Amazing happened. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. A search that extends as far away as mexico for those escaped killers from new york is right now refocusing much closer to the scene of their prison breakout. After four days on the lam, a possible sighting and a fresh scent picked up by tracker dogs as an army of cops descending on the woods surrounding a tiny hamlet just 40 miles from the prison. With police on what could be a warm trail, theres that other mystery to be solved, who may have helped them stage their daring escape . In a moment an interview you wont see anywhere else with a man whose mom, a prison employee, has become a person of interest. But first the search. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer is in willsboro, new york. Reporter tonight the mass mobilization. A flood of highly trained, heavily armed officers closing in on new leads. Prison break suspects dav
Im scared too. Sharks, theyre scary. No one wants to get eaten. Oh, yeah, just when you thought it was safe to turn on your television, sharknado 2 hits the small screen in the next week and i will talk with the writer about its cult following. Hello, everyone. Its high noon in the east. 9 00 a. M. Out west. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. New details on a dramatic move by the u. S. Embassy earlier today to evacuate all personnel from the American Embassy in tripoli, libya. Secretary of state kerry spoke about it just a short time ago. So we are suspending our current diplomatic activities at the embassy, not closing, but suspending. We have moved people on ground to trunisia where they will disperse to other places. Im joined by Nbcs Kristen Welker whos covering this from the white house. This is something we were all following with great trepidation, considering the history there. What do we know about the threats that are facing people . U. S. Officials have confirmed that all 1
When and where these images were taken. Armed with the ak47 and wagging his finger at the camera, the leader of the Group Boko Haram offers an exchange, the schoolgirls for his fighters jailed in prisons around nigeria, and the interior minister says there is no negotiations. So the search continues over the vast rugged area of north nigeria. And we are also learning today in cameroon interesting information that gives you a sense of how well armed this group is. About a week after the girls were kidnapped, the military tells us that they seized a large cache of weapons in ard o bo in a bordertown of this country and we have video of it which includes in that cache, rpgs and mortars and ant antiwarfare weaponry, and it is also hoe easily they can move back and forth between the borders, and this is a regional problem. Craig . Thank you, Stephanie Gosk in cam roon, and developing back in here, an investigation is under way in West Virginia to find out what caused a mining accident that
Fast moving day in ferguson. That happened on the same day in that a local grand jury started considering evidence as to whether or not the Police Officer who shot Michael Brown should be charged with a crime for that shooting. There is still a lot to see in ferguson, and a lot to report from ferguson, and we will have all of that coming up, including multiple live reports from the scene in downtown ferguson starting in just a moment tonight. But before we get to that news from ferguson, today was also a day of angry reaction, and denunciation by the president of the United States, by the Vice President of the United States and by leaders around the globe in reaction to the actions of islamic militants operating in iraq and syria, the militant group which yesterday murdered an american journalist in cold blood. They beheaded him on camera, and then uploaded the video of the killing so it could be seen worldwide. Today the family of that jurnist, the parents of jim foley, they were able
Officer who shot Michael Brown should be charged with a crime for that shooting. There is still a lot to see in ferguson, and a lot to report from ferguson, and we will have all of that coming up, including multiple live reports from the scene in downtown ferguson starting in just a moment tonight. But before we get to that news from ferguson, today was also a day of angry reaction, and denunciation by the president of the United States, by the Vice President of the United States and by leaders around the globe in reaction to the actions of islamic militants operating in iraq and syria, the militant group which yesterday murdered an american journalist in cold blood. They beheaded him on camera, and then uploaded the video of the killing so it could be scene world wide fp today the family of that american journalist, the parents of jim foley remarkably they were able to make a Public Statement today to answer questions about the loss of their son. Wat watch. Do you have a message for t