Of the Government Security weve had since 9 11. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Round two. The nations midsection taking another wicked weather punch as we come on the air tonight. These pictures in to us just minutes ago from kentucky. Take a look at this. A tornado on the ground there. Part of the second Severe Weather outbreak in as many nights. In oklahoma this evening, residents are still assessing the damage after two dozen tornadoes churned across the region just about this time last evening, killing two people. Right now, this map shows in realtime the locations of storm chasers, several of them as you can see clustered in kentucky and indiana, where things are heating up. Gabe gutierrez reports now from the storm zone. Reporter late today, this tornado slicing through mayfield, kentucky, as millions in the midwest and north texas please dont hit that farm. Reporter b
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Im Savannah Guthrie in for lester. Hillary clinton minced no words and took no prisoners today in a speech built as a major Foreign Policy address she dropped the hammer on donald trump sometimes mocking, sometimes pummelling the nominee for position she says endangers the country, frighten allies and embolden enemies. Clinton still faces a democratic primary opponent with diehard supporters not ready to give up and a razor tight primary race in california but tonight in san diego, she had her eye on the general election and her sights trained on trump. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell was there. Andrea, good evening. Reporter good evening, savannah. Hillary clinton unleashing h on Donald Trumps qualifications to be commander in chief and she didnt hold anything back. It was a 33minute takedown of donald trump. Donald trumps ideas arent just different, they are dangerously in
Of 16. Life is like a star wars movies some of it is great, some of it sksuc b,ut you have no choice but to sit through all of it. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Was deadly serious one moment and humorous the next, clinton argued trumps temperament makes him unfit to lead the free world. Donald trumps ideas arent just different. They are dangerously incoherent. Theyre not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies. applause this is not someone who should ever have the Nuclear Codes because its not hard to imagine donald trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin. Reporter she said trump lacks the knowledge to be commander in chief. I know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. Reporter citing his seemingly cavalier attitude about torture. Waterboarding is fine. Reporter and about conflicts with other countries. So they say, start a trade war. You know wh
Wildfires. Hot, dry conditions, even tripledigit flurs some places are, fanning at least a dozen large fires. North of los angeles, Santa Barbara county is under a state of emergency. The socalled sherpy fire has destroyed. Reporter lighter winds allowed crews to perform burnout operations just north of Santa Barbara late friday night. Theyre trying to create a buffer zone between droughtdry brush and hundreds of threatened homes before the same strong winds that pushed flames on to californias main coastal highway earlier this week return. Santa barbara county fire chief Eric Peterson says firefighters are also dealing with extreme heat. Weve got a hard sunday and monday in front of us, potentially. But i am confident at this point that everything that can be done is being done. Reporter the county is home to a billiondollar acculture industry. Er pat brown watched as the fire his pasture land. Did you feel like you were in danger . Nottality that point. The but i knew that was coming
West virginia is suing opioid distributors to force them to report unusual sales. The man in charge of those suits is the attorney general, but his critics question just how close he has been to the drugmakerers. Jim axelrod and ashley velie continue their investigation. We are in mango county, West Virginia. Reporter the battle against opioids in West Virginia, the state with the countrys highest rate of fatal overdoses is being fought on many fronts. Patrick morrisey its the attorney general. What is happening in West Virginia right now is that we are losing a generation of people to despair. Reporter in the last five months, morrisey implemented statewide prescription guidelines, moved forward with a predecessor against 11 drug distributors and filed a new suit against the nations top drug wholesaler mckesson for flooding the state with 100 million pain pills in a five year period. But the fight against opioids in West Virginia is complex. As one look at morriseys career path makes