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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:44:00

two female soldiers entered the spotlight today as impressive off the training ground as on. >> it's definitely awesome to be part of the history. >> we felt like we were contributing as much as the men. >> reporter: captain kristen griest and shaye haver, the first two women ever to pass the grueling ranger training course. but hayver admitted she was skeptical at first. >> ready for the haters and naysayers but we didn't come with a chip on our shoulder like we had anything to prove. >> reporter: she had only one thing in mind. >> i came here to be a better leader and improve myself and i feel like i did that. >> reporter: both women won the admiration and respect of their fellow male trainees. >> i went to school with shaye and i knew she was a physical stud. >> reporter: on the training ground, griest was a powerhouse. >> i thought she was crazy for that, but maybe she was just motivated. >> army refused to lower the male standards for the two women. >> the ability to look around to my peers and see they were sucking just as bad as i was kept me going. >> reporter: while greist and hayver have

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:56:00

NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:56:00
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ABC World News With David Muir-20150821-00:41:00

traumatized. >> reporter: the questions included graphic details about that night and about their e-mails after. labrie writing, "you're a gem." her response? "you're not too bad yourself." >> you were not being truthful because your real feelings were different than what you were saying in the words, correct? >> correct. i was hiding behind a computer screen. >> reporter: david, owen labrie insists he never had sex with the girl. but when she got off the stand today, she issued this statement -- "i can now say i'm a survivor." david? >> gio benitez with us from new hampshire tonight. gio, thank you. next, to st. louis, a city erupting in gunfire overnight. a year now after ferguson. this time, a black teenager shot and killed by police, officers say he pointed a gun at them first. and tonight, right here, this video captured by police, showing the aftermath and the scene. again tonight, abc's steve osunsami. >> shield guys, protect your stick. >> reporter: it has now come to this.

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:30:00

mid 80s. >> thanks for joining us. nightly news is next. we will see you then. bye-bye. tonight, the fight of his life, an extraordinary show of courage and candor from former president jimmy carter speaking openly about cancer. the hidden melanoma on his brain holding on to faith and family saying his future is in god's hands. wildfire tragedy, firefighters killed, a mystery crash and overcome by raging flames and smoke now surrounding entire towns. aggressive, erratic winds making it increasingly dangerous on the front lines. fighting words, donald trump and jeb bush caught in an uproar over birthright citizenship and the use of a term people find offensive. and gas below $2 in a dozen states. and it could be nationwide by christmas. tonight, why experts say it's falling so fast, and how low it could go.

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:33:00

to his brain. news that's prompting messages from presidents and from folks in his hometown. he'll dramatically cut back on his humanitarian work at the carter center. >> we thought about it when i was 80. we thought about it when i was 85, and we thought about it again when i was 90 and so this is a time for us to finally carry out the plans. >> reporter: president carter's grandson jason who will take over the foundation learned of his grandfather's cancer when he called a family meeting. >> his almost immediate next comment was, i really think i need to let the public know. i've been as honest and open as i can with the public for my whole life and i want that to continue. that's a real important part of who he is. >> reporter: a level of detail unprecedented in presidential history. >> i think what today showed is what we should remember about jimmy carter, that he was a good and decent man. and in politics these days, we don't so often get good and decent men running for politics. >> reporter: the former peanut farmer grounded as

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ABC World News With David Muir-20150821-01:00:00

the jet ski is still sitting out here right next to the railroad tracks. this is what it looked like, though, from sky 7 hd a short time ago. we're told by witnesses that the man driving a pickup truck towing a trailer carrying a jet ski had that truck parked on the railroad tracks here on warner road. this is a dirt road just off of orwood road in brentwood. he was apparently trying to launch his jet ski when an amtrak train approached, frantically honking its horn. the driver we're told jumped back in and tried to move it off the tracks, but couldn't do it in time when the train struck the truck, the truck flew into the water where it hit a young woman floating on a raft, a yellow floating raft. she and the driver were both injured and transported to local hospitals. >> just a freak thing, huh? >> yeah, yeah, pretty freaky thing. imagine her surprise, you know. just one minute sitting there on

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:51:00

NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt-20150821-00:51:00
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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20150821-00:59:00

new information on an accident involving an amtrak train and pickup truck. how a boater was injured in the high impact collision. >> personal emails sent from this police chief's city account. now a probe into what some are calling questionable messages. >> and more gunshots than grocery stores in this small town. why the police chief says his plan to change that may have backfired. good evening, i'm veronica de la cruz. >> i'm ken bastida. let's get to that breaking news tonight. a nasty crash between an amtrak train and pickup in contra costa county. two people are injured tonight. we are learning now that one of those injured was on a boat that was in the impact zone. this collision happened in knightsen right off orwood road near the resort where the train tracks cross middle river. kpix 5's cate caugiran is live

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ABC World News With David Muir-20150821-00:44:00

but today, for the first time ever, alongside new male rangers, the army introduced two women. >> it's definitely awesome to be part of the history of a ranger school. >> reporter: first lieutenant shaye haver, west point graduate, attack helicopter pilot. >> each event that we succeeded in, we kind of were winning hearts and minds as we went. >> reporter: captain kristen griest, west point, military police. >> i was thinking, really, of future generations of women that i would like them to have that opportunity. >> reporter: both women meeting the same standards the men did. >> i have no issues of qualms with them serving next to me in combat. >> reporter: a possibility that these women are ready for. >> we're expected to do, you know, what we ask of our soldiers and then some. we're supposed to be leading from the front. >> reporter: but women can't serve as rangers yet. the secretary of defense will make a decision by the end of the year which combat roles women will be taking on.

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ABC World News With David Muir-20150821-00:32:00

>> it was a hell storm up here and the winds were blowing in every direction. >> reporter: authorities saying conditions are worsening, as winds pick up to dangerous levels, putting more firefighters at risk, even as these brave men and women mourn three of their own. >> it hurts deep. but the job goes on. >> reporter: the three firefighters killed and four injured were in the middle of a firefight near the tiny town of twisp, washington, when their vehicle crashed and they were overtaken by flames. a 25-year-old with critical burns flown to a hospital in seattle, now fighting for his life and surrounded by family. >> it's a hard time, but there's hope. >> reporter: a female firefighter pulled off the front lines tonight after learning her own husband was among the seven victims. the twisp fire exploding overnight from a tiny 50 acres to a nearly 8,000-acre inferno, with swirling winds changing direction, catching the firefighters by surprise. >> that's going to go next.

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