All three brothers graduating from west point, now serving their country. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. Good evening. With so many public revelations over the past week about the investigation into links between Trump Officials and russia, the white house is now stepping up efforts to combat critical story lines after a nineday overseas trip the president billed as a great success, the administration is hoping this week to get back to legislative priorities and promises made during the election Like Health Care reform. But the shadow of that investigation and nearly daily staff shakeup rumors loom large. We begin tonight with hans nichols at the white house. President donald trump returning home late last night and raising no time to go on offense this morning. It is my opinion that many of the leaks, he says, coming out of the white house are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. The white house is preparing a war room to push back on the russia investigations which have his soninlaw and Senior Adviser as a focus as first reported by nbc news. The Washington Post on friday saying kushner asked the Russian Ambassador for a secret Communications Channel in december. Kushners lawyers saying hes willing to talk with investigators. Homeland security secretary john kelly insisting kushner did nothing wrong with russia. I dont see any big issue here relative to jared. I think any time you can open lines of communication with anyone, whether theyre good friends or not so good friends, is a smart thing to do. Reporter former director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper asked on meet the press about kushners reported contacts with the russians. Just from the theoretical stand point i will tell you that my dashboard warning light was clearly on and i think that was the case with all of us in the intelligence community. Reporter the white house now bracing for longterm legal and media battles. Today the president s attorney Marc Kasowitz who will represent him in the russia probe was at the white house, seen talking to ivanka trump. And the president is reportedly considering a staff shakeup, stripping press Secretary Sean Spicer of his on camera briefing duties and giving them to Sarah Huckabee sanders or perhaps cancelling daily briefings. The trump team on offense about the classified leaks including the name of the manchester. When you leak the kind of information that seems to be routinely leak, high level of classification, it is darn close to treason. Reporter trump still facing a decision on who to name as a replacement for james comey to run the fbi and whether to withdraw america from the paris climate accords, a move that would further unsettle european allies. President trump has already cancelled a previously planned trip to iowa this week, hunkering down to focus on his agenda and sharpen his defense to growing legal and political peril. Kate. Haunls nichols as the white house. Thank you. Police in central mississippi are investigating what appears to be a deadly family tragedy that played out last night and early this morning, and a suspect is in custody tonight. We get details from nbcs morgan radford. Reporter a massacre in a tiny town of 500. Eight people including a deputy killed in cold blood. When police say a mississippi man went on a threepart shooting spree. One woman in tears, saying shes related to the victims. This here my daughter. Im so sorry. My sister and my niece. Reporter the suspect, 35yearold corey godbold, seen here in cellphone video captured by a local reporter moments after his arrest. Not after what i done. Reporter teress april is the ledger reporter who took the video and says the suspect got in an argument with his wife over their kids. Reporter he said he was there to discuss picking up the kids, taking them to his house i think. Thats when some kind of fight started and a neighbor had called the police, and then thats with the deputy was sent and everything went south. Reporter Authorities Say the shooter targeted three separate homes at 11 30 saturday night. First, a home in bogue chitto where he killed three women and 36yearold deputy durr, a husband and father responding to a domestic call and who godbold says got in the way. My pain wasnt designed for him. He was just there. Reporter Vincent Mitchell was in that house during the shooting spree. His stepdaughter was married to godbold. I honest believe he came to kill everybody in the house, i honestly believe. Reporter that godbold then allegedly drove 16 miles north to a second home where police found the bodies of two under age boys. Finally he went to a home near a truck stop two miles south where he killed one man and one woman and was arrested nearby just before 7 00 a. M. This is unbelievable. A nightmare, just unreal. According to our local affiliate, the suspect is being held on one count of capital murder and seven counts of first degree murder. At one point in the video he actually says he wanted to die and that his goal had been for a Police Officer to kill him. Morgan, thank you. A tragedy during a demonstration by the u. S. Navy parachute team. It happened during fleet week festivities in new york harbor and tonight one of the sky divers has died. Nbcs richie louie has more. Reporter it was supposed to be a highlight of new yorks fleet week, a demonstration by the elite u. S. Navy seal parachute team called the leap frogs, descending in formation near the statue of liberty. Instead something went wrong. Diver down in the water. Reporter one of the seals was killed when his chute apparently malfunctioned. The navy seals parachute failed to open properly and he landed in the water adjacent to liberty state park. He was retrieved immediately by u. S. Coast guard personnel and the Jersey City Fire Department marine unit. Reporter the seal was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. A piece of the broken chute apparently cut lose during the fall, rofrd after dropping into a parking lot nearby. A celebration of service turning to tragedy on a weekend when the nation honors its military. Richie louie, nbc news. Six days after a suicide bomber killed 22 people at a concert in manchester england, the city came toug in a spirit of unit as investigators continued to target those who may have been linked with the attacker. Lucy cavanaugh in manchester. Reporter in man chest, more arrests, as Police Continue to dismantle the suspected network linked to suicide bomber salman abeddy. The total number in custody, 13. Armed Police Patrolling todays great manchester run where tens of thousands turned out to race and to remember. It began in silence. A minute to honor the 22 lives cut short. Followed by applause for the First Responders to mondays attack. And then they were off. This is the spirit of manchester at its very best. Nearly 40,000 people running for different causes, united in response to one attack, standing strong in the face of terror. It wasnt a question of if the event would go ahead. It was a question of how do we do it, and were doing it. We thought about coming here, whether we should honor today, but we want to show them that terrorists wont win. Reporter it is an event that brought the city together in defiance, the young and the old, olympic athletes and those simply trying their best. This is our first time. Reporter your first time. Are you excited . After last week we wanted to be here, we want to say that we are not scared. Reporter not scared, but still emotional. We all did this for manchester. So reporter this is a city changed forever by mondays violence, changed but unbowed. Lucy cavanaugh, nbc news, manchester. North korea has conducted two more military tests in as many days including the launch of a new antiaircraft weapons system. The test was supervised by north koreas leader kim jongun. The countrys news agency said he ordered the mass production of the new system. For its part the u. S. Is hoping that china will exert its influence over north korea to get it to scale back, and to encourage china the u. S. Has put on hold a big delivery of weapons to chinas biggest rival, taiwan. Was in taiwan. Reporter taiwans military is testing its fire power against the threat of invasion by china. Most of the weaponry here is americanmade, under a longstanding deal that makes the u. S. The islands sole supplier. Reporter this is a drill, but the threat tie waysigh juan sees as real. Despite early signals including a controversial phone wall can taiwans leader, the Trump Administration has stalled on delivering a billion dollar arms deal for jets, antiship weapons and missile systems. A u. S. Official told nbc news holding back arms for taiwan was discussed as a way to improve ties with china at a time when President Trump wants chinese help to reign in north korea. Every Single Administration since bill clinton has eventually realized that beijing will not deliver on north korea because beijing sees no interest in the interest being resolved completely. Reporter since the president s april summit with chinese president , criticism has waned. Only this week did the u. S. Resume freedom of navigation operations, sailing a u. S. Navy ship near miss chief reef. On taiwan, washington is steering clear. A state Department Official said u. S. Arms sale tolls taiwan are based on an assessment of taiwans defeens needs. As it stands, taiwan cant keep pace with the 146 billion china will spend on defense this year. With tension growing the region and an arms deal in limbo. Janis mackey frayer, nbc news, taiwan. Here in this country, an Innovative Program aims to reduce tension between police and the community by engaging students still in school with an eye toward becoming Police Officers themselves. It is happening in washington d. C. , in an area thats seen its share of crime. We sent Anne Thompson to take a look. Reporter this is not your typical field trip. High School Students at washington d. C. s department of Forensic Science lab, learning how to investigate crimes and looking for clues to their future. They are students at anna cost ya High School Public safety academy, an area where 20 of the citys Violent Crime occurred last year. My mom pushes me hard. She always told me, just because you come from the hood doesnt mean you have to stay in the hood. Reporter along with a high school degree, andre davis and his classmates get Six CommunityCollege Credits and the chance to become a metropolitan police cadet. I want to be an fbi agent. Reporter and the Cadet Program is the first step . Yes. Reporter a cadet earns 32,000 a year and an Associates Degree paid for by the department. Everything is on the same page with the packet. Reporter perry runs the program grounded in reality. Some have been stopped by Police Officers getting off the metro, walking home, so we try to tackle what they believe the issues are. Reporter Police Shootings nationally and in her own neighborhood made her suspicious. I felt annoyed by their presence but i understand why they do the things they do. You get a sense of what some of the things these young kids are struggling with. Any time we can create better with our kids here in the city it is good for both of us. Reporter nuwsham wants future officers from the neighborhoods they patrol. I want to be the person who prevents their next move, who stops them getting arrested again. Reporter making their neighborhood a better place to live and career for themselves. Anne thompson, nbc news washington. Still ahead tonight, a promising new technique for controlling chronic pain with no drugs involved. Hi, im paul and i used to ask if you could hear me now, with verizon, but i switched to sprint. Hey. Are you happy that you switched . Yes their Network Reliability is within 1 of verizon and our unlimited plan is half what you pay with verizon for a family of four. Half . Thats right its half. You could save over 1000 in the first year theyve been ripping us off just think what you could do with that money. Id buy a new set of golf clubs. Vacation. vo unlimited 22. 50 per month per line. 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Six months ago Pierre Martins left arm was in such excruciating pain he couldnt lift a kitchen skillet let alone this desk. It was getting worse and worse and worse. The 57yearold didnt want to mask the problem with pain killers so he stuck it out, until he found dr. Kim bullock at stanford who offered him an unconventional treatment. You see both hands are moving together. Virtual reality with high tech goggles often associated with rid yo yams, not used for something more serious. Im finding most surprising and promising is the amount of pain relief people are having. Reporter dr. Bullock, a neuro psychiatrist, says she made the remarkable study by accident while studying Virtual Reality for conditions of anxiety. A welcome side effect, that chronic pain die appeared. They had pain relief for at least a week, and for many for months. Reporter what are patients doing in the Virtual World . For pierre he is moving his pain free arm. When he looks through the goggle also he sees the injured arm doing the case, in this case trying to pop balloons floating around him. He says after five sessions his pain disappear zbled t. The cost to me was minimum. It was a little bit of time and no side effects. Reporter dr. Sean mackey, one of the nations top experts says the treatment works by tricking the brain. And thats where the excitement for vr comes in, is the opportunity to rewire our brains into a more normal state so that were not experiencing as much pain. Is this the future of Pain Management . I think Texas Southern one of the futures of Pain Management. Reporter for patients like pierre the future is here. Dr. John torres, nbc news, palo alto, california. Very cool. Up next, full military honors for a u. S. Navy pilot killed in action long ago. 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