A tornado outbreak hit the south. And heartburn alert. New concerns about prescription meds millions take to treat it linked to Kidney Disease, now linked to an increase risk of dementia. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc new ws World Headquarters in new york, this the nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. In an Election Year ale ready fraught with improbable plot twists and drama now this. The ideological balance of the u. S. Supreme court suddenly in limbo. Tonight theres late word on who president obama might be considering to replace the late Justice Scalia as lines are drawn for an epic battle between democrats and Senate Republicans who are determined to leave the choice up to the next president. Tonight the current president is suggesting republicans are full of bluster, but they, not democrats, hold the process. Our Justice Williams begins our coverage. Reporter the body of ant in so lia arrived overnight, the casket draped in an American Flag flown f
Inmates grab hold and hang on for their lives. Guards helpless to stop them. And cancer drug outrage. Billions wasted as livesaving meds are literally thrown away. Patients are paying the price. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. President obama has made his move and is tonight locked into had a highstakes staredown contest with Senate Republicans over the future of the Supreme Court. The president has nominated federal Appeals Court judge Merrick Garland regard as a moderate to replace the late conservative justice the late antonin scalia, but even as the president warned against braintree split sizing the processes, the Senate Majority leader said there would be no action taken on the nomination. Republicans demanding the choice be left to the next president. Our Justice Williams has late details. Reporter the president introduced Merrick Garland as a judge who is decent, modest and eve
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Largest city, tel aviv, as authorities launch a manhunt after a man opened fire in a cafe blocks away from the beach. The attack comes after three months of almost daily palestinian attacks against civilians and soldiers. But officials are investigating whether this attack might have been inspired by isis. Tonight there is new video showing the moment of the calm friday afternoon being shattered. Nbcs keir simmons has our report. Reporter captured on a security camera, young people relaxing in a bar. Then diving for cover, in fear. A gunman appears, firing relentlessly. Seconds later, one survivor looks up in horror, around him two are dead. Seven people were injured. Two in Critical Condition tonight. We were shaking, this woman says. We hid in the storage room. Reporter more the same gunman moments earlier in a grocery store, apparently buying food. He pulls a rifle from his backpack and begins killing. Leaving bullet holes and bar stools overturned in terror. No happy new year here.
Live in some kind of second class status in the United States, and it is long past time for us to make sure there is a pathway to citizenship. The last point i want to make is, you will hear lots of excuses if you hang around this town, excuses for why someone should not vote for something. In this case, you might hear people say, even though there were republican senators from arizona, who care more about Border Security than anyone in the senate, that there is not enough Border Security in this bill. Or excuse after excuse. What i want to leave you with is, this bill, if it passes, will reaffirm to ideas that make america a special place. One is that we subscribe to the rule of law. The other is, unlike any other country in the world, we truly are a nation of immigrants. When you hear people making excuses about the bill, i hope you will push them into it, because i know how hard these guys negotiated for so long, for , at seven or eight months work product that is the best i have se