What hes saying as the outrage boils over. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. It is one of the greatest mysteries of our time. The fate of malaysia air flight 370 and the 239 people aboard. Tonight many are holding their breath wondering if its finally on the verge of being solved. Video and photos of a large piece of plane wreckage found on a remote yienltdisland in the indian ocean are carefully being scrutinized. We should tell you from the start not all experts agree but investigators believe the debris in the images is consistent with a boeing 777 the smam as the missing malaysian jet. Nbcs tom costello has been working the story all day. What do we know . Reporter lots of phone calls. And sources tell nbc news that boeing investigators have looked at the photo and they believe it is in fact a piece of a wing perhaps a flap from a boeing 777. Theres only one boeing 777 thats
League player in tears. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. One question answered to raise so many more in the disappointearance of flight 370. The aircraft piece found on an Indian Ocean Island beach could have come from a boeing 777 removing virtually any doubt after a year and a half, the first tangible piece of aviations biggest puzzle has been found. Our team is on the island tonight and here is exactly what experts saw that told them what they needed to know but what about the rest of the plane, the black boxes . And the passengers and crew. Lets begin our coverage from reunion island with bill neely bill . Reporter good evening, lester, from an island 4,000 miles from where mh 370 is thought to have crashed but this coast has given investigators perhaps the biggest clue yet, more than 500 days into this mystery. The eyes of the aviation world are focused on this debris tha
Now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. There is a fresh indication as we start tonight that Hillary Clintons support among voters is eroding in the face of the scrutiny over emails she exchanged on a private server when she was secretary of state. While mrs. Clinton remains the undisputed frontrunner for the democratic nomination, new polling confirms a falloff both in the democratic race and in a matchup with gop frontrunner donald trump. And it appears to be forcing some changes in her campaign. Our political director chuck todd takes a closer look. Reporter on her first day of vacation in the Hamptons Hillary clinton is trying to take a few days off and celebrate president clintons 69th birthday. But yet another poll today indicates that persistent questions about her handling of emails as secretary of state are taking a political toll. Shes now under 50 in a democratic primary. And that erosion of suppor
Still has to testify before congress in october and the fbi is still determining whether there is a criminal probe to be had or not. So it will be a long fall. Lets talk more about it, chuck. Thanks. Donald trump says the controversy over Hillary Clintons emails looks like water dwt on steroids. But the question a lot of people are asking is could she or anyone Face Criminal Charges . We asked our justice correspondent Pete Williams to take a closer look. Reporter its an issue that wont go away with a federal inquiry and members of Congress Demanding answers. Whats the fbi investigating . Federal agents are looking at whether classified information was compromised. They got that assignment after intelligence officials said some emails publicly released from her private server contain classified information like this one sent to her in november of 2012 about possible arrests in benghazi redacted in part before it was released. Or this one sent by her close aide houma abedin on deteriora
Now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. There is a fresh indication as we start tonight that Hillary Clintons support among voters is eroding in the face of the scrutiny over emails she exchanged on a private server when she was secretary of state. While mrs. Clinton remains the undisputed frontrunner for the democratic nomination, new polling confirms a falloff both in the democratic race and in a matchup with gop frontrunner donald trump. And it appears to be forcing some changes in her campaign. Our political director chuck todd takes a closer look. Reporter on her first day of vacation in the Hamptons Hillary clinton is trying to take a few days off and celebrate president clintons 69th birthday. But yet another poll today indicates that persistent questions about her handling of emails as secretary of state are taking a political toll. Shes now under 50 in a democratic primary. And that erosion of suppor