Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. What happened in a residential area north of new york city last night turned into a mass casualty event. And its a huge warning about what can happen anywhere vehicles encounter Railroad Crossings in this country. This was a commuter train on the metronorth line out of new york. It hit an suv on the tracks in valhalla new york. The resulting flash fire consumed much of the first car and seemed to fuse the suv to the front of the train. The death toll stands at six including the driver now confirmed to be a mother of three. Its the third busiest rail line in the nation. The ntsb is there on the scene as is our own tom costello tonight. Tom, good evening. Reporter hi brian. Good evening. Just moments ago they moved the burned out carcas of that train just further down the train tracks just a little bit out of view. Meanwhile, the medical examiners now going th
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. What happened in a residential area north of new york city last night turned into a mass casualty event. And its a huge warning about what can happen anywhere vehicles encounter Railroad Crossings in this country. This was a commuter train on the metronorth line out of new york. It hit an suv on the tracks in valhalla, new york. The resulting flash fire consumed much of the first car and seemed to fuse the suv to the front of the train. The death toll stands at six including the driver now confirmed to be a mother of three. Its the third busiest rail line in the nation. The ntsb is there on the scene as is our own tom costello tonight. Tom, good evening. Reporter hi, brian. Good evening. Just moments ago they moved the burned out carcass of that train just further down the train tracks just a little bit out of view. Meanwhile, the medical examiners now going through Family Dental r
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. What happened in a residential area north of new york city last night turned into a mass casualty event. And its a huge warning about what can happen anywhere vehicles encounter Railroad Crossings in this country. This was a commuter train on the metronorth line out of new york. It hit an suv on the tracks in valhalla, new york. The resulting flash fire consumed much of the first car and seemed to fuse the suv to the front of the train. The death toll stands at six including the driver now confirmed to be a mother of three. Its the third busiest rail line in the nation. The ntsb is there on the scene as is our own tom costello tonight. Tom, good evening. Reporter hi, brian. Good evening. Just moments ago they moved the burned out carcass of that train just further down the train tracks just a little bit out of view. Meanwhile, the medical examiners now going through Family Dental r
Youth Football Players team up to save lives. And a bittersweet moment as brothers of a fallen hero celebrate the birth of the daughter he never saw. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. Good evening, were going to begin tonight in hawaii with new evacuation orders in what appears to be the most urgent situation since the volcano emergency began four weeks ago. The images tonight are breathtaking, the danger explosive. 1600degree lava is blasting more than 25 stories high, flowing rapidly downhill, cutting off escape routes, potentially leaving hundreds with no way out. Carter evans is there. Reporter jeff, just look at this. This is the most active eruption behind me right now. Weve been watching it go like this for days. At times it was blasting lava up to 250 feet into the air. And today, authorities are issuing a new evacuation warning for this area, telling people to get out now. The massive amount of lava in Leilani Estates is spreading f
Too. And the televangelist under fire tonight, asking for donations to buy a 54 million jet. He says god gave him the message. The message tonight hes now getting from many in his own community. And breaking developments at this hour involving Harvey Weinstein. Good evening and its great to have you with us here on a wednesday night. And we begin with the firestorm surrounding Roseanne Barr and her racist tweet. The star firing back on twitter, today blaming her words on ambien. The maker of ambien was not having it. And there were other tweets. The actress, whose show has been canceled by abc, taking aim at some of her costars who called her words reprehensible. Tonight, what the president is now tweeting, in the wake of the roseanne uproar, and the white house was pressed on why, in his own tweet, the president did not address what roseanne said. Abcs matt gutman leading us off again tonight. Reporter fer than 24 hours after Roseanne Barrrast tweet that led to her show being canceled