Victim killed in that virginia violation. Her mothers powerful call to action. Military crash. An army chopper goes down off hawaii. The urgent search for survivors. Toxic plane danger. Rising concerns about what youre breathing when you fly. And honoring the king 40 years since we lost a legend. Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Its nice to be with you tonight. There has been no mad rush to the microphones today by surrogates to try to defend President Trump as weve seen after past eyebrowraising moments. The shock and surprise over his strident characterizations of the violence in charlottesville reach across the political spectrum tonight. But perhaps the most remarkable rebuke comes from Major Business leaders walking away from the president s Economic Advisory groups in protest, forcing mr. Trump to pull the plug on the councils which were centerpieces in his signature effort to create jobs in this country. Our Kristen Welker begins our coverage with the fallout. Reporter facing a fullscale rebellion by the very ceos he once called colleagues, President Trump announced on twitter today hes disbanding two of his advisory business councils. Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council and strategy and policy forum, i am ending both. Thank you all. The president trying to get ahead of a mass exodus from both councils. Eight of the Business Leaders previously announced they were out because of the president s reaction to charlottesville after mr. Trump again equated White Supremacists with counterprotesters yesterday. Not all of those people were neonazis, believe me. Reporter the latest upheaval began this morning after members of the strategy and policy forum which resulted in a decision to disband. They then called the white house with the news. The president dumping those Business Leaders publicly before they had the chance to announce the decision. The ceos releasing their own statement today. Intolerance, racism and violence have absolutely no place in this country. The Vice President rushing to his defense. Reporter some Senior Administration officials are still fuming after the president s comments yesterday, and in a sign his inner circle may be getting smaller, the white house says his longtime adviser, hope hicks, will serve as his interim Communications Director until a permanent replacement can be found. Lester . Kristen welker with the president in new jersey. Thank you. Now to charlottesville where the violence claimed the life of 32yearold Heather Heyer saturday. Today a moving Memorial Service was held for her. The overwhelming message throughout the service, a call for racial harmony and justice, causes that heather herself was so passionate about. Nbcs tom costello was there. Reporter wearing purple, Heather Heyers favorite color, they came from across virginia. No father should have to do this. Reporter heathers father, grandfather, family and friends spoke of her fierce dedication to justice, and then heathers mother spoke of her daughter who police say was killed saturday, mowed down by a car driven by a White Nationalist. They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well, guess what . You just magnified her. This is just the beginning of heathers legacy. Reporter across downtown charlottesville, tributes to an unlikely victim of saturdays violence. At the spot where she was killed, senator tim kaine and charlottesvilles mayor insisted hate will not define the city. This is cville, the cool, easy going, sweet, wonderful, loving, tolerant, dynamic place that people fall in love with. Reporter our nation is a nation of immigrants. It is that great mosaic tile that has made us the great United States of america. Reporter but a heavy Police Presence underscored that tensions remain high here. Heathers life was not lost in vain. She represented something important and vital that the world needed to hear. Amazing grace reporter susan bro also issued a call to turn anger over her daughters death into nonviolent action. Id rather have my child, but by golly, if i got to give her up, were going to make it count. Reporter on friday, there will be another memorial for the two state troopers who died on saturday. And we have this late breaking news just coming in now. The governor of virginia is calling on every town and city in the state and the state legislature to remove all confederate monuments. He says theyre a barrier to inclusion and equality. Lester . Tom costello with that tonight, thank you. Americans responded to President Trumps comments about charlottesville in actions and words today, both criticizing and defending what he said about the violence. Nbcs Peter Alexander has more on the reaction around the country. Reporter before dawn in baltimore, crews taking down four confederate monuments to avoid violent protests like those in charlottesville. I said, with the climate of this nation, that i think its very important that we move quickly and quietly. Reporter workers in birmingham on the mayors orders overnight boarding up a confederate tower. Here in leesburg, virginia, this confederate statue still fuels deep divisions. But in the wake of President Trumps comments you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. Reporter zach richman defends the president s words. When you have violence, you need to call it on both sides. You cant just, you know, close one eye and cherry pick from the other side. Reporter is the president getting a bad rap . I believe so, yeah. Reporter that outrage blaring from newspaper headlines. In new york, sympathy for the devils. In chicago, fake president. Definitely makes him less credible as a president to not speak as a leader and bring the country together. Reporter superstar lebron james today chiming in. Its not about the guy thats the socalled president of the United States. Its about all of us looking in the mirror and saying what can we do better to help change . Reporter religious leaders equally emphatic. This is a time to stand up and scream loud and clear, that is not who we are. Reporter pastor Robert Jeffress one of the president s evangelical advisers, speaking out on the broadcasting network. If were going to denounce some racism, we sought to denounce all racism. I think thats the point the president was making. Reporter tonight a fierce debate sparking anger and action. Peter alexander, nbc news, leesburg, virginia. There are a number of terrifying stories still emerging from charlottesville, one of them from a synagogue that rabbis say was under siege. Dozens of people inside and afraid to leave while outside armed men and marching neonazis invoked painful echoes of the past. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has that story for us. Reporter this was the view saturday from one of the oldest synagogues in the south. It was indescribable. I never for a minute ever thought in my life that i would see that on the streets of america. This is our sanctuary. Reporter Alan Zimmerman is the president of charlottesvilles congregation beth israel. If id taken a camera and filmed that in black and white, it would look to people like news reels from 1933 in germany. Even now just unbelievable. Reporter he and tom gutherz hired a private Security Guard to watch over services that morning. Its really Something Else when that hate really emerging in front of you. When you realize that people came from so far away, from all over, really, to express that hatred. Reporter zimmerman told us he saw parades of nazis walking by, some heckling the temple. For half an hour three men dressed in fatigues armed with semiautomatic rifles stood in front. He told congregants it would be safer to leave through the back entrance instead of the front and go in groups. Did you feel that your sanctuary was under siege . Yes. Reporter john aguilar, a navy veteran, was not part of the congregation, but he took it upon himself to help keep watch. I just wanted to let the Jewish Community know that they were not alone in this. Sometimes you just have to stand up for whats right. Reporter we asked zimmerman what he thought of the president s remarks that the violence came from both sides. All i can tell you is my hearts sick. Reporter he says he never expected to see this in 2017. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, charlottesville, virginia. After the president s remarks, White Supremacists have come out of the shadows to cheer his message, viewing it as a validation of their own racist beliefs including some here in california, a part of america that you might least suspect. Nbcs Jacob Soboroff has more on that. Reporter the Southern Poverty Law Center says california has more hate groups than any other state, even in los angeles, where William Johnson was elated with President Trumps press conference. I think theres blame on both sides. And i have no doubt about it. And you dont have any doubt about it either. He is the most honest president since George Washington and the cherry tree. Reporter just watching all this, and hearing trump say all that, you got visibly excited. Yes. That is an honest man saying what he believes in his heart. Reporter and do you believe that donald trump saying things like that will ultimately bring America Closer to your goal of a White Ethnostate . Well, i think that America Needs to take a different direction, whether it needs to come into my direction, i dont know. We have a festering racial problem thats only going to get worse. I think the only solution is separation, but there may be another solution and donald trump is going to, i think, bring us help us overcome the racial divide. I think that he will encourage fairminded deepthinking people to realize that separation is the only way we can achieve racial goals. Reporter would you all be here today and as emboldened as you are today without donald trump . Well, ive always been emboldened. Ive been emboldened for 25 years but the rank and File American is becoming more emboldened. Reporter to join your cause . To be proud of their heritage. Whether its white, whether its confederacy. Whatever it is. To be proud that youre white and to group together and want to support white issues. Reporter President Trump claims he has disavowed people like johnson, but johnson says that is exactly the group trump has energized. Whats next . The White Nationalist says the murder in charlottesville will temporarily set back his movement until it emerges stronger than ever before and he credits the president for that. Lester . Fascinating conversation, jacob, thank you. For more perspective, we want to turn to someone who has seen his share of violent and nonviolent resistance in this country. He is our Senior Correspondent tom brokaw who covered the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Im curious from your perspective what lessons can we learn from that experience . Lester, from the beginning of my reportorial career, race has been a dominant, dominant issue for me. I was just thinking tonight for five centuries in this country, race has been a complicating factor in defining who we are. Now, as we just heard, we heard the white groups, the white hate groups claiming victory for what they went through. So how do you counter all that . I thought the most dramatic example that i saw that still resonates with me was in the 1960s when dr. Martin luther king launched the nonviolent movement. And it was a strong moral cause that advanced his cause and alerted the country to the kinds of absolutely unacceptable things that we should not be tolerating anymore. Tom brokaw with lessons of history. Tom, thank you. Turning now to another story were following, the urgent search under way for survivors from the crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter off the coast of hawaii. The chopper, with five crew members aboard, disappeared last night during a training mission. This follows two other u. S. Military air crashes earlier this summer which killed a total of 19 service members. Still ahead, as we continue here tonight, new concern about the quality of the air we all breathe on airplanes after several incidents in which passengers and crew members reported feeling sick. Also the dramatic scenes today on a major highway and the remarkable way it all ended. Were back now with a growing safety concern over the air we breathe when we fly. A number of Airline Passengers and crew members suddenly falling ill in midair this summer due to what experts believe are toxic fume events. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk explains what they are and the danger they pose. Reporter a jetblue flight makes an Emergency Landing in buffalo, new york, this month. You might have more than one patient there. Theyre not sure what this smell is. Reporter this video from a passenger shows firefighters on board while he starts to feel sick. Like sharp pain headache. Reporter three crew members went to the hospital. Jetblue says no mechanical issues were found. The incident sounds eerily similar to Something American Airlines pilot dennis taser says he experienced in june. We all immediately noticed the smell. Reporter he says the fumes came from the engine and smelled like dirty socks. That can incapacitate a pilot, which takes us out of the game, which is a horrific ending. Reporter most planes use a combination of air in flight, a mix of recycled and outside air which is siphoned through the engine. If a seal breaks, the burning oil can mix with the cabin air causing a socalled toxic fume event. Flight attendants are experiencing headaches, flulike symptoms, fatigue or shortterm and longterm memory loss. Reporter a new Senate Proposal would mandate training for crews, change faa reporting rules and require air quality detectors on flights. The bills sponsors say these toxic fume events happen up to five times a day. The faas numbers are much lower. In a statement the agency writes, the cabin environment in the vast majority of commercial flights is safe. However, we are concerned that if certain mechanical failures occur, the cabin environment may contain contaminants. You are stuck in that metal tube until it gets on the ground. You cannot go somewhere and get a breath of fresh air. Reporter with new regulations, flight crews and passengers alike hope everyone will breathe a little easier. Stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. In a moment, a young mans tribute to his father, there for him on the first day of kindergarten and college. Whoooo. Looking for a hotel that fits. Your budget . Tripadvisor now searches over. 200 sites to find you the. Hotel you want at the lowest price. Grazi, gino find a price that fits. Tripadvisor. There was little doubt that tom cruise was badly hurt when he fell short during that roof jumping stunt in london filming Mission Impossible 6, and today paramount studios confirm that cruise broke his right ankle. Paramount says the films production will halt while the 55yearold star recovers. And caught on camera, a shocking moment of impact on a kansas freeway. A semi ramming into a traffic barrier. The truck sent skidding down the road. It burst into flames, as you can see. The driver was trapped inside, but fellow motorists helped him out. Police are investigating the crash as a possible medical emergency but incredibly the driver only has minor injuries from the crash itself. Heres something a lot of us can relate to, emotional moments walking our children to their first day in school. Charles brockman iii of plano, texas, thanked his dad with a post on twitter sharing a picture of them when he started kindergarten years ago and another taken just last week at freshman movein day at mississippi state. The tweet has been liked by hundreds of thousands, and its not hard to see why. Were back in a moment with our enduring devotion to the king now 40 years after his death. Jess vo a protest is growing outside a bay area Sheriff S Office over a tweet the Department Says was an accident. Raj take vo and 3 years after a high profile dognapping. The poodle vanishes again. Next close next. Finally tonight, 40 years ago america lost an icon, the king himself, elvis presley. Even after all these year, he remains one of the bestselling artists of all time. And he still has fans all shook up as thousands descended on graceland to prove that elvis lives at least in their hearts. Heres nbcs catie beck. Everybody lets rock reporter the king of rock n roll gone 40 years. His legacy unforgettable. Return to sender reporter his music unmatched. Viva las vegas you saw me crying reporter Elvis Presleys country gospel voice, the signature swivel of his hips. The world couldnt help falling in love. I did. I grew up loving elvis. Reporter a burning love for nancy craft, president of an Elvis Fan Club in houston, texas. When i get to heaven, there will be two people that ill be seeing. First, my husband. And then elvis. Reporter shes one of an estimated 80,000 fans in memphis, tennessee, this week, for the 40th anniversary of presleys death. The annual event lets fans relish artifacts of the past. Nancy travels there twice a year with her friend dolores. Since 2001 planning every outfit and hour of elvis week. Lets wear Jailhouse Rock on sunday. That is one thing we have a lot of, and thats tshirts. Reporter at graceland, members reunite. At the mansion, the museum, beside jumpsuits. Theres singing. I cant help reporter the pilgrimage culminates with a candlelight vigil at the gravesite. It just touches your soul. Wed love for him to still be around and still be sharing. Falling in love reporter catie beck, nbc news, memphis, tennessee. With you we appreciate you spending part of your evening with us. That is nightly news for this wednesday night. Im lester holt. For all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and good night from los angeles. Tension at thes departnent. More than a hundred people are rallying in oakiland. Anbd more are right now at 6 00 tension at the Sheriffs Department. These are live pictures of more than 100 people rallying in oakland and more are expected to show up. This group upset about a Sheriffs Department social media link to a white supremacist. The news at 6 00 starts right now. Good evening and thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. Im jessica augeri. Weve been tracking this story for over an hour. Reaction is mounting because of a tweet that went out monday night. The alameda sheriff official twit account retweeted one of the nations most prominent wipe supremacis supremacists. He said it was an accident. The latest on the people showing up today say they are upset with what happened and they are not they arent taking this apology. Reporter and more of them seem to be turning out as this rally continues. Let me show you now how densely populated this group is. This was supposed to start half an hour ago or so. Right now you can see the crowd is actually kind of moving into the street, crowding into the street. One of the lanes is blocked. Cars continue to barely squeeze by kind of here on the shoulder. Again, this is a demonstration that is based on this tweet. Lets go ahead and show you the reason why these people are here and demonstrating against the Alameda County sheriffs departme department. This is is the retweet of the twitter page of richard spencer. At the time the Alameda County sheriffs deputy says they were