Miraculous survival story shot on camera while running to the rescue. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, the white house struggling to find a singular message about its syria policy following thursdays Cruise Missile attack tonight finds itself suddenly engaged in damage control after Spokesman Sean Spicer tried to draw a moral comparison between Bashar Al Assad and adolf hitler saying hitler didnt even sink to using chemical weapons. The historical fact he gassed jews and others walk lost on many who watched spicer as he spoke at the press briefing. His words and attempts to clarification touching off an emotional response. A short time ago comes an apology. White house correspondent Kristen Welker has details. Reporter tonight, a messaging misstep rocking the white house after sean spicer compared Bashar Al Assad to hitler. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You ha
[ screams ] mass hysteria at one of new york citys biggest train stations after an incident involving a taser sends commuters fleeing fearing a terror attack. The stampede leaving scores injured and shaken this morning. And the last jedi. The force is strong for star wars fans celebrating the 40th anniversary of the film franchise. A bittersweet celebration as fans remember one of their favorite princesses, today, saturday april 15th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im sheinelle jones. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin. Dylan dreyer with us as well. A lot of folks on this easter weekend concerned about the weather. Most years easter doesnt end up being that great weatherwise. This year, across the country, looks pretty nice. Good news this morning. Well talk about that coming up in just a bit. First, lets get to our top story this morning. In north korea a show of mil
Citys biggest train stations after an incident involving a taser sends commuters fleeing fearing a terror attack. And the last jedi. The force is strong for star wars fans celebrating the 40th anniversary of the film franchise. A bittersweet celebration as fans remember one of their favorite princesses, today, saturday april 15th, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im sheinelle jones. Glad to have you with us. Im craig melvin. Dylan dreyer with us as well. A lot of folks on this easter weekend concerned about the weather. This year looks across most of the country pretty nice. Good news this morning. Well talk about that coming up in just a bit. First, lets get to our top story this morning. In north korea a show of military force was on full display during the parade celebrating the birthday of that nations founding ruler this morning. It comes as tensions rise across the regio
Im one of those rare creatures that we profile in this book. The font is conservative professors on liberal arts campuses or intimidated. There is the sense that conservatives are moving into enemy territory. But that isnt what we found. We interviewed over 150 conservatives in the social sciences and humanities. And we found they tell us the universituniversity is a much me tolerant place than we sometimes think and then the rightwing critics of the university tell us it is. What specifically did you hear from these professors . A lot of them felt away from home in the university because large swaths of the university are not as politicized as we think they are and the conservatives gravitate towards the least politicized quarters of the academy. Academy. So, they often become a subfield in other disciplines that are not in American History and claimed to be historians, military historians. Its deeply politicized by the left and therefore they find the economy to be a relatively. If t
31yearold flora khatun. Police say she met with Child Protective Services yesterday in annandale. C. P. S. Obtained a court order to remove the little girl, her name is liz from the home. There was a civil Court Ordered issued that declared the mother unfit. We dont know what led to this. There were previous traffic charges where she had her child unbelted in a car seat. Police say when she visited she did not have the child with her and she would not disclose the whereabouts. She left the office and c. P. S. Called the police. Now police have a criminal parental abduction warrant but so far no trace of the child or the mother. This is a sixweekold baby. They are fragile. There is a lot of concern there. Rich we have a fullscreen graphic describing the mother and her car that she may can be in with the child now. 2011 blue Toyota Sienna with tags xjg1035. We have been told by sources that police are looking in the maryland area. They may have relatives in that area. Another questioning