Stores leaving neighborhoods across 15 states fresh out of luck for food. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news wirtth lester holt reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. In a president ial Election Year thats taken some pretty odd directions, add this one to the list. Now five days before the iowa caucus votes republican frontrunner donald trump has abruptly dropped out of tomorrow nights debate in an apparent huff, a decision apparently not rooted in any shrewd political strategy but rather in a spat between trump and fox news which is carrying the debate. For any other candidate, it would be a highly risky move, but as katy tur reports, for this candidate no one is placing bets. Reporter when it comes to donald trump, the only rule is there are no rules. Five days to the caucus and the billionaire is skipping iowa today for south carolina, news debate tomorrow. I dont know what games roger ailes is playing but whats wrong over there. Reporter tru
Expensive more than a year later, city and county officials stood side by side, to announce a settlement. I think everyone was just sick and tired of fighting and you have new elected leaders you. Do that and step up. Reporter truckee meadows to offset the claims, now that things are, truckee meadows will pay more than 400,000 in workers comp and interest to the city. In a 42 vote, City Council Members approved a 116,000 donation for the Virginia Lake Water Quality project. It allows for less money to be used from the Capital Improvement project, and help clean up the lake. And the ballpark is to get upgrades, including hd video, and surround sound this year. Even though ballpark official couldnt affords principal payments for the construction debts of the ballpark last year. This he could just pay a little more than 2 million in interest expenses this is covering to the annual report that officials are required to provide. The report shows the ballpark still has 63 million in outstand
The first votes of campaign 2016. Heres maipg. They cant toy with me like they toy with everybody else. So let them have their debate, and lets see how they do with the ratings. Reporter it began with a statement from fox news mocking a future President Trump is unable to deal with foreign adversaries and replacing his cabinet with his twitter followers. When i see a press release written by a child, like i just saw, i said what do i have to do . Reporter trump also objected to fox news moderator megyn kelly. Youve called women you donon likeat picion, dogs, slobs. Reporter but in 2011, trump only had praisefor kelly. Do you realliness youre a better moderator than i . No, i could never beat you. That wouldnt even be close. There would be no contest. You have done a great job, by the way, and i mean it. Reporter ted cruz locked in a dead heat with trump called trumps dispute with fox news laughable. Really, really scary. laughter and, you know, donald is a fragile soul. laughter you kn
3 bill we begin this 3 morning with an update to a story we have been following on news 4. A longstanding lawsuit over the splitting of reno and truckee meadows Fire Agencies is now settled. The lawsuit was filed in september of 2014 by the city over unresolved costs from the 2012 deconsolidation of the agencies. So, now that things are settled what does that mean for each side. Under the settlement, both sides have agreed to drop Financial Claims against the other. And the district will pay back Workers Compensation money it began withholding when reno filed the suit. In the end, truckee meadows will pay more workers comp. Plus interest to the city of reno. During yesterdays meeting. Mayor Hillary Schieve actually brought up the possibility of consolidating the agencies again. Heres what truckee meadows fire deputy chief tim leighton had to say about that. 3 whether its my thoughts or someone elses thoughts, once again its up the elected officials to set policy for both organizations
This is good day virginia. Its wednesday, january 27th. Thanks for starting your morning off with us, im january keaton. And im kyle benjamin. Just a few hours from now, fbi and Law Enforcement officials will hold a press conference. That News Conference comes less than 12 hours after a shootout between police and protesters left one occupier dead. Reid binion reports. Honestly, there are things more important than your life, and freedom is one of them. Oregon protester Lavoy Finicum telling nbc news that he would rather die than be arrested. Tuesday night, finicum was killed. As authorities arrested protest leader ammon bundy and several members of the armed group occupying the Malheur National wildlife refugeOfficials Say it started with a traffic stop, and that finicum and bundys brother ryan ranch claimed on facebook that finicum had his hands up and was shot 3 times. Officials. Havent commented much beyond saying its not clear who fired first. Ryan bundy suffered minor injuries fi