Away. Families facing tough struggles forgetting all their troubles on the open seas. Nightly news begins now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. It was an act of terror but with no clear motive. Remarkably, a day after a young kuwaitiamerican man shot up a pair of military sites in tennessee investigators have yet to uncover the telltale pieces you would normally expect to find, answering the question why. It was confirmed today that Police Fatally shot Mohammad Abdulazeez but not before he had taken the lives of four u. S. Marines. Most of them we also learned today were war veterans. The question tonight is if he believed strongly enough to kill why didnt he leave behind an explanation . Our team has been working the story all day. We want to start with kate snow. Kate, good evening. Lester, good evening. The fbi this evening saying they have tracked down 70 leads and though so far there is no evidence to
Say a lot. Digging deeper on that and the trump details. She joins us now. A big number. A huge lead for donald trump at 24 points. But take note this was a poll that was conducted before and after trump made these comments about john mccain. And when you look at the final night of polling, after he made these remarks, you see a sharp dip in the polls. Donald trump touching off a political firestorm this weekend by insulting former republican president ial nominee john mccain. I supported him. He lost. He let us down. But he lost. So i never liked him as much after that. Because i dont like losers. But, frankly. Let me get to it. He is a war he roefltro. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who werent captured. He is a war hero because he was captured. Okay. You can have i believe, perhaps he is a war hero. But right now he said some very bad thangzings about a lot of people. Almost immediately. Trumps remarks grew scrutiny. Mccain, a navy pilot during the vietnam wa
Families are grieving today in the state of tennessee and authorities are scouring the life of a young man they say shot and killed four american marines. Investigators found the total of four guns after the shootings in chattanooga. They say Mohammad Abdulazeez had three on him and a rifle was found at his home. Federal authorities are treating the shooting as an act of terrorism. There are too many of the warning signs. The targets are identical to the targets called by isis to attack. So, my judgment in my experience is that this was an isisinspired attack. Thats his opinion. So far, they are treated it as a terror investigation right now. Thursdays attack happened at two military sites, the first that recruiting center. Several of the marines were combat veterans. When the shooting started, a Senior Defense official says those marines went into combat mode. They had everyone drop to the floor and then leave through the back. Reports say the marines helped save all seven lives at th
Tonight, the new warning about a silent culprit. Was it the same thing that destroyed this home, too . Good evening. We begin with breaking news as we come on the air in the west a wildfire burning east of los angeles. Hundreds of acres, burning, jumping the free way. Authorities concerned this could be a mass casualty event, and that drivers could be trapped. Matt gutman leading us off. Look another the plume. Reporter at least a dozen cars torched. Jumping the freeway about 75 miles east of los angeles. Authorities bracing for injuries including burns. The fire consuming hundreds of acres acres. The fire grinding traffic to a stop. Motorists scrambling to safety. They drop water on cars. Reporter helicopters dropping water on cars that burst into flames. And firefighters blaming a drone for delaying their response. Matt gutman abc news los angeles. Thank you. And the fastmoving information after four marines killed in tennessee. Two different locations, and 24 hours later, new inform
Good evening. Tonight new and graphic details about bill cosbys own admission concerning drugs, hush money and Sexual Assault allegations. In a now fully released deposition from a 2005 Sexual Assault lawsuit, he admits to grooming women into sexual situations with promises of fame and career advice. Cosbys tactics for his hollywood casting couch are described in his own words as, quote, playing sex with an alleged victim. Cosby has vigorously denied all Sexual Assault allegations and has never been criminally charged. With more on the story, nbcs Gadi Schwartz. Reporter in yet another round of explosive revelations, documents obtained by the New York Times shed more light on bill cosbys own admissions about how he seduced women. The deposition taken over four days of intense questioning, part of a 2005 lawsuit against cosby filed by a woman who claimed she was drugged and molested by the entertainer. In the transcripts bill cosby defends himself suggesting to a lawyer he was good at r