hillary clinton again relief tonight. outperforming senator sanders in the nevada. thank you. thank you so much. reporter: making a left minute push for service industry union workers, more than 50% latino. senator sanders stopping by mgm grand. secretary clinton andh at harrah s. sneakers. i love the things he is saying. reporter: why are you supporting hillary? she has experience. reporter: nevada is a key part of clinton s fire wall to show she s not electable than sander sanders. after getting a six-month jump on sanders and pouring millions into ads. i spend any life fighting for children, families and our country. reporter: clinton s once double digit lead e evaporated. clinton has been about her e-mails and paid wall street speeches. the rhetoric growing heated. on display at the msnbc town hall. i just don t know where all this comes from. maybe it s that sanders wasn t really a democrat until he decided to run for president. reporter: sanders accu
good evening. it s great to be with you on saturday ving day in two key presidential contests. let s get to the democratic caucuses where nbc news projected hillary clinton will defeat bernie sanders. clinton able to hold back sander charge that followed his win in new hampshire and complicating his path to the nomination tonight. the polls will close in less than half an hour in south carolina s republican primary where in recent days ted cruz has been closing ground with donald trump. we will go there in a moment. our team is in place to cover it all. we want to get to the big story though out of nevada. nbc s chriskristin welker is in nevada. reporter: secretary clinton just finishing up her victory speech. her supporters chantingnghillary, hillary throughout the evening. there was a lot of concern amongst her supporters she would lose this state. it will give her big momentum momentum. hillary clinton again breathing a sigh of relief tonight. outperforming senator san
hour in south carolina s republican primary where in recent days ted cruz has been closing ground with donald trump. we will go there in a moment. our team is in place to cover it all. we want to get to the big story though out of nevada. nbc s chriskristin welker is in nevada. reporter: secretary clinton just finishing up her victory speech. her supporters chanting hillary, hillary throughout the evening. there was a lot of concern amongst her supporters she would lose this state. but this is a decisive victory. it will give her big momentum momentum. hillary clinton again breathing a sigh of relief tonight. outperforming senator sanders in the critical state of nevada. thank you. thank you so much. reporter: making a left minute push for workers, more than 50% latino. stopping by mgm grand. secretary clinton andh at harrah s. why bernie sand sneakers. i love the things he is saying. reporter: why are you supporting hillary? she has exrience. reporter: nevada
homeless usually is. city leaders say there are 5,000 people living on the streets here in san jose. at city hall there is support for a plan to move some of them into motel rooms. but that support comes with a long list of concerns. looks very similar to a slum in india. reporter: charles preston is talking about a homeless camp in san jose. he treats people living in the jung well the valley homeless health care program. he said there are people living there with housing vouchers but can t or won t find a place to live. you don t want to represent yourself in the best possible way when you can t have pride in who you are. reporter: the city council will look at moving homeless people with subsidies into hotels and motels. the idea is to bring in a party to provide the case management and the services that are needed to ensure a path way to success. reporter: he wants to add kitchenettes to hotel rooms for a pilot program and hire a non-profit to find the clients
announcer: decision 2016. this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening to our viewers on the west coast. it is great to be with you on this saturday. voting day in two key presidential contests. let s get right to the republican primary. in south carolina, where the polls closed a short time ago. nbc news now projects donald trump will win that primary with what appears to be a decisive victory over ted cruz and marco rubio who are in a battle for second that is too close to call. the other race today, the democratic caucuses in nevada where nbc news projects hillary clinton defeats bernie sanders. clinton able to hold back sanders s surge following his big win in new hampshire, his loss tonight complicating his path to the nomination. we ve got it covered in both states tonight. we start with the race in south carolina. katy tur is there. katy? reporter: lester, this is a massive win for donald trump. right now he could potentially win all congressional