World headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt sitting in tonight for brian. Theres such deep anguish for families of those aboard airasia flight 8501. Debris and even bodies of some of the victims themselves retrieved from the java sea today left little doubt about the fate of the plane and the 162 people on board. A blue suitcase, an oxygen tank, what appears to be an undeployed emergency slide are some of the items officials have now confirmed came from the jet. The debris from the airbus was discovered off the west coast of borneo, roughly in line with the planes flight path from sura standing by to help find and recover the jets flight recorders, early indications suggest the flight met a sudden end as the crew tried to negotiate around violent thunderstorm cells in their path. Once again tonight were covering several angles of this story. Lets start with katy tur in singapore with the latest on the search. Katy . Reporte
Indications from the Oscar Pistorius hearing that it may be several more weeks before the judge sentences the athlete. Reporter im Karin Giannone live outside the court in pretoria where reeva steenkamps cousin has said she wants Oscar Pistorius to pay for what hes done. And continuing our series on the u. S. Midterm elections, we take the blues highway to americas poorest state, mississippi. Those blues is what i play and its what im gonna do for the rest of my life. Hello, and welcome to the program. The World Health Organization has said that a major outbreak of ebola in north america and western europe is unlikely given their Strong Health systems. While president obama also said that the risk of americans getting the virus was extremely low, although he ordered a much more aggressive response. The u. S. Is investigating how a nurse infected when treating a victim in texas was then allowed to travel on a plane. From dallas, this report. Reporter americas latest ebola patient being
Its 10 00 a. M. In israel and gaza, where we are well into day two of a threeday ceasefire. These are live pictures from along the border where israeli tanks have drawn into defensive positions. Israel says its accomplished its mission of destroying the network of tunnels hamas used. For its part, hamas has not fired any rockets at israel since the truce began. Were covering the story from both sides of the border. Matthew chance is in jerusalem, we begin with karl penhaul in gaza city. Theres been an opportunity there to get lives some way toward being back on track. I havent seen that. What i saw when i went out into eastern gaza yesterday for example. Were people going back to look at what had happened to their homes, in most cases finding piles of rubble and ruins or structures of building so badly destroyed that they will have to be demolished. One man i spoke to had a three story family home. He was scrapping through the remnants, trying to find clothes to take home to his family
This is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Im lester holt sitting in tonight for brian. Theres such deep anguish for families of those aboard airasia flight 8501. Debris and even bodies of some of the victims themselves retrieved from the java sea today left little doubt about the fate of the plane and the 162 people on board. A blue suitcase, an oxygen tank, what appears to be an undeployed emergency slide are some of the items officials have now confirmed came from the jet. The debris from the airbus was discovered off the west coast of borneo, roughly in line with the planes flight path from surabaya to singapore. With help of the United States standing by to help find and recover the jets flight recorders, early indications suggest the flight met a sudden end as the crew tried to negotiate around violent thunderstorm cells in their path. Once again tonight were covering several angles of this story. Lets start with katy tur in singapore with the latest on the searc
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