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 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. The kkk and ear piece 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 him exposed over very sensitive racial ground. Nbcs katy tur starts our coverage tonight. Reporter tensions high in radford, virginia. Secret service body photographer who tried to leave the campaign mandated press pen. Trump on edge, too. This morning blaming his refusal to condition dem the kkk and david duke in a cnn interview on a bad e
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. The kkk and ear piece 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 him exposed over very sensitive racial ground. Nbcs katy tur starts our coverage tonight. Reporter tensions high in radford, virginia. Secret service body photographer who tried to leave the campaign mandated press pen. Trump on edge, too. This morning blaming his refusal to condition dem the kkk and david duke in a cnn
[indistinct chatter] 20 6ncer during can being during campaign 2016, cspan takes you to road to the white house as we follow the candidates on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. This month, we showcase our student cam. Annual video documentary competition for middle and high school students. This years theme is road to the white house. Students were asked what issue do you want president ial candidates to discuss . Our first prize High School Winners are from troy, michigan. Kristen olas, michael fraser, zehn wani. They want them to discuss the scarcity of freshwater. The great lakes and the flint water crisis. Their video is titled the 1 . Today, americans are drowning in overly debated issues, such as immigration, medicare, terrorism, leaked emails. Although these are important topics, the issues that will affect the most americans is the issue of the 1 . 1 . 1 . No, not that 1 . This 1 . The shining blue jewel of the United States, the great lakes. One of the unique resources the wo
[crowd chattering] [indiscernible conversation] announcer on newsmakers, the ,016 campaign, arizona voting and other issues. Newsmakers, sunday on cspan. And this month, we showcase our student cam winners. This years theme is road to the white house. What issues do you want candidates to discuss . Our first prize High School West winners are from phoenix, arizona. Daniela mockzubia and sofia taglienti, 12th and 10th graders, want president ial candidates to discuss Prison Reform in a video titled rethinking reform prisons in america. President obama 30 years ago, there were 500,000 people behind bars in america. Today there are 2. 2 million. The United States is home to 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the world prisoners. Every year, we spend 80 billion to keep people locked up. The prison systems around the United States have changed radically in the last 20 to 30 years. But let me address arizona. 20 years ago, our prison population was about 20,000 people. Now our state prison
Yesterday saudi arabia broke off diplomatic ties with its rival, iran, after demonstrator s invaded and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in tehran. Iranians were protesting the saudi execution of a muslim cleric who criticized the saudi rulers. Nbcs bill neely reports from london that tensions between the two nations are high and getting worse. Across the shia world. Nimr alnimr was a charismatic saudi preacher. He said he preferred words to weapons; words harshly critical of the saudi regime. Which executed him for inciting unrest among its shia minority. Irans Supreme Leader warned saudi arabia would face divine revenge for a crime. Iran is seething. The execution has inflamed tensions between shia and sunni muslims; faiths led by iran and saudi arabia. neely on camera 1 13 1 37 and saudi arabia has now cut off diplomatic relations with iran, giving iranian diplomats there 48 hours to leave the country. And the saudis may already have pulled their diplomats out of iran. Theres no sign t