States, supporters of legalized weed, hoping to turn them green. And hot in cleveland. Gripped by baseball fever, can they win it all . Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Seven days to go until election day and both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are on the offense and on surprise fbi email probe, to make an appeal to women voters, while trump is renewing his vow to repeal obamacare. And theres less time in this race than those seven days may suggest due to early voting now under way. A record 26 million americans have already voted, thats twice as many than we saw at this point four years ago. Chuck todd will update us on the state of the race, but first to the campaign trail, starting with andrea reporter good evening, lester. This is not where the Clinton Campaign expected to be with one week to go. Again tonight back in florida, trying to distract attention from the email controvers
Commute. Headlights were on and so were the windshield wipers. Lets check conditions right now. Our mobile weather lab giving us a live look from the south bay. Clouds still hanging over east san jose. Chief meteorologist paul deanno is in our weather center. Paul our Weather Watcher Network coming through big time with that shot of that funnel cloud this morning. Absolutely, ken. Heres the deal. Is it that we cannot be everywhere and understanding our own limitations, we wanted to start a program to let you be our eyes and our ears when weather happens. Now, granted, weather doesnt happen that often around here when it comes to Severe Weather. Today it did and today, one of our weather watchers saw. This is you just heard from her, her name is kathy she lives in sebastopol. She saw it. Our camera wasnt there. No news cameras were there but our weather watchers were there and she got it on television and that was confirmed by the National Weather service as a funnel cloud. A funnel clo
Bay area checking in accident free. So hopefully it stays friday light. Yes. Were hoping. Thank you. An oakland man and his two small children missing in the sierra for two days have been found safe. They were on a camping trip in down anyville a remote part of the sierra. An Air National Guard helicopter crew found them last night. At about 8 p. M. , the crews spotted 41yearold Nicholas Vlahos and his 5yearold and 3 yearold children. Later they appeared to be okay in the back of an ambulance. A Deputy Sheriff says the father was driving a pickup when it slipped off an embankment in mud. He tried to get it back on the road unsuccessfully. But they had food and water. They dont need to go to the hospital. They have been checked out by paramedics so its good news. They are alive and well. Vlahos and his children were supposed to return to the bay area on tuesday night. Eventually other families members called the Sheriffs Office and said they were overdue. The search is on for a man who
Cornell . Still a very Large Police Presence here in the neighborhood of san rafael. This is where a Bank Robbery Suspect was shot by police after a fivemile chase. The suspects silver car is still in the embankment where it crashed into a pole. Sky 7 is overhead to give you perspective. It began at the bank of the west in novato, this morning, where a robbery occurred. Marin county sheriff deputy was in the neighborhood and happened to see the suspect and gave chase. It all ended here about five miles away. Police say the suspect crashed and ran away. We are told he then turned a gun on deputies would fired wounding the man. He was taken to the hospital we do not know the extent of his injuries. We have marin county sheriff deputy and a large contingent of San Rafael Police officer in the neighborhood. This is happening right in front of the North Gate Shopping Center that now is closed, all arteries getting to the shop center, are closed with a lot of confused shopper who want to get