Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york. Nbc nightly news with lester holt. We begin with a highstakes showdown that has left years of American Peace efforts in the middle east teetering on the brink. Israeli elections still being counted, president Benjamin Netanyahu took to twitter tonight to declare himself the winner. If he prevails the implications are enormous because just before todays vote, netanyahu publicly rejected the idea of a palestinian state. We begin with our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell in tel aviv. Reporter it was a dramatic finish to a threemonth campaign. Capped by Benjamin Netanyahus appeal to his hard line base. The Prime Minister said go out in masses to the ballots. Pleading with his supporters to offset what he called extremist israeli arab candidates. Netanyahu pledged to prevent the creation of a palestinian state. Reversing decades of promises by israeli leaders to american president s. From carter to obama. And what ne
Helping them fight for their own freedom in the sense that we are giving the military aid . Are we still talking about that or actually doing that . In the last 14 months we have provided over 108 million in Security Assistance. I can you do a rundown of what would be included in that, but it would it would be things like medications equipment emergency medical, those kind of things. We will look at what more we can do. That is all nonlethal aid. Are we sending any guns, bullets . No, sir. Why not . They want to defend themselves. As i said we have continued to look at other request from the ukrainians on the lethal side, but note decisions have been made no decisions have been made. So the russians arent each in ukraine, besides being in crimea, which i dont think they will ever try to leave crimea and other nations are very concerned they are next in the russian aggression. I meeting with some ambassadors today. I meeting with some ambassadors today. What is our policy on russian agg
This is the cbs morning news for wednesday, march 18th 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Real estate Millionaire Robert Durst is scheduled to appear in a new Orleans Court next monday. Durst is charged with firstdegree murder in los angeles but is being held in louisiana on drugs and weapons charges. Durst was transferred to a Mental Health facility in louisiana yesterday. Its unclear when hell be sent to california. But also yesterday federal agents and police searched dursts pant for several hours and came away with two boxes of evidence. The durst investigation is picking up steam. Now police in eureka, california, are looking into the point that durzst is connected to another missing woman. Brittney talked to another reporter. Ive always maintained since covering this case since back in 2000 that he was psychotic. Reporter matt bur beck spoke to us via skype from new york. For years hes been covering robert durst, the real estate heir who was just charged
Years cinderella. Captioning funded by cbs this is the cbs morning news for wednesday, march 18th, 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Real estate Millionaire Robert Durst is scheduled to appear in a new Orleans Court next monday. Durst is charged with firstdegree murder in los angeles but is being held in louisiana on drug and weapons charges. Durst was transferred to a Mental Health facility in louisiana yesterday. Its unclear when hell be sent to california. But also yesterday federal agents and police searched dursts houston apartment for several hours. They carried away two boxes of evidence. The durst investigation is picking up steam. Now police in eureka, california, are looking into the possibility that durst is connected to another missing woman. Brittney hopper of our los angeles station kcbs talked to a reporter who said theres even more to consider. Reporter as with dust ive always maintained since covering this case since back in 2000 that he was
Good evening. And we begin this tuesday night with dramatic new developments in the case of millionaire murder suspect robert durst. This image tonight, durst in shackles, an orange jumpsuit smiling from the backseat of that police car after he was taken into court. Tonight, facing drug and weapons charges in new orleans and first degree murder charges in california. After thehbo documentary bringing new evidence with this handwriting right here. One written by durst, the other, some believe to be written by the killer. Authorities pointed out the spelling error. Abcs matt gutman leading us off from new orleans. Reporter the real estate heir who has spent nearly half his life suspected of murder slumped in the squad car, robert durst, smiling eerily at the cameras today. His lawyer calling the charges baseless. I think its not based on facts, its based on ratings. Reporter after 30 years of suspicion over his role in three depths one of his his first wife the indictments pouring in ove