American champion denied a record gold. And americas golden girls back in action. Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Another big night of competition getting under way here in rio soon. Well be getting to that shortly. Unprecedented flood in louisiana. Despite a Welcome Break in the rain, new areas are under water tonight as floodwaters move downstream. In already hard hit places, displaced residents are returning home to see whats left. 40,000 homes are damaged, where in some areas only one in eight have flood insurance. Today the number of water rescues climbed to 30,000, while the death toll for the disaster reached at our coverage again for us tonight. Gabe, good evening. Reporter lester, another eight parishes have been added to the federal disaster declaration and we have seen rescue boats hurrying in and out of this neighborhood all afternoon, this as mo
American champion denied a record gold. And americas golden girls back in action. Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Another big night of competition getting under way here in rio soon. Well be getting to but once again, the unprecedented flood in louisiana. Despite a Welcome Break in the rain, new areas are under water tonight as floodwaters move downstream. In already hard hit places, displaced residents are returning home to see whats left. 40,000 homes are damaged, where in some areas only one in eight have flood insurance. Today the number of water rescues climbed to 30,000, while the Gabe Gutierrez leads our coverage again for us tonight. Gabe, good evening. Reporter lester, another eight parishes have been added to the federal disaster declaration and we have seen rescue boats hurrying in and out of this neighborhood all afternoon, this as more communiti
American champion denied a record gold. And americas golden girls back in action. Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Another big night of competition getting under way here in rio soon. Well be getting to that shortly. Bunc unprecedented flood in louisiana. Despite a Welcome Break in the rain, new areas are under water tonight as floodwaters move downstream. In already hard hit places, displaced residents are returning home to see whats left. 40,000 homes are damaged, where in some areas only one in eight have flood insurance. Today the number of water rescues climbed to 30,000, while the death toll for the disaster reached at our coverage again for us tonight. Gabe, good evening. Reporter lester, another eight parishes have been added to the federal disaster declaration and we have seen rescue boats hurrying in and out of this neighborhood all afternoon, this
American champion denied a record gold. And a dive leaving a divide. And americas golden girls back in action. Nightly news from rio begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening. Another big night of competition getting under way here in rio soon. Well be getting to that shortly. But once again, the unprecedented flood in louisiana. Despite a Welcome Break in the rain, new areas are under water tonight as floodwaters move downstream. While in already hard hit places, displaced residents are returning home to see what is left. 40,000 homes are damaged, where in some areas only one in eight have flood insurance. Today the number of water rescues climbed to 30,000, while the death toll for the disaster reached at least 11. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez leads our coverage for us again tonight. Gabe, good evening. Reporter lester, another eight parishes have been added to the federal disaster declaration and
In delivering on what we said we would do. We cant control how mr. Putin thinks, but what we can do is say to mr. Putin, if you continue on the path of arming separatists with heavy armaments that evidence suggests may have resulted in 300 innocent people on a jet dying and that violates International Law and undermines the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine, then youre going to face consequences that will hurt your country. And there was a lot of skepticism about our ability to coordinate with europeans for a strong series of sanctions. And each time we have done what we said we would do, including this week when we put in place sanctions that have an impact on key sectors of the russian economy, their energy, their defense, their financial systems. It hasnt resolved the problem yet. I spoke to mr. Putin this morning, and i indicated to him, just as we will do what we say we do in terms of sanctions, well also do what we say we do in terms of wanting to resolve this issu