what parents of young children should know. just hours to go before a threatened hollywood writers strike will your favorite tv shows be halted? and our interview with rock legend john fogerty, finally singing the songs again that made him famous announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome, everyone. we start with breaking news in a year defined by extreme and deadly weather, the latest, a dust storm along a stretch of i-55 in illinois dozens of cars piled up in poor visibility conditions tonight, six people are dead, more than 30 hospitalized much more on the story in just a moment but first, the window for the u.s. government to figure out a way to pay its bills just got a lot narrower that news coming in a letter to congress from treasury secretary janet yellen who, after crunching the numbers again, announced the u.s. will be unable to satisfy its obligations by early june, potentially as early as june 1st. the new estimate
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening from los angeles, where picket lines went up today in front of major film studios the people who write the plots that enthrall and entertain millions of american tv and film watchers sidelined tonight by a writers strike 11,000 writers off the job after talks with producers reached an impasse overnight. at the root of the dispute, some of the very things that have transformed how all of us watch our favorite shows. think streaming. the impact of emerging technology think virtual reality. tonight t the writerers and d productionon cocompanies, i including our parentnt company nbnbcuniversalal, appear toto be far apapart, virtually y guaranteeieing reruns wilill be comining to scrcreens as productitions grind d to a haltlt for some s shows, the e impact wilill be felt t immediately. miguel almaguer has the latest what do we want a fair contract reporter: off the job and on to the picket line from co
brian: that s what makes me different. one of the few things. i was known for a while as the sammy davis jr. of news. steve: the candy man? brian: the candy man can. ainsley: chose this song for a whe reason. will 21st floor where many of our offices are. brian: alexa. ainsley: the whole floor was listening to brian s music. alexa started of playing this sound loudly. i left the tv on. evidently i said something similar to alexa. ainsley: is that why it s turning on again? this is his office brian: everybody is going what is with brian? is he on the show? he thought i was blasting in evidently i triggered alexa and i said play freeway to love. big mystery in the 21st floor. steve: what channel was that? brian: our channel while we were talking i triggered alexa and somehow through our interpretation of our conversation. it played aretha franklin s freeway of love. it electrified the 21st floor. ainsley: then i understand when i went up to the 21st floor
investigator reporter and bob woodward of the former president. some of it was played on cnn earlier today but what you ll hear tonight has never aired. from 2016 through 2020 woodward taped his conversations with the former president. he will be releasing all 20 of these conversations on the 25th of this month as an audio book titled the trump tapes which runs for more than eight hours. cnn has obtained a copy and what you ll hear tonight is striking. it speaks to who he was as president, who he is as a person and how completely intertwined the personal and presidential were for him and probably still are. something that s not just apparent in what he says but even more so in how he says it. something the printed word just can t fully convey. the conversations also speak directly to some of what the former president is now being investigated for. namely how he views classified material and a president s responsibility for safe guarding some of the countries deepest secrets a
your podcasts. the news continues with jake tapper and cnn tonight. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. tonight with exactly three weeks until the critical midterm elections here in the united states, candidates across the country in key races are increasingly taking extremism to the extreme. but what exactly is the definition of extremism? obviously that depends on who you ask. in a new ad airing in pennsylvania, republican u.s. senate candidate dr. mehmet oz paints himself as a middle-of the-road type of guy. his opponent fetterman is extreme for supporting criminal justice reform and supporting traditional democratic economic plans. guys like john fetterman take everything to the extreme. extremism on both sides makes things worse. we need balance, less extremism in washington. i m sure fetterman would respond that most of the extremism in contemporary american politics is coming from inside dr. oz s own party, but extremism, extremist, that s an insult we r