Nightly news begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from washington. Good evening. All the warnings and fears of a hot dry summer are coming to pass in the drought stricken west where dangerous wildfires are ranging in no fewer than three straits from Northern California where residents are fleeing threatened neighborhoods east of the napa valley to montana. With still months to go, the western fire season has already far outpaced last years. Leaving a lot of americans on edge. Hallie jackson is covering it for us tonight from winters, california. Reporter in California Wine country, nine square miles torched, flames and smoke so thick they blocked out the sun. We got it involved, the wind shifted. Reporter what started as a brush fire exploded fast, wind whipping it across steep rugged hills destroying a trailer and barn. Its fire season. You never know what will happen. Reporter 200 homes under threat. Two neighborhoods evacuated inclu
Seven is and will have more clout in sunshine letter on the to the afternoon when to start to pick a plan on a breezy day not is at the close but across the entire bay area only into the upper seven is to ride around 80 degrees or below the minister core temperatures also giving us more cloud cover 60 degrees for San Francisco looking at mid 60s to us from our 60s across the east bank of after south of and san jose across the north to the local store once again mid fifties out there were one to show you what to expect over the next couple of days temperatures will continue with a cooling trend thursday of for seven days. Michelle apon traffic looks pretty good moving smoothly as of right now drive time from and and only five minutes to an easy commute this morning as of right now looking at the san mateo bridge you will start to see more fog is your past highrise it could cause some delays later this morning you may want to leave early looking at the Golden Gate Bridge youll want to le
A trial balloon was seen floating near pittsburgh as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york and just after 11 00 p. M. East weern time, the government will shut down in less than 24 hours unless there is action to stop it on capitol hill. The house did its part passing a measure to keep the governments lights on for another couple weeks. The senate tonight stands in adjournme adjournment. Later in the broadcast, well look at the chances of them going along with the house. There wont be anything on it tonight. With this deadline looming on this day, 364 of the trump administration, russia remains the biggest thing looming over this Trump White House. And tonight, we have more testimony to tell you about from Glenn Simpson. You recall hes the cofounder of that firm called fusion gps, they are a research and Intelligence Firm put together the now infamous dossier on President Trump and russia. Weve seen alre
Look at the chances of them going along with the house. There wont be anything on it tonight. With this deadline looming on this day, 364 of the trump administration, russia remains the biggest thing looming over this Trump White House. And tonight, we have more testimony to tell you about from Glenn Simpson. You recall hes the cofounder of that firm called fusion gps, they are a research and Intelligence Firm put together the now infamous dossier on President Trump and russia. Weve seen already some testimony to the Senate Judiciary released by diane feinstein, quickly earning her the nickname sneaky diane from the president. This is from the house dated november 14 of last year. 165 pages in all and had reporters busy all afternoon and evening. Details straight from both mob movies and spy novels dealing with possible collusion, actual russian gangsters, secret cash, Money Laundering. To the first thing on that list, there is this question to Glenn Simpson from republican congressman