wish all of you have a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us, i will see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow. good evening chris, thank you my friend much appreciated. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. the basic plot is, that even though he s a good guy, even though he is our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence. he has to break into the national archives and steal it, but it s for a good reason. it s because he has followed the string of ancient, creepy totally non plausible clues, and those clues have revealed to him a big secret. the big secret is that there is a big treasure and to find a big treasure, you have to follow the treasure map and the treasure map inconveniently is printed in invisible ink on the backside of the declaration of independence. and so he has to steal the declaration of independence. not just because he wants the tre
heart, his trial will go on. also late today, what we learne hearing. who will testify now? and the other key witness we re. and tonight, the white house now warning it believes iran is getting ready to help russia. what they re expected to send to fight the ukrainians.from japan in mourning over the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. and what we ve now learned tonight about the alleged gunman. bob woodruff is there. here at home tonight, the urgent manhunt under way for the armed suspect wanted for shootings at several 7-elevens today. multiple people shot across several locations. elon musk terminating his plan to buy twitter. could twitter now sue him? and what musk said about it all, of course, on twitter. and america strong tonight. the plane stuck on the tarmac and the spontaneous performance. you have to see this. good evening and it s great to be back with all of you at home after the july 4th holiday. we do have a lot to get to tonight. what c
economy came out just minutes ago. christine roman has those and then zain verjee looking at reaction to a deal made on the debt crisis and alison kosik at the new york stock exchange where your 401(k) could enjoy a big day. christine, let s go ahead and start with you. before we focus on the big debt deal, if you don t mind, let s talk about what this means. tell us about the economy and the good news we re getting. all right, first of all, gdp. how the economy grew in the most recent quarter. the third quarter. 2.5% kyra. that s twice as fast as it was in the second quarter. it shows you there was a pickup in economic activity in the third quarter. and that is the best in a year. so, kyra, that tells us that the economy is doing a little better, it needs to be better than 2.5%, but that is better than it has done in about a year. that is good news about where the economy is going right now. the overnight deal on the european debt crisis. let s talk about how this has im