oasis for kids in a food desert. inspiring america. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone the national archives is offering new insight this evening into the nature of classified documents that triggered cascading alarm bells since at least the start of the year over materials held by former president trump. today the archives posting a letter sent to trump lawyers earlier this year after the ex-president turned over 700 pages of classified documents, some believed to be among the nation s most guarded secrets. the letter warning the department of justice was looking into the case and tonight new reporting by the new york times about the august 8th search of mr. trump s home citing those briefed on the matter, it offers new characterizations on the number and sensitivity of the documents recovered by the fbi. kristen welker has late details reporter: tonight, stunning new revelations about those documents recovered from mar-a-la
recovered from donald trump s home earlier this year. the national archives alleging some of government s most highly guarded secrets are among 15 boxes mr. trump turned over in january. in addition to the other classified files the fbi says it found at mar-a-lago this month. what we re learning. also tonight, new images from the deadly flooding in texas. the governor declaring a disaster in 23 counties where the threat is moving now the deadly encounter captured on camera atlanta police shooting rashard brooks after he grabbed a taser and tried to fire it at an officer. what a special prosecutor announced today. the verdict in the trial of two men accused of plotting to kidnap michigan s governor the urgent state department alert, why americans still in ukraine are being told to get out now the explosive claim from a twitter whistle-blower about the security of your data on the site the new warning among cancer among firefighters, is the equipment meant to protect them potenti
anything but fake. we are now on high alert outside the kabul airport as senior u.s. official confirming to our colleague jackie heinrich the threat of a vehicle bomb or suicide bomb from isis k or another affiliate is being measured at more likely than unlikely over the last 24 hours. and british defense officials warning it could possibly happen within hours. this after the state department alert issued last night telling americans heading to the airport to turn back adding because of security threats outside the gates of kabul airport, u.s. citizens who are at the abby gate, east gate or north gate should leave immediately. kabul is now under taliban control. we re operating in a hostile en vierinement in a city controlled by the taliban with
and specifically today, but we also have done a lot of training to get law enforcement and public safety ready for this. and that state department alert was based on credible information about possible isis attacks in association with the upcoming holiday season and certain events. i want to go back to reporter fred pleitgen who is there at the attack on berlin. fred, tell us what you re seeing there. reporter: hi, jake. as you can see behind me, there is a lot of ambulance vehicles here. you can also see that even about two hours and 15 minutes after this attack took place, there are still new ambulances coming in here. you can see there is a fire truck also coming out. so there s still a lot of movement here on the part of the authorities trying to come to grips with the association. we ve been speaking with a couple eyewitnesses on the ground and they just spoke how horrible those moments were when that truck came through there.
at the same time the alert goes out at the state department announcing an attack, the cia security team taking heavy fire heads to the consulate. 10:30 p.m. libya time, ambassador stevens and diplomat sean smith take refuge in the consulate compound. the militants set fire to the consulate. the smoke killing ambassador smith in minutes. meanwhile back in washington, d.c. at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. defense secretary leon panetta, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey attending a previously scheduled meeting with president obama. at 5:11 washington time. 11:11 p.m. in libya. american surveillance drone arrives overhead. on the ground in benghazi, the cia team at the consulate puts a group of state department officers into a vehicle and seconds it back to the cia annex. now the fight shifts to the cia annex where they take small arms fire and rocket propelled grenades. at 6:07 p.m. washington time, 12:07 a.m. benghazi. a state department alert goes out announcing that terro