Vehicles crashed. In this towercam video, you can see two people running causing traffic to stop on the ramp to the lower deck. Police recovered the stolen bags from a white charger. A store employee told me the merchandise was worth about 275,000. Its unfortunate this large market for these stolen goods to go out and to be fenced and resold, and its creating kind of an outsized incentive for people to commit crimes like this. People walking past the dior store this morning were stunned when they saw the damage. Thats aggressive, thats professional. Its so sad. Its heartbreaking to and the expense, you know, just that gate is going to cost thousands of dollars a store employee told me the thieves actually tried to break into three other luxury stores. First, after having no luck at fendi, goyard and yves saint laurent, they moved on to dior. This all as the mayor announced an expansion of a plan to crack down on crime. We know theres still a need to get support on the streets immediate
Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Today in the shadow of the South Carolina state house it t. Took an honor guard just 36 seconds to lower a symbol that has divided this nation for a century and a half. The applause was thunderous and sustained. Look at the crowd. After 54 years the confederate battle flag was brought down from the site for the very last time. It was a swift and dramatic turn in history. Born of the racist murders of nine members of a black church in charleston less than a month ago by a man who embraced that flag. Tonight we have two reports. Ron allen starts us off from columbia. Ron, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. All that remains of Confederate Flag here now is the concrete slab behind that monument on the ground that the flag pole used to stand in. A flag that for more than 50 years as one editorial writer put it, signaled to about a third of the
Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Today in the shadow of the South Carolina state house it took an honor guard just 36 seconds to lower a symbol that has divided this nation for a century and a half. The applause was thunderous and sustained. Look at the crowd. After 54 years the confederate battle flag was brought down from the site for the very last time. It was a swift and dramatic turn in history. Born of the racist murders of nine members of a black church in charleston less than a month ago by a man who embraced that flag. Tonight we have two reports. Ron allen starts us off from columbia. Ron, good evening. Reporter good evening, lester. All that remains of the Confederate Flag here now is the concrete slab behind that monument on the ground that the flag pole used to stand in. A flag that for more than 50 years as one editorial writer put it signaled to about a third of the states populatio
Attack. Its a story we are following closely. If you are just waking up at 7 00, the today show is normally on at this hour. The tour defrance is on after this so we are going to keep you company. The other top story is the weather. Its raining for a lot of you out there. Chuck has his eye on the radar closely and good news on that front. Absolutely right. The rain drops will impact your saturday morning in a big way. But, by later this afternoon into this evening, if you have stuff to do outside after 2 00, 3 00, you are not going to have much in the way of a weather worry. Cloudy skies for that. Thats the tower looking northbound into Montgomery County. A cloudy start. Light rain around the metropolitan area. Moderate rains along i95 fairfax and quantico. If you are toward fredericksburg, Southern Maryland, the rain drops are having a big impact on you for the next hour or so. Its light rain in the metro. Steadier showers to the south. Temperatures upper 60s, to low 70s. If you are h
In nevada. Donald trump is the winner of Carolina Republican president ial the race. Up. The turnout for saturdays republican president ial primary primary smashed both the number of people who voted in 2012 and the expected number of voters this year. More than 735 thousand people cast ballots in the election easily surpassing the number experts were predicting. We were able to break down the winner of each county here in South Carolina. The candidates on the left hand side are represented by their own color, and you can see, donald trump won all but three counties in the palmetto state ultimately taking home 33 percent of the total vote. And trump remains the man to beat in this 2016 president ial race. Our chad mills has more. The supporters of donald j. Trump are calling the primary a decisive win for their candidate. In the end, he claimed all but polls closed. When he took the stage here at he didnt even mention jeb an insurance policy for donald trump since his first stop as a p