the u.s. military says it carried out more air strikes against the islamic state group in northern iraq. sunday s air strikes targeted a convoy moving towards kurdish forces. deputy parliament speaker forming a new government snubbing nouri al-maliki. jane ferguson has more from erbil in iraq. finally after weeks, islamic state nearly at the kurdish capitol erbil, there is now a new government in iraq but nouri al-maliki is not going out without a fight. he has made clear he will launch a political challenge to this, a constitutional basis for him not being allowed to form a new government. believes that this will be a positive step in bringing the country closer together, other countries as well are welcoming it. and ordinary rawk iraqis are jut relieved that there is perhaps an end in sight over this political dialogue. curvekurdish forces trying to re areas they have lost, the yazidis members of that small ancient minority still trapped on sinjar mountain are coming do
the family of an unarmed teenager shot and killed in a st. louis suburb, diane eastabrook joins us from st. louis and diane, what s the mood there tonight? well, tony, people are look are foranswers. i m at the location where the local chapter of the ncaa is going to be holding a meeting tonight, they re have iting members of the clergy, members of the community and the police. to date there has not been any problems between law enforcement and residents in ferguson, or other residents in st. louis county. now again today there were protests and these were peaceful protests outside the ferguson police department. they came just hours after the city erupted in violence after a prayer vigil in memory of michael brown. rioters fired shots and police force john bell has been on the force for 28 years and says this is the most violent he has seen the community. it is a miracle nobody got shot last night and i was expecting the worst. you can never tell when you re in an enviro
nightly news begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. reporting tonight lester holt. a special good evening to our viewers in the west where the state of california is resorting to drastic measures tonight to combat its severe drought. the governor ordering the strictest crackdown in the state s history and that means big sacrifices for tens and millions of people. miguel almaguer is outside of los angeles to start us off in a place that puts things in perspective. miguel, good evening. reporter: lester, good evening. as we enter our fourth year of drought here in california, these conditions are symbolic all across the west. we re technically in the middle of our rainy season. mountains should be lush with green, instead they re bone dry. tonight, we are coming to you from lake piru. we re at the bottom of a reservoir. we should be 30 feet under water here, instead these are the conditions. this is why california is in a s
they re not going to ask you any questions now. they ll take your weapon. we ll go from there. that s pretty much it. the last one we had, they waited a couple days to interview, an official interview, like sit down and see what happened. it would probably be a good idea to jot down your thoughts of what happened. the adrenaline is probably pumping. [ laughter ] oh yeah. we then hear a separate piece of audio. this is captured by the patrol car s dash cam of officer slager on a phone call to someone we believe to be his wife. take a listen to that. [ phone ringing ] hey. everything s okay. okay? i just shot somebody. yeah everything s okay. i m in my cruiser. yeah he was running from me. i m fine. first, let me go to my colleague, our correspondent there in north charleston nick valencia. we just played those two pieces of audiotape. what s the reaction from there? i reached out to the south carolina law enforcement department. they re the lead agency on this n char
drought. the areas in red are extremely dry, in brown exceptionally dry. wherever you are in america, the drought could lead to higher food prices because more than half of america s fruits and vegetables come from california. omar villafranca is near lake tahoe. reporter: governor jerry brown would normally have needed snow shoes to walk on this section of the sierra nevada mountains. we re standing on dry grass and we should be standing in five feet of snow. reporter: surveyors are seeing a record low snowpack of just 5% of normal. californians depend on the melting snow to fill rivers and reservoirs, providing a third of the state s water supply. we re in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action. reporter: governor brown s executive order to cut overall water use by 25%, will include a plan to replant california lawns with landscapes that don t need a lot of water. golf courses, cemeteries, and campuses will have to reduce their water usage, and