Threats right under their noses. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening, we begin with a story breaking here in new york city this evening. A horrific attack during the height of the rush in mid town manhattan that sparked fears initially it might have been terrorism. It involved a man with a meat cleaver who attacked two Police Officers and then was shot multiple times by police. As you can imagine, it all sparked panic on the crowded streets, sending hoards of people running from the scene near Madison Square garden and penn station. Nbcs rehema ellis has the latest. Reporter during tonights crowded rush hour, just blocks from new york citys penn station. You can see a lot of Police Activity going on down here. Reporter Officials Say two Police Officers were attacked by whats being attacked as a cleaver. One of them struck in the face. The officers fired at the suspect near the bustling comm
Meanwhile, trump makes a huge promise on the economy. Over the next ten years our Economic Teams estimates under our plan the economy will average 3. 5 growth and create a total of 25 million new jobs. Thats a lot of jobs, but do trumps promises add up . What it about his taxes that he doesnt want you to know . Were going to talk about all of that, but i want to get straight to cnn Political Correspondent Brianna Keeler and executive editor mark preston, on the breaking news of the Donald Trump Campaign releasing this statement. Here is the news with the trump camp. He starts off talking about Hillary Clintons campaign raised the issue to smear thencandidate barak obama in her nastyfailed 2008 campaign. In is straight from the clinton play book. As usual, Hillary Clinton was too weak to give an answer, even the morning show admits it was clintons menchman raised this issue. But in 2011 mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to the conclusion by compelling president obam
Out and begun to what may be sort of float these trial balloons that trump could soften his stance on the socalled deportation force. Trump not doing much to clarify this muddled message but he went on television overnight and said hey, what president obama is doing has worked, trumps argument is he would do it better. Theres a question of what this force would look like. How he would implement it. We expect to get more clarity from trump on this topic. The question is when. The Campaign Says he will be unveiling a fuller immigration policy at some point soon. We thought this would be thursday in denver, kate, it wasnt. Im told by a couple sources with knowledge of the decisionmaking process that trump after an Advisory Council round table with hispanic leaders on saturday wanted to fold in messaging and the campaign felt like it was too tight of a timeline to turn that around for thursday. Trump, though, keeping a focus on Border Security in texas. Kate, i know you love good texas bar
That goal. Over the next ten years our Economic Team estimates that under our plan the economy will average 3. 5 growth and create a total of 25 million new jobs. You can visit our website. Just look at the math. It works. [ applause ] this growth means that our jobs and our plans, including our child care reforms that ivanka trump, my daughter, is so involved in will be complete i like her, too. And right now Andrea Mitchell reports a razortight race. A new poll Shows Hillary clinton and donald trump virtually tied. Now with a lot of catching up to do, clinton is back on the trail today, ready for takeoff after this warmup. He promoted the lie. And he still is promoting the lie that our first black president is not a true american. Im going to keep calling out the bigotry and hateful rhetoric that hes brought to this campaign. Vintage trump after showing restraint for four days. Goes off again last night, taking shots at Hillary Clintons health. It is hot and its always hot when i per
That people might have. All right so lets begin our coverage this morning with jeff zeleny here the clinton home in chap yeah, new york. Good morning. Good morning, carol. Hillary clinton clearly trying to move beyond her bout of pneumonia. She will be leaving her home in a few hours and heading to North Carolina for her first trip to a battleground state in a week. Now a lot has changed and happened since shes since shes been recovering here from pneumonia. Donald trump is at par with her in most battleground states, slightly ahead of her in other battleground states. But this campaign has become a conversation about transparency battling back and forth about whos released more medical records and on that score Hillary Clinton is ahead. Her release of that doctors report last evening saying that she is in good health certainly is more than donald trump has done. But he talked about his own medical records earlier this morning on fox. I did all the tests. I did every test. I did it las