Star to a producer, tonight we remember the legendary gene wilder. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, im Savannah Guthrie in for lester tonight. It has happened tonight. Former congressman Anthony Wiener newspapers, caught in yet another tawdry sexting scandal. But this time with his toddler son dragged into it. It appears to be the last straw for his wife huma abedin. Who announced today she has left him. Its an announcement that had immediate reverberations in the political world because abedin is one of clintons top advisors and donald trump was quick to seize on the news to attack clintons judgment. Our story tonight from nbcs andrea mitchell. Reporter huma abedin in the hamptons as Hillary Clinton clintons longest serving aid, closest advisor now after a third sexting scandal by her husband, Anthony Wiener. Abedin acknowledging, after long and painful consideration, and work on
Gone, from a young star to a producer, tonight we remember the legendary gene wilder. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, im Savannah Guthrie in for lester tonight. It has happened tonight. Former congressman Anthony Wiener splashed all over the newspapers, caught in yet another tawdry sexting scandal. But this time with his toddler son dragged into it. It appears to be the last straw for his wife huma abedin. Who announced today she has left him. Its an announcement that had immediate reverberations in the political world because abedin is one of clintons top advisors and donald trump was quick to seize on the news to attack clintons judgment. Reporter huma abedin in the hamptons raceed millions sunday. As her closest aid, now after a third sexting scandal by her husband, Anthony Wiener. Abedin acknowledging, after long and painful consideration, and work on my marriage, i havead hu
Saber rattling continues. Reasons between north korea and its neighbors are worsening following new sanctions, and there are no signs things will get better anytime soon. Turning negative. Japans preliminary Gross Domestic Product contracted for the first time in two quarters. North koreas rocket launch has authorities in northeast asia on alert, including u. S. Marines base the in okinawa. Some are at sea conducting training exercises, and nhk got access to one of them off the coast of okinawa. Reporter in an undisclosed location, we land on the ship. Its a base of operations for u. S. Marines at sea. The troops are with the 31st Marine Expeditionary unit. Amphibious assault is their specialty. When the conflict breaks out, theyre the first to be sent n 2,000 marines are conducting exercises on three battleships. One of the drills involves a rescue mission on the flight deck. The work is critical for the troops who could be sent into rescue situations at a moments notice. Helicopters,
From both sides will leave cairo by the end of friday. More than 10 rockets were fired toward israel as soon as the truce expired. And the Israeli Military resumed air strikes on central gaza. Egypt has been serving as a gobetween between israeli and rams, israel wants hamas to disarm. The scale of air strikes and rocket launches has been limited so far, but observers fear that violence could escalate. The International Health experts have held an emergency meeting to try to stop the spread of ebola. Officials with the World Health Organization have declared the outbreak a Public Health emergency of international concern. They say the disease has killed 932 people in west africa. Experts with the w. H. O. Emergency committee reacheden conclusion after a twoday meeting. This is the largest, most severe and most complex outbreak in the nearly fourdecade history of this disease. The Emergency Committee reached the conclusion that the outbreak of ebola virus disease in west africa meets th
Thank you, chief fisher. Senator carper . I think the question the chairman raised really important one, really important one. To the extent, strengthen our relationship with mexico and prove our confidence in the information that they can provide, then that, they can provide us, will only help. I think one of the best force multipliers on the Canadian Border is our relationship with canada. I want to just throw in force multipliers for a while. One of you maybe a couple of you, talking about force multipliers, i mentioned that assets were able to deploy between the ports of entry. We have drones on the border of mexico. Drones, at least a couple, up on our border with canada. We have fixed wing aircraft with the border with mexico. We have fixedwing aircraft with the border in mexico. What we find out is an inspector generals report couple month ago raised serious question about efficiency, the effectiveness of drones on the southern border. We already have problems. If the wind is ab