of forever chemicals the hottest ne sensation in the nba draft, he was number one in the draft, the expectations on him now a tall order and the cellphone earns its place in history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. was it an elite travel adventure or reckless experiment that challenged the laws of engineering? difficult questions being asked tonight, as officials and deep sea diving experts speak out on the deaths of five people on a visit to the titanic aboard a vessel built with uncertified technology tonight, oceangate, the company behind that deadly submersible dive, says it is closing indefinitely after the apparent implosion that killed, among others, oceangate s founder. meanwhile, we are now getting the first information on how the international investigation might take shape, as questions continue to focus on the design of the mini-sub and whether it should have been diving to such depths tom costello has late
accountability tonight. the critical new report about air-traffic control staffing shortages. the risks it cites just as the busiest summer travel season in years gets under way. the remarkable reopening of a collapsed stretch of one of the nation s busiest highways less than two weeks after that tanker disaster. after a week of severe storms and brutal heat, the threat far from over into the weekend. our forecasts. a major win for the biden administration on immigration in the supreme court, a huge class action settlement over tainted drinking water. why why 3rksm has agreed to pay over $10 pillion. the hottest senication in the nba, the expectations on him now a tall order. and the cellphone earns its place in history. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. was it an elite travel adventure or reckless experiment that challenged the laws of engineering? difficult questions being asked tonight as officials and deep se
for a missing titanic sub, the u.s. coast guard acknowledging it needs more equipment. and the vessel running out of breathable air and france now sending an underwater robot for the mission. plus a utah woman accused of killing her husband and then writing a children s book about dealing with the grief, now wait until you hear how she s trying to get the courts to obtain money from his business. and leading this hour, the plea deal and the president s son, new federal court filings show hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and that he struck a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve a felony begungun charge. and the department says the investigation is ongoing. we start with evan perez and also laura coates. hunter biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and he truck a deal with the gun charge. walk us through. bottom line is that his lawyers tell us that prosecutors are going to recommend that he serve no time, no jail time for pleading guil
titanic sub. and then there s the personal loss for the families of those on board. coming up, i ll talk to the stepson of the man lovingly known as p.h. whose love of the ocean and deep see exploration ultimately led to the end of his life. also this hour, the rnc trying to force the field of 13 candidates to agree on at least one thing, supporting the eventual republican nominee. but so far it s not working. so who s going to blink first? and the name g. michael brown might not ring a bell, but he s accused of playing a key role in that so-called fake electors scheme. what his new testimony before a d.c. grand jury tells us about jack smith s case and whether it pushes us closer to any possible charges. but we begin with the search for answers in the loss of the titan sub, answers that lie in the pitch black depths of the north atlantic more than 12,000 feet down. the evidence shows that even at the very moment the sub imploded, it sent early clues to a top secret mil
Dahlgren in boston once again for us. robert mester. what do we know about what they re doing now? what does this effort look like? reporter: right, and we re learning more about that today. the u.s. coast guard is going to be taking the lead in the investigation we just learned today, and they ve also asked the ntsb for help as well, so a u.s.-led effort. currently those rovs that were searching the bottom for any signs of submersible continue to comb through that debris field running patterns, trying to see what other pieces it can locate. there are still some questions that i m curious to hear what robert has to say about this about what they re going to be able to potentially bring up to the surface, what the capability is from those rovs to recover pieces. they ll of course be looking for pieces of that carbon fiber