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in the country. nightly news begins right now. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. good evening. our top story is developing here in rio de janeiro tonight, where big questions are suddenly being raised about the alleged armed robbery of american swimmer, ryan lochte and some of his teammates on the streets of rio last weekend. a judge here in brzezinski today has ordered the seizure of lochte and fellow american, ji inconsistencies of their story over what happened and what was seen in a piece of surveillance video that recorded the athletes that night. late details. reporter: the surveillance video obtained by daily mail.com shows the american swimmers, ryan lochte, gunner bent and village sunday morning after a long night out. lochte sharing this video from a party. hours later, he told today s show, billy bush on the way back to the athletes village, they were robbed by men posing ....
fast. let s start with the latest. highway patrol telling me just minutes ago to have no plans to reopen interstate 15 anytime tonight. do not let these drivers behind me for you that are going past us. most of them will be rerouted and we found out that very few of them are actually turning around to go back to vegas. literally right next to us. kelsey: explosive and out-of-control.the so-called blue cut wildfire sweeping down through dry and interstate 15. leaving drivers to find another route between las vegas and southern california. we felt like all my god we have 4 and a half hours. that s a long ride. b-17 this family long ride just got a whole lot longer. this is my dog cash. he goes everywhere we go. kelsey: it is week two of catches cross-country trip to california. billy and rebecca need to get these deliveries to the destination by don. do right? kelsey: drivers i can tailor our stopping to fuel up and look for another way to get where he is goin ....
coverage on the wildfire. christie wilcox is live to give us the latest on the firefighter and the evacuation. and kelsey thomas will detail how the fleas are impacting drivers across the state line. b3 let s start with jerry brown. at times he could smell the smoke in the air but it has cleared up quite a bit tonight. jerry: it has indeed went has picked up. this was of you this morning. this is looking east from over and at pahrump. and heis overlook. you can t even really see the mountains this morning down in henderson but you can see it clears out rather noticeably. wind speeds at top right now are 10 to 15 miles an hour. 11 miles an hour down in southeast las vegas. and generally blowing from the southwest although they are starting to swing west southwest. directions will play a part in this. is looking like we re talking overnight from this fire. here is a nasa image you can see the smoke headed in our general direction. it certainly impacted our air quality. ....
. marie: we begin with breaking news at five. the case against you as a lip eczema ryan lochte gets even stranger. there are reports of the gold medalist had been indicted accused of lying about being robbed at gunpoint in rio. jim: but now even newer reports that say it is not the case at least not yet. the police case against the celebrity swimmer is backed up h video where police say it was the athletes who are causing problems. ryan lochte has not been seen since he returned to the united states earlier this week. that evening everyone i am jim snyder. marie: i am a marie mortera. reed cowan is following all developments they are on the ground in rio. reed: if the flow of information today in the nbc rio newsroom like an amusement park, this would be a roller coaster ride. one minute we hear from major media outlets that ryan lochte minute nbc nightly news tweets out that people here say he has not been indicted. resilient police saying ryan lochte lied in t ....
go. mike: on the back end gets it. yeah. he does get the second foot down before the other foot comes out of bounds. tony: i don t know if he has it or not. mike: got to secure the catch, two steps and then essentially do something with it. time to do something with it. recovery. right foot. left foot. tony: i don t know. cris: i think that is good. i am not sure about the catch. tony: i am not so sure that is good. when is it secure? referee: previous play will be reviewed. mike: we will look at this here with 1:20 left. cris: dean blandino thought he could go home, but no. we are going to milk it for all it is worth. tony: i don t know if he got it put away. cris: that was a great toe tap. we are watching the feet. tony: yeah. mike: this is the way that they judge these. looking at it in real time we so often slow them down. the way you need to look at it is in full speed. i feel like he is trying to do something. ward off a would-be hit or p ....