You wont believe where they found one amazing puppy. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. What we witnessed this washington today was nothing short of a public shaming of two highpowered officials as they were held accountable for the systematic failure that virtually poisoned the water for thousands in flint, michigan. Michigans governor and the head of the epa were called on to resign, as they appeared before Congressional Committee today to answer for the crisis. It made for some uncomfortable moments. In fact, rarely has the hot seat been hotter. Nbcs Stephanie Gosk shows us. Reporter with the children of flint still unable to drink the water do you solemnly swear reporter blame on the hill today. If you want to do the courageous thing, then you two should resign. People who put fundamental safety of the people do not belong in government. And you need to resign, too, governor
Neighborhood and i have no choice. Reporter among the rate hikes rta is proposing the current fare would rise to 2. 50. Another fare up to 2. 25 and some rise to 3. 50 a ride. Joe says cuts in state funding are making rate hikes necessary. Funding at the state level or National Level and for us to keep providing Service People want and need, we have to raise the rate to better afford it. City councilman ron jackson says he has to pay more to ride but the problem isnt with rta, it is state lawmakers. Rta says they get 63 cents per person for transportation and neighboring states like pennsylvania provide an average of 57. 71 per person for public transit. On some people with the fare increases and still, i think the best deal in town. There will be 12 more meetings to discuss the rate hikes. The board will vote at the end of april if the rates do go up. They wont go into effect until august. Meantime, this trolley, funded by local businesses, that will remain free. In cleveland Denise Z
Other plants including amputationan and Companies Working in the investigation and mourn the loss of our colleague. A long time firefighter indiantown and a creston officer they would have celebrated two years of marriage instead planning his funeral. If such a tragedy. He was a great guy,. Stark county Coroners Office said an autopsy is scheduled tonights is funeral is planned saturday in akron this and his will be deeply missed in asking for prayersrs. Got harder for criminals with guns to get a break in court iteam report ed gallek here with what hes found out. Strict limits on plea deals in gun casesct with the iteam found should change, new policy for Cuyahoga County prosecutors handling gun cases doesnt doesnt much better chance to be arrested for gun crime found that many convex in Cuyahoga County received probation for gun crimes now being Prosecutors Office says a new policy putting strict limits ons plea bargains encouraging is through the in the crime never solve. Anything t
Speech here at Baldwin Wallace university and ohioans cast their ballots before today. Overall voter turnout is not predicted to set a record 500,000 early ballottings were requested. At that time it was only 333,000. John houston says the voter turnout is below what might have been predicted. We will not see record turnout, just strong. We have seen more republican ballottings than democratic bal the los and there seems to be more interest on that side than what you would expect with our governor being in the race. And right now there is still been twoandahalf hours left. We got reports from Cuyahoga County that turnout is low. 18 there. The lines are getting longer as the primary election starts to we have a look at voter turnout. Megan hickey, many voters crossing the lines for todays primary. Right, actually a historic high of 15 of registered democrats requested, republican ballots this time around. On the other side only one percent or so of republicans requested democratic ballo
Egypt has prevented the uk Budget Airline easy jet for sending flights in or out of Sharm Elsheikh and 8 of 10 have been cancelled and cancelled because of fear that a bomb brought down an airliner on saturday and several governments warned against travel there and lets cross live to london for the latest and paul brennan is there and does this apply to easy jets regular flights or just the additional repatriation flights. Just the repatriation flights and it has been confusing and fluid in the last 70 minutes and an hour ago i read the statement that easy jets said the following egyptian authorities currently suspended uk airlines from flying into Sharm Elsheikh and in 12 minutes they clarified with the following saying the situation for uk flights in Sharm Elsheikh remains fluid and advised the egyptian authorities will allow a restricted number of uk flights from Sharm Elsheikh today two of which are easy jet flights. After the initial statement we phoned around some of the other ai