With angels and astronauts. Why nasa picked a veteran to design its space suit. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 skorlds. Its just crazy. Never seen anything like it. Its kind of epic. Texas declares a disaster zone after several rains. At least 20 dead. Weve lost hundreds of homes. Dallas p. D. Going door to door telling people to get out. It was sex. Former republican Dennis Hastert allegedly paid 3. 5 million in hush money. Sepp blatter elected to a fifth term. The founder of silk road. He was given the maximum sentence. They put him in a maximum security penitentiary. I fear for his life. Im tired of your filthy religion religion. An anstate, local Law Enforcement. Dustin diamond, the activist known as screech from the series saved by the bell. All that bruce jenner will appear as a woman for an upcoming cover of vanity fair magazine. And all that matters. Ben bishop with one last stop and the Tampa Bay Lightning are going to the stanley cup finals
Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. The surprise criminal indictment of the once powerful speaker of the house, Dennis Hastert, on charges he lied about paying hush money to someone in his past glaringly left out the answer to the question so many were immediately asking what was that money supposedly buying . Tonight we may know the answer. Federal Law Enforcement sources are telling nbc news the payments relate to hasterts days as an illinois schoolteacher and coach and Sexual Misconduct with a student. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has been digging into the story and has more for us. Hello, pete. Reporter lester the public charges against hastert whos the longest serving Republican House speaker, say only that he engaged in misconduct years before. But tonight, Law Enforcement officials describe it as sexual in nature with a Male High School student. No sign of Dennis Hastert today at his home in plana about an hours drive west of chicago. In nearby yorkville wher
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. The surprise criminal indictment of the once powerful speaker of the house, Dennis Hastert, on charges he lied about paying hush money to someone in his past glaringly left out the answer to the question so many were immediately asking what was that money supposedly buying . Tonight we may know the answer. Federal Law Enforcement sources are telling nbc news the payments relate to hasterts days as an illinois schoolteacher and coach and Sexual Misconduct with a student. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has been digging into the story and has more for us. Hello, pete. Reporter lester, the public charges against hastert whos the longest serving Republican House speaker, say only that he engaged in misconduct years before. But tonight, Law Enforcement officials describe it as sexual in nature with a Male High School student. No sign of Dennis Has
And a blockbuster development. I would refer to him as my second father. New reaction to the sex scandal involving a former speaker of the house from his illinois hometown. First at 11 00, a local family dealing with the sudden and tragic loss of a 7yearold boy. His father and brother still in the hospital tonight nearly a week after a motorcycle came crashing into them on the side of the road. Now Alejandro Santos family is preparing for his family. While medical bills continue to pile up. Shomari stone live now in green belt to explain how their School Community is showing their support. Shomari. Well good evening, as im sure you can understand this family is devastating, heartbroken, the mother too upset to talk on camera. You can see the makeshift memorial consisting of balloons stuffed animals, candles, flowers, people paying tribute to her son. A family honors the life of Alejandro Santos in their home. They tell me he was a happy kid who liked spiderman birds and fish. He was ki
At 6 04. A Traffic Alert this morning. Were just learning the ramp from westbound route 7 in virginia to the beltway is closed at this hour. Virginia state police say its shut down because of an accident. Were working to get you more information. Well keep you updated. Meantime its 6 04. People tuned in at the top of the show going, whered they go . We were in the dark there for a minute. Couple technical difficulties. We worked through it and now were back. Good morning, everybody. Im angie goff. And im david culver. Welcome to news4 today. Now for the forecast we can get over to meteorologist chuck bell. Are you thinking another hot and humid one . Absolutely. Its like feeding the meter. If you want to end up on tv you have to keep puts quarters in the machine. Put a few more in. Its a very humid start to the day outside. Skies are partly to mostly cloudy. Theres even a couple of showers out across Shenandoah County in virginia. Thats where rain chances are going to be focused primar