Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. As we start tonight were watching several big stories including the search for wreckage and survivors of the scene of a deadly military Helicopter Crash overnight off the coast of florida. We want to begin here this evening with what appears to be another embarrassment for the secret service. Details just surfacing about an investigation into a possible car crash on the white house grounds involving members of the secret service including an agent assigned to president obamas protective detail. Lets go right to nbcs tom costello in our washington newsroom. Tom . Reporter lester, good evening. A Senior Administration official is confirming to nbc news this evening that there is an investigation into the actions of two secret Service Agents including a top member of the president s protective detail. The secret service confirming its looking into what happened on march 4th when two agents drove a government vehicle into a White House Security
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Injured. Isis claim responsibility for attack and the spanish now believe that the attacks are plan some time ago. President trump isis has taken credit for this barbaric attack, but anyone response will should know that the United States of america, together with our allies will find and punish those responsible and drive the evil of radical islamic terror from the face of the earth. Jon hours later and 80 miles away from barcelona, terrorists used a car to stage an attack in the seaside town of cambrils, one person was killed, at least five hours hurt, the police shot and killed five suspects wearing fake bomb belts. These attacks unnerving the nation. I heard this crashing noise, i heard screams. I turned around and looked. I was expecting like an avalanche. Hundreds of people started to run. Getting down the street with my headphones in, i wasnt really aware of what was going on. It wasnt until the van started to come to this area just behind me that it was striking people and hit
Welcome to early start, im christine romans. Im dave briggs. 5 00 a. M. In the east, 10 00 a. M. In london. We begin with the widening fallout from President Trumps comments about White Supremacists. Some suggesting all the pushback is hurting chances to advance an agenda once the president returns to washington next week. Now more officials in his own party are pushing back. Senator Lindsey Graham saying the president s words are dividing, not healing americans. Many americans do not agree with and will fight back against the idea that the party of lincoln was a welcome mat, has a welcome mat out for the david dukes of the world. Ohio Governor John Kasich said this pathetic, isnt it, pathetic listening to this and hearing these marchers. The president has to totally condemn this. This is not about winning an argument. This is about the fact that now these folks will go other places and think they had some sort of a victory. There is no moral equivalency between the kkk, neonazis and a