Weve got it all covered this morning but well get started right now in hollywood where our Lauren Lyster is live right above the red carpet. Lauren, good morning. Reporter i am. Good morning, reena and kendis. You know, it was mad max that collected the most oscar gold and that first oscar for leo all on a night when taking center stage was the broader controversy over a lack of diversity in hollywood. Spotlight. Reporter a thoughtful film about a newspaper investigating sex abuse by bostons catholic priests took oscars top prize last night winning best picture. If they nominated hosts i wouldnt even get this job. Reporter but it was oscar host chris rock who really owned the night addressing the academys diversity controversy right out of the gate. Im a danish girl. Placing black actors in parodies of several nominated films. You should get me. Dont worry, black astronaut, reporter even calling hollywood racist. Hollywood is sorority racist, its like we like you, rhonda, but youre not
Ennightly news with lester holt. Good evening. From our election headquarters on the eve of super tuesday, one of the biggest days yet in the president ial contest, in an election season filled with leadshaking moments, spray tans. The kkk and ear piece malfunctions are abeing mott topics driving the conversation about the republican race. Outside of texas, donald trump seems poised to score some very big wins in tomorrows primary contest despite some conflicting and curious answers to a question thats left him exposed over very sensitive racial ground. Nbcs katy tur starts our coverage tonight. Reporter tensions high in radford, virginia. Secret service body amming a time photographer who tried to leave the campaign mandated press pen. Trump on edge, too. This morning blaming his refusal to condition dem the kkk and david duke in a cnn interview on a bad ear piece. Im sitting in a house in florida with a very bad earpiece you could hardly here what he was saying. Reporter a complaint
Campaign in virginia. Kristen kristen, what can you tell us. Reporter lester, good evening. Clinton Campaign Officials say they feel confident heeding into super tuesday after that big win in south carolina, fueled largely by africanamerican support. Clinton hoping to build on that tomorrow. Senator sanders vowing not to give up, but he does have a steep climb, particularly if you look at the numbers, lester. The official nbc news delegate count shows clinton with 519 delegates and sanders with 86. If you only take into account super delegates, typically Party Leaders who get to choose who they will support, clinton gets 428 to sanders 21, a 20field advantage. Clinton is up with ads in all of the super tuesday states and sanders with ads in five of them, smaller, less diverse states like colorado and massachusetts. Still, sanders has a lot of cash on hand which means no matter what happens tomorrow that could allow him to stay in this race indefinitely. Lester . Tonight, thank you. For
You know, it was mad max that collected the most oscar gold, and you mentioned that first oscar for leo all on a night where taking center stage along with the folks winning awards was the broader controversy over a lack of diversity in hollywood. Spotlight. Reporter a thoughtful film about a newspar investigating sex abuse by bostons catholic priests took oscars top prize last night winning best cture. If they nominated hosts, i wouldnt even get this job. Reporter but it was oscar host chris rock who really owned the night addressing the academys diversity controversy right out of the gate. Im a danish girl. Reporter placing black actors in parodies of several nominated films. You should get me. Dont worry, black astrtronaut, we will. Reporter even calling hollywood racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. Its like we like you, rhonda, but youre not a kappa. Leonardo dicaprio. Reporter after five acting losing streak finally ended. His gritty performance as a wounded frontiersman seeking
Well, good monday morning. It was a huge night in hollywood with somewhat of a surprise for best picture win at the 88th academy awards. Among those celebrating Leonardo Dicaprio taking home his first oscar for his role in the revenant. And 26yearold brie larson who swept the ceremonies all awards season took home her own little goldman for room. And then there was host chris rock, who immediately waded into the diversity controversy and weve got it all covered this morning but well get started right now in hollywood where our Lauren Lyster is live right above the red carpet. Lauren, good morning. Reporter i am. Good morning, reena and kendis. You know, it was mad max that collected the most oscar gold and that first oscar for leo all on a night when taking center stage was the broader controversy over a lack of diversity in hollywood. Spotlight. Reporter a thoughtful film about a newspaper investigating sex abuse by bostons catholic priests took oscars top prize last night winning bes