Who went above and beyond to deliver. Also tonight, we have got the Surprising New forecast for winter. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Thank you for being here tonight. We start with the extraordinary moment of the White House Briefing room late today when chief of staff, general john kelly, a gold star father broke his public silence over the deaths of four american soldiers in niger. In deeply personal terms, came to the defense of President Trump and his outreach efforts to the families of those fallen heroes. And the four cases we are talking about, niger, my sons case in afghanistan. When he died he was surrounded by the best men on this earth. His friends. Thats what the president tried to say to a, four families the other day. Kelly had strong words for the congresswoman who listened in and reported on the president s phone call to a gold star widow, while not disputing her account. Lets begin with our national correspondent, Peter Alexander.
While campaigns have urged drivers to slow down for them they always worry about incidents such as this up. In redwood city, david louie, abc 1 news. Tonight there is a new call for a criminal investigation into the planning and execution of the new bay bridge project. Heres a live look at the new eastern span of the bridge. At a hearing today state senators reviewed a critical report on its construction. They question caltrans decisions that pushed the project more than 4 billion over budget. Abc 1 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live from the capital tonight. Well, hi, dan. Theres also some questions about whether caltrans tried to silence the critics of the project. The hearing is still going on behind me at capital. One senator says theres still many questions hell ask the attorney general and possibly a federal prosecutor to investigate. They may be disgruntled, as you said, mr. Director, but they may be right as well. Did caltrans officials intimidate and even retaliate against in
Responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. Democrats from capitol hill to the campaign trail are urging a quick replacement, but Senate Republicans are vowing to block any nomination president obama puts forward. They argue a lame duck president with less than an year of office should not be able to tip the balance especially in the middle of a heated election cycle. The president can nominate whoever he wants but the senate wont act. Scalias body was escorted from the west texas ranch where his body was found. He was found dead saturday morning. He died of natural causes. Scalias doctor actually reported a texas judge that Justice Scalia had been suffering from main another ailments but thats all the doctor would say. He was 79 years old. Heather . Kristin fisher live for us. Thank you, kristin. New overnight. Dozens of people r
Mine. Very dear friend of mine. And i she did everything she crossed every t, dotted every i. She went through the same process we all did. She came to a different conclusion. I came to my conclusion, really, this morning, when i went through in our hour and a half. Do you believe the allegations . Do you believe dr. Ford . I believe dr. Ford. Something happened i dont believe that the facts showed it was Brett Kavanaugh. But i believe something happened. You think it was someone else who did it . I think something happened to her. I just there was no way no way at all we could see. Reporter senator, what do you say to women who watched this process unfold, heard dr. Fords story and feel like judge kavanaugh is getting confirmed anyway, even though they have stepped forward . And that the senate ive had people all over come forward. Look at us, look at us, look at us the trauma they went through. And i dont know. I mean, i have empathy and simp sympathy to make sure this doesnt continu
Supreme Court Nominee saying Brett Kavanaugh is the victim here. Plus, hey, look over here. Vice president pence taking a strong stance over election interference but its not against russia. Welcome to the lead, everyone. Politics lead, one fbi report, two interpretations. Republican leaders say there is no additional corroboration of the allegations against supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh and no hint of misconduct. Democrats disagree and are taking issue with the investigation, saying it was not thorough enough and democrats are calling for the report to be made public. What really matters here are the key senators who have yet to say publicly how theyre going to vote and what they think. Red state democrat heidi hei heitkamp breaking news she say no on kavanaugh. Republicans need two of these four senators to vote yes on kavanaugh. That will make it 50 50, allowing Vice President to break a tie in a potentially huge consequence, two of these senators have expressed confidence i