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The private pain she s endured. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. The other shoe has just dropped in pro footballs deflategate scandal. The nfl late today announcing super bowlwinning new England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady will be suspended for four games. Out takes place at the start of the next season. Thats a quarter of the nfl schedule. The team itself is also facing substantial punishment tonight along with two patriots employees. This comes after a report commissioned by the nfl found Team Personnel probably intentionally deflated footballs and suggested that tom brady was at least generally aware. We get late details from nbcs peter alexander. Reporter for days its been the most debated, discussed and edie sected topic if court. What punishment would the nfl hand down for reigning super bowl mvp tom brady. Late this afternoon the league announced a fourgame suspension for brady, citing substantial and credible evidence from an independent report that brady was at least generally aware that two patriots locker room attendants were deflating footballs. It also faults thore star for failing to cooperate with the investigation by not turning over emails or text messages. Your actions as set forth in the report constitute conduct detrimental to the Public Confidence of the game of professional football said nfl executive president troy vincent in a statement. In bradys only Public Comments since the reports are release he said he hoped to respond to the investigation soon. I have dealt with adversity over my career. Life is about the ups and downs. I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure. I think a lot of it, you take the good with the bad. Reporter in addition the nfl is punishing the patriots with a 1 million fine and the loss of first round draft pick in 2016 and fourth round pick in 2017. As for the locker room attendants tonight both are indefinitely suspended without pay. Tonight tom bradys camp says brady learned about the punishment from his agent. At the same time the rest of the world did. The suspension costs him close to 2 million. Brady will appeal through the nfl players union. Lester . Bob costas of tbs sportnbc sports is here. Why this punishment . Its a product of the behavior and bradys unwillingness oh to fully cooperate with the nfl which they resented. Also the time frame in which it took place. The nfl has been under a lot of heat for player misbehavior, team miss behavior unrelated to this type of offense. It creates an atmosphere and theres been heat on roger goodell. In that sense the patriots and brady are victims of the atmosphere surrounding the league and of their own status. If they appear the league appeared to be soft on brady there would be hell to pay, i think. Peter alexander mentioned an appeal. How would that work and whats the leekly hood of it being reduced . Goodell can hear the appeal himself. He could also decide to refer it to an independent arbitrator. That might play well in the court of public opinion. He could be saying, see . Look. Let someone else verify for you i have been thorough and father. Thats up to goodell. The the fourgame suspension gives them a pad. Say under whatever process is appeal results in a reduction of the penalty. At least then it wouldnt go from two games to one. It would go four to three or two and it would have teeth in et. You have done math with the calle dar. I have. If he serves four games, walk me through it. The patriots have a bye early in the season. The fifth game for them is week six. He would return on a sunday night against the indianapolis colts, the very team that blew the whistle on him in that afc championship game the very team that started the whole deflategate thing. Also get used to the name jimmy garoppolo. Hes the backup quarterback, second round pick a year ago out of eastern i will thoisllinoisillinois. He broke all of tony romos records and the early schedule is tough. They open against pittsburgh. Then at buffalo and buffalo is pretty good. They should beat jacksonville at home. Then dallas. By the time tom brady gets back they could be 13. Bob costas good to have you here. Thank you very much. Tornado watches this evening for parts of indiana, michigan and ohio. A remarkable 25 tornadoes broke out of the south yesterday, killing at least six people and triggered flash floods. The town of van in north texas took a direct hit from a tornado. Spinning winds up to 140 Miles Per Hour. Thats where where Kerry Sanders is tonight. Reporter van, texas, a town torn apart by at least one tornado as drones flown by search and rescue teams revealed today. Tornado just hit our town. Reporter with little warning people were trapped in their homes. It was crazy loud. My kids were scared. I was scared to death. Just praying we made it through. Reporter now the desperate search is on for the missing. The twister spun our car around lifted it up flipped it over. A tree landed on us sb. Reporter andy and his daughter bailey had ten seconds to jump into a pickup truck. A hundred homes and buildings, more than a third of the town now destroyed. Two of the towns schools so badly damaged they may never reopen. Since last wednesday preliminary reports show 131 tornadoes touched down from south dakota to texas. There goes the school. There goes the school. Reporter in lake city iowa a tornado ripped the roof right off the high school. In nashville, arkansas a tornado killed a couple in their mobile home. The only survivor . Their daughter, a toddler. Punishing rain and hail struck several parts of the south. In texas, four inches an hour caused flash floods trapping residents, including a 76yearold whose home washed away. I dont have no clothes. Im dressed in hospital garb. Reporter everythings gone . Everythings gone. Reporter today in texas communities are coming together to clean up with a they can. Meantime in Cambridge City indiana, 70 Miles Per Hour winds knocked over two semis. The wind speeds here in van, texas, were twice that that caused the this damage. Tonight for at least technical sans there is a little bit of a breather. The National Weather service says the conditions for more tornadoes wont return until friday. Lester . Kerry sanderers for us tonight. Al roker is here watching the threat for tonight. Where should we be looking thousand . The big place is in the upper pid west and great lakes. Weave weve got a thunderstorm watch and a tornado watch until 8 00 into parts of ohio. We are watching heavy rain through southern texas. So we have flood watches in effect for tuesday and wednesday. One to three inches of rainfall. More on top of ground thats saturated. There is nowherer for it to go. Through friday some areas pay pick up to five to six inches of rain. Were not done yet. The atmosphere is reloading. Temperatures will be well above normal both here and then as you get behind the system well see cooler than normal temperatures. Big potent upper level low from california causing much needed rain there. As we get into thursday and friday, more Severe Weather for the central and southern plains. Al roker, thank you. Tonight, shock and sadness is rippling through a city that hadnt seen an officer killed in the line of duty in 30 years. Now mourning the loss of two officers as four suspects are facing charges including capital murder. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in mississippi. Reporter in hattiesburg, mess mississippi tonight, a heavy sadness. Two Police Officers killed in the line of duty. They made the ultimate sacrifice to protect feel of this city. Some they did not and would not ever know. Reporter 34yearoldyearold Benjamin Dean and lacory tate graduated from the Police Academy less than a year ago. Im devastated. Reporter his mother has this message for her sons killer is. The hurt is unbearable. But i forgive you. Reporter tate wanted to be a Police Officer since he was 4. Saturday night police say officer dean stopped a car for speeding. When tate arrived shots were fired. Both officers were hit. The suspects fled in a police cruiser. After a brief man hunt. Curtis did you do it is this. No, sir. I didnt do it. Reporter Police Arrested curtis banks and charged hip and joanie call way with being accessories to the killings. Cornelius clark is accused of helping banks escape capture. Banks is charged with two counts of murder. His mother in tears. Hes just out of his mind on drugs. I tried to get him some help. Reporter the deaths wring to 42 the number of officers killed in the line of duty this year. We have Police Officers in the wrong place at the wrong time. Reporter late today their bodies were escorted toer their hometowns as the city mourns its first fallen Police Officers in three decades. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news hattiesburg, mississippi. In boston the defense rested its case today in the penalty phase of the marathon bombing trial with dramatic testimony from a final witness. The real life nun from the movie dead man walking revealing what tsarnaev told her about how he feels about his crimes. Pete williams was back in the courtroom. Reporter she was the star witness for the defense both because of who she is and what she said. Sister helen prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the leading opponents of the Death Penalty. Lets talk about that night. I dont want to talk about it. I want to help you die with dignity. Reporter her story was the inspiration for dead man walking. In court today sister helen said she met five times since march with dzhokharer tsarnaev talking about religion asked if he ever ex pressed his feelings about what happened to the bombing victims. She answered he said no one deserves to suffer like they did. She said he lowered his eyes with pain the in his voice. She added, i believe he was genuinely sorry for what he did. It was the first statement in this entire trial that tsarnaev has shown any regret for his crimes. He has spent nearly every moment in court staring ahead impassively, even when victims of the bombing have had many in court, includinger jurors in tears. There must be a unanimous decision to support a Death Penalty. The testimony could sway one juror and thats all the defense needs. Reporter sister helen said the Death Penalty is never appropriate no matter the crowd and conceded her antiDeath Penalty view may have influenced her perception of tsarnaev. She said she would never say he was remorseful if she didnt believe it. No Court Tomorrow as lawyers prepare for closing arguments on wednesday. Later that day the jury begins deliberating choosing life without parole or oh death by lethal injection. George zimmerman is back in the news injured in a shooting incident on the road in florida. Another altercation involving the former Neighborhood Watch volunteer who was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Authorities say zimmerman wasnt the shooter in this case and suffered a minor facial injury when a bullet was fired through the window of his car. Police say the incident involved the same man zimmerman had a road rage encounter with last year. No one has been charged. The Obama Administration insisted today it is not a snub but they expected saudi arabias new king to oh attend a summit of gulf leaders at camp david this week. 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Reporter now investigative reporterer see mower hirsch writes the white house was lying claiming pakistan knew where are bin laden was hiding all along. News s. E. A. L. Team six was choppering to his hide out so no need for octobers to avoid radar and that the s. E. A. L. S threw bin ladens body parts out of the helicopter be p on the way out. No islamic burial at sea as the u. S. Claimed. Flat wrong said the white house and former officials today. The story is riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods. Reporter admiral mike mullen said the head of pakistans military knew nothing. He had the worst week of his military career the week after that. It was embarrassing for lots of reason ares. Reporter leon panetta last fall explaining why they kept pakistan in the dark spp the pakastanis would usually tip off the people we were going after. And they were gone. So we decided we cant trust them. Reporter today one of the president s frequent republican critics dispute hirschs account. I have never heard of anything like this. I have been briefed several types. This is a Great Success on the part of the administration and something that we all admire the president s decision to do. Reporter nbc news independently learned from two intelligence source that is a pakistani officer told the u. S. Where bin laden was hiding a year before the raid something the white house disputes. That doesnt necessarily dispute with the white house claim that the u. S. Acted alone. Lester . Andrea thank you. We are back in a moment with Michelle Obamas powerful he is saj to graduate withes. The first lady like we have never, or rarely heard her before. At chase, we celebrate Small Businesses every day through programs like mission main street grants. Last years grant recipients are achieving amazing things. Carving a name for myself and creating local jobs. Creating more programs for these little bookworms. Bringing a taste of louisiana to the world. 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And Michelle Obama gave one over the weekend thats getting a lot of attention. The first ladys speech was candid personal heartfelt, even blunt on the issue of oh racement more tonight from our White House Correspondent chris jansing. Mrs. Michelle obama. Reporter at historically black Tuskeegee University Michelle Obama didnt hold back speaking in passionate terms about the daily slights of being black in america. The clerks who kept a close eye on us in those department stores. The people at formal events who assumed we were the help. And those who have questioned our intelligence our honesty, even our love of this country. Reporter she recounted her reaction to a magazine cover showing her with an afro and machine gun. Yeah now it was satire but if im being honest that knocked me back a bit. Reporter twitter users called the address riveting and amazing. The first ladys speech was his to reck. Reporter Georgetown Professor paul butler among those arguing the president could take a cue from his wife system when the president talks about race he loses some of his famous swagger, the selfconfidence. Thats a shape. This is a moment where africanamericans especially need his leadership. Reporter in 2013 the president spoke at another black college about the motivation to break stereotypes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. Reporter that was after Trayvon Martin but before the deaths of eric garner mike brown, tamir rice and freddie gray forced a new and blunt conversation. Talking about that still exist in our country can only strengthen america. It doesnt tear america down. Reporter a challenge and a reality check for the class of 2015. Chris jansing, nbc news the white house. When we come back grownups taking a page out of childs play. A new trend among adults drawing a lot of attention. Allergies can distract you. 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Different and more complex than the traditional books for kids but the effects are the same. The tree can be pink. Dont get too critical of yourself. Just have fun. Thanks for coming to the coloring party. Reporter shila janice says as the stress reliever. Shes now hosting coloring parties at her home outside of checking with shades of book club appeal. I used colored pencils. Reporter her Facebook Group has more than 11,000 members. Coloring is almost meditative to me. I forget Everything Else and live in the moment. Reporter color this a success. In france color books for grownups outselling cookbooks. Amazon. Com has more than 2,000 different types for sale. Among the most popular, secret garden, has sold nearly one and a half million copies. In oregon artist lisa comden designs coloring books with grown ups in mind. They allow people to color and be creative without being intimidated by a blank page. Reporter so its okay if i go outside of the lines . Spp et is okay if you go outside of the lines. Its okay if you color your moon purple. Reporter grownups taking a page from kids books, enjoying coloring again. Who would have thought you would grow up and go backwards . Rehema ellis, nbc news, chicago. That will do it tr for us on this monday night. Im lester holt. For all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. Lights camera access. I think this was possibly the biggest television show. Ever. Its time to move on. Have you heard from simon or randy . The end of modern tvs biggest phenomenon. Im billy bush as