Murdered. And survivor story, she was shot by the dallas sniper as she tried to escape with her children. Tonight she thanks the police and the Good Samaritans who saved her family. Nightly news, begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. As we come on the air tonight, Police Officers in several cities across the country are preparing for another night of protests. On saturday some demonstrations turned violent and authorities made arrests including detaining a prominent leader in the black l lives Matter Movement. The president weighed in on a difficult week asking all sides for Mutual Respect moving forward. But tensions are high as we learn more about the man who targeted Police Officers in dallas. We begin tonight with the continuing protests over the Police Shootings in louisiana and minnesota. Blake mccoy starts us off from st. Paul. Reporter despite a dozen warnings to leave, they remain defiant. Protesters marching on to i
Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Republican National convention with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from cleveland. And good morning, everyone. Welcome back to cleveland. Welcome to a wednesday morning, and welcome to halftime of the Republican National convention. Two days down two more very eventfilled days to go. You say halftime. I say, should i get two hot dogs and a beer, as usual . Absolutely. Marching band about to take the field. Night two a busy one. Republicans make it official. Selecting donald trump and indiana governor mike pence for president and Vice President. Make america work again, and heavy on attacks against Hillary Clinton. Weve got it all kcovered starting with peter alexander. Good morning. Reporter a night for the history books. Good morning. The Republican Party now officially embracing the firsttime politician, the billionaire, donald trump as its president ial nominee. The big moment on tap tonight will be for govern
Just over 100 days to go until election day and its anyones race. Breaking overnight, more Police Officers shot in the line of duty. This time in san diego. One officer dead. Another in surgery right now. Police say they have a suspect in custody and are searching for others. Have they arrived . New zika cases in florida that could be the first from mosquitos carrying that disease here in the u. S. As a major city immediately suspends all Blood Donations and taking our plaza by storm. Theyre a little wet but parrot heads have turned out in force to welcome Jimmy Buffett to our summer concert stage for the lucky 13th time today, friday, july 29th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. You know whats great about parrot heads . They dont care about the rain. They just dont care. Theyre just like lets have another margarita. Great crowd outside
Declar declared. Tragedy in texas. Photos taken moments before the debtliest hot air balloon crash in history. More on the 16 people who lost their lives and how it happened. Olympic athletes and fans arriving in rio. Preparations in full swing. Will the city be ready to host its most famous party ever. We headed to copacabana beach to find out, today, august 1st, 2016. Announcer from nbc news this is a special edition of today, countdown to rio with matt lauer live from Rio De Janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a special split edition of today on a monday morning. The 2016 Olympic Games almost at hand. We made our way to rios copacabana beach. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Take a look at that. Copacabana is beautiful on a perfect day and by the way, lets get something straight off the bat. In the United States, some people say Rio De Janeiro. Here they call it Rio De Janeiro. Tomato, tomato. Its freaki
A woman at a wildlife park gets out of the car during an argument. A tiger pounces and drags her away. Scorched. A Massive Wildfire burning out of control near los angeles. Thousands of residents evacuated. Farther east, that oppressive heat wave is going from hot to hotter today, monday, july 25th, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the Democratic National convention with matt lauer live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza and Savannah Guthrie live from philadelphia. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition of today on this monday morning. Savannah is down there in philadelphia. Im up here in new york. You know, i talked about this heat wave a second ago, savannah. The heat has been turned up on the democrats as well. In a lot of ways. Steamy here and as you mention a lot going on in the Democratic Party with the abrupt resignation with the head of the Democratic Party. Thats going on. A new poll shows trump leading the race. That same poll