I cant wait to see. We appreciate your time. Tonight, several breaking stories. The horrific pictures coming in. The deadly bus crash, flipping on the interstate. Tonight, the driver has just been charged. Two adults killed. More than 50 others injured. Several children rushed to the hospital. Also breaking tonight, authorities just moments ago revealing more tanks have gone up in flames tonight. The inferno growing at this hour, and the new warnings. The major headline breaking involving robert kraft. Will the Billionaire Owner of the new England Patriots take the offer . Prosecutors offering kraft a plea deal tonight, but what he must acknowledge. And what kraft would also have to do. The State Of Emergency growing, and the rescues tha80 cities now, 70 counties in nebraska alone. Several states under water, and there is more rain on the way. Amazon chief jeff bezos, who leaked those nude photos to the
enquirer, and how much were they paid . What the Wall Street Journal is now reporti
lauren sanchez, may have been answered. according to a wall street journal investigation, the national enquirer paid $200,000 to sanchez s brother, michael, who then sold bezos secrets, including those intimate texts and photos. according to the journal, david pecker, the publisher of the enquirer, was initially uneasy about proceeding with such an explosive story, anxious the powerful bezos would sue. but ultimately, the paper reports, he approved the deal. and shortly thereafter, bezos, who is reportedly worth $137 billion, accused a.m.i., the publisher of the national enquirer, of blackmail and extortion, claiming a.m.i. threatened to publish the embarrassing photos unless he stopped his investigation into just how the tabloid obtained the text messages. in response, michael sanchez, a hollywood talent agent, says that he will not dignify the claims, adding only that the journal s reporting is based on old rumors. david? linsey davis tonight. linsey, thank you. we m
we ll be looking for more coverage of that later on today. we re also learning more on something else. amazon founder jeff bezos is learning there s one thing that money cannot buy. privacy. it centers on the tabloid s publishing of private text messages between bezos and his girlfriend, lauren sanchez. now the wall street journal is reporting that american media, the enquirer s publisher, and a company with ties to donald trump, paid $200,000 to sanchez s brother to get the texts, citing people familiar with the matter. nbc news has not corroborated that report. we have reached out to ami, to amazon, to bezos, to sanchez, to michael sanchez for comment. haven t heard back from any of them. nbc s stephanie gosk knows that well. she s been covering this story and is here to walk us through the latest. steph, it s another twist in a story that has seen plenty of them. yeah, it certainly has had a lot of twists. i want to update a little bit of what you just said. we actually have h