Tonight. Im jessica aguirre, and i want to get you caught up on some of the headlines that we are watching tonight. Were going to start with some heartstopping video. It shows a little girl almost getting hit when an suv barrels through a crosswalk in san mateo. This happened right in front of the childs father. This caught on a dash cam by dr. Jillson hong last week at the intersection of franklin parkway and blaze road. You saw that, right . Police say the suv was being driven watch again. Goes right next to the little girl. Thats the lee family entering the crosswalk. Dad and the two girls on scooters. Then the suv hits the scooter, but luckily not the little girl on it, right there. I see a family with two young kids, similar age as mine. The first thing that comes to mind as a parent is this could have easily been me. And every time i think back to that moment, my heart just skips a beat. San mateo traffic unit was at the intersection today conducting a traffic watch. They were ci
To something solid and removable. Engineers believe that should finally stop the Leaning Tower from sinking and tilting. It may even reverse some of the lien. Each time crews started digging , it caused the building to lien and sink even more. So, officials officially scrapped their original plan to install 50 to support piles and submitted a new one that relies on just the 18 already in the ground. The plan is now to extend the foundation and attached one corner of the building to some of those 18 piles, but that requires even more digging. As you can see, crews are busy digging 25 feet down on the Northwest Side of the building. The transfer from the existing foundation to the new perimeter files is very complex. Reporter veteran geotechnical engineer, bob pyke , says, by design, they are not supposed to be rigid to me more like an adjustable cushion. He worries, without all 18, the piles wont function as well as all 52. That is a basic law in the design. Reporter now that the city h
This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening from los angeles and welcome to our viewers in the west. Tonight the prison door slamming shut on dr. Larry nassar for up to 175 years is not closing the door on serious questions about the institutions accused of inaction over his years of sexual abuse of young gymnasts. The fallout swift. Last evening just hours after nassars sentencing, the president of Michigan State university, where nassar worked, resigned. Tonight against growing calls for an independent investigation, weve obtained revealing insight into how the university and usa gymnastics governing body are defending themselves. More from nbcs Senior National correspondent kate snow. They were selfish. Reporter for Lindsey Lemke who was cocaptain of the Michigan State Gymnastics Team and says larry nassar abused her hundreds of times, his sentencing was just the beginning. We arent going to start healing until the people who need to be held accountable are held accounta
Democrats are seeking records of interactions with the president and the personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and ukraines government. According to the whistleblower complaint, giuliani traveled to ukraine this summer and met with the president ial adviser about a plan to investigate joe biden. Would i like to testify and tell my story . Sure. Ive been telling it all the time. Ukraines former chief prosecutor tells nbcs Richard Engle he was also in contact with giuliani. I have spoken with him, maybe ten times. And was giuliani asking you about the bidens . The president s campaign doubling down on unsubstarte vi to protect his son who served on ukraine to fire its prosecutor the board of ukrainian gas company. They losthe election. Now they want to steal this one. Theres been no evidence of wrongdoing by either biden. Joe biden says the president is afraid of him. Its pretty clear that he will stop at nothing. Ive become the object of his attention. Intensifying emotions and pressure as the