Down down turn around having fun is what its all about on this sunday night, flood fears. With temperatures on the rise, growing anxiety over the threat posed by mountains of snow and what happens when it starts to melt. New allegations against bill cosby from women who say they were victi izimized who worked the actor claims he paid off women. Hooked. Americas heroin epidemic. And we go behind the lines to find the source. And blues brothers. A legendary musician setting the stage for a young progeny. From nbc World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As we come on the air here on the east coast tonight, temperatures in the buffalo, new york, area are hovering in the upper 40s, heading into 60s tomorrow. After temperatures in the 20s last week that would be welcome news. Except there is the matter of all that snow. Up to seven feet in someplaces that fell last week. Now with rain predicted on top of the warmup, a lot of the snow is turnin
On this sunday night, tow d torture debate. Dick cheney with a forceful defense of harsh techniques used on terror suspects saying he would do it again in a minute. Jail break. The dramatic escape by three dangerous inmates who outsmarted guards in alabama. Tonight the latest on the manhunt. Under attack, new fallout from the cyber assault on Sony Pictures and the hot new property the hackers have stolen. Troubled waters. The shocking finding about the worlds oceans polluted with more plastic than we thought. And the sandwich man, making tens of thousands of them to go
for those who really need a hand. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. No apologies or regrets from former Vice President dick cheney for the harsh iin tear gs techniques. The former vp called it necessary as he delivered a powerful counter attack on nbcs meet the press. He took strong exception to the Senate Report and contrary to its conclusions told chuck todd that the interrogation techniques abso
Chris christie and dr. Ben carson and ufc president dana white. Speeches kick off at 5 30 p. M. Eastern time. The night ends with a Charity Performance by rick springfield. Fox friends starts right now. Well see you tomorrow morning at 4 00 a. M. Bye. What happened to theres no black america, theres no white america, there is just america . What happened to it . Ive been speaking for years and he does not give up. If you want someone to fight for you and your country, i can assure you hes the guy. I had a chance to actually spend time with mr. Trump and i know he understands what its going to take to fix this. And the only way were going to
keep america safe is to have an elite military, all right . And i can promise you this, no matter who you are, donald trump will have your back. I would like to make something very clear, Blue Lives Matter in america the president must have the tools to deal with all threats to this country and must have the guts to put them into action, and donald
Now, i kind of think that if youre going to get paid 250,000 for a speech, it must be a brilliant speech. [ cheers and applause ] it must be an earthshattering speech. Written in shakespearean prose. [ cheers and applause ] [ crowd chanting bernie ] and if that speech is so great, i think the American People have
the right to hear it. [ cheers and applause ] whoa. Um. Mika, what a massive crowd in new york city last night. Something that Hillary Clinton is going to have to get used to seeing over the next two weeks as we move towards the New York Primary. And hes going there in a big way on the issue of those speeches. Bernie sanders addressed an audience of between 18 and 19,000 people. Who gets that crowd . Bernie sanders. The nicks used to get it years ago. Would donald trump get that crowd. That would fill Madison Square garden. Trump can get that crowd. He can get a crowd. 18,000 or 19,000 . Well have to ask donald. Lines stretched around the park where the event took place hours
Protests starting right now with Heather Childers and leland bitters. We will see you back here at 5 00 p. M. Eastern today. Today. Violent protests outside of a donald trump rally in new mexico prompting a heavy Police Response as trump scores another win in Washington State. Im Heather Childers. Nice to be with you and nice to be with you at home. Im leland bitters. The protests, if you are call them protests really, some hooligans on the street at this point. They threw stuff at police and Police Horses out there. Authorities say they fired smoke grenades to disperse the crowd though it continued to get worse. We have team coverage. Garrett has the latest on the primary results, but first Jonathon Hunt is on the scene of the protests in albuquerque and
is joining us with the latest. We have been watching as the scene unfolded for what seems like hours. Whats it look like now . It quieted down a great deal right now, heather. To my left, you can see we have a line of riot police keep