Sped the plane up before slamming into a mountain with 149 innocent lives on board. What other secrets are in this newly discovered black box . And the National Lead. He says his boat was dead in the water and flipped three times, but he held on broken shoulder and all. The amazing story of a fisherman found after 66 days lost at sea. But some skeptics out there wonder if this is a fishtale. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin today with the world lead. Depending upon whom you ask in washington, d. C. Right now, this is either an offramp from a path to war or its the hov lane. One day after negotiators in switzerland announced a preliminary agreement between the u. S. And other major world powers with iran over its Nuclear Program, irans president vowed that iran can quote, cooperate with the world despite what many would say is a decadeslong track record of doing the exact opposite. Of course the country with perhaps the most to lose if it turns out that iran
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. With a brutal winter barely behind us, tornado season is quickly firing up with several states on alert right now for severe weather. Were keeping a close eye on the radar as areas from Southern Illinois into northeastern arkansas are under a tornado watch. This on the heels of last nights violent storms that triggered massive flooding, especially in kentucky where a mother and child were swept away in their car and remain missing. Right now firefighters in louisville are still wrestling with this massive industrial fire that may have been sparked by lightning. We begin our coverage with nbcs Kerry Sanders. Reporter in louisville kentucky, today, two massive emergencies. First, this sixalarm fire at a ge appliance park. More than 200 firefighters battled the flames. Incredibly no one was hurt. This is really, really heartbreaking. Reporter while investigators look into
President obama facing resistance from certain democrats, rejection from many republicans and total opposition from israels Prime Minister defended the deal in no Uncertain Terms and laid out three alternatives. First, we can reach a robust and verifiable deal like this one and peacefully prevent iran from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon. Second option is we can bomb Irans Nuclear facilities, thereby starting another war in the middle east. Third, we could pull out of negotiations, try to get other countries to go along and continue sanctions currently in place or add additional ones and hope for the best. What a tough political sell this could be but jim sciutto is joining us with details on what negotiates agreed to. Jim, break this deal down for our viewers. What exactly does it look . You take all the elements of Irans Nuclear program that has caused consternation here in washington and western capitals for year and it does not dismantle them or detroy them but it modifies them or puts
Time. They are worse than you could have imagined. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Tonight, bunker busting bombs. Cnn is learning tonight that despite the breakthrough with iran the pentagon is plowing ahead with its most lethal option. One of the most powerful bombs in the world. The military testing a bomb that can destroy targets deep underground like irans most secret nuclear facility. The United States is more capable of destroying the nuclear complex than it was a year ago. It sounds good but is this just a lot of tough talk. As the president of the United States has tried to pull a major sales job, the president working the phones today making a very hard sell on the iran nuclear deal. He called all them from air force one. Hes promising to sit down with the top four congressional leaders, members of congress including influential democrats are saying no. Today as Benjamin Netanyahu came out swinging charging that deal guarantees iran a bomb. Such a deal does no
Least six states in the south and midwest, this as kentucky oklahoma and arkansas clean up from the last round of storms. Manuel bojorquez reports. Reporter there were more than 160 water rescues in louisville after more than six inches of rain fell overnight, stranding cars and flooding homes. Flooding is going underneath. Its going straight through the building. Reporter the same weather systems spawned tornadoes in the plains. This is the destruction in the town of afton, oklahoma. Harrison, arkansas, was hit by what people believe was also a tornado. So i jumped into the bath tub, heard an awful noise and thought roof went because i heard water coming in. Reporter despite the damage, its been a relatively quiet tornado season with only 4050 touching down since the beginning of the year. The average is 150. The same large and persistent jet stream that has caused a historic drought in california and a recordbreaking winter in the northeast has suppressed Severe Weather activity in t