"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. thanks for being here tonight. the staff bloodletting at the white house claimed anthony scaramucci today, ousted this afternoon after a stormy six days on the job. the brash new york financier and president trump's new communications director was shown to the west wing exit door on the same day retired general john kelly took over as white house chief of staff from reince priebus. kelly's first order of business apparently fixing what many insiders saw as a big mistake by the president in his hiring of scaramucci. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: today, the retired general reorganizing his ranks, with new chief of staff john kelly pushing out controversial communications director anthony scaramucci, according to sources familiar with the move. it comes not long after scaramucci, originally praised by the president, targeted white house staff with a profanity-laced rant in

" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening to our viewers until the west. and thank you for joining us tonight. after enduring one of the roughest patches of his presidency last week over the violence in charlottesville, president trump is off to a busy start this week rallying supporters at an event in arizona this evening on the heels of last night's primetime speech in which he announced an open-ended american commitment leaving a lot of unanswered questions. meantime, tensions are high in phoenix right now where protesters are also massing for tonight's presidential rally. we have it all covered starting with nbc's kristen welker. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: lester, good evening to you. this is president trump's eighth campaign style rally since taking office. and it comes as he's been openly feuding with the state's two republican senators. neither of them are expected to attend, but thousands of his supporters are and there could be fireworks. president trump putting a foc

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, to our viewers in the west. thank you for being with us tonight. healer or antagonist? the answer may depend on which donald trump you heard over the last 24 hours. after casting himself as the victim of bad news coverage at a fired-up rally in phoenix last night blasting everyone from the media to fellow republicans, the president appeared in nevada today where he returned to a call for unity based on common values. the head-snapping change of tones comes as the nation's former intelligence boss offers a troubling assessment of the commander in chief. our national correspondent peter alexander has more. >> reporter: tonight more white house whiplash. at the american legion national convention in reno, a declaration of unity. >> it is time to heal the wounds that divide us. >> reporter: a presidential 180 from last night's unbridled offensive in arizona. >> repeal and replace! >> reporter: repeatedly taking aim at the media. >> the very dishon

here's nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: new reporting by nbc news reveals hillary clinton's lead over donald trump was a lot less certain than previously thought, especially in the last two weeks. as we hear the first excerpts from her upcoming book about that tense standof >> donald trump was looming behind me. it was incredibly uncomfortable. he was literally breathing down my neck. my skin crawled. >> reporter: their face-off only two days after that "access hollywood" video. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the trump campaign trying to intimidate her. steve bannon inviting women accusers from bill clinton's past to sit in the front row as trump circled her on stage. now for the first time pub hickcally, she's wondering should she have stood up to him? >> do you turn and look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, back up, you creep, get away from me? it certainly would have been better tv. maybe i have overlearned the lesson of staying calm, biting my tongue, digging my fingernails into a clenched fist. >> could you tell that? >> i could tell, yes. i could. >> it wa

. >> announcer: from nbc news headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks for being here tonight. the warning from officials is an ominous as it is blunt, get out now. tens of thousands living along the texas gulf coast under a hurricane warning right now, as harvey whips itself into a major hurricane. a lumbering but dangerous storm that could come ashore a little over 24 hours from now, and dump some truly unbelievable amounts of rains, flooding rains over the next several days. sustained winds are already 85 miles an hour. they could be over 100 when the storm comes ashore near corpus christi late tomorrow or early saturday. that's where jacob rascon begins our reporting tonight. >> reporter: tonight the forecast is urgent and distressing. >> this is a very, very bad scenario for us here. >> reporter: hurricane harvey intensifying rapidly expected to slam into texas as a category 3. >> we're going to, in the strongest possible terms, encourage the residents in the low lying areas, as they say, get out of dodge. >> repor

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, everyone. we're glad you're here this evening. the stock market's spectacular ride carried it to a new record today as the dow shot past the 22,000 mark for first time. it's one sign of an economy that's hitting on many cylinders. good news for wall street and certainly for folks with 401(k)s and retirement dollars in the market. it can be easy to forget, however, that a lot of working people are still staring into near-empty wallets and are feeling left out of today's celebration because salaries are lagging behind. our business correspondent jo ling kent has the bigger picture for us tonight. >> reporter: with today's record, the dow is now up 20% since president trump was elected. that's the story of one economy. while many americans feel like they're living in another. why are you here at amazon? >> i was originally working retail, and it just wasn't enough money. >> reporter: frustration shared today in 12 states as thousands of people lin

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for being with us tonight. after what to many came off as a tone deaf response to this weekend's racist-fueled violence in charlottesville, virginia, president trump tried today to find the right notes as he took to the podium again to address the tragedy, this time calling out the kkk, neo-nazis and white supremacists by name for sowing the seeds of hate that blossomed into bloodshed on a charlottesville street saturday when a car driven into a crowd left a young woman dead and more than a dozen others injured. it was part of a horrific day that also saw two police officers killed in a helicopter accident. tonight the president's words and actions under scrutiny as he faces a major test of moral leadership. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has the latest. >> reporter: president trump today delivering the message many wanted sooner. >> racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its na

nightly news begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for being here tonight. the crisis with north korea reaching an unsettling new level today, with news of a possible weapons capability and the most provocative statement yet from president trump, who met north korea's recent verbal threats with this chilling threat of his own. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen. as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> the president painting a dark and ominous image on the same day nbc news learned u.s. intelligence has reason to believe north korea has managed to create a nuclear warhead small enough to be launched aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile. our andrea mitchell begins our coverage. >> reporter: the alarming warning tonight from u.s. officials briefed on the defense intel

"nbc nightly news" begins right now. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, nice to have you with us on this friday as the world tries to glean how much bite there is behind the bark of president trump who for a third day served up verbal warnings against north korean aggression. once again keeping up the theme of stop it or else, and predictably provoking some equally colorful retorts from north korea. despite president trump's tweet announcing the u.s. military was locked and loaded, there are now apparent indications that all this talk is on the verge of turning to blows. our white house correspondent, kristen welker, brings us the latest. >> reporter: flanked by his secretary of state, u.n. ambassador, and national security adviser, president trump is turning up the heat on north korea for a third time this week. late tonight, asked is the u.s. going to war. >> i think you know the answer to that. >> reporter: warning leader kim jong-un -- >> this man will not get away with what he's doing, believe me. if he utter

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, it's nice to have you with on this monday to our viewers in the west. with the world standing against him in a way that it hasn't before, north korea's unpredictable leader is lashing out at a new round of international sanctions that are now facing his country and threatening thousands-fold revenge against the united states. kim jong-un's bellicose statements are set against the backdrop of north korea's two recent test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, including troubling activity beneath the ocean as the trump administration weighs a grave set of actions if diplomacy fails to halt north korea's advances. chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has details. >> reporter: north koreans lining up to watch state-owned tv, threatening the u.s. with a thousands' fold revenge for what they call villainous sanctions, warning it's a mistake for americans to think they're safe. president trump talking for an hour to his secr

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, and thank you for being here tonight. as the remnants of hurricane harvey finally exit the state of texas and rescue crews intensify their search for victims, there is a new pressing danger in the flood zone tonight. a chemical plant burning. it's already been rocked by two explosions early today after critical cooling systems failed in the flood. a large area around that plant in crosby, texas, has been evacuated in anticipation of more explosions amid uncertainty about the safety of the air around it. jacob rascon is leading off our coverage tonight. jacob, good evening. >> reporter: lester, good evening. tonight the sheriffs and fire department, the national guard even the epa are working overtime hoping to avoid another crisis. nobody's allowed to enter the evacon high stakes waiting game. tonight the flooded arkema chemical plant is still smoldering. neighborhoods within a mile and a half urged to evacuate as officials warn that more expl

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, and thank you for joining us tonight. the slow drumbeat of the russia investigation that has haunted the trump administration all summer long is picking up tempo tonight with reports special counsel robert mueller has now impaneled a grand jury. if true, the move opens up broad new running room to an investigation that has apparently now expanded beyond just the question of whether there was coordination between russia and members of the trump campaign. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: tonight, the special counsel investigating russian election interference is entering a new phase of its inquiry, assembling a grand jury in washington, d.c., as first reported by "the wall street journal." it's a signal robert mueller's investigation, which has dogged the administration and infuriated the president, will stretch on for months if not longer. nbc news has not independently confirmed the report, but the gr

. >> an nbc news exclusive. inside the white house situation room. pitting a frustrated commander in chief against his generals over america's military strategy in afghanistan. >>> another body has been recovered overnight in a massive minneapolis school explosion where students were taking summer classes. >>> sudden summer storms producing monsoon moisture. while dangerous triple digit temperatures are fueling wildfires in the pacific northwest. >>> and a heart-stopping crash landing caught on camera. "early today" starts right now. >>> i'm phillip mena. >> i'm frances rivera. it is a market rally for the ages. the dow industrial average shattering records surpassing 22,000 for the very first time. wall street booming from greater than expected earnings for big businesses like apple and boeing. >> and coming along for the ride, 401(k)s and i.r.a.s hitting all time high balances as highing prices reach soaring heights. it's a different story on main street where the american worker is still in need of a raise and a paycheck as thousands line up acros

"nightly news" begins right now. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. and thank you for being here. west wing lightning rod steve bannon is out tonight as president trump's chief strategist. a key architect of donald trump's election victory, he nurtured much of the president's take no prisoners right wing impulses. word of bannon's departure produced sharp reaction. celebrations on the left and worry on the right over the fate of the president's conservative agenda items. and tonight, in an explosive interview, bannon is promising a wide-ranging fight for his nationalist ideas. our hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: promising war, steve bannon's bracing for battle. the now-ousted chief strategist telling bloomberg he's leaving the white house to gh opponents on capitol hill, in the media and in corporate america. bannon now becoming one of the last west wing originals to leave the picture one year and one day after joining team trump. the self-styled protector of the president's nationalist pledges mutually agreeing with chief of staff john kelly

begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks for being with us. things were looking up all across america today as the united states found itself in a celestial sweet spot, a front row seat for a total solar eclipse that swept its shadow from oregon to south carolina in just 90 minutes. there were cheerts and some tears of joy as day turned to twilight in its exact path and eclipsed pilgrims who traveled to see it from just the right places even in the sky aboard a special eclipse flight were rewarded for their efforts. our team was on hand to witness it all. tom costello starts our coverage from south carolina. hi, tom. >> reporter: hi, lester. what a day. millions of people from west coast to east mesmerized by the celestial event. and you know, the last time we had a total eclipse move across the country was 99 years ago. as one former astronaut said today, these are the days, these are the events when you realize how small we all are in space and time. it didn't matter where yo

nbc news with lester holt is up next. e'll see you again at 11:00. controversial chief strategist now the latest high profile departure for the administration. inside the white house intrigue. >>> terror manhunt. the urgent police search to take down a suspected terror cell linked to the back-to-back attacks in spain. and new tonight, the american killed in the violence. >>> stabbing rampage. a knife-wielding attacker strikes another european city. was it also terror? >>> police chase crash. the dash cam video. a cop car slams into another vehicle at over a hundred miles an hour. >>> eclipse excitement. bumper to bumper traffic as the great getaway begins to see monday's total eclipse. we'll tell you where the weather might ruin the view. >>> and a league of their own. kids throwing out the rule book and playing america's pastime just for the fun of it. "nightly news" begins right now. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. and thank you for being here. west wing lightning rod steve bannon is out tonight as president trump

. >>> "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. to the viewers in the west. glad you're here tonight. it's looking tonight like president trump had a bigger hand than first acknowledged in crafts son donald junior's initial misleading statement about his meeting last year with the russian attorney. as you may recall, follow-up statements from the younger trump revealed the meeting was really about gathering campaign dirt on hillary clinton. but the "washington post" is reporting it was the president himself who dictated his son's first response, which incorrectly claimed the meeting was about something much more innocent. that's raising a host of questions this evening. our happy jackson has details. >> reporter: tonight new questions of credibility and contradictions with the white house defending the president for his response to that campaign meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. the fallout focuses on what happened july 8th, on air force one, not long af

that is nightly news for this wednesday night. i'm lester holt for all of us at nbc news. thank you for watching and good night. nephew didn )t get a secd chance trt:04 ==jan/take vo== right now at 6: >>> why are they getting a second chance? my nephew doesn't get a second chance. >> right now at 6:00 furious with the system and an oakland family speaks to nbc bay area after they say prosecutors went easy on the killers of their young son. the news at 6:00 starts right now. thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang for raj mathai. >> i'm jessica augeri. there is outrage over a plea deal. the toddler killed during the filming of a rap video is talking. six years later, two of the people pled guilty today but not to what the family wanted. jodi hernandez is at the courthouse for the plea deal and joins us live with a story you'll only see on nbc bay area and this is very emotional for that family, jodi. >> reporter: highly emotional inside this federal courtroom. two men pleaded guilty admitting to the shooting that took the baby's life. in exchange for a much lighter sentence

up next is "nbc nightly news" with lers holt. we'll see you back here at 11:00. . >>> p tonight, nuclear war of words. new details behind president trump's fire and fury threat. now the defense secretary puts north korea on notice as nbc news learns some of the options being prepared for the president. >>> fbi raid. a surprise predawn search at the home of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. what the feds were looking for. >>> a mother's loss. the mayor of nashville opens up about the death of her son from an overdose just 11 days ago. sharing their final messages and her message for every mom and dad. >>> sounding the alarm after far too many tragedies, kids being forgotten in the back seat, locked in hot kargs. tonight, life saving new particular nothing. and public pi love connection. it's not just humans leverage hg technology to find that perfect match. nightly news begins right now. >>> good evening and welcome, everyone. if the stakes weren't so potentially grave, it might otherwise sound a school yard squabble.

up next is "nbc nightly news." we'll see you back here at 11:00 tonight. >>> tonight, high drama over what really happened aboard air force one. a stunning report that the president in flight personally dictated his son's misleading statement about that meeting with the russian lawyer. did the misdirection go all the way to the top. >>> hot car tragedies, two infants die on the same day left in vehicles amid scorching temperatures. >> she was my precious cargo. and i never thought it would happen to her. >> safety groups pushing carmakers to sound the alarm. >>> microchipping employees, a device under your skin that opens the door, works the vending machine and more. we'll take you to a company where it's happening. >>> and baby bump. a little boy's airplane greeting we just can't get enough of. >>> "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. we're glad you're here tonight. it's looking tonight like presi

"nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. >>> good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for being with us on this friday. the verdict is in for the brash young former ceo who became the poster image of everything americans don't like about big pharma. you may remember the name martin shkreli when his pharmaceutical company raised the price of an aids drug from around $13 a pill to $750 a pill overnight in 2015. that wasn't a crime. but defrauding investors is as shkreli learned today in a brooklyn federal courtroom. our anne thompson has the story. >> reporter: a bad day for the one-time bad boy of the pharmaceutical industry. martin shkreli gained infamy raising the price of an aides drug 5,000% two years ago. >> are you going to change the price? >> no. >> reporter: becoming the ceo americans loved to hate. >> i intend to use the advice of my counsel, not yours. >> reporter: but that's not why he was convicted in federal court today. the 34-year-old found guilty on three of eight

nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres has the new warning tonight. >> reporter: katy rich just had her third child, a boy named brady. when weeks later she got a terrifying call from her doctor. >> he said, it's cancer. and he said it wasn't good. >> reporter: the 33-year-old had stage 4 colon cancer. >> it was devastating. >> reporter: a life-long athlete, she had no family history of the disease. her only symptom? pain in her ribs. the new report shows katy is one of a growing number of younger people getting colorectal cancer. researchers found deaths in white people under age 55 are on the rise. and it's not only the result of more screening. >> this increase in incidence is real. and it's scary. because we don't know what's causing it. >> reporter: colonoscopy is currently recommended beginning at age 50 for most people, and repeated every ten years until age 75 for those with no risk factors. every five years for other screening tests or when colonoscopy finds small polyps. but today's startling report h

"nightly news" begins now. >> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with jose diaz belart. >> good evening, kate snow is off tonight. an american icon has died. jerry lewis passed away in las vegas today at the age of 91. he was a beloved star of the screen and stage but may best be remembered for those annual telethons to raise money for the muscular dystrophy association. lewis was passionate about that cause and the children he helped who called themselves jerry's kids. tonight, the mda said his decades of devotion can be summed up in a motto that lewis would often quote. "i shall pass through this world but once. any good, therefore, that i can do or any kindness that i can show to any human being, let me do it now. let me not defer nor neglect it, for i shall not pass this way again." tonight tributes are pouring in across the country. our miguel almaguer takes a look at his life and legacy. ♪ dash of pepper, dash of pepper ♪ >> reporter: most of the public saw him only as a funnyman. >> you said you loved me, and i've loved you, living and

"nightly news jrgsz" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. >>> good evening. it's something we normally expect to be reporting on in late spring, but rare weather patterns spawned a powerful tornado in tulsa, oklahoma, overnight. the first tornado in august in that city since the late '50s. and there is more severe weather in the forecast for tomorrow. five million people are under threat from severe thunderstorms, high winds, and hail in parts of the mid-atlantic. in tulsa last night, the damage was extensive with that tornado packing winds of over 111 miles an hour. we begin tonight with katie beck in tulsa. >>> the late night tornado swept through parts of tulsa with no warning. the city sirens not sounding, many residents sleeping through the disaster which struck after 1:00 in the morning. >> that's a whataburger, part is gone. >> reporter: by the time the national weather service issued a tornado warning, at least 30 people were injured. rooftops lifted off homes and businesses. tree limbs and debris scattered acros

live in doylestown, drew smith, nbc 10 news. >> nbc 10 has been following this breaking news all day long. we will have an update in about 15 minutes and send push alerts through the nbc 10 app straight to your phone. >>> right now we're in a first alert because of strong storms and some could be damaging. first alert meteorologist erik ark martin is here to tell us which neighborshoods are in the stormy path. erika? >> right now all of the delaware valley is in the line of the storms. yesterday we were tracking a warm front that brought us showers and really warm air at the surface. today we're tracking the cold front triggering all these thunderstorms moving from west to east. satellite and radar loop here picking up on those lines of thunderstorms moving in from west to east. and parts of berks county already seeing a severe thunderstorm warning. also seeing a severe thunderstorm watch for bucks, delaware, montgomery and philadelphia counties. we also do have some storm damage reports, so we have some downed trees just to the west of us, and also some streets that have been closed

cool event, nbc news is coming up next and then right after that join us for nbc bay area news at 6:00. see you then. >>> on this saturday night, desperate search after a controversial u.s. military aircraft crashes in the ocean off australia. while dozens were rescued, three u.s. marines are missing. >>> squeezing north korea. the u.n. security council imposes tough new sanctions trying to rein in the regime and force it back to the bargaining table. >>> murder mystery. a northwestern university professor and another man are under arrest for a brutal stabbing in chicago. >>> fizzling out. why the country is losing the love for its soft drinks. >>> and the world's fastest man in the final solo run of his career. was it good enough for one more gold? "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with jose diaz-balart. >>> good evening. at this hour, a frantic search is underway in the waters off australia's eastern coast. three american marines were tossed into the sea north of brisbane after the aircraft they wer

joe fryer, nbc news california. >>> two minutes of pure cuteness. we appreat that is nightly news for this wednesday night. i'm lester holt for all of us at nbc news. thank you for watching and good night. u for watching and good night. >>> we're a family. >> could the divorce really be off? this is "access hollywood." and which couple has the number ne breakup and then makeup ever? only access counts down the top five. >>> inside the alleged groping trial, the testimony that made tayl

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