Weight and trying to get more rest. And hollywood rocked as controversy Takes Center Stage at the oscars. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is 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. 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 sensitive racial ground. Nbcs katy tur starts our coverage tonight. Reporter tensions high in radford, secret service body slamming a time photographer who tried to leave the campaign mandated press pen. Trump on edge, too. His refusal to condition dem the kkk and david duke in a cnn interview on a bad ear
Nightly news begins right now. Good evening from lex headquarters on super tuesday, a night that could be the Tipping Point in both the republican and democratic races for the president ial nomination. 12 states are in play tonight with the first poll closings just a half hour from now. But ahead of that, we have a new snapshot of the state of the race nationally. Republican donald trump has a 21 lead over marco rubio, whos now in second place, according to a new nbc News Survey Monkey poll. Democrats, Hillary Clinton with a 10point lead nationally over Bernie Sanders. Will she pull away from sanders for good . Will trump close the deal tonight . Theres an awful lot to cover. Our team is in place. Lets start with the Trump Campaign and nbcs katy tur. Reporter another dramatic entrance for whats shaping up trump is riding high. Chris christie by his side. And brushing off the insults. He said i had small hands . Theyre not small, are they . Ive always had people say, donald, you have th
Tonight the battle lines get drawn all over again. In nbc news, decision 2016, super tuesday, heres lester holt. Good evening, good to have you here with the polls closed in almost all the super tuesday states, im joined by my colleagues. We want to get straight to the results, starting with the gop race and the biggest prize tonight, the state of texas. On the republican side, ted cruz wins in his home state. Nbc news projects he will win texas. In oklahoma tonight, cruz also the projected winner. In georgia, donald trump is the projected winner. Also in the trump column is virginia tonight, a win for trump there. And massachusetts, donald trump also the projected winner. Lets move over now to the democratics, lets go to chuck democratic side about what weve seen here right now. Cruz picking up two important wins. Especially texas. Does that change the dynamics of the republican race . I think it does. I think heres what we can definitively say. A very good night for donald trump, a v
And with those words, Vice President joe biden closed the door on his lifelong goal of running for president. An extraordina moment in the rose gardens, bowing out but delivering a call to action and taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton who has moved away from some of obamas policy. This party, our nation, will be making a tragic mistake if we walk away or attttpt to undo the obama legacy. Reporter biden, who made his decision last night, said the grieving process over his late son beau was pivotal. Ive said all along, what ive said time and again to others, that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through it, closes the window on mounting a real estatistic campaign for president. That it might close. Ive concluded it has closed. Reporter but biden said he wont sit on not be a candidate, i will not be silent. Reporter clintnt callll biden after his speech and tweeted, the Vice President is a good friend and great man. Today and always inspired by his optimism and com
Right now. Good evening. We begin with a potentially ominous turn in the investigation into the russian air disaster over egypt. A u. S. Official late today told nbc news that evidence indicates it was likeke a bomb, possibly planted by isis operatives that brought the airbus 321 down over the sinai desert, killing all 224 people on board. If proven, it represents a new and more lethal isis capability with farreaching security implications for Airline Passengers and beyond. The story is still developing developing. Lets get right to cairo andndur bill neely is there with late details. Reporter for five days investigators haveearched the wreckage for clues that caused a mystery. Now a u. S. Official tells nbc news, evidence indicates it was like by a bomb. The suspicion, it was placed on board by ground crew or baggage handlers and t tt isiss is respononble. It is a strong suspicion, not a conclusion. And no evidence of a bomb has been found yet in the debris. But it is a suspicion shar