Friends. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Thomas Roberts in for lester. Tonight cincinnati zoo officials are fielding fast and furious reactions over their judgment to kill the silverback named harambe as the best choice to save a child trapped in the gorilla enclosure. A viral video captured over the Holiday Weekend shows the scene after a 3yearold boy crawled and climbed into the exhibit ending up facetoface with a massive primate. And now theres even a public call asking for the toddlers parents to be held responsible in the animals death. Reporter tonight outrage over an incident at the cincinnati zoo when a 3yearold boy fell into the gorilla enclosure saturday. For ten agonizing minutes onlookers watched including the boys mother who cried out to him. Mommys right here. Reporter at one point the male silverback named harambe grabbed the boys ankle and dragged him through the wat
And i call on everybody in the community, anybody who has any information to please california the fbi, share what you know. It may help answer many Unanswered Questions yet. I also call on my fellow faisst leaders, jewish, christian, muslim, hindu, whatever faith you follow, please pray for the victims and their families in in this hour on this sunday morning. Its supposed to be a beautiful morning, but this is already a very heartbreaking morning, and i want to praise the courageous efforts of our opd who risk their lives, put their lives on the line. One. Officers, as we heard, was injured, and thats a risk they take every day to protect us. No one could have predicted this. No one could have prepared for it. This could have happened anywhere. Its like a lightning. So they have done a marvelous job to save as many lives after the shooter began shooting, and we are glad that the situation is completely under control. There are no other shooters that this person is not known to be con
Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We start with an urgent warning. Government safety regulators have taken the rare step of urging owners of some 300,000 cars to stop driving them immediately because of a high risk of potentially deadly air bag ruptures. The cars, hondas and acuras are part of a broad recall of defective air balancings affecting millions of makes and models linked to numerous deaths and injuries. The government tonight telling drivers of specific models to park them until theyre repaired. Miguel almaguer has details. Reporter the defective air bags can explode spraying shrapnel into the driver. More than 100 people in the u. S. Have already been injured and ten killed including teenager huma who was driving this 2002 honda sick. The massive takata airbag recall was first made eight years ago, but no data shows those who havent made the fix face serious danger. We have brandnew Laboratory Testing thats showing some o
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. There was high drama outside the white house late this afternoon when a confrontation between secret service and an armed man ended in gunfire. The secret service said an officer opened fire on the man wounding him after he approached a security checkpoint and pulled out a firearm. This all happening in play view of sightseers along the perimeter of the white house grounds and sent heavily Armed Secret Service teams fanning out as the white house was placed on a security lockdown. Nbcs Jim Miklaszewski was there and has late details for us. Reporter on what had been a serene sunny afternoon, the white house grounds suddenly looked like a war zone. Shouts and shots fired rang out. Secret Service Officers scrambled to their post. One with a sniper rifle atop the white house. A handgun was spotted walking to the Southwest Corner of the white house grounds. Taylor kate couldnt b
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