announcer: from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. good evening. entire towns in ecuador have been reduced to piles of rubble. as the nation s president said today, buildings can be rebuilt. the priority is finding survivors. officials say the earthquake saturday evening killed at least 246 people and injured more than 2,500 with a magnitude of 7.8. it was the strongest earthquake to hit ecuador since 1979. we are in the capital of quito. reporter: the most powerful earthquake to rock ecuador in decades. a magnitude of 7.8. killing more than 200. injuring well over 1,000 and leaving many missing. i need to find my baby, says vanessa santos. it s been five hours since she disappeared. all they re telling me is that my family is buried. 100 miles outside of the nation s capital of quito, the frantic search for survivors is growing even more desperate every hour. a crowd trying to save this driver of this car, only to realize lat
right now. from nbc news, world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, a crushing disappointment today for the obama white house and the president s go it alone strategy. a controversial move to keep some 4 million undocumented immigrants from being deported, first went aground in appeals court. we learned, that s where it comes to rest after a deadlocked u.s. supreme court announced it was unable to rule, raising questions about presidential authority and leaving millions of immigrant families with questionable futures. justice correspondent pete williams has details. reporter: the ruling is a huge blow to rolando martinez and isabel aguilar, they came here and children were born here and plan to stay. they will have opportunity to, to be whatever they want to do in the life. reporter: president obama wanted to let those adults stay, too, and get work permits, but lower courts blocked his immigration policy and today th