announcer: this is “nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening terrifying images coming out of cuba tonight. a five-star hotel in downtown havana ripped by a massive and deadly explosion the death toll rising as rescuers search for the missing. dozens of injured were rushed to hospitals. cellphone video capturing the moment of the explosion as the saratoga hotel was quickly engulfed in smoke and dust its facade crumbled by the blast. cuban authorities tonight blaming the blast on a gas leak. the hotel once frequented by well heeled tourists and celebrities including some americans was closed for renovation. kerry sanders now with late developments. reporter: moments after the explosion, a witness began recording as the cloud of dust from the blast enveloped the streets of old havana. a witness points and yells, there s people alive, there s people alive! in the rubble another says, there s one, there s one! bystanders, police, firefighters began climbing over con
social media platform in the name of free speech, the igniting reaction on, you guessed it, twitter. the founder and former ceo, jack dorsey, is applauding the move and saying the goal of creating a platform that is maximally trusted and broadly is the right one. this is the right path and i believe with all my heart. for much of the left, hysteria best describes their reaction. massachusetts senator elizabeth warren calling it dangerous for our democracy. the civil rights weighing in, the aclu writing, while elon musk is an aclu card carrying member and a significant supporter, there s a lot of danger having so much power in the hands of any one individual. the naacp pleading with musk to keep former president trump far away. do not allow 45 to return to the platform. do not allow twitter to become a petri dish for hate speech or falsehoods that subvert our democracy. and cnn s brian adding this. i think it s an example, which, if you get invited to something, wh
just miles away, former president trump at the wake for a slain nypd officer as he campaigns on the issue of crime. the mission to protect the giants of the sea. inside the new whale traffic control. and as small-town papers disappear, harry smith takes us to maine, where local news is getting a lifeline. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. tonight, we are getting our closest look yet at the precarious remains of baltimore s francis scott key bridge and the out-of-control container ship that toppled it. our team out with the army corps of engineers today as they prepare for the formidable challenge of clearing the blocked channel. tonight, special equipment is on the way to begin the work, while the search for the bodies of four missing workers continued. the wife of a surviving worker telling nbc news, my husband doesn t know how to swim. it is a miracle he survived. authorities also revealing they have begun interviews
the boards for its shares to start trading but the company was once china s largest real estate company but it has defaulted back into 2021 and it is believed to have had at least, at one point, more than $300 billion in debt. recently told investors that it lost more than $80 billion over the last two years and yesterday morning just before its shares started trading it also told us that it lost another 11.5 billion in the first six months of this year. that is still half of what it lost last year. recently the company filed for bankruptcy protection in the united states. the company has become something of a symbol of the nationwide property crisis that many feared it could spill over globally and there have been other developers warning us about a huge loss it could face as well. but for the second day, trading after the suspension was lifted, the shares are down by 14% after falling 80% yesterday. as we have been reporting, the us commerce secretary is in beijing this wee