New york this is nbc nightly news. Reporting ton lester holt. Good evening. We begin tonight with breaking news out of baltimore where hundreds are gathering in protest at this hour outside a police station. Outrage over the death of a man who suffered a spinal injury while in police custody. Six officers have been suspended and there is late word the feds are now getting involved in the case. Nbcs tom costello starts us off tonight from baltimore. Reporter tonight, the Justice Department has announced its opening its own investigation into how 25yearold freddie gray suffered a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody. On the streets of baltimore demonstrators have peaceful, but determined to answers. I have a son. And i would never want to happen to my son. Repor gray family attorney billy murphy wants to know why freddie gray was being chased in the first place. The man was arrested for literally running while black, or as we also jokingly on the inside say felony running. Reporter
Turns out theres a way to find out. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening, we start tonight with the biggest product recall in american history. It affects tens of millions of cars on the road with a potentially deadly defect. Ironically involving something designed to save lives. Japanese air bag manufacturer takata warning theres a defect with their air bags. It could send shrapnel into drivers and passengers. Tonight the government is nearly doubling the size of an earlier recall tom costello is working that story for us tonight. He has Important Information now. The size of the recall is stunning. Nearly 34 million vehicles nationwide involved. Roughly one out of every four cars on the road. The Takata Corporation now admits its not true. Takata has agreed to declare that air bag inflaters are defective. Its recalling these inflaters and these recalls are nationwide. Five people in the u. S. Have been killed by defective air bags including an 18yearold who died after the air
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