Nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. This was day five of the search for the missing after that mountainside fell into a valley below in Washington State. And the search felt every bit as urgent today as day one. Using bulldozers and shovels using their hands, theyre going through a square mile of debris. Conditions are bad and because so many of the rescuers are from there, they are fighting heart ache all the way. Its where we begin again tonight. Nbcs Miguel Almaguer remains there for us. Miguel, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. The National Guard and other federal agencies have joined the rescue up stream. They insist this is a search mission, not a recovery. Its believed eight more bodies have been discovered. One thing is certain. The death toll will rise. With 49 homes in oso buried under 20 feet of mud, today search teams found no sign of life. All the homes on steelhead drive are gone. Reporter theres been no rescue since saturday when First Responders sp
A heart. I ythank you for your patience. Chaos reigns in the house of representatives. Hours after yanking their own border bill from coming to a vote on the floor, Republican Leadership is right now huddled in closeddoor meetings to determine, what if anything, can be done to save face before the start of tomorrows fiveweek summer recess, including staying in town until a bill can can be passed. Whether there is any bill that can satisfy the far right wing of their conference and ted cruz. The headline of the Washington Post says it all, house gop pulls border bill rather than see it defeated. Not majority leader, Kevin Mccarthy, but senator ted cruz. Senator cruz who was not elected to seven the in the house of representatives has emerged as perhaps the most powerful voice in the house of representatives. After gathering the chamber for pizza and drinks, cruz managed to vote the rowdiest to vote against the border bill, one that would have been accompanied by a separate vote to repea
Doors, now, again, not true. More details are coming out. Some from whistleblowers making a story that was bad enough look even worse. Right now, go back. It was the 70yard dash seen around the world. And now we know Omar Gonzales, an arc war veteran with ptsd and armed with a knife didnt just make it over the white house fence all the way across the north lawn, up the stairs, and through the front doors but according to sources familiar with the incident, gonzales overpowered the guard inside those doors, ran past the fairway leading up to the first familys residence, they werent at home. Through the first floor and east room, being tackled by an officer at the doors to the green room. None of this being revealed by the secret service, but a whist whistleblower. I got deep concerns that the president is not as safe as we want and need him to be. Ive got questions about leadership, protocol and training at the secret service. No one was able to tackle Omar Gonzales, no dog was released
See for the most part here behind me i have to point out are here for new york citys iconic Tree Lighting ceremony. It takes place around this time every year. Of course, and that is mainly what you are looking at. But cameraman can take a step forward and pan off to the left a little. You see some of the protesters there. That group that passed us just a few minutes ago numbered around 100. We have another live camera following a larger group. We are told by our producer with that group that that Group Numbers around 500. I should also point out that at this point, greta, this has been an entirely peaceful protest police would be here in large numbers anyway. They are out in greater number tonight because of these protests but they are keeping the protesters moving. They are not allowing them to stop for any length of time at all. They are preventing them crossing behind me here. Sixth avenue as they walk up and taking them very much on a designated path across sixth avenue passed the
See for the most part here behind me i have to point out are here for new york citys iconic Tree Lighting ceremony. It takes place around this time every year. Of course, and that is mainly what you are looking at. But cameraman can take a step forward and pan off to the left a little. You see some of the protesters there. That group that passed us just a few minutes ago numbered around 100. We have another live camera following a larger group. We are told by our producer with that group that that Group Numbers around 500. I should also point out that at this point, greta, this has been an entirely peaceful protest police would be here in large numbers anyway. They are out in greater number tonight because of these protests but they are keeping the protesters moving. They are not allowing them to stop for any length of time at all. They are preventing them crossing behind me here. Sixth avenue as they walk up and taking them very much on a designated path across sixth avenue passed the