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After webb called 911, emergency crews repelled in. >> it was like winning the lottery. >> reporter: the narrowest of victories fueled not by luck but adrenaline. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, cleveland, virginia. >> glad they are out and okay. that is "nbc nightly news". i'm lester holt. thank you for watching everyone and good night. the san francis going to extreme right now at 6:00, if you love it, don't leave it. the san francisco community going to extreme measures to stop allplus, a broken water pi near the runway at sfo. what you need to know before heading there for a flight. but firs...

>> when pontius pilate arrives here in caesarea, he would have found a proper roman city befitting the imperial representative of rome. he would have found a man-made harbor complete with a temple to augustus at this beautiful huge hippodrome, where spectators could watch the races while they looked out over the mediterranean. >> according to josephus, pontius pilate arrived in judaea roughly 30 years after the birth of jesus. >> pilate was a roman knight, which means that he belonged to the equestrian order, the lowest rank of the roman nobility. he would have owed his position in judaea to t...

>> evidence of first-century jerusalem can be found deep under the modern city. >> archaeologists tunneled down for years until they finally came to this point here. this is the street level from the time of jesus. you can see the columns here that, that held up the roofs of shops where shopkeepers would have been selling their goods. you can imagine children running through the streets and people yelling at one another, and of course these are the streets where jesus would have walked towards the temple to go up to worship. i mean this -- this is a very sacred place. >> in first-century roman...

>> in 2006, british archaeologist ken dark conducts a routine inspection of the convent cellar and gets the surprise of his life. >> i went over to the sisters of nazareth convent, and to my great surprise, instead of a small rock cut tomb, there was a huge cellar full of archaeological features including what was immediately apparent was an undiscovered cave church. i naturally was amazed to see archaeological features of which mainstream archaeology had been unaware. >> the remains of the church occupied a large section of one half of the cellar, but who built and how old it remained a myste...

Did that vault include two tombs? yes, there are tombs incorporated in the vault. this did alert me to the possibility that we'd found the church of the nutrition. >> what ken dark says he's found in this underground site matches the description of the church of the nutrition which according to legend was built on the site of jesus' childhood home. >> according to a later tradition, there was also a tomb deep beneath the church belonging to none other than mary's husband. >> it was believed that the site contained the tomb of saint joseph. >> one of the strong clues that it is, is because of t...