Morning, a man called the Ottawa County michigan dispatch kplam claiming he had a bomb in his truck and he was going to blow up the coast guard station in grand haven, michigan. The sector field in grand haven began evacuating personnel immediately. Thats when a man crashed his fullsize dodge ram truck through the station security gate broke into a building, and once inside, attacked coast guard personnel. They suffered minor injuries. Now, the coast guard members subdued the 34yearold man until Police Arrived and arrested him. Bomb technicians have checked the truck and the station and have found no explosive devices thus far. The coast guard station building is now, quote, deemed safe but based on where the truck was located, residents at sandpiper condos across the street from the coast guard station are asking to shelter as a form of caution. The suspect made a threat of an explosive device and were currently checking the truck in the building for explosive devices. Now we just got
Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Whether you grew up watching her as laura petrie or Mary Richards or part of the generation that discovered her in nighttime reruns, the news of the death of Mary Tyler Moore likely struck you like it did many of us here with a sense of sadness and nostalgia. In a career that spans tv an stages with she will be best remembered for two sitcoms in which her character symbolized the changing perceptions of women in this country. Tonight there is reaction from hollywood and beyond. Who can turn the world on with her smile reporter Mary Tyler Moores smile lit up two of televisions most beloved sitcoms of the 60s and 70s. As laura petrie, a flustered stay at home wife and mother. And later upending tv gender stereotypes as a career woman in the Mary Tyler Moore show. Youve got spunk. Well, yes. I hate spunk reporter born in brooklyn in 1936, moore landed her first job out of high
Announcer from nbc news word headquarters in new york, this is nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. More pieces of the Trump White House are coming together tonight, including one whose pick is sounding alarm bells among those who had been hoping for a less provocative tone. The president elect tapping as his top strategist stephen bannon, one of the controversial architects of his noholds barred election campaign, leaving washington with bated breath as the incoming president s choices and words foretell what the next four years will look like. Theres also developing news coming in about the president elects children that is likely to raise a few eyebrows. Nbcs Hallie Jackson is standing by in washington with the late details. Hallie, what have you learned . Lester, nbc news has learned hes asked whether its possible for family members get security clearances before the inaugural. This is unprecedented and a sign of just how important trumps children would be in his new admini
Sean, among the syrians weve spoken to here, there is an overwhelming sense of gratitude both toward President Trump and the u. S. Administration. But its always tinged with a sense that not enough is being done, and they point to the fact that syrian jets have been continuing to bomb the same town that was gassed last week. But today, sean spicer said that he was hit by atomic clocks this was back in order. But today, sean spicer so that was merely a start, and that 20 of the Syrian Air Force had in fact been destroyed. Fox news has also spoken to survivors of the chemical attack, united with survivingo family members. Still traumatized, they share not only the horrors they saw as babies choked in front of them, but also their hopes for the future. We hope that american strikes will continue on other airbases that are being used by assad to kill civilians and to put pressure on russia and iran from supporting him. The tomahawk strikes made iran and russia very t angry. They did not wa
War there . First, Barbara Starr joins us from 2 pentagon with the latest. What have you learned, barbara . Good evening. We know this mission had been planned by the u. S. Military over the last several weeks. They were looking at a target in eastern afghanistan, remote mountainous area. There was a complex of isis used tunnels and caves. It was so remote they feel that there was no civilians around. Theyve been trying to go after them for some time now. So the mission was planned. It was executed. They will now do the damage assessment. They will fly over the target. Theyre going to have to determine there were no civilian casualties. They say they dont think so. Still to be determined. Theyll have to find fought the bomb worked as planned because theyve never used it in combat. This is a bomb that is so huge, 21,000 plus pounds. Its basically shoved out the back of a cargo plane at a very high altitude. And it detonates over the target. It doesnt penetrate into the ground. People ar