What families should know. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Six days into the trump transition with the president elect holed up with his team inside his tower here in manhattan, there are major signs of strain emerging. First came word of a shakeup at the top of the Transition Team. Now purge with insiders being forced out. All of it happening as a massive test to fill cabinet jobs and preparing to take over the white house with a farreaching federal government. Its where we begin tonight with nbcs kristen welker. Reporter as president elect donald trump huddled inside trump tower with Vice President elect mike pence, signs the trump transition may be in turmoil. Former congressman mike rogers, who had been advising trump on national security, abruptly announcing that following Chris Christies recent exit. I think he did a great job for many, many months under governor christies leader
Pelley maybe its his reality show experience, but president elect trump seems to be firing more than hes hiring. Here in new york, hes working to put together an administration in 66 days, and he has more than 4,000 political appointees to hire. But in the latest, trump turmoil, former congressman mike rogers, considered a possible was forced off the Transition Team today. And thats just three days after the head of the Transition Team was unexpectedly replaced by Vice President elect mike pence. We have more now from major garrett. Reporter Vice President elect mike pence arrived at trump tower to finalize cabinet recommendations with president elect donald trump. Sources close to the situation stalled. In the aftermath of trumps dismissal last week of Chris Christie as transition chair. Pence is now in charge and scrambling to increase staff and work flow, especially in the president elects main tranition office in the nations capital. Mr. Trump intends to make National Security nomi
The sidelines. Well mention one more thing. A tweet that went out this afternoon from state senator jack lavalla. He tweets, thank you mike evans. Youre quite a young man. Hope to have the opportunity to meet you someday. Go bucs you remember the state senator from pinellas, a republican, said he was boycott the bucs until evans apologized. That has happened, and we assume the state senator will be watching this sunday as the bucs take on the sowers, fox 13 news. Breaking news from oklahoma where Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City remains closed following a shooting near a parking garage. Officials say one person was shot and killed and theyre looking for a potential second person. Those inside the airport were ordered to hunker down and seek shelter. They believe this was an isolated incident, but they havent said if theyre looking for a suspect or have someone in three thieves pose as shoppers distract elderly women and take their money. It makes you wonder what else theyre c
Pelley maybe its his reality show experience, but president elect trump seems to be firing more than hes hiring. Here in new york, hes working to put together an administration in 66 days, and he has more than 4,000 political appointees to hire. But in the latest, trump turmoil, former congressman mike rogers, considered a possible candidate for c. I. A. Director, team today. And thats just three days after the head of the Transition Team was unexpectedly replaced by Vice President elect mike pence. We have more now from major garrett. Reporter Vice President elect mike pence arrived at trump tower to finalize cabinet recommendations with president elect donald trump. Sources close to the situation dismissal last week of Chris Christie as transition chair. Pence is now in charge and scrambling to increase staff and work flow, especially in the president elects main tranition office in the nations capital. Mr. Trump intends to make National Security nominations first. Former new york ci
That the officer you see in the video holding the gun screaming there is going to be charged. The woman said ka steel was castile was shot several times while reaching for his i. D. Which the Police Officer according to him told him to do. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us everybody. Lets come back here at home where we have a big story that finally came to an end. A nightmare really for People Living in this neighborhood. Residents in this local neighborhood finally got back to their homes today after a standonv team forced them out overnight. Krystal so this happened near maryland parkway and hacienda. Thats where we find our Craig Fiegener who was all over this story. The woman who was refusing to come out was then firing shots outside of the apartment . Craig that is how this first started. Police were called because somebody heard gunfire and later it was learned that the person who they say was firing the weapon had fired the weapon inside an apartment, outside of an apart