Milestone. Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from san francisco. Good evening, music fans everywhere are reacting to the stunning loss of pop superstar prince. One of the most unique and dynamic performers that gave us hits such as purple rain and little corvette. There is a growing memorial outside princes minneapolis area home as others are sharing grief on social media tonight. In his own statement, president obama writes the world lost a creative icon. The 57yearold who blasted onto the music scene in the 70s with his edgy mix of rock, soul and funk was found in his home today unresponsive and was declared dead a short time later. Well go back to minneapolis in a moment for more on here is nbcs cynthia mcfadden. I never meant to cause you any sorrow reporter he was given three names at birth, prince Rogers Nelson but he only needed one, prince. Purple rain, purple rain vaulting to super stardom with purple rain prince won an
And run over as bystanders offer no help. The question many ask tonight, what would you do if you were there . And long live the queen, the royals gather to celebrate a milestone. Nightly news begins right now. This is n nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from san francisco. Good evening, music fans everywhere are reacting to the stunning loss of pop super star prince. One of the most unique and dynamic performers that gave us purple corvette. There is a growing memorial outside princes minneapolis home as others are sharing grief on social media tonight. In his own statement, president obama writes the world lost a creative icon. The 57yearold who blasted onto the music scene in the 70s with soul and funk was found in his home today unresponsive and declared dead a short time later. Well go back to minneapolis in a moment for more on princes death but first, a look back at his life with more, here is nbcs cynthia mcfadden. I never meant to cause you any sorrow reporte
Sfoe was melting fault. We have a cold front moving through late tomorrow night. There are showers associated with it. And what that front will do is put an end to the record warmth, but we have one more day of it. If you like temperatures in the 80s we have it again tomorrow. It will get cooler by late week, still temperatures 15 degrees above normal. So cool compared to today but it looks to be a wet start to the week coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Lets go live to gray hall at the philadelphia art museum, how are people taking advantage of this extraordinary day . Jim, everyone is enjoying this, let me say earlier i had my suit jacket on and meteorologist adam joseph said its too warm for the suit jacket. And everyone is running and exercising and enjoying this spectacular day. Spring lovers rejoice with a day so nice you cant help but smile when you step outside. People were running and biking and boating and even dogs enjoyed a stroll. Its a Great Attraction for the fa
Taiwan. This is Al Jazeera America. Good morning t i am randall pinkston. This morning, americas plan to defeat isil will be front and is noter at the United Nations. On top of the agenda for the counterterrorism summit on the sidelines of the u. S. General assembly. The president will sit down with more than 100 World Leaders at the summit. Its still not clear if russias president will be one of them. During face to face talks on monday, president obama and Vladimir Putin failed to resolve their differences over the war in syria. And as mike vaqeira reports, the tense relationship shows few signs of resolving. We are face extraordinary challenges today, ones that test our capacity to work together. There was a cordial moment when mr. Obama and mr. Putin toasted the united neighborhoods but moments later, a metaphor for the disconnect when putin took a phone call at the table [applause. ] in his speech to the General Assembly, mr. Obama chastised putins actions in ukraine and syria. Th
Oneyearold yamir banks from the department of human services. Their father 32yearold scott banks and their grandmother 50yearold dionne pamon both face kidnapping charges. Investigators believe the children might be traveling to chicago and could be in danger. If you know where to find the children call the Storm Lake Police department at 712 7328010 or 911. The sentencing of a northeast iowa teenager charged in the traffic deaths of two siouxland girls last yearhas been pushed back. 18yearold Trevor Feauto of clarksville was supposed to be sentenced today. He pleaded gulity last month to two counts of felony vehicular homicide. Prosecutors say feauto was driving drunk in august of last year when his pickup truck crashed into a car near breda, iowa. Bailey jacobsen and lindsey quirk, both 16 and both of wall lake, iowa, were killed in the collision. The judge says he has some things to take into consideration before sentencing. Feautos Attorney Says after review of the pre impact state