Save lives. Hit hardest by a quake that started at the worst time of day, stopping the clock at 4 30 this morning as etch slept. From this apartment they pulled body after body, people stunned and moments of hope, too, on oxygen but alive. And reduced to rubble and dust by a quake felt 100 miles away. Its incredible, its like a bomb fell down on it. Anymore. Reporter just vis visible under concrete rocks, an 80yearold woman, her daughter killed and saying hang on. And another airlifted out while still shaking. And an 8yearold pulled out after rocking fragile buildings all around, the crowd applauding in relief. Lived under threat of earthquakes and on a fault line but always escaped disaster until today. This is amatrice before and after. One of its jewels crushed and almost every building cracked or destroyed. What is the hope of sur survivors . Hope is very very light. Reporter the bodies lay outside. A few families te tenderly saying goodbye. Its a everyone knows everyone. Now, amid broken buildings, broken people and a rising death toll. Many survivors are sleeping outside here tonight. They dont dare go back into buildings that could clapts like this one, with good reason. In the last two big tremors in italy, the strongest earthquake in the sequence wasnt the first one so this could get worse. Lester. Thank you. Back to this country, a brewing storm in the tropics and forecast track that has a lot of people nervous in florida. Meteorologist, dylan dreyer is track writing its going. Where is it headed . Right now, it is just a tropical wave. Theres about a 60 chance of this storm developing into a tropical depression or Tropical Storm within the next 48 hours. It will move through water temperatures running 80 to 90 be enough to help strengthen this storm. The models are in agreement the storm should be in the bahamas by friday and in agreement it should approach southern florida by the time we get to sunday. This is where they differ. The american model takes it on the east coast of florida, a much weaker storm but the european has it as a major hurricane getting into early next week. That is something we have to keep an eye on. Thanks to the update. A recent attack at and several injured. Gunmen stormed an American University at afghanistans capitol, where Many Americans are on staff. Americas longest war appears to be res resurging. Heres nbcs richard engel. Reporter its long been a target, symbol symbollingsymbol of American Values and education. The coed American University in kabul. Today, it was hit hard, first an explosion and then gunmen rushed in. Trapped inside, american faculty and mostly afghan students. My wife called me from can dan and i just told her probably i may die here. Reporter Afghan Special forces stormed the campus and american troops also deployed to help. Just two weeks ago an american professor at the university and an australian were ki kidnapped. Its outlandish to have something named American University kabul. Reporter the white house praised the work of Afghan Security force. This underscores a significant challenge but we continue to see skill and professionalism of Afghan Security force improve. Reporter if things were going so well the president last month wouldnt have canceled a planned withdrawal of more than 4,000 u. S. Troops. Over the past several months, the u. S. Military has dramatically increased oper just yesterday the pentagon announced the death of an american soldier there. The war in afghanistan has intensified in a major way over the last several month. Now, its unclear how much longer american personnel can remain teaching in kabul. 15 years in. 15 years in. Thank you. To president ial politics now, nbc news has learned Hillary Clinton will receive her first classified intelligence briefing as a president ial nominee on saturday at an fbi office near her new york home. Meantime, donald continuing his new push to appeal to minority voters, a tough sell as polls show him trailing Hillary Clinton badly with american latinos and africanamericans. And what hes saying is proving to be controversial. Reporter call him the comeback kid, he h hopes. Donald trump arguing why not to black and latino voters in tampa voter, who have been absolutely treated terribly, i say, what do you have to lose . To the africanamerican parent, you have a right to walk down the street of your city without having your child or yourself shot. Reporter his hard line stance on immigration slashing his support among hispanics to historic lows in battleground florida. Now, trump is recalibrating. There certainly can be a softening because were not looking to hurt people. Reporter the crowd in tampa, mostly white, just like the line for trumps second rally in jackson, mississippi. He needs a broader base and the Republican Party needs a broader base. Reporter the city of jackson is 80 africanamerican but his appeals fell flat with africanamerican voters . I dont take him serious. The Africanamerican Community didnt deal with trump and he didnt deal with we have a lot to lose if we get the wrong person. You should try to get votes from every person across the country and every american. Will he be able to erase his statements over the last 13 months . Absolutely not. Reporter trump is hoping these chunts will help diversify his support. He said his poll numbers among africanamericans and hispanics have gone is not true. Thank you. Now to an nbc news investigation into the complex maze of Donald Trumps finances. As trump continues to resist calls to release his tax, nbc news is taking a hard look at his money trail. Cynthia mcfadden has more. Reporter donald trump has a thing for debt. Im the king of debt. I love debt. Reporter in fact a three month investigation by t revealed donald trump liked debt twice as much as his financial forms indicate even though that was more than he was required to reveal under federal election rules. Whats the bottom line . Bottom line we found a lot of opaque ties and things hard to explain i think could be of concern to some people if donald trump were elected to the white house. Reporter on f fox friends, trump dismissed the times story showing it shows how small his debt debt relative to the assets. I have massive assets. Reporter its those assets raising questions. First, how rich is he . Www. The 11 billion he claims or 3 billion bloomberg reports . Second, how much does he owe and to whom . I think we would need to know who he owes money to, who he would be accountable to. Reporter lawyer, ken gross, has helped democrats and republicans running for president with financial no president can be totally free of conflicts of interests particularly if theyre wealthy and have a lot of holdings. Disclosure would go a long way towards h helping. Reporter for example the New York Times reports trump owns 30 of this new York Office Building with a debt of 9 950 million. Among the lenders, the bank of china and goldman sachs. That captured the attention of the Clinton Campaign today. Tell me how he can stand up to goldman that he owes money to them to. Reporter the Trump Campaign hit back telling nbc news today that neither mr. Trump nor his company were responsible for the debt associated with the limited partn partnerships. Trump has further dismissed concerns about possible conflicts of interests saying he would put his assets into a blind trust even though he doesnt have to, which means he wouldnt know how those assets are managed. If i become care less about my company. Its peanuts. I have ivanka and eric and don sitting there. Run the company, be involved. I wouldnt care anything but our country, anything. Actually, to set up a blind trust in the u. S. Executive branch is actually quite difficult. Your children cant run it as a legal matter. Reporter and theres another problem, experts say a blind trust would only be truly blind if mr. Whats in it. So, would he have to say, goodbye trump tower . Cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. Still ahead tonight, the senators daughter at the center of a firestorm, how she personally pr profited while her company hike the price of life saving epee pens 400 . The essential tonight, there is a growing anger for a u. S. Drug company for rising the price of a lifesaving medication by over 400 in the past eight years. Millions of americans, especially children we lie on epee p epipens for a major reaction and tonight we learn about a ceo and daughter, who has grown. The backlash against Mylan Pharmaceuticals has grown. In 20 taken they charged in 2013, they charged 2 200 and now it is 6 600 and now bipartisan outrage. Morally bankrupt. Reporter the price change reflects better product features. The ceo shown here her total composition went from 2 Million Dollars to 19 million. She is the daughter of West Virginia senator joe manchin. When manchin was governor she received an mba from and later reskicinded when investigators determined she had not finished the coursework and invoked controversy when she relocated it where the tax is lower. Those who portray themselves as inv inventors of lifesaving medication often do real damage to their reputation by being greedy and j jacking up prices. Prices on other drugs, too, some by 4 and 500 . Tonight, no comment by bresch or senator manchin. Fans and fellow celebrities are ra rallying behind snl and ghostbuster star leslie jones after she became the victim of a vicious racist hacking attack. This isnt the first time shes been ha harassed online this summer. Reporter after appearing at the olympics in rio, today, actress leslie jones took down her website after it was hacked. He littered with what appear to be explicit nude photos of the comedian and unco unconfirmed pictures of her drivers license and passport. This is just the latest episode in a series of disturbing Cyber Attacks against jones. Last month, her twitter account was flooded with hateful and racist tweets. One tet compared jones to harambe, the gorilla with a tweet s recently, jones, a cast member of snl and ko store of ghostbusters. Please welcome back our very good friend, leslie jones. Reporter responded to the tweets on late night television. Im used to the in insults. Thats unfortunate. Reporter she tweeted its so sad most comments sound like theyre from ignorant children. It appears she was attacks in some respects because shes a black woman, a public figure and rushed to her side. Katy perry with 92 million followers tweeted i stand with leslie and these are si sickening, ugly and racist and sexist. Attacks leslie is once again, facing head on. Rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. Have scientists found another earth . Astron miss talk about say its like our next door neighbor that happens to be 25 trillion miles away, no sense trying to buy sugar. It is by far the closest potential habitable planet ever found outside our zbrinly tonight, no one would listen to her when she claimed the government owed her tens of thousands of dollars. After years of fighting a homeless woman finally found someone who believed her. It turns out she was right all along. Reporter for 20 years, was homeless in the nations capitol, living in shelters and even calling this Street Corner home. This is where i used to live. Reporter now, witter, 80, a divorced mother of four was also stubborn. She knew the federal government owed her lot of money and determined to prove it. Your daughter offered to let you live with her in tennessee. You said no, why . I didnt want to leave until i got my money and everything due to me. Reporter it machinist and couldnt find work. What was the hardest part for you of being h homeless . I lost my freedom and independence. Reporter when she started receiving Social Security, the checks didnt add up. Reporter you made multiple attempts to Social Security and said you owe me more money. What happened . Nothing. Reporter what would say they say to you . They wouldn prove enough to fill three suitcases and found a lawyer. She was so organized and so documented i felt confident her case did have merit. Reporter after 16 years, witter finally beat the bureaucrats, waiting for her at the bank, almost 100 100,000. Its just 999 all the way across. Reporter witter moved into an apartment just last week. Her dream now, some new furniture and meeting her great grandchildren. Reporter you took on the government and you won. How does that feel . Unbreakable woman who finally has a place to call home. Kristen welker, nbc news, washington. That will do it for us from nbc news. Thank you for watching and good night. Today on the Meredith Vieira show its almost new years eve. Whether you be making resolutions and will you stick to them . And plus you think its okay to sleep with a coworker . Would you. From american pie and american beauty. Shes dishing about her unusual new years ritual and revealing the scary thing she and meredith teeth. It felt like it was the death of me, the death of my identity. We are coming to the rescue and giving her back her smile with a miracle makeover have you to see to believe. Its starting right now on meredith. . . . Meredith we have a great show wrapping up 20156789 you know her from american pie franchise and american beauty, mina savari is here today. She was born in rhode island like i was, so i have a special affinity for her and Everyone Wants a perfect smile, but imagine being so embarrassed by your teeth that you never open your mouth . Thats the situation one of our viewers found herself in and you its going to be a wonderful piece. First lets talk about what is hot now. [cheers and applause] okay. New years eve two days away. Who here is excited . Very excited. Am i the only geek that loves new years eve . Meredith you may be. I love it. We have a full proof way to make sure have you a good time. Thats true. Usually im working on new years eve. I perform at a p always try to pick a place where all my friends can come so i take the gig just just so i can have a party for my friends. Are we all coming . You are all invited. Miami this year. Miami. [ applause ] i dont know with kids, im excited because i like the new year, a fresh start but with kids we celebrate west coast style meaning we do it at 9 00 here in new york. 9 30 west coast and here so they worse than having a hangover when you have children. You get up at the same time no matter what the next day. I reach the point this is me and new years, this is me on the couch, snoring. Meredith i used to love it, dick clark, the whole thing. Now i cant stay awake. Its all about the countdown. I love the moment where everyone is celebrating at the exact same time. Makes you feel. Yeah on your face saying you dont love it. Im always performing wh everybody who is enjoying their new year coming in and im waiting to go home and go to sleep. You are making people happy. Meredith you and lance are performers. You make people happy. Would i come pay and see you, too. Just do it at 6 00 at night. It may end up being a lucky night for you the way it was for lalani. Youre a single girl