Spotlight after the Central Bank Holds the market steady. They grab investors attention after they post the biggest weekly gain since early june. The german car maker speeds away from a long running probe into the failed take over of volkswagen in 2008. Welcome to the show. French gdp disappointing earlier coming in flat for the quarter. German gdp in line, a little below expectations. Italian gdp has just come in as well and that has disappointed too. The expectation year on year was for plus 0. 5 and has come in for the year but the expectation quarter on quarter was for plus 0. 3 and we have 0. 2 gdp. So a little disappointing. Not as disappointing as the french number earlier which was flat for the quarter against expectations of a 0. 2 expansion. Joining us now is the senior european economist. Good morning to you. We await the broader euro zone number in about an hour but so far what weve got from the likes of italy, germany, france, disappointing. Slightly disappointing. I would
Is dead and the killer or killers are on the loose. Employees showed up this morning only to find their building closed off and surrounded by police officers. Inside 1885 lundy avenue, police say a man was shot. Its shocking. Reporter Police Received a 911 call just before 1 00 this morning, saying they heard gunshots. They found one man wounded on the first floor of the building. That man later died at an area hospital. We only know hes an adult male that was pronounced deceased and were still working on any other information about the motive and circumstances surrounding the shooting. Reporter this marks san joses 19th homicide of the year, and 11th in the last month and a half alone. Investigators will try to use surveillance cameras to help them solve the latest murder. What we do know is that the shooting did occur inside a business, but beyond that, were still trying to piece together what happened and trying to determine the motives and circumstances surrounding the shooting. Re
History is happening in cuba as we speak. We plan to go there in just a moment. For now our top story, politics when you thought this president ial race could not get more interesting speculation is growing that al gore might be thinking about jumping in as many confirmed candidates head to iowa for a timehonored campaign tradition this weekend. The buzz about al gore considering a run is still just simmering this morning and still under scores a broader point that some democrats are worried their partys front runner is vulnerable. With ongoing questions about Hillary Clintons private email new reports that former Vice President al gore could be considering getting back into the game. Buzz feed reporting that gore who lost to george w. Bush in 2000 is having conversations with supporters to see if there is a path financially and politically but a high level source tells nbc news there is nothing substantive happening. The current Vice President seems to be giving it some serious though
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 images coming out of tianjin china are of breathtaking devastation. Virtually destroyed by two enormous industrial explosions seen and felt for miles around. Right now the death toll already well into the dozens still rising. Many people are still missing, and the search and recovery is being carried out amid serious concerns over whats in the air. Nbcs ian williams is there. Reporter its a scene of utter devastation. Fires still burning, smoke still rising, more than 24 hours after this. New video shows the first blast light up the sky over tianjin followed by a far more powerful explosion captured on cell phone from a nearby Apartment Building until a photographer retreats in terror. Among the american eyewitnesss, english teacher drew. All of a sudden there is a loud, like a shock wave sound. The first thing people thought it was was an
Potentially deadly disease. Melissa russo is here with the latest. Reporter city officials stopped short of calling the legionnaires outbreak over, but they are calling it contained at this point. Take a look at the latest numbers. A total of 121 people have now been diagnosed in this legionnaires outbreak. Thats two new cases identified since yesterday. The death toll remains at 12, where its been since monday. And to the citys knowledge, there have been no cases of anyone getting sick, as in developing symptoms since august 3rd. No new contaminated buildings or cooling towers the today. The mayor was in the legionnaires impact zone this afternoon at lincoln hospital, thanking Health Care Staff for their work during this outbreak. And downtown at city hall, the city council was voting on a bill regulating cooling towers. The bill passed unanimously by a vote of 420. The centers for Disease Control called the citys response at this afternoons News Conference to the outbreak swift, dili