Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We start with an urgent warning. Government safety regulators have taken the rare step of urging owners of some 300,000 cars to stop driving them immediately because of a high risk of potentially deadly air bag ruptures. The cars, hondas and acuras are part of a broad recall of defective air balancings affecting millions of makes and models linked to numerous deaths and injuries. The government tonight telling drivers of specific models to park them until theyre repaired. Miguel almaguer has details. Reporter the defective air bags can explode spraying shrapnel into the driver. More than 100 people in the u. S. Have already been injured and ten killed including teenager huma who was driving this 2002 honda sick. The massive takata airbag recall was first made eight years ago, but no data shows those who havent made the fix face serious danger. We have brandnew Laboratory Testing thats showing some o
Nightly news begins right now. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. We start with an urgent warning. Government safety regulators have taken the rare step of urging owners of some 300,000 cars to stop driving them immediately because of a high risk of potentially deadly air bag ruptures. The cars, hondas and acuras, are part of a broad recall of defective air bags affecting millions of makes and models linked to numerous deaths and injuries. The government tonight telling drivers of specific models to park them until theyre repaired. Miguel almaguer has details. Reporter the defective air bags can explode, spraying shrapnel into the driver. More than a hundred people in the u. S. Have already been injured and ten killed including was driving this 2002 honda civic. The massive takata airbag recall was first made eight years ago, but no data shows those who havent made the fix face serious danger. We have brandnew Laboratory Testing thats showing some of these older m
U. S. Press barack obama has unveiled swing changes to americas immigration policy. He is using executive powers to enact rouse that could spare some 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Obama says the immigration system is broken, and trying to crack down on those trying to cross the bodder illegally. Reporter there are more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in United States. With this announcement, u. S. President barack obama say barae will give a temporary reprieve to less than half. Lifting the threat of deportation for people who have been in the country for more than five years and have children who are american citizencitizens phone shaly impg less than 5 million people. I am talking about a common sense middle ground approach. If you meet the criteria you can come out of the shadows and get right watt law. Reporter but its temporary and the next president could overturn in january of 20 stephen. Leave the government with a list of people that could po poe
Hard against the kremlin. Im ali velshi and this is real money. As the conflict heeth up in n eastern europe, like it or not, it is pushing the crisis into a new cold war with russia. All along, we are looking at the lines forming and beyond. Russian overflights that seem designed to test natos reaction to violations of its air space throughout europe and in ukraine itself, nearly a thousand people have been killed since the government agreed to a ceasefire, with separatist rebels on september the 5th. The number of people displaced in the fighting is more than doubled to half a million refugees and those figures come from a new report released by the United Nations. Goes on to document gross human rights abuses which quote may amount to crimes against humanity. The economy is sinking in part because of the collapsing financial system. Ukrainian banks have shut their doors in the region. Nearly 2 billion in loans are gone delinquent and russia has compensated nearly 200,000 depositors
Right there in the red shirt, people trapped. His training suddenly put to the test. And the tshirt he was wearing . Captain america. And hes right here tonight. Good evening. Well have more on those tornadoes, none deadly in just a moment here but we begin with the headline late today that will affect millions of american families. The single biggest auto recall in history. 34 million vehicles with defective air bags. Some of those have been known to explode like an ied. And look at the automakers tonight affected. Ford gm honda among them. So many major automakers. The air bags called because of potentially deadly malfunctions. Authorities say capable of sending shrapnel into the front seat. More than 100 injured. Weve taken our questions to takata before. This plant, right in washington state. That moment the Security Officer asking us to leave. Tonight here the major questions now. Are there replacements even ready . And what are american drivers to do . Abcs david kerley leading u