Nightly news with lester holt. Substituting tonight, peter alexander. Good evening. Its a dramatic window into the Dangers Police face on the streets every day. A confrontation between an officer and a murder suspect charging at him, the entire episode caught on camera. In this new era were seeing Police Conduct exposed as never gfr raising tough questions about Police Tactics, the use of deadly force and when its appropriate. The officers being commended for his restraint. Here get down on the ground reporter this arrest in suburban ohio could very easily have turned violent. Get your hands up get your hands up reporter a man suspected of murdering his fiance and friend that same day charges a Police Officer who is wearing a body cam. I dont want to shoot you, man. I dont want to shoot you. [ bleep ] do it man. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. Reporter the officer is 27yearold jesse kidder an iraq war veteran with a purple heart, but a rookie on the force. I was trying to open a dialogue. I dont want to shoot you. Just get on the ground. But he wasnt having it. Do your worst. Shoot me get back. Reporter the murder suspect may try to get himself shot. And he may have a gun. Stand by. Subject possibly had a weapon under the seat and could possibly be suicide by cops. He put his hand in his pocket there. My eyes are watching that hand right now and nothing else. Reporter back pedaling the entire time kidder stumbles and falls. Im thinking if he goes to attack me ill have to use deadly force to depend myself. Get down on the ground reporter backup arrived, is suspect was arrested and no one was shot. For him to make the judgment call that he did shows great restraint. This officer would have been justified if e t a shooting. Reporter the confrontation took than a minute captured on a body camera kidder started wearing on his own after the shooting of Michael Brown in ferguson missouri. That incident among a string of others since have put Police Tactics and use of force in the spotlight. The difficulty is that youve got hundreds of thousands of Police Officers in th country, some working under very difficult conditions. And for the most part theyre doing a pretty good job. Reporter kidder said it was his time as a marine that helped him keep a level head. I wanted to we absolutely sure before i used lethal force. Reporter being sure cant be easy. Stephanie gosk nbc news new york. Now to whats being called a travel nightmare. Dense fog caused dozens of flight delays into Denver International airport yesterday. But passengers on board one jet fared the worse. They were stranded on the tarmac for hours. Many recording their growing discomfort. Reporter anger and frustration boiling over. No thats not okay . Wont get off the airplane for another two hours. Reporter united 4934 operated by republic left kansas city at 6 21 a. M. Central time. Circled near denver then diverted to Colorado Springs, g at 8 27 a. M. We were literally flying over denver and couldnt land. Reporter what was supposed to be a brief stop passengers say, turned into more than six miserable hours on the tarmac. They said were stuck for an hour and a half. Fine everybodys playing with their laptops or reading a book. Then another hour and a half another hour and a half. They just wouldnt let us off. Reporter federal rules require u. S. Airlines allow domestic passengers to deplain after a threehour delay. The flight crew made that offer but wh a catch. Passengers would to get off this aircraft and consider Colorado Springs your final destination. Reporter meaning those getting off would have to find their own way to denver without their checked luggage a few did get off. But most stayed on. Passengers saying conditions quickly worsened. It smelled really foul. It was just bad circumstances. Reporter the airport says there n gates. The airline chose not to utilize. Republic says it followed procedure and in a statement says it quote, apologizing for the inconvenience. Tarmac delays have dropped from the hundreds per year down to about a handful per year. This case is very unusual. And im really surprised that its happening in this day and time. Reporter passengers finally got off the plane around 2 30 Mountain Time after the flight was canceled. Its been a horrible day. We felt like we were hostages on this plane. Reporter and it still was over. Passengers then boarded a bus for the trip to denver another 90 minutes. Janet shamlian nbc news houston. Were learning new details tonight about what may have caused that massive explosion in Central California yester Authorities Say a work crew may have accidentally struck a gas line triggering the blast at the Fresno County sheriffs gun range. More than a dozen people were injured, many of them county jail inmates who were working nearby. Some late images from massachusetts where a bus carrying students from the university of connecticut became engulfed in flames this afternoon. The students were headed to boston. Police say the driver noticed heavy smoke coming from the engine while on interstate 90 about an hour west of boston. The students were able to get off safely before the bus excuse me the fire destroyed that bus. Overseas now to afghanistan and the worst Suicide Attack that country has seen all year. Afghanistans president is blaming isis for the bombing that claimed the lives of dozens of people. This happened in jalalabad, about 100 miles east of kabul. Reporter in a crlalabad neighborhood a devastating scene. Government workers and civilians lined up outside a bank at 8 30 this morning waiting to collect their monthly salaries when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle set off a massive explosion. Killing at least 36 and wounding more than a hundred. It was part of a coordinated attack police said with at least two more bombs nearby. This one detonated by police. Emergency crews blocked the streets in hopes to evacuate the casualties. There were so many the main hospital was overwhelmed. Doctors desperately calling for donations of blood. Afghan president ash raff ghani blames the bombing on isis saying these people want to destroy us. The taliban denied responsibility even condemning the attack. With most u. S. And nato troops out of afghanistan, the government is on its own trying to reconcile with the taliban and now facing a new threat isis. Kelly cobiella nbc news london. Thousands of miles from afghanistan the war against isis is being felt closer to home. Tonight were hearing from a mother whose teenaged son joined the extremist group. He has a has a powerful warning for o parents. Reporter seeing the world as a frightening place through the eyes of a mother who lost her son to isis. Its the same as any cult gang you know nazism any form of extremism. Say cheese. Reporter her son damian starting shying away from his family. Shortly after this middleclass boy from calgary in canada converted to islam. But it wasnt his new religion that worried his mother. It was that her son was being turned into an extremist. I couldnt see him hurting a flea let alone picking up a gun. Sorry. Reporter what to him . They got into his head. Reporter damian vanished into sear ra where he went to this local mosque. But other forces were influencing him. A powerful web the terrorists use to lure young men and women over the internet. He wasnt saying he loved us any more. That little boy that i knew was gone. Reporter just over a year later, he was dead. And she says isis sent her an email claiming damian as their martyr. Isis suggest you, who had just lost your son, that your place was with them. Yes. That i should be proud of him and i should join their cause. Reporter she was infuriated just like this chicago mother whose son was arrested on terrorism charges. Leave our children alone reporter then she had a conversion of her own. Call after call meetings with mothers around the world, starting a Family Support group. To keep other children out of the clutches of terrorists. You dont want another family to go through this . Im going to make sure its going to stop. And i dont care what it takes. Reporter a grieving mothers promise to her lost son. Kevin tibbles, nbc news calgary, alberta. This weekend nearly ten months ahead of New Hampshires first in the nation primary, more than a dozen republican president ial prospects are aggressively courting voters in that state. The gop field, as youve seen is already as crowded as it is competitive. But all of the candidates do seem to have at least one thing in common sharp words for the democratic frontrunner. Nbc News White House correspondent kristen welker. Reporter good evening. With close to 20 republ hopefuls descending on New Hampshire this weekend, the gop field is wide open. The goal in the Granite State make a splash without. Hi there, jersey. Where from . Reporter it could be a new day for the republican party. Im excited about the possibility of running. R for the t time in years more than a dozen potential candidates fanned out across New Hampshire this weekend. Courting voters in coffee shops, cafes, carving out their message on foreign policy. Im not cheerleading for war. I dont want there to be the need to use military force. But a nuclear iran is an unacceptable risk for the region and the world. Reporter and defending their conservative credentials. My record is a conservative one. Its a im not kidding conservative one and its a record of accomplishment. I did it i didnt talk about it. Reporter even taking some rare shots at each other. Some in our party say, well lets just dilute the message. Lets become Democrat Light and then well get more votes. I couldnt disagree more. I think what we need to do is be boldly for what we are for. Reporter but all these president ial hopefuls saved their sharpest jabs for the likely democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. And like Hillary Clinton, i too too traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe, but unlike mrs. Clinton, i know that flying is an activity not an. Im starting to worry that when Hillary Clinton travels, theres going to need to be two planes. One for her and her entourage and one for her baggage. I could have sworn i saw hillarys scoobydoo vanide. I think they real that beati up on Hillary Clinton thi p in time in the campaign is better than beating up on one another. Reporter the republican b is fired up. Theres a lot of good candidates. I had to be part of it. Theyre all hitting the right notes. Reporter and these candidates are being reminded even in a race for the whourks all politics is still local. A young man all the way in the back. Are you a Boston Red Sox fan . How about this . Im not a yankees fan. Reporter now, marco rubio, a florida senator noted that he is of course a marlins fan. As for Hillary Clinton, shell campaign in New Hampshire starting mo and will hold round tables with students and business leaders. The intersection of sports and politics. Kristen welker at the white house tonight. Thanks. Tomorrow morning on meept the press chuck todd continues the 2016 conversation when he speaks to another republican thought to get into the race thats how governor john kasich. Much of the nation is under the threat of severe weather. It will last for days. We want to bring in meteorologist kelly cass. Whats it looking like . Weve seen way too much rain in places like houston. Several inches in a short period of time leading to high water on the roadways. All kinds of Flooding Issues there. Flood watches are in effect east of there, across the mississippi valley. You can see the storms that are affecting houston, but severe storms from nebraska to kansas and oklahoma and texas. Were concerned about some of those storms rotating and becoming tornadoes. The red showing up out there definitely showing us where weve got the severe thunderstorms in our forecast not just for today but into the overnight hours as well. Make sure you have a way of getting those warnings in case you live anywhere from wichita through Oklahoma City down towards dallas and hughes over toward the southeast mainly a flash flood threat but some of the storms coul contain damaging winds as well as the large hail. Theres a look at the forecast through the tennessee valley. A squall line is expected to set up move across memphis into nashville by tomorrow evening and down towards birmingham and atlanta. Then we head towards monday. Were going to have to watch out in places like philadelphia baltimore and d. C. Unfortunately, we cant rule out the possibility of tornadoes but the damaging wind threat that is really whats going to be the case here. So you could lose your power. Definitely watch out if youll do any traveling in these areas. Airport delays likely from philly right on down to raleigh and jacksonville as well. A high wind threat, spotty hail possible. But we cant rule out the possibility of some twisters as well. Kelly, thank you very much. When nightly news continues on this saturday guns on campus. The debate taking place across this country. Should College Students be allowed to he . And later an amazing underwater discovery that has the pursuit of healthier. It begins from the second were born. After all, healthier doesnt happen all by itself. It needs to be earned. Every day. Using wellness to keep away illness. And believing that a single life can be made better by millions of others. Healthier takes somebody who can power modern health care. 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Reporter College Campuses are exposed to be hallowed grounds of Higher Learning but as weve seen like last year in iz la vista, california that peace can be shattered in an instant. Now eight states are considering laws that would allow College Students to carry guns on campus. Seven states already allow students over age 21 to carry guns on campus in certain circumstances. Its in my purse. Reporter right now . I do. Reporter 21yearold Florida State graduate student Rebecca Hargrove can legally carry her pistol most places but not at school. She wants the right to openly carry on campus. This is a brita and in a clamshell holster. Reporte at lone c in houston. Im for it. Theres no reason for them to come with a gun. Rep the proposed texas law that would allow students and University Employees to carry concealed weapons on campus is a point of debate. Theres so much violence alrea just give immature students guns is just ridiculous. Reporte ie d so many stories of girls being assault and like robbed because they had no way to defend themselves. Reporte there are now twi campaigns to stop the proposed campus gun laws. Many universities are lining up to oppose it. And paid lobbyists are fighting the movement. This is really about the gun lobby pushing bills into places like florida and texas and other states pushing guns into places as many Public Places as it possibly can. Its not about safety. I dont think that peoples rights to defend themselves should stop at the line of a College Campus. Reporter he denies his bill was quietly written or even influenced by the gun lobby. Youre carrying a pistol now . Yes. Reporter why . I always carry it for personal protection. Always have. Reporter the questi triggering debate should that now extend to the College Campus . Kerry sanders, nbc news tallahassee, florida. And still ahead tonight, giving a whole new meaning to the term zebra cros hey, how you doin . It hurts. 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Finally tonight, the remarkable story of a young ballerina who is stealing the show and not just because of her dance moves pf after a devastating accident it seemed like this 8yearolds dreams of performing had been shattered, but it turns out that she had other plans. Nbcs Hallie Jackson ha reporter its hard enough for anyone to master moves like these. 8yearold Alyssa Sizemore doesnt miss a beat even on a prosthetic leg. But its what she does next that has everyone on their feet. Did you think it was going to be a big deal when you took off your leg . No. You dont have to reporter after all shed been practicing for months ever since a truck crushed her foot in an accident just last year. Her right leg amputated to the knee. But even after her third surgery, this budding ballerina only dreamed of one thing. She actually wanted us to record her on a video to send to her dance team. I cant wait till i go home because then i can dance again and see all my friends. Reporter four months later she had a new leg and a new routine. It felt pretty awesome to learn how. Reporter and pretty awesome to see the response after her mom posted video online of that first solo. It was like 5,000 views within a couple hours. And so it was like holy cow. Reporter did you ever think it would be this big . I never even imagined it would be like this. Reporter more than 2 1 2 million views. Alissa asked to star in a music video. She did that solo and shes touched. Reporter so many people have watched that video. Why is that . They said that i could still do things that i love without my leg. Definitely been her thats given me strength. Reporte s learning to dance and teaching the rest of us along the way. I dont have to be someone else. I can just be me. You dont have to try reporter Hallie Jackson, nbc news vernal utah. Good for you, alissa. Thats nightly f this saturday. Peter alexander reportg f new york. Ill see you t kim richards arrested. Welcome to access hollywood. Very early on thursday morning Beverly Hills police took kim into custody and charged her with public intoxication and more. Including battery on a Police Officer. Sobriety was something kim thought she had a handle on. Lets just get this straight real quick. I am not struggling with my sobriety nor have i drug weld my sobriety. That was kim richards proclaiming her sobriety on part 3 of the real housewives of Beverly Hills reunion special that aired tuesday night. I have been sober for three years. I dont appreciate all the conversation that have been behind my back. I do not have to defend myself nor will i any longer. Now less than 48 hours later Beverly Hills police say they arrested her for public