Across the south. Alerts tonight for millions. Amazon refunds, 70 million coming to customers. Who is getting money back . And from center field to center stage, a beloved baseball slugger inspiring america. Nightly news begins right now. From los angeles, good evening to our viewers here in the west. Two infamous dictators and both in the cross hairs of President Trump tonight raising the potential of military responses after acts that are drawing broad concern and condemnation. The first, syrias leader assad. President trump horrified by the deadly gas attack on civilians saying it crosses many lines and offering the vailed warning there may be a new u. S. Approach to syria. The President Trumping up heat on north koreas leader kim jongun. Ahead of a critical meeting tomorrow. As we showed you during the broadcast from south korea this week, America Armed forces are at a height of readiness with kims recent threats. We have two reports starting with the Syrian Crisis and nbcs richard engel. Reporter a day after an alleged chemical attack by assads regime, the victims are still struggling to breathe. Quivering uncontrollably. Doctors say its consistent with exposure to a nerve agent like sarin gas. President trump said the images of the victims made a deep impression on him. A chemical attack that was so horrific in syria against innocent people including women, small children, and even beautiful little babies, their deaths was an affront to humanity. These heinous actions by the assad regime cannot be tolerated. Reporter its a big reversal. Just two days ago the administration seemed willing to accommodate assad. My attitude toward syria and assad changed very much. Reporter and after blaming former president obama for not taking action after drawing a red line on chemical weapons, today that changed too. I now have responsibility and i will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly. Reporter but confronting assad means challenging his biggest backer, russia. Which offered today a very different explanation for the victims, saying assads troops bombed a terrorists chemical weapons depot. But video obtained by nbc news of what witnesses say is the impact site shows a crater in an open road, no depot nearby. At the u. N. Security counsel Ambassador Nikki Haley made an emotional address. Look at those pictures. How many more children have to die before russia cares . Reporter so will the president respond with military action . He left open that possibility. Im not saying im doing anything one way or the other. Reporter but there are risks like syrian air defenses and possible russian resistance. President trump, who came to office with a promise of America First now seems like he wants to be more involved in world affairs. Hes been called an isolationist, he didnt sound like one today. Lester . Richard engel in the london newsroom, thank you. The Global Crisis the president addressed. North korea firing yet another Ballistic Missile into the sea of japan. Containing kim jong uns program will be front and center as President Trump welcomes the president of china at a highstakes summit at his florida estate. Peter alexander has details. I will do whatever i have to do. Reporter tonight President Trump in a showdown with north korea and its erratic dictator, kim jongun. We have a big problem. We have somebody that is not doing the right thing, and thats going to be my responsibility. Reporter that responsibility heightened by another north Korean Missile test just 24 hours ago with a senior white house official telling nbc news all options are on the table. But dealing with the rogue nations growing Nuclear Threat also falls on china. The president this week warning if the chinese decide to help, that will be very good for china and if they dont, it wont be good for anyone. China is the only country in the world that has predominant material influence on north korea in trade, energy, and in coal. If china pulls the plug, north korea has no other option. Reporter the urgent issue certain to dominant tomorrows highstakes summit with chinas president the first face to face meeting with competing agendas. This is a time when the United States actually defines its relationship with beijing, maybe not only for coming decades but for longer than that. Reporter one tool the president is likely to lean into with china, trade, punctuating a Huge Campaign using beijing as a punching bag. We cant allow china to rape the country. Reporter President Trump saying they are manipulating currency. The historic meeting after renewed scrutiny of mr. Trumps personal ties to china including a Chinese Government owned bank a tenant in trump tower, and another lender on a nearly billion dollar trump mortgage. The president denies any conflicts of interest because his sons now run the family business. Tonight, there are also questions about ivanka trumps signature line, much of it still made in china with dozens of shipments arriving since the election, three in just the last month. For her part, ms. Trump says shes no longer involved with her company. Its in a trust run by her brotherinlaw and sisterinlaw, lester . Peter alexander, at the white house, thanks. To the sudden power shift at the National Security council. The president s top aid steve bannon is losing his seat at the table weeks after his appointment to that posion sparked surprise and criticism as President Trump kicked up dust of his own without any evidence saying susan rice may have committed a crime. Nbcs Hallie Jackson has it all covered. Thank you very much. Reporter the president s inner circle today in a single file line with the notable exception. Chief strategist steve bannon, whos been at every other press conference so far. A source familiar says bannon was working on health care but the no show came hours after he was ousted from the National Security council. Steve bannon raised eyebrows at first because you dont put political people on a National Security committee. Its too soon to tell if hes losing influence. But hes clearly been diminished. Reporter the Vice President insisting its not a demotion. This is just a Natural Evolution to ensure the National Security counsel is organized in a way that best serves the president. Reporter the move, winning bipartisan support. Id be very pleased that hes not on the National Security council. My hope is that he would have no role in government at all. Reporter thats not happening. While bannon is not on the nsc anymore, he can attend meetings and has one of the highest security clearances in the west wing. A Top White House official says bannon was originally put on the committee as a check against michael flynn, the now dismissed National Security adviser. Bannons goal originally, to break down the obama era structure inside that National Security team, led at the time by susan rice. Shes in the president s cross hairs now as he accuses rice with no evidence of committing a crime by requesting the names of people connected by the trump team be unmasked. There is simply nothing wrong, unexpected, illegal about doing that. What would be wrong and illegal is if she took that name and then, you know, emailed it to the press. I leaked nothing to nobody. Reporter the president , yet again, making an unsubstantiated surveillance claim telling the New York Times its quote one of the big stories of our time. President trump says he will explain his claim at the right time. Susan rice declined to comment on what her spokesperson is calling a ludicrous charge. Lester . Hallie jackson, thank you. Tonight there are tornado warnings firing up across the south. Homes demolished as storms continue to threaten millions of americans. In a moment al roker will be here, but first, from Kerry Sanders on the ground in the storm zone. Reporter a suspected tornado today in westin, georgia, twisted metal scattered across fields, this home collapsed. Wind ripping these buildings apart. No serious injuries reported but high anxiety. We gathered down here, it was really bad because the top on the whole house started peeling off. We knew it was a very serious storm. Reporter another possible tornado this afternoon in henry county, alabama. All of a sudden it got really, really calm and the trees started spinning and the rain started pouring. Reporter across the south today, damaging hail, lightning strikes igniting several house fires. And wide spread flooding. Several feet deep on these streets in columbia, south carolina. In some areas more than two inches of rain an hour. In augusta, georgia, weather suspending par three play at the masters Golf Tournament for the first time in 53 years. Travel across the country impacted with more than 500 flights out of atlanta cancelled. A large extremely dangerous and potentially deadly tornado. Reporter in total, at least 61 Million People under threat today and into the evening. Its all part of the same weather system that produced this tornado in tiny goodman, missouri on tuesday. Today, they are starting to clean up while the region braces for another dangerous night. Tonight, as we look live here in rural georgia, those inside here when the tornado hit say they are just happy to have escaped what were some heartpounding moments adding in todays tornados, its been a busy season so far, more than 350 twisters this year. Lester . Okay. Kerry sanders, thanks. Al roker is tracking the storms for us. Where is the danger moving forward . Lester, the southeast. Were watching this right now. 20 Million People under a tornado watch and currently not just a major risk but a high risk. The greatest threat for storms and tornados down through central and southern georgia into central south carolina. As this moves east, these tornados could be rain wrapped. It will be dark. You wont be able to see them. That will be the danger. The strong storms move into the northeast, Midatlantic States and new england, bringing with it heavy flooding. In fact, were talking about 47 million under a flood threat this evening on into tomorrow. Lester . Al roker, thanks, al. Now to the growing backlash against fox news star bill oreilly. Nearly three dozen advertisers have now abandoned oreillys show after the network paid out millions to settle Sexual Harassment claims against him. Today, President Trump himself came to oreillys defense. Anne thompson has more. And the Oreilly Factor begins now. Reporter as advertisers continue to flee, 35 and counting tonight, accusations the fox news star actually harassed female colleagues. Coming to his side, president donald trump. In an interview with the New York Times, trump called oreilly a good person. Oreilly and fox news settled claims from five women for 13 million according to the times but trump said, i think he shouldnt have settled adding i dont think bill did anything wrong. That defense of oreilly who trump knows well infuriated attorney lisa bloom. Ive been flooded by calls from fox news women all week. Reporter now representing wendy walsh, a former fox contributor who claims oreilly harassed her. I simply said, im sorry, i cant do that. Reporter trump has been accused of unwanted Sexual Misconduct in the past and denied it. His comments to an actress during his access hollywood taping almost derailed his president ial campaign. Trump apologized but no new words from oreilly. A statement earlier this week his fame made him vulnerable to lawsuits and he settled to protect his children. A controversy in the headlines during april, what the president has proclaimed as National Sexual assault and prevention month. Anne thompson, nbc news, new york. Still ahead tonight, amazon shoppers, listen up, why the Online Shopping giant is refunding 70 million to parents and how you might be able to get your share of it. Also, bubbling controversy, how pepsi is responding to the backlash over the latest advertisement. Were back now with a consumer alert. Tens of thousands of americans are about to get refunds from amazon. It comes after a long legal battle over Young Children racking up purchases on their parents amazon accounts, parents unaware it was happening. Nbcs tom costello has details on the settlement. Reporter its a Pretty Simple concept, a 4yearold cant consent to charge a parents credit card but Young Children were playing popular kids games on amazons kin del, including ice age story and tap zoo and more. Suddenly, up popped an option for the child to buy more virtual pets, more gold coins or stars but for real money. Anywhere from 99 cents to 99. The kids, of course, quickly agreed. So we allege that parents were being hit with these charges, many of which were largedollar charges and large numbers of consumers complained. I was pretty astonished. I was quite ill to my stomach. Reporter julie panicked after then 8yearold hanna spent 10,000 buying virtual food for a virtual pet online. Putting the family trip to yellowstone in jeopardy. We thought we were going to have to change our vacation plans or cancel our vacation plans that we had worked on for months and months of planning. Reporter thankfully, amazon refunded the 10,000. Now its reaching out to tens of thousands of customers refunding 70 million back to their credit cards. Its also requiring passwords for purchases made in kids games and encouraging parents to go to the app store then go into settings and inapp purchases and set passwords or pin codes. The takeaway, paying customers do have to consent before their credit card is charged. Tom costello, nbc news, washington. Were back in a moment with a fighter jet going down in flames. The pilot forced to make a splitsecond decision. Oh my god. Thank god hes okay. A scare in the skies over maryland today as a fighter jet went down just a few miles from the u. S. Capitol. The pilot on an Air National Guard Training Mission ejected safely but was injured. Parachuting to the ground as the f16 crashed into a wooded area southwest of joint base andrews. Those injuries were told thankfully were not lifethreatening. To the soda ad sparking a big backlash on social media. Pepsi has now pulled the commercials featuring a reality tv star after critics claimed it was in bad taste and trivialized the black lives Matter Movement. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez explains. Reporter tonight pepsi is in damage control after being accused of exploding racial protests to sell soda. The two and a half minute ad released tuesday on youtube, features model and reality tv star Kendall Jenner happily joining a group of young protesters. It never specifically references the black lives Matter Movement but many critics noted the stark contrast between the image of jenner handing a soft drink to an officer and pictures like this one of riot police detaining a woman in baton rouge last summer. This ad trivializes the urgency of the issues and it diminishes the seriousness and the gravity of why we got into the situation in the first place. Reporter on social media, the video quickly drew anger and ridicule. Martin luther king juniors daughter bernice tweeted if only her father had known about the power of pepsi. Ive never seen this ad get negative response so quickly and i think it will make pepsi reevaluate what theyre doing with their brand quickly. Reporter today pepsi yanked the ad showing a global message of unity, peace and understanding, clearly, we missed the mark and we apologize. Decades ago, this iconic coke commercial during the Flower Power Movement struck the right tone at the right time. As pepsi found out, times have changed. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, miami. When we come back here tonight, the baseball super star using his lifes other passion to connect with kids. Inspiring america is next. Ne. Aic asus tyrtang fit bk i finally tonight with baseball season in full swing a story about a man of many talents, not only does he have four world series championships to his name, hes also a Latin Grammy Nominated recording artist. And now hes using his love of music to go to bat for schoolkids. Nbcs rehema ellis has more in our inspiring america report. Hey, kids. Reporter hes best known as a champion baseball player but these kids are cheering for the other side of bernie williams. Reporter what came first . Your love of baseball or your love of music . They both came around the same time in my life. Reporter the former new york yankee and Latin Grammy Nominated guitarist grew up playing baseball and attending a performing arts school. Hes now joined another team called turn around arts, that gives students something his mother made sure he had. She said, well, you have to be a wellrounded individual. In order for you to do that, you need to be exposed to arts, music, and sports. Reporter funded through a grant from the kennedy center, the Program Allows schools to mix the arts into all academic subjects, acting out scenes in science. Or drawing and history. And its working. In 68 schools nationwide, with turnaround arts programs, math scores are up by more than 2 22 , reading by more than 12 . When you bring the arts into school, schools go from grey of color, parents become more engaged and attendance starts to go up. Reporter this year, joshua went from chronically tardy to honor roll. You have to be good to be in band or you are not going to be allowed to come down and practice. Reporter a lot of them will have talent to become musicians and artists but the ones that dont got experience to lead them into whatever they decide to do. Reporter from center field to classroom, now hitting home runs with kids. Rehema ellis, nbc news, bridgeport, connecticut. Thats going to do it for us on a wednesday night. Im lester holt. For all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. Rit n at clnerodyas d eughru 0. I think everybody has had enough. Right now, at 6 00, cleaning up in a danger zone in the bay areas largest city. We have the exclusive story. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Im janelle wang. And im raj mathai. An unusual tactic used to crack down in a hot spot for crime. San jose p. D. Has opened an office right in the hot zone. Nbc bay area Damon Trujillo has the story. Reporter were talking about fountain alley here in downtown san jose and looking at the police stats posted by san jose police, there have been 60 calls for service in this area alone in the last 30 days. There are Police Officers on the corner ever fountain alalley, ad between first and second. Police are moving in right here for good. You name the drug, and youll likely find it here on fountain alley. Crime happens here virtually daily. We see crimes, drug dealing, prostitution here and there. Reporter the city fish market says the crime has affected business. Police have known about this aalley for years, theyll make arrests, but that hasnt stopped the problem. How is crime here . Ver
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