Of your favorite snacks, over an hour for two slices of pizza and thats just the start. And the okie from muskogee is again. Merle hagyard dies on his 79th birthday. Tonight we remember a Country Music legend. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Did we just witness a turning point in the republican race for president . As the contest now turns to new york following Donald Trumps 13point loss to ted cruz in wisconsin, the cruz and stop trump forces are claiming wisconsin has provided the foothold they desperately need to deny trump the delegates that he needs to win the nomination, and perhaps more telling our exit polls show deep voter anxiety, even fear, about trump. We may know for sure what it all means when new york holds its primary just under two weeks from now where his home turf and his overall lead. Nbcs Peter Alexander has details. Reporter ted cruz today trying to capitalize on
Tonight we remember a Country Music legend. Nightly news begins right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. Did we just witness a turning point in the republican race for president . As the contest now turns to new york following Donald Trumps 13point loss to ted cruz in wisconsin, the cruz and stop trump forces are claiming wisconsin has provided the foothold they desperately need to deny trump the delegates that he needs to win the nomination, and perhaps more telling our exit polls show deep voter anxiety, even fear, about trump. We may know for sure what it all means when new york holds its primary just under two weeks from now where trump will aggressively defend his home turf and his overall lead. Nbcs Peter Alexander has details. Reporter ted cruz today trying to capitalize on his victory invading Donald Trumps home turf. Cruz and the antitrump forces touting the wisconsin win as a watershed. Tonight is a turn
For a contested convention. And Bernie Sanders surging. We have a path toward victory, a path toward the white house. Racking up another win and cut into Hillary Clintons lead. Both frontrunners feeling the heat this morning. New overnight, mystery murder. One of americas biggest universities, a student in her 0s found dead in a creek. The fear on campus and the investigation right now. Freezing cold and record lows blanket the east. A huge dust storm and wildfires plow through plains. The stormchasing couple who saved this man as he ran from the flames. Get in, hurry up, hurry up. We take you inside the incredible escape. And the uconn women seal the deal overnight breaking record, the incredible fourth championship in a row. The secret to how they made and good morning, america. We had a big night in politics and a big night in Womens Basketball. There they are, the uconn huskies celebrating a recordbreaking win over syracuse. Yes, that victory, their fourth championship title in a r
She knows what shes going to do. Reporter shell be back tomorrow to hear sanders speak. Anything to say to convince you to support him instead . Not sure. Im really a hillary true and true. Reporter Hillary Clinton is counting on people like her to get her message out. She worked the rope line today, telling supporters, i need you. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is getting a lot of support from young people. This is really the heart of Temple Universitys campus here. I spoke to some folks in line. They tell me they are temple students, some are not, but quite a few are coming here to hear Bernie Sanders. The doors open here at 5 00. Lauren mayk. Clinton is leading sanders in the latest poll of likely pennsylvania voters according to quinnipiac university. Carrying 550 of 50 of the vote. The same poll has donald trump leading with 39 . Ted cruz trails with 30 . John kasich 24 . Less than three weeks from our first primaries. Pennsylvania and delaware voters go to polls april 26th. New jersey
Investigation right now. Freezing cold and record lows blanket the east. A huge dust storm and wildfires plow through plains. The stormchasing couple who saved this man as he ran from the flames. Get in, hurry up, hurry up. We take you inside the incredible escape. And the uconn women seal the deal overnight breaking record, the incredible fourth championship in a row. The secret to how they made history. And good morning, america. We had a big night in politics and a big night in Womens Basketball. There they are, the uconn huskies celebrating a recordbreaking win over syracuse. Yes, that victory, their fourth championship title in a row and that is something that hasnt happened in College Basketball in more than 40 years. We are going to have much more on that big celebration. So the big stars of that team, one two, three, four, four years, four championships, just incredible. We are going to begin with the race for the white house and wisconsin voters dealing a blow to both frontrun