung NBC News Atlanta Georgia and up next for us tonight the massive settlement from Johnson and Johnson over Al ation they misled consumers about the safety of baby powder the paper towel will absorb the acid that's crazy green tea to calm acne tap magnifier we can zoom in oh look at that the steam from the ice takes out all the wrinkles the way to get it out is to use the shell that is left over it works every single time this is my favorite tip of the day brilliant brilliant brilliant personal finan is personal you don't want to do what somebody else is doing oh that's genius you just saved me 40 bucks that's a good idea news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is real we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant got see future is now news for the generation of now is NBC news now still to come in the Channel 2 News well the waters are certainly receding now still too close to call reporting from round zero as it's being referred to is in fact that tast the Haitian people know a little something about 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about resiliency what's the biggest risk right now some of the troops you have been proud I want to welcome you to the first presidential debate in fact we've been told we can't go any farther you were some rilian folks let me give a [Music] hint more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization [Music] [Music] tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore how is it that traffic was stopped in time state law enforcement officers they undoubtedly save lives should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the Gaza [Music] breaking news tonight the life-threatening flood emergency in South Florida as we come on the air the tropical rain drenching the region triggering dangerous flash floods parts of I95 shut down roads are submerged Vehicles stranded dozens of rescues reported some areas getting a month's worth of rain in a matter of hours a possible tornado touching down cutting off a community we're in the storm Zone also tonight the new twist in the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta the suspect by chance speaking to TV cameras hours before the chaos what he said about his struggles with metal health the mass casualty incident in Illinois three sheriff's deputies shot as they entered a home with a barricade suspect President Biden in Italy for the G7 Summit the new security agreement he's expected to sign signed with Ukraine as Russian warships reach Cuban Waters 90 Mi off the US Coast House Republicans voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress but will it go any further than that and remembering the NBA legend who silhouette became the League's logo LeBron and Jordan paying tribute tonight to the great Jerry West this is NBC Nightly News with Lester H good evening and welcome we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in South Florida tonight the rain just not stopping for a second day a slow motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding tonight flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening many streets are impassible cars have been left stranded adding insult to injury the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts rain totals in the last two days across Southern Florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before Saturday downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of 4 to6 Ines per hour flights in and out of the Miami area have faced hundreds of delays and cancellations Fort Lauderdale Airport recording 7 and a 12 inches of rain in the last 6 hours Sam Brock is in the middle of it all tonight and starts us off with the latest tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather oh this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canceling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flight with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we had to we had to stop and work because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water is coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain so you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place are we want to move a car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come and Sam as I mentioned at the top of the broadcast this will be around for a while look Lester parts of South Florida have already seen more than a foot of rain from North day where I am all the way out to Fort Lauderdale and as you suggest we have at least 4 to 8 Ines more expected by the end of the week and Lester it only takes 6 Ines to stall out a car something many people right now are discovering tonight all right Sam Brock thank you we're going to turn now to the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta and the stunning new detail we have learned about the situation here's Prius shur [Music] a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday shot hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking the bus H police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme mode and it's earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon he now faces 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Lester all right Priya thank you there's breaking news out of Northern Illinois three sheriff's deputies and a suspect shot in an exchange of gunfire at home where police had responded to a report that someone was threatening to harm themselves and others the deputies are said to be in good condition no word on the suspect's condition overseas President Biden traveling to it for a high stakes meeting with allies as the war in Ukraine intensifies Gabe Gutierrez is there tonight President Biden Landing in Italy for a high-stake summit a critical Focus that warn Ukraine a Russian missile strike today in Ukrainian president zelinsky's Hometown killed at least nine people and injured another 21 including two children the White House announcing President Biden will sign a bilateral security agreement pledging long-term defense cooperation op ation this as Russian warships arrived in a show of force off the coast of Cuba just 90 mi from the US the Pentagon is send ships and aircraft to track them but says they don't pose a threat the G7 Summit will bring together leading democracies President Biden is looking to shore up alliances though every leader at the Summit is facing low approval ratings just days ago in European parliamentary elections hard-right and populist parties scored a clear Victory but also when on the president the felony conviction of Hunter Biden while he's ruled out pardoning his son today the White House Press Secretary did not rule out the president commuting Hunter Biden's sentence which could erase or reduce any potential prison time but would not expunge the conviction a White House official later telling NBC news any talk of a commutation was premature Biden AIDS meanwhile are looking ahead to Hunter Biden September tax evasion trial in California which could expose new information about his foreign business dealing here in Italy President Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian president zalinsky tomorrow and Pope Francis on Friday Lester all right Gabe gutieres thank you a barrage of rockets fired into Israel today from Over the Border in Lebanon as a us back Seas fire plan for Gaza is in Peril Raph Sanchez is in Northern Israel it's time for the haggling to stop and a ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead theas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of hisbah rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah commander and it is funeral today calls for Revenge here in Northern Israel tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting since October 7th a similar number just over the Border in Lebanon Lester all right wrath thank you now to Capitol Hill the house voting to hold attorney general Merrick gardland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over recordings of President Biden's interview with the special Council Ali Vitali is there Ally this was a very close vote along party lines very close Lester the speaker telling us the house did its job tonight all but one Republican voting to hold attorney general Merck Garland in contempt for defying a subpoena to turn over audio of an interview President Biden did with special counsel Robert her that regarding his handling of classified documents her did not charge the president saying a jury would view him as a quote elderly man with a poor memory the White House invoked executive privilege regarding the audio but lawmakers already have the transcript of it the doj not expected to act on the referral saying the House of Representatives has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon ler Ali Vali thank you just in the AC clu filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive order executive action on the border and we have new reports that migrants Crossing illegally are still being released into the US here's Julia anley tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again a senior DHS official tells us it's too soon to judge the new policy's effectiveness they say they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights Lester all right Julia thank you in just 60 seconds the costs after you buy a home why insurance rates are going through the roof and some homeowners policies are 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Florida look like something you'd expect after a hurricane but this is just a monster storm system dumping so much rain that some are calling this a 1,000-year event it's already rained more than 2 feet in some places with another half a foot of rain expected through Friday night and a lot of that is coming down so fast Sarasota saw 8 Ines of rain in just 3 hours yesterday leading to scenes like this all that nonstop rain is causing a mess of problems in the Southeast today stranded cars everywhere through Florida travel delays at airports and closures along the very busy I95 our team is tracking the severe weather tonight NBC News meteorologist Bill Karens is standing by with the forecast but first let's go to NBC News correspondent Sam Brock in Aventura Florida now Sam before we get started here I I just got to shout you out man for some Hulk level reporting out there for those that that missed his reporting early on with our friend hie Jackson let me show you this video the guy that you're seeing out there using his massive like 6 foot I don't know six or 6'8 frame to beast mode that stuck SUV to dry land yes that is our fearless Sam Brock uh Sam that guy is both super unlucky for all that water but also lucked out that you were just standing right there uh what happened next there bro first of all 68 and beast mode I don't think I've ever H either one of those associated with me but I appreciate that Gotti 65 yeah so the reality was I was standing out here right right over my shoulder where we're still watching people right now navigate this swamp and not having a lot of success with it I did my report with hiy and you know I thought we were done it's like that poor guy got stuck in the middle of this pool and he did and I went to go talk to him thinking that they were done he actually is from Haiti he speaks Haitian Creole but not English so I had no idea what I was doing communicating with him but I did manage to get him to put basically his car neutral so I could push it and unbeknownst to me and I want to state unposed to me I was pushing this car all the way through the lot here to try to get him out unfortunately the car itself the engine will not start so he is still stranded just not here he's away from the water and now closer to the exit to the mall so that's the story there wow and and you still got people just going by in that intersection and it's one of those circumstances where you know if it gets beyond the exhaust pipe if if you got something to show us go ahead and show us but just seems like so many cars are stuck in the water people here are so Brazen that the water has receded a little bit Gotti and I just saw someone drive through like 15 M hour I am not kidding you in his BMW and he made it this poor guy right here unfortunately is not as lucky I don't know what happened he tried to do it you tried to make it across and then and then what happened there goes a tow truck he took a risk he took he took a risk yeah he took a risk there was a tow truck over oh there it goes that same tow truck was just arguing with another woman Gotti because she did not want to try to get over a median that you can't can't see because it's underwater right now and he was peer pressuring her to move and I guess he succeeded cuz now he's he's through there but the bottom line is don't try to drive through standing water I know we all think we understand that and then you see it and the urge is so strong but a lot of people in South Florida tonight are dealing with the ramifications of not making good decisions on that front yeah that that dude with this taking a smoke break right there proof positive I I guess what's what's the deal have people been caught off guard by this normally this is the type of flooding that you you see from like a hurricane that come with a ton of warning but it seems like there's a lot of people that might not be taking the amount of water that we're saying very seriously at all what is that behind you what is that massive thing right some some did not I mean I talked to people who are from South Florida and they were like yeah I heard the warnings but like how bad could it be if you have lived in this state for any period of time you know it goes from being beautiful to absolutely torrential downpour and that can last a while then it clears up and comes back typically but you have this tropical system that's coming through right now and you have in some cases I believe Gotti two to three four plus inches of rain per hour there's too much water coming down too quickly and what ends up happening is because there's nowhere for it to go we're basically at sea level here in many parts of Miami the ground underneath it is limestone which is porous so there's a water table that's coming up it's already wet underneath and then you have all this rainfall coming down from above the water has nowhere to escape and so this does play out a lot in South Florida but I do think in this case you were looking at a foot plus of rain in some places Hollywood for example which is not very far from where I am North date I'm in aventur this is a popular Mall here obviously a lot of people were trying to go shop before they realized that was not going to be a possibility but it's just it's normal for this area but just so much in such a quick amount of time that it it led to disastrous results although thankfully we are not aware at least at this point of any injures and again thankfully you're out there with your your 65 Frame pushing cars out of the way I I know you probably have some more work to do there's a bunch of cars that just went by Sam Brock thanks so much brother thanks Scotty appreciate you and NBC News meteorologist Bill Kens joins us now bill this is wild stuff this is looking I don't know it kind of looks like an omen on what kind of hurricane season we could have or or is it still too soon to tell I tell you what it is Gotti this is kind of like you know a wake up like how vulnerable Florida is you know if you look at the State of Florida it's you know sticks straight down in between the Atlantic and the gulf extremely warm water you the most vulnerable you know highly populated area maybe in the world that's susceptible to like hurricanes and floods like this and you know there's a reason why home insurance is like hard to come by in Florida you know and you how about all these Autos probably thousands today got caught and Stranded and you know a lot of those cars will probably end up back on the market so be careful uh buying any used cars in Florida anytime soon especially South Florida so we still have 7 million people under flood watches the warning were just dropped so for about 4 hours we had a flash flood emergency for Miami in the Fort Lauderdale area I saw at least four separate locations that picked up over a foot of rain today this is on top of the rain they had yesterday and so every day you know you know when you get the ground saturated even the sandy soil tomorrow it'll be even easier to get significant flooding if we get more heavy rain which is possible so the heavy rain is shifted you notice that Fort Lauderdale northward just showers still steady rains from Fort Lauderdale to Miami all the really heavy stuff is down here in the keys around Key Largo and down here in Alligator Alley so this area is very swampy we're not going to see significant flooding out of this uh we'll have to wait and see if some of this tries to rebuild northwards later tonight it does look like tomorrow some of that could because additional rainfall over the next 3 days we still can get another 3 to four inches of rain this is on top of the foot plus that we've already received in this area and I will include Fort Meers Sarasota and areas the Naples you also could have additional flooding so we're not completely done with this yet guys but it does make you wonder and worry you know we're not we haven't even had a a tropical storm or hurricane yet but uh let's hope none head to Florida's way yeah and I know while this is going on there is a pretty scorching Heat Wave happening out here in the west any relation to what we're seeing happen in the East yeah that was really just more like a tropical wave down in areas of the you know South Florida what's happening in the west is in it's summer now so you get these big ridges that build usually you're going to have somewhere in the country is exceptionally hot and that's the case right now you look at Phoenix again 111° Vegas at this hour is 101 Fresno's at 101 even reeno at 97 is pretty incredibly warm so what's going to shift and change in the next couple days is that the West is going to begin to slowly cool off and all of the heat spreading across the country which tomor 100 St Louis at 96 degrees and by the time we get to Friday it gets a little toasty in areas of the South Too Atlanta 95 Raleigh 97 a little warm DC to New York but we'll talk more about that them next week that's who is going to get it really bad uh so as we head through uh this weekend the developing story will be watch what happens in the Ohio Valley Gotti that's going to be the next region that we're going to break record highs yikes and Bill we also saw some tornado reports in Florida we saw that video at the top of the show I I know there's talk of Tornado Alley possibly shifting East but Florida like it doesn't get more East than that right is is this a part of that this is not this was more like when you get tropical waves and you know especially hurricanes and tropical storms we can get tornadoes with those so what we saw today was just this tropical disturbance that's this area that we've been tracking and the Hurricane Center is actually tracking it they said there's a 20% chance it develops off the Southeast coast and that's why we had the heavy rain and also that you know tornado there is another area that could develop 30% chance this one would more or less head towards Mexico in the next couple days then what you were talking about God the study that's been done is typically you when I was growing up as a kid we refer to Tornado Alley as can Oklahoma into Texas but what we've been tracking over the last you know three decades is that we're seeing an increase in tornadoes in areas of like Tennessee Mississippi and a little lower tornadoes in what we used to call Tornado Alley Bill Karens thank you so much now turning now to this story uh one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States has just voted to oppose invitro fertilization today at their annual meeting in Indiana more than 10,000 Southern Baptists decided that IVF should be condemned asking members to quote reaffirm the uncondition unconditional value and right to life of every human being including those in an embryonic stage they argue that IVF produces more embryos and can be implanted so the ones that are destroyed in their eyes are losses of human life but that did not pass unanimously the audience heard emotional testimonies from people within the faith who support the fertility treatment Southern Baptists have over 14 million members and are often looked at as a barometer on how evangelicals fall on Hot Topics meanwhile in Washington lawmakers are going to be voting on a democratic Le IVF bill tomorrow if it passes the bill would protect access to IVF Nationwide today Senate Dems blocked a competing bill from Republicans saying it did not go far enough to protect IVF access man over on Capitol Hill today the Republican Le house voted to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress and this is all because Garland refused to hand over audio recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert her now that was the interview when Biden's age and memory really came under Fire when the special counsel was investigating how he handled classified documents and her basically said that a jury would sympathize with Biden as quote an elderly man with poor memory eventually her did not prosecute Biden let's bring in NBC's Julie cirin to break all this down for us Julie can you can you just really quickly remind us why they can't have those recordings well it's plain and simple here Gotti it's because the White House had asserted executive privilege over those tapes that means the Department of Justice can't just go turning those tapes over to anyone who requests them even if it's Congress now the Attorney General Mara Garland certainly backs that move by the Biden Administration to assert executive privilege over those tapes remember why they're doing so in the first place it's because they feel like Republicans could maybe distort the audio could Stitch it in a way that doesn't represent reality that's at least what Garland is saying he also said when he testified before the house Judiciary Committee uh a couple of weeks ago that look maybe Witnesses in the future won't agree to sit down with us in our investigations like the president has with the special counsel if they know we're just going to turn over these tapes willy-nilly no matter what interesting in today's contempts vote is this kind of like the whole bill bar and Eric Holder contempt political Saga of the past and and what's Garland saying yeah look it's pretty simple uh it's pretty similar to those uh prosecutions that the house tried to take with Bill bar under President Trump with Eric Holder under President Obama and look Republicans that I spoke to acknowledge that it's very unlikely that this results this contempt uh resolution passing results in the prosecution and any kind of criminal liability for the Attorney General in large part because look the people that would be prosecuting this is the doj that mer Garland overseas and certainly it's unprecedented for them to go that far but it's not unprecedented as you mentioned for Republicans for Democrats as well to use their political power up here to try and hold people that they subpoena that they want to hear from that they want something from in contempt of congress if they fail to do so and that is why you saw that vote uh on the floor today I also want to read you a statement from attorney general Maro Garland responding to this he put it out very quickly he said in part quote it is deeply disappointing that this House of Representatives have have turned a series Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon today's vote Garland says disregards the Constitutional separation of powers the Justice Department's need to protect its investigations and the substantial amount of information we have provided to the Committees of course Garland is talking about there the transcript they have provided the Committees and put out in public in full guti and speaking of partisanship I mean this is all coming as Donald Trump is expected to visit Capitol Hill tomorrow right any idea what that's going to be like yeah oh boy it's the former President's first visit to this General Capital Area pretty much since he was in the white house it's been quite a long time since we've seen Trump anywhere near the capital now he's not going to be in this building itself but he will be nearby he'll be meeting with House Republicans first in the morning his allies a lot of uh the people who have his back who support him and then later in the day he'll be meeting with Senate Republicans over at another location there that they use for campaign purposes now the interesting thing is going to be who does doesn't show up to these meetings right of course we know in the Senate at least that Mitch McConnell the Republican leader who has had a very tense relationship with Trump over the years he is planning to attend this is going to be the first time the two are seeing each other face to face even talking in many years certainly since Trump was in the white house we also know for example that Senator Lisa marowski had said she's not planning to attend so that'll be interesting to see to be a fly on the wall Julie thank you very much and tonight eight men with suspected ties to Isis are now in US custody a high-profile sting operation led to their arrest in New York Los Angeles and Philly three sources are telling NBC News and all of the men were from Tajikistan and they came into the United States by crossing the southern border meanwhile it's been just over a week since President Biden signed an executive order limiting Asylum requests NBC News Homeland Security correspondent Julia anley has the latest tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but inbc news has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings so we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump admin ation enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again Gotti a senior DHS official says it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness and they argue it's because they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights but Gotti I have to say they may never get that help it doesn't seem like Congress has anything on the horizon that's going to give them that funding of course they didn't get the bipartisan Senate bill that they wanted earlier this here and so it looks like it might only be a matter of time till those border numbers start to come back up and border patrol will again have to release migrants that they can't Deport fast enough it's simply a matter of space and also of countries that are reluctant to take migrants back countries like China places in the Eastern hemisphere Africa places that are really hard to deport migrants to um and that in those cases and we're already seeing exceptions being made now particularly in San Diego those are the migrants who are being released so it's to watch particularly as the Biden Administration will really look to this action hang their hats on it and say when it comes to the election this is the major step they did which did take a large step away from what a lot of people might have expected the president to do when it came to immigration particularly when he was running for the presidency earlier we should also point out that ACLU thinks that they could win this lawsuit they think that they have a winning case here because they sued the Trump Administration and over similar policy and they won there so if this gets enjoyed it could be that really this is all a moot point they won't need more resources and they'll just have to return to exactly what they were doing before the order certainly something to watch particularly as immigration continues to be a flas point this election year Gotti absolutely such a reminder that what they say in Washington doesn't always match up with what we're seeing On the Border Julia thank you and don't go anywhere we are just getting started up next the man who silhouette actually became the logo for the NBA has passed away tonight we are remembering Jerry West and how his legendary career influenced basketball plus you know the chaita banana company yep we all know them when we go to the grocery store but did you know that they were just found liable of funding Deb squads in Colombia for years NBC's Ellison Barber will bring us the details on that story and later this hour we are taking you inside Google's quantum computer laboratory what they're doing is going to blow you away and we're going to explain it all tonight and the future of everything some problems are are calculated to take 10,000 years 100,00 a 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war ahead of the 2024 election the indictment says the man shared his plan with two undercover FBI agents thinking they shared his extreme beliefs and a construction company was awarded a $43,000 emergency bid to build a detour around Teton Pass this comes just days after that Road collapsed the Wyoming Department of Transportation says says that they are hoping to have that detour ready within the next 2 weeks and San Francisco declared itself a sanctuary City for transgender and gender non-conforming people today becoming one of the first major cities in the country to do so San Francisco follows Sacramento in West Hollywood in hopes of providing a place of safety for the gender affirming community so if you've ever watched or been to an NBA game you've probably seen his silhouette more times and you can count that's because the shape in the NBA's logo is actually modeled after basketball legend Jerry West now west a Los Angeles Laker Legend and nine-time NBA champion has just passed away at age 86 let's bring in NBC News correspondent Morgan chesky with more on the loss of this Legend Morgan he was a Phenom on the court but off Court he's being remembered as a genius can you tell us a little bit more about that yeah got the longevity that we see in Jerry West we may never see again with anyone in the NBA and that is because you have a guy who was drafted number one overall back in 1960s right as the Lakers moved from Minneapolis here to Los Angeles he has a Hall of Fame career albeit with a bit of frustration from multiple losses to the Celtics but then he was able to do what so few other players have been able to do and that was he stayed with the Lego organization and began to share some of that basketball Insight uh with the team first in a coaching role then in a general manager role and we saw the benefits of that not just immediately in the decades that followed but here's a guy who was still relevant more than 50 years after he joined the league here uh we have just one player former player sharing just kind of how much of a basketball genius Jerry West was take a listen he had such a brilliant brilliant basketball mind he was always two and three steps ahead um so being a shooting guard and growing up in Los Angeles growing up in California Riverside but watching the Lakers and knowing the history of Jerry West um I was like a kid in the candy store I hung on every word he said to me yeah and Reggie Miller far from the only NBA player who gained some sort of insight some wisdom from Jerry West I want to show you what LeBron's sharing as well today he had a few kind words to say calling Jerry West a mentor and a friend saying he would truly miss our convos my thoughts and prayer goes out to your wonderful family forever love Jerry Rest in paradise my guy and how about NBA Commissioner Adam Silver saying this online as well writing kind words to a gentleman he helped build eight championship teams during his tenure in the NBA a legacy of achievement that mirrors his onc court Excellence eight championship teams got who does that I mean half a century that is incredible uh now I know that after the the death of of Kobe there was this push to possibly replace the logo with with his likess now that West has passed away do you think that that could ever happen or do you think that we're going to see West forever well I think just his body of work immortalizes him already whether he's on the logo or not you mentioned that petition more than 3 million people have already signed that hoping to see Kobe's likeness become the logo of the NBA I find that interesting because Kobe may not have been in the position that he was without the help of Jerry West we forget seeing all these young superstars come into the league now that back in the mid 90s whenever Jerry West was fighting to get this 17-year-old basketball star to come join the Lakers it was not a popular thought and Kobe credits Jerry for standing by him every step of the way uh the two were very close especially in Kobe's early years as a Laker so I you know we don't have any way to ask Jerry today here Gotti but I have to think that if that petition ever did go through and Jerry's likeness became Kobes for the NBA logo I mean what better tribute from one generation onto the next uh two incredible players uh whose impact really stretched far beyond the court here yeah when we talk about standing on the shoulders of giants he is one of them 100% Morgan thank you thanks Gotti and coming up Russian warships and a submarine as close to the US Coastline as they may ever be why my so-called routine military exercises around Cuba have the world on high alert but first you got to see this Colorado First Responders they had a complicated rescue yesterday after a 3-month-old puppy fell into an open floor vent oh apparently little Archie there jumped down from a bed only to disappear into the home's piping system and then remained stuck there for three hours as Archie's family held its breath Rescuers slid some cameras through those ducks to figure out where the he was and thankfully found Archie safe and sound as you can see what a good well what a bad little good boy we'll be right [Music] [Applause] [Music] back news for the generation of now is NBC News Now [Music] [Music] news for the generation of now is NBC news now good to have you with us I'm Joe frier and I'm Savannah sers developing right now on Morning News Now growing frustrations over the migrant crisis reports of new drone attacks by Tru militants the storm is creating dangerous conditions all across the region now let's get to some Financial headlines new rules are coming to cap credit card late fees talking tuition as a new class of freshman gets ready to go to college this is a big decision for families do you think this could impact how people vote 100% Morning News Now streaming weekdays at 700 news lives in the now look at this you can't even see anything anymore let's 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US and other allies were key in that defense and Ukraine just got a refreshed inventory of anti-aircraft supplies after struggling for months and the European commission just announced tariffs on imported Chinese electric cars that could start next month it comes at a pretty bad time as there's a slow demand for EVS in China with prices falling Chinese automakers there might not H might have to cough up on a couple of billions in euros extra costs and Pope Francis is in hot water again he's being accused of using a homophobic slur according to the Italian news agency theza he reportedly said the same anti-gay slur he used last month in a closed door meeting with priests in Rome the Vatican did not directly address the allegation but instead pointed to a statement on the Tuesday meeting with priests and dozens of firefighters battled a blaze at a cookware Factory in Athens Greece you can see some massive plumes of black smoke here fill the the air now it's unclear what caused that fire but apparently it might have been some sort of explosion according to a state broadcaster there were no immediate reports of people trapped inside and ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas are still at a standstill with the US saying today that some of the demands Hamas is making are unacceptable Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead theas waited nearly two weeks and then propose more changes a number of which go beyond positions that had previously taken and accepted and that's Secretary of State Anthony blinkin still in the Middle East where he is trying to advance a ceasefire deal between the two parties with the help of cutter meanwhile violence is escalating between Israel and iran-backed Hezbollah the militia group fired over 100 rockets at Israel today after Israel said it killed a Hezbollah Commander yesterday NBC's Matt Bradley has more well we heard from Secretary of State Anthony blinkin today in Doha after he consulted and held a press conference uh with the prime minister of Qatar who has been crucial as an intermediary in these ongoing negotiations this is Anthony blinken's eighth trip to the region in as many months and you could almost hear how exasperated he was he put the whole burden on finishing this deal on Hamas saying that Hamas could have said yes to the deal but instead they waited for two weeks and now they have kind of notes they have uh a different demands that they want and demands that Anthony blinkin said exceed or that us officials have said have exceeded even the ones they had before well hamas's responded tahar Nono who's one of the senior of Hamas officials said that Hamas has always been consistent in their demands and in fact NBC News got word of that as well that their demands are changing the timeline by which Israel would be withdrawing completely from the Gaza Strip and ending its assault on the Gaza Strip once and for all to be fair that always has been hamas's position they have always said that they will not ank a deal that has no stipulation for the final end to the conflict and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces interestingly we also heard from The Forum of families who represent represents the families of the hostages who are still in the Gaza Strip there's thought to be some 80 of them who are still alive they looked upon hamas's response with optimism they said that it was heading in the right direction but Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are going to be huddling tonight trying to come up with the response again the fact that they're still discussing it kind of undermines what blinkin was saying that Israel has been totally on board from the beginning so the two sides are quite close closer than they've been ever since the last deal in November but it looks like there's still a ways to go before an agreement and in Cuba today a very unusual scene kind of an eerie scene take a look at this this right here is a nuclear-powered Russian submarine surfacing in a Cuban Port along with four Russian warships that have pulled in as part of some planned military exercises nearby the US state department says it's routine for Russian ships to temporarily stop in Cuban ports but that sub known as Kazan is out of the ordinary for a few reasons Russian Reports say the submarine carries new Hypersonic missiles that could reach the US from Havana in seconds Cuba says the ships have no nuclear weapons and US officials seem to be saying the same thing now a little earlier according to the Miami Herald open-source satellite data placed the Russian warships just 26 nautical miles from kargo Florida before they pulled into Havana this morning NBC's Ed Augustine joins us now from Havana Ed thanks so much for being with us I know that they say that this is routine but given the timing the war in Ukraine the G7 Summit should people in the US be concerned at all well I think you hit the nail on the head Gaddy by saying that in a sense it's routine of course Cuban Russia very longtime allies going back to Soviet times um on the other hand the war in Ukraine is Raging and within that tensions have ratcheted up these last couple of weeks since the Biden Administration said that Ukraine could use some of the US weapons to hit Russian targets and Vladimir Putin has responded uh saying that the that Russia might respond in kind with their allies so I think the timing is key and also this is the first um this is the first time since the war in Ukraine that you've seen that that we've seen a Russian naval deployment in Cuba um interestingly while the Russians are playing it up while the Russians were doing Naval exercises on their way here um along the Atlantic firing huge artillery guns both the Cubans and the Biden Administration have been playing it down the Cuban uh government has been emphasizing that there's no nukes no nuclear weapons on board Cuba's a signat a non-proliferation treaty dating back to the 60s so that would be impossible they say and also interestingly the Pentagon uh today again saying that this is not a threat to US National Security um it's not a danger um but that it is noteworthy yeah maybe not a threat or a danger as they say but definitely a very powerful image I got to ask what kind of message does this seem to send to Russia's allies is this a propaganda play uh yeah I think it's definitely uh a propaganda play the military analyst that I was speaking to earlier today said that the core of the Russian message is the following to the Americans look you can make our lives misery and what we see as our sphere of influence look our you you you can pull off huge um war games and drills in the Ukraine with over 100 tanks and 990,000 soldiers that took place last month but we can still be a Nuance to you we can still get into your backyard and and and and be in a country that's been a thorn in your side haven't been able to get rid of this government for many many decades and we can project power internationally I think that's what Russia's trying to to to to tell the Americans you know tit fortat um you were saying Eerie I'd say poignant and I think many Cubans are saying that saying that in the same place you know the place where the nuclear sub is docked in that exact same dock 5 years ago there were us cruise ships American tourists coming off those those those cruise ships most of them or many of them I should say for the first time in Havana pumping money into the Island's economy how much things have changed that the water slushing up and down now isn't against um American Cru ships bringing tourists but is against a nuclear powered sub what a strange world we live in yeah what a historical Jer position there uh speaking of our backyard I mean you're in Havana we just seeing video it seemed like there was somebody that was watching wearing some what of a an American flag I got to ask what are US Cuba relations like right now out there on the street well for me it's hard to meet a Cuban that that isn't Pro Us in terms of uh loving the American people that they've met loving American culture American films baseball here is the national sport I can't stand it but Cubans love it and so there's a whole whole load of um cultural affinity and sporting Affinity um but that's not mirrored at the political level um political relations were good uh icy but good almost 10 years ago now under the Obama Administration when that Administration took the historic move to as they'd say it bring Cuba in from the cold and to start normalizing the relations with Cuba and softening that that um decade long embargo um over the last 5 years we've seen first the Trump Administration announc the B Biden Administration ratchet up us sanctions on Cuba to unprecedented levels that's making the Cubans feel that the the uh the Cuban government feel that the US is an enemy and it's pushing them closely most most analysts say to Russia you've got such a finger on the pulse there in Cuba Ed thank you so much for being with us tonight and coming up a Twist in an already Strange Case the lawyer for rapper Young Thug sentenced to jail time himself detailed on a tense courtroom back and forth that ended up with him being held in contempt and now there is another twist in that case we're going to tell you about that is all straight ahead so stay tuned hey there I'm hie and we are coming on the Air Tonight with new developments let's talk about the implications on women's health and then the political Fallout start with what this law actually will and won't you Cru officials will do almost anything they can to get it back open ASAP so how s is the p in other words how soon will it be open I can keep talking till the Eiffel Tower starts sparkling now you've laid down the gauntlet so we have to continue to speak until it starts to Sparkle sparkling it's [Music] happening we report live from Tel Aviv from bues Mexico tonight top story reporting from Baltimore at the Key Bridge disaster when you look over your shoulder and you see the Key Bridge what goes through your head that bridge has been here longer than I've been alive it still doesn't feel real hundreds of Israelis have to demonstrate what are the people in Gaza do you think what do they need most place for Palestinians and Israelis have found Common Ground every night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC News [Music] Now news lives in the now look at this you can't even see anything anymore let's break down what we know you got to see this news for the generation of now is NBC news now we report live from Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every weeknight it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC news now hey welcome back and here are some of the other headlines we're watching tonight two men have been arrested for allegedly shooting five people in Memphis yesterday the victims which include four kids are still in critical condition now the shooting took place at an interstate there and both suspects are now facing ing attempted murder charges and Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre they upheld a lower Court ruling and the two remaining survivors of the 1921 Massacre were seeking reparations arguing the actions of that mob still affect the city today we've got some new inflation numbers and it looks like things are starting to cool down but not enough to convince the Federal Reserve to cut High interest rates this year with Fed chair Jerome Powell say saying that it's probably going to take a little longer for that to happen and eight SpaceX workers are suing the company and Elon Musk saying that they were illegally fired for raising concerns about alleged sexual harassment the complaint alleges musk personally ordered their terminations SpaceX has denied any wrongdoing and former pharmaceutical executive Martin schelli is being sued by the owner of the one of-a-kind wuang album for making a copy of the album and playing it online without permission now SC used he used to own that album he bought it back in 2015 for $2 million but when he was convicted of committing Securities fraud in 2017 and sent to prison they had to Forfeit his assets which included that wuang album which he that album was later bought by a bunch of crypto Bros who are now suing him and rapper Young Thug is on trial but his lawyer tried to call out the judge in the case for a conversation he had with the prosecution outside the court and he ended up being found in contempt in order to spend the next 10 weekends in jail the trial against Jeffrey Williams the Grammy winning rapper's real name has been dragging on with no end in sight so let's bring in NBC News correspondent Adrian brus Adrian okay so back up here quick second I'm seeing some breaking news coming out of this case but first set the table here what are the charges that young thug is facing yeah we'll get to that breaking news in just a moment got in regards to his attorney but let's rewind and bring our viewers up to speak speed we're talking about Young Thug whose real name is Jeffrey Williams he's a Grammy award winning rapper based in Atlanta his rise to fame dates back to 2010 he's worked with artists like Drake Chris Brown and gunana he's facing some serious charges here though under Georgia's RICO Act so we're talking about racket Heering and this stems from and we'll we'll look big picture here at an indictment that names Williams as well as some others who he says are a part of his record label YSL but prosecutors alleg that record label is a street gang Gotti okay so why was his lawyer found in contempt and and what are we seeing that just happened at the Supreme Court so just moments ago we learned that his lawyer will not have to report to jail on this Friday it's unclear if his attorney Brian Steele will still be required to spend 20 days in jail over the course of 10 weekends in Fulton County so why is his attorney facing jail time it's all because he challenged the chief judge in court on Monday about an alleged meeting between the judge prosecutors and a key witness now I've been speaking with legal experts who have been following this case since the beginning and they've watched the trial which started by the way back in November of 2023 they say if this alleged meeting happened the judge never should have allowed it without the presence of the defense so the big question now what happens moving forward listen in what it means for the case moving forward is that the defense is going to be impaired when we're in Long trials we work on the weekends we work at night if he's in jail on the weekends not going to be able to give Young Thug an adequate defense in fact he requested from the judge that if he was going to incarcerate him over the weekends that he' be incarcerated in the same cell with young thug so that they could discuss the trial but that doesn't mean he's going to have access to evidence exhibits his the law books so once again another twist in this case that took nearly 10 months to seat jurors Scotty 10 months to seat jurors I know we said that this case seems to be dragging on but seriously like this is this is like the longest criminal case in the state's history right how is this contempt charge going to add to that timeline yeah it is as of right now on record the longest criminal case in Georgia's history we will see what this charge does uh the court the trial continued this week keep in mind it's not just Young Thug or Williams who is facing trial there are other codefendants and representing his defense attorney Brian steel is a name many of you have likely heard we're talking about Ashley Merchant and you may recognize that name because she represents one of the C- defendants in the Trump RICO case happening in the same Courthouse Gotti yeah what a collision of Worlds there Adrian brus thank you so much before we go it is time for the future of everything and we're going to take a leap into the world of quantum Computing we're getting up close and personal with Google Labs as they explore the depths of the power technology stay with [Music] [Music] us what is going to happen now going back and forth cuz I oh right nice to see you [Music] you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wak Havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hitched that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC News [Music] Now what is going to happen now back and forth cuz they oh right yeah nice to see [Music] you what's the message that you're trying to get out to young people no what is in the drug Supply we've got important news this hour about your money mental health big picture why is it so tough right now news for the generation of now is NBC news [Music] now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this saan or not the craziest ride I have ever hitch that is totality do you see yourselves in space I can go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC news now the NBC News Mobile app get connected to your favorite news shows for the top stories breaking news and live video download the NBC News Mobile app now we're talking possibly a trillion galaxies that is a number that is just so hard to compute whether it's the moon whether it's Mars it feels like we are on the cusp of something [Music] [Applause] [Music] big and for the future of everything tonight we are diving into the abstract realm of quantum Computing and you've probably seen images of a quantum computer it's this this thing that looks kind of like a golden chandelier instead of a everyday desktop but that is really just the refrigerator and the freezer part of the whole Contraption the real magic comes down to what a quantum computer can actually do and full disclosure I have been trying to wrap my head around that question for months now reading books even after a look inside of Google's Quantum AI lab in Santa Barbara and that's where we found that what seems like the science fiction world of quantum mechanics is just another day at the office we live in a day and age where humans are building machines to do things we still can't even dream of we like to think about this is the place where we're going to build the future of computing and here at Google's quantum computer lab in Santa Barbara California that future is right around the corner okay wow I'm just blown away but before we try to tackle the mindboggling question of what a quantum computer even is here's a quick crash course on how it works in classic Computing behind everything on our screens our phones our CPUs is a code behind a code that basically boils down to either a one or a zero on or off and that's a bit but quantum computers run on Quantum bits or cubits which aren't so binary think more like nature or a waveform or a coin that spins so fast it's both heads and tails all at the same time and that is is the magic behind a cubid that allows us in our low energy state to operate not only one or zero but a super position of multiple States so almost everything in between one zero both at the same time neither everything in between and then comes a process of shrinking and etching cubits in aluminum onto tiny silicon Wafers I can't even see them with my naked eye these little plus signs that's those are cubits and stacking cubits leads to ex exponential power the 100 Cubit quantum computer could perform over 1,000 billion billion billion calculations almost instantly the sound that we're hearing is that yes the sound that we're hearing this that is the sound of the refrigerators cooling their quantum computers to temperatures of just thousands of a degree above absolute zero it's colder than space it's colder than outer space only at Beyond Frozen temperatures can these cubits start to magically vibrate in frigid entangled Harmony and then comes the really complicated question what can a quantum computer actually do how does this type of computing power compare to I don't know I mean a phone it's different it's a different application got it I can't FaceTime with that but I could do some crazy math imagine that you've got a a super tall closet has has a million drawers in it and a sock is hidden in one of the drawers on average you're going to have to open 500,000 drawers to find the sock with a quantum computer you'd only need to open a thousand drawers on average to find the sock now that's a hard concept to follow because it almost defies logic but the dream is to someday use that kind of quantum magic for things like modeling Fusion to create unlimited energy designing proteins to cure disease or unlocking new physics the possibilities of quantum computers are seemingly endless and that's why Google is teaming up with the x prise foundation offering $5 million to whoever can come up with the best real world application but for now one of its most Supreme Feats is something that sounds so easy at first I thought my three-year-old could do it think of a number any number in the whole world uh five five yeah is that your final answer but as the top physicists in the world and coming up with a truly random number has been pretty much impossible for humans until now we as human beings subconsciously put in a method to the madness computers need an algorithm that is a way a method but the method itself defies the random number generation as for the future of computing just like trying to imagine how these massive machines that filled rooms with tubes and couldn't even play Pong still helped us with the math to get us to the Moon trying to Envision where quantum computers could lead is an exercise in science fiction some problems are are calculated to take 10,000 years 100,000 a billion years so what we're trying to do is create a computer that works in a totally different way access you guys are building a warp drive for some types of problems now that same warp drive is maybe going to be terrible at some of the other problems that we use classic Compu for the warp drive is not great at parallel parking but getting across the Galaxy much more efficient exactly oh man and wait till we start talking about time crystals because those came up during that interview too but that is a whole other story so stay tuned for that meanwhile out here on the West Coast earthquakes are a fact of life and the big one is always looming and and we think about it from time to time thinking when is it going to happen most importantly how strong is it going to be the southernmost section of the San Andre's F has built up enough tectonic strength to produce a major earthquake oh my gosh we're having an earthquake oh my goodness the Bay Area preparing for the next big one the entire upper deck of the CPUs structure has collapsed these types of quakes are a double whammy because they also generate huge tsunami waves a mega tsunami in the Pacific Northwest it could be worse than predicted all right so the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire has produced dozens of magnitude 8 earthquakes are stronger in the last century but the West Coast remains eerily quiet in terms of anything that strong and maybe the closest we've come in 1989 the L pra earthquake that killed dozens of people caused widespread destruction in the Bay Area that Quake registered at a 6.9 on the RoR scale researchers say the Pacific Northwest could experience something a hundred times stronger now there's a new study mapping out the cascad at subduction zone that's giving the clearest picture yet into this potential Mega quake joining us now is a co-author of that report Harold Tobin he's a director of the Pacific Northwest seismic network uh Harold thanks so much for being with us based on what you've learned are you more or less concerned about the big one and how strong are we talking here yeah we were concerned about the big one and what we've done is just sort of um really brought into focus and sharpened up our image of that fault tremendously with this new study um I'm not more or less concerned so much but recognize now that there's parts of the uh Pacific Northwest that might be um where more strain is building up in Parts where there's less and it's answering some questions for us about how this fault might be broken up into segments so yes it's the really big one in fact bigger than any San Andreas fault earthquake could be but um but we we have new new insight into that the the 2011 earthquake that struck Japan that saw that huge tsunami that was a magnitude 9 I know that here down in Los Angeles we've been told that the San Andreas can't rip uh at a magnitude 9 if something that strong struck the Pacific Northwest is that a possibility and and what could happen to cities like Seattle yeah if the Cascadia subduction zone has the earthquake that we anticipate is possible and has happened before it's at the magnitude 9 kind of scale just as big as Japan in 2011 um and the other of the largest earthquakes we've ever seen on this planet um it hasn't happened apparently since the year 1700 um but we are C certain that something like that can happen again in the future well since the 1700s and then you just think of all the pressure that maybe continuing to build there I know that there's no such thing as predicting an earthquake um specifically but but how does this new mapping data improve Warning Systems yeah what it does for us is it really helps us forecast what the scenarios are that are most likely in the next earthquake that might happen and that's really important because it determines the level of ground shaking we might experience in the population centers like Seattle and Portland um it also really helps us determine where the tsunami impacts are the largest and that's really some ways the most dangerous part of an offshore earthquake like the Cascadia subduction zone it's the tsunami more than the ground shaking that we have to worry about unlike perhaps as San Andreas falter now I mean we worry so much down here about the San Andreas faults and and I want to ask you how far away do you think we are from having really good data a really good mapping system uh and an early warning system that gives us ample time and we're talking matter of years decades here because the big one is still looming yeah I'm sorry to say that the short-term prediction like saying okay it's going to happen in the next week or two or hour or two even is just not there we do have Shake alert you've probably heard about it the earthquake early warning system can notify your phone when an earthquake has just begun and maybe you have 20 seconds 30 seconds and so on same is true in the Northwest um but that longer term forecasting comes into more and more Focus all the time um so we know at least where they're likely to occur hopefully sooner than later Professor thank you for for joining us tonight and that does it for us tonight I'm Gotti Schwarz we're going to see you here tomorrow but until then stay tuned now tonight life-threatening flooding slamming parts of Florida as Relentless rainfall plagues the region this video is showing a possible tornado ripping across Southern Florida a rare flash flood emergency issued as streets turn into rivers and drivers are left stranded record rainfall upending travel not just on the roads but at airports the danger far from over as storms linger for the next few days and we're tracking the first tropical disturbance of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season Bill Ken standing by with that track also tonight the deadly bus hijacking a gunman taking more than a dozen passengers hosit hostage holding a bus driver at gunpoint and forcing him to speed away the tense Rush Hour Chase and frantic 911 calls to LED ones the alleged hijacker actually speaking on camera to our local reporter just before his one-man crime spree hate on display disturbing videos of anti-Semitic incidents in New York City we'll show you the Hostile protest outside an exhibit paying tribute to those killed at an Israeli Music Festival on October 7th and you'll hear what another group did on a subway car threatening Israeli supporters and telling them to get off the train plus the vandalism targeting the homes of a Museum's Jewish leaders defined Biden's executive order new reporting showing the president's Southern border policy isn't being implemented the evidence that migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the us as the ACLU officially files a lawsuit against the Biden Administration missing jet found in 1971 a private plane carrying five people on board vanished more than five decades later that mystery is solved thanks to an underwater Explorer tonight you'll hear from that man and see where he made the shocking Discovery wild Collision a deer bursting through the windshield of a city bus the animal flying right into passengers and the new discoveries in the ancient city of Pompei our camera is inside a hidden Rune giving us a glimpse into the past top story starts right now [Music] and good evening tonight millions in Florida facing the threat of dangerous flash flooding as torrential rains inundate the region storms causing chaos at airports and parts of I95 are completely shut down right now new video just in as a possible tornado move through you can see the force of that system right there that intense video taken just north of Palm Beach and you can see the debris being lifted into the air nearby Jupiter Island cut off from the mainland due to the number of trees down destruction reported in several cities and towns across the state take a live look at daa beach where a rare flash flood emergency is in effect the National Weather Service there even warning of the potential of catastrophic damage in Miami a water spout forming just off the coast of the beach and big bolts of lightning and striking as storms Rumble through from Miami to Fort Meers to Sarasota rainfall quickly turning streets into rivers car stalling out and in some cases even floating by Sarasota is setting a record for the most rain it's ever seen in just an hour with 8 in quickly falling to make matters worse some of the strongest storms hitting during the rush hour commute officials continuing to urge people to stay off the roads the severe weather causing hundreds of flight cancellations and delays at Fort Lauderdale and Miami international airports and we're also tracking the first tropical disturbance of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season Bill Ken is standing by with the areas it could impact but first we start with NBC's San Brock in the storm Zone tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about a 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad har another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles cancelling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection f with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we we had to stop and work because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water is coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain so you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move the car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come all right Sam Brock joins us tonight from Aventura Florida Sam it looks like you're completely underwater there I know during your reporting earlier today you had to jump into action helping people push a car out of those flood waters walk me through what happened there and how much of this are you seeing Tom I know that one of the things you appreciate about me is I'm a man of the people much like yourself so yes I saw someone stranded and figured you know why not help him out obviously Miami is a very diverse area this gentleman happened to be Haitian I don't speak Haitian Creole but he was out here in the middle of this water of this pool basically deao and I asked him if he could please put the car in neutral got behind and I'm guessing you're playing this video right now pushed from behind I will say it makes me look like I'm a lot stronger than I actually am it kind of glided right along which makes you wonder how it could be right now they have so many cars that are stalled out here but clearly Tom this is sort of treacherous situation in terms of trying to get through Pathways that are deeper than people anticipate have obstacles that you can't see in my vicinity right now really within let's say 50 to 100 fet in each Direction you're looking at about 10 cars that are stalled out I still have people behind me right now that were like grinding up against the tree branches here trying to get through one guy almost got stuck right here 45 seconds ago so you'll never learn apparently uh I guess they say the definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and a lot of people here are doing that right now luckily for those people you spent years building quad muscles on the tennis courts where you grew up so those people are lucky for that and then Sam I do have to ask you you like many of the people that are living in South Florida are new to the area I know you've been there for for quite a while now but a lot of people mve there during the pandemic are you seeing a lot of people that this maybe is new to this flash flooding because it kind it really does take you by surprise without a doubt I spoke with a couple from Argentina earlier today they took out a bike they said well hey the last three days were beautiful in Florida why would this day not be beautiful and of course it changes in a heartbeat they weren't listening to some of the warnings that were coming along so that's from an outsider's perspective but also Tom I talked to one woman whose car it's her her car that she just bought a week ago is now stuck in the middle of this median because she said she heard the warnings and figured how bad could it be so the answer is it can be bad especially when you're getting four to six inches of rain in some places per hour just at that speed it only takes a little bit to stall these cars out a lot of folks right now and more dangerous outcomes as well a lot of folks are discovering that right now and you got rain in the forecast nowhere for that water to go because Florida especially South Florida surrounded by water on all sides this is the most important Point obviously we are at sea level or below sea level in many parts of the Miami area and you have this Limestone underneath the ground Tom that is porous so you have the water table coming up at the same time that rain is coming down there is nowhere for it to escape it's a problem in Miami Beach it's a problem in Aventura it's a problem in hiia Brickle downtown Miami you name the neighborhood this is an issue for the area and we're not going to solve that anytime soon all right Sam Brock again a reporter for the people Sam we appreciate all that for more on that dangerous rainfall in Florida NBC News meteorologist Bill Karens joins me now and Bill I can always catch that radar out of the corner of my eye you can't even see South Florida right now yeah all the bright Reds the dark dark Reds were the intense thunderstorms that were right over the Miami area as we went through all afternoon now they shifted down towards kargo but as you saw with say it's still raining and it rained hard yesterday now it is poured today and you know if it rains tomorrow it takes even less to get that significant flash flooding so here's the area that was hit the hardest here's Miami pemr Pines to Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Florida I've seen at least three personal weather stations that collect the rain over a foot of rain today one location had 4 and2 inches of rain in 1 hour that's the results you get when you see something like that for that reason for at least the next hour we are under flash flood emergencies for this area telling everyone to stay off the road stay home of course everyone's at work and they want to get home so that's the problem and as far as rainfall goes just even the last 3 hours as we head towards north Miami beach about 6 and2 Ines of rain Tom that's going to cause a lot of problems right through the evening and and Bill it is June I know you're tracking something in the tropics this is in the Gulf tonight yeah actually we have two areas one is the one we're just talking about which is right over the top of Florida and then the other one is going to be down in the southern Gulf so here's our areas of Interest these are not informed storms yet the first one's heading off of Florida not really a good chance of forming but this one down in the Bay of campiche this has about % chance of development if anything it looks like it would head up there towards the Mexico Coastline not for the lower 48 here into the northern Gulf but we'll watch it and this is just a reminder we're just in the beginning of what we expect to be a very active hurricane season all right Bill Karen for us Bill we thank you for that okay we want to moveed now to Atlanta where tonight one person is dead after a gunman hijacked a commuter bus 17 people on board fearing for their lives as the bus driver was held at gunpoint leading police on a high-speed chase for nearly an hour and the alleged hijacker actually spoke with reporters just before the Mayhem NBC's priia shrier with that video and this story what a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday shots hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking the bus host police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme mode and earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus scen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon who's previously been arrested 19 times he's now facing 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Tom okay PRI on that developing Story down there in Atlanta we want to head overseas now in the barage of rockets far into Northern Israel from Lebanon the escalation comes as us back Seas fire plan for Gaza is in Peril rap Sanchez is in Northern Israel with the latest it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead theas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more Chang a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza SE ceas fire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of his bullet Rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah commander and it is funeral today calls for revenge and with that rap Sanchez joins us tonight from Nazareth Raph understandably most of the attention the focus has been on Gaza and Southern Israel but there have been civilians displaced and facing tragedy where you are as well tonight yeah that's exactly right Tom has baola started firing into Northern Israel on October 8th just one day after the Hamas terror attack and there has been intense fighting here ever since on this side of the Border Northern Israel around 70,000 civilians have been displaced from their homes just over the Border not far from here in Lebanon around 990,000 displaced over there the death tolls at this point don't compare to Gaza it's eight Israeli civilians killed over here around 80 Lebanese civilians killed that's according to the United Nations but the fear is that that is just a small fraction of what could happen if an all out War breaks out remember Hezbollah is far more powerful than Hamas so the US very focused right now on trying to get to that ceasefire in Gaza as a way of de-escalating across the region Tom rap Sanchez from Nazareth tonight and the war overseas and Gaza of course stoking tensions right here in the US a series of recent anti-semitic incidents in New York City has leaders sounding the alarm red paint splashed on the home of a Jewish Museum director and pro Palestinian groups slam for protesting outside an Art Exhibit honoring the lives lost on October 7th NBC's Valerie Castro reports on it all pro Palestinian protesters making their Mark in red paint oh my goodness on the home of the Brooklyn Museum's Jewish director the latest incident in escalating tensions over the Israel Hamas War playing out in New York City think it's terrible I don't think it's an effective way to deal with a problem the vandalism condemned by New York governor Kathy hok calling it an abhorent act of anti-Semitism in recent weeks protesters taking to the Subways def facing train cars and seemingly trying to intimidate riders in Manhattan a pro Palestinian crowd gathered outside the Nova Music Festival exhibition a display recalling the deadly terror attack on Israel and those who were killed or taken hostage on October 7th [Music] organizers of the protest had called for a day of Rage in response to Israel's raid on the narat refugee camp during which four Israeli hostages were freed and 274 Palestinians were killed protesters waved Hezbollah and Hamas flags at other protests they Carri banners reading Long Live October 7th and one person even yell he wishes a quote Hitler was still here these are within our lifetime saying it reiterates the call for sustained action against any institution facilitating or justifying the genocide of the Palestinian people including the Nova exhibition the city continuing to make arrest while trying to quell any violence since October 8th NYPD has made more than 2,850 arrests at Israeli Gaza protest alone okay with that Valerie CER joins us now live in studio so Valerie you know we asked these questions during the college protest what is the city of New York doing to keep Jewish residents safe here now so the NYPD has and will continue to step up patrols at various events around the city like the Israel day parade that was just a few weeks ago uh they station outside synagogues when there are Jewish holidays and they continue to closely Monitor and watch these protests these demonstrations as they pop up last month 34 protesters were arrested for storming the Brooklyn Museum the NYPD now turning their attention to finding the suspects in those incidents involving that red paint Valerie Castro for us tonight Valerie we thank you for that we're also following some breaking news tonight from Capitol Hill the Republican controlled house voting to hold us attorney general Merrick gar in contempt of congress this stems from the investigation into President Biden over his handling of classified documents the vote was 216 to 207 with just one Republican representative David Joyce of Ohio siding with Democrats I want to get right over to Ali valal who's been tracking all of this for us tonight so Ally this has to deal with the interview he did with the special counsel and those tapes what do we learn on what's going to happen moving forward that's exactly right this is the latest escalation in congress's attempts to get those tapes from the attorney general he said in the past and in just the last few weeks in fact that he won't be intimidated by this attempt at contempt now of course we've seen the house make good on the threat referring this to the Department of Justice though we don't expect the doj to actually act on Prosecuting its top lawyer still the house Speaker telling me tonight that the house did its job on this and that they sent the message that they needed that they want this audio even though they already have the transcript of the interview that her did with President Biden Tom so I'm confused confus now you're saying that the doj will not go after their boss I know I don't mean to laugh but it's also strange so what is going to happen next it is all strange especially because in many ways it's all in the family right but what we expect to happen next is likely nothing the doj releasing a statement tonight that read in part that Congress has turned in their words a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon that's the same kind of tone and tenor that we heard from the attorney general himself when he spoke before one of these very committees that's holding him in contempt saying again that he won't be intimidated and that while he respects contempt and cooperating with Congress in this case exerting executive privilege over this audio is The Stance of both the doj and the White House they fear it could have a chilling effect in the words of the Attorney General on future people cooperating with Federal prosecutors Ali Vali from Capitol Hill tonight Ally thank you we now want to head to the southern border and just in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive action on the border and as that order faces challenges in court we're also learning more about the challenges actually on the ground so migrants Crossing illegally and still being released into the US NBC's Julia anley has this report tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again all right Julia Angeli joins us tonight from Washington so Julia we were just talking to you last week when the executive order came out and it seemed like nothing was happening on the border now here we are almost a week later and it's the same thing do we understand why it's taking so long to put this executive order into effect well in short they don't have the resources to detain all migrants before deporting them so they have to release some migrants into the United States now we do understand that those releases have dropped by more than half but even still that's contradictory to what the president said when he announced this order um and what the White House said in their fact sheet that it would suspend the entry of migrants who cross the border illegally but it's not clear that they're ever going to get quite the amount of resources that they need short of Congress actually taking action and that doesn't seem like it's on the table anytime soon Tom yeah last week the ACLU came on top story they said they were going to file suit against the Biden Administration they said this broke the law this executive order because it goes against the laws of the country where people can file for Asylum when they cross the order whether it be illegally or not so now they filed suit do we know what's going to happen with the executive order and has the bid Administration responded yet we haven't seen a response yet and something that's a little different about this lawsuit is that they're not calling or they're not asking for an immediate temporary restraining order in other words the judge doesn't have to decide right away if this action should be put on hold in fact I think if you read this it looks like there could be another move when they actually find migrants who've been affected by this they could come back and sue as part of a class action lawsuit showing those people have been harmed that might be one of the reasons why we saw a delay from the ACLU in these groups but even still it's they think they have a winning case here because they sued the Trump Administration over a very similar action and they won in that case Tom all right Julia Angley for us Julia thank you now to a devastating blow for the survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissing a lawsuit from the Massacre's last two survivors who were seeking reparations and are both now went over 100 years old this now diminishing the hopes of racial Justice Advocates that the state would make amends for that horrific attack that left more than 300 black people dead in the thriving Greenwood district for more on today's dismissal I'm joined Now by Demario Solomon Simmons he's the lead counsel for the Tulsa Race Massacre survivors and founder of justice for Greenwood Demario first were you able to relay this to your clients so that they could understand and have they've been able to tell you how they took this news hey T thank you for having on it's been a very difficult day for all of us who seek racial Justice and Justice for what happened in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre our entire team including survivors are thoroughly disappointed that once again the Oklahoma judicial system has failed us it's been3 years since we've been trying to get Justice for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and my two clients Viola Ford Fletcher who's 110 and lesie Benfield Randle who's 109 both of them was hanging on for justice and hoping that they will see the right thing done and unfortunately the gold poost was moved again today by Oklahoma judicial system and we're hoping that the Department of Justice will now come in and do a federal investigation because we've done as far as we can go with the okoma courts so de Mario explain to our viewers exactly why you were seeking those reparations and and the horrific events that happened there in Oklahoma well doing the 1921 T race Mas it was the largest and the worst case of domestic terrorism in the history of this country where a community my community where I live of over 11,000 residents uh were bombed from the sky and from everywhere else by a a a group of up to uh 10 to 15,000 whites who were deputized by the City of Tulsa Tulsa County and it destroyed the entire 40 block area of the city and this is this is a complete almost its own town and it was completely raised to the Grand Harvard University back in 2020 estimated that the property damage alone was over $200 million uh you stated that there were up to three people killed but we know that there over 3,000 people that were never heard from again disappeared lost killed we don't really know what happened to them and we simply was seeking underneath the public nuisance theory that we brought this case forward which has been en forced in Oklahoma since 1910 that a public nuisance was created by the massacre and that nuisance continues to this day and we just wanted to have an opportunity to go to court to have a a discovery and have a trial on this issue and Oklahoma Supreme Court has denied us that and uh we are incredibly disappoint appointed time we are going to file for a petition a rehearing we have 20 days to do that we're certainly going to do that but again we're calling upon the Biden Administration and Department of Justice and the Civil Rights division headed by AG Christian Clark or assistant AG Christian Clark to come in and open a federal investigation which we've been asking for for many many years de Mario so the Oklahoma Supreme Court said they didn't think this was a court issue right they think they should this should be handled uh as a legislative issue right with your representatives your state senators is there any legisl that could help out these survivors well first of all we think again they they are completely wrong on their their analysis of this this is a public nuisance case we met the pleading this Oklahoma is a notice pleading standard we met all the all the requirements and they moved the goalpost and they simply said now we have to go and talk about some type of legislation but the fact of the matter is these are the type of cases that Oklahoma courts have dealt with for over a hundred years this lucens law has been on the books since 1910 and obviously in Oklahoma which is a very very conservative magga leaning State we know that we don't have any uh anything in the house or the the governor's house is Dead on Arrival so at this point although we will file for a petition of re-hearing with Oklahoma Supreme Court no telling them why they got this wrong how they analyzed this incorrectly they pointed to facts with not even within our briefs they pointed to facts that was not even a part of our o argument we don't understand how they created the decision that they did but at the same time were calling upon President Joe Biden and the Department of Justice to open a federal investigation they need to come in and do what Oklahoma has refused to do for 103 years which is give Justice to Greenwood and Justice to the two living survivors de Mario Solomon Simmons we thank you for coming on we know it's been a very difficult day for you and your clients still ahead tonight the fireworks in an Atlanta courtroom the trial of rapper Young Thug taking an unexpected turn a judge in the case holding his lawyer in contempt we're going to show you the video of why that happened SpaceX CEO Elon Musk accused of retaliating against his own employees the lawsuit accusing musk of wrongfully firing workers after they raised concerns about sexual harassment and a private jet vanished back in the 70s five decades later the mystery has been solved we hear from the underwater explorer who made that stunning Discovery you'll hear from him it's coming [Music] up nearly a dozen hours after the eye roared ashore [Music] there is some late breaking news all [Music] right are you comfortable with the role the 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court what I'm saying is based upon information okay well listen if you don't tell me how you got this information and you and I are going to have some problems the judge found steal and contempt for refusing to disclose how he learned about an alleged meeting between the judge prosecutors and a prosecution witness who told you what I want to know is why wasn't I there sir I'm going to hold you in contempt if you don't tell me who this tell me tell me who this information was come from when Steele didn't give up the source He was ordered to spend 20 days behind bars that's 10 weekends in jail you were removing me against um his will my will you're taking away his right to counsel it's the latest twist in the high-profile trial for Atlanta rapper Young Thug also known as Jeffrey Williams Williams was arrested in May of 2022 on racketeering and gang charges connected to his music label YSL records prosecutors allege that label is a street gang it's a drug conspiracy case it is a RICO type case it is a gang conspiracy case that includes guns drugs homicide the trial started November 2023 and is the longest criminal State Trial in Georgia's history it's gone viral on social media big news in the criminal defense world today attorneys Jack Turnbull and Adele brockmire have followed the trial since the beginning they say if the alleged meeting took place the judge never should have let it happen without the defense present it's outrageous what we see happen in the courtroom we both have been practicing law a long time I'm a third generation attorney Jack's a Seventh Generation attorney and I've never seen anything with the judge the allegations that are being placed regarding the what occurred behind the with the judge in Chambers what does this mean for the case moving forward what it means for the case moving forward is that the defense is going to be impaired when we're in Long trials we work on the weekends we work at night if he's in jail on the weekends he's not going to be able to give Young Thug an adequate defense the rise to fame started in 2010 for the Atlanta rapper collaborating over the years with artists like Drake Chris Brown and Gunna Gunna also fa Rico charges in connection to YSL but was released from prison after pleading guilty in 2022 meanwhile Young Thug has pleaded not guilty in this case and now his legal representation themselves on the other side of the law any lawyer we've spoken to has no idea or has no recollection of ever seeing conduct like this Adrian broad has shown us now so Adrian what happens to steal the attorney does does he not have to find his own attorney to handle his arrest he now needs legal representation and has it Tom and many of our viewers May recognize the name Ashley Merchant she represents one of the codefendants in the Trump Rico trial which is happening in the same Courthouse Tom yeah the one who brought up all those allegations okay uh Adrian we appreciate that a Twist in that case we didn't see coming next tonight to the major development in a mystery that has gone unsolved for more than half a century an underwater investigator finding wreckage at the bottom of Lake champ plne capturing video that he tells us tonight shows a private plane that vanished in the 70s eron mclaughin has this one on the bottom of Lake Champlain the answer to a 50-year-old mystery likely s soled this wreckage believed to be the remnants of a private jet that vanished in January of 1971 discovered by underwater investigator Gary kak who says he succeeded where 17 searches had failed the NTSB has yet to confirm the findings we brought in a remote operated vehicle and we captured the underwater images confirming that it's 99% the right plane the 10- seat private plane carrying passengers Frank Wilder George Nikita Myers Randy Williams and Kirby Windsor vanished on a snowy Vermont night shortly after takeoff with no distress signal sent I started getting more interested in the problem and the challenge of why has nobody found this plane kak a seasoned underwater rescuer joined the effort in 2014 his first attempt to find the jet in 2022 turned out to be a false alarm and we got all excited we found it closer inspection it had uh stenciling that looked more military in nature not something you would see on a commercial private jet last month kak and his Partners say they finally cracked the case with decades old sonar data it was in the location that the radar lost tracking of it when it crashed it is painted the same custom paint Scheme black red black that was on the side of this jet so there there's very little doubt in my mind this is the right plane finally appearing to put one of Lake Champlain's Biggest Mysteries to rest and giving five families a sense of Bittersweet closure Frank Wilder's father was on the plane that night I'm feeling a lot of sense of a relief because spending 53 years not knowing if you know the plane was in the lake or maybe on a mountain side around there somewhere was distressing unfortunately it's open up other questions and we have to uh work on those now Tom why the plane went down remains a mystery tonight we heard from the national Transportation safety board the NTSB put out a statement saying they're going to evaluate the condition of the wreckage and based on that as well as a number of other factors they'll figure out next steps Tom all right a we appreciate that when we come back deer versus bus a deer smashing through the windshield of a commuter bus in Rhode Island several passengers taken to the hospital that tramatic moment next [Music] tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore how is it that traffic was stopped in time state law enforcement officers they undoubtedly saved lives should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the Gaza [Music] are you comfortable with the role the Supreme Court is playing in the 2024 election is there not more that Israel can do to help the 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a request for comment on the lawsuit and shocking video of a deer jumping through a bus windshield in Rhode Island look at this the surveillance video showing the deer runs straight into the public transit bus through the window and into sh passengers three of the six passengers aboard were hospitalized but are expected to be okay Rhode Island Public Transit Authority commending the bus driver for his exemplary response to that situation okay now the money talks and the better than expected inflation numbers out today a hopeful sign that the prices of everyday items could be stabilizing look at this the Consumer Price Index up 3.3% year-over-year this may but the number is down when compared to April's number and Below expectations the market quick to react to the news the NP and NASDAQ closing at near record highs but Jerome pow and the Federal Reserve taking a more cautious approach in their Outlook here's what they said the most recent inflation readings have been more favorable than earlier in the year however and there has been modest further progress toward our inflation objective we'll need to see more good data to bolster our confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2% and here to break it all down for us tonight is NBC's Brian chunk so Brian take a look at the chart we haven't seen the FED move rates in September what kind of data are they looking for before they make a move yeah as you mentioned they haven't moved in quite a while but they've been holding interest rates high and it's because of inflation inflation inflation again the figure that we got this morning showed that prices are up 3.3% between May of this year and May of last year that's a bit of a slower Pace than the 3.4% figure we had seen in the April to April period but again we have to remember the Federal Reserve wants to see this number somewhere closer to 2% so not yet mission accomplished and a reason why they're not going to take their foot off the the gas pedal when it comes to trying to deliberately slow this economy but one important thing that the fed's also watching for is wage growth versus inflation yes inflation is high but we just crossed the one-year Mark of wage growth which is about 4% outpacing inflation which again as I just mentioned is 3.33% if your wages are growing faster than the price tags are at the store that's a welcome development and that only happened as of about a year ago but stay right there Brian because because I do have a question here right I know Realtors and Traders will hate this question but why doesn't the raise rates if they really want to tackle inflation yeah and one big story here is that the Federal Reserve already aggressively raised interest rates for the time being and again just because they haven't cut interest rates doesn't mean that interest rates are low they're still just holding them at a high level again here's a recap of the chart that shows all the interest rate moves uh just over the last two years by the way there was a period in time post pandemic we weren't even thinking about a half percentage Point move at one time and then to get more aggressive the Federal Reserve did 34 of a percentage Point increases in the June July September and November meetings unprecedented we had not seen rate rate moves that big from the Federal Reserve in decades so you could argue that they have already front-loaded a lot of the aggressive interest rate hikes they they trying to keep it basically at this level for right now while it tries to bite in the economy also knowing that economists say it can take time for these interest rates to bite into inflation time and you were just telling me Jerome Powell actually said nothing is off the table which we should remind our viewers yeah and he was saying in the press conference that look he doesn't want to take any policy moves off of the table but that interest rate uh decisions from the Federal Reserve are likely Guided by the forecast that they baked in we saw forecasts from the Federal Reserve today no officials saw the case for an interest rate hike by the end of this year there's 19 of those officials but he said look we can't predict what's going to happen in the future we're not going to take anything off let's dig a little deeper into the data right cuz we have you here we have that beautiful screen so where are consumers where are Americans feeling the pinch the most what is still very expensive what's coming down yeah and I've got a wonderful graphic with this big board here and when you talk about some of these categories uh we can talk about travel right we're in the summertime and a lot of people trying to go out uh to maybe hit vacation uh Air Airline fairs are down almost 6% we've also seen uh cars down over 3% but unfortunately there are some categories that are increasing cost electricity we're talking about utilities here up 6% and then housing again this is a big one for Americans knowing that most of our paychecks are going into just putting a roof over our heads up 5.4% on a yearly basis again these are things we're going to have to watch for so great that if your summer vacations is going to cost you a little less housing is the big story with that inflation above Target if they want to get that down housing is going to be a big part of let's talk about the housing market right people looking to buy people looking to sell what does that look like as far as mortgage rates are concerned yeah well look when we talk about mortgage rates they're about 7% and when you compare that to just a few years ago where people were locking in mortgages at 25% well yes certainly that's frozen a lot of potential buyers on the sidelines it doesn't mean that there's no activity happening right right now it basically just means that people are continuing to wait on the sidelines to see maybe if mortgage rates right now at 7% can get a little bit lower but again based off of what the Federal Reserve has done so far we're not expecting them to cut interest rates back to zero which led to those 2 and a half% 30-year fixed mortgage rates anytime soon until this 7% mortgage rate can go down to maybe six maybe 5 a half% which we don't know when that might be it's going to continue to freeze out the housing market and make it very difficult for sellers to move inventory Tom all right Brian Chun for us tonight Brian we appreciate that coming up next a stunning verdict involving chaita Brands the banana distributor found guilty of bankrolling a terrorist group during Colombia's Civil War but they've been ordered to pay the families of eight victims who were killed during the conflict stay with us news lives in the now the front lines are still very active this is like quicksand and officials say an entire town is cut off this close you actually understand why people had to jump in the ocean news for the generation of now is NBC news now hey there I'm hie and we are coming on the Air Tonight with new development let's talk about the implications on women's health and then the political Fallout start with what this law actually will and won't you Crews officials will do almost anything they can to get it back open ASAP so how s is the p in other words how soon will it be open I can keep talking till the eiel tower start sparkling now you've laid down the gauntlet so we have to continue to speak until it starts to Sparkle it's sparkling [Music] happening news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant future is now news for the generation of now is NBC News Now nearly a dozen hours after the eye Roar to shore there is some late breaking news all [Music] right Kristen Welker host Meet the Press every Sunday on NBC nearly a dozen hours after the eye 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million it's a case that was decades in the making from 1997 to 2004 chaita then known as the United Fruit Company paid a right-wing paramilitary group at least $ 1.7 million the group The United self-defense forces of Colombia or Au formed as a reaction to left-wing Guerilla groups during Colombia's Civil War experts say the Au often promised people and businesses protection from other armed threats but as their power grew so did the violence the US designated the Au as a terrorist organization in 2001 how common was it for corporations companies particularly those based in the United States to be paying and or working in some form or fashion with these paramilitary groups at least 187 companies provided with financial support to these groups most of them 90% of them were domestic companies uh but there have been some American companies chaita a company headquartered in the US plad guilty to making payments to a designated terrorist group in 2007 and agreed to pay a $25 million fine the latest lawsuit began around the same time the planet in this case risked their lives to come forward his son worked at a banana banana plation and um was killed that a commander confessed and so we had a ton of evidence about who killed him and why and fell right within the period that Chita was paying the Au agesa frisman one of the lead lawyers for the plaintiffs has worked on this case for close to 20 years and says the jury got it right how rare is it for a corporation to actually be held responsible for their involvement in human rights violations Andor just nefarious activities it is actually very very rare this is I think the first corporate case I know of that has gone to trial I think it's such a very important precedent and and it's really important for making sure that corporations that operate in places where the rule of law is not effective and strong see that they can be held to account in their home courts but the fight is far from over chaita is a defendant in a suit filed in medine Colombia and the company tells NBC news they intend to appeal the US jury's verdict writing in part quote the situation in Colombia was tragic for so many including those directly affected by the violence there and our thoughts remain with them and their families however that does not change our belief that there is no legal basis for these claims while we are disappointed by the decision we remain confident that our legal Position will ultimately Prevail Ellison Barber NBC News all right when we come back a look into the past and NBC's Kelly Koba getting exclusive access into new findings into the ancient city of Pompei the newly discovered rooms and artifacts giving us a glimpse into how Romans lived more than 2,000 years ago stay with us the NBC News Mobile app get connected to your favorite news shows for the top stories breaking news and live video download the NBC News Mobile app now democracy is happening now welcome to a big night that could help shape Republican politics for years to come now never stops it comes down to turnout who shows up is it going to be that big block of Independence now is where it counts what are the issues that matter most to you guys what did this debate change for you their number one issue is the economy 2024 who's your candidate the race is on now the countdown has begun news for the generation of now is NBC news now hey there I'm Hy and we are coming on the air tonight with new development let's talk about the implications on women's health and then the political Fallout start with what this law actually will and won't you Crews officials will do almost anything they can to get it back open ASAP so how s is the p in other words how soon will it be open I can keep talking till the Eiffel Tower starts sparkling now you've laid down the gauntlet so we have to continue to speak until it starts to Sparkle it's sparkling [Music] happening news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is real we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant future is now news for the generation of now is NBC News Now [Music] [Music] following tonight uncovering history in the ancient city of pompe researchers discovering preserved rooms and artifacts never before seen in one of the biggest digs of this generation Our Kelly cooba got exclusive access to some of these new findings in the shadow of of Mount Vesuvius the old Roman city of Pompei preserved in volcanic ash for centuries are we on a Roman Road yet we're making a journey of about 2,000 years and now we are almost down at the Roman level now the biggest dig in a generation has Unearthed a breathtaking scene from the past oh wow this is the Blue Room this is the blue room I you can see why which is U very very unusual thing for Pompei to have this blue wall it's so vibrant oh it's stunning NBC News getting an exclusive look at this ornately decorated Shrine as it was nearly 2,000 years ago female figures representing the Four Seasons it has this very Heavenly uh atmosphere and rare Egyptian blue paint on the walls why is blue blue so important in here blue was the most expensive color it came from far away from Egypt and even from the Midland and Far East on the floor a row of clay jugs and oyster shells used for plaster sitting exactly as Builders left them that fateful day in 79 ad something strange started happening at Mount vuvs and you could hear a big bang and it starts raining these pommer stones the entire city was buried in volcanic rock and Ash from the devastating eruption and Frozen in Time what did you think when you first saw this room the blue room I was stunned these MIT students already on site using specially adapted night vision goggles and handheld scanners to study the new finds nobody's really looked at these materials before you can see these really fine details and evidence that's just incredible so it gives you a look into how the Romans were building things Bakers and artists Builders and Merchants more than 20,000 people lived here this was a big wealthy thriving City entire rooms like this newly discovered Banquet Hall decorated with mythical figures like the beautiful Helen of Troy showing the sophistication and elegance of the pompe what would this room have been like well you would have the owner in this corner here and then sofas on all three sides of the the wall cushions and and small tables in front of them musicians coming in or some kind of entertainment today teams are finding new clues about how those people lived carefully putting the pieces back together seeing something for the first time in almost 2,000 years 2,000 years ago somebody looked at it for the last time and now we who excavated are the first ones to look at it again some of these new finds open to the public this month we were given an up close look this is the little a little bed when this room was first uncovered and we thought that was amazing we had no idea obviously of what we were going to come down on to Fresco from the ceiling to the floor and this intriguing image of a boy and his dog this is unique around the corner another surprise charcoal drawings made by children a hunting scene a boxing match little hands that can of hear the little Giggles of the children it's like a hand reaching out from the past pompe showing its flare in its fractured new form we have to imagine that this is all buried under volcanic materials a third of it is still buried and finding the artifacts is only the first step archaeologists now trying to put the puzzle back together these fragments part of a magnificent ceiling crushed under the weight of volcanic rock we don't know who was the the owner but we can say that he has um money because it was very very expensive the past slowly reemerging Peace by piece Kelly Koba and BC News Pompei and that does it for us tonight we thank you for watching I'm Tom yamas in New York stay right there more news on the way breaking news tonight the life-threatening flood emergency in South Florida as we come on the air the tropical rain drenching the region triggering dangerous flash floods parts of I95 shut down roads are submerged Vehicles stranded dozens of rescues reported some areas getting a month's worth of rain in a matter of hours a possible tornado touching down cutting off a community we're in the storm Zone also tonight the new twist in the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta the suspect by chance speaking to TV cameras hours before the chaos what he said about his struggles with mental health the mass casualty incident in Illinois three sheriff's deputies shot as they entered a home with a barricade suspect President Biden in Italy for the G7 Summit the new security agreement he's expected to sign with Ukraine as Russian warships reach Cuban Waters 90 miles off the US Coast House Republicans voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in attempt of Congress but will it go any further than that and remembering the NBA legend whose silhouette became the League's logo LeBron and Jordan paying tribute tonight to the great Jerry West this is NBC Nightly News with Lester H good evening and welcome we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in South Florida tonight the rain just not stopping for a second day a slow motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding tonight flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening many streets are imp passible cars have been left stranded adding insult to injury the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts rain totals in the last two days across Southern Florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before Saturday downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of 4 to 6 in per hour flights in and out of the Miami area have faced hundreds of delays and cancellations Fort Lauderdale Airport recording 72 Ines of rain in the last 6 hours Sam Brock is in the middle of it all tonight and starts us off with the latest tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canceling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection fly with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we have to we had to stop and walk because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue well it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water's coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of AEK PE of rain as you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move the car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come and Sam as I mentioned at the top of the broadcast this will be around for a while look Lester parts of South Florida have already seen more than a foot of rain from North day where I am all the way out to Fort Lauderdale and as you suggest we have at least 4 to 8 in more EXP expected by the end of the week in Lester it only takes 6 Ines to stall out a car something many people right now are discovering tonight all right Sam Brock thank you we're going to turn now to the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta and the stunning new detail we have learned about the situation here's PRI aurther what is happening a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph GRE hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking a bus hostage police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest B junor my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon he now faces 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Lester all right priia thank you is breaking news out of Northern Illinois three sheriff's deputies and a suspect shot in an exchange of gunfire at home where police had responded to a report that someone was threatening to harm themselves and others the deputies are said to be in good condition no word on the suspect's condition overseas President Biden traveling to Italy for a high stakes meeting with allies as the war in Ukraine intensifies Gabe Gutierrez is there tonight President Biden Landing in Italy for a high-stake summit a critical Focus that warn Ukraine a Russian missile strike today in Ukrainian president zelinsky's Hometown killed at least nine people and injured another 21 including two children the White House announcing President Biden will sign a bilateral security agreement pledging long-term defense cooperation this as Russian warships arrived in a show of force off the coast of Cuba just 90 mi from the US the Pentagon has sent ships and aircraft to track them but says as they don't pose a threat the G7 Summit will bring together leading democracies President Biden is looking to shore up alliances though every leader at the Summit is facing low approval ratings just days ago in European parliamentary elections hard-right and populist parties scored a clear Victory Hunter but also Weighing on the president the felony conviction of Hunter Biden while he's ruled out pardoning his son today the White House Press Secretary did not rule out the president commuting Hunter Biden's sentence which could erase or reduce any potential prison time but would not expunge the conviction a White House official later telling NBC news any talk of a commutation was premature Biden AIDS meanwhile are looking ahead to Hunter Biden's September tax evasion trial in California which could expose new information about its foreign business dealings here in Italy President Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian president zalinski tomorrow and Pope Francis on Friday Lester all right Gabe Gutierrez thank you a barrage of rockets fired into Israel today from Over the Border in Lebanon as a us back ceasefire plan for Gaza is in Peril Raph Sanchez is in Northern Israel it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead Hamas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough dest ction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed tbah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of hisbah rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah commander and it is funeral today calls for Revenge here in Northern Israel tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting since October 7th a similar number just over the Border in Lebanon Lester all right wrath thank you now to Capitol Hill the house voting to hold attorney general Merrick gardland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over recordings of president Biden's interview with the special Council Ali Vitali is there Ally this was a very close vote along party lines very close Lester the speaker telling us the house did its job tonight all but one Republican voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt for defying a subpoena to turn over audio of an interview President Biden did with special counsel Robert Herr that regarding his handling of classified documents herd did not charge the president saying a jury would view him as a quote Elder man with a poor memory the White House invoked executive privilege regarding the audio but lawmakers already have the transcript of it the doj not expected to act on the referral saying the House of Representatives has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon ler Ali Vali thank you just in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive order executive action on the border and we have new reports that migrants Crossing IL legally are still being released into the US here's Julia anley tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day HS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again a senior DHS official tells us it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness they say they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights Lester all right Julia thank you in just 60 seconds the costs after after you buy a home why insurance rates are going through the roof and some homeowners policies are suddenly being dropped next some welcome news today as May inflation came in cooler than expected up 3.3% year-over-year the FED today leaving interest rates unchanged and signaling just one cut is likely this year price relief coming in areas like Airline fairs down almost 6% Ed cars and trucks down more than 9% and smartphone prices down 11.5% but in our series The Cost of Living Brian Chung reports and how even after buying a home the cost of maintaining it is hitting Americans hard put my phone teron Joiner is a single mom of three living in Atlanta when she bought her home in 2020 she thought her low mortgage rate would keep her monthly payments down but water damage from severe winter storms led to two insurance claims and the event planner wasn't prepared for what came next I did expect for my rates to go up but I did not expect to be dropped she scrambled for a new policy only to find rates skyrocketing her premium going up from 1,200 to more than $5,700 a year with her new provider to get penalized for just being a customer who needed help it just felt I don't know like a little bit of a betrayal she's had to cut back her spending and pick up more freelance work on the side as a graphic designer when I started reaching out to people like hey I'm back in the business like this is what I'm doing you know if you need something just cover Insurance just just trying to like brace myself the costs of owning and maintaining a home have soared up 26% since 2020 according to one analysis and home insurance is a major piece that's up 20% one of the reasons climate change last year the United States had a record 28 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion with insurance companies losing money in 16 States and now many insurers are dropping customers from their policies sometimes leaving entire States and not just ones on the coast we've never seen anything close to this even in Iowa a place that doesn't get hard hit by hurricanes or wildfires these last five years have been more difficult because of hail tornado wind and other factors that are uh not weather related in Atlanta Joiner says she and the kids are happy in their home but it hurts when she looks at the bills do you regret purchasing this own um there are times where I feel that way yes the cost of living at risk of becoming too much to bear Brian Chung NBC News Atlanta Georgia and up next for us tonight the massive settlement from Johnson and Johnson over allegations they misled consumers about the safety of baby powder after years of concerns about the safety of its tal base baby powder tonight Johnson and Johnson has reached a $700 million settlement with 42 States over allegations the company misled consumers about the product's dangers Kate snow has more the makers of that iconic white bottle Johnson's baby powder a feeling you'd never outgrow now paying out $700 million to 42 States in Washington DC Johnson and Johnson agreeing to a settlement after the attorney's General accused the company of deceiving customer about the safety of baby powder containing talc we began our investigation 5 years ago uh but we worked together as a team arm and- arm on a bipartisan basis and and we did a good job making sure that Johnson and Johnson stepped up the company faces tens of thousands of other lawsuits from individuals who say J&J baby powder caused cancer and mesothelioma research released last month did find a link between use of talc and ovarian cancer something the company has always disputed baby powder is absolutely safe back in 2017 I sat down with Bart Williams a lawyer representing the company at the time the notion that Johnson and Johnson would sell that product knowing that it causes cancer in women is just outrageous in the settlement with States Johnson and Johnson admits no wrongdoing but just last year it stopped selling all talc-based baby powder worldwide and the agreement with the states says J&J will never sell talc-based products again in the US in a statement Johnson and Johnson said in part the company continues to pursue several paths to achieve a comprehensive and final resolution of the tal litigation does today's news feel like some form of vindication yes definitely I think it definitely is a step in the right direction Dean Berg used baby powder since she was a teen she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 49 I thought I was going to die so my husband and I we began to think about casket versus cremation she was the first person to file a lawsuit against Johnson and Johnson she refused a settlement then one in court but received no payout do you think if you hadn't gone forward with your case none of this might have happened definitely yes I do feel that way Berg has been cancer-free for 17 years and hopes no other women will go through what she did Kate Snow NBC News still had to look back at the incredible life of NBA legend Jerry West and how he became the original logo [Music] shot finally the sports world is remembering basketball legend Jerry West who died at age 86 Morgan chesky has a look at his remarkable career and how he came to define the NBA down to the logo in a game filled with players Larger than Life Jerry West stands alone his loss at age 86 follows a career spanning six decades four teams and countless moments never too big for a player Relentless as he was clutch two seconds 1 second West throws it up it after drafting West number one in 1960 he led the Lakers to nine NBA Finals capturing one title after six heartbreaking losses to the Boston Celtics the Lakers Jerry West shooting here is The Game's high score but it's all in vain following a Hall of Fame playing career he found new life in the Lakers front office assembling the championship Showtime teams of the 8S then another Dynasty alongside Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal greatest basketball mine ever the West Virginia native immortalized when his silhouette was made the NBA logo in 2019 West honored again with the presidential medal of freedom I was a dreamer I'd sett alone in our front porch and wonder if I ever make it to the top of that mountain what will I see on the other side well I did make it to the other side and my dreams have come true NBA stars honoring an icon LeBron James writing my mentor my friend hopefully I continue to make you proud you're already missed Michael Jordan sharing I wish I'd been his teammate rest in peace logo I've often thought what would I like for people to think about me he was a good guy and he cared a gritty Champion proving an endless pursuit of Excellence is the only way to play Morgan chesky NBC News and that's Nightly News for this Wednesday thank you for watching I'm Lester Holt please take care of yourself and each other good night we report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 700 on NBC news now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hitched that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel go to space how you feeling I 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before the chaos what he said about his struggles with mental health the mass casualty incident in Illinois three sheriff's deputies shot as they entered a home with a barricade suspect President Biden in Italy for the G7 Summit the new security agreement he's expected to sign with Ukraine as Russian warships reach Cuban Waters 90 miles off the US Coast House Republicans voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress but will it go any further than that and remembering the NBA legend whose silhouette became the League's logo LeBron and Jordan paying tribute tonight to the great Jerry West this is NBC Nightly News with Lester Hol good evening and welcome we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in South Florida tonight the rain just not stopping for a second day a slow motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding tonight flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening many streets are impassible cars have been left stranded adding insult to injury the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts rain totals in the last two days across Southern Florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before Saturday downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of 4 to 6 Ines per hour flights in and out of the Miami area have faced hundreds of delays and cancellations Fort Lauderdale Airport recording 7 and2 Ines of rain in the last 6 hours Sam Brock is in the middle of it all tonight and starts us off with the latest tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reported tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now I'm this like IC highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canceling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flight with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we had to we had to stop and work because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it create something we call compound flooding um whereas the water is coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain as you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move the car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know it's not fair safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come and Sam as I mentioned at the top of the broadcast this will be around for a while look Lester parts of South Florida have already seen more than a foot of rain from North day where I am all the way out to Fort Lauderdale and as you suggest we have at least 4 to 8 inches more expected by the end of the week and Lester it only takes six Ines to stall out a car something many people right now are discovering tonight all right Sam Brock thank you we're going to turn now to the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta and the stunning new detail we have learned about the situation here's pre aurther what a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking a bus h police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme mode earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the wrong direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon he now faces 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Lester all right priia thank you there's breaking news out of Northern Illinois three sheriff's deputies and a suspect shot in an exchange of gunfire at home where police had responded to report that someone was threatening to harm themselves and others the deputies are said to be in good condition no word on the suspect's condition overseas President Biden traveling to Italy for a high stakes meeting with allies as the war in Ukraine intensifies Gabe Gutierrez is there tonight President Biden Landing in Italy for a high stake Summit a critical Focus that warn Ukraine a Russian missile strike today in Ukrainian president zelinsky's hometown Town killed at least nine people and injured another 21 including two children the White House announcing President Biden will sign a bilateral security agreement pledging long-term defense cooperation this as Russian warships arrived in a show of force off the coast of Cuba just 90 mi from the US the Pentagon has sent ships and aircraft to track them but says they don't pose a threat the G7 Summit will bring together leading democracies President Biden is looking to shore up alliances though every leader at the Summit is facing low approval ratings just days ago in European parliamentary elections hard-right and populist parties scored a clear Victory Hunter but also Weighing on the president the felony conviction of Hunter Biden while he's ruled out pardoning his son today the White House Press Secretary did not rule out the president commuting Hunter Biden's sentence which could erase or reduce any potential prison time but would not expunge the conviction a White House official later telling NBC news any talk of a commutation was premature Biden AIDS meanwhile are looking ahead to Hunter Biden's September tax evasion trial in California which could expose new information about its foreign business dealings here in Italy President Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian president zinsky tomorrow and Pope Francis on Friday Lester all right Gabe gutieres thank you a barrage of rockets fired into Israel today from Over the Border in Lebanon as a us back ceasefire plan for Gaza is in peril Raph Sanchez is in Northern Israel it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead Hamas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displaced man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to ease the GR growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed Hezbollah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of hisbah rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior hisbah Commander and it is funeral today calls for Revenge here in Northern Israel tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting since October 7th a similar number just over the Border in Lebanon Lester all right rra thank you now to Capitol Hill the house voting to hold attorney general Merrick gardland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over recordings of President Biden's interview with the special Council Ali Vitali is there Ally this was a very close vote along party lines very close Lester the speaker telling us the house did its job tonight all but one Republican voting to hold attorney general Merck Garland in contempt for defying a subpoena to turn over audio of an interview President Biden did with special counsel Robert Herr that regarding his handling of classified documents herd did not charge the president saying a jury would view him as a quote elderly man with a poor memory the White House invoked executive privilege regarding the audio but lawmakers already have the transcript of it the do J not expected to act on the referral saying the House of Representatives has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partisan weapon blesser Ali Vali thank you Jus in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive order executive action on the border and we have new reports that migrants Crossing illegally are still being released into the US here's Julia Ansley tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 Mill ion migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quot things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocate suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again a senior DHS official tells us it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness they say they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights Lester all right Julia thank you in just 60 seconds the costs after you buy a home why insurance rates are going through the roof and some homeowners policies are suddenly being dropped next some welcome news today as May inflation came in cooler than expected up 3.3% year-over-year the FED today leaving interest rates unchanged and signaling just one cut is likely this year price relief coming in areas like Airline fairs down almost 6% used cars and trucks down more than 9% and smartphone prices down 115% but in our series The Cost of Living Brian Chung report reports and how even after buying a home the cost of maintaining it is hitting Americans hard put my phone teron Joiner is a single mom of three living in Atlanta when she bought her home in 2020 she thought her low mortgage rate would keep her monthly payments down but water damage from severe winter storms led to two insurance claims and the event planner wasn't prepared for what came next I did expect for my rates to go up but I did not expect to be dropped she scrambled for a new policy only to to find rates skyrocketing her premium going up from 12200 to more than $5,700 a year with her new provider to get penalized for just being a customer who needed help it just felt I don't know like a little bit of a betrayal she's had to cut back her spending and pick up more freelance work on the side as a graphic designer when I started reaching out to people like hey I'm back in the business like this is what I'm doing you know if you need something just try Insurance just TR to like brace myself the costs of owning and maintaining a home have soared up 26% since 2020 according to one analysis and home insurance is a major piece that's up 20% one of the reasons climate change last year the United States had a record 28 separate weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion with insurance companies losing money in 16 States and now many insurers are dropping customers from their policies sometimes leaving entire States and not just ones on the coast we've never seen anything close to this even in Iowa a place that doesn't get hard hit by hurricanes or wildfires these last five years have been more difficult because of hail tornado wind and other factors that are uh not weather related in Atlanta Joiner says she and the kids are happy in their home but it hurts when she looks at the bills do you regret purchasing this home or um there are times where I feel that way yes the cost of living at risk of becoming too much to bear Brian Chung NBC News Atlanta Georgia at up next for us tonight the massive settlement from Johnson and Johnson over allegations they misled consumers about the safety of baby powder we report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom us streaming week nights at 7: on NBC News Now news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is real we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant future is now news for the generation of now is NBC News Now what is going to happen now 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security agreement he's expected to sign with Ukraine as Russian warships reach Cuban Waters 90 miles off the US Coast House Republicans voting to hold attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of congress but will it go any further than that and remembering the NBA legend who silhouette became the League's low go LeBron and Jordan paying tribute tonight to the great Jerry West this is NBC Nightly News with Lester H good evening and welcome we are watching an extraordinary weather story unfold in South Florida tonight the rain just not stopping for a second day a slow motion system triggering intense downpours and flash flooding tonight flash flood warnings and emergencies are posted into the evening many streets are in passable cars have been left stranded adding insult to injury the risk of lightning and severe wind gusts rain totals in the last two days across Southern Florida exceeding a foot in some places with no relief expected before Saturday downpours just this afternoon falling at an estimated rate of 4 to 6 Ines per hour flights in and out of the Miami area have faced hundreds of delays and cancellations Fort Lauderdale Airport recording 7 and a half in inches of rain in the last 6 hours Sam Brock is in the middle of it all tonight and starts us off with the latest tonight Florida Under Siege from severe weather this reporting tornado slamming down in Martin County Florida while about 100 miles south Chaos on the roads near Miami Beach the cars are floating and the the water is so high right now on this iconic highway vehicle swamped by flooding how would you describe the conditions right now very bad horrible another round of vicious rain battering the state for hundreds of miles canceling flights and delaying Travelers I'm going to miss all my connection flly with life-threatening flash flood warnings popping up from Miami day to Broward there was a lot of rain a lot of rain we we have to we had to stop and work because we couldn't see for the from the rain Florida's notorious flood problems reemerging even as Miami Beach has recently raised some of its roads for drainage but the poorest Limestone underground is an issue it creates something we call compound flooding um whereas the water is coming from underneath you may see it uh percolate up through storm drains when you add rainfall on top of that there's really there's nowhere for the water to go and this is only the middle stretch of a week of rain so you can see cars are being towed behind me all over the place we want to move a car up on the garage so then we can stay here cuz I know you know it's not safe to go out the streets either the challenge now what still lies ahead in the days to come and Sam as I mentioned at the top of the broadcast this will be around for a while look Lester parts of South Florida have already seen more than a foot of rain from North D where I am all the way out to Fort Lauderdale and as you suggest we have at least 4 to 8 Ines more expected by the end of the week and Lester it only takes 6 Ines to stall out a car something many people right now are discovering tonight all right Sam Brock thank you we're going to turn now to the deadly hijacking of a Transit bus in Atlanta and the stunning new detail we have learned about the situation here's PRI aurther what a terrifying scene unfolding during rush hour in Atlanta Tuesday sh hard person shooting on the bus as 39-year-old Joseph Greer hijacked a Gwynette County Transit bus with 17 passengers on board I think there's someone taking a bus host police say it all started with a fight between Greer and a fellow passenger that passenger pulled out a gun then Greer grabbed it and shot the passenger before ordering the bus driver to flee the scene authorities say right now I'm in a extreme earlier that day Greer spoke to NBC's wxia at the scene of an unrelated shooting in downtown Atlanta telling our affiliate he was bipolar and manic my thing is I'm in a manic episode hours later is when police say Greer hijacked the bus Johnny Gilbert says his wife was a passenger as it all unfolded she called me and told me that a guy one guy shot another guy on the bus police say Greer fatally shot that passenger with the passenger's own gun tonight the victim identified as 58-year-old Ernest bird Jr my heart goes out to the family the entire hijacking lasted nearly 40 minutes the bus seen driving in the long direction of traffic and hitting multiple cars before a Georgia State Trooper was finally able to stop the bus by shooting his gun into the engine it was something that we'll never forget tonight authorities confirming the suspect is a convicted felon he now faces 31 charges including kidnapping and murder Lester all right Priya thank you there's breaking news out of Northern Illinois three sheriff's deputies and a suspect shot in an exchange of gunfire at home where police had responded to a report that someone was threatening to harm themselves and others the deputies are said to be in good condition no word on the suspect's condition overseas President Biden traveling to Italy for a high stakes meeting with allies as the war in Ukraine intensifies Gabe Gutierrez is there tonight President Biden Landing in Italy for a high stake Summit a critical Focus that warn Ukraine a Russian missile strike today in Ukrainian president zalinski Hometown killed at least nine people and injured another 21 including two children the White House announcing President Biden will sign a bilateral security agreement pledging long-term defense cooperation this as Russian warships arrived in a show of force off the coast of Cuba just 90 mi from the US the Pentagon has sent ships and aircraft to track them but says they don't pose a threat the G7 Summit will bring together leading democracies President Biden is looking to shore up alliances though every leader at the Summit is facing low approval ratings just days ago in European parliamentary elections hard-right and populous parties scored a clear Victory Hunter but also Weighing on the president the felony conviction of Hunter Biden while he's ruled out pardoning his son today the White House Press Secretary did not rule out the president commuting Hunter Biden's sentence which could erase or reduce any potential prison time but would not expunge the conviction a White House official later telling NBC News any talk of a commutation was premature Biden AIDS meanwhile are looking ahead to Hunter Biden's September tax evasion trial in California which could expose new information about its foreign business dealings here in Italy President Biden is expected to meet with Ukrainian president zalinski tomorrow and Pope Francis on Friday Lester all right Gabe Gutierrez thank you a barrage of rockets fired into Israel today from Over the Border in Lebanon as a us back ceasefire plan for Gaza is in Peril rfh Sanchez is in Northern Israel it's time for the haggling to stop and the ceasefire to start tonight A visibly frustrated secretary blinkin in Qatar accusing Hamas of making unacceptable demands as it tries to change the terms of the ceasefire deal laid out by President Biden Hamas could have answered with a single word yes instead Hamas waited nearly 2 weeks and then proposed more changes a source familiar with the talks tells us Hamas is Seeking a timeline for when Israeli forces will withdraw from Gaza it's not clear if Israel will commit to that accusing Hamas of giving a negative response but the mediators say they'll keep trying to bridge the gaps and in Gaza exhausted families tell our team they're praying for a deal enough killing enough destruction and enough suffering this displac man says the US says a Gaza ceasefire is also the best way to EAS is the growing crisis on the Israel Lebanon border these Israeli families running from Rockets fired by Iranian backed hisbah militants the IDF says more than 200 were fired today one of the largest bombardments of the entire War we're seeing more interceptions now over the Skies of Northern Israel as a fresh barrage of hisbah rockets comes in the attack in response to this Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah Commander and it is funeral today calls for Revenge here in Northern Israel tens of thousands have been displaced by the fighting since October 7th a similar number just over the Border in Lebanon Lester all right wrath thank you now to Capitol Hill the house voting to hold attorney general Merrick gardland in contempt of congress for refusing to hand over recordings of President Biden's interview with the special Council Ali Vitali is there Ally this was a very close vote along party lines very close Lester the speaker telling us the house did its job tonight all but one Republican voting to hold attorney general Merck Garland in contempt for defying a subpoena to turn over audio of an interview President Biden did with special counsel Robert her that regarding his handling of classified documents herd did not charge the president saying a jury would view him as a quote elderly man with a poor memory the White House invoked executive privilege regarding the audio but lawmakers already have the transcript of it the doj not expected to act on the referral saying the House of Representatives has turned a serious Congressional Authority into a partis weapon leser Ali Vali thank you Justus in the ACLU filing the first major legal challenge to President Biden's recent executive order executive action on the border and we have new reports that migrants Crossing illegally are still being released into the US here's Julia anley tonight new evidence migrants who cross the border illegally are still being released into the US by border agents one week after President Biden signed an executive action suspending their entry if they choose to come without permission and against the law they'll be restricted from receiving Asylum and staying in the United States but NBC News has learned border patrol is still releasing many migrants into the US who crossed illegally to pursue Asylum claims a senior DHS official tells NBC News those releases have dropped by more than half but are still happening because agents don't have enough space to detain the large numbers of arriving migrants an internal memo to border patrol agents in San Diego directs agents there to release migrants into the United States unless they are from these eight countries overall illegal border crossings under the new policy are still high but have dropped from 4,000 to 3,000 per day DHS sources tell us President Biden signed the executive action after Fierce criticism of his handling of the border with a record nearly 10 million migrants entering the us since he took office but the border patrol union says the president's new action is not Tough Enough it's status quo things have not changed the executive order has not made any significant impact as it relates to the legal border crossings we suffer a lot just to get here says this Guatemalan woman waiting in Mexico to cross and late today immigration Advocates suing saying the Asylum restrictions go too far this ban is patently illegal the Trump Administration enacted a near identical Asylum ban we sued over that we won we hope to win again a senior DHS official tells us it's too soon to judge the new policy's Effectiveness they say they need more help from Congress to increase immigrant detention and do more deportation flights Lester all right Julia thank you in just 60 seconds the costs after you buy a home why insurance rates are going through the roof and some homeowners policies are suddenly being dropped next news lives in the now it's coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters they're asking that the hostages demanding that the hostages be released now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on and on now is real 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they spoke the truth about what had happened here from the brothers themselves people were afraid of it let's go through this bit by bit there was no way he was going to let this secret get out silence destroyed our whole family I'm Lester Holt and this is dat line here's Keith Morrison with Unthinkable the Menendez murders here it was The Shining symbol of their success here finally an address worthy of their long struggle their amazing rise Beverly Hills California emergency careful what you wish for try to kill my all these years later it's still the case that has the power to shock it's Beverly Hills it's the movie business it's kids killing their parents what possessed those two handsome young men who had been given everything a Porsche or a Rolex they got pretty much what they wanted why did they give back murder how do you not a sensal murder there was the case to usher in wall toall TV coverage even before OJ I was just firing as I went into the room I just started firing the kind of horror you couldn't stop watching what was in front of you my parents you'll hear the real story told by the investigators his face was disfigured from the shotgun blast that he took to the back of the head by the young men themselves they weren't real wax they look like Wax I definitely would give my life for my deaths the real life details of the defense that shocked America we would be in the bathroom and uh he would put me on my knees CU I'm looking to see is he telling the truth or not will ask the brother at the center of it all about truth to this day I'm still dealing with with the controversy of it obviously my own guilt in what in what happened sure what really happened and why so to understand where to begin how about here Illinois the 1940s everybody who knows this story knows her as Kitty but that wasn't really her name wasn't it no it was Mary Louise she was the baby of the family said her older sister Joan vandermolen it was one of their brothers who came up with a nickname that's stuck for Life how did she get to be known as Kitty I think it was when Brian went out to get her for dinner one night or something and he said here kitty kitty kitty and she came and then when Kitty was three her dad left the family for another woman and as that little girl watched her mother's struggle she imagined a way she could do better Kitty grew up believing that she was going to marry well and have household help how would she know such a thing I think this is probably what my mother had maybe wanted for herself and never got Kitty was pretty in 1962 she was crowned Miss Oak Lawn you should be in Show Business her mother told her so Kitty studied radio and television at Southern Illinois University was that wrapped up in the whole idea of if you're in that field you're more likely to meet a successful man yes absolutely in college she met a bundle of ambition named Jose Menendez he had fled communist Cuba at 16 with bold dreams of striking it big in business just the kind of man Kitty was searching for and so they married in 1963 they were stars in in our family Kitty and Jose Diane Hernandez was Kitty's niece and lived with Kitty and Jose for a few years how bet you idolize Kitty oh I did from the very beginning and I was known as a daughter Kitty never of course as the world would come to know Kitty and Jose had Sons Lyle and Eric did they seem to get along do they like each other absolutely very close yeah I think Eric depended on LY a lot Eric was quite introverted Alan Anderson was Kitty's nephew he spent a couple of Summers with the mandez family and bonded with Lyle he was a um mischievous boy to say the least he liked to smile and laugh and giggle oh he loved to laugh laugh and giggle but what the manand brothers did most said Alan was practice and practice and practice Jose wanted his kids to be the best in especially in sports I noticed immediately swimming soccer tennis Jose pushed his sons to excel at everything as his own career skyrocketed in the 70s Jose was the general manager at Herz and impressed his sons by bringing the company's famous spokesman OJ Simpson home to dinner Jose was of course living the American dream and he wanted his boys to continue that American dream that he had set forth for not only himself or his family in 1986 Jose took a job with Carol coop pictures in Los Angeles the company that produced Mega hits like Basic Instinct and the Rambo series Carol Co had just bought a video Distribution Company from a man named Noel Bloom and they gave Jose the job of running so we think 1989 will be a tremendous year I think we will be very happy with the growth of the company that was the year 1989 when Robert Rand then a reporter for the Miami Herald went to Las Vegas to cover a trade show for the home video business and happened to meet Jose Menendez what was your impression of the guy talked to him for maybe two or three minutes seemed professional Dynamic a high-powered career a beautiful family and finally the one one missing piece of Jose's American Dream the perfect home Jose moved his family from Calabasas then pre- Kardashian in a relatively unknown Enclave outside of Los Angeles to a more tony address Joan was with her sister the day the realtor called Kitty they had accepted Jose's offer and kitty you got your zip code and that made her so happy 90210 mhm absolutely 722 North drive a six-bedroom Mediterranean style home swimming pool Guest House tennis court Elton John once lived in this very house so did a Saudi Prince and even Prince himself by August 1989 Jose had truly made it now to ensure his sons did too by then Lyall was a student at Princeton younger brother Eric was going to UCLA in the fall so perfect so why did Diane feel this way I said well I know this sounds crazy but unless I am crazy somebody who's really close to me is going to die and it's going to be horrible horrible that it certainly was to kill my parents shop when we come back 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operator picked up a call from an apparently hysterical young man his name was Lyall Menendez I kill my parents were they shot yes they were shot yes what happened who is the person that was shot my mom and my dad your mom and dad my mom and my dad okay hold on a second detective Z Les solar was a detective back then one of a grand total of two detectives in the Beverly Hills Police Department who worked homicides how many murders occurred in Beverly Hills in those days and in those days approximately two a year detective Zer was asleep that August Night when his boss called and he said come on in we've had a murder and I asked him for some information he said uh he gave me the address of 722 North Elm Zer drove to the mansion walked inside it was eily quiet and when I went into the den Library first thing I noticed was Jose Menendez Seated on the couch he was uh slumped to one side his head was to the one side it was bad very bad but I can immediately tell that his face was disfigured from the shotgun blast that he took to the back of the head he was wearing shorts and he had shotgun blast to his thigh blood soaked all the way down to the white couch and then I noticed his wife Kitty at his feet on the floor she was curled into a fetal position and like her husband had been shot many times several times near her knee and most horribly Kitty was shot point blank in the face shotgun killings are very messy and there were brains and blood everywhere back then Pamela banic was an LA County prosecutor in the organized crime unit but nothing prepared her for this Jose and kitty had been riddled with 15 shots one image in particular lives with her still there was a contact wound on Kitty mendez's face it blew out her eye I mean it was grotesque what happened to her to investigators it appeared Jose and kitty had been relaxing in the den an empty bowl of cream and berries and Eric's UCLA paperwork were on the coffee table the television set was on there was no indication of a Breakin but something did stand out to detective zoler we didn't see any shotgun shells what did that say to you somebody collected the shotgun shells but who does a thing like that if they've got a messy crime scene of that sort somebody that didn't want fingerprints on the shotgun shells the only thing I could think of while investigators examined the crime scene L Menendez then 20 1 and Eric 18 went to the station to speak to police the brothers said they were in and out throughout the day and then as evening approached they decided that they wanted to go to the movies they wanted to see a James Bond movie but it was sold out so they saw the Batman movie which they had both seen before so they decided to see that again curious after the movie they told the detectives they planed to meet a friend for a drink at the cheese Skate Factory but they had to go back to the house to pick up Eric's fake ID and when they walked in they said they saw a haze in the air smelled gunpowder smoke went into the den and then dialed 911 I kill my parents the news spread quickly I got a phone call from my brother and I remember putting the phone down on the table and walking around the house screaming reporter Robert rand's phone also rang if it was a friend who had attended the Las Vegas trade show with him 10 days earlier the friend said Hey do you remember that guy Jose Menendez uh you know that you met briefly last week and I said sure and he said well he and his wife were blown away last night in Beverly Hills now that thought Rand was a story Taylor Made for the Miami Community he was writing for a rags to richest story capped by murder he worked to phones and soon met up with Jose's sister who told him you know the family was so close they were loving they did everything together she said you have to interview Eric and Lyall and I said of course I want to interview Eric and ly as you would find getting to the brothers was not so easy but then they just lost their parents Lyle and Eric Mendez were The Grieving Sons Alan abrahamson is a journalism professor at USC back in 1989 he was a reporter for the LA Times no nobody quite knew who had killed the parents was it because of Jose's position in business or had he been taken out by the mob after all both Jose and kitty had been shot at the knees a mafia signature perhaps and then there was the company Jose was running live entertainment distributed all kinds of movies including children's movies but it got its start in porn a lot of pornography is organized crime back CU it's a great way to make a lot of money in an industry that's not you know very well regarded and there was actually a a homicide in the valley a few weeks before they were murdered and Jose mentioned to his sons you know this is what happens this guy was into the pornography business and he was murdered plus Jose was known to be aggressive when he came to business and investigators found two rifles in his bedroom was Jose worried someone might come after him could Lyle and Eric be next the brothers hir bodyguards and in an interview Eric Menendez voiced his suspicion uh no Bloom sounds like morphological possibility if he did kill him I know they hated each other Noel Bloom the founder of the company Jose was running and an Unapologetic distributor of adult entertainment the Menendez boys were not alone in their suspicion about no Bloom coming up Rivals at the office was that a motive for murder you didn't kill Jose mandz absolutely not no Bloom speaks then and now were you sort of day by day waiting for somebody to call you think You' be taken in and put in handcuffs when Date Line continues [Music] the paper towel will absorb the acid that's crazy green tea to calm acne this is my favorite tip of the day brilliant brilliant brilliant oh that's genius you just saved me 40 [Music] bucks NBC News Daily is number one for Afternoon News across all of Television I'm Morgan Radford I'm Vicky win I'm Kate snow and I'm zing 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brilliant brilliant brilliant personal finance is personal you don't want to do what somebody else is doing oh let's Che you just Sav me 40 bucks that's a good idea [Music] Kitty Mendez shot this Home Video in August 1989 capturing images of what looked like a happy family okay wa goodbye everybody 12 Days Later Kitty and her husband's murders were Front Page News it was a big story from the get-go because it happened in Beverly Hills California the big story became a big problem for Carol IAL pictures the company was getting beaten up in the media because all the media stories were this was a mafia hit somehow related to Shady dealings that this company was doing Carol Co hired a prominent publicist to help calm the media storm Sylvester Stallone spoke warmly of Jose he was a true Cornerstone of the uh of the company which I love and Jose's memorial service was held at the Director's Guild of America headquarters on Sunset Boulevard all of which might have led people to believe he was a beloved Hollywood Insider but the reality was Jose bendeez was really not known in the Hollywood Community at all and most of the people at this Memorial probably had never heard of him ly and Eric arrived late to the service in a chafford limousine they had spent the night before in the ultra Chic Hotel belir how'd they behave when they were there Lyall Menendez was a very cool calm and collected Kitty's sister Joan was at the memorial too and heard something disturbing about Jose several men that worked with Jose talked to me at that memorial service and told me how he loved to humiliate other men pretty shocking thing to hear at somebody's memorial service isn't it mhm yeah not very Memorial so Jose had made enemies the brothers confirmed it and knew where to point the finger they indicated that their father was involved in some shady business contacts and one in particular was a gentleman by the name of nol Bloom that name again no bloom had founded the company that became known as live entertainment and then wound up working uncomfortably with Jose they bickered about a lot of things well mostly it was because of the pornography Jose didn't like that at all did it seem to you that there was a motive there possible we found this tape of Bloom deep in the NBC archives you didn't kill Jose Menendez absolutely not and wondered what he had to say all these years later what are you doing with yourself now well I'm uh retired kind of like forced retirement oh but your resume yeah your resume my resume could scare people Noel Bloom known for years to law enforcement authorities as a Kingpin in the porn trade with alleged ties to East Coast Mobsters why would they say you were involved with organized crime because people had a perception that people in the adult business were organized crime which is totally not true at least I I wasn't were some of the people you associated with members there was a couple of companies back in New York that I believe was in the 1970s Bloom was one of the biggest porn producers and distributors in the country then he made an unlikely turn to Distributing children's programming Care Bears for example along the way you encountered this guy Jose Menendez unfortunately what was he like in the office Jose could be very sweet smile at you even Charming mhm but he was very ruthless he would scream at people uh if he fired sport somebody in his office and fired him even though he had no business doing so he would hear him laughing like it was a big joke Jose fought with his own family too said Noah Bloom I met Kitty several times she was sometimes going into his office and yelling and screaming and hollering I mean really loud oh so they'd argue a lot oh yeah right and I think a lot of it was about the kids what was your impression of them yeah they were kind of quiet they weren't that friendly but seemed like they were a bit troubled you I know they were afraid of him afraid of their father Jose I I saw him just stare them down a couple of times but after Jose was murdered Lyall and Eric seemed to be afraid of no Bloom they told police they thought Bloom may have killed their parents and might want to kill them too bloom had been arrested before on obscenity charges but never convicted still with the brother's public accusations he was nervous will you sort of day by day waiting for somebody to call you thinking it' be taken in and put in handcuffs and oh the cops would calling and the investigation would take a turn one that no one expected coming up new questions about the case it wasn't an organized crime head and about the grieving son I was like wow the way he was spending money was very strange you begin to see a pattern here and you begin to think of [Music] greed we're talking possibly a trillion Galaxy that is a number that is just so hard to compute whether it's the moon whether it's Mars it feels like we're on the cusp of something big good to have you with us I'm Joe frier and I'm Savannah 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keybridge disaster when you look over your shoulder and you see the Key Bridge what goes through your head that bridge has been here longer than I've been alive it still doesn't feel real hundreds of Israelis have gathered to demonstrate what do the people in Gaza do you think what do they need most place for Palestinians and Israelis have found Common Ground every night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7: on NBC news now more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization [Music] in the weeks after the Menendez murders one name one whispered suspicion no old blue I got a call from Beverly Hills Police Department they wanted to meet with me and ask me a few questions and I said I've been waiting that meeting it turned out was about all it took he was very cooperative and we couldn't determine that he had a motive at all so Noah Bloom was no longer a suspect and the rumored Mafia connection to the crime not a chance said prosecutor Pam banic the number of shots would tell you that it wasn't an organized crime head why do you say that because they were torn apart if you think about what the media portrays or or Hollywood portrays as a mob hit it would a little hole in the back of a little like a 22 or a 38 to the back of the head but the KNE cappings the missing shell casings to investigators those were signs it was staged to look like a mob hit hours after the murders detective Zer looked at the scene puzzled and right around that time Lyle showed up at the house so he said we want to get our tennis equipment and I said well where is that he said it's in the library where my parents were murdered what was their demeanor he was matter of fact and and uh didn't seem very upset to me then Zer learned something very odd ly and Eric went to the bank days after the murders looking for Jose's safety deposit box trying to find the family will did that surprise you that they would do it so soon oh definitely so why would the brothers worry about the will Zer learned that Jose had threatened to disinherit them Lyle had been caught cheating at Princeton Eric had fought with his father over tennis but there was a bigger issue too well in the first house they took the whole safe the second house they got into the safe ly and Eric had burglarized the homes of their friends wealthy parents one of the burglaries was in the exclusive community of Hidden Hills Have you ever heard of such a thing before no it was just because we can do it look what we can do at the time Jose hired a prominent Criminal attorney who arranged for the younger brother Eric to take the fall because he was a minor knowing that Eric probably wouldn't get any jail time and part of the disposition was that he contact a therapist in comes Jerry oil Dr Jerome oil you'll want to remember that name a Beverly Hill psychologist who specialized in phobias and sex therapy so therapy and no jail time for the burglaries but were they written out of the will they finally did get hold of it and discovered Jose hadn't disinherited them after all so now they stood to inherit the family's $4 million estate and what the brothers did after the murders shocked the whole country they were just spending spending spending three Rolex Watchers a private tennis coach for Eric a Porsche Lyle even bought a chicken wings restaurant I love to shop but I think that I might even wait a day or two Lyle went to visit his cousin Allan in Chicago after the murders he ordered some of the most expensive shirts I've ever seen in my life he ordered some jewelry order these shoes these expensive shoes um and I was like Wow and the way he was spending money for me was very strange but to other relatives the spending was just Lyall and Eric doing what they always did Lyle was grieving said cousin Diane people would ask you know people were like what's he doing and I would defend him and say well everybody reacts differently when somebody dies this is just his way of coping I guess their casual Behavior after the murders the hunt for the will the spending spree none of it was criminal but it certainly caught the attention of the prosecutor you begin to see a pattern here and you begin to think of greed but to police Lyall and Eric kept repeating the same story that told the cops the night of the murders they had no idea what happened were they believable in those conversations that you recall yes so they didn't seem to be lying or offis skating or no they answered our questions willingly so maybe they were spoiled and self-centered but it was a long way from that to killing their parents except another interview was coming one that would reveal so much more come coming up I've never seen my dad helpless an emotional Eric Menendez speaks out about his father his family and a killer script that story was about a young man who murders his parents and inherits $157 million they thought about the Perfect Crime it's looking like a perfect crime to 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biography of Jose Menendez but he couldn't complete it without talking to two people people Jose's Sons Lyall and Eric the brothers had blown him off for several weeks but finally on October 20th 1989 exactly 2 months after the murders Rand got his shot I showed up at the Menendez Mansion at 3 in the afternoon and uh a young woman in her 20s answered the door and she said oh Eric and Lyall are out playing tennis uh they'll be back at some point the woman invited randin to tour the house and immediately in front of me is the room room the room where Jose and kitty Mendez were killed and um I I had a chill of my spine I felt creeped out he waited they arrived eventually Eric and Lyall came bouncing in the house wearing tennis whites looking tan they were laughing and joking as if nothing had happened as if nothing had happened and I'm kind of torn up inside I'm I'm just thinking to myself I wouldn't be anywhere near this house if my parents had been killed here Rand pulled out his tape recorder and note had but Lyle stopped him Lyall Menendez said hang on he said we don't want to do the interview today we'd just like to meet you and get to know you the brothers had flaked on R before he was annoyed but obliged they chatted informally and made plans to meet later that weekend for an official interview but when Rand arrived Lyle had left for New York on a Redeye the night before he had a problem with his chicken wing restaurant in Princeton Eric however was home and this time he was willing to talk Eric was emotionally appropriate he would call he cry at times um and he was telling really lovely stories about how wonderful his parents were just incredible man and and people were afraid of him people were afraid of him because she would walk in the room and know that this man was more powerful this man more intelligent Eric said his father wanted to get into politics he was going to become senator of Florida and then he was going to spend his life making Cuba a territory of the United States and now with his father's death Eric said he and his brother wanted to fulfill his father's dream I want him become C FL and my brother wants to become president of the United States then the mood shifted and Eric described what he saw when he walked into the Family Den on August 20th they weren't real they didn't yeah a a wax they look like Wax it was it's something that I've never seen my dad helpless you know I think that possibly if LA and I would have been home if we would have been able to do something about it maybe uh maybe my dad would be alive um I definitely would give my life for the days and this was curious Eric also told Rand about a screenplay he had written called friends that story was about a young man who murders his parents and inherits $157 million fancy that Eric wrote the screenplay with a close friend of his named Craig sarelli when detective Zer interviewed Craig he learned that Craig and Eric often fantasized about committing The Perfect Crime which in their screenplay became the story of a man killing his parents and evading police they thought about the perfect crime and here their parents are murdered we don't have a suspect yet it's looking like a perfect crime to me at that point Zer began to wonder if Eric's fantasy could be playing out in reality and then Craig told Zer about his visit to the Menendez house after the murders Eric said do you want to know what happen and he described shooting the parents and then he summed it all up by saying it could happen huh and Craig thought about it he says well is he saying that's what he thinks happened here at the house or did they actually commit the crime strange as was the story The Brothers told about discovering their parents' bodies the brothers said that they saw this Haze in the air and some smoke that they smelled like gunpowder smoke gunpowder smoke but I mean that dissipates pretty darn quick well the officers got there right after they did and they didn't smell anything the gunpowder smoke and fantasizing about the perfect crime and the screenplay and even what might be called a confession it all LED detective Zer to start thinking the unthinkable that the brothers had murdered their mom and dad and he wondered would Eric tell the story of the shooting to Craig again this time on tape they decided to W wire up Craig and go to this restaurant but this time Eric wasn't at all talkative Eric didn't admit anything but I think his conscience said you better not talk too much about this not that day anyway and not to Craig signorelli But Eric did talk eventually and what he said would change everything coming up Lyall burst into the room she heard him say why did you tell him the explosive secret hidden till now could you believe it no no it was absolutely devastating shocking beyond words news lives in the now it's coming at us every second news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on now is real we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant see this future is now news for the generation of now is NBC news [Music] now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hitched that is totality do you see yourselves in space I could go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC News Now Kristen Welker hosts Meet the Press every Sunday on NBC more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization news lives in the now it's coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news is more now than ever just outside of 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coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters they're asking that the hostages demanding that the hostages be released now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on and on now is real this is it we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant morning news now or Breaking News NBC News special report you got to see this the future is now news for the generation of now is NBC News [Music] Now Kristen Welker hosts Meet the Press every Sunday on [Music] NBC detective Les Zer had a very disturbing suspicion that Lyle and Eric bendeez had shotgunned their parents to death in the den of their Beverly Hills mansion and then one day he just knew was was there a particular time when you thought okay yes it's them well when we got a call from judalon Smith a name he'd never heard before what did she have to tell you her whole purpose was to talk about this doctor and how he was her therapist and he was having an affair with her not relevant information to a homicide detective but this was what was his first name Dr Dr Jerry oil Dr oil the psychologist Eric was sent to after those burglaries two months after the murders judalon Smith said she was with Dr Ozil when Eric Menendez called to schedule an emergency session Smith wouldn't talk to us for this report but she did back then and here's what she told us Dr oil said after getting that call all of a sudden he's saying you know I hope I not going to hear what I think I'm going to hear Smith told Zer that Dr ail was worried about what might happen at the session and so he asked her to stay in the waiting room of his office while he met with Eric on October 31st 1989 she also told Zer that from the waiting room she overheard Eric tell Dr oil the very thing investigators had suspected for months but couldn't prove Eric said that they shot their parents and Dr rosil immediately says uh we need to call your brother and have him come over here right away Lyall Menendez had been at the Elm Drive home passing out candy to trick-or-treaters rushed over to Dr ail's office and Lyall burst into the room Jon Smith told Zer she heard Lyle confront his brother and she heard him say why did you tell him we're going to have to kill him now seriously yes and ER said I can't kill anymore and he burst in tears and left Lyall and Dr oil more or less followed him and Lyall got to the elevator and Dr oil said am I in danger and Lyall said that's all I can tell you is have a good life Dr oil and it freaked him out what followed was a strange and nervous dance oil told Lyall and Eric to come back for follow-up therapy sessions the brothers afraid oil might go to the police agreed during one of those sessions they both confessed to killing their parents and oil recorded the conversation judalon Smith learned about the recording and told detectives who promptly seized the tape just one problem they weren't allowed to listen to it because of Dr patient privilege how frustrating was that very frustrating yeah a good piece of evidence I couldn't even listen to it even though investigators didn't know whether they'd ever get to play that tape in court they thought they had enough evidence to arrest the brothers today at approximately 1 it was March 8th 1990 detes arrested Joseph Lyle Menendez for the August murders of his mother and father Eric was playing a tennis tournament in Israel at the time Eric Menendez is being sought by detectives of this department he surrendered to police 3 Days Later could you believe it no no it was absolutely devastating shocking just beyond words former LA Times Reporter Alan abrahamson Who Would Imagine That these two young men of privilege position and power to be could could kill their parents that's that's the kind of stuff that Shakespeare wrote about and yet it seemed that's exactly what happened a few weeks after the arrests detective Zer confirmed another tip judalon Smith gave them judalon said that the guns were purchased at a gun store in San Diego I was looking through gun records and I said this is it the name on the sale was an old friend of lyes from Princeton but the friend was not even in California when the guns were purchased and he was missing his ID we learned later that Lyall had taken the wallet it seemed like overwhelming evidence that Lyall and Eric killed their parents but their story of why they did it that would leave the family and the rest of America speechless coming up watching her in court was like watching great theater the battle begins with a powerful new Aly Li standing by the brothers how does he walk into a room with a shotgun this kid it doesn't add up I mean I'm totally totally puzzled when dat line continues news lives in the now it's coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters they asking that the hostages demanding that the hostages be released now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on and on now is real this is it we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant morning news now we breaking news NBC News special report you got to see this the future is now news for the generation of now is NBC news now more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwartz We are following some breaking news sever storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hitched that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC news now now is raw how hard is it to see it like this our house is no longer here but we are here now is real let's break down what we know and then the big question is still outstanding news for the generation of now is NBC News [Music] Now nearly dozen hours after the eye roared ashore there is some latebreaking news all right news lives in the now look at this you can't even see anything anymore let's break down what we know you got to see this news for the generation of now is NBC News Now tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the [Music] Gaza hey there I'm hie and we are coming on the Air Tonight with new developments let's talk about the implications on women's health and then the political Fallout start with what this law actually will and won't do Crews officials will do almost anything they can to get it back open ASAP so how s is the p in other words how soon will it be open I could keep talking to the eiel towers about sparkling now you've laid down the gauntlet so we have to continue to speak until it starts to Sparkle sparkling is [Music] happening more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization continuing our story Lyall and Eric Menendez are under arrest for the murders of their parents in the family mansion in Beverly Hills it was grotesque what happened blood soak I had a chill up my spine could you believe it no it was absolutely devastating just beyond words the question now what drove them to kill how does he walk into a room with a shotgun this kid I mean I'm totally totally puzzled a dark secret was about to come to light I just told him that I didn't want to do this something horrible is going on in the family oh man it was cut- wrenching I want to bust the door down and say what's going on here here again Keith Morrison the news rocketed around the country much of the world the sons themselves shotgun their own parents in their own home two rich kids from Beverly Hills coddled spoiled greedy had murdered their own parents in Cold Blood actually planned it tried to make it look like a mob hit used stolen ID to buy the guns tried to get away with it and after went on lavish Nationwide spending spree public judgment came harsh and fast how do you play Not Guilty they were smirking they were smugged former LA Times Reporter Alan abrahamson people were not predisposed to think kindly of Eric and Lyall Menendez media feasted on the story of the Rich Brothers who killed their parents for the $14 million estate hard to overstate the Public's disgust with those young men but on the other side of the country in an upscale New Jersey town just a few miles from Princeton people began comparing memories their home at the time was a tutor style home it was on a lake this is the home where Lyall and Eric grew up where Bill curtain was a young tennis coach when he met Jose Menendez and was certainly impressed there were two clear sides of him one was the very friendly outgoing joking person the flip side was how driven and controlling he was Jose engaged Bill to teach his son Lyle and then watch the lessons but didn't just watch he would physically come on to the tennis court and start giving instruction to Lyall while I was still there that was very very strange very uncomfortable only much later did Bill learn Jose had hired several coaches for Lyle that the 10-year-old was working hours every day to learn tennis he was incredibly quiet especially when Jose was present neighborhood memories about a successful but slightly imposing family everyone uh seemed to look up to them but not draw closer to them Alicia Herz was a friend and neighbor of the menendez's family the minute they would come into to a room they took the air out wow wow and we were all you know very very careful and that Menendez house it was like it was covered with a shield like um that was impenetrable thing was Alicia wasn't just a neighbor she was lyall's ninth grade Spanish teacher of the exclusive Princeton Day School was he a good student he tried to be but he was not particularly talented at the language once she caught Lyall cheating and she said Eric cheated too I think teachers understood deep down inside what they were going through that they were being pressured yes strenuously from their parents to do well right and to Alicia it seemed to be taking a toll and Lyle Alicia remembers more than once seeing Lyle outside her office staring blankly I wish to this day that I had gotten out and said please come in please come in did you talk to Kitty or Jose about this oh no I didn't reveal anything to them no not anything that could get them in trouble like many others said Alicia she was careful around Kitty and Jose but there was one episode she found too disturbing to ignore a dinner party at the Menendez home Jose told his guests he brought back a VHS tape from a trip to Brazil and I have to show you guys this because it's so unique and so he puts it in and I don't remember the name she said the film showed adults engaging in sex acts in front of children and we saw a few seconds of it a few minutes and we made excuses a lot of us stood up and said we have to leave we couldn't stand to see it to watch it but Jose found this engaging hysterically funny these stories of the Menendez family have been buried for years until the sons were charged with murder and she signed on to defend them veteran criminal defense attorney lesie Abramson known for her Brash style in the courtroom and with the Press you want that that's what you get today reporter Robert Rand who wrote a book on the mende this case recalled the attorney's passionate Devotion to her clients I've never seen anybody with the power of lesli Abramson watching her in court was like watching great theater in this old interview from our archives lesie Abramson described how her defense strategy began to take shape Family I'm hearing a lot of very negative and and at least heavily psychologically abusive things but it's not answering what's wrong with this kid cuz he's incredibly sweet how does he walk into to a room with a shotgun this kid and it doesn't add up I mean I'm totally totally puzzled and that's when I bring in vicory Dr William vicory then a forensic psychiatrist and a graduate of Harvard Law School agreed to meet with the brothers in jail he knew going in police believed Lyall and Eric killed their parents for money but based upon the uh dozens of paraside cases that I had worked on in the past that's the exception that's not the rule the rule is that something horrible is going on in the family and something was going on in the mandez family something very secret but what was it coming up new evidence seen on television for the first time a letter from Lyall to Eric hinting at the horrors in that house the screams oh man it was got ranching the fire has grown Leaps and Bounds you see behind me is typical how you doing oh pretty 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Justice ground slow the main issue was the Jerome oil confession tape admissible or should Dr patient privilege keep it out the arguing went all the way to California's highest court we sat around for a couple years waiting for the Supreme Court to rule during which the Menendez brothers resided at the Men's Central Jail where soon after their arrest Lyall slipped his brother a letter dat line obtained a copy it had never been broadcast before in it Lyall wrote about their father and the murders he bore two brilliant children only two they carry his name and his pride we did not do anything for the money he went on on we alone know the truth we alone know the secrets of our family's past I do not look forward to broadcasting them around the country I pray that it never has to happen Secrets at this point even attorney lesie Abramson knew none of them Lyall and Eric revealed nothing not to Abramson and not to the forensic psychiatrist she hired William vicory what struck me in that initial interview was how together the older brother Lyall was I mean he was articulate he made good eye contact he had very thoughtful organized answers Eric on the other hand seemed broken he very rarely made eye contact he was biting his fingernails so I was thinking in my head boy I sure hope I get to work with the older brother and not the younger brother because this is going to be a piece of cake with the older brother how wrong he was after a few sessions with Lyle Dr vicory hit a wall and moved on to Eric who month after month seemed to stick to a kind of script about his wonderful father his loving family and the minute something would leak out about maybe things weren't so wonderful in the family he would start crying and he would kind of dissolve and and and whimper and he just wouldn't go any further vicory put Eric on anti-depressants and slowly a trust began to form as the months rolled by I got more and more pieces of information and it got worse and worse and worse as to what was going on in his family until finally the dam broke Eric and ly's cousin Ellen Anderson had lived with the manda's family and knew the public didn't understand they just knew that okay we got these rich kids boom shot their parents now they're think they're multi-millionaires well that's not the case Allan had begun thinking back to some very disturbing things he had witnessed at the manda's house as had cousin Diane Hernandez he would take their heads and push them underwater until they started panicking and kneed up he would let them up again Jose's way of teaching his then quite young boys to swim what what did Kitty seem to think about it I mean if Jose did it or said it there was no questioning it absolutely none not by the boys not by Kitty she became like his right-hand man in enforcing things including what Diane and Allan came to know as the single most important rule in the Menendez house you cannot go down the hall when Jose's with his kids through Kitty didn't go down the hall either no no uh-uh but they did hear things I've heard them being whipped oh man it was cut- wrenching just the screams and the daddy don't hit me Daddy don't you know that kind of stuff a disturbing series of stories that to the defense began to explain what those young men did to their parents but how do you get from disturbing stories to a double murder the brother's lawyers began to connect the dots their defense would be unique and daring coming up the prosecution versus the defense these are smart strong women definitely engaged against each other yes the fireworks were about to begin I felt that the brothers were evil but not as bad as she was when dat line continues nearly a dozen hours after the eye roared as Shore there is some breaking news all [Music] right the paper towel will absorb the acid that's crazy green tea to calm acne this is my favorite tip of the day brilliant brilliant brilliant oh that's genius you just saved me 40 [Music] bucks hey there I'm 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actually understand why people had to jump in the ocean news for the generation of now it's NBC news now more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the G [Music] and even before the menend Brothers went on trial the defense scored a big victory the California Supreme Court ruled that the confession tape made by doctor oil could not be presented as evidence of course the defense had already conceded that Lyall and Eric killed their parents a sensational murder trial open today in California the defendants two brothers the victims their parents nearly four years after the murders July 1993 if convicted here Lyall and Eric could face the death penalty their judge was Stanley Weisberg who had already presided over high-profile cases notably the Rodney King beating case whose results sparked the LA riots judge Weisberg ruled that each brother would have his own jury and the electronic media that uh wants access to this court he allowed cameras in the courtroom the idea that there was a camera in a courtroom in California was so new so novel reporter Alan abrahamson once an attorney himself covered the trial for the LA Times you weren't just playing to the jury you were playing to all of America the judge's decision turned a local LA Story into an international sensation reporter Robert Rand was there too of course I've written articles for Paris match the guardian in London grazi in Italy and sold articles in Japan and Australia how big was it the Mendez trial was the case that put an entire network Court TV on the broadcast landscape prosecutor Pam banic knew all of America was watching her every move how did you feel as you prepared to make your opening statement I as I walked on the hallway all the cameras were there and you know I just threw up because I I thought oh God you know this is really stressful so what's more prosecutor banich was going up against two fear opponents lesie Abramson defending Eric and Jill Lansing defending ly these were three very smart strong women definitely engaged against each other over these boys yes I say boys but they weren't really boys no they weren't boys at all in fact that's what the defense wanted everybody to hear was boys these poor boys these orphans orphans an impression the defense tried to play up let's Abramson wrapped her arms around their shoulders had them trade their Dapper suits for preppy sweaters everything that Jill Lansing and ly Abramson did was deliberate and calculated prosecutor banich stealed herself determined not to let the Optics distract the juries based upon this evidence it will become apparent that this murder was unlawful unjustified and wholly premeditated in basic English the prosecution's case was this just the the facts ma'am fact number one Lyall and Eric driving down to San Diego 2 days before the murders to buy shotguns and with a stolen ID why are you using the fake ID cuz you know you're going to be using the gun to do something you shouldn't be doing that is evidence of intent after the murders the prosecution showed the brothers lied to the police for months starting from the very moment Lyall called 911 I try to kill my parents and they did it all for the family fortune the state said remember Lyall and Eric had searched for the will just days after their parents' murders and went on a lavish multi-state spending spree they were very aggressive about spending money as soon as possible yeah which I thought was very strange it was pretty obvious said the prosecutor first-degree murder and they did it for the money at the end of the prosecution case I was like okay these these two brothers are so guilty it's not even fun but then there was her Miss abson for the defense thank you we had a joke um that investigator myself and my co- uh co-counsel Lester the joke was you have a gun you have two bullets you go in the courtroom who do you shoot okay so both the guys say they would shoot Lyall and Eric and I my thing was I'm going to shoot lesli twice I felt that the brothers were evil but not as bad as she was Abramson had a reputation for doing whatever it took you guys haven't been fair to these boys and you're not fair to them now and she had an unusual strategy for defending the brothers a law known as imperfect self-defense that is to say under all the circumstances it was reasonable to the person to think that they were acting in self-defense but the reality is that that wasn't the case at all without aru in other words an honest but unreasonable belief that one's life is in danger that defense argued that the brothers weren't spoiled they were damaged subject to years of abuse that made the decision to kill their parents seemed to them like an act of self-defense against imminent danger if the jury agreed the Menendez brothers would get manslaughter instead of murder our witnesses will paint a portrait of Jose and Mary Louise Menendez as parents that will make understandable to you how they could have died at the hand of their children what they did to their children to bring this about the parents were as much on trial as Lyall and Eric Mendez were on trial and and while the prosecution tried to to stick to a just the facts ma narrative the defense strategy was emotion emotion emotion emotion the defense called teachers and coaches family members to testify about emotional and physical abuse one of them was cousin Allan and would you see bruises on the boys after that yes and their above their above their thigh area for where Bel would be hit and then cousin Diane took the stand and here came the most explosive issue of the trial Diane testified that the abuse Jose inflicted on his sons was not just physical but sexual he and his dad have been touching each other and he indicated that it was in his Gent Taria and Diane told us she observed even more three of them would take showers together Li was 15 and Eric was 12 prosecutor banic was to say the least skeptical if my daughter needed me to lie for her I'd lie for her if it was a life and death thing of course you would if it's your cousin that you grew up with of course you would you pretty sure that they were doing that I'm positive one reason why a relative came to me and said that she felt that the um defense was made up that she confronted Lyle about it and he said to her that's the way it's going to be so we had to ask did the brothers ask you to lie for them no did they ask you to sort of like shade things or tell certain stories not other stories or anything like that the defense contended the abuse was real went on for years and finally they came to believe that something terrible was about to break loose specifically that their parents were going to kill them if they didn't kill their parents first mental health experts testified and said that was understandable Eric and ly Menendez purchased the shotguns for their own protection it was a high stakes defense and by far the most important Witnesses would be the brothers themselves would the jury believe them would America coming up my dad had been molesting me I just told him that I didn't want to do this and that it hurt me shocking then chilling even now was it the truth what's the message that you're trying to get out to young people no what is in the drug Supply we've got important news this hour about your money mental health big picture why is it so tough right now news for the generation of now is NBC news now more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization news lives in the now the front lines are still very active this is like quicksand and officials say an entire town is cut off this close to actually understand why people had to jump in the ocean news for the generation of now is NBC News Now people really don't know what's going to happen near a dozen hours after the eye 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acne this is my favorite tip of the day brilliant brilliant brilliant oh that's genius you just saved me 40 bucks news lives in the now look at this you can't even see anything anymore let's break down what we know you got to see this news for the generation of now is NBC News [Music] Now who report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7: on NBC News now the paper towel will absorb the acid that's crazy green tea to calm acne this is my favorite tip of the day brilliant brilliant brilliant oh that's genius you just saved me 40 bucks [Applause] [Music] so what was it then according to lesie Abramson there was only one relevant question to consider in the Menendez murders why did these killings occur a question the brothers believed they could answer best no one had ever seen televised testimony like this before your full name spell your last name Joseph ly Menendez the brothers testified in graphic emotional terms about what they said were the darkest secrets of their family between the ages of six and 8 did your father have sexual contact with you yes we would be in the bathroom and uh um it would he would put me on my knees and uh have oral sex with him did you want to do this at some point did he do some other things to you you break me did you ask him not to yes I just told him that I didn't want to do this and that it hurt me and he said that he didn't mean to hurt me and he loved me what did he tell you about telling people he just said that was our secret that bad things would happen to me if I told anybody Lyall testified his father stopped abusing him when he turned eight he said for years he had no idea his brother was a victim too then Eric took the stand he would have me give him me oral sex and he would stick the needles or the tax into my thighs uh as he was doing this Eric testif that when he refused to cooperate with his father's demands he came back with the knife he put it on my neck he said I should kill you and next time I will reaction to the brother's testimony was to say the least polarized you either totally believe that the brothers had been abused or know you thought the whole thing was a complete Croc of you know what but the defense said the brother's explosive claims were just the leadup the backstory to what really prompted the murders what do you believe was the originating cause of you and your brother ultimately winding up shooting your parents me telling Lyall that uh you telling L what was it you telling Lyall about something that was happening my dad my dad had been molesting me and had been right up until the murders Eric said and he testified that his mother was aware of it all she says I know I've always known what you think I'm stupid Lyall said he confronted his father several days before the murders I told him I would tell everybody everything about him I would tell the police and that I would tell the family then according to Lyle his father said something that sounded like a threat he said we all make choices in life son Eric made his you've made yours I thought we were in danger and so the brothers drove down to San Diego to buy the shotguns for protection they said two days later said Lyall he and his father had another argument about the abuse after which ly said his parents went into the den and shut the door and I thought there were going ahead with their plan to kill us remember Jose and kitty kept two rifles in the house so what did you do I ran upstairs to tell my brother that it was happening now they ran out to the car loaded their guns and burst through the den door I was just firing as I went into the room I just started firing in what direction in front of me what was in front of you my parents at some point point was your gun empty yes I could see somebody uh moving seemed like moving in the direction of where my brother should be Lyle said he returned to the car reloaded and ran back into the house and what did you do after you Reloaded I ran around and shot my mom so did they act well in the mistaken belief they were defending their own lives yes said the defense a classic case of imperfect self-defense perfect nonsense said the prosecutor she grilled ly on cross-examination when you put the shotgun up against her left cheek and you pulled the trigger did you love your mother yes and was that an act of Love Mr Man is was confusion and fear you were afraid of her at that point they slaughtered their mother in a way that was so cruel she got up to run and they went out and they reloaded and they put the gun up to her cheek and blew her brains out I'm sorry that is the height of Cruelty what's more observed reporter Alan abrahamson let's count how many seconds it might take to go out to the car walk walk walk walk walk grab the shotgun shell put the shotgun shell in run back in remember time is ticking time is ticking you put the barrel of that shotgun against her cheek and you pull that is Intent no doubt about it the prosecution believed the brothers were flat out lying about the abuse and the events leading up to the murder and as it turned out their testimony gave the state a big opening they offered their mental state as a defense and when you offer your mental state as a defense you have waved your psychiatric patient privilege the oal tape remember that by testifying the brothers had put their mental state on Center Stage meaning the tape was Now Fair Game the defense played the tape to take the sting out of it what Eric and I did took courage beyond belief detective zuller remember had never heard the tape before and he was dumbfounded this was supposedly a candid confession tape but on it the brothers never once mentioned the issue that was now the very core of their defense why did you ever murder your parents oh because they were sexually molesting us that never came out why wouldn't he tell us therapist big deal the prosecution thought so but by then the jury had already heard many hours of tearful testimony about abuse and that is when in December 1993 they retired to consider a verdict well we made a mistake right off the bat Hazel Thornton was on Eric's jury we took a show of hands as to what level of guilt we thought they were and it became immediate that it was men against women murder versus Man manslaughter the main issue said Hazel was a Brother's story of of the abuse the women believed them the men did not did discussions get heated oh yes the public thinks that the women were emotional in the trial it was the men who were emotional they pounded their fist on the table they called us names they yelled at us those tumultuous deliberations carried on into the new year and then Southern California's San Fernando Valley shattered early this morning by a a major earthquake a massive 6.7 earthquake shook Southern California the backdrop against which the jurries would deliver a decision that shocked the world coming up OJ Simpson when OJ Simpson went home at the end of his trial it was very hard in the DA's office that explosive case is about to cast a shadow over this one when dat line continues news lives in the now look at this you can't even see anything anymore let's break down what we know you got to see this news for the generation of now is NBC news now good to have you with us I'm Joe frier and I'm Savannah sers developing right now on Morning News Now growing frustrations over the migrant crisis reports of new drone attacks by Tru militants the storm is creating dangerous conditions all across the region now let's get to some Financial headlines new rules are coming to cap credit card late fees talking tuition is a new class of fr gets ready to go to college this is a big decision for families do you think this could impact how people vote 100% Morning News Now streaming week days at 7 News lives in the now it's coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters they're asking that the hostages demanding that the hostages be released now is raw a this tunnel just goes on and on and on now is real this is it we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant morning news now or Breaking News NBC News special report you got to see this the future is now news for the generation of now is NBC news now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this aan or not the craziest ride I have ever hitched that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC news now to report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC news now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hit that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel good in space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC News Now what is going to happen now going back and forth oh yeah nice to see [Music] you the NBC News Mobile app get connected to your favorite news shows for the top stories breaking news and live video download the NBC News Mobile app now [Music] the court finds based upon after 6 months of trial two juries one result therefore I find that the jury is hopelessly deadlocked and uh the court declares a mistrial the juries couldn't make up their minds nearly half of them on each panel voted for manslaughter da Gil garetti vowed to retry the case we have an ethical professional and moral responsibility to go forward with this case as a first deegree murder case but before that second trial could begin OJ happened and suddenly the stakes were even bigger Mr Garcetti was very upset about the fact that we couldn't win the big one yeah and when OJ Simpson went home at the end of his trial it was very hard in the DA's office we were you know nationally considered to be kind of losers the second Menendez trial began just 8 days after OJ's AC quid with judge Weisberg presiding again the same judge the same case but this time the trial was fundamentally different the first major ruling judge weisser made was no TV Camera in the courtroom this time one jury for both brothers judge Weisberg also scaled back testimony about the brother's alleged phys physical and sexual abuse cousin Diane for example was able to testify just not about ly telling her that his father was molesting him one reason that couldn't come in was because this time around Lyall didn't take the stand to lay the foundation about abuse in the first place in between the two trials there were allegations that he was asking people to fabricate testimony letters surfaced after the first trial in which Lyall was alleged to have encouraged people to lie for the defense so the defense decided they couldn't put him on the witness stand so Eric Mendez had to carry the ball for both brothers and he was a good witness but he was not as strong as ly Menendez had been at the first trial and that expert testimony about the impact of the alleged abuse on the brother's State of Mind judge Weisberg severely limited the number of experts because he felt their testimony was repeative one not allowed to testify was Dr vicory I was shocked I said well they've gutted the defense I mean the there there is no defense without that that specific ruling was in large part due to the objections raised by the new prosecutor leading the people's case Deputy da David KH one thing that we have asked the judge to do is to limit the so-called abuse excuse the uh approach that the prosecutor David Khan took was to attack at every at every turn and not give any free uh passes there Andrew wolfberg is a lawyer today back then he was the youngest member of the Menendez retrial jury at the time the defense attorney was saying this was a family that was win at all costs the ends justify the means to say that their parents had abused them was almost like the ends Justified the means let's make up the story about abuse but one thing jurors figured was not made up was that confession tape this time the prosecution got to use that wild card the way they wanted to as their Smoking Gun and they highlighted a section where the brothers seemed to have no remorse about what they had done you miss just having these people around I miss not having my dog around I can make such a gross that really just was a a punch in the gut and then just before the jury went out judge Weisberg last ruling and quite possibly the most important one of all the jurors would not be allowed to consider an imperfect self-defense judge Weisberg basing his ruling on a California Supreme Court decision that came down after the first Menendez trial said imperfect self-defense didn't apply because the brothers initiated the confrontation with their parents do you think in retrospect had you been offered imperfect self-defense that you might have Maybe started in a different place or come to a different conclusion I'm pretty confident that we would not have because we literally started from first degree murder and when every element was satisfied we were done this time around the deliberations were quicker more congenial and certain the verdicts was guilty on all counts with special circumstances guilty of first-degree murder but the fates of Lyall and Eric Menendez were not the only headlines more came in the penalty phase Dr vicory finally got to testify and under oath he had to admit something the drama involves this man defense psychiatrist William vicory who has disclosed that he deleted dozens of portions of his notes because quote Leslie Abramson told me this has to come out what did it feel like to be you in that particular circumstance of your life well it was very traumatic traumatic indeed the doctor said lesie Abramson asked him to delete notes she felt could be viewed as evidence of premeditation and reluctantly he said he agreed the California medical board punished vicory 34 months probation Abramson disputed vicary's version of events and after an investigation the State Bar years later cited insufficient evidence of violations and closed her case in the end all her efforts did not spare the menendez's brothers from a life sentence I think it's fairness has been drained out of the system decades later that question whether the second trial was fair is still being debated it's a tale of two trials the trials couldn't have been more different Cliff Gardner was the attorney appointed to handle ly's appeal so it was sort of a one two three punch no Source evidence no l no expert testimony and then your defense doesn't go to the jury but the was the same judge in both trials it was the same judge so what's the explanation for the difference it's a it's a very good question I don't have an answer to it in this audio of ly's federal appeal hearing at judge also questioned why so many key rulings changed in trial number two a little distasteful than when the state doesn't succeed in convicting somebody in one set of rules it so changes the rules dramatically grounds to vacate their convictions and what do the brothers have to say all these years later 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know we're supposed to be doing it what is it doing for our health what needs to change for social media to be a safer Place NBC News Daily weekdays from 12:00 to 4: on NBC News Now what is going to happen now going back and forth CU oh yeah nice to see you [Music] in 2005 after years of failed appeals the Menendez brothers case went to the federal court it was their last chance the court denied it maintaining the state court made reasonable rulings in light of the facts and did not violate federal law ly Menendez was 49 years old and had spent nearly half his life in prison when he agreed to talk to us hello hello so here we are all these years later we spoke with ly Menendez for more than 2 hours he was confident articulate and 28 years later still eager to explain why he and his brother killed their parents he shared intimate details about his childhood and the Betrayal he said he felt when Eric confided to him days before the murders that their father was still molesting him my father's raped I said nothing and I just feel like part of that pack I have with my dad and I I keeping this secret and for you to have done this to my brother it's like I kept my part of that sort of Devil's pack and you didn't you know and and my mother just you know you let your children wake up in the home of a child molester every day Lyall testified in the trial that not only did his mother cover for her husband's actions she also sexually abused him more than a quarter Century after the murders those feelings of anger and hurt were still close to the surface my mother was very cruel uh I believe she just very much resented uh my brother and I from early early on as if you and Eric had come between her and your father yes exactly we reminded him of what his prosecutors still say about him that Lyle is still trying to avoid some level of responsibility by blaming abuse when the abuse doesn't appear to have been so bad as to is to cause a person to do that I would trade my entire defense for a 30- second video of my father uh raping me I I would trade my whole case for it because I think it's so sanitized and so easy to use the word abuse oh abuse the abuse wasn't so bad let's get down to the incident itself when did you and Eric decide to kill your parents uh we didn't decide to do it uh it was uh we finally uh just kind of overwhelmed with this panic and emotion and made the decision to to run in that room the outside world saw what they thought was evidence of a lot of premeditation um using a friend's driver's license to you know hide the fact that you went to San Diego and got weapons I'd have to say keep it there's you know it's not really entirely accurate I didn't have a California ID so there was no way to purchase a weapon uh other than my brother using this other kid's ID but no disputing it they did buy the guns in advance with a stolen ID and there was this irrefutable fact the prosecutor pointed out l reloaded and fired that final shot at his mother's face while she was still alive and crawling desperately to get away they saw that as the evidence of premeditation and cruelty I certainly in the room wasn't making kind of decisions in a chaotic situation like that but you know reflecting afterwards you know uh it haunts me it it does haunt me the other uh comment that would come up was well they you know they could have just gone out and got in the car and driven away you know they they didn't have to do this a person like my father is not going to allow you to just take something that will ruin his life that he has so carefully crafted he's not going to he's not going to no but but but but but you could have left that's the point I'm trying to make but leave and do what leave and just wait for yourself to be killed in a parking lot I mean you really thought that would happen tell who they didn't believe anyone would help them said not even the police speaking of which that 911 call Lyle Made Who is the person that was shot my mom and my dad you were so uh you know um grief stricken on that call and lying at the same time yeah uh what H uh I don't think I was grief stricken I think I was just absolutely broken down with stress both of us were just in such a state of trauma that I just it just poured through on that call and made it very easy to make that call really you know but you could have told them inste you misled them why why that well I I mean I don't think uh I was going to tell the B Hill Police Department you know I killed my parents and here's a lie and they were going to go okay go back home so this self-preservation at that point Lyle strongly denied the prosecution's claim that he and Eric killed their parents from money furthermore he said he didn't think their case should have even gone to trial this case should have been settled uh there are like two two to 300 parasite cases a year where a parent is killed by a child and they are almost all related to abuse and they are almost all settled this case they picked out as different yeah but while it was different guys like you in places like you lived and acts like you committed I mean this it's this is a spy deal exactly and I think that it was very easy because it was Beverly Hills my father had a lot of money to sort of sell this headline that these brothers killed for money you haven't seen Eric in how long wow 1996 getting to be a long time yeah I miss brother every day Eric Mendez declined our interview request at the time he'd been married for 18 years Lyall for 14 and remember Eric had said both he and his brother wanted to pursue careers in politics in a highly unusual way they've done it sort of Eric started a life care and hospice program for inmates at the Richard Donovan correctional facility near San Diego and 500 mil North Lyle was president of the the inmate government at Mule Creek State Prison I know it's going to be uh a suffering for me but I feel like uh I can find some purpose here then in February 2018 a reunion of sorts Lyle was moved to the same facility where Eric was serving his sentence they were even housed in the same unit ly's former appellant attorney told us if the brothers can produce new evidence of the abuse it would be the first step toward perhaps getting a third trial even he admits it's a long shot but if it did happen two people surely wouldn't be there defense attorney lesie Abramson is retired from law and did not respond to our interview request as for prosecutor Pam banic you really think that this kind of wrecked your career oh I did of course it did but it's okay because if I'd won the case I probably never would have been a mother I probably would have gone on some to or something and I wouldn't be Natalie's mom and so it does have a happy ending before she left the DA's office bam banic took something with her a picture of kitty not this one no she took one from the crime scene she had blue eyes and one little blue eye is open and the other one's gone you might think I'm a little crazy to keep that picture but it's a reminder of what those horrible children did to her can you imagine giving birth and then giving everything you have to these two kids and they kill you the Manda Brothers have supporters who hope they get out of prison one day when we last checked lyall's Facebook followers numbered in the thousands fair to say Pam banic is not one of them life in prison for those two is just fine I hope they live a long long life that's all for now I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining us there was a party there was a UK football player that been shot he's killed on his birthday I was like it's who that can't happen why him no one saw a thing it's at night it's dark nobody knows where the bullet comes from nothing is making it any easier if you don't have a motive it's hard to know which direction to go we were just never going to know but someone knew she called me and said I think I know something about a murder we never could find out why Trent was killed because it was something this weird she became the key would she also become the next victim she was scared to death to confront him question do not me she knew what he he was capable of and thus she was terrified and thus she was terrified a woman solves a mystery and then vanishes I'm Lester Holt and this is dat line here's Keith Morrison with the motive her heart was on fire lost to her the c music the hum of other voices in the bar there was only him they were in the deep end now and as Lovers In the Flesh of new commitment sometimes do they confessed their sins of the abandoned past the worst things they'd ever done words just words best forgotten until they could no longer be [Music] ignored like Kentucky one year before that night in the bar a house where students live and the music and laughter and chatter of a birthday party swelled and ebbed and drifted in and out of the evening air it wasn't a huge party it was a just a low-key party with some good friends they were about to be seniors the young men who' rented the place who' hosted the party and we had a a group of guys four guys that got along extremely well they were big men on campus they played football the University of kuy's beloved wild cats Antonio oero was a quarterback and lik in Kentucky if if you play for the cats you're pretty much a wellknown entity the birthday boy 21 years old was a true Rarity a Wild Cat's walk-on he had no scholarship no invitation he just showed up tried out for the team go and over three years of hard work he had earned a starting position here we go let go Trent deir gentle giant you know everybody called him a big teddy bear he was the great protector of all of our friends the party was sweet informal friends snap pictures and evening doled into night it was after midnight when the party W down I think we turned in somewhere between 12:3 1:00 Antonio and his girlfriend went to bed outside Trent and some of the others settled under the light on the front porch out there beyond the street lights was impenetrable dark inside we're already in a faint sleep and we heard a loud bang one of them must have slammed the screen door but no well within 10 seconds you started to hear the chaos outside the screaming the yelling the crying and there was Trent slumped to one side in his chair under the light Trent was bleeding out of his ears and his eyes and his nose and his mouth and it was it was a horrific scene horrific and confusing that loud bang had been a gunshot but from where somewhere out there in the dark had someone intentionally fired a gun at their gentle giant their teddy bear in their panic and distress they did not understand how could they the nature of the mystery launched here or who in a haze of love may have learned the answer he was just so senseless once you found out why it was even worse just who was Trent deiro the target we all started hanging out from first grade six years old it's pretty neat yeah Payton Turner and chery Lee Ballinger were his lifelong friends if you were his friend you were his friend and that's all the matter he it wasn't a group for him yeah there was no group everybody got treated just the same Trent was in fourth grade when he started playing football in his hometown of Goan Kentucky just outside Louisville by high school he was captain of the team had lots of friends so popular Trent was homecoming King with chery Lee his Queen it was pretty special I mean just to be part of that and and to be voted as that and then was especially with Trent when it came time for college Trent set his sights high he turned down football scholarships to smaller schools at one point he says you know what I just got to know if I can play in the big time and a division one school Mike deero is Trent's dad so he walked on at the University of Kentucky which is in the Southeast Conference which is sure about as big as a comp and he worked real hard to get to where he was and Trent's teammates saw that hard work Trent had the to perform so while he might have been a walk-on his performance allowed him to endear himself to others very quickly that July as Trent practiced football and prepared for his senior year his parents went to Lexington to see him and to talk about his future he was trying to decide what he wanted to do with his life he was uh talking about maybe going to law school or business school did he talk about his birthday celebration we knew he was going to have some kind of a thing and that he was supposed to come home that next day to celebrate birthday with us and uh never made it no and a creeping fear washed over the University of Kentucky football team was a killer targeting them and if so who would be next when we return the investigation begins I couldn't even believe it we didn't understand it who would murder somebody so wonderful everyone talks uh but they didn't see anything and was there more terror to come we were so nervous 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friend stood over the body and stared out into the dark with a kind of anticipating horror you're concerned that there's more to come you know there was that was one shot is if someone who's going to shoot again Trant was officially pronounced dead at 3:00 a.m. just about the time Dawn Evans arrived Evans has retired now but was a rookie detective back then this was his first homicide case what'd you find when you got here there were three young men in this very yard and they just looked distraught and they were consoling each other on the porch Trent's chair was turned over and Evans could see blood and debris left by the ambulance crew what was your first idea of what appeared to have happened you know when I first walked up it I went with what appeared to be the obvious that someone had simply walked from the side of the house fired the shot and then exited back toward the rear of the house this is almost like an alley here so it's like well it would provide concealment take advantage of surprise yeah if someone was going to take a shot that made the most sense believing the shot came from a handgun police looked for shell casings and yet for all they looked there were none nor any other evidence still detective Evans figured there was a party that night so there were bound to be people who saw something my thought was as soon as I get them to headquarters and get them separated someone's going to tell me what happened did they talk everyone talked but with each and every person that I talked to they didn't see anything 80 Mi away at 5:00 a.m. the deo's phone rang it's numbing it's hard to imagine the feeling and suddenly your life doesn't make sense anymore it absolutely stops and pivots in an instant and uh then it was kind of you know now what and soon everybody knew I couldn't even believe it who didn't understand it who would murder somebody so wonderful it was about not then that the first really useful evidence came back from the medical examiner bullet fragments were recovered in the autopsy and the ballistic showed it wasn't a handgun at all that killed Trent it was a rifle which turned detective evans's first Theory upside down well the theory about walking up the side of the house and firing the shot that goes out the window that's probably out the window rifle's not designed for a close range shot officers canvased the neighborhood a woman who lived across the street said she awoke to a loud noise and it sounded like it was right outside her house so based on that we actually took one of our marksmen from the police department and asked him could the shot be made from here from this angle and we literally reenacted that possibility did it make sense the the location you found it did make sense we didn't eliminate the possibility that something else could occur but this this looked pretty strong to us so a working theory that Trent was shot from across the street ballistic suggested it was a rifle with a particular and uncommon type of barrel but who owned it why did he or she shoot Trent no idea the football team Ed a world of dread was some hater targeting the team was one of them next we were so nervous we were so uncertain of what happened that night that it affected our daily lives driving down the street at practice thinking that there might be someone in the woods who want to take you out but days and weeks and months went by nothing happened and over time the fear eroded but the investigation went nowhere did you ever get to the place where you thought we'll just have to live with this uncertainty for the rest of our lives I would say four years into it it's like do make any difference yeah not going to bring it back it it's not going to bring Trent back but still it's why did this happen you're four years in five years in and really no closer to solving it than from first case day one that will make you doubt yourself and then one day a particular woman happened to see an anniversary story about the unsolved murder of the football player back in Kentucky a woman who' once sat in a bar in a fog of love and who now was quite terrified coming up this could be the reason that we never could find out why Trent was killed is because it was something this weird when dat line continues news lives in the now it's coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news is more now than ever just outside of the Israeli military headquarters they're asking that the hostages demanding that the hostages be released now is raw this tunnel just goes on and on and on now is real this is it we get to see democracy in action for the very first time in the 2024 race now is constant morning news now or Breaking News NBC News special report you got to see this future is now news for the generation of now is NBC News Now nearly a dozen hours after the ey roared ashore there is some late breaking news all right what's the message that you're trying to get out to young people 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still outstanding news for the generation of now is NBC News Now tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the [Music] G Kristen Welker hosts Meet the Press every Sunday on NBC [Music] it wasn't as if a successful investigation could somehow undo what happened to Trent deiro and yet the lack of any answer year after year seemed somehow to be an insult to all that was good and they just had to accept it I think we'd all kind of resigned ourselves as every year passed um we were just never going to know then it was about 5 years after the shooting a local attorney named Tom bulock heard from an old friend a woman she was nervous tentative asked him on the phone could she reveal what she knew about a crime without saying who she was she was extremely evasive she didn't really want to tell me really anything but she kept calling finally she revealed it she was calling about a murder did she tell you what murder she eventually came around to say it was a very high-profile murder where'd you mind go when you heard that I knew which one it was and then she told him a very strange story happened in a bar she said almost a year after Trent deiro was killed she was falling hard for a guy they talked about how much they loved each other towards the end of the evening they decided to say okay what is the worst thing that you've done like let's get this out of the way let's just get to it you know that that sort of point in the relationship where you say Let me hear the worst and her boyfriend said I killed Trent deiro and at first she sort of slued it off you know uh sure you did didn't believe him no of course not but then he started describing it you know exactly how he did it but she still didn't want to believe it after all she'd fallen in love with the guy so she said she kind of buried it stayed with him for another year but now years later and Single Again she had seen a story in the newspaper about the fifth anniversary of Trent's murder in which Trent's dad was quoted somebody knows what happened she started really thinking about it and and it touched her but she was so frightened of him she said she was determined to remain anonymous they know each other intimately she knows how he would react to certain situations yep and she was terrified he certainly would have remembered his conversations with her if you told someone that you committed a murder mhm you would certainly remember having told them that so Tom bulock went to detective Evans we agreed that whatever information I would give him would be anonymous because for all we know the whole thing could have been hogwash well that's sort of tricky isn't it I mean when you got somebody making an accusation you you have to be able to talk to that person well yeah but at that point Beggars can't be choosers so he gave you a name so he gave me a name he gave me the name of Shane Ragland Shane Ragland the woman's ex-boyfriend but who was he didn't take long to find out Shane was the son of a wealthy businessman just so happened Shane attended the University of Kentucky at the very same time as Trent deiro but after college he didn't do so well he ran up at least a dozen convictions drug charges multiple DUIs and so on so detective Evans went back to attorney bullet is there any more um can you get me anymore and and ultimately he started talking about a motive and that's when the whole story took a turn into the Twilight Zone he told me that it was concerning Shang Raglin being blackballed from a fraternity what' you think when you heard that that's a stupid reason to kill somebody the fraternity in question was Sigma Alpha Epsilon SAE detective Evans looked through sae's records and there it was a pledge list with Shane's name crossed off and then it it hit this could be the reason that we never could find out why Trent was killed is because it was something something this weird Evans went to one of Trent's closest friends and asked had he heard of this guy Shane Raglin and he said Shane Raglin and then I could just sort of see it at that point on his face you know and I let him tell the story a story about an unpleasant little incident Shane was among the freshmen pledging the SAE fraternity and one day as they were getting to know the campus they went into Trent's dorm and Trent was there and on the wall was a calendar of some sorority girls when Shane saw that calendar right away he pointed to one of the girls pictures and he bragged that he'd had sex with her what Shane didn't know is that girl was the girlfriend of the president of the fraternity Trent did not like that one bit got word to the SAE president and and that's when Shane was blackballed so at that point Shane's opportunity to be in that fraternity is pretty much over the motives for murder are many and varied but this seemed absurd it was 3 years after that slight when Trent was murdered in Cold Blood could it really have festered so long and if it had if that was true they had another problem and the more that we dug specifically into Shane Raglin the more the likelihood that he would get word that he was becoming a suspect in this case and if that happened this Anonymous witness was in real danger Evans had no doubt that Shane would remember he told an ex-girlfriend about the murder and what's going to keep him from then going up and eliminating her like he did trenis arel so now Evans understood his mystery witness was trying to be brave but was quite reasonably frightened how would he ever convince her to take the ultimate risk she was very hesitant to do it and she was scared to death to confront him coming up setting a trap isn't bothering me something that you told me a long time ago that would you never have but who's going to get caught question you're not when dat line continues news lives in the now it's coming at us every second from all over the world we have a full team news 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NBC News Now are you comfortable with the role the Supreme Court is playing in the 2024 election is there not more that Israel can do to help the humanitarian crisis should abortion be the number one issue in 2024 if it's Sunday it's Meet the Press we're talking possibly a trillion galaxies that is a number that is just so hard to compute whether it's the moon whether it's Mars it feels like we are on the cusp of something big [Music] [Music] we report live from Tel Aviv from buz Mexico tonight top story reporting from Baltimore at the Key Bridge disaster when you look over your shoulder and you see the Key Bridge what goes through your head that bridge has been here longer than I've been alive it's still doesn't feel real hundreds of Israelis have gathered to demonstrate what are the people in Gaza do you think what they need most place for Palestinians and Israelis have found Common Ground every night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC 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sparkling now you've laid down the gauntlet so we have to continue to speak until it starts to Sparkle sparkling is [Music] happening what is going to happen now going back and forth all right nice to see you [Music] detective Evans knew he had to meet this Mystery Woman the woman who was claiming she knew what happened to Trent deiro but was too frightened to talk about it then finally with attorney Tom bulock playing gatekeeper they made a deal to at least meet face to face but any more than that maybe not he was like listen don't get me involved in this yeah this guy's dangerous so until you get handcuffs on him you can't involve me but Evans knew even if he did arrest the guy a mystery woman testifying about something an ex-boyfriend told her wouldn't be enough and I can imagine a prosecutor saying well I can't just put her on the stand some his attorney will come along and say she's full of it you know yeah and in this particular case it's yeah you know what that in itself is not going to do it nor should it we're still in a situation where this has to come from him him meaning Shane Ragland Evans told her they had to find a way to get Shane to admit on tape what he did otherwise what jury would buy such a ludicrous motive for murder there was only one way he told her she'd have to wear a wire she wasn't very happy with that obviously I should think not she asked me if I could spell anonymous but he said she came around she won wanted to do what's right all along she just would like to do that without getting herself killed doing it but she would only proceed on one condition I had to prove why she was going to be safe I had to prove how we were going to do this it wasn't enough for me to say oh don't worry he won't have a gun we'll look for bulges so they came up with a plan gave her a cover story to protect her a fictitious job a phony address and then casually she resumed contact with Shane a few emails little flirty at times on both stands people sometimes hear from their exes right I mean that that happens and finally The Sting She told Shane she'd be passing through the Lexington airport on business and he agreed to meet her it was in this airport lounge surrounded by undercover cops and FBI and behind security to be sure Shane wasn't armed what's been happening about two years they reminisced for an hour or so tell me the good thing that you remember about our relationship to love just goic and then she went for it something has been bothering me something that you told me a long time ago I wish you never had I didn't know how you feel about it now so I can understand what kind of person you are now at that point he paused and it's like he knew exactly what she was talking about I regreted you do know did it before and you know what it is not knowing the name was it Trent not knowing him I just kind of ignored it all the time saying Trent's name was deliberate we talk to her about that and let's make sure we know what you're talking about when we play this for a jury later and she brought up what appeared to be the motive that fraternity blackballing how could you be mad that mad for somebody to do that that over that's stupid do you ever think about it uncomfort talking about I'm sorry but this something I have to get off my chest because I have to live with it too you know I mean do you plan on ever telling anybody about what you did was he sensing something the cops knowing they didn't quite have what they needed not yet held their breath and listened let me you question you're not s me I've never told anybody I'm just I'm getting this we I've never told anybody swear to me set me up I'm scared to death he said are you setting me up and that's when things got really scary but she kept her cool and they did and then about 10 minutes later Shane came back with just what the detectives needed to hear very very very I can't so stupid I know I was angry at him I made theong decision's do she made him so confident and comfortable that he came back to the subject and left us with what we really needed uh at that point it came out of his own mouth they picked him up the next day took him downtown asked him was it true what an old girlfriend was telling them so she tells us you sit there and you talk about the murder she's a liar basically CU it never happened she's just making that up to 100% absolutely there was absolutely nothing Shane denied it all denied knowing Trent didn't even know where he lived t i talking about Trent with her I never mentioned his name once she never nothing about that nothing about M nothing about the murder or anything so then his inquisitors fetched the air airport recording I'm going to play something here for and I want you to listen to it okay something has been bothering me something that you told me a long time ago that wish she never had you telling me that you didn't talk about Trent that's not the truth is it she may have said Trent we were talking about stuff but I didn't hear her say Trent I didn't talk about Trent I swear to you guys I did not do this but his denials were to no avail Shane Ragin was charged with murder bail was set and and Shane's wealthy father paid it a million dollars cash so Shane was free pending trial which was a very big problem for the ex-girlfriend who turned him in police moved her to a secure location kept an eye on her and then strange things started happening we got information from our state police intelligence section that there was a hit out on this girl there were phone calls to her friends that would ask have you seen her do you know where she is these these days obviously trying to locate her and with all that going on she had to do precisely what she didn't want to do go public show herself and testify and the world would know that her name was Amy Lloyd and that she was truly terrified coming up told me that he shotting the defense hits back hard if in fact someone had actually told you they had 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defense argued that tests were not reliable science call your next witness Amy Lloyd and now nearly 8 years after Trent was killed here was the one person who could tell the story Amy Lloyd Finally Revealed herself publicly though because she remains frightened even now we've obscured Her Image in this video recorded by the court the prosecution star witness talked about that night in a bar and Shane according to her straight out confessing to murder he said something about he know he had um if I remember the football player who had been killed and told me his name Trent and told me that he shot him but prosecutor redcorn knew Amy's story had a weakness and so no choice but to confront it you did not break off the relationship after he said this to you no you didn't go to the police or anything no I I just I ignored it just ignored what he had said to you right I forgot about it I didn't want to listen to it I didn't want to hear it I didn't want to believe it why because she was in love with him she said during Amy's testimony the prosecutor played the tape the sting meeting at the airport so stupid I was angry at made the wrong decision that said the prosecutor clear as day was an admission that he did indeed commit the murder how to defend against that Shane's father hired a formidable defense team gri TR was one of Shane's lawyers if in fact someone had actually told you they had engaged in uh killing of another person and you continue a romantic relationship with them that seems a bit a bit odd when the defense cross-examined Amy she knew it was coming had had to an attack on her credibility but could she have suspected how personal it would be this from tru's co-counsel when Amy said she went home with Shane that night after he talked about killing someone weren't you concerned about spending the night with somebody who had admitted to you that he had killed someone else I blocked it from my mind I didn't want to I didn't want to hear that and then a kind of nervous embarrassment filled the courtroom the defense had gotten access to Amy's very personal very explicit diary and confronted her with her entries one by x-rated one we are trying to challenge The credibility of the prosecution's uh case and sometimes that gets uncomfortable this is what Amy wrote the day after she she said Shane confessed to her to murder April the 30th the very next day you you make a notation made love in afternoon great day we have for the sake of decency left out the most explicit entries made public by the defense that day and then may the 3D was the date that you recorded you took a bath together and made love right yes then it was on May the 7th you know ated you you noted great love decided I would move in with him in July perfect yes so this man who told you that he had killed someone you made the decision that you were going to move in with him come you life yes so was her credibility harmed there was still after all that incriminating airport recording or was it incriminating you never did ask him though if he had shot and killed Trent did you why would I want he already told me and if I said to him did you kill Trent when he already knew he told me five years ago he would have he would have known that I was that I was there in fact to to set him up get him to get him to admit it hadn't you rehearsed that rehearsed what with the detective Evans and others don't give him an opportunity to deny that he had shocked Trent no had the defense planted a seed of reasonable doubt maybe the jury adjourned to think about it and Trent's friends waited I've never been so terrified and so scared of my life heart's going 100 miles an hour and 100 miles an hour and 5 hours later we the jury find the defendant guilty of intentional murder guilty of intentional murder the sentence 30 years to know that he was guilty know that this guy who's sitting there smug and non remorseful is is guilty and found guilty and boom you feel good about that Mike deiro thought it was done okay this is it he's going to jail it's over and Amy she had vanished Amy was afraid of Shane racklin and we told her that if she testified we would do what we could to let her have a new identity and law enforcement helped her get a new identity and that new identity would be a problem you talk about something that that just blows you away I mean I can't even couldn't even grasp that because this case wasn't over not even close coming up a stunning reversal they know I'm innocent will there ever be Justice for Trent it's oh wow here we go all over again when dat line continues we report live from Tel Aviv from harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas stre streaming week nights at 7: on NBC News [Music] Now people really don't know what's going to happen a dozen hours after the eye roared ashore there's more good people than bad people you know 5 there is some late breaking news for in the Iowa 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will and won't you Crews officials will do almost anything they can to get it back open ASAP so how s is the p in other words how soon will will it be open I can keep talking till the Eiffel Tower starts sparkling now you've laid down the gauntlet so we have to continue to speak until it starts to Sparkle it sparkling is [Music] happening tonight the state of emergency here in Baltimore should people be concerned about the safety of flying today closer to the [Music] Gaza the NBC News Mobile app get connected Ed to your favorite news shows for the top stories breaking news and live video download the NBC News Mobile app [Music] now it was early spring in Kentucky when Justice was done for the murder of Trent deiro thanks his friends new to a woman who faced up to fear and told her story we've never met Amy and I am eternally grateful to Amy for everything that she's done for not only um Trent and his family but for us except there was an appeal of course there was standard procedure but what happened was not standard at all a court reversed the jury's decision any comments Shane and Shane Ragin went home on a million dollar bail paid by his dad to wait for a whole new trial it's been a long time sh be outside be going home with your father right now I don't really look at it like that I look at the longterm goal of fighting a case against me that's fake it's false and they know I'm innocent and so I don't worry about my feelings Creature Comforts why was the verdict thrown out it had nothing to do with Amy Lloyd or her explosive testimony or the sting tape recorded at the airport all that was fine so what was the issue the bullet that killed Trent an FBI expert had linked the fragments of that bullet found during the autopsy to bullets like that were found in Shane's father's house but after Shane's conviction the FBI realized the test it used was in fact bad science and stopped using it these are things that we've been arguing for years frankly uh shouldn't have been admitted and the court agreed with the defense when this reversal happened what was that like well it was a blow I mean it was a real blow kind of an irony isn't it it was one of the smaller pieces of evidence in my mind yes when what you thought was done gets undone what does it do to you it's oh wow here we go all over again we got to go through this yet another time and the yet another time we realize pretty quickly was going to be without some key evidence yeah Amy Lloyd wasn't coming back no Amy Lloyd was not going to testify a second time that was the deal she made testify once then disappeared there was no way to bring her back because once someone has that level of cover you can't undo it bring him back and then do it again and then do it again remain seated order no option but to make a deal Shane got to plead guilty to second degree manslaughter and did you in fact commit the crime that you are pleading guilty to yes I did which meant that at least he now admitted to firing that fatal shot and I thought well we bargains you know spends another 10 years in jail I'm not too bad with that oh but it wasn't 10 more years wasn't any more years he got the time he'd already served 5 years plus just three days of house arrest three more days three more days he walked out of the courtroom went home and that really chapped my ass it did help a little said Mike deiro when he successfully sued Shane in civil court for wrongful death the jury awarded him 6 $3 million later reduced to 33 million no matter said Mike he hasn't received a penny doesn't expect to but money was never the point he's never really accepted responsibility for what he did Shane went on with his life and then a few years later he was involved in a serious car accident he's in a wheelchair now and was back in court on an unrelated case and what about Amy if that's even her name now how's she doing now she's living a new life what' she do you want to tell me anything anything at all I'm sorry but I'm not going to be able to tell you anything about her current life at all at all as for Mike he had a choice he knew he could sink into bitterness or so where do you put your frustrations over this well what has come from all this is a we consider very positive thing the Trent deiro Foundation has awarded nearly a 100 scholarships to walk on football players and others at the University of Kentucky and at local high schools young people with determination and personal courage just like Trent you'll never make any sense of his death but you can make sense of his life we can make sense of what we've done to commemorate Trent to remember for Trent and giving these young folks an opportunity that Trent won't have that's a whole another story but and remarkably Trent's friends remain exceedingly close even 25 years after that shot in the dark you feel like family now well they they are family I think it says so much about what Trent meant to these kids young adults now and what they mean to us it's been a blessing to us they all get together and laugh and tell stories and imagine who would he have become as an adult and gosh I'm sure it would been magnificent just as he was as a teenager I'm kind of pissed that I don't get to meet his wife or meet his kids or oh gosh share all the all the adult things that we've had the opportunity to share with each other but I think you know when I get rid of those like base feelings you know the underlying feeling is just of gratitude that he was in my life even for a brief moment of time [Music] that's all for now I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining [Music] us good morning it is 10:00 this is Sky News Today your headlines labor to unveil its election Manifesto with a promise to be Pro business and pro worker last night in Grimsby sakir starm was pressed and pressed on whether a labor government would raise taxes the Tories say you will go further they're right aren't they you will well the first thing I'd say is the T is in no position to lecture anyone about tax Rises well the audience were unimpressed by the prime minister's answer about NHS waiting lists I think there was a junior doctor here and I think everyone knows the impact the Industrial action has had that's why we haven't made as much fault the the Rish sunak is now in Italy for the G7 Summit as world leaders discuss a $50 billion loan for Ukraine also this morning P cry pledged to fight for economic fairness in Wales we'll bring you the party's Manifesto launch live later this hour Sky News has spoken to the family of an Israeli hostage rescued from G it's a of and did the earth move for you seismologist say Taylor Swift fans set off earthquake monitors at their concerts in [Music] Edinburgh hello and thank you for being with us a busy morning ahead another big day in the election campaign as we reach the high halfway stage in the next hour it's the labor party's turn to unveil their Manifesto now it comes after both sist Arma and the Prime Minister rishy sunak faced tough questioning from our political editor Beth Rigby at our leader event last night in Grimsby let's take a look at what we know so far this morning about what labor will be announcing what is expected to say it's a Manifesto for wealth creation some of Labour's policies include a plan to set up a new Industrial strategy and put a 25% cap on corporation tax they'll also introduce a national wealth fund aimed at investing in green Industries and Great British energy they're going to set up in a bids to give better energy Independence they'll develop a 10-year infrastructure strategy for Road and Rail and homes and will introduce plans to shift power away from Westminster by giving new responsibility to Regional Mayors the manifesto will feature a new deal for working people aimed at increasing wages including a ban on zero hour contracts and on the Health Service labor says it will cut waiting times by creating 40,000 more evening and weekend appointments each week the party will pledge not to raise rates of income tax National Insurance or vat but as widely publicized they will introduce VAT on private school fees well the reassurance we've given to parents who are running around this morning or getting ready for work or other people who are running around this morning getting ready for work is we're not going to put up their income tax their National Insurance or their vat there are plenty of practical changes positive changes in Labor's Manifesto today all of them fully costed all of them fully funded without having to increase the burden of Taxation on working people well let's bring in our correspondent Serena Baka Singh who was in Manchester for is where that Manifesto is going to be unveiled morning to you Serena so look we laid out some of the key points that we expect in this Manifesto when we hear it's just after 11:00 so perhaps no big surprises but that question about tax and what may happen if a labor government comes in will continue to follow the party around yes I think there was some unanswered questions on tax but k d yesterday said there were no new surprises so we may get slightly more detail but I think they feel like they've had that conversation in fact this whole Manifesto unveiling seems to seek to reassure rather than to really unveil any new big promises um and the messages and the themes might sound familiar but they know that this is their moment when people are tuning in are really listening and they want to make those messages super clear they also think there might be un some undecided voters who might be hearing these messages for the first time so that's really the central message they say they want to put wealth creation at the heart of it Center this all around the economy I'm actually inside uh the launch where it is people are just starting to arrive I've seen MPS Lords there's a feeling of excitement here and I think labor are starting to believe their poll lead they're starting to feel a little bit more comfortable and I think that will be the the feeling of the day um looking quite strong going into this uh speaking about messages that they've spoken to before but yes of course we will get that crucial document with costings in about an hour's time okay at Serena Bing For Us in Manchester for now we'll be back with you Serena of course later on in the morning but let's uh go across to Italy now because uh the Prime Minister R sunak has arrived at the G7 Summit we saw him in the headline sequence giving the Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney a bit of a kiss here he is arriving at this Summit of G7 leaders the uh Focus is expected to be on Ukraine of course and Gaza let's bring in our political correspondent Tamara Cohen who is in Italy for us now tomorrow morning to you great to have you with us so look we've seen G7 seen RI sunak there with Georgia Maloney we know that those two are had become quite close friends what are we expecting to hear from the Prime Minister today at this Summit and I guess it will be a bit of a distraction away from the campaign yes not just for richy cak that's the interesting thing about this G7 you've got Joe Biden and Emanuel macron facing elections Richi sunak and macron obviously quite imminently you've got other G7 leaders uh either talking openly about leaving the job or embroiled in domestic Scandal or difficulty after the European elections so it really feels like uh Georgia Malone is in a very strong position here hosting this Summit in Italy look top of the agenda is how to intens ify pressure on Russia and to help Ukraine president zalinski is here at the summit he'll be meeting Joe Biden later to sign a security pact with the US and the plan which they're hoping to get over the line here is that about 300 billion pounds of Russian assets which have been frozen all over the world could be leveraged on the international markets to provide a $50 billion loan to the ukrainians to buy the Weaponry that they need uh to pursue the war now this has taken some time to get to get to this stage there's been a lot of toing and throwing not least because some European countries feel that as Europe has most of these Frozen Russian assets they will be on the hook for all the risk so exactly how it will work is yet to be agreed and it will it's obviously all the leaders have feel this urgency to get it done today but there is a question about whether it gets over the line Richi sunak has said that's a priority for him he'll also be announcing just for the UK a 240 million pound Aid package to Ukraine for humanitarian assistance and rebuilding some of the energy networks that have been bombed by the Russians and he'll try to say that this Summit shows the UK is at the Forefront of the international response to Ukraine clearly there's an element here that whatever happens at the election he wants this to be part of his legacy the UK's commitment uh to Ukraine and he may have a moment with president zalinsky at some point during the summit and clearly he'll be hoping that it erases some of those headlines following his early exit from D-Day but I'm sure there will be questions for him here about domestic politics too yeah and he won't be leaving this event early I guess tomorrow after what happened with the D-Day one and just on the domestic politics then of course we saw uh his performance at the uh leaders event last night being grilled by our Beth Rigby I mean the the reviews are in and it was as if he seemed quite deflated quite down and we've seen him looking a bit bouncy and tigerish greeting Georgia Maloney right now what can we expect uh will be the Fallout from last night in terms of the way Rich carries himself today that's right I mean this could well be his last sort of moment on the international stage as prime minister he's at this Summit for three days then he goes to Switzerland on Saturday for a Ukraine peace Summit attended by some world leaders but he will know that this could be nearly the end in terms of him doing this kind of thing as prime minister and will want to take full advantage of it and hope they make some progress look the mood among the Tories I've spoken to is pretty downbeat I certainly spoke or heard from Tories last night who felt that the fight had gone out of him a bit on many of those questions that Beth was putting to him about the his failure to deliver on many of his five priorities the things that he said judge me on my record I want to stop the boat I want to get NHS waiting lists down and he was clear last night that he had not achieved many of those things and people would be disappointed he said and they would be frustrated yes our snap poll showed that K starma did better with the audience certainly there was a lot more sort of heckling and and even laughing from the audience when richy cak was there perhaps it's easier to do that to the person who's been in power rather the person who wants to be but certainly things are are difficult for the Tory campaign they've still been knocked sideways by this whole D-Day issue and I I think he showed saying he was incredibly sad about it How stung he was at these accusations that he didn't want to be on the international stage David Cameron who was speaking this morning the foreign secretary wouldn't go into what discussions they'd had in advance of it but was uh Keen to say that you know it was this family photo at Normandy was organized quite last minute it wasn't something that was in the schedule but you know I think the The Narrative on that has been set and it it will be very difficult many Tories acknowledge for rishy cak to to break out of that especially when you have cabinet ministers like Grant shaps speaking openly about the desire to stop labor winning a super majority I think quite a few Tories will have had their heads in their hands hearing him say that they certainly will all right tomorrow for now at the G7 thank you for that look we've been talking about it uh quite extensively this morning so let's take a look back at some of the key moments of last night leaders event with our Deputy political editor Sam coats 200 miles from Downing Street the battle for number 10 now playing out in Grimsby this place voted Tori last time but now labor wants it back kiss dama first up to be interviewed by Sky's political editor Beth rby he wants to convince this audience and the country he can be trusted but it's a long journey since his last election campaign you said I do think Jeremy Corbin would make a great prime minister Jeremy Corbin did you mean that I was so certain that we would lose the 2019 election did you not mean it when you said it I was certain that we would lose tax a constant issue in this campaign Del Labor's plans add up but the Tories say you will go further they're right aren't they you will well the first thing I'd say is the T in no position to lecture anyone about tax Rises we got the highest tax burden no no tax rises in the next Parliament no tax Rises needed in the plans in our Manifesto the no no tax r is for working people that's income tax National Insurance so you're ring up um I just to code just to code that uh for you guys uh because when a PL a politician says uh no plans it does mean I might well I've done this a bit it does a hint of domestic life and personal troubles was Vick your wife not keen for you to do this no she wasn't at all she thought it be far better to continue being a lawyer on a reasonable salary the audience asking questions too and some not holding back you seem more like a political robot how are you how are you going to convince others like me to vote for you well um the most look look all I can say I I went to run the crown prosecution service you referenced that I was the chief prosecutor for five years apologies kman did he convince you yes or no I I hope you don't answer the questions how you answer the questions I hope you never answered them the way that you did when you're a solicitor because you don't seem to answer the question okay I'm going to I'm going to some frustration at the lack of detail but this man not giving much away next up to face his grilling the Prime Minister richy sunet needs a big win in this room and Beyond the PM tested like rarely before on his promises one to get waiting lists down it's gone up yes it has yes I was I'm very we've not made as much progress on cutting waiting lists as I would have liked you had a question earlier from I think there was a junior doctor here and I think everyone knows the impact the Industrial action has had that's why we haven't made as much the's fault the Richi sunak facing booze losing some in the crowd and at times looking crestfallen legal immigration another example of failure and again the audience hostile it 70% of people in Grimsby voted for brexit how do you think they feel about that when they hear that net migration into this country has more than doubled uh in the last three years from before we left the European Union yeah I'm sure it's it's too high I've been very clear that it's too high and I'm sure people have feel frustrated and angry about it trying to show he gets it but after 14 years in power the audience seemed low on patience you say that you're coming from an NHS background and have this instilled value of caring for the NHS how are we going to do that if you try and undermine it at every level but I with greatest respect that's not what we're doing we're investing record sums into it we're training more doctors and nurses than we ever have and there are more doctors and nurses in the NHS today than it's also had this a major moment in the campaign and rishy sunak running out of time to turn it around today the focus shifts to labor launching their plans for Britain has he convinced the nation he's ready to lead Sam coat Sky News Grimsby now this morning the foreign secretary Lord Cameron refused to admit that the tax burden would increase under the conservatives if they were to win the election taxes will go up under a future conservative government no what's going to happen is that what is going to happen is we're going to cut those key tax rates and that will make a difference to the tax burden will be higher well the point about you you can always you can always get the tax burden down by simply borrowing more but the key question is are you going to control public spending in a way that's going to enable you to reduce tax rates we are labor aren't yeah but the tax burden will increase under the next under a conservative government should you win the next election what what is going to happen is tax rates are going to come down as I say the the thing to look at is the overall burden of Taxation and borrowing you can always change the tax burden by increasing B let's bring in our political correspondent Darren mcaffrey is following the conservative campaign for us now Darren morning to you I think still up and Grimsby I enjoyed your picture of your with your fish and chips last night I hope they were delicious now Lord Cameron there still maintaining this line that tax rates are coming down but as Kay was putting it to him the burden will continue this is going to be a central issue isn't it until it's cleared up yeah it really is and actually when you watch back last night T's debate or the interrogation to a degree by Beth at R you could see a prime minister that was struggling with many of those big issues and his record on it whether it was on at the national debt whether it was on taxation whether it was on migration it did feel like the Prime Minister was very much on the back foot and you talked to the audience kamale IM emerging afterwards and the words that were coming out of their mths were defeatist or defensive about this and the other key issue that clearly he struggled with the Prime Minister last night was on this idea about NHS waiting lists as Beth pointed out you know when he made that pledge that they would come down they were 7.2 million they're much higher than that today and in fact his argument last night was well at least they're starting to go in the right direction since November they've started to fall again but that in the last hour by the way has just started to change again because we've got new figures from NHS England out this morning and they've started to rise for the first time again in seven months not a massive rise they're up 1.4% between March and April but they are now starting to inch towards 7.6 million that's 400,000 higher than when the Prime Minister made that pledge in January of last year and that's just a reminder of how difficult this all is for the Prime Minister that when it comes to his records yes there are bright spots around things like the economy but on the whole he is struggling to defend his records and in the end that makes these TV events very difficult indeed and you know you look at that U go poll where people suggest Kia starm W by 2/3 at to oneir for at the Prime Minister but the Prime Minister doesn't just need to be slightly behind in all of this he needs to be smashing these TV events out of the park given where he is in the polls and simply he's just not doing that Cale and that's a big problem given the fact that the party is clearly 20 points still behind in the polls three weeks out from polling day yeah absolutely right Darren and sort of tangentially connected but extraordinary nonetheless his closest political Aid Craig Williams is being investigated by the gambling commission just an incredible development tell us about this yeah really odd story or peculiar story in many ways this as you say one of lak's senior AIDS effectively went to a betting shop at days out from when the election was announced placing a bet that he thought there was going to be an election in July and made some money of it on surpris because the Prime Minister did a couple of days after repl that bit call the election for July uh 4th Now Greg Williams is denyed he's done anything wrong here he says he's cooperating with that investigation by the gambling commission though he did Issue a statement last night saying that in retrospect he should have realized that it would not have been a good look what he did as to say he denies these anything wrong there's clearly investigation underway but as he pointed out it really doesn't look very good why he would do this is all rather odd and it's just one of these things where it never reings but it PS I think for the conservative party that it seems that everything's going wrong all at the wrong time and you know this is a sight side issue but it reinforces that that the conservative party can seem to be or or seem unable to get anything right at the moment indeed all right Darren now thank you for that and that bet was 100 100 bet at 5 to1 as reported all right now as well as the labor party today P cryy are going to launch their Manifesto this morning let's bring in our correspondent Dan Whitehead who was in Cardiff for us Dan morning to you what can we expect to hear from the party when they launched their Manifesto yeah that Manifesto launch for ped cumy coming in the next 10 minutes or so we've just got hold of the manifesto here for fairness for ambition for Wales expect really to hear about fairness and to hear about the economy I've only had a couple of minutes just to uh flick through here but on the front page here they talk about funding essentially pla Cy really wants more money uh from the UK government for uh Wales and and the big headline which we've been hearing about over the last 48 hours or so is this4 billion pounds which uh pled wants which they say is owed uh to Wales from hs2 they want to invest that money into public transport here in Wales also on funding enabling us to invest in their NHS of of course Welles got the longest waiting lists uh in the United Kingdom they talk about the mismanagement of Labor here uh in the Welsh uh government they also want to increase child benefit by 20 per week they want that uh Power devolved they say that that will lift 60,000 children out of poverty in Wales look I've not had a whole chance to read quite a thick Manifesto I think one thing will be key to look for when reap yth the leader of ply cumy uh starts his Manifesto launch in the next couple couple of minutes is Independence he's been quieter on that point since he took over uh the party refused to uh outline a timetable for any possible referendum in Wales on Independence what is what are his thoughts on Independence here in Wales look pled have a challenge here they won four seats back in 2019 there's boundary reforms to contest with at this time around and some polling last week put pled on just two seats less than 1% of MPS in Westminster so they do have a challenge they are Fielding candidates across the 32 seats and those boundary reforms in Wales put the number of MPS in Westminster in Wales down from 40 to 32 the party has been critical about that you're looking at a 20% or so drop in the number of Welsh MPS in Westminster uh but fairness and economy going to be Central to ped's uh pledge to the Welsh people when they launch their Manifesto well indeed all right it's Dan for now uh outside that Manifesto launch and as you can see from on your screen or you could we'll be live in Cardiff when ped do launch their Manifesto at around halfast 10 runup yth the leader of ped cery we'll be delivering a speech and we'll be there all right you're watching sky today still to come we' spoken to the parents of an Israeli hostage rescued from Gaza after 8 months in captivity as we've said preparing to launch the labor party Manifesto and we as I promised will be live in Cardiff as pled cry will announce their Manifesto promising economic fairness for Wales you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwartz We are following 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Gaza when I heard are you sitting down I thought it was bad news I dropped the phone to one side it fell under the table and suddenly I heard from under the table it's good news it's good news and crawled under the table did you see good news yes they're bringing Andre over by helicopter he's almost in Israel it was very emotional it's difficult to describe Evia and Mikel flew straight from St Petersburg in Russia for an emotional reunion with Andre at a hospital in Israel it appeared to be the moment his ordeal finally caught up with him during the eight months we've been waiting for him we feared he would be changed a lot that he would be a different man and suddenly there was this emotional shock mama mama I knew I'd return mama I knew on October 7th that I would go home when he calmed down and was able to speak calmly I knew he was the same man Andre was rescued with two Israeli men al- Jan and schom ziv in an Israeli military operation in central Gaza on Saturday morning what has he told you about the last eight months one of the phrases that really scared or hurt us was when when he said there are some things I will never tell you about as for everything else yes he tells us but it's as if he's playing Storyteller as if to entertain us even the fact that his hands and feet were tied for two months he tells it as if it were a joke Hamas claims that at least 270 Garin were killed and hundreds wounded in the rescue operation video from the scene shows many dead in the densely populated narat Market Hamas now says it wants written guarantees from the US before agreeing a ceasefire deal but the US Secretary of State said some of hamas's Demands aren't possible Hamas has proposed numerous changes to the proposal that was on the table some of the changes are workable some are not here in a nutshell is where we stand for all the hostages who have returned home home like Andre 120 still remain in Gaza many of them dead negotiations for their release continue but hopes for a ceas fire are again fading alist bunkle Sky News in Tel Aviv all right let's take you back live to Fano in Italy where as you can see the leaders of the G7 as well as the president of the European commission and European Council are assembled for this this latest Summit they just had uh what's described as the family photograph you've got of course their President Joe Biden Justin Trudeau of Canada Emanuel macron the French President Georgia Maloney prime minister of Italy Olaf Schulz chancellor of Germany and fumio kashida uh the Prime Minister of Japan the main topic of discussion will be uh securing this 50 billion euro worth of funding for Ukraine and the war effort against the Russian invasion as well as discussing of course the ongoing situation in Gaza now just a few moments ago President Joe Biden final arrival at the summit being welcomed by the Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney now fascinatingly is uh Tamara C and our political correspondent was telling us earlier this Summit comes at a time of of not only great difficulty and challenge for Europe but for these individuals as well the Prime Minister Rishi sunak of course going through an election here president president Emanuel macron of France just dissolved Parliament and called an election there just last week and of course we know November the 5th the US election where President Biden is behind in the polls to former president Trump so as well as their own individual domestic issues they've got to be contending with they're getting together at this G7 to try and agree to that huge funding package for Ukraine the funding is coming from seized Russian assets that are held in Europe a long time discussed this really since the the invasion of uh Ukraine by Russia that European nations could take the assets that had been seized from the Russians and use that money to help with reconstruction and War efforts in Ukraine it's now suggested that that agreement has been reached and they're going to try and make that a reality of course remains to be seen when any of that 50 billion euros will actually reach Ukraine and reach the front line and reach those who need it to fend off the Russian attacks we'll have more of course from the uh G7 Summit in Italy throughout the day but coming up next we're going to take you to Cardiff where PL cry the Welsh independence party are about to launch their election Manifesto promising fairness for Wales and a and a better deal we'll have the very latest once R yth the leader of play takes to the stage and delivers his comments that's coming up next we report live from Tel Aviv from poz Mexico tonight top story reporting from Baltimore at the keybridge disaster when you look over your shoulder and you see the Key Bridge what goes through your head that bridge has been here longer than I've been alive it still doesn't feel real hundreds of Israelis have gathered to demonstrate what do the people in Gaza do you think what do they need most place where Palestinians and Israelis have found Common Ground every night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7: on NBC news now you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwartz We are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this a ban or not the craziest ride I have ever hit that is totality do you see yourselves in space I can go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC news [Music] now more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization people really don't know what's going to happen nearly a dozen hours after the eye roared asore there more good people than bad people you know right there is some late breaking news [Applause] theow all [Music] right you got to see this I'm Gotti Schwarz we are following some breaking news severe storms continue to wreak havoc the Supreme Court put a pause on a controversial immigration law protesters have redoubled their numbers right here at this makeshift barricade the future of Tik Tok as we know it is at risk is this aan or not the craziest ride I have ever hitch that is totality do you see yourselves in space I feel go to space how you feeling I feel great stay tuned now week nights at 8 Eastern 5 Pacific on NBC news now we report live from Tel Aviv for harez Mexico top story reporting from Baltimore every week night it's your news playlist top story with Tom yamas streaming week nights at 7 on NBC news now the fire has grown Leaps and Bounds you see behind me is typical how you doing oh pretty pretty [Music] bad more Americans turn to NBC news than any other news organization [Applause] [Music] Kristen Welker hosts Meet the Press every Sunday on NBC welcome back now throughout the campaign period Sky's been bringing you voter reaction to everything that voters have heard from the party's campaigns Following last night's Sky News leaders event Laura bunder caught up with our panel to see what they made of what they heard they pitched their plans but did the leaders persuade the Sky News yugov panel watching every word their verdicts are in I feel that K stma performed the best and because of his energy he was more relatable I didn't really agree with everything RI sunak said but he did seem to answer more questions rishy sunak performed better than cure Storer but I preferred cure stormers answers right step away from that now take you to Cardiff ped Cy launching their Manifesto this is an Davis candidate for and apologies to those who don't speak Welsh like me of course the beginning of the sum of these speeches We Believe will be in well Shan Davis as I say is the candidate for uh kamaran we're expecting to hear in the manifesto launch uh once the leader of P run takes to the stage that Wales is calling for a fairer deal from the UK government claiming that their owned billions of pounds uh from government spending on the uh now cancelled full hs2 Railway they also want to try and gain control over the crown estate so that profits from the crown estate properties that are found in Wales go directly to the Welsh government in Cardiff not to the UK treasury they say that's the same deal that people have in Scotland for the crown estate that it goes to Hollywood so they want that to happen in Wales as well H and they also say that there are other issues that they are fighting for but let's go back to and Davis because I'm reli told you speaking in English I to be standing in this old constituency Kamara has given everything to me and this is why and this is what has actually brought me into politics my Roots Run Deep and it's my life's experiences which drive my passion to see its people get a fair deal I know that farmers face an uncertain future with Hasty trade deals Opening Our markets to unfair competition and I know it's a tough environment to build a small business with increasing costs and the challenges of training staff and retaining staff and I know how vital it is in rural areas to have a Health Service that is close to your home and your community I know too how our communities feel left out of decisions seemingly taken far away Wales and Karena has an abundant of Natural Resources but they must be harnessed in a way that respects our natural environment and brings benefit to us the local people a passion to see our communities get a fair deal and our ambition that isn't that this isn't as good enough as it gets for Wales runs through our Manifesto from cover to cover and it's a platform on which I'm proud to stand on places like aara need change but this election is about what kind of change that will be the best chance we have for our voice to be heard is with a strong team of plight C MPS in Westminster and I will do all that I can between now and July the 4th to join in what I confidently predict will be a formidable team once again led by the Fantastic Liz savil Roberts [Applause] [Applause] Le this here westmin leader of ped c as we can expect the beginnings of these speeches are going to be in Wales unfortunately I uh didn't have enough cash in my pocket to hire the wellsh translator this morning so I'll just talk you through what we are expecting to hear we heard from and Davis this morning that they are demanding a fairer deal for Wales in this Manifesto our correspondent Dan Whitehead was saying that there were four pled MPS returned the last election due to boundary changes reducing the number of constituencies in Wales we are expecting polling is expecting that there will be a a lower number returned this time and Davis Westminster leader of play is now speaking in English let's show him once and for all that there's no such thing as a safe seat [Applause] let's stop him of course from taking whes for granted of course tro said and we Ina so they say it's Manifesto week the Tories kicked things off on Tuesday and they offered a a mix of recycled attacks on wales's democracy and and threats once again of a disastrous mini budget sequel but many people have just stopped listening and the rest of us are a gust of what they think is still worth saying coincidentally and yes I'm sure it was just a coincidence labor are also announcing their Manifesto today you might hope for a radical Manifesto for change but no they're sticking to Tory fiscal rules which means that £18 billion will yet have to be cut more a austerity but with a red face this time but surely you think that at least following through with the demand of welles's Labor government the one that they're so proud to use as a blueprint no we already know there won't be a mention of the Devolution of justice and not a whisper of the 4 billion pounds owed to Wales in transport funds Welsh labor has been in power here for 25 years a quarter of a century keeping the labor machine well oiled while their Westminister colleagues were in opposition and this is the thanks they get so today I am proud that reene will be publishing a Manifesto which stands in brilliant contrast to Labor's Bland offer and their like it or lump it attitude towards Wales A Manifesto based on values fairness ambition equality hope and an honest recognition that we must find money to fund Public Services not by making workers pay more taxes but by ensuring those with the broader shoulders pay their fair share and our Manifesto is grounded in the fundamental belief that Wales as supposedly an equal part partner deserves our fair share of funding and ambition to invest in our communities using the natural wealth that is currently siphoned off to London our Sovereign wealth fund would be transformational for poor communities that have too long seen their natural wealth extracted I introduced the crown estate Devolution bill in the last Parliament labor refused to support it we need to elect more plry MPS to force labor to take notice of our demands and on policing and Justice only plyy has an evidence-based policy to create safer communities through well- reserved Resource Services with police forces that truly understand those communities and yesterday AET Cooper through cold water on her own party's Welsh government's work on the Devolution of policing a hard no then to evidence that's been built by years for experts but for years by experts ply C's Manifesto is a Manifesto for Real Change [Music] Manifesto for [Music] robs uh the pl's Westminster or previously until Parliament was dissolved of course laying out the reasoning why people should vote for play as she announces now the leader of P comy Lun yth will just uh stick with these pictures unfortunately you have to stick with my voice for a moment while we uh listen to up your other I believe it's going to begin his speech in in welshy might surprise me good morning friends it's wonderful to see so many of you here today A Day to spell out our vision a key to any election it's why we are here you know having spent uh every day since Rishi shak's rain soaked announcements outside Downing Street three weeks ago speaking to people in all parts of Wales I have a genuine sense that this election feels different it feels as if more people than ever are left utterly uninspired by what either labor or the conservatives have to offer yes there's a longing for change abs absolutely but it feels as if more people than ever are longing for a more hopeful more ambitious Vision too and in that Spirit I'm excited to be unveiling ped cry's Vision through our Manifesto today the Common Thread which runs through this Manifesto is fairness firstly Fair funding for Wales PL KY is the only party advocating for the abolition of the Barnet formula which is seen Wales lose out to the tune of billions of pounds now over the years it's not a begging Bowl it's just doing what's right enabling investments in public services and in the economy even Lord Barnett himself the architect of that formula back in 1978 when I was that size said that it had passed its cell by date many years ago and scrapping it in favor of a needs based model is essential if we to be able to adequately fund our public services and should be the bare minimum of what the next government offers Wales likewise on hs2 the troubled highspeed Rail Project because it's classed as an England and Wales project Scotland and Northern Ireland are compensated but of course there's not a single mile not a single inch of hs2 track in Wales and we get nothing it's worse than that we actually get less rail investment as a results and in line with usual compensation rules Wales is owed some 4 billion pound just imagine what that could do in terms of Transforming Our public transport Network Nationwide buses roads Railways connecting our communities physically digitally and giving our economy that desperately needed boost and let me be clear this appeal for fair funding isn't driven by ideology it's driven by principle it's driven by what is Right remember that there is nothing whatsoever that is inevitable about our poverty as a nation nothing intrinsic to our people which means we cannot create a thriving economy and world-class Public Services given the tools that we need so to the next UK government we say this show you are serious about Wales and resolve the long understanding Fair funding issues and [Applause] show and show that you're serious about backing our economy as an internationalist party un like labor and the conservatives we in ped Cy aren't afraid to call out the disastrous consequences of severing ties with the world's largest trading block we've been clear consistent and unequivocal in recent is that rejoining the single market and Customs Union are vital in order to mitigate the impact of brexit on weal business and reduce overheads and administrative costs it's just common sense and for and the statistics are really sobering aren't they the need to build a sustainable NHS in resource and Workforce is greater than ever the link between poverty and poor housing and ill health is crippling and arguably felt more acutely in Wales because of our aging population and post-industrial Legacy it was Gordon Brown wasn't it who said that child poverty is a scar on the soul of Britain labors Gordon Brown if only Kia was making that a priority [Applause] today and it must be a priority not only is PED Cy committed to scrapping the cruel and unfair two Child Benefits cap to which labor and the Tories are shamefully wedded we would also increase child benefit by 20 per week this would help three 330,000 Welsh families to deal with the cost of living crisis taking 60,000 children out of poverty ped cry on the side of a fairer future for all especially our children and these are the foundations of our vision for Wales fairness and ambition and there is so much more that we need to do a fairer tax system including use of windfall taxes devolving the crown Estates to create green jobs and build Prosperity a just transition commission to give the future of Welsh steel a Fighting Chance as we strive for a Net Zero World reversing Labor's cuts to business rate support here in Wales A Wales specific covid inquiry to give victims and their loved ones the answers they deserve building on our work to deliver a national care service for Wales Fair funding for our police forces and the Devolution of Justice rejected Again by labor keeping the pension triple lock a veto on future trades deals that undermine Welsh agricultural communities and a cast iron commitment to the pursuit of Global Peace from Ukraine to Gaza I'm proud of our offer but more importantly I know our offer is in wales's interests in 3 weeks time we can almost be certain that suia stama will be moving into number 10 Downing Street the Tories are finished thank goodness but we can influence the change ahead of us keeping the incoming labor government in check not giving them a free pass to take Welsh votes but then cast wales's interests aside I'm proud to stand on a platform which offers a positive vision for our country a genuinely positive vision for our country which offers a real alternative to the increasingly joined up thinking of the two main UK parties and a platform which gives people the opportunity to vote for fairness for ambition and for Wales [Applause] there you have the leader of p c run joined on stage by uh and Davies and this savil Roberts launching their party Manifesto calling for a fair deal for Wales uh R there really laying out the reasoning behind the Fair Deal he's saying it's not begging Bolter to do what's right he said he wants to scrap the Barnet formula that is of course the uh the equation that uh provides funding for the devolved administrations and he wants it to be changed in in favor of a needs based model he said the change in funding is not driven