Floyds friends, family, and community leaders, you can see people here presenting about the loss of floyd and the loss for the africanamerican community. Floyd killed ten days ago while in police custody. His death sparking outrage and calls for justice across this nation. And tonight, those protests are continuing. It is now the tenth day. Right now on your screen, live pictures from washington, protesters gathered near the Lincoln Memorial, as well as in new york. The outpouring of support touching floyds family. Its a beautiful thing, its great love were receiving and george floyd is receiving. Because he would love it. I wish he was here in the present, in the flesh to see it, because all of this great unity would bring him to tears. And reverend al sharpton ending the memorial with the message that floyds death will not be in vain. George floyds story has been the story of black folks. Because ever since 401 years ago, the reason we could never be who we wanted and dreamed of bein
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. The surprise criminal indictment of the once powerful speaker of the house, Dennis Hastert, on charges he lied about paying hush money to someone in his past glaringly left out the answer to the question so many were immediately asking what was that money supposedly buying . Tonight we may know the answer. Federal Law Enforcement sources are telling nbc news the payments relate to hasterts days as an illinois schoolteacher and coach and Sexual Misconduct with a student. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has been digging into the story and has more for us. Hello, pete. Reporter lester, the public charges against hastert, whos the longest serving Republican House speaker, say only that he engaged in misconduct years before. But tonight, Law Enforcement officials describe it as sexual in nature with a Male High School student. No sign of Dennis H
Punches in his commencement address to graduates. But its what else he said that really raised eyebrows. Good evening on this memorial day. David is off. Im amy robach. And we begin tonight with deadly storms in the south. Tornadoes, historic flooding. Eight states at risk of Severe Weather. The deadly twister along the mexican border. At least 16 killed. The images tonight. A car thrown against a home, standing on end. In texas, the driver rescued after being swept away in his suv. At least five dead, a dozen missing. The flooded river rising 26 feet in an hour. Radar showing Severe Weather building across the plains. At least 15 tornadoes reported today. The governor declaring a disaster. Abcs phillip mena starts us off in texas tonight. Phillip, good evening. Reporter amy, these homes look as if they were hit by a tornado. In fact, all this destruction caused by massive and deadly flooding. Wow. On the ground again. Reporter tonight, millions under threat from tornadoes theres a tor
About a deadly defect, recommending you take action as in right now. Lets talk right now in the cnn newsroom. Good morning to you, thank you so much for joining me. We begin with breaking news and chilling investigation into a possible serial killer. Police track down darren deon van after a weekend murder inside a hotel room in hammond, indiana. Victim, africa hardy. Youre going to see her in a minute, shes on the far left. Van led them to six more bodies, all these bim appear to have been recently dumped like garbage in abandon home in gary, indiana. All were found within a five mile area in the town. The mother of one victim says the killer likely preyed on women who lived on the fringes. Theyre not forgotten because theyre not nobodies. Theyre somebodies. Theyre somebodys daughter, somebodys mother, somebodys sister. The boyfriend, youre going to see her on the far right. Says he doesnt know how to tell their twoyearold son their mother would not be coming home. Right now hes at sc
As bad, as many expected. But still bad for millions of people across the northeast. Stay with msnbc for continued coverage of the still dangerous storm, which is happening right now. Good morning, im jose diazbalart. First on the rundown this morning, were in the middle of this very dangerous blizzard. The snow still falling over a huge stretch of the northeast. But the bottom line right now is that things could have been a whole lot worse. Travel bans that have been in place in new jersey and most of new york state lifted in the last hour. The snow emergency in philly is over. But in other places, the snow is still falling. The worst is around massachusetts. Over two feet of snow in one spot along with wind gusts close to 8 miles an hour. National guard was deployed overnight. This morning the governor said they are happy with the way things have gone. The power outage numbers are significantly below where we anticipated them to be. Thats a good. Thing. Its been a relatively incident