Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening from copacabana beach, one of the many competition sites for the games starting tomorrow here in rio. In this half of the world, it is midwinter. Even though we are just an hour ahead of u. S. Eastern time, the sun has been down here for some time. Think february in the states without the cold. Well have much more on the upcoming competition here later. But we want to start with a snapshot of the race for president. A new nbc news wall street journal poll shows that Hillary Clinton has opened up a ninepoint lead over donald trump. 47 to 38 . Thats up from a fivepoint lead just before the republican convention. And comes as the Trump Campaign struggles again to regain its focus after a blurring series of controversies. The latest one now involving his wife. Nbcs katy tur has details. Reporter tonight after his toughest week yet, donald trump is trying to turn the page
News. Steve, thank you. New at noon, chopper 2 over a construction site in Queens Village where a worker fell into a trench. Rescue crews had to pull him out. He was more than 10 feet down. The fdny says the man was covered in debris. He is now out with just minor injuries. A bronx deli worker is dead after Police Struggle with the suspect. Investigators say bullets went flying after the suspect grabbed the officers gun and opened fire. Cbs 2s Magdalena Doris is live in bedford park where the street is still scene. Magdalena. Reporter and, mary, news has spread that the store clerk behind me here was shot and killed last night and its sending a Ripple Effect throughout the neighborhood. This clerk known to customers as wally was beloved. Bullets cover east 198th street in front of a m deli. Its where police say the cashier of a nearby shop was shot and killed overnight. Unbelievable that he just rest in peace. Rest it in peace. Reporter police say a 49 yearold deli worker was killed by
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This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the teleprompter was gone today. Donald trump spoke off the cuff and took his campaign off the rails, again. This time, it was a remark that some took as a threat of violence against Hillary Clinton or the Supreme Court justices she might appoint if elected president. Here was trump in north essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, and if she gets to pick booing if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I dont know. Pelley, of course, the Second Amendment establishes the right to bear arms. The Clinton Campaign said trump was inciting violence. Trumps campaign had another major. Reporter scott, Donald Trumps first impulse was to put out a statement that blamed the dishonest media. In it, the trump camp felt no need to explain what trump meant and address accusations that even indirectly, he was calling for violence against Hillary Clinton. However,
Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening from copacabana beach, one of the many competition sites for the games starting tomorrow here in rio. In this half of the world, it is midwinter. Even though we are just an hour ahead of u. S. Eastern time, the sun for some time. Think february in the states without the cold. Well have much more on the upcoming competition here later. But we want to start with a snapshot of the race for president. A new nbc news wall street journal poll shows that Hillary Clinton has opened up a ninepoint lead over donald trump. 47 to 38 . Thats up from a fivepoint lead just before the republican convention. And comes as the Trump Campaign struggles again to regain its focus after a blurring series of nbcs katy tur has details. Reporter tonight after his toughest week yet, donald trump is trying to turn the page. Training on president obama over a 400 million settlement payment to ir