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Good evening everyone this is where you say good evening back. Thats good. I want to thank you all for joining us this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you all here for this installment of the lecture. We are honored to have flora flora fraser with us this evening. She will discuss her book, the washingtons, george and martha. Joined by friendship and crown by love. Its a portrait of the father and mother of our country and of the struggle for independence that he led. Already the book has be...

Good evening. We begin tonight with two developing stories at this house. The rescues in the south and that desperate search at sea. The missing ship. Tonight, news discoveries here. Its a race against time to find 33 people on board, including 28 american, some of their faces right there. Tonight, officials saying the ship went down but families holding out hope. Authorities say they will not count out their will to survive. An empty lifeboat pulled from the ocean. A life ring pulled out as wel...

Everybody was holding their breath. Reporter im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with the confession. Reporter it was good friday night. Late. Too late. Too dark. Too deep into gang territory in the border town of el paso, texas, the boys, teenagers, hurried down a side street toward home. Going to the party had been a bad idea. I was like, we gotta get home. And then there it was out of nowhere, the car, the screaming, the sudden burst of gunfire. I was just like, am i li...

Jail for not showing up at her alleged attackers trial. Backlash against that judge. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. There is turmoil with law makers. The man many thought on track for the job shocked the political establishment when he bowed out of the race to become speaker of the house. Who succeeds current Speaker John Boehner raises the spector of a possible spending showdown and another government shutd...

Attackers trial. Backlash against that judge. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc lester holt. There is turmoil with law makers. The man many thought on track for the job shocked the political establishment when he bowed out of the race to become speaker of the house. Who succeeds current Speaker John Boehner raises the spector of a possible spending showdown and another government shutdown. National correspondent Peter Alexander is on the sto...

Who was once one of the most powerful men in washington. Former speaker of the house Dennis Hastert. And a move that could keep his secrets from coming out in open court. Signaling he will plead guilty in a criminal case. Prosecutors accusing hastert of paying hush money to hide misconduct. That misconduct going back to his time as a high school teacher. Abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross on hasterts move, the pririson time he might now face and the family tonight, saying, the tru...

Weighing a pound. The family, right here tonight. Good evening. From philadelphia, we begin with pope francis final night in america. If you look over my shoulders, you can see the extraordinary view. The openair mass nearing an end, hundreds of thousands on hand. Coming after an emotional weekend in philadelphia. A short time after he touched down, he stopped his driver to bless a disabled boy. The mother in tears. And visiting privately with victims of sexual abuse, vowing to hold the offender...

Son. It could be me. Reporter was daniel innocent . Daniel villegas is a convicted murderer. Reporter could this survivor solve the mystery . I cant let this happen. I i gotta do something. Reporter everyone told him he was crazy. The case a longshot. Zero to five percent chance. Reporter and there was always the chance he was wrong. Everybody was holding their breath. Reporter im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Keith Morrison with the confession. Reporter it was good friday night. Late...

From a casino and only walks away empty handed. She may roll the dice on the lawsuit. That is today, saturday, november 7th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today, live from rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on this saturday morning. I am erica hill. Im craig melvin alongside dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. And roker. He is in alaska. He said it is colder in alaska. He has a lot of friends. I was jealous of the hawaii weather. Alaska, not so much. You will be out there soon enough...

So why did he spend hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to free him . This could be my son, your son. It could be me. Reporter was daniel innocent . Daniel villegas is a convicted murderer. Reporter could this survivor solve the mystery . I cant let this happen. I i gotta do something. Reporter everyone told him he was crazy. The case a longshot. Zero to five percent chance. Reporter and there was always the chance he was wrong. Everybody was holding their breath. Reporter im lester holt, an...