Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Well get to all the vp drama in a moment, but first there is breaking news from france. Just horrific scenes right now out of the seaside city of nice after a truck slammed into a crowd celebrating bastille day. French media is reporting at least 30 people have been killed and over 100 injured. And there are fears that this could be an act of terrorism. Lets get right to nbcs Kelly Cobiella now with the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter lester, witnesses are saying that a white truck hopped the curb on this famous promenade des anglais in nice at a high speed plowing people down in the middle of this crowded bastille Day Celebration. The french media, specifically, bfm tv, is reporting there was gunfire after that truck rammed the crowd. That has not yet been confirmed by nbc news. All of this happening towards the end of a bastille Day Celebration
Our correspondent tried them and came up with some surprising results. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening to our viewers in the west. Well get to all the vp drama in a moment, but first there is breaking news from france. Just horrific scenes right now out of the seaside city of nice after a truck slammed into a crowd celebrating bastille day. The French National day. French Authorities Say 75 people have been killed and some 50 more injured. And there are fears that this could be a work of terrorism. Nbcs Kelly Cobiella has the latest. Reporter the moment captured on cell phone when a truck plows into a crowd. Hundreds running for safety. Witnesses panicking. We started hearing shrieks and at the first moment people were running they were zig zagging left and right. We didnt know which way to run. I have never seen anything like it. People just leaving strollers, leaving bags on the floor
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I have to just say that the world is a mess. I inherited a mess. Whether its middle east, whether its north korea, whether at so many other things, whether its in our country, horrible trade deals. I inherited a mess. Were going to fix it. We are going to fix it. Martha im martha maccallum. Welcome to a jampacked today 76 of the first 100. Later tonight, i will discuss what could be a massive policy shifts and the latest in the efforts to bring top obama officials susan rice before a Congressional Committee for questioning. Senators tom cotton and senator john mccain joined may may. But first earlier today i sat down with Vice President mike pence where we spoke about the attack in syria, whether the u. S. Is prepared to go it alone on north korea, the National Security Council Shakeup that happened today and the recently resurrected health care beer. Click back bill. We appreciate appeared theres a lot to talk about. I want to dive right in. I know youve been very busy trying to get a
Before he is convicted by his fellow democrats or frankly by the public. For the latest, including some moves towards impeachment hearings we now go to barbara live tonight in richmond. Allison . Of Virginia State delegates delegate says if the Lieutenant Governor does not step down by monday, he plans to introduce articles of impeachment, that delegate wrapped up a press conference and heres some of what he had to say. There is no question that violent Sexual Assault clearly qualifies as a high crime. The house of delegates will hav to grant me unanimous consent. I would hope that no member would stand in the way of this process getting underway. The Lieutenant Governor has not been charged or convicted o anything. He denies any wrongdoing and is facing Sexual Assault allegations from two different women. One says he per for forced her to perform oral on him during the 2004 Dnc Convention and other says he her in 20 in the Lieutenant Governor says id denied the unsubstantiated allegat