hello, great to have you with us. we would like to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i m john vause. and i m rosemary church. the fate of a shaky cease-fire is uncertain after shelling over the weekend endangered the troops. smoke rising above donetsk after explosions were heard near the airport and in the town of mariupol, one woman was killed. three wounded in the violence. pro-russia separatists are blaming each other for the cease-fire which took effect late friday. they re monitoring this from the capital and reza, how close is the cease-fire to collapsing outright? reporter: john, it s hard to say but obviously when you have a cease-fire you want to see calm. you want to see peace but unfortunately, in parts of this conflict zone that simply hasn t been the case. over the past several minutes ukrainian officials in kiev say the rebels violated the cease-fire again during the overnight hours about five times. the rebels are saying ukr
she vanished off of the face of the earth. but does jesse matthews hold the answer. i made no mistake. we want to talk to jesse matthews. and up late at night. and saw the plane from a distance and wonder how close they are getting. massive wildfires in the western u.s. it is dry and we have to make sure everybody knows it is dangerous. drought conditions making for a tough flight. flames forcing evacuations and destroying homes. is there any end in sight? an illness often deadly and eerateicated in the country. how hundreds of infants may have been exposed in the latest outbreak. it is all happening now . let s get to our top story on this monday. a warning to the world from isis as they call on followers to kill civilians in any country that joins the fight against them. i am jon scott. new word out of iraq. u.s. ground forces are training kurdish fighters. this is it a co part of president obama s strategy to kill isis. and in syria it is a full- blown e
and reach a definition, we re not going to devote the necessary resources to counter radicalization in this country. ryan has more from our new york city newsroom. start with this. police have been looking into this for the past 24 hours or so. have they found any link to terrorism yet? they have not actually. the fbi is investigating the motive specifically because they say that alton had been trying to convert his co-workers to islam. he was a recent convert. nolan just fired from the vaughn foods processing plant when he drove to the business, walked in holding a knife and stabbed and beheaded colleen hoffert, as he grabbed tracy johnson, company ceo and off duty reserve deputy shot him, gunshots captured in the 911 call as the dispatcher told the caller to lock everyone behind doors. we re trying. can you hear this in the background? is that him? he s back? yeah, sounds like he s running around out here. and that is a gunshot. johnson is in stable conditio
police have been cracking down on pro-democracy demonstrators in the city a admiralty district. it is now calm but just a few hours ago police with riot shields removed barricades before withdrawing. our senior international correspondent ivan watson was there when first first moved in on protesters overnight. just a couple meters from where we re standing right now, the police appear to have pushed in to this highway now and they re clearing the demonstrators out. either scuffling that s going on and at this point we can see the demonstrators being pushed out. this is moments, moments after one of the main student protest leaders announced, vowed that the protesters would continue to encircle the government headquarters to force the government as he put it to give in to the demonstrators demands. and as you can see that was several hours ago. ivan is back with us again. he still is on the streets of hong kong. he joins us now live with the latest ivan, what is the situa
valid. nightly news begins right now. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. reporting tonight from los angeles. good evening. it s good to be back here in the west. we begin tonight with hillary clinton fighting to return the media focus back onto her formidable candidacy for president. today she spoke to nbc news about the subject that has largely stolen the attention. her use of a private e-mail server to conduct official business when she was secretary of state. in a rare national interview she sat down exclusively with our andrea mitchell for a wide-ranging discussion about the e-mail controversy, what she says she is sorry about, and the two names that have become wild cards in this campaign season trump and biden. you said recently that using your personal e-mail while you were secretary of state was not the best choice and that you take responsibility. are you sorry? well, i certainly wish that i had made a different choice, and i know why