discovered e-mails were found in the investigation of anthony weiner, the husband of huma abedin. she's off the trail this weekend. across the country, democrats defended clinton. >> we are not going to be distracted by this. we are going to power forward to make our case why hillary clinton is the next president. will it change the race. >> the polls taken before the news shows clinton ahead by six points in north carolina and dead heat with donald trump in florida. >> do you believe this can cause you the election. >> with nine days to go, millions of americans already voted. over 3 millions in florida alone helping to give clinton campaign conference and they're still on track to the win. >> reporter: reid's letter suggested that the fbi had explosive information between the russian government and the trump campaign. that's the charge and the trump campaign and the russians denied. kate. >> kasie hunt starting us there. >> lets get to the la latest now of the new e-mail. pete williams have behas been reviewing this. >> first step is to review the warrant and tonight the fbi has not.

. found during a separate probe into sexting allegations against her top aide's husband, anthony weiner. new information still coming in, donald trump seizing on a stunning turn of events. >>> more breaking news. emergency at o'hare, an american airlines jet burst into flames on the runway, panic on board, smoke billowing from the plane as passengers race to escape with their lives. >>> and baby powder and cancer. a jury awards a woman $70 million after she claimed it caused her ovarian cancer. did johnson & johnson fail to warn the public about a possible link? "nightly news" begins right now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. with 11 days to go, the head of the fbi dropped a bomb in the race for president this afternoon. one that has the trump campaign celebrating and the clinton camp scratching its head. director james comey revealing that newly discovered e-mails have turned up that have fbi agents once again back on the trail of hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server. the source of the e-mails

weiner's laptop during a separate investigation of him. the big question, will these e-mails shed new life on the investigation into hillary clinton's private e-mail server? tonight officials say, no answer yet. the clinton campaign has huma abedin doesn't remember using it. so another question, how did they get there? it's possible computer experts say, she used it and forgot, or e-mailed him and unintentionally launched a backup. the answers are on one of these, a hard drive from a laptop computers. officials say the fbi has made an exact copy of the one on wiener's laptop. that company is being analyzed in a computer forensic lab like this one. >> this is a great way to preserve the data, intact, the way it was, and work off the copy, so you don't accidentally ruin the evidence itself. >> reporter: most of the process is automated, weeding out e-mails that aren't hers, narrowing those down to ones sent or received while clinton was secretary of state and then eliminating any that are duplicates of the thousands already seen in the clinton investigation. those left will be examined to se