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his mission for puerto rico as the island faces a long recovery from another deadly hurricane. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone it's a threat that shadowed a generation of americans during the cold war a nuclear standoff with russia and now president biden giving voice to growing new fears and a dangerous new era once more framed by the threat of nuclear conflict. president biden saying, we face the prospect of armageddon comparing it to the cuban missile crisis his dark comments referring to threats by russia's vladimir putin to intr...

In las vegas, where the famed strip lies empty, the mayor pleading to reopen. >> i fear that we're going to have deaths caused by people just throwing their hands up, i can't handle this anymore. >> reporter: today, texas governor greg abbott becoming one of the first to announce plans to reopen some stores next week, but only for curbside pickups, no customers inside. >> we must put health and safety first. >> reporter: it's been 24 hours since president trump announced guidelines for reopening the country, applauding his relationships with governors of both parties, saying they would call th...

Ladies, thank you. and from the first officers who stormed the hotel room of stephen paddock, the gunman that killed 58 people at a musical festival lasts weekend. >> i could see the suspect's door was riddled with bullet holes comes out. it looked like swiss cheese. >> he had the advantage. >> yeah. because he knew we were coming and what we had to come through. we didn't know where he would be in that room. >> a deadly game of hide and seek? you're the one hiding, you always know where the person is you're looking to before they see you. i remember thinking, man, i wish i had my dog with m...

What did they tell you? >> they were just tickled to death. they just -- they didn't know what to do, how to handle it. whatever. and when i got there, i saw, you know, they need eed compassion,o know that their mother mattered and that's what i do, that's who i am. i said, well, i'm going to do it. i went out an retrieved it for them. >> seeing the smiles on their faces from that video but that's certainly, you know, some of the brighter spots that we are seeing oul out of all the devastation there and homes destroyed and lives lost so we appreciate that this is a story that we can share, as ...

Heading up las vegas boulevard. the driver was killed, a passenger wounded. and the sports car crashed into several other vehicles. >> one of those vehicles was a taxi cab which caught on fire and exploded. >> reporter: the taxi driver and its passenger, trapped inside, were also killed. >> i could see one vehicle totally engulfed in flames. >> reporter: witnesses went rushing to the scene to help. this man didn't want to be identified. >> i ran over to help the dude in the maserati. i pulled him out and tried to give him cpr. i don't think he made it. >> reporter: police say a total of six ca...