League player in tears. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. One question answered to raise so many more in the disappointearance of flight 370. The aircraft piece found on an Indian Ocean Island beach could have come from a boeing 777 removing virtually any doubt after a year and a half, the first tangible piece of aviations biggest puzzle has been found. Our team is on the island tonight and here is exactly what experts saw that told them what they needed to know but what about the rest of the plane, the black boxes . And the passengers and crew. Lets begin our coverage from reunion island with bill neely bill . Reporter good evening, lester, from an island 4,000 miles from where mh 370 is thought to have crashed but this coast has given investigators perhaps the biggest clue yet, more than 500 days into this mystery. The eyes of the aviation world are focused on this debris tha
7 0. Good morning. Im 7 00. Good morning. Im gasia mikaelian. Im dave clark. Steve paulson has the weather. Cooler. Cooler. That will help the firefighters. Rocky fire, 60,000 acres, 12 containment. 94 square miles. At least it will be cooler. Thats the good news. Look at the humidity. 80 , 90 . It was the teens. Theres more of a westerly component. Thats good news. The fire does its own dance there but at least the humidity is higher around the temperatures are cooler and the breeze is more out of the favorable conditions which is west or south verses southeast or east. Water temps came up. 23 gusts to 31. Altamont pass, gust to 34. Its a screaming breeze for some. Big fog bank. Sunny, breezy, windy. Suisun bay, 25 miles an hour. 60s, 70s for most. Sal . We do have slow traffic. Lets take a look at the commute now with the theres our spider. Its backed up all the way to the macarthur maze. Sometimes when i look at that, its a little distracting. Traffic is backed up to the maze. 15, 0
Beirut, thousands protest over what they say is a dysfunctional government. We go to colombia where one Students Initiative is turning her carcrazed hometown into a bike friendly environment. Security forces in macedonia have stand preventing thousands of refugees from crossing the border from greece, now letting groups go through. Theyre supplying buses and trains to take them on to serbia, which is the next stop in their journey to e. U. Member country. It was a very different scene saturday when hundreds of refugees and applying grants made a run for the border. Security forces were overwhelmed. Many people are trying to get to hungary, a major entry point into the e. U. Hangary itself is building a fence along its border with as her i cant, so the russia is on to get through before that fence is finished. Al jazeeras Andrew Simmons is in macedonia where many refugees have now boarded trains, taking them on to serbia. Two trains have left and now these people are left behind, trying
Arsons to about a dozen. That is including the seven this week and at least five others from 2016. The first five this week happened overnight in a driveway. The two this morning were parked on the streeet. Fire officials believe the same person or people are responsible for all of them. They say there are some commonalities among them. Much of which they wont share in order not to compromise the investigation. I spoke with residents nearby in walnut creek. And they say this is part of a trend in increase in crime here in recent years. One man told me that hes lived here since the nineties without incident up until the last year. His car was stolen twice. So now he says hes taking a different approach to prevent Something Like this from happening to himself or his neighbors. Tim mcconnell neighbori think its one of the things weve kind of decided that with this kind of going on and now the vehicle fires. If people are driving through your neighbhorhood i dont think theres a real proble
In our ongoing series, we call issues that matter, a closer look at americas longest war. Why were still in afghanistan. Conflict spanning three presidencies and where the u. S. Can go from here. We begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener your world in 90 seconds. Any senator who votes against starting debate is telling america that you are fine with the obamacare nightmare. Senator mccain returns for a crucial vote on health care. It shows how desperate they are not wanting to go home in august having accomplished absolutely nothing and frankly having to listen to donald trump beat them over the head with that. By the way, youre going to get the votes. He getter get em . Oh, otherwise ill say tom, youre fired a truck driver could get the Death Penalty if convicted in a deadly Human Trafficking case in texas. The driver told investigators he had no idea people were inside. Just devastating. Its like a war zone. Severe weather across the country. Tornado damage to extreme fl