Right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Exactly two weeks from election day, the center of gravity in this contest tonight rests in florida, where both Hillary Clinton and donald trump battled for votes today. For trump, behind in virtually every poll, the path to victory starts and ends in florida. He himself calling it a mustwin. Poll released over the weekend has clinton ahead by three points. Today clinton tried to force her advantage by targeting early voters there, while trump tried to pounce on a potential new clinton vulnerability. Lets begin with nbcs Hallie Jackson in tallahassee. Hallie, good evening. Reporter hi there, lester. This here is Donald Trumps fourth rally in this state in less than 48 hours, as he turns into the final stretch. Slowing down on fundraising, now a and messaging. Trump hitting obamacare in an attempt to sharpen that message, but today still stepping on it. Today Donal
Surface streets and drives over a median to get to the finley cadillac dealership. Surveillance video shows him get out of the stolen car and target another vehicle. He grabs a man and throws him to the ground while trying to steal his car. Bystanders try to restrain munoz as deputies arrive. [ sound of gunfire ] [ screaming ] is taken out of the vehicle. Medical aid arrived within seconds. Hang in there. Reporter munoz is rushed to the hospital but dies. Nhp investigators have not determined why he was in las vegas. Hes from glendale, arizona and believe he had only been here for two days. They are also waiting to determine whether he was under the influence. Trooper todayly remains on paid leave pending the results of thank you. The other big story in the valley, changes in the weather. Today, including that thing called humidity. Yeah, almost foglike this morning. Weird for us. Low clouds, haze. Bona fide fog. Look at how high the humidity levels are. The desert has desserted us bec
My neighbor has a busted window. Reporter theo looks over the aftermath of bullets that hit his car. That went through the window. Reporter Andy Fernandez is grateful to be alive. I woke up and knit the hit the ground. Reporter metro police say before midnight a person driving by in a darkcolored suv started firing randomly near the intersection of jay and washington street. We have six kids in our house. I mean, just dont care who is living here. They just shoot, not knowing if there are children in the house. Reporter investigators say bullets riddled three homes. Luckily, no one in the hernandez home was hurt. I feel blessed, actually. Like i said, my son is here. Me and my wife were sitting right there. Reporter andy has no idea why someone would fire randomly into his home. It was lifethreatening and i remembers running to shield her children sleeping in a friend. She said she could do nothing about the dangerous situation but lean on her faith. You pray and you trust in god that
Path of t hit florida in almost a decade. You can see all the moisture hermine hermean is packing with our doppler on your screen. Hermine her mean threatens to bring heavy rain and dangerous storm surges. Right now abcs Marci Gonzalez is in the hurricanes path off floridas gulf coast with this update. Nat rain the drenching outer bands of hurricane herminealready flooding parts of florida sot man in green shirt it was still about 4 1 2 inches of water inside of the house. Homes in largo underwater audio voluntary evacuations . Explosion another major story were following in florida a massive explosion hit the space coast this morning. When a spacex happened during a test firing at the Space Launch Complex 40. Spacex uses the pad to send satellites and rockets that carry supplies to the International Space station. No one was hurt in the explosion. The blast destroyed the falcon9 rocket and the satellite commissioned by facebook which was due to launch on saturday. A trooper shoots and
Apartment building was destroyed and investigators believe squatters may be to blame. Witnesses told them they saw a person hop out of a second story window and take off. Emergency crews are now trying to figure out if this was the same man who called 911 and was taken to umc with burns to 20 percent of his body. Or leaving town. Expect our highways to be packed this weekend. And while things may be fine right now. Were told traffic should start really picking up at around 8. Then we hit peak hours soon after that, starting at 10. That heavy traffic is expected to last until 6 this evening. And its not just the traffic you have to Pay Attention to. More cops are going to be o nhp is starting a big push today. Looking for speeders, distracted drivers. And people who arent wearing their seat belt. And if youre thinking about heading to the strip. Expect to see huge crowds. In fact, 95 percent of the with the front passing over head, winds will be picking up but rain chances are now out t