thousands of e-mails found on anthony weiner's laptop established nearly all of those to and from clinton while she was secretary of state were duplicates. or they weren't related to government business at all. wiener is the estranged husband of clinton's top aide, huma abedin. clinton not mentioning the fbi decision all day. instead, leaving that to her team. >> not surprised. i mean i really felt like the original conclusion was so unequivocal. >> reporter: donald trump, who crisscrossed five states sunday trying to shore up a narrow path to 270, not letting up. >> right now she is being protected by a rigged system. >> reporter: after praising director comey nearly two weeks ago for looking into the newly discovered e-mails -- >> i respect that very much. >> reporter: -- sunday in michigan, trump reversed course. >> you can't review 650,000 new e-mails in eight days. >> reporter: campaign manager kellyanne conway piling on. >> do you think they went through hundreds of thousands of e-mails in a week? because that may strike a lot of americans as unusual. >> reporter: now the focus for

belonging to anthony wiener married to but estranged from huma abedin, a top clinton campaign aide. the fbi is investigating sexually explicit text messages wiener allegedly sent to a 15-year-old girl in north carolina. trump immediately tried to capitalize on the news. >> her criminal action was willful, deliberate, intentional and purposeful. >> trump's on thursday. >> the biggest rigging is what happened with the fbi. >> turned to praise on friday. >> it might not be as rigged as i thought. right? >> according to officials, abedin used the laptop to e-mail clinton. investigators will examine the thousands of e-mails belonging to abedin to see if they have anything to do with the original clinton investigation. the official said there's no indication so far that anyone was withholding evidence. republicans down the ballot have seized on the fbi revelations as part of their closing argument. >> that is my letter from director comey telling me he is reopening the investigation. >> it's like throwing a political life line to republicans who are in house and senate races. >> is there

into sexting allegations against her top aide's husband, anthony wiener. 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. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news," with letter holt. >>> 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 emails have turned up that have fbi agents once again back on the trail of hillary clinton's use of a private email server. the source of the emails is the other big surpri

-mails were discovered by agents look into an unconnected case, which is believed to be about anthony wiener. donald trump praised the situation calling it worse than watergate. >>> the supreme court will take on gender rights. a case in virginia involves a student challenging his district over transgendered bathrooms. the school district says it's not required to allow students to use bathrooms that match their genter identities. >>> and puerto rico has reported its first case of a baby born with zika-relate ld microcephaly. the island has reported more than 30,000 cases of zika and the centers for disease control says it expects the number of zika-related births to rise in the coming months. >>> some of the biggest stories of the week. donald trump and hillary clinton out in force on key swing states. commuters in boston had a big scare and the world series got under way. those are some of the headlines that caught our attention. with less than two weeks to go until election day, both candidates hitting the trail hard. hillary clinton got some help from first lady michelle obama, ho