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more than a dozen from the water. a 7-year-old among the dead just in, twitter suing elon musk for breaking his deal to buy the social media giant. and the new images from the most powerful telescope ever created, changing the way we see our universe >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >> good evening, everyone for almost two months we have tried to understand why it took nearly 80 minutes for police to end the massacre that claimed 21 innocent lives at robb e...

Speak and then the jury will have to determine if the army psychiatrist will be sentenced to die or spend the rest of his life in prison. ed lavandera, cnn, ft. hood, texas. >> thank you for that. there is a lot of news developing at this hour. straight to michaela with the latest. >> the body of an arizona teenager who had gone missing last week in oregon has been found. 1-year-old jonathan crooms body was spotted a short distance from an suv, his death being investigated as a suicide. he was...

Massive flames ignite groves of trees and dry brush. the fire grows is an area roughly the size of chicago. more than two dozen aircraft are being used to fight the fire. the steep terrain making it nearly impossible to access some of the forest by land. campgrounds turned into ashes, this car completely charred. the flames are miles from one of the biggest yosemite landmarks, yosemite valley, home of the half dome, a rock formation that attracts visitors by the thousands of t s per year. the re...