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00:01Tonight a major setback in the search for Nancy Guthrie the glove found near her home not matching in the
00:07DNA database as the sheriff reveals to us the fresh leads they're now pursuing possible new clues in the videos
00:14was the suspect wearing a ring under that glove plus the hope that DNA found inside the house could lead
00:22to a suspect and the sheriff tells us that major tech companies even Mark Zuckerberg have reached out to help
00:28also
00:29breaking tonight a man with a loaded shotgun in tactical gear rushing the Capitol how police stopped him dangerous storms
00:37battering the West violent winds triggering this deadly 30 car pileup the desperate search for skiers trapped in an avalanche
00:46plus blizzard conditions sending drivers spinning out where the storms are headed next Potomac sewage disaster millions of gallons of
00:55waste spewing into the river now among the worst spills in
00:59U.S. history how long will it take to clean up Team USA's women of figure skating known as the
01:06Blade Angels take to the ice did they live up to the hype plus Ilya Malin on how Tom Brady
01:12and Simone Biles helped him through his loss a man snatching a child from her mother in a terrifying attempted
01:20abduction what happened next catastrophic church explosion a pastor and firefighters hospitalized with injuries what set off the blast
01:29and going inside the game the toddler who somehow got trapped inside an arcade claw machine how police broke him
01:37out nightly news starts right now this is NBC nightly news with Tom Yomas
01:47and good evening we begin tonight with two major updates involving the DNA found in the case of the kidnapping
01:53of Nancy Guthrie the new details coming straight from the Pima County Sheriff himself to NBC News he's revealing that
02:00DNA testing on a glove many hope was the one worn by the suspect in this terrifying doorbell camera video
02:07came up empty hopes now shifting to another piece of evidence the sheriff telling NBC News in a new interview
02:13that DNA
02:14DNA found inside the house could belong to the kidnapper but investigators finding new leads in that doorbell footage as
02:21well including the possibility that the suspect was you can kind of make it out here wearing some kind of
02:27ring underneath his gloves and the sheriff says they're turning to a vast array of high-tech equipment including something
02:34called a signal sniffer to find any pings from Nancy's pacemaker
02:38let's get right to Liz Kreutz in Tucson with the very latest
02:42tonight new challenges in the search for Nancy Guthrie the DNA on the glove found two miles from her home
02:48did not match any DNA in the national data bank nor did it match the DNA taken from her property
02:54but the Pima County Sheriff tells us that DNA from the home could be the suspects we believe that we
03:01may have some DNA there that may be our suspect
03:04but we won't know that but we won't know that until that DNA is separated sorted out maybe admitted to
03:12CODIS maybe through genealogy that's pretty critical absolutely absolutely but we have other leads too that are big among them
03:21talking to Walmart where the suspect's backpack is from and analyzing the surveillance video tonight the sheriff acknowledging a potential
03:28new detail look here you can see some kind of ring maybe showing through the suspect's glove
03:33have you noticed that the suspect may have a ring on like something looks like a class ring I look
03:37at the same photo you look at and I get I see it I see people have circled who said
03:42yeah I my speculation is I'm gonna give that to my team they'll look at that they'll analyze it and
03:51we'll see maybe maybe it is something else they're looking into the suspects gun holster we know he had a
03:57gun we know he had a holster that had some pretty unique characteristics we can't quite
04:03identify it yet but that's being worked on so naturally we go to our gun shops everywhere and say have
04:09you seen this guy nano says investigators are also using an array of high-tech technology in the search including
04:15a tool called a signal sniffer to try to track a signal from Nancy's pacemaker he says google is also
04:21still trying to recover more surveillance footage from Nancy's nest cameras which he describes as a challenging process given the
04:27videos were recorded over they call it scratching it's like the way it was described to me
04:33is you've got eight layers of paint and you want to peel down to the sixth layer but you get
04:37to that fifth layer you might tear the sixth layer so there it's a delicate operation for them while on
04:43the ground 400 investigators still working the case 17 days into the search as long as we have the ability
04:51to chase a lead it's not cold and we have thousands of leads we're looking at we're gonna find Nancy
04:58and we're gonna find who did this
05:01Liz joins us now live Liz we learned a lot of new information there from your interview and we heard
05:06the sheriff talk about google but you're learning there's other private companies helping as well
05:12yeah that's right Tom he says the sheriff says they've been getting a number of calls including he says from
05:17Mark Zuckerberg himself he also says Apple has reached out along with the company that is now helping them prioritize
05:23and organize the thousands of tips Tom
05:26Liz Kreutz leading us off we also have some breaking news tonight out of Washington police say a man with
05:31a loaded shotgun and wearing a tactical vest rushed the capitol building Ryan Nobles joins us now Ryan police quickly
05:38confronted him
05:39yeah that's exactly right Tom capital police say that 18 year old Carter Camacho rushed the west front of the
05:45capitol building with a loaded shotgun but was quickly apprehended as soon as he was confronted by police he was
05:52wearing a tactical vest
05:54and when police searched his car they found more ammunition a kevlar helmet and a gas mask no shots were
06:00fired and capital police were prepared they had just conducted a live shooter threat exercise there no one was hurt
06:07and now investigators are working to determine a motive Congress is not in session this week so no members were
06:13in danger but the campus was still bustling with staffers Tom
06:16all right Ryan we thank you for that it is a race against time out west after an avalanche in
06:21the Sierras buried multiple backcountry skiers that same storm system sparking a massive and deadly 30 car pileup in Colorado
06:28Morgan Chesky is tracking it all
06:32tonight a series of winter storms slamming western states with drenching rains heavy snow and high winds look at that
06:40in Colorado dozens of cars and semis piling up in a crash leaving four people dead
06:45and 29 hospitalized authorities saying visibility plunged amid wind blown dust mangled mess shutting down I-25 in both directions
06:55we're going to make sure we have everyone accounted for while in California and near whiteout in the Sierra where
07:01a group of 16 skiers went missing after an avalanche this morning rescuers say six survived and that 10 others
07:08are still missing the blizzard like conditions hitting drivers too closing down nearly 150 miles of freeway
07:15it looked like he was like he was skidding a little bit and he was trying to like avoid me
07:21but unfortunately he didn't near Los Angeles intense rains filling city streets sidelining delivery robots and forcing waymos to pull
07:31off roads until conditions cleared up the multiple storms now blame for growing travel headaches flight delays now topping more
07:39than 4000 nationwide and a separate storm system bringing rain and snow from the upper Midwest to New England
07:45tomorrow while California and California and the Rockies may see more potential rain and snow this weekend those headaches could
07:52get even worse and this wild weather across the west could impact the northeast by the end of the week
07:59Morgan Chesky joins us now live Morgan we can see all that mud there behind you in Altadena in LA
08:04landslides a concern tonight
08:08yeah Tom absolutely right with more rain anticipated not only tonight but throughout the remainder of this week and that
08:13is one of the reasons that officials here in Altadena have put up these concrete barriers should portions of this
08:19fire scarred hillside give way they can slow or stop it before it reaches nearby neighborhoods
08:24Tom okay Morgan we thank you we have new details tonight about how that deadly shooting at a high school
08:29hockey game in Rhode Island came to an end authorities praising those heroes who took the shooter down
08:35Emily Aketa reports tonight from Rhode Island
08:37tonight Rhode Island officials praising good Samaritans who stepped in during a deadly shooting at a high school hockey game
08:44their courage undoubtedly prevented further loss and injury and we thank them for that
08:49police say 56 year old Robert Dorgan who also went by Roberta shot and killed ex-wife Rhonda Dorgan and
08:56son Aiden in the stands before pulling out a second gun and dying by suicide
09:02One of the suspects daughter's Amanda speaking to NBC affiliate WJAR
09:06His whole adulthood he's struggled with mental health issues
09:11but when somebody doesn't want to get help they won't
09:14court documents show Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce from Robert in 2020 citing gender reassignment surgery narcissistic and personality disorder
09:23traits
09:24which was crossed out and replaced with irreconcilable differences
09:28Hours after witnessing her loved ones get shot, Amanda writing on GoFundMe,
09:33our family has been forever changed, adding her younger siblings, including one playing in yesterday's game,
09:39are now facing the future without their parents and older brother.
09:44Teams seen returning to the arena to collect equipment a day after the shooting.
09:49I was on the ice and I thought it was balloons at first.
09:51While people in the community show their support, placing hockey sticks on doorsteps and outside the arena.
09:58Police do not think there was a confrontation right before the shooting that also critically injured three people,
10:03identified as the ex-wife's parents and a family friend.
10:06Tom.
10:07All right, Emily, we thank you.
10:08In Washington, it could be one of the largest environmental disasters ever in this country.
10:13A massive cleanup is underway after hundreds of millions of gallons of waste spilled into the Potomac.
10:19Tom Costello is on the scene.
10:21The river George Washington called the nation's river is tonight off limits and contaminated.
10:27After a 60-year-old sewage line in Maryland broke open last month,
10:31spewing more than 240 million gallons of raw waste into the river.
10:36The same river that flows past the Kennedy Center and the Lincoln Memorial
10:40and used by boaters, kayakers, high school and college rowing teams.
10:44So you can see some of the toilet paper and the sewage up on the banks there.
10:48River keeper Dean Nalyukes says the stench and environmental damage are staggering,
10:53with E. coli levels more than 10,000 times above EPA quality standards at the time of the spill.
11:00While slowly coming down, health experts warn no one should be boating, fishing or even touching the Potomac.
11:06Is drinking water at all affected here?
11:09No. From day one, drinking water has never been impacted by this.
11:13But massive boulders that collapsed into the six-foot-wide pipe are delaying the repairs.
11:18Meanwhile, President Trump has blamed Maryland's Democratic governor, Wes Moore, for gross mismanagement,
11:24while Moore fired back saying the pipe was federally built and regulated,
11:28and the Trump EPA has been slow to respond.
11:31The fear now, the Potomac may not be safe for months.
11:34You used to swim right here?
11:36I've swam right here.
11:37Would you swim in here again?
11:39Not for a while.
11:41D.C. Water expects to have the immediate repair job done by mid-March,
11:45but overhauling the entire line could take at least nine months.
11:49Tom?
11:49Tom Costello for us. Tom, thank you.
11:52Tonight we're remembering an icon of the civil rights movement.
11:55Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84.
11:57Jackson was an influential activist, a Baptist minister,
12:00and he ran historic presidential campaigns twice.
12:04For nearly six decades, Jesse Jackson lived on the front lines of the civil rights movement,
12:10relentless in his fight and armed with that booming voice.
12:14When he ran for president, his Secret Service code name was Thunder.
12:18On tomorrow night, and beyond, keep hope alive.
12:22The Baptist minister was born in Greenville, South Carolina,
12:26as a young man working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
12:30Jackson's life changing just three years later,
12:33when an assassin shot and killed Dr. King in Memphis.
12:37When he returned, all we could see was police coming.
12:40Police were coming from the direction of the shot.
12:42Jackson and other activists kept the civil rights movement alive.
12:46I may be poor, but I am somebody.
12:52As his influence grew, Jackson would launch a presidential bid in 1984.
12:57Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is rainbow.
13:02Red, yellow, brown, black, and white.
13:05We are all precious in God's sight.
13:07But the campaign was derailed when he admitted using an anti-Semitic slur in a private conversation.
13:14However innocent and unintended, it was insensitive and wrong.
13:18Jackson came very close to the nomination with another presidential run in 1988,
13:24cementing a leading role in the party.
13:26We must find common ground as a basis for survival and development and change and growth.
13:33Twenty years later, an emotional Jackson witnessed America elect its first black president, Barack Obama.
13:40Today, Barack and Michelle Obama calling him a true giant,
13:45saying Reverend Jackson also created opportunities for generations of African Americans
13:50and inspired countless more, including us, adding, we stood on his shoulders.
13:56The activist, also a father and a husband whose lifetime of service shifted generations.
14:02You'd love to motivate you and obligate you to serve the human family.
14:10Young America, dream!
14:13In 60 seconds, we're back with the women of USA figure skating taking to the ice.
14:18Did the so-called Blade Angels deliver?
14:21That's next.
14:24We are back now with one of the most highly anticipated events of the Winter Olympics,
14:29women's figure skating, with three strong Americans taking to the ice.
14:33Stephanie Gosk is watching it all from Milan.
14:35The Blade Angels taking to the ice tonight.
14:38Amber Glenn, Alyssa Liu, and Isabel Lovito.
14:41Who said I love you.
14:43It's been thinking about, talking about how special it would be to skate here at the Olympics in Milan.
14:49All three U.S. figure skaters entered as medal contenders in an event the U.S. hasn't medaled in since
14:552006.
14:56And tonight, two of the Americans skated clean programs.
15:00I'm just like really, really happy.
15:01And this moment's really exciting.
15:03And I don't want it to, you know, end.
15:04But Amber Glenn made a mistake that could take her out of the running for a medal.
15:08In the arena, to support his teammates, Ilya Malinan, who spoke with us earlier in the day,
15:13reflecting on the pressure of coming in as the gold medal favorite and the disappointment of finishing eighth.
15:19When you finish your performance, you put your head in your hands.
15:22What went through your head?
15:24It was honestly not the best.
15:27It was just devastating in the moment.
15:29I just felt like I let myself down.
15:31I, you know, let the people I care about down.
15:34He told us some of the world's best athletes have reached out.
15:37Simone Biles, Tom Brady, Steph Curry.
15:39Really the only people who can relate to the pressure, which Malinan described as endless and insurmountable.
15:46It definitely started as soon as I got to the Olympics.
15:50Over the two weeks that I've been here, it really just started building up more and more.
15:53Were you surprised by how different Olympic ice was?
15:58Really surprised.
15:59It was, you know, caught me off guard, honestly.
16:03But Malinan says he is incredibly grateful to be here and thankful for all the support.
16:09Life is not easy and it throws everything it can at you.
16:12And your job is to, you know, stay strong and really just keep pushing, keep fighting for it no matter
16:18what happens.
16:19And you want to keep rolling and spinning.
16:22Keep jumping, keep spinning, keep skating.
16:24That's what I want to do.
16:26The women's free skate is on Thursday and the Americans will have tough competition, especially from the Japanese who dominated
16:32this short program, Tom.
16:34Okay, Stephanie, we thank you.
16:35Primetime Olympics coverage kicks off tonight at 8 p.m. on NBC and Peacock.
16:40We are back in a moment tonight with the firefighters and pastor injured in an explosion at a church.
16:46Plus, it's every parent's worst nightmare.
16:47How one child escaped an attempted kidnapping.
16:50That's next.
16:53We're back now with a massive explosion that destroyed a church in upstate New York.
16:58Take a look at these flames engulfing the church, sending huge clouds of smoke into the air.
17:03Boonville police say three firefighters, a fire chief and the church pastor were critically injured after a basement furnace activated,
17:11triggering that explosion.
17:12And in Italy, every parent's worst nightmare caught on camera.
17:16Video shows the terrifying moment you saw there.
17:18A man allegedly tries to kidnap a child, attempting to snatch her away from her mother as the family exits
17:24a grocery store.
17:26This happened just outside of Milan.
17:28Police say other shoppers tried to stop the attacker until officers were able to arrest him.
17:33The girl was left with a fractured female.
17:35Pretty scary stuff there.
17:36And in St. Louis, this toddler bypassed the claw in this arcade game and went into the machine himself.
17:42There's Cooper playing with the toys as officers figure out how to get him out.
17:46Cooper's mother told Storyful a service technician eventually freed him, adding her son was having a ball.
17:54All right.
17:54When we come back, game of drones, the Olympics, like we've never seen them before.
17:59We take you behind the scenes with the pilots flying those drones at speeds topping 90 miles per hour.
18:06That's next.
18:12An incredible look from above by drone in the Alps of Livigno.
18:16And we want to leave you tonight with the new stars of these Olympic Games.
18:20Not the athletes, but the drone pilots.
18:22Their videos chasing those athletes down mountains at unbelievably fast speeds have likely left you breathless.
18:29Molly Hunter takes us behind the scenes with how they pull it all off.
18:33Never before has the average person been able to experience this.
18:38Watch these jumps.
18:39Or this.
18:41Or this point of view ripping down the mountain at 80 miles per hour.
18:45Or how about feeling like you are actually hurtling down an icy track headfirst with no brakes.
18:51A Kelly Curtis of the United States.
18:54Behind that shot, powerful first-person, high-speed, broadcast-quality drones.
18:58And in the case of the sliding events, drone pilot Ralph Hogenberg.
19:02It's fully manual.
19:03So the drone doesn't even know what's up or down.
19:05It doesn't have any sensors.
19:06What?
19:07So I'm fully...
19:08So you are fully steering it?
19:09Yeah.
19:10Because these sensors, they're a little bit too slow for this kind of speed and this precision.
19:13So, yeah, it's all up to me at this point.
19:15And his split-second reflexes.
19:17There are strict rules.
19:19Drones can't overtake the racers.
19:20And Hogenberg says they practiced with athletes to make sure the whizzing wasn't a distraction.
19:26I mean, it's so narrow.
19:27It looks so crazy, which is why we get such a good view at home.
19:31So the skeleton, especially, just before turn one, I get really close behind their feet.
19:35So I think maybe one or two meters behind them.
19:37It's the perfect shot.
19:37And it's still under control the whole time.
19:39Maximum speed here is about 40 to 50 miles per hour with zero margin for error.
19:44We got a peek inside the drone cave where Hogenberg straps on his goggles.
19:49A three-man crew keeps him airborne, spotting, swapping batteries, cooling the motor even in freezing temperatures.
19:54A revolutionary way to experience the games.
19:57That's been all the buzz.
19:59Molly Hunter, NBC News, Cortina.
20:03And you can catch all that incredible drone footage when primetime Olympics coverage kicks off tonight at 8 p.m.
20:09right here on NBC and Peacock.
20:11That's Nightly News for this Tuesday.
20:13I'm Tom Yamas.
20:14Thanks so much for watching.
20:15Tonight and always, we're here for you.
20:18Good night.
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