Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As he laid out the ground today for a major battle with Senate Republicans over a Supreme Court nomination, president obama also waded deep into the race for president at a News Conference late this afternoon taking on donald trump and other republican candidates saying being president is a serious job. Its not hosting a reality show. His remarks come just four days away from the next major test in the race for president with trump maintaining his National Lead among republicans in our new nbc News Survey Monkey poll and jeb bush lagging behind, some wondering if South Carolina could be his last stand, and for democrats the focus remains on winning over africanamerican voters. We have all sides covered starting with nbcs Peter Alexander in columbia, South Carolina. Hello, peter. Reporter hey, good evening tonight the president is weighing in on
Best on four legs compete for best in show. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As he laid out the ground today for a major battle with Senate Republicans over a Supreme Court nomination, president obama also waded deep into the race for president at a News Conference late this afternoon taking on donald trump and other republican candidates saying job. Its not hosting a reality show. His remarks come just four days away from the next major test in the race for president with trump maintaining his National Lead among republicans in our new nbc News Survey Monkey poll and jeb bush lagging behind, some wondering if South Carolina could be his last stand, and for democrats the focus remains on winning over africanamerican voters. We have all sides covered alexander in columbia, South Carolina. Hello, peter. Reporter hey, good evening to you, lester. Tonight the president is weighing
Ray tensing. And local 12, jeff hirsh joins us in the newsroom with more on the timing. Jeff. To veteran courtroom observers, long lost trial that is not unusual. Seen a lot of the case. And for friends of sam dubose, it seems like forever. Trial setting is not necessarily a defending event. Defendant doesnt have to show up and former uc officer, indicted for murder and voluntary manslaughter was not here today. This is a trial setting for a highprofile case, with a shooting of charles dubose. And tensing pulled dubose over for a traffic stop. Tensing has pleaded not guilty. He said he was being dragged by debowss car. The video shows otherwise. Attorneys for both sides met before closed doors, with shanahan and agreed to a trial after discussing the chambers and dealing with multiple experts scheduling, my understanding, he agreed upon is that correct . Thats correct. The trial date is 15 months after the shooting. Sam duboses fiancee calls that racism. Justice has to be served, soone
International airport, heirson thats where the wind is calm. Notice here on the headline map. Were tracking cold temperatures through the weekend, and weve got a decent shot for accumulating snow earlier this week. Well investigate that coming up in 10 minutes. A trial date is on the calendar now for former uc Police Officer tinsing. Local 12s megan moore was at the hearing today and joins us now with the latest. Reporter good afternoon. The date for that trial is set for october 24th. Almost a year after the original trial date was initially to be scheduled. It was initially scheduled to go to trial this november. But the judge decided to give both sides more time to prepare. Voluntary manslaughter charges. Sam duboses fiance and mother of his children was there. She says shes not pleased with the trial date being pushed to this fall. Sooner than later. If the roles were reversed, mr. Dubose would have been in jail right now. There wouldnt have been bail. Last month they reached a set
It is now over. The standoff with the last four people surrendering. We are following a group in brown county. Sheriffs deputies are in a standoff situation, with a wanted fugitive at this hour. 33yearold, michael hall is considered armed and dangerous. They believe, hes wanted for nearly hitting a montgomery sheriff deputy, after hitting the deputys cruisers. Deputys fired in the halls mercury mountaineer. He managed to drive away. Brad underwood is arriving at the scene and gathering information. We will check with him live as soon as he is available. Should we say good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Were learning more about a news story, about a local man found shot to death in a car in dayton, ohio. She was reunited with her custodial father. Larry davis was working with the he joins us in middletown with the latest. Fill us in. Hi, brad. Police in middletown, they have murderinvestigation. What they are doing is insisting murder pd with the pro. Police say they need all the